Urban75 Album of the Year 2013 revisited
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Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Just scraped in at no. 30 in the 2013 poll. Deserves to do better this time.
Fez909
toilet expert
After years of thinking Omar S is OK-but-not-as-good-as-the-hype, I'm fully on board now. I love how he seems to be a master troll, maybe untentionally. He's hilarious. But his tunes are just good. Really good. Not really breaking any boundaries, ever, but always high quality house music.
This album is like that. Nothing revolutionary, just really fucking good.
www.discogs.com
This album is like that. Nothing revolutionary, just really fucking good.
Omar-S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself by Omar-S. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
OF COURSE YOU KNOW THEY'RE MASSIVE NAZIS
(thank you for the vote of confidence but I don't think I've ever heard of them before now. But I certainly only intend to vote for totally right-on albums from 2013 with no hint of nazi wrongness associated with them. By the way, have I mentioned how good Yeezus is?)
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Since someone's just posted about GTA V being ten years old, here's a song that I definitely know cos I'm into cool underground music and Mika Miko and all that, and not just cos it was on the radio in GTA V:
Bleached are definitely more fun than Mika Miko though, at least imo.
Bleached are definitely more fun than Mika Miko though, at least imo.
I think EPs are banned: my nomination of Sugar's Beaster for 1993 was discounted.
braindancer
not for long
Looks like I was a slacker in 2013 and didn't submit a list. I was curious to see what I voted for.
Skimming over the 2013 thread reminded me that there was a lot of love on Urbanz for the Grumbling Fur album Glynnaestra - Alexander Tucker and some other chap. It got a lot of spins when I discovered it in the end of year lists - though I've not listened to it for years now. I'm going to stick it on now....
Skimming over the 2013 thread reminded me that there was a lot of love on Urbanz for the Grumbling Fur album Glynnaestra - Alexander Tucker and some other chap. It got a lot of spins when I discovered it in the end of year lists - though I've not listened to it for years now. I'm going to stick it on now....
braindancer
not for long
Always look to see whether there was a Low album as if there was you can pretty much guarantee it was the best thing out that year - but the 2013 album The Invisible Way isn't up there with their best work so I'll not be voting for that.
Deafheaven mentioned upthread - yes please, remember going to see them in a little basement club in Stoke Newington that year - they tore the roof off - fucking brilliant gig. Just re-listened to Sunbather - been a while, it's as good as I remember.... an absolute stonker. I've checked out many a black-gaze album since but nothing has ever hit home like this... Could be my no. 1...
In the same venue that year I also remember going to see The Haxan Cloak - eerie dark ambient / drone / dungen step
- that was a great show too - lashings and lashings of bass.
I wonder what that venue was.... I think it was fairly short-lived but I'm sure I went to some other great shows there that year too. I was at peak-gig at the time, I miss those days!
Deafheaven mentioned upthread - yes please, remember going to see them in a little basement club in Stoke Newington that year - they tore the roof off - fucking brilliant gig. Just re-listened to Sunbather - been a while, it's as good as I remember.... an absolute stonker. I've checked out many a black-gaze album since but nothing has ever hit home like this... Could be my no. 1...
In the same venue that year I also remember going to see The Haxan Cloak - eerie dark ambient / drone / dungen step
- that was a great show too - lashings and lashings of bass.I wonder what that venue was.... I think it was fairly short-lived but I'm sure I went to some other great shows there that year too. I was at peak-gig at the time, I miss those days!
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Turns out there's a Pop 1280 album from that year I've not listened to, only really know the first and most recent ones so there's a lot from the middle I don't know about:
pitchfork.com
It probably won't be as lovely as Dress Up though.
Pop. 1280: Imps of Perversion
Post-punk quartet Pop. 1280's new album, Imps of Perversion, showcases a more polished approach. But compared to the apocalyptic clamor of 2012's The Horror, that same crispness and clarity works against the band’s attempts to dredge up the dread.
braindancer
not for long
Didn't listen at the time but today I listened to Vertikal by Cult of Luna....
Pretty fucking cool sludgy atmospheric post-metal....
Pretty fucking cool sludgy atmospheric post-metal....
braindancer
not for long
Another new to me metal album from 2013....
Rites of Separation by Agrimonia on Southern Lord.
Right up my alley - beautiful and ferocious - would have been on my 2013 list, if I'd listened to it at the time and had different music taste
Rites of Separation by Agrimonia on Southern Lord.
Right up my alley - beautiful and ferocious - would have been on my 2013 list, if I'd listened to it at the time and had different music taste
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Harold Budd - Jane 1-11.
"It's simple. I broke out and broke back to my earlier days: A triangle of risk, improvisation and joy -- as I say, very simple. My rules to myself were: No plan, no notes, no ideas, no microphones; except for Jane 1 I stuck to it. My other rule -- the most important one -- was: At least one piece per day, finished, mixed and not to be revisited again. Jane 7, 8, 9 were done in one day."
"It's simple. I broke out and broke back to my earlier days: A triangle of risk, improvisation and joy -- as I say, very simple. My rules to myself were: No plan, no notes, no ideas, no microphones; except for Jane 1 I stuck to it. My other rule -- the most important one -- was: At least one piece per day, finished, mixed and not to be revisited again. Jane 7, 8, 9 were done in one day."
braindancer
not for long
These were the albums I reckon I caned most in 2013....
Pacifica by Segue - in all honesty I'd forgotten all about this but it's soooo lush. Organic ambient dub techno. Very highly recommend it.
I had a lot of time for Plays Bee Mask by Donato Dozzy - where Dozzy remixed a bunch of Bee Mask tracks. Super nice...
Laurel Halo's Chance of Rain was a cracking bit of ambient/experimental/techno:
Karen Gwyer's Needs Continuum was a massive favourite - really nice electronica
Pacifica by Segue - in all honesty I'd forgotten all about this but it's soooo lush. Organic ambient dub techno. Very highly recommend it.
I had a lot of time for Plays Bee Mask by Donato Dozzy - where Dozzy remixed a bunch of Bee Mask tracks. Super nice...
Laurel Halo's Chance of Rain was a cracking bit of ambient/experimental/techno:
Karen Gwyer's Needs Continuum was a massive favourite - really nice electronica
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I like these threads as for me it's like going into a record shop and mooching through albums that you haven't heard. So this album Melody Box by a band called Love in Prague is an interesting and fairly coldwave exercise that probably would sit in between the post punk section and the goth/darkwave section.
