Your Top Albums of 2013 (so far)

Being Christmas Eve I can now put up my final list for 2013 (numbers indicate my top 10 in order) this wasn't easy! Felt it was a great year. ;)

My Best for 2013.... Final list.

Unreal City--La Crudelta Di Aprile (4)
The Psychedelic Ensemble-The Tale Of The Golden King
Tangerine Dream--Finnigans Wake
Fright Pig--Out Of The Barnyard
Henry Fool--Tall People Laughing
Ochre--La Moddie
Edison's Children--The Final Breath Before November
Dead Heroes Club--Everything Is Connected.
Royal Hunt--A Life to Die For
Devin Townsend--Retinal Circus
Spocks Beard--Brief Nocturnes
The Flower Kings--Desolation Rose. (8)
Himilabacken--Vol.1
Genesis Revisted--Live At The Hammersmith Odeon (2013) 2dvd 3cd set
Kompendium--Elements
Believe--The warmest Winter Sun
Days between Stations--In Extremist
Airbag--The Greatest show on earth
Il Cerchio D'Oro---Dedalo E Icaro
IQ---Tales From The Lush Attic (Remix/reissue 2013)
Anathema--Universal
Maurizo Guarini--Creatures From A Drawer
Soulfly--Savages
The Tangent: The Rite Of Work
Magenta--The 27 Club
Dead Can Dance--In Concert 2012 (album released 2013)
Clive Nolan--Alchemy (studio Version) (3)
Clive Nolan--Alchemy live! (Box Set (3cd/2dvd 2013)
Autechre--Xai
Pendragon--Introducing Pendragon (2cd Compilation album 2013)
Depeche Mode--Delta Machine
Ulver---Messe I.X--VI.X (5)
WinterSun--Time I (10)
Hibernal--The Machine
Comedy Of Errors--Fanfare And Fantasy
T--Psychoanorexia
Orphaned Land--All Is One
Nine Inch Nails--Hesitation Marks
Haken--The Mountain (9)
Dream Theater--Live at Luna Park (2dvd--3cd set)
Device--Vilify
Trivium-- Vengeance Falls
Ayreon-- The Theory Of Everything (2cd/DVD set). (7)
Arena--The Rapture
Queensryche---X2
Amon Amarth--Deceiver Of Gods
Levin Rudess Minnemann--The Project
James LaBrie--Impermanent Resonance.
Steven Wilson--The Raven That Refused To Sing:And other short stories.
Riverside--Shrine Of A New Generation
Lifesigns--Lifesigns (debut 2013)
Big Big Train--English Electric Full Power
Tears For Fears--The Hurting 4cd Reissue box set-2013)
Aciients--Heart Of Oak
Cosmograf--The Man Left In Space (6)
Sound Of Contact--Dimensionaut
Nightwish--The Ballads (compilation 2013)
Metallica: Through The Never (Music from the Motion Picture)
Katatonia--Dethroned & UnCrowned
The Alan Parsons Project--I Robot ( 35th Anniversary Legacy Edition)
Skinny Puppy--The Weapon
Fish-- A Feast of Consequences.
PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) - In
Classic: Da Mozart - A Celebration (2013)
Leprous--Coal
Draconian--The Arcane Rain Fell (2013 digital reissue)
Ministry--From Beer To Eternity (farewell album)
Psykerion--The Thought Chamber
Motorpsycho--Still Life With Eggplant.
Gary Numan's--Splinter
The Eldritch Dark--Blood Ceremony
DREAM THEATER--DREAM THEATER (1)
FATES WARNING--A DARKNESS IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT.(2)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Man With Hat wrote: Np! Unit Wail is the real deal IMO. A step up from their excellent debut CD as well. Was Dialeto's from this year as well? I did enjoy that one. Very intriguing mix of sounds...a perfect fit for the Moonjune label. Can't wait to hear October Equus' other new one for 2013 (under The OE Quartet). I think Dialeto's was from this year! Yes, it was good, grunty and noisy one second, emotional the next! Very nice album. I've also got the latest Marbin and simakDialog from Moonjune to get through too, expecting good things from them! I'll really need to do a quick run through of all of them before the year ends! Also, thanks for the tip-off about the QE Quartet title, might have passed me by if I wasn't paying attention!

Cool. Yeah, I like it (Dialeto) as being something a bit different from the general modern fusion scene (something that can be very miss for me, ironically perhaps). I'll give another listen to it before years end for sure.

Not to dissuade you, but I wasn't enthralled by the new Simakdialog. A bit too low key for my tastes (ditto for the new Dewa Budjana album). But certainly try it out for size! Can't remember if I've heard the Marbin one, but I'll give it a listen as well.

And np! October Equus seems oddly prolific all of a sudden. A very good thing IMO.

Man With Hat wrote: Np! Unit Wail is the real deal IMO. A step up from their excellent debut CD as well. Was Dialeto's from this year as well? I did enjoy that one. Very intriguing mix of sounds...a perfect fit for the Moonjune label. Can't wait to hear October Equus' other new one for 2013 (under The OE Quartet).

I think Dialeto's was from this year! Yes, it was good, grunty and noisy one second, emotional the next! Very nice album.

I've also got the latest Marbin and simakDialog from Moonjune to get through too, expecting good things from them! I'll really need to do a quick run through of all of them before the year ends!

Also, thanks for the tip-off about the QE Quartet title, might have passed me by if I wasn't paying attention!

Man With Hat wrote: Spaltklang - In Between Unit Wail - Retort Archestra - Arches October Equus - Permafrost Caillou - S/t Jaga Jazzist - Live With BS The Worm Ouroboros - Of Things...

I'm a fan of all of these, I agree with your assessment that Unit Wail's release is even stronger than their excellent debut. One of the highlights of the year was seeing them in Paris at Soleil Zeuhl.

Thanks Mr Hat! I noticed on your lists here and the other thread that you've also rated highly both the new Unit Wail and the Miss Clara one - another two albums I've bought but haven't listened to yet!

I'm also liking Dialeto's `The Lost Tribe', really good, got a review ready to go for that one.

Great to see some love for OE's `Permafrost', got that one in the car right now too...though listening at night is much more appropriate!

Man With Hat wrote: The Worm Ouroboros - Of Things...

I bought this recently, and was surprised to find these guys not on the Archives (from what I can tell?). There is an American band with the same name, but pretty sure they're a totallly different group altogether?

Unless they are on the Archives, I wonder if anyone has proposed them on the `suggest new artists' thread?

I'm going to give it my first spin on the way to work today!

^ Anathema - Weather Systems was the last album that had that impact on me.

^ Nice debut album as you say. I think I have 3 in my list (Lifesigns and Fright Pig being the others) all good imo. 

Here my updated 2013 list

1.     Dream Theater - Dream Theater
2.     Comedy of Errors - Fanfare and Fantasy
3.     Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
4.     The Tangent - Le Sacre Du Travail
5.     Sound of Contact - Dimensionaut
6.     Eclipse Sol-Air - Schizophilia
7.     Haken - The Mountain

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Always interesting, I've bought around 50 prog albums this year that I'd consider at least good and we only have one in common, Steve Wilson. Got to love the variety & volume of releases at the moment.

Er yes.