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So the juries are out, everyone seems to have Vampire Weekend and Eminem in there somewhere.


Was chuffed that Maddy COsta from the Guardian might have delved into my head for much of her list

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/dec/23/best-albums-tracks-2013-writers-votes

Deerhunter ? Monomania

James Blake ? Overgrown

Laura Veirs ? Warp and Weft

The National ? Trouble Will Find Me

Matthew E White ? Big Inner

Neko Case ? The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You

Fionn Regan ? The Bunkhouse Vol 1: Anchor Black Tattoo

Serafina Steer ? The Moths Are Real

Baths ? Obisdian

Austra ? Olympia



especially the underrated (unknown?) local lass Serafina Steer.


Amazed Bosnian Rainbows hasn't had greater prominence as that was my outstanding album of 2013.


Nominations people?

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Run The Jewels by Run The Jewels (El-P & Killer Mike) gets my vote.


Released last year for free DL, it gets it's UK physical release on Monday and has just been voted 5/5 by Alex Petridis in the Guardian.


It's rap but (probably) not as you know it.


Good to see Baths get a mention!


E2A link: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/run-the-jewels-review?CMP=twt_gu

Horsebox, just listening to it on youtube (full album)


I'm kind of out of practice, but it is good, and I'm loving the prog synths liberally interspersed. Ooh, its a bit rap Crystal Castles isn't it.


But I have a self-awareness issue, I find it difficult to listen to this (and pehaps it's just middle age) without feeling a bit



"It's rap but (probably) not as you know it."


I dunno, sounds like all the stuff I listened to in the early 90s, with slightly chunkier bass!

Horsebox Wrote:

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> Run The Jewels by Run The Jewels (El-P & Killer

> Mike) gets my vote.

>

> Released last year for free DL, it gets it's UK

> physical release on Monday and has just been voted

> 5/5 by Alex Petridis in the Guardian.

>

> It's rap but (probably) not as you know it.

>

> Good to see Baths get a mention!

>

> E2A link:

> http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/run-t

> he-jewels-review?CMP=twt_gu


Good choice!


http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/dj2.gif

crikey, opener 'basement torture killings' is a little claustrophobic isn't (name is kind of suggestive i guess).

Ding a ding dang my ding a long ling long there uncleglen...without the tune ;)


as it goes quite enjoyed it, and the immolation follower. Especially the occasional use of a triangle. But same rule applies, too old for it. It appeals to a teenage sensibility, but I'm just too old for this stuff to take it seriously (and i sincerely hope it doesn't take itself serioulsy); maybe without the vocals.... But all that apart, weirdly enjoyable.

El-Pibe (no relation to the aforementioned rapper/producer?) , I hear your concerns re middle age vs Rap - went to see RTJ in Brixton and at times felt more than a wee bit older than some of the crowd...and if you were listening to similar stuff in the 90's you're maybe already familiar with El-P as part of Company Flow/Cannibal Ox?
I've hardly heard of any of the Guardian list. Any I don't think I've actually heard any of them. Unfortunately I rarely actively seek out new music these days. I don't mind what I've heard of Chvrches, mind. And I hate hate hate Haim... Shania Twain meets Fleetwood Mac... it has no place in the 21st Century.

Chrvches is a nice album, hardly world shattering, but catchy, shamelessly retro with some good songwriting, which is unusual in electronica. I'm a big Twilight Sad fn so its nice to see Martin Doherty having some fun for a change.


THe above list was just one of a dozen or so writers top tens.

The final guardian one was


1. Yeezus by Kanye West

2. Pale Green Ghosts by John Grant

3. Random Access Memories by Daft Punk

4. Modern Vampires of the City by Vampire Weekend

5. Overgrown by James Blake

6. Settle by Disclosure

7. Cut 4 Me by Kelela

8. John Wizards by John Wizards

9. The Electric Lady by Janelle Mon?e

10. m b v by My Bloody Valentine


of which I've only heard no 10 (and have it on order in vinyl) and have 2 & 4 on a vague, to buy eventually list.

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