What are your top 10 songs/album this 2013?

Exactly what the title says. If something dropped in December 2012 though, you can include it here.

Here's my Top 10 songs this 2013:

1. "Over the Love" by Florence + the Machine
2. "Oblivion" by M83 feat. Susanne Sundfør
3. "Royals" by Lorde
4. "Venus" by Lady Gaga *
   At the moment; ARTPOP is so fluid.
5. "Blood On the Leaves" by Kanye West
6. "Walking On Air" by Katy Perry
7. "Primetime" by Janelle Monae
8. "Head Is Not My Home" by MS MR
9. "Night Sky" by CHVRCHES
10. "Neon Lights" by Demi Lovato

So it's mostly poppy with a few alt and soundtrack songs. How about you?

havent quite worked out the songs yet but albums

• Yeezus - Kanye West
• Vapor City - Machinedrum
• Cupid's Head - The Field
• Matangi - MIA
• I See Seaweed - The Drones
• Legacy - RP Boo
• Street Punk - Hunx & His Punx
• Nothing Was The Same - Drake

1. Crawl - Childish Gambino
2. FLOTUS - Flying Lotus
3. Miss Jackson - Panic! At The Disco
4. BLKKK SKKKNHD - Kanye West
5. Q.U.E.E.N - Janelle Monáe
6. Watching Movies - Mac Miller
7. Royals - Lorde
8. Favorite Song - Chance The Rapper (feat. Childish Gambino)
9. Hive - Earl Sweatshirt (feat. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies)
10. Between Villians - Captain EARLDOOM (Captain Murphy, Earl Sweatshirt, & MF DOOM)

Albums:

1. Because The Internet - Childish Gambino
2. Pure Heroine - Lorde
3. Acid Rap - Chance The Rapper
4. Heartthrob - Tegan And Sara
5. Yours Truly - Ariana Grande
6. Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! - Panic! At The Disco
7. Yeezus - Kanye West
8. Old - Danny Brown
9. My Name Is My Name - Pusha T
10. Doris - Earl Sweatshirt

edited 17th Dec '13 4:32:57 AM by ChrissieMcNapkins

There are a ton of albums from 2013 that probably would be included here, but i haven't listened to them yet. As of so far:

1. Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
2. Arctic Monkeys - AM
3. De Staat - I_Con
4. Foals - Holy Fire
5. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
6. Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action'
7. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
8. The Strokes - Comedown Machine.

And songs:

1. Queens Of The Stone Age - I Appear Missing
2. Arctic Monkeys - Knee Socks
3. Arcade Fire - Normal Person
4. Foals - Inhaler
5. De Staat - Witch Doctor
6. Daft Punk - Contact
7. Franz Ferdinand - Bullet
8. The Strokes - Tap Out
9. Arctic Monkeys - Arabella
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege

I don't quite have a full list of ten yet, but off the top of my head, these albums are all top 10 quality:

• Pet Shop Boys: Electric
• Jars of Clay: Inland
• Congo Natty: Jungle Revolution (assuming my current feelings hold)
• Joy Electric: Dwarf Mountain Alphabet (if December 2012 albums count)

Top 10 hip-hop songs of 2013, in no order:

• Jay-Z - "Picasso Baby"
• Eminem - "Bad Guy"
• Drake - "5 AM in Toronto"
• Danny Brown - "25 Bucks" feat. Purity Ring
• A$AP Rocky - "LVL"
• Kanye West - "Black Skinhead"
• Pusha-T - "Nosestalgia" feat. Kendrick Lamar
• Chance the Rapper - "Cocoa Butter Kisses"
• CZARFACE - "Poisonous Thoughts" feat. Mr. MFN Exquire
• Earl Sweatshirt - "Chum"

edited 16th Dec '13 6:43:13 PM by AcesoldierZero

In no particular order...

• Royals by Lorde
• Get Lucky by Daft Punk
• Applause by Lady Gaga
• Counting Stars by One Republic
• Can't Hold Us by Macklemore
• Home by Phillip Phillips
• I Love It by Icona Pop
• My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark by Fall Out Boy

edited 16th Dec '13 9:51:10 PM by wisewillow

The Knife's Shaking the Habitual is probably the strongest album that I have heard this year, in terms of concept and execution, although the new Death Grips LP Government Plates was a hell of a good romp, and that Clipping album was certainly a thing...

