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Ok, enough preamble, this is the EMERALD MIASMA TOP 75 FOR 2013.
75. Nails - 'Abandon All Life'.
Hateful grindcore/punk album that edited out anything that wasn't fucking annihilating.
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74. Detroit - 'Reality Denied'.
A half hour of massively abrasive powerviolence/hardcore punk interrupted by a minute of coughing.
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73. Oozing Wound - 'Retrash'.
Chicago punk metal band welcomes you to the spaceship, Motherfucker (also, fuck NYC).
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72. The Dillinger Escape Plan - 'One of Us is the Killer'.
One of the most important names in progressive metal/mathcore returns to form with their best album in almost a decade.
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71. Homeboy Sandman - 'Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent'
Next great Stones Throw rapper kills tracks with his laid-back flow.
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70. Gorguts - 'Colored Sands'.
Death metal titans thunder from the North to decimate anyone in their unforgiving wake.
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69. Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge - 'Twelve Reasons to Die'.
Tony Stark teams up with 'Black Dynamite' composer to make a vicious paean to the criminal underworld.
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68. Earthless - 'From the Ages'.
San Diego stoner/psych outfit loads four massive tracks with more riffs than it can handle.
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67. Kylesa - 'Ultraviolet'.
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67. Kylesa - 'Ultraviolet'.
Sludgy Southern metal outfit gets darker, weirder, and heaver with impressive results.
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66. Pusha T - 'My Name is My Name'.
Mysterious Illinois doom outfit drops some heavy spirituality and heavier riffs.
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64. Joey Bada$$ - 'Summer Knights'.
Child prodigy continues to bring the Old School into the modern day world of rap.
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63. Pissed Jeans - 'Honeys'.
Sludgy punk band spits venom and knocks yr dick in the dirt (or pussy if situation requires).
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62. Kavinsky - 'Outrun'.
Zombie man makes electronic music for action thrillers and/or dancefloor fingerblastins.
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61. Le1f - 'Fly Zone'.
Old-school hardcore punks blast through 22 songs in 11 minutes with Lady Energy.
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58. Autre Ne Veux - 'Anxiety'.
Dudes make 80's synth music for your inner earnest love-struck idiot.
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57. Night Birds - 'Born to Die in Suburbia'.
Jersey punks open with a cover 'Escape from NY' theme and end with their boot in yr teeth.
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56. Huerco S. - 'Colonial Patterns'.
Dark, dry, droning electronic dude makes headphone music for late night ruminations.
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55. Cult of Fire - 'मृत्युकावीभत्सनृत्य'.
Czech dudes make Indian-influenced black metal and title the album in Sanskrit, because 'Fuck You'.
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54. Vatican Shadow - 'Remember Your Black Day'.
Unsettling electronics for walking through a goddamn warzone.
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53. Shit and Shine - 'Find Out What Happens When People Start Being Polite For a Fucking Change'.
Album Title of the Year winner makes weird, disjointed dance-funk, IDM, and dance pop.
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52. Jon Hopkins - 'Immunity'.
Breakout Electronic Star of 2013 makes icy, glitchy tracks to tune out the world to.
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51. Aidan Baker - 'Already Drowning'.
Melancholy dark ambient producer gets several melancholy women to get melancholy on some tracks.
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50. Moderat - 'II'.
Three electronic titans reunite to make austere dance tracks for people (mostly Germans).
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49. King Krule - '6 Feet Beneath the Moon'.
London Ginger goes Cockney Billy Bragg over spacious, lamenting instrumentation.
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48. Mikal Cronin - 'MCII'.
Sunny garage rock from a dude too good to just be Ty Segall's bassist.
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47. A$AP Ferg - 'Trap Lord'.
Trap Lord fucked yo bitch (SWAG!)
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46. Clutch - 'Earth Rocker'.
Maryland rockers return to drink booze, get religious, and rock Earths.
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45. Gesaffelstein - 'Aleph'.
Violent, throbbing mélange of industrial pounding and detached dance for uber-chic junkies.
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44. Thee Oh Sees - 'Floating Coffin'.
Garage rock royalty make another great record to no one's surprise.
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43. Denzel Curry - 'Nostalgia 64'.
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42. Chvrches - 'The Bones of What You Believe'.
Scotch electro-pop decimates blogosphere bandwidth due to catchy hooks, misogyny/misandry debates.
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41. Armand Hammer - 'Race Music'.
Dudes get together to make politically minded rap that's smart, occasionally funny, and always biting.
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40. Superchunk - 'I Hate Music'.
Indie rock's old guard reminds me why I loved indie rock so much at one point in my life.
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39. Fuck Buttons - 'Slow Focus'.
Experimental electronic group/ornamental brooch aficionados make it's most cohesive album to date.
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38. Jenny Hval - 'Innocence is Kinky'.
Experimental artist explores sexual obsessions over orchestral dissonance and jagged guitars.
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37. Deafheaven - 'Sunbather'.
Post-Black metal dudes make 'Dream House' and win all the critic's superlatives.
