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Urban75 Album of the Year 2013 revisited

2 - Deafheaven - Sunbather (Sun Bat Her?)


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Black metal meets dream pop screamo. TBF it works and is a classic of its genre apparently. Didn't rate at all last time, so you must of collectively come round to it.

Anthony Fantano's retrospective review:

 
Nice. Great to see 3 of mine in there for once!

My list:

1: Days n Daze - Rogue Taxidermy

2: Deafheaven - Sunbather

3: My Bloody Valentine - m b v

4: Mazzy Star - Seasons of your day

5: Days n Daze - Oogle Deathmachine

6: Superchunk - I hate music

7: Blackbird Raum - False Weavers

8: Bad Religion - Christmas Songs
 
my selectioins

1 The Ex & Brass Unbound - Enormous Door
2 mbv - mbv
3 Caitlin Rose - The Stand In
4 Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
5 Forest Swords -Engravings
6 Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
7 Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
8 eels - Wonderful, Glorious
9 Nick Cave & tBS - push the Sky Away
10 Savages - Silence Yourself
11 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
12 Low - The Invisible Way
13 Haiku Salut- Tricolore
14 Mogwai - Les Revenants
15 Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
16 The Knife - Shaking the Hbitual
17 MIA -Matangi
18 Future of the Left – How to Stop Your Brain In An Accident
19 Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
20 Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
20 Bill Callahan - Dream River
 
belboid scoring doesn't change much

1) My Bloody Valentine - m b v
2) Deafheaven - Sunbather
3) Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
4) Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
5) The Ex & Brass Unbound - Enormous Door
6) M.I.A. - Matangi
7=) Caitlin Rose - The Stand In
7=) Buika - La noche más larga
9=) Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest
9=) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
11) Savages - Silence Yourself
12) Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat
13) Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
14=) La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin
14=) Forest Swords - Engravings
16=) Charles Bradley - Victim of Love
16=) Special Request - Soul Music
18=) Mogwai - Les Revenants
18=) The Asphodells - Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust
18=) Autechre - Exai
18=) Nisennenmondai - N
22) Blackbird Raum - False Weavers
23) Days n Daze - Rogue Taxidermy

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By no. of votes:

5 votes:

My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

4 votes:

Deafheaven - Sunbather

3 votes:

M.I.A. - Matangi
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat
Savages - Silence Yourself
Special Request - Soul Music

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No.1 spots:

Deafheaven had two

Daft Punk, Mekha, Mogwai, The Asphodells, Hard Skin, Days n Daze, Boards of Canada, Israel Nash, The Ex + Brass Unbound, Harold Budd and Ichiko Aoba had one each.
 
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My extended list was:

Ichiko Aoba - O
The Ex & Brass Unbound - Enormous Door
Buika - La noche más larga
Empty Set - Recur
E+E - The Light That You Gave Me to See You
Melt Banana - Fetch
Keiichiro Shibuya + Hatsune Miku - The End
Nisennenmondai - N
Hayden Chisholm & Xu Fengxia - The Rabbit's Dream of the Inner Mongolia
Farazi v Kayra - Hayalet ıslığı
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Wardruna - Runaljod - Yggdrasil
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Hans-Peter Schulz [Jakob Ullmann] - Fremde Zeit Addendum 4
Tricot - T H E
Haiku Salut - Tricolour
Tim Hecker - Virgins
BiS Kaidan - BiS Kaidan
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Machismo - Severe Disconnect
The Necks - Open
Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs
Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Evan Parker, John Edwards, Tony Marsh & John Butcher - Quintet / Sextet
Guitar Wolf - Yaju Vibrator
Toshimaru Nakamuar - No Input Mixing Board 8


Really good year I thought. Kept finding new things.
 
Heavy rock music that's not cheesy and ridiculous, avant garde music that's not just deliberately shit, minimalist music that creates an emotional response other than, 'ah that's quite nice'.

And that's just the least good track on mbv...

 
I didn't like mbv at all tbh. Kept fast forwarding, when does it start!!? Don't get it at all. But then it didn't need me.
 
Congo Natty was robbed. From no. 6 to nowhere...