Albums:

Goldfrapp — Tales Of Us
Nine Inch Nails — Hesitation Marks
White Lies — Big TV

Songs:

All the tracks on Tales Of Us

edited 18th Dec '13 1:59:58 AM by TopographicOcean

1. Linked Horizon - Guren no Yumiya /Feuerroten Pfeilen und Bogen (Full Version)
2. Anouk - Birds
3. Santiano - Gott Muss Ein Seeman Sein
4. Cookies n Beans - Burning Flags
5. Lorde - Royals
6. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know
7. James Blunt - Bonfire Heart
8. Bastille - Icarus
9. Yoko Shimomura - Adventure's End

Yeah, can't think of a tenth… The one I had was decidedly released two years ago…

edited 18th Dec '13 12:26:17 PM by Gamebreaking

Well, the Glitch Mob released a new single, and it's already one my top 10. So amazing.

Wholly copypasted from my facebook :

1. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
2. Coppice Halifax - Leaf Cloak
3. David Bowie - The Next Day
4. Autechre - Exai
5. Glossata - Pearls and Smoke
6. Function - Incubation
7. Max Loderbauer - Transparenz
8. Emptyset - Recur
9. Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
10. Horror Inc. - Briefly Eternal

Other kickass albums in no particular order :

• Deep Chord - 20 Electrostatic Soundfields
• Vita - Infinity
• Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
• M.I.A. - Matangi
• Felix K. - Flowers of Destruction
• Mark Ernestus pres. Jeri-Jeri - 800% Ndagga
• Prince of Denmark - The Body
• Kanye West - Yeezus
• Docetism - Roots
• Barn Owl - V
• Jimi Tenor and the Impostor Orchestra - Exocosmos
• Soft Focus - Soft Focus

Albums:

1. Zealotry - The Charnel Expanse

2. Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

3. Stratovarius - Nemesis

4. Iron Kingdom - Gates of Eternity

5. Aosoth - IV: An Arrow in Heart

6. Mael Mórdha - Damned when Dead

7. In Solitude - Sister

8. Prosanctus Inferi - Noctambulous Jaws within Sempiternal Night

9. Despot - Satan in the Death Row

10. Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane

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Honorary Elites:

Vex - Memorious

Mindmaze - Mask of Lies

Light Bringer - Scenes of Infinity

Funeral Circle - S/T

Dream Death - Somnium Excessum

Crimson Reign - The Calling

Altars - Paramneisa

Attacker - Giants of Canaan

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Non-albums:

Bölzer - Aura

Deceptor (UK) - Chains of Delusion

Gatekeeper (Can) - Prophecy and Judgement

Mitochondrion - Antinumerology

Trial (Swe) - Malicious Arts

edited 21st Dec '13 3:08:33 PM by StillbirthMachine

Okay, since I'm here, I feel like doing this and I want to know what the forums are like, why the hell not. I generally feel like I look like I'm trying to show off but I'm not. Wheeeee.

• Albums:
  • 1. Blitz Lunar - Triptunes
  • 2. Rosetta - The Anaesthete (so yeah, many people hated this one but I personally loved it)
  • 3. BLANKFIELD - At the Termination of the Phantasm
  • 4. Soilwork - The Living Infinite
  • 5. CROW'SCLAW - The Flames of the Inferno
  • 6. Jake Kaufman - Mighty Switch Force 2 OST
  • 7. aivi & surasshu - The Black Box
  • 8. Neurotech - The Decipher Volumes
  • 9. Undead Corporation - 暴君
  • 10. Another Stream - Future Tantric Engraved

As for songs, that's going to take a lot longer, but why not.

• Songs
  • 1. Undead Corporation - The Empress
  • 2. Blitz Lunar - Hidden Heaven
  • 3. Chthonic - Supreme Pain for the Tyrant (amazing music video, too)
  • 4. Soilwork - Spectrum of Eternity
  • 5. Protest the Hero - Drumhead Trial (If I'd actually listened to Volition, the album it was on, that would probably be in the album top 10)
  • 6. Dark Tranquillity - Uniformity
  • 7. BLANKFIELD - Esoteria
  • 8. CROW'SCLAW - Ironheart
  • 9. Jake Kaufman - Glow
  • 10. saisa - Lycoris

edited 23rd Dec '13 10:21:29 AM by COFFEENEBULA

Welcome to the forums!

What genres do you listen to? I don't recognize any of those names.

That Zealotry album has a song about Mass Effect. Instant win.

And it's pretty nifty musically too.

