It's that time of year. We did one last year, and I know I found a lot of great stuff I missed courtesy of this board.

The Rules:

- To correct for late releases and lack of longevity, eligible albums will have been released between 12/1/2012 and 11/30/2013
- Try to limit your list to three albums, but no more than five. If you list more than five, I'll take the first five listed and omit the rest.
- For the sake of making editing easier, try and list your picks as Artist - Album

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FINAL RESULTS
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The records are listed "Artist - Album (Votes)".

I've broken the ties in the top 10 (unless I hadn't heard the record, in which case I just listed it as tied and marked it with italics). All others are listed alphabetically.

1. Arcade Fire - Reflecktor (15)
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (9)
3. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (6)
4. Kanye West - Yeezus (6)
5. Jason Isbell - Southeastern (5)
6. Drake - Nothing Was the Same (4)
7. Local Natives - Hummingbird (4)
8. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience Part 1 (4)
9. A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP (3)
10. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name (3)
10. Dead Letter Circus - The Catalyst Fire (3)
10. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (3)


Receiving 2 Votes
Alter Bridge - Fortress
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Bastille - Bad Blood
Birds Of Tokyo - March Fires
Capital Cities - Tidal Waves of Mystery
City & Colour - The Hurry and the Harm
Danny Brown - Old
Disclosure - Settle
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2
HAIM - Days Are Gone
My Blood Valentine - MBV
Protest The Hero - Volition
Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
The Avett Brothers - Magpie And the Dandelion
The Boxer Rebellion - Promises

Receiving 1 Vote
Amos Lee - Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song
Atlas Genius - When It Was Now
August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore
Band of Heathens - Sunday Morning Record
Beyonce - Beyonce (released December 13, 2013)**
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter at the Feast
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap (mixtape)
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Civil Wars - s/t
Cut Copy - Free Your Mind
Daughn Gibson - Me Moan
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is the Killer 
Dr. Dog - B Room
Dream Theater - s/t
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Ed Sheeran - +
Edward Sharpe And the Magnetic Zeroes - s/t
Elvis Costello and The Roots - Wise Up Ghost
Foals - Holy Fire
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
Gov't Mule - Shout!
How to Destroy Angels_ - Welcome Oblivion
Ishi - Digital Wounds
JayZ - Magna Carta Holy Grail 
Jolly - The Audio Guide to Happiness, Vol. 2
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Karnivool - Asymmetry
Lee Ranaldo & the Dust - Last Night on Earth
Lorde - Pure Heroine
M.I.A. - Matangi
Midlake - Antiphon
Nothing More - Nothing More
Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium
Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends
Quaker City Nighthawks - Honcho
Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love
Savages - Silence Yourself
Secret Colours - Peach
Sevendust - Black Out the Sun
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Skillet - Rise
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones part 2
Stryper - No More Hell to Pay
Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain
The Naked and Famous - In Rolling Waves
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
The Ocean - Pelegial
The Polyphonic Spree - Yes, It's True
Volbeat- Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies
Volcano Choir - Repave
Washed Out - Paracosm


[This message has been edited by MW03 (edited 3/31/2014 11:21a).]

My nominations:

Arcade Fire - Reflecktor
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
Local Natives - Hummingbird


[This message has been edited by MW03 (edited 12/13/2013 1:48p).]

Vampire Weekend-Modern Vampires of the City
Danny Brown-Old
A$AP Rocky-Long.Live.A$AP
Kanye West-Yeezus
CHVRCHES-The Bones of What You Believe

Arcade Fire-Reflektor
Washed Out-Paracosm

Oh I forgot about Rocky. Adding a 4th. That was a great album.

Pusha T - "My Name is My Name"
Daft Punk - "Random Access Memories"
HAIM - "Days Are Gone"

Updated to add the first tabulation in the OP this AM.

Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Arctic Monkeys - AM

I have been building a playlist on Spotify the last month or so in preparation for this thread. A lot of really good albums this year.


Top 5, No Order (+2, I tried my hardest to narrow it down; this is the best I could do.)

Volcano Choir - Repave
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience Part 1
Kanye West - Yeezus
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Local Natives - Hummingbird
Drake - Nothing Was The Same


Other albums worth giving a listen...

CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
HAIM - Days Are Gone
Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
MS MR - Secondhand Rapture
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Rhye - Woman
Mikal Cronin - MCII
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
Jessie Ware - Devotion
James Blake - Overgrown
Leagues - You Belond Here
Night Beds - Country Sleep
Phosphorescent - Muchacho
Jay-Z - Magna Carta... Holy Grail
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Valerie June - Pushin' Against A Stone
John Legend - Love In The Future
Mayer Hawthorne - Where Does This Door Go
Pickwick - Can't Talk Medicine
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Thundercat - Apocalypse

I want to change my answer. Replace HAIM's album with:

Beyonce - "Beyonce"

**** I forgot about Local Natives. Damnit.

HNIC, fixed yours.

Draper, I added all 7 of your since the threads been quiet. (same for AgAllStar91)

What's with the obsession with Vampire Weekend? Are they really that good?

They're a good band. Definitely one of the most improved over the past few years, especially live.

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I want to change my answer. Replace HAIM's album with:

Beyonce - "Beyonce"

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Didn't this come out today? Is it that good?

Need to check it out.

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They're a good band. Definitely one of the most improved over the past few years, especially live.

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I'll second this. I was pretty indifferent about them before this last album. Didn't love them, didn't hate them. But their most recent album is very, very good and they performance at ACL was solid.

Gov't Mule - Shout!

Pusha T- My Name is My Name
Drake- Nothing Was The Same
Kanye West- Yeezus
Justin Timberlake- 20/20 Experience Part 1
Chance The Rapper- Acid Rap*

*Free Mixtape, so I understand if it gets omitted

Modern Vampires of the city
Hummingbird
Reflektor

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What's with the obsession with Vampire Weekend? Are they really that good?

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Yes

Yeezus is terrible and anyone who puts it on a best of list is an idiot. Modern Vampires of the City is the best album of the year.

Arcade fire - reflektor
Kanye west - yeeezus
Daft punk - random access memories

updated to this post.

Daft Punk - RAM
City and Colour - The Hurry and the Harm
Bastille - Bad Blood

In no particular order:

Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience Part 1
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Amos Lee - Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song
+ - Ed Sheeran

Others:
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer, Different Park
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Drake - Nothing Was The Same
Matt Corby - Resolution (EP)


[This message has been edited by K Blaine11 (edited 12/16/2013 10:31a).]

My Bloody Valentine - m b v

Civil Wars - s/t
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and other stories)
Alter Bridge - Fortress
Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Honorable mention:
Dream Theater - s/t (snare still bugs me)
Paramore - s/t

Support Texas music!



A taste:
"What would you do?"

(radio edit): http://vimeo.com/36627970

(official version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f076lC2PWnQ

My Blood Valentine - MBV
Jai Paul leaked album

Cut Copy - Free Your Mind

Man, Foals - Holy Fire is seriously underrated. Forgot about that. Also, Junip and Frightened Rabits. All 3 would be on my top 10 list for sure.

[This message has been edited by MW03 (edited 12/16/2013 12:53p).]

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Bastille - Bad Blood

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+1

Downloaded it a couple of months ago, but just recently got around to listening to it all the way through. Good stuff.

Jolly "The Audio Guide to Happiness, Vol. 2"
Dream Theater (s/t)
Spock's Beard "Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep"
Steven Wilson "The Raven That Refused to Sing and Other Stories"
Daft Punk "Random Access Memories"

Southeastern
The Silver Gymnasium
Antiphon
AM
Reflektor

Not one Eminem mention. Wow

Arcade Fire
Drake
Vampire Weekend
jay z
Eminem

In that order.

I wasn't as high on Arcade Fire's most recent album as many were. I'm a huge fan and was a big proponent of The Suburbs.

I like the album but definitely think it's the weakest so far from them.

That being said, I'll throw in some not mentioned yet for the fun of it....

The Naked and Famous- In Rolling Waves
Edward Sharpe And the Magnetic Zeroes- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
The Avett Brothers- Magpie And the Dandelion

My picks are:

Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Lee Ranaldo & the Dust - Last Night on Earth
Band of Heathens - Sunday Morning Record