Favourite Albums of 2013

[Fractured Silhouette]

Well it's a couple days into 2014 and I feel it's time to reflect on your favourite album releases of 2013. I mean your picks can't possibly be any worse than other lists I've seen floating around. You can just list them if you want but I feel having one or two sentences explaining why you enjoyed the album might be good as well.

Album: Below The Noise
Artist: City In The Sea
Best Song/s: Overcast, Dead Beliefs
I found this album to be quite good despite the cookie-cutter nature of this band. The music is solid and the vocalists voices work well in tandem.

Album: Tomorrow We Die Alive
Artist: Born Of Osiris
Best Song/s: The Origin, Source Field
Despite losing a guitarist I found this album and it's songs to be engaging, diverse and complex.

Album: Perception
Artist: Breakdown Of Sanity
Best Song/s: The Writer, Chapters
This album is fucking brutal. The vocalist is amazing.

Album: Augment
Artist: Erra
Best Song/s: Pulse, Alpha Seed, Hybrid Earth
This album is really good, especially if you enjoy a complex sound.

Album: Bilo 3.0
Artist: David Maxim Micic
Best Song/s: All of them
This album is short, and every track is amazingly put together. It's also free.

Album: New Demons
Artist: I See Stars
Best Song/s: New Demons, Murder Mitten, Who Am I?
While not complex or technical in any way I found I See Stars' latest album to be quite brilliant in their combination of breakdowns and EDM.

Album: Singularity
Artist: Northlane
Best Song/s: Scarab, Aspire, The Calling
Northlane are brilliant. This album is inspirational and brilliant.

Album: Spilled Ink
Artist: Honour Crest
Best Song/s: Glaciers, Spilled Ink, Eclipse


Album: Hacktivist
Artist: Hacktivist
Best Song/s: Cold Shoulders, Elevate, Unlike Us
Combining djent and metal to brilliant effect, these guys are going to get far.

Album: Altered State
Artist: TesseracT
Best Song/s: All of them
This album is as close to perfection as any band is probably ever going to reach. Honestly every song on this album works in tandem and create a divine listening experience for anyone.

These aren't in any specific order FYI.

[RunnerRunner]

the best albums for me are these 4:
Hail to the King
Avenged Sevenfold
Heretic and Hail To The King

From Death To Destiny
Asking Alexandria
Poison and The Death of Me

Sempiternal
Bring Me The Horizon
Shadow Moses and Go To Hell For Heavens Sake

Common Courtesty
A Day To Remember
End Of Me and Best Of me

[nino51300]

True
Avicii
Hey Brother / Heart Upon My Sleeve

[Stryker125]

So much good music this year!!

my favs (in no particular order) are:

Common Courtesy - A Day To Remember

Random Access Memories - Daft Punk

Is Survived By - Touche Amore

AM - Arctic Monkeys

Pure Heroine - Lorde

because the internet. - Childish Gambino

Old - Danny Brown

Talon Of The Hawk - The Front Bottoms

The Blackest Beautiful - letlive.

The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake

Beyonce - Beyonce

Nothing Was The Same.. - Drake

Watching Movies With The Sound Off

Save Rock & Roll - Fall Out Boy

Pax Am Days - Fall Out Boy

Comedown Machine - The Strokes

Time Is A Machine - Listener

The Hurry And The Harm - City And Colour

Sick EP - Beartooth

[Pulp501]

Beyonce

[MrBlueSky]

Album: Random Access Memories
Artist: Daft Punk
Best Songs: Touch, Contact and Get Lucky

The songs all have a sort of space-disco feel and are all innovative.

[Laquifa]

Album: BEYONCÉ
Artist: Beyoncé
Best Songs: Drunk In Love, Partition, Grown Woman, Mine (feat Drake)

Beyoncé > Everything.

