Top Ten Albums of 2013 - #9
Atoms for Peace's AMOK
Editor's Note: This is the 2nd in a quasi-weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2013. The 10th edition is wrapped into the larger year-end post I call "The Ho Media Awards", which will be published just after the new year. Stay tuned!
As a general rule, "albums" of less than 10