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36. Stara Rzeka - 'Cień Chmury Nad Ukrytym Polem'.
Polish dude blends multiple genres to create a dark, sweeping epic that defies classification.
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35. Limbs Bin - 'Summertime Blues'.
I don't fucking know.
VIDEO! (NOT FROM THIS ALBUM, BUT YOU'LL GET THE IDEA BETTER THIS WAY!)
34. Valley Lodge - 'Use Your Weapons'.
The Pride of Cleveland joins up with dude from Walt Mink to make sweet power pop.
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33. Prurient - 'Through the Window'.
Noise dude continues to experiment with the idea of making accessible music.
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32. Deap Vally - 'Sistrionix'.
Critically derided rock duo that prove critics are the goddamn worst.
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31. Janelle Monae - 'The Electric Lady'.
The Cindi Mayweather chronicles continue along as funky, fresh, and fucking dope as ever.
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30. Shadowrunners - 'S/T'.
Anime obsessed rappers drop heavy bars over 80's pop and 8-bit jamz.
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29. Inspectah Deck and 7L + Esoteric - 'Czarface'.
Underground stalwarts converge on one of the dopest collaborations in years.
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28. Anamanaguchi - 'Endless Fantasy'.
Super saccharine 8-bit demigods explode with over an hour of high energy pop.
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27. Man's Gin - 'Rebellion Hymns'.
War Vet turns metal dude turns country doomsayer shaking clenched fists to God.
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26. Stellar Om Source - 'Joy One Mile'.
Esoteric c30 drone queen transforms into bass heavy, icy dance floor igniter.
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25. Church of Misery - 'Thy Kingdom Scum'.
Japanese serial killer obsessives release yet another stoner metal gem.
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24. Demon Queen - 'Exorcise Tape'.
Tobacco teams with Zackey Force Funk to get dark, funky and covered in syrup.
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23. Parquet Courts - 'Light Up Gold'.
Brooklyn garage punks drop fully realized debut LP that sounds lived-in and familiar.
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22. Disclosure - 'Settle'.
Without a doubt the most dance-y album released this year.
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21. Paavoharju - ' Joko Sinä Tulet Tänne Alas Tai Minä Nousen Sinne'.
Mildly Cultish Finnish collective incorporates hip-hop into their freak folk sound.
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20. Wormed - 'Exodromos'.
Highly technical death metal made for the Geth in 'Mass Effect' (probably).
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19. Run the Jewels - 'S/T'.
El-P and Killer Mike made an album, and that's all you need to hear.
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18. Peach Kelli Pop - '2nd Album'.
Sunny guitar pop and 60's girl-group sounds converge with dark undertones.
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17. Grouper - 'The Man Who Died in His Boat'.
Airy, ethereal folk ambient music from some form of ghostly sea witch.
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16. St. Pepsi - 'Hit Vibes'.
Chopped and screwed brassy blue-eyed soul and 80's dance pop.
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15. Vhol - 'S/T'.
This album has 'Arising', and that is reason enough to listen to this excellent album.
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14. Mutoid Man - 'Helium Head'.
Dudes from Converge and Cave In make a Lightning Bolt record, but groovier.
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13. Tony Touch - 'The Piece Maker 3: Return of the 50 MCs'.
50 of the best MCs get together and make Old School Rap 101.
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12. The Flaming Lips - 'The Terror'.
Wayne Coyne & Co. continue down the dark wormhole they entered on 'Embryonic'.
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11. Tim Hecker - 'Virgins'.
The best electronic musician active today releases another instant classic.
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10. KA - 'The Night's Gambit'.
Dark, foreboding rap that (as Anthony Fantano put it) plays more like a confession of guilt.
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9. Pantha du Prince & the Bell Laboratory - 'Elements of Light'.
Chilly electronic musician teams up with a bunch of bells to make a hauntingly pretty album.
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8. Melt Yourself Down - 'S/T'.
Strap the fuck in for an adrenaline rush of afrobeat, world music, and electronics.
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7. Robedoor - 'Primal Sphere'.
Finally, the drone artists are taking drum lessons.
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6. YC the Cynic - 'GNK'.
Bronx rapper conjures images that are darkly humorous, insightful, and matter-of-factly threatening.
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5. Melt Banana - 'Fetch'.
Japanese spazz rockers explode back onto the scene with more energy than ever.
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4. マクロスMACROSS 82-99 - 'ネオ東京'.
Big, bold mash-up of 80's party jams, funk, soul, yacht rock, muzak, and whatever else sticks.
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3. Future of the Left - 'How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident'.
FOTL at their most adventurous coupled with the darkest fucking lyrics Falcous has ever penned.
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2. The Journeymen - 'Mount Us More'.
The dudes from Superego made a country album, and none of us are worthy of it.
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1. Queens of the Stone Age - '...Like Clockwork'.
Josh Homme had to go to the brink of death to bring this masterpiece back with him.
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That's all for now. The HEART STOPPERS FOR PARTY STARTERS MIX will be posted before your New Year's Party pops off.
