Best Of 2013

[Otomo_Hava]

I know it is a little bit early to post this subject. This is a typical topic which was repeatedly posted in any year on late Chondritic Forum so i'm doing it right here on SI Forum:

Which albums from which artist(s)/band(s), in any musical genre, do you think are made the difference / liked or loved this year ?

If you'd like, make your own list like a Top (insert any number you want) or something.

[HOGRA]

Off the top of my head, some of my favorites releases from this year:

GODFLESH "Streetcleaner: Live at Roadburn 2011" 2xLP
CARCASS "Surgical Steel" 2xLP
TESTAMENT "Dark Roots of Thrash" 2xLP
DREAM DEATH "Sominum Excessum" LP
MELVINS "Live at Third Man Records" LP

[deathcamp]

UNCODIFIED/WERTHAM Vindicta I !!!

[tisbor]

UNCODIFIED/WERTHAM Vindicta I !!!

I definitely second this choice. I'll have to think about others.

[HongKongGoolagong]

You said 'in any musical genre'.

So, honestly, The Pastels 'Slow Summits'. Their first full album since the 1990s. A band with a great deal of very subtle and understated power I have listened to on-and-off for well over half my life and watched their quiet influence on watered-down versions of their sound from Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips to Belle & Sebastian. Watched them outlive Sonic Youth. Watched them quietly making other Scottish bands such as Primal Scream look ridiculous.

Stephen still with a day job in a great record shop. Katrina the greatest unsung female songwriter alive. 'Yoga' from their third album still one of the best songs ever written. This record with production from John McEntire has the expected Stereolab and Tortoise-influenced horn section and Pet Sounds thing happening but coupled with their unique fucked up and disturbed out of tune playing and singing and with some amazing and very moving lyrics too.

Far removed from PE and noise (except perhaps spiritually) and sure to be ignored by everyone else on this board, but my favourite album of 2013 by a long way.

[absurdexposition]

Autopsy - The Headless Ritual LP
The Body - Christs, Redeemers 2LP
The Body - Master, We Perish 12"
Bone Sickness - Alone in the Grave 12"
Hatred Surge - Human Overdose LP
Iron Lung - White Glove Test LP
Prurient / The Rita - Women Pissing 7"
Sea of Shit 10"

[SKY BURIAL]

Gary Numan- Splinter
New Model Army- Between Dog And Wolf

[FreakAnimalFinland]

What all was released in 2013 - That is the main question! There was bunch of good re-issues. Urashima reissuing Atrax Morgue LP's was great thing as most were better than any actual albums band did!

Long awaited debut, PUCE MARY LP was great. Cold, simple, "mechanical". Maybe different from the tapes, but something I instantly listened multiple times.

"Problem" is, that most often I listen things long after they're released. Still going through random stuff from last.. lets say 30 years. Would be curious to see whole list of what WAS released in 2013?

I think within noise/experimental, there was still lots of goodies. In rock music, highlights were perhaps LP's of THROAT, HEBOSAGIL, but I realize my view may be distorted by small exposure for the stuff. Metal year appeared kind of dry. Don't remember too many absolute highlights beyond the usual stream of stuff. Few praised albums I have yet to buy.
Big names of rock & metal & music in general => not interested.

[SKY BURIAL]

Rush- Vapor Trails Remixed
OMD- English Electric
Anthrax- Anthems

[eyestrain]

EDIT: Put a few more goodies on the list.

That which will matter for a long time to come:
Jason Zeh A Vacant Lot To Be In
Tourette Cendrier Du Voyage
Tattered Syntax Nothing All Day Nothing
Altar Of Flies Female
AnXpM/SSP Split
Jason Crumer Gentrification Suite
Dajjal Ur
Vertonen ...HACE...
Ulaan Passerine S/T
Francisco Meirino & Kiko C. Esseiva Focus On Nothing On Focus
V/A Tapeworks VI
Bölzer Aura
Kinit Her The Poet & The Blue Flower
Seitz Versus Gendreau Seitz Versus Gendreau
Blodvite Falskt Spektrum
Hheva Her Frozen Heart Bore The Weight Of A Thousand Stars

That which undoubtedly mattered at the time:
Merkstave S/T
Steven R. Smith/Ulaan Khol Ending/Returning
Orquere Movements
Amph Hudson
RLW Fall Seliger Geister
Claudio Rocchetti The Fall Of Chrome
Jaakko Vanhala Here Be Lions
Militaris-tic Curse Of Weapons
TREE Tree
Blodvite/Altar Of Flies/Elisha Morningstar/Sewer Election Spring Tour 2013