Here's my list:

The Asphodells - Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust
Little Boots - Nocturnes
La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin
Sally Shapiro - Somewhere Else
Soft Metals - Lenses
Nisennenmondai - N
Italians Do It Better - After Dark 2
Föllakzoid - II
Charles Bradley- Victim of Love
Blondes - Swisher
Marsheaux - Inhale
Congo Natty - Jungle Revolution
Timothy J Fairplay - Good for Driving in the Night
Manix - Living in the Past
Special Request - Soul Music
The Asphodells - Remixed
Haim - Days are Gone
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
 
  1. Harold Budd- Jane 1-11
  2. John Hopkins-Immunity
  3. Agnes Obel-Aventine
  4. Nils Frahm-Spaces
  5. Love in Prague-Ghost Note
  6. Emika-DVA
  7. Elephant Stone-Elephant Stone
  8. Prefab Sprout-Crimson Red
  9. La Femme-Psycho Tropical
  10. National- Trouble will find me
  11. Savages -Silence Yourself
  12. Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio
  13. Daniel Avery - Drone logic
  14. Grouper- The Man Who Died On His Boat
  15. Bonobo-The North Borders
 
chilango said:
Nice. Great to see 3 of mine in there for once!

My list:

1: Days n Daze - Rogue Taxidermy

2: Deafheaven - Sunbather

3: My Bloody Valentine - m b v

4: Mazzy Star - Seasons of your day

5: Days n Daze - Oogle Deathmachine

6: Superchunk - I hate music

7: Blackbird Raum - False Weavers

8: Bad Religion - Christmas Songs
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Surprised Blackbird Raum didn't make it in, since they also made it into my top 10 and I don't think there was a huge number of voters.
My list was:

Hard Skin - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?
The Spook School - Dress Up
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Kanye West - Yeezus
MIA - Matangi
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Charisma.com - アイ アイ シンドローム/Ai Ai Syndrome
Waxahatchee - Cerulean Blue
Blackbird Raum - False Weavers
Death Grips - Government Plates
Shopping - Consumer Complaints
Rakta - Rakta
Bleached - Ride Your Heart
Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Iceage - You’re Nothing
Migos - YRN
Ramshackle Glory/Ghost Mice - Shelter
Fidlar - Fidlar
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Kilo Kish - K+
Hoax - Hoax
Nails - Abandon All Life
Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust
Days n Daze - Rogue Taxidermy
Cars Can Be Blue - Trace the Tension
Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
Joint D# - Satan is Real Again, Again…
Best Coast - Fade Away
Camera Obscura - Desire Lines

A few things on there that you could quibble about whether they're EPs or albums, but luckily no-one else voted for any of them so it's not an issue. Definitely feel like I'll be able to write my best of 2023 list a lot more confidently in 2033 than I can today.
 
Bollocks, just looked at the old thread and realised I'd totally forgotten to include Light Up Gold, which definitely deserved a place on my list. Oh well.
 
  • Deafheaven – Sunbather
  • Logos – Cold Mission
  • Segue – Pacifica
  • Karen Gwyer – Needs Continuum
  • Carcass – Surgical Steel
  • Special Request – Soul Music
  • Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
  • My Bloody Valentine - mbv
  • Agrimonia – Rites of Separation
  • Donato Dozzy – Plays Bee Mask
  • The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
  • Grouper – The Man Who Died in His Boat
  • Tim Hecker – Virgins
  • Bill Callahan – Dream River
  • Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
  • Kurt Vile – Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
  • Low – Invisible Way
  • Laurel Halo – Chance of Rain
  • Tropic of Cancer – Restless Idylls
As usual - my order is pretty much random after Deafheaven at no. 1....
 
Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
DJ Heny.G - Childhood
Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - Perils From the Sea
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat
Aufgang - Istiklaliya
Forest Swords - Engravings
Autechre - Exai
Ludovico Einaudi - In a Time Lapse
The Memory Band - On the Chalk (Our Navigation of the Line of the Downs)
Freddie Gibbs - ESGN: Evil Seeds Grow Naturally
Thomas P. Heckmann - The Lost Tales Vol. III
Special Request - Soul Music
The Asphodells - Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust
The Horrors - Higher
Minilogue - Blomma
Almunia - Pulsar
Rocketnumbernine - MeYouWeYou
Wintergatan - Wintergatan
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
 
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