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The singles and album tracks that had the biggest impact on me over the last 12 months. I'm doing this in a chronological month to month/ season to season way for a change rather than a top 10 or top 20 way. Starting with early new year then proceeding through to the latter months of 2013. A very rough and off the top of my head list, no doubt will remember more after i've posted WinterVillagers - Nothing Arrived David Bowie - Where Are We Now? Haim - Don't Save Me SpringDaft Punk - Get Lucky Daft Punk - Contact Steve Mason - A Lot Of Love
SummerDisclosure - Help Me Lose My Mind Tegan And Sara - I Was A Fool Camera Obscura - Break It To You Gently AutumnPet Shop Boys - Love Is A Bourgeois Concept London Grammar - Strong Moby ft Wayne Coyne - Perfect Life Edited by user 06 December 2013 11:57:31(UTC)
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Camera Obscura's Break It To You Gently was a classic of 2013. Thanks for reminding us. If you missed it, you might just enjoy the video too:
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Indeed, Empress lad.
That singer of Camera Obscura's vocals give me a real high.Intoxicating.
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That line "You're the keeper of the doomsday clock/Did i get that wrong?"
The nuances in her voice in that line, wow.Just heavenly.I go dizzy.
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Lost Sirens - A really decent epilogue to that era of New Order Pop Will Eat Itself - A Lick Of The Old Cassette Box - The lost album from 1996, a bit messy and a bit unfinished but also some great industrial noise too, plus a song based around a sample of Exercise One. The Mission - The Brightest Light - 3/4s of the original gothtastic line-up return with an album devoid of anything gothy. EDIT - I forgot about Johnny Marrs album, that were alreet too. Edited by user 10 December 2013 02:42:11(UTC)
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Lost Sirens by New Order The Heist by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Keep Calm And Head To London - Lounge compilation with covers of U2, NO/JD, Coldplay, Adele and more Free The Bees by The Bees Pharrell with Daft Punk and Pharrell witn Robin Thicke lot of techno and tech-house - J Paul Getto, Dubfire, Richie Hawtin, DJ Dave Clarke :)
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smashing thread title, johnny.
i must insist that everyone immediately finds and listens to porcelain by snowbird - i've had it on a loop since i first heard it. strong contender for my song of the year, even though it's only recently been released. looking forward to their album early next year.
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2013's been a good year for music or stuff I like anyway...
In no particular order, some good LPs from this year:
Maps Vicissitude (anything Chapman does is worth a listen) White Lies Big TV (anthemic, formulaic but some great pop songs) Public Service Broadcasting Inform-Educate-Entertain Pet Shop Boys Electric (a welcome return to form after the MOR Elysium) New Order Lost Sirens (yes, really) Neon Neon Praxis Makes Perfect Chvrches The Bones Of What You Believe
I liked the Daft Punk album in places but it's overexposure and scheleb guest spots turned me off; Get Lucky got extremely tiresome extremely quickly.
Surprisingly I found this year's Moby and Depeche efforts difficult to get into; not sure if that's because they're crap or if I need a bit of time off them in order to appreciate any new stuff.
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NotAMod wrote:2013's been a good year for music, but surprisingly I found this year's Moby and Depeche efforts difficult to get into; not sure if that's because they're crap or if I need a bit of time off them in order to appreciate any new stuff. I don't know about Moby, but the reason you may not have liked Delta Machine is that too many of the songs on the album - the opening track most obviously - don't have a complete set of verse chords and then chorus chords. Releasing Heaven as the first single - and then not waiting for The Freemasons' remix - didn't help sales figures either. Still worth a Saturday evening's listen though... |
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bloodynora wrote:smashing thread title, johnny.
i must insist that everyone immediately finds and listens to porcelain by snowbird - i've had it on a loop since i first heard it. strong contender for my song of the year, even though it's only recently been released. looking forward to their album early next year.
The vocals are very Liz Fraser, arent they? Don't think i've ever heard anything so similar in vocal style to Liz as that. Though that doesn't mean i was that into the song, sorry. NotAMod wrote:
I liked the Daft Punk album in places but it's overexposure and scheleb guest spots turned me off; Get Lucky got extremely tiresome extremely quickly.
Agreed, Get Lucky does my head in when i hear it now. I guess i was kind of listing the songs that had an impact on me and i liked at the time, which Get Lucky did when it was first released.But the song is just annoying now.
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Bad Habit by Foals is a late late entry into my list. I'd heard of Foals for quite a number of years but much like The National had gone out of my way to avoid them as had them down as crap indie for 21 year old hipsters with beards.But have to say Bad Habit i do like.
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Anyone a fan of John Grant's album? 'Pale Green Ghosts'. I did see him on Jools sometime this year and he was really good but didn't really investigate any further until recently.This was a standout performance on Later
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Albums
Daniel Avery: Drone Logic Queens Of The Stone Age: Like Clockwork Moderat: II Arcade Fire: Reflektor Primal Scream: More Light Arctic Monkeys: AM The National: Trouble Will Find Me Trentmoller: Lost Daft Punk: RAM Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City Acid Washed: House of Melancholy Wild Belle: Isles NO: Lost Sirens (to at least satisfy my curiosity)
Albums I didn't get round to, but still might:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away Daughter: If You Leave Fuck Buttons: Slow Focus Bowie: The Next Day Palma Violets: 180 Pantha Du Prince & the Bell Laboratory: Elements of Light
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I preferred that one when it was called Personal Jesus.
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All that deep house shit thats been ammerin the charts
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