[Cygnus]

Random Access Memories - Daft Punk

3.0 - Marc Anthony

[ImCoolBeans]

My three favorites were:

Mechanical Bull -- Kings of Leon
Comedown Machine -- The Strokes
AM -- Arctic Monkeys

[billybigfish]

in metal terms, 2013 hasn't been to bad, apart from the loss of jeff and everything, theres been some ups and downs, so heres my best of 2013

Album: Tomorrow We Die Alive
Artist: Born Of Osiris
Best Song/s: Machine, Divergency, Mindful, Illusionist
considering im into technical stuff,i think these songs demonstrate boo's more technical side a lot more

Album: Deceiver Of The Gods
artist: Amon Amarth
Best Song/s: Father Of The Wolf, As Loke Falls, We Shall Destroy
easily my favourite of this year

Album: Daggers
Artist: The Defiled
Best Song/s: Unspoken, Saints And Sinners
seen em twice, met them, awesome bunch of guys, great album

Album: Surgical Steel
Artist: Carcass
Best Song/s: Granulating Dark Satanic Mills, The Master Butcher's Apron, Unfit For Human Consumption
all round great album

Album: Curse And Chapter
Artist: Hell
Best Song/s: The Deposers Supreme
great album, only have 1 favourite tho

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Album: Midnight Memories
Artist: One Direction
Best Song/s: Does He Know?, Midnight Memories, Little White Lies, You And I

Album: Paramore
Artist: Paramore
Best Song/s: Hate to See Your Heart Break, Anklebiters, Part II, Ain't It Fun

Album: Vessel
Artist: twenty|one|pilots
Best Song/s: Screen, Semi-Automatic, Truce, Ode to Sleep

Album: Nothing to Lose
Artist: Emblem3
Best Song/s: XO, Spaghetti, Chloe

Album: James Arthur
Artist: James Arthur
Best Song/s: Supposed, Roses, Suicide, Recovery

[RunnerRunner]

So much good music this year!!

my favs (in no particular order) are:

Common Courtesy - A Day To Remember

Random Access Memories - Daft Punk

Is Survived By - Touche Amore

AM - Arctic Monkeys

Pure Heroine - Lorde

because the internet. - Childish Gambino

Old - Danny Brown

Talon Of The Hawk - The Front Bottoms

The Blackest Beautiful - letlive.

The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake

Beyonce - Beyonce

Nothing Was The Same.. - Drake

Watching Movies With The Sound Off

Save Rock & Roll - Fall Out Boy

Pax Am Days - Fall Out Boy

Comedown Machine - The Strokes

Time Is A Machine - Listener

The Hurry And The Harm - City And Colour

Sick EP - Beartooth


Your music taste :) so awesome!!!! just saying :)

[Stryker125]

Your music taste :) so awesome!!!! just saying :)

thx man :)

[cameron_osborn]

Definitely a great year for music!


Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King

Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt

Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience 1 & 2

Hans Zimmer - Man of Steel Soundtrack

Metallica - Through the Never Soundtrack

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe

Arctic Monkeys - AM

Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

[Bigdon]

Album: The Bones Of What You Believe
Artist: Chrvches
Best Song/s: The Mother We Share, We Sink

Album: Pure Heroine
Artist: Lorde
Best Song/s: Tennis Court, Royals, Ribs, Team, Glory And Gore

Album: Days Are Gone
Artist: Haim
Best Song/s: The Wire, Don't Save Me

Album: New
Artist: Paul McCartney
Best Song/s: Alligator, Queenie Eye, New

Album: Clockwork Angels Tour
Artist: Rush
Best Song/s: The Garden, Spirit Or Radio

[Fractured Silhouette]

I seemed to have forgotten to mention a couple of gems.

Album: Wolves Within
Artist: After The Burial
Best Song/s: A Wolf Amongst Ravens, Neo Seoul
All that groove.

Album: Severance
Artist: Heart Of A Coward
Best Song/s: Nauseum, Psychophant, Distance, Mirrors
Thall. Except better.

Album: Acceptance Speech
Artist: Dance Gavin Dance
Best Song/s: Strawberry Swisher Pt. 3, Doom & Gloom
Nice to see a band on Rise that dispenses with chugs and replaces them with catchy tunes.

