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I'm gonna check out Cokiyu, Abe Fuyume and Ichiko Aoba and Fairies for sure. The tags and your description made me curious, especially about Cokiyu.
 
I can also go good for Blood Ceremony, Jex Thoth and Run the Jewels. All released great album this year.
 
Blood Ceremony's "The Eldritch Dark" was a step in the right direction for me. With each album they've gotten less doomier and more psychedelic/prog rockish, something which I really enjoy. There's simply less Black Sabbath and more Jethro Tull and Blue Öyster Cult here. It's on par with "Living with the Ancients" for sure, maybe even better. Great album!
 
Jex Thoth's "Blood Moon Rise" was a huge surprise. I've been following the band since their Totem days, so I knew I would get a geat record. But I was surprised they left most of their doom metal behind and went for a more psychedelic rock sound ala Jex Thoth's previous band, Sabbath Assembly, which plays a ritualistic form of psychedelic rock. "Blood Moon Rise" almost sounds a lot more like a natural follow-up to Sabbath Assembly's "Ye Are Gods", than to Jex Thoth's "Jex Thoth". A bit weird that.

Best of 2013: Rock/Metal (Part 4)


Last part! I seriously underestimated how many releases I had left to talk about a few days ago and I wanted to end on the first. The worst part is the releases I've been stalling for haven't even made it onto the list! That goes to show that you can never listen to everything in one year. Buckle up because this will take a while.
アナタソナタ by 惑星アブノーマル


Songs: 愛してやまない and 月夜海水浴
Soma by Windhand


Songs: Woodbind and Orchard
Das Tor by Paysage d'Hiver


Songs: Offenbarung and Ewig Leuchten Die Sterne Unhuman by Unhuman


Songs: Chaotic Equilibrium and Once Again
percept from... by ptf


Song: purple mist
since by chouchou merged syrups.


Songs: ヒエログリフと遊ぶ Old Mornings Dawn by Summoning


Songs: Old Mornings Dawn and Of Pale White Morns And Darkened Eves 第5作品集『無題』 by downy


Songs: 春と修羅 and 「時雨前」「黒」 The Underground Resistance by Darkthrone


Songs: Valkyrie and Leave No Cross Unturned Bilo 3.0 by David Maxim Micic


Songs: Smile and Nostalgia

So here's a few albums from 2013 I think you might enjoy.
 
1. Czarface - Czarface
I don't really know what kind of hip hop you enjoy, but this might be something for you. Nothing original at all, but it's a very solid boom bap album that will you take you back to the 90's.

 
2. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats took the world by storm in 2011 when they released their second album, "Blood Lust", a perfect blend of catchy doom metal and psychedelic rock with occult vibes. In 2013 the band returned with a new album, "Mind Control", and it's another very solid album, but a bit different. I feel as if this is more rock inspired and I don't get those occult vibes this time. It's a bit more garagey and laid back, I guess you could say.

 
3. Jess and the Ancient Ones - Astral Sabbatsy
Psychedelic rock that brings my thoughts to occult rock bands such as The Devil's Blood, Coven and Sabbath Assembly, just slightly more uplifting that the few I named. I don't really know what more to say other than to point out that Jesse's a goddess! That voice, man. That voice.

 
 
I can come back with more too if you feel you're getting anything out of my recommendations. Because it's been a massive year for music and good music should be recommended to others.

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This might be the first year, where I’m familiar with/ actually listened to a handful of the artists on your list, haha.  Even though they didn’t make my own AOTY lists, I’m really pleased to see Toro y Moi, Sister Crayon, Blue Hawaii, Wolf People, and Gregory Porter.

I remember you saying you enjoyed the Purson album, so I was sad it didn’t make the cut, but I guess you have Blood Ceremony and Jex Thoth instead, I’ll have to check those out when I get time.

Babi sounds like it could almost fit in the Azumanga Daioh anime, haha.  I like the “portuguese” tag on Linda Martini,

Based on the samples, I am definitely interested in hearing the releases by Doppelzimmer, Lantern Parade, Lycoriscoris, Play Dead Season, ミツメ, Daughter, Frandé, Jhené Aiko, and Lanterns on the Lake, among others.

One late addition to my own list that could interest you as well is "Department M" and their self-titled mini-album.  You were a fan of GRAMMATICS, right? Well, this is the solo project vocalist/guitarist Owen Brinley and this time he's making dark, 80's inspired electronic stuff.





Slightly off-topic, but how did you get mp3 samples to work?  The last time I tried the usual dropbox method, it didn’t work…

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Best of 2013: Rock/Metal (Part 3)

Hubardo by Kayo Dot


Songs: And He Built Him A Boat and Thief The Migration by Scale the Summit


Songs: Atlas Novus and Odyssey Empyrean by Mechina


Songs: Aporia/Asterion and Imperialus Deceiver of the Gods by Amon Amarth


Songs: Deceiver of the Gods and Hel

I prefer the one that's best. Usually it's the studio recoding, but I can mention a handful og songs that's way better live.

Best of 2013: Rock

フルコースは逆さから by LIPHLICH


Songs: Ms. Luminous and MANIC PIXIE All Of Them Witches by Hedvig Mollestad Trio


Songs: Indian Driving and The Rex (live) 人間 by 385


Songs: 恋がわからない and 物欲ソサイエティー
0088 by 八十八ヶ所巡礼


Songs: PALAMA・JIPANG and 霊界ヌ〜ボ〜♨
Fetch by Melt-Banana


Songs: candy gun and zero Kveikur by Sigur Rós


Songs: Brennisteinn and Stormur

Best of 2013: Rap


Run the Jewels by Run the Jewels


Songs: 36'' Chain and Sea Legs Doris by Earl Sweatshirt


Songs: Whoa and Hive BetterOffDEAD by Flatbush ZOMBiES


Songs: Death and Bliss

Best of 2013: Jazz


jizue - Journal


Songs: 5 and clock ジルデコ5 by JiLL-Decoy Association


Songs: シングルマザー A GO GO!! and パパのベイビー CIRCLES by SOIL&"PIMP" SESSIONS


Songs: 殺し屋危機一髪 and ジャズィ・カンヴァセイション steal a person's heart by EGO-WRAPPIN'


Songs: 女根の月 and 水中の光(Live)

Merry Christmas everyone.
Here's a little digital painting.
I'm very new at this so any and all feedback is appreciated.
 

 
Cheers!

My name is Claudia, mostly known as 234cloudz.
From Indonesia, accidentally found this heaven and decided to join in here *0* I'm so lucky...
Lately I'm listening to Amuse's bands (such as flumpool, NICO Touches the Walls, WEAVER, etc.), Garimpeiro Records bands (such as ASHLEY SCARED THE SKY, A Ghost of Flare, The Winking Owl, etc.), Moscow Club, dustbox, FOUR GET ME A NOTS, and many more. Seriously, I'm random person D: I'll listening to every songs if I'm interested to listen it, no matter what genre is it.
 
 
I think it's enough for introduction, sorry for my bad grammar.
Yoroshiku ne!