Your Top Albums of 2013 (so far)

My top 10:
10. Parquet Courts— Light up Gold
9. Jon Hopkins— Immunity
8. Chvrches— Bones of What You Believe
7. Savages— Silence Yourself
6. Speedy Ortiz— Major Arcana
5. Arcade Fire— Reflektor
4. My Bloody Valentine— m b v
3. Vampire Weekend— Modern Vampires in the City
2. Julia Holter— Loud City Song
1. Deafheaven— Sunbather (Guldbamsen's makes me )

Not very proggy. There are many releases I have yet to listen to or get familiar enough with to confidently put on my list.

Guldbamsen wrote: ^Mjeah well that Deafheaven album does seem to get pretty high praises all around. I guess I am one of the few who feels it's too derivative and unoriginal. I'm glad you like it though. Oh and that Jon Hopkins album is without a doubt one of my fave 2013 releases hands down

A few other PA reviewers had roughly the same critiques, but yours review was particularly convincing, which is why your had so much effect on me.

Oddly-enough, though,  I don't find very much music derivative anymore. Or, rather, I find all of it derivative.

My final list:

1. Rhun - Fanfare Du Chaos
2. Sax Ruins - Blummgauss
3. October Equus - Permafrost    
4. Unit Wail - Retort
5. The Wrong Object - After The Exhibition
6. Combat Astronomy - Kundilini Apocalypse
7. Caillou - S/t
8. Grand General - S/t
9. Zletovosko - S/t
10. Homunculous Res - Limiti...



Honorable Mentions: Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X, Athanor - Vos Cities Sont..., Pat Metheny - Tap, Jaga Jazzist - Live With BS, Ukandanz - Yetcheal

Overall, an excellent year.

1. Karnivool - Asymmetry

2. Intronaut – Habitual Levitations

3. Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Descension

4. Deafheaven - Sunbather

5. Scale the Summit – The Migration

6. The Ocean – Pelagial

7. Bastille – Bad Blood

8. Ovid’s Withering – Scryers of the Ibis

9. Omb - Swinesong

10. Haken – The Mountain

11. Tesseract – Altered State

12. The Antioch Synopsis – s/t

13. Gorguts – Colored Sands

14. Run the Jewels – s/t

15. Russian Circles – Memorial

 I did 15 instead of listing honorable mentions. Still a lot I haven't given a good listen to though including Sigur Ros, Caligula's Horse, Birds and Buildings, and Altar of Plagues. Also I love Steven Wilson but his new album just didn't resonate with me very well (yet).