[Vocabulous]

AM by the arctic monkeys
Best songs: Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High, Arabella, and R U Mine

[abc983055235235231a]

not going to pick favourite songs, because that's too hard

Album: How to Draw a River, Step by Step
Artist: Rika
Listen here (http://rikaband.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-draw-a-river-step-by-step)

Album: Whenever, If Ever
Artist: The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die
Listen here (http://topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/whenever-if-ever)

[WickedWeekend]

Album: Church Clothes Volume 2
Artist: Lecrae
Best Song/s: The Fever

Album: Heroes For Sale
Artist: Andy Mineo
Best Song/s: The Saints

Album: Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
Artist: Kendrick Lamar
Best Song/s: Now or Never (with Mary J. Blige)

[Reghan]

Common Courtesy by
A Day to Remember
I love all the songs :)

[Jakie23]

Album: Native
Artist: OneRepublic
Best Songs: Counting Stars, Preacher and If I Lose Myself

Album: Swings Both Ways
Artist: Robbie Williams
Best Songs: Go Gentle, Puttin On The Ritz and Shine my Shoes

Album: All This Bad Blood
Artist: Bastille
Best Songs: Pompei and Of The Night

[teegoo8]

album: native
artist: onerepublic
best songs: preacher, i lived, life in color, burning bridges, counting stars

album: somewhere somehow
artist: we the kings
best songs: i feel alive, see you in my dreams, die young live forever

album: honestly
artist: tyler ward
best songs: sos, hoopty hoop, some kind of beautiful, dashes, beginning of a bad idea

album: magnetic
artist: the goo goo dolls
best songs: bulletproof angel, keep the car running, caught in the storm, happiest of days

album: recharged
artist: linkin park
best songs: light that never comes, lost in the echo, skin to bone

[connorftw]

album: i love you.
artist: the neighborhood
best songs: how, afraid, everybodys watching me, sweater weather
i LOVE this album. its a different from what i normally listen to. i put this on and its almost like each song was written about different parts of my life, or thats how i interpret them if that makes any sense. but thats what makes music great isnt it

[LilyAllenFan69]

Here are some of my favourites:
ARTPOP - Lady Gaga
Britney Jean - Britney Spears
Bangerz - Miley Cyrus
All This Bad Blood - Bastille
Beyonce - Beyonce
The Next Day - David Bowie
Prism - Katy Perry
Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke
Closer To The Truth - Cher
Paramore - Paramore

[Razboinic]

Album: Prism
Artist: Katy Perry
Best Song/s: Roar, Birthday, Walking On Air.

I'm one of those people who's totally into modern/pop music and I adore Katy Perry. I feel like this album showed the softer side of Katy's voice. Her previous album, Teenage Dream was more of an upbeat album. Now I'm rambling, but the point is that this album is great for all the right reasons!

[audiophile5]

Album: A
Artist: Agnetha Faltskog
Best Song/s: The One who loves you now
She's one of the members of ABBA, and this is her first album in many years. Mostly heartbreaking sad love songs.

Album: AM
Artist: Arctic Monkeys
Best Song/s: Do I wanna Know, No. 1 Party Anthem
Though very different from their style - much slower- its a good album, with nice lyrics and catchy songs.

Album: Trouble will find me
Artist: The National
Best Song/s: Demons, I need my girl

Album: Time
Artist: Rod Stewart
Best Song/s: Live the life

Album: Comedown Machine
Artist: The Strokes
Best Song/s: Happy ending
Again, a bit different from their style, but a very good album.

[audiophile5]

Oh my, I forgot


Album: We need medicine
Artist: The Fratellis
Best Song/s: Halloween Blues

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Album: Avril Lavigne
Artist: Avril Lavigne
Best Songs: Here's to Never Growing Up, Rock N' Roll, Let Me Go, Bad Girl,and Give You What You Like

Album: Paramore
Artist: Paramore
Best Songs: Still Into You and Now

[dusman77]

Definitely Midnight Memories, One Direction.