Since everyone is doing it, I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon (that’s what all the cool kids are doing, right?) and share the ten albums in 2013 that have made me change my booty shorts more than I’d like to admit. Without further ado, here are my ten favorite albums of the year so far (in alphabetical order). Oh, and I think it goes without saying that if you haven’t heard an album listed here, do yourself a kindness and crank that shit up.
Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory and Injury
Anciients – Heart of Oak
Cult of Luna – Vertikal
Deafheaven – Sunbather
Intronaut – Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)
Leprous – Coal
Mouth of the Architect – Dawning
The Ocean – Pelagial
Pomegranate Tiger – Entities
Scale the Summit – The Migration
Another 10 bands to keep on the lookout in the 2nd half of 2013: Alcest, Behemoth, Exivious, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Gorguts, Opeth, Protest the Hero, Revocation, Rosetta, Russian Circles.