
Best Of 2013 [2013-12-18]2013 was another rewarding year for all forms music, sound & noise. Below you’ll find lists of releases that really meant something to our writers over the last 12 months, and fitting M[m] sonic ethos these span many different sonic genres. Roger Batty (site owner, Editor, reviewer & article writer) 1:Horrible Mess - The Well [Breaching Static] 2:Small Hours - Jerusalem [Vagary Records] 3: Burning Red Ivanhoe - Canal Trip – An Anthology 1969–1974 [Esoteric/ Cherry Red] 4:Cory Strand - Nosferatu: A Reinterpretation [Altar Of Waste] 5:Nar - Death Fetish [Self Release] 6: Die Reitenden Leichen - Supreme Nudity [Victimology Records] 7: Gravetemple - Ambient/Ruin [Ideologic Organ] 8: Lasse-Marc Riek - Helgoland [Gruenrekorde] 9: Boar - Drown Yourself [Altar Of Waste] 10: Inanition - Persecution [Skum Rex] 11: Death Frees Every Soul - The Plague Carrier [Victimology Rec] 12: Circle - Manner [Ektro Records] 13: Anonymous - My Lai [Victimology Rec] 14: Albert Ayler - Live On The Riviera [Esp-Disc] 15: I Watched You Die - Morbid Beginnings [Breaching Static] 16: Goosebumps - Welcome To Dead House [Vagary Records] 17: Cory Strand - Manson Ambient [Altar Of Waste] 18: Voices - From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary [Candlelight Records] 19: The Dooleys - Full House /Secrets [7Ts/ Cherry Red] 20: Hair Police - Mercurial Rites [Type] 21: Boards Of Canada- Tomorrow's Harvest [Warp] 24: The Residents- Mush-room[MVD Audio/ Cryptic Corporation] 23: Hawkwind - Warriors On The Edge Of Time [ Atomhenge/ Cherry Red] 24: Halo Manash- Wesieni Wainajat [Aural Hypnox] 25: Tenebrious - Funereal Ceremonies For The Macabre And Grotesque [Altar Of Waste] 26: Jute Gyte - Discontinuities [Jeshimoth Entertainment] 27: Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship [Season of Mist] 28: Mountain Black - Closing In [Moozak] 29: Ildjarn - Forest Poetry [Underground Activists/ Seasons Of Mist 30:Daft Punk- Random Access Memories[Columbia] Josh Landry (review & article writer) 1. Oophoi & Ran Kirlian - The Physics of Heaven[Altera Orbe] 2. Steve Roach - Future Flows[Projekt] 3. Autechre – Exai[Warp] 4. My Bloody Valentine – MBV [MBV Records] 5. Tomahawk – Oddfellows [Ipecac Recordings] 6. Vibesquad - Spinning Gears and Making Things[VibeSquaD Recordings] 7. Bruno Heinen Sextet / Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis[Babel] 8. Disperse - Living Mirrors [Season of Mist] 9. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Fist Full of Bees EP[A Recordings LTD] 10. Saltland - I Thought It Was Us But It Was All of Us[Constellation] 11. Bastard Noise vs. Brutal Truth - The Axiom of Post Inhumanity[Relapse] 12. Gorguts - Colored Sands [Season of Mist] 13. Oblium - Urlo In Silenzio[Labyrinthine Crew] 14. Download - Lingam [Planetworks] 15. Cloud Rat – Moksha[halo of flies records] 16. CoH - RETRO-2038 [Editions Mego] 17. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest[Warp] 18. Skinny Puppy - Weapon 19. Ill-esha - Whiplash Recovery[Gravitas Recordings] 20. Mr. Bill – The Collaborative Endeavors[Mr Bills Tunes] 21. Electrypnose - E7[Electrynosis Media] 22. Ocelot - Night & Day[Moon Koradji Records] 23. Aodioiboa - You Are God[Littlebigsensations ] 24. Radioactive Sandwich & Globular - Sorbet For The Soul [Omnitropic] 25. Flucturion 2.0 - Rhythm of Psoulchedelic [Sun Station Records] 26. VA - Mindwar 2 [Active Meditation Music] 27. VA - Abstract Construct [Damaru Records] 28. VA – Peakadelic [Peak Records] 29. VA - Journey to Gaia [Flying Woofer Records] 30. VA - Elementis EP [Adapted Records]