Albums, in no real order:

• The Drones - I See Seaweed
• Julia Holter - Loud City Song
• Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo - Still Smiling
• Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
• Fire! Orchestra - Exit!
• Rob Mazurek - Skull Sessions
• Jon Hopkins - Immunity
• Submerse - Algorithms and Ghosts
• Wardruna - Yggdrasil
• Wayne Shorter - Without a Net

Dunno about songs.

(Thanks!) Most of that list is metal and chiptune, my main two genres. And saisa is post-rock. Glow is VGM and BLANKFIELD is...hardcore/metal fusion?

I really ought to get that Dean Blunt album soon. Big Hype Williams guy (love One Nation).

Had not heard about that Blixa Bargeld record, will check it out too.

edited 24th Dec '13 1:02:59 PM by Akalabth

The lyrics in general are pretty well written, especially the title track. Roman Temin is a fucking genius when it comes to balancing dissonance and melody.

Top three albums:

3. Tim Hecker - Virgins (Sometimes I wonder why I like albums that amount to almost an hour of CLANG-CLANK-WHIRR so much. Then I actually put said albums on, and I remember why. And yes, such albums are a thing for me; [[Music/Swans The Seer]] is my album of 2012.)

2. Forest Swords - Engravings (Boards Of Canada meets Asian traditional music meets the aforementioned clang and whirr. Yeah, I like really weird things.)

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away (Australian goth-rock hero adopts a quieter, less theatrical sound, and it pays off. Easily my favourite Nick Cave album.)

As for songs:

3. Arcade Fire - Afterlife (Reflektor is AF's weakest album IMHO, but it still has some right gems, and this song is the prime cut. The funky dance influence and their trademark epic sound really work together here.)

2. Goldfrapp - Drew (Again, an established band gives us a spectacular cut from an otherwise by-the-numbers album. This one is more on the eerie, melancholy side.)

1. The Knife - Full of Fire (MIND = BLOWN. That's all I can say.)

edited 25th Dec '13 2:46:19 PM by Uilleam

Um, I'm new here... and, I will say:

Albums: 1. The Bones of What You Believe - CHVRCHES 2. Bounty - iamamiwhoami 3. Pure Heroine - Lorde 4. Matangi - MIA 5. Body Music - Aluna George 6. True Romance - Charli XCX 7. Yeezus - Kanye West 8. Overgrown - James Blake 9. Shaking the Habitual - The Knife 10. BEYONCÉ

Songs: 1. Lorde - "Tennis Court" 2. James Blake - "Retrograde" 3. Sky Ferreira - "You're Not the One" 4. Azealia Banks - "YUNG RAPUNXEL" 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Sacrilege" 6. Arcade Fire - "Reflektor" 7. Lorde - "Royals" 8. The Knife - "Full of Fire" 9. CHVRCHES - "Recover" 10. Charli XCX - "You (Ha Ha Ha)"

So it's all electro-alt-pop with a little hip hop, rock and r&b thrown in.

Top 10 Albums (MAY BE BIASED SINCE I FIRST LISTENED SOME OF THESE A FEW WEEKS AGO, MAY NOT HAVE REACHED A FINAL IMPRESSION)

• 1 - Soilwork - The Living Infinite ^note Easy one. A double album with all songs ranging from good to perfect.
• 2 - Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth ^note Never thought I'd place Fleshgod Apocalypse so high, but this album destroyed me over and over.
• 3 - Shade Empire - Omega Arcane ^note Tries too hard to be grimdark, but ends up beautiful instead
• 4 - Asking Alexandria - From Death to Destiny ^note I always hated this band, and then they suddenly release a masterpiece. Talk about improving...
• 5 - Dagoba - Post Mortem Nihil Est ^note Not Face The Colossus-tier, but still very good, with some amazing stuff
• 6 - David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0 ^note Masterpiece. Only personal preferences stopped me from placing this higher.
• 7 - Persefone - Spiritual Migration ^note Another masterpiece, but for whatevr reason only about half the songs really caught my attention. Maybe it's the progginess.
• 8 - Mercenary - Through Our Darkest Days ^note Some mediocre songs, coupled with amazing others.
• 9 - Amaranthe - The Nexus ^note Overall very enjoyable from beginning to end.
• 10 - Extol - Extol ^note Many forgettable songs, but the album just works.

• Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
• Touche Amore - Is Survived by
• Kayo Dot - Hubardo
• Fates Warning - Darkness in a Different Light
• Arctic Monkeys - AM
• Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
• Arcade Fire - Reflektor
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
• Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
• Cage the Elephant - Melophobia

Biggest disappointment of the year:

• Death Grips - Government Plates

Wow, first time I've actually filled the top 10