The Top 25 Albums of 2013
The Grand Return

Following a 3-year hiatus, I am finally back with another list. As usual, this was no easy task. Relistening to each album, choosing the right songs as samples, and writing up unrepetitive blurbs took up a good chunk of my free time over the past few weeks. But it had to be done. After listening to over 100 albums released in 2013, I was surprised to go back and see how brilliant music has been this year. Hard evidence for the fact that music can never die and it will grow…

The Top 25 Albums of 2013
The Grand Return

Following a 3-year hiatus, I am finally back with another list. As usual, this was no easy task. Relistening to each album, choosing the right songs as samples, and writing up unrepetitive blurbs took up a good chunk of my free time over the past few weeks. But it had to be done. After listening to over 100 albums released in 2013, I was surprised to go back and see how brilliant music has been this year. Hard evidence for the fact that music can never die and it will grow…

The Top 25 Albums of 2013
The Grand Return

Following a 3-year hiatus, I am finally back with another list. As usual, this was no easy task. Relistening to each album, choosing the right songs as samples, and writing up unrepetitive blurbs took up a good chunk of my free time over the past few weeks. But it had to be done. After listening to over 100 albums released in 2013, I was surprised to go back and see how brilliant music has been this year. Hard evidence for the fact that music can never die and it will grow…

The Best Albums of 2010
plus honorable mentions and let-downs
2010 was an amazing year of music, in my opinion. I had to listen/re-listen to a lot of albums to get a comprehensive and true-to-my-thoughts list compiled. The album descriptions and reviews are written in a simple style, due to the fact that I get really pissed when I read music reviews that give me extremely obscure information, imply knowledge of at least 6 other unrelated albums, and use adjectives that normal humans would never use to describe anything. On top of that, those kinds of reviews usually don’t even…

First up, a handful of albums that didn't make the list (in no particular order)…
Honorable Mentions

The Mars Volta - Octahedron
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The Mars Volta has progressively made less coherent albums since releasing De-Loused in the Comatorium, their debut album. This culminated in the release of Bedlam in Goliath last year, where they kind of went batshit insane. I was expecting Octahedron to be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yztoaNakKok

Instead, Octahedron was boring. BORING?! Yes, boring. It's as if Bedlam in Goliath was an orgasm (a not-that-great one) and Octahedron was the afterglow. Don't get me wrong, The Mars Volta is still…