Russell Cuzner(review & article writer) 1:Compound Eye: Journey from Anywhere[ Editions Mego] 2:The Fall: Re-mit [Cherry Red] 3:English Heretic: "Anti-Heroes"[ English Heretic] 4:irr. app. (ext.) + Blue Sabbath Black Cheer: Discordant Convergence[Phage Tapes] 5:Darren Tate: Two Improvisations[Fungal] 6:Julia Kent: Character[Leaf] 7:Hollywood Dream Trip (Christoph Heemann & Will Long): Second Album[DOM Bartwuchs] 8:Paul Bradley, Jonathan Coleclough, Hitoshi Kojo, Colin Potter: Water Mountain[omnimemento] 9:Swans: Not Here/Not Now[Young God Records] 10:Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away[Bad Seed Ltd] 11:Mika Vainio: Kilo [Blast First Petite] 12:BJ Nilsen: Eye of the Microphone[Touch] 13:Nurse With Wound/Aranos: [SIC][self release] 14:Bruce Gilbert + BAW: Diluvial[Touch] 15:Unicazürn: Dark Earth Distillery [uZu Music] 16:Cut Hands: Madwoman[Downwards] 17:Skullflower / Mastery: split [Cold Spring Records] 18:Various: The Post-Romantic Empire Album[Our Sweetest Songs] 19:Andrew Chalk & Tom James Scott: Wild Flowers[Skire] 20:Autechre: Exai[Warp] 21:Kemper Norton: Carn[Exotic Pylon Records] 22:Born of Six: Svapiti[Important Records] 23:irr. app. (ext.): Deflating an Imaginary Spleen, Almost in Public[Errata In Excelsis] 24:Hey Colossus: Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo[MIE] 25:Chris Watson: In St. Cuthbert's Time[Touch] 26:Concrete Fence (Regis & (Russell Haswell): New Release (1) [Pan] 27:Tactile: Assault on M19[Sentrax] 28:Matmos: Marriage of True Minds[Thrill Jockey] 29:Kevin Drumm: Quiet Nights[Self Release] 30:Grumbling Fur: Glynnaestra[Thrill Jockey] Martin P (review & article writer) 1:Ákos Rózmann – Images Of The Dream And Death (Ideologic Organ) 2:Boar – Dead Existence (Breaching Static) 3: Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman - Music For Children (Schulwerk) (Trunk Records) 4:Carrion Black Pit – Necronomicon (Altar Of Waste) 5:Culver – Circle Of Scars (Altar Of Waste) 6:Cüneyt Sepetçi & Orchestra Dolapdere – Bahriye Ciftetellisi (LM Dupli-Cation) 7:Dave Phillips – A Collection Of Hair (Heart & Crossbone) 8:Destruction Unit - Deep Trip (Sacred Bones) 9:Eagleowl – This Silent Year (Fence Records) 10:G*Park – Sub (23five) 11:Harafin So - Bollywood Inspired Film Music from Hausa Nigeria (Sahel Sounds) 13: Horrible Mess - Concrete and Clay (Altar of Waste) 14:Idassane Wallet Mohamed – Issawat (Sahel Sounds) 15:Iannis Xenakis – GRM Works 1957-1962 (Recollection GRM) 16:Kesarbai Kerkar – Kesarbai Kerkar (Mississippi/Change Records/Canary Records) 17: Martyr Of Sores – Mice And Massacre (H Series HNW) 18:Mdou Moctar - Afelan (Sahel Sounds) 19:Nuits Rouges – Private Room Number Six (Dead Audio Tapes) 20:Portal - Vexovoid (Profound Lore) 21:Psychic Rally – Transmission 104.5 1989-1995 (Blossoming Noise) 22:Saturday Looks Good To Me – One Kiss Ends It All (Polyvinyl Record Company) 23:Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs (Harbinger Sound) 24:Small Hours - Jerusalem (Vagary) 25:Space Lady, The – The Space Lady's Greatest Hits (Night School) 26:Vast Glory - Nonviolence (Modern Arrangements) 27:Voivod - Target Earth (Century Media Records) 28:Various – Good God! Apocryphal Hymns (Numero Group) 29: Various – Nightingales And Canaries (Mississippi/Change Records/Canary Records) 30:Various – Traces Two (Recollection GRM)
