The quintessential example of an album that can’t be assessed on hearing just one track, the self-titled debut from The Unsemble blurs the lines between soundtrack noir, new wave, musique concrète, chamber drone, experimental jazz, and rock with deceptive ease.
At long last, ALARM unveils its 11 favorite albums of 2013 — a list of amazing music that you won’t find anywhere else.
Saving the best for last, we’ve chosen our 51 favorite albums of 2013, pulled from the acclaimed and the unsung — some of the best as well as most boundary-pushing releases from rock and beyond.
Most of the best album art of June 2013 has one thing in common: loads of color.
Going somewhere? Anywhere? Put on these tunes during your aimless getaway.
Tomahawk: Oddfellows (Ipecac, 1/29/13)
Following its first album in nearly six years, alt-rock super-group Tomahawk has delivered an oddball video for “Oddfellows,” the first and title track on its resurgent release. Watch as black-and-white performance footage is augmented with strange animated characters and the fellas are odd-ified themselves.
Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady rotation in our downtown-Chicago premises. Now, to give some love to tunes that were left out, we have our 50 (+5) favorite songs of last year — singles, B-sides, EP standouts, soundtrack cuts, and more.
Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from Meshuggah to The Mars Volta, Converge, Killer Mike, P.O.S, and many more.