And now, in order of preference,ACloser Listenpresents its Top 20 Albums of the Year! 1) Max Richter ~Sleep(Deutsche Grammophon) The 8-hourSleepreceived mass media coverage, while the live performance in London set two world records. An album of excerpts (FromSleep) brought a nap-length v...
5.Mariner- Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas 6.The Armor of Ire- Eternal Champion 7.Magma- Gojira 8.Jumalten aika- Moonsorrow 9.You Will Never Be One of Us- Nails 10.Hunted- Khemmis Top Ten Metal Albums of 2017 1.Nightmare Logic- Power Trip 2.Mirror Reaper- Bell Witch 3.The Dusk i...
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Some of these albums were recorded before the pandemic, others during, but all continue to give ussomethingpositive at the end of the year, whether empathy, entertainment, or escape. We are grateful to every recording artist for sharing their creative gifts: where there is imagination, there is...
While the original Fearless and Red albums are masterpieces in their own right, it’s important to honor the creative decisions of their creator. From one fan to another, please humbly accept these top 13 songs as an act of love, not as a definitive measure of enjoyment. Now, let’s ...
Narrowing down the Top 20 Albums Of The Year in Colorado is a difficult enough undertaking, as is, and considering the releases span multiple genres, The Marquee thinks it’s unnecessary as well as unfair and kind of silly, to then “rank” these albums. So, in no particular order, we ...
And now,A Closer Listenpresents the Top 20 Albums of 2019! 1. Caterina Barbieri ~Ecstatic Computation(Editions Mego) Opening with one of the best tracks of the year, Ecstatic Computation does not follow the (potentially authoritarian) blueprint of digital futurists, nor does it mark an opposit...
Each year Spotify crunches its data for every user and spits out “Wrapped” — a personalized look back at all the songs you listened to and albums you loved. Want to find yours? We got you covered. While in previous years you’ve been able to access your Wrapped information through a...
To put together our Top 100 Albums Of The Year, we polled all our contributors and, for the first time, allsubscribers to Louder Than War.Over 200 albums were voted for, representing the diversity of outstanding records released this year and, once again, such a massive variety. ...
For the past four years, the Impose Top 50 Albums of the Year list has gone unranked. Instead of a countdown, the albums featured have been listed in alphabetical order. This has slightly irked some of our readers, and we hear you. I mean, if you’re gonna do year-end best-of piec...