Hal Harmon (review & article writer) 1:Brigid Oxhorn - 3xCD Collection [Nifty Fifty] 2:Su Sous Toulouse en Rouge/Pregnant Spore - Fruitland Heights Gigibytes [Rainbow Bridge] 3:Permanent Makeup - The Void...It Creeps [No Clear/New Grenada] 4:Black Beast of Arrrghhh - A Night at the Dollar Theater [Lava Church] 5:Prurient/The Rita - Women Pissing [Fusty Cunt] 6:Sharlyn Evertsz - Get Outta Nowhere Fast/Revalued [Drugged Conscience] 7:Rectal Hygienics - Even the Flies Won’t Touch You [Torn Light] 8:Edwige - Virgin Capricorn [Antropofago Ateo/Hail Nothing] 9:Glasgow Smile - Glasgow Smile [Burial Recordings] 10:Crank Sturgeon & Hal McGee - A Statistician’s Intramural Crush [HalTapes] 11:Dromez - Predatour 2013 [Personal Archives] 12:Baculum/River of Ichtyosis/xALLxFORxTHISx/Strangled Cop - X Means Not Welcome [FTAM] 13:Juice Machine - Mind Magic [Self-Released] 14:Baptizer - Mind Kampf [TYP Tapes] 15:Pusdrainer/Developer - Pusdrainer/Developer [Factotum] 16:Brume - In Heaven [Quasi Pop] 17:Pharmakon - Abandon [Sacred Bones] 18:Unicorn Hard-On - Weird Universe [Spectrum Spools] 19:Hair Police - Mercurial Rites [Type] 20:Wolf Eyes - No Answers: Lower Floors [De Stijl] 21:Pod Blotz/Auk Theater - Pod Blotz/Auk Theater [Nihilist] 22:Machismo - Severe Disconnect [Depravity] 23:Dead in the Dirt - The Blind Hole [Southern Lord] 24:Ultra Spasm Guts: Render Aktion - Ultra Spasm Guts: Render Aktion [Guts: Tapes] 25:Sisto Rossi - Sisto Rossi [Guts: Tapes] 26:AODL - Arsenblotz 63 [Red Light Sound] 27:Jamison Williams - Britney Spears [Museum of Microcassette Art] 28:Human Fluid Rot - Kick Rocks [Guilty Minds] 29:Love Katy - Have You Ever Been So Lost [Self-Released] 30:BLK/MAS/Whitey Alabastard - BLK/MAS/Whitey Alabastard [Steele Grinder] Paul Casey (review & article writer) 1:Gary Numan - Splinter [Mortal] 2:AUN - Alpha Heaven [Denovali] 3:Convulse - Evil Prevails [Svart] 4:Cremator - Alpha Ralpha Boulevard [Field Hymns] 5:Guillermo Pizarro - Glasswerks [self released] 6:Lantern - Below [Dark Descent] 7:Locrian - Return To Annihilation [Relapse] 8:Merzbow vs Nordvargr - Partikel III [Cold Spring] 9:Nihiti - For Ostland [Lo Bit Landscapes] 10:Phelios - Gates of Atlantis [Malignant] 11:Poison Idea - Kings of Punk [Southern Lord] 12:Sink - The Holy Testament [Svart] 13:T.R.A.S.E - Tape Recorder and Synthesiser Ensemble [Finders Keepers] 14:Theologian - Some Things Have To Be Endured [Crucial Blast] 15:Ulcerate - Vermis [Relapse] 16:Zolle - S/T [Supernatural Cat]
Duncan Simpson (review & article writer) 1:Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty (Sargent House) 2: The Necks – Open (ReR Megacorp) 3:Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe (Domino0 4:Nurse With Wound – Chromatron (Rotorrelief) 5:Gabriel Saloman – Soldiers Requiem (Miasmah) 6:Arve Henriksen - Places of Worship (Rune Grammofon) 7:Chris Petit / Mordant Music – The Museum of Loneliness (Test Centre Records) 8:Svarte Greiner – Black Tie (Miasmah) 9:Ulver – Messe I.X – IV.X (Jester Records) 10: Laurel Halo – Chance of Rain (Hyperdub) 11: Neotantrik – Intervisions (Pre-Cert) 12:Dalhous – An Ambassador for Laing (Blackest Ever Black) 13:Tropic of Cancer- Restless Idylls (Blackest Ever Black) 14:Forest Swords – Engravings (Tri Angle) 15: Atoms for Peace – AMOK (XL Recordings) 16: Harold Budd – Jane 1-11 (Darla) 17:The Focus Group – Elektrik Karousel (Ghost Box) 18:The Stranger – Watching Dead Empires in Decay (Modern Love) 19:Luc and Brunhild Ferrari – Programme Commun (Sub Rosa) 20:Ensemble Pearl – S/T [Drag City] 21:The Haxan Cloak – Excavations (Tri Angle) 22:B/B/S – Brick Mask (Miasmah) 23:Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp) 24:oOoOO – Without Your Love (Nihjgt feelings) 25:Maja S.K. Ratkje & Ikue Mori – Scrumptious Sabotage (Bocian Records) 26: 26:Burial - Rival Dealer (Hyperdub). 27: Roly Porter – Life Cycle of a Massive Star (Subtext Recordings) 28: Seaworthy and Taylor Deupree – Wood, Winter, Hollow (12K) 29:Zomby – With Love (4AD) 30:Lustmord – The Word as Power (Blackest Ever Black) Various
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