Music and more MUSIC - 2013 better and best!

[Twizzle]

Oh my word this is being an excellent year already!

British Sea Power - surpasses all they have done before. Outrageous good album.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - MC5 meats (sic) Oasis, coolness quotient while pleasingly unassuming. Ace album.
Grande Roses - Biff bang pow from Sweden, super record. Every track a winner!
Wire - They are identifiable in their style, vital music still if not more than ever
Ducktails - jingle jangles my morning with tasty silverplated chords, vocal and guitar c(h)ords
I Are Droid - cool 3-piece. Not minimal like the sleeve. Like!
The Black Angels - Pixified Magic Numbering, rocking up a nice record.


Also interesting are;
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - though I wish their album was all as great as the second track. It might be a grower as a whole so I'll listen some more.
One half of French techno band 'Air' has a decent new recording... very pop, but quality pop.
Ghost - like Sabbath meets Dead Can Dance and DMode, this bloke is probably going to be huge.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

And Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Machineries Of Joy is indeed growing on me. Not better than Decline or DYLRM though. Going to see them play in Portsmouth on Monday and saw them in Hove a few weeks back.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra playing at Great Escape and hoping to see them there.

 

[Spider]

I can't remember a time for a while that has had so many exciting releases (for my tastes) in such a short period. All out very recently or coming up very soon are:

Kurt Vile - Walkin on a Pretty Daze
The Flaming Lips - The Terror
James Blake - Overgrown
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Suede - Bloodsports
Deerhunter - Monomania
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Neon Neon - Praxis Makes Perfect

and probably loads more. Mind you, that's not to say these are/ are going to be any good!

 

[Twizzle]

No idea about when released, but also heard White Denim 'D', and some tracks by Weeping Willows that I like a lot. More to investigate!