Awesome Albums In 2013

[buaawwww]

Best:

CLUTCH - "EARTH ROCKER"

Rest:
Everyone else...

[YouAre_GivenToFly]

Album of the year.

[ewiser]

I found out about this album an checked it out.
http://widower.bandcamp.com/
Real good one.

[FiddleCastro]

Best:

CLUTCH - "EARTH ROCKER"

Rest:
Everyone else...

Yeah, pretty much this.

I like that Neil gives you a shout out during Earth Rocker. 

[ManNamedTruth]

For those interested in checking out Foxygen, they basically sound like they want to be The Kinks.

[Jackets N Pones]

Ducktails - The Flower Lane - #3 and #9 on repeat

[robb]

am i the only person that's in love with the ben harper/charlie musselwhite album?

[buaawwww]

Best:

CLUTCH - "EARTH ROCKER"

Rest:
Everyone else...

Yeah, pretty much this.

I like that Neil gives you a shout out during Earth Rocker. 

Hahahaha yep me and Neil go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back! 

[buaawwww]

am i the only person that's in love with the ben harper/charlie musselwhite album?

No sir you are not.  That for me is #2 right now, just behind the new Clutch.  I can't get enough of it.

[Ob1jacobe]

  1. Phosphorescent - Muchacho  - I LOVE this album.  I have casually listend to prior albums and now i am absorbed in his/their entire discography.  Amazing.  Said this last year when Menomena clicked with me.  I love whey you just find a band/music that is just IT for YOU.

The rest of my list is great too stuff too 

  2. Local Natives - Hummingbird 
  3. Torres - Torres
  4. Yo La Tengo - Fade
  5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
  6. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
  7. Foals - Holy Fire
  8. Ducktails - The Flower Lane

[Penny Lane]

am i the only person that's in love with the ben harper/charlie musselwhite album?

No sir you are not.  That for me is #2 right now, just behind the new Clutch.  I can't get enough of it.

i just posted that on the truckers board..along with the clip from Jimmy Fallon last month--i can't get enough..

[sweatboard]

I listened to Foxygen at work today in the background and it didn't really make an impresion...Now I'm home with it cranked up and I'm REALLY loving it.  They remind me a bit of if Dr. Dog and The Strokes had a love child.

There are a whole bunch of twists and turns on this record a lot going on....the influences are pretty apparent but I enjoy what they've created out of them.     

[capt. scotty]

am i the only person that's in love with the ben harper/charlie musselwhite album?

As much as I love the Phosphorescent and Local Natives albums, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite is my favorite album of the year rather easily. Ive been waiting/hoping for this album (pure blues album) since I first discovered Ben Harper.

Its his best album in over 15 years.

[robb]

I found it on my hard drive about a month ago and never really heard anybody talking about it. for awhile I thought it might've been a 2012 album that I never got the chance to listen to. glad I'm not alone in loving it though. hard to imagine it not making my top 5 at the end of the year.

[EverythingChanges]

So far my favorite albums this year in no order are as followed:

Regions of Light - Jim James
Wakin On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace - Foxygen
Muchacho - Phosphorescent

looking forward to these beauts:
Houndmouth
Wilco
Arcade Fire
McLovins
Wax Fang

[Ob1jacobe]

So far my favorite albums this year in no order are as followed:

Regions of Light - Jim James
Wakin On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace - Foxygen
Muchacho - Phosphorescent

looking forward to these beauts:
Houndmouth
Wilco
Arcade Fire
McLovins
Wax Fang

is Wilco confirmed for this year??  I read that once but no official confirmation.

I can't wait for The National out in may. Stereogum has streamed two songs from it and they are awesome.

my updated list:

Top tier (will be on end of year list)
  1. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
  2. Kurt Vile - Walkin On A Pretty Daze

Also awesome, room for growth (potential year end)
- Torres - Torres
- Yo La Tengo - Fade
- Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
- Local Natives - Hummingbird
 
Strong to quite strong
- Jake Bugg - S/T
- Foals - Holy Fire
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
- Ducktails - The Flower Lane

[EverythingChanges]

I forgot Junip's upcoming record on the looking forward to list.  Super stoke about that one.

[alienlanes]

My favourites so far, in no specific order

New Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Voivod - Target Earth
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
vampire - 7" (new Swedish death metal band, first release)
KEN mode - Entrench
Vhol - s/t

[buaawwww]

Clutch "Earth Rocker"
Ghost "Infestissumam"
Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite "Get Up!"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Specter At The Feast"

[FiddleCastro]

I have a tie at the top of my list

Daughter - If You Leave
Lady Lamb The Beekeeper - Ripely Pine