[Dr Alex]

Abandoned Asylum - Derelicts Of Distant Hope cd
Altar Of Flies - Female lp
Anemone Tube - The Transfiguration Of The Image tape
Aphonic Threnody - First Funeral cd
Aun - Alpha Heaven cd
Budrūs - Canine Visions IX cd
Caul - The Long Dust cd
Control - Transgression cd
Corrections House - Last City Zero cd
Deos - Fortitude.Pain.Suffering net release
En Nihil - The Approaching Dark cd
Everlasting - March Of Time cd
HellLight - No God Above, No Devil Below cd
Human Larvae ‎- Womb Worship cd
Iron Fist Of The Sun - Who Will Help Me Wash My Right Hand cd
Killing Joke - MMXII cd
Monolithe - IV cd
Moss - Horrible Night cd
Neronoia - Sapore Di Luce E Di Pietra cd
Netherworld - Alchemy Of Ice cd
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away cd
Prurient - Through The Window cd
Prurient & The Rita - Women Pissing 7"
Shift / hh - Full Weight Of The Opposition 10"
Skull:Axis - The Transparent Society cd
Slogun - I Will Bury You lp
Steel Hook Prostheses - The Empirics Guild cd
The Rita / Caligula031 - Self Shop tape
The Vomit Arsonist‎ - An Occasion For Death cd
Theologian - Some Things Have To Be Endured cd
Trepaneringsritualen - The Totality Of Death (Programme A) cd
Trepaneringsritualen - The Totality Of Death (Programme b) cd
Troum - Mare Morphosis cd
Uncodified & Wertham - Vindicta I cd
V.A. - Hour Of The Wolf cd
V.A. - Epicurean Escapism II cd+dvd

[Hakaristi]

Bizarre Uproar - Perverse Bizarre Humiliation
Drug Age - Dyslexic Action
Encephalophonic - Regressed Progress
Jaakko Vanhala - Here Be Lions
Mania / Hal Hutchinson - Wreckage
Pain Nail - Magneettinen Kohtalo
Pogrom - Degančios Suros
Ultimastanza - A Jewel In A Dunghill
Unclean - Manhood
Budrūs - Canine Visions IX
Clandestine Blaze - Harmony Of Struggle
Horna - Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa
Sargeist - The Rebirth Of A Cursed Existence

[fin de siècle]

Art Abscons - Vita Abscondi Tape
Human Larvae - Womb Worship CD
In Death It Ends - Occvlt machine LP
Set - Upheaval of unholy darkness LP
Stav - Meditate to kill LP
V.A. Epicurean Escapism II CD/DVD

[spiritassembly]

Andrew Chalk | Mutsu no Hana
Raymond Dijkstra | De Schaal
Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram | Electronic Music
.es | Void
Le Fruit Vert | Passiflore
Fushitsusha | 名前を つけないで ほしい　名前を　つけて　しまうと　全てで　なくなって　 しまうから  /  まだ　温かいうちの　この今に　 すべての謎を　注ぎ込こもう
Robert Haigh | Darkling Streams
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi | Now while it's still warm let us pour in all the mystery
Keiko Higuchi | Ephemeral as Petals
Edward Ka-Spel | One Last Pose Before the Ruin
Lethe | Catastrophe Point #9 & #10
Nivritti Marga | Nivritti Marga
Daniel Menche | Vilke
Muslimgauze | Al Jar Zia Audio
Nohome | Nohome
Overhang Party | Complete Studio Recordings
Eliane Radigue | psi 847
Sachiko | Loka in the Black Ship
Suishou No Fune & Numinous Eye | Black Flowers of the Forest in the Cosmos
Dobrinka Tabakova | String Paths
Masayoshi Urabe + Rinji Fukuoka | Barcelona Express

Concert of the year: François Bayle + Adrian Moore @ Akousma Montreal

Biggest musical losses of the year: Bernard Parmegiani, Zbigniew Karkowski

[Zeno Marx]

Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram | Electronic Music

Good to know.  I looked at the Discogs page and can't believe how many releases after 2008, which is when I lost track of what he was doing.

Concert of the year: François Bayle + Adrian Moore @ Akousma Montreal

I'd love to hear a review of this.  Was it an art installation or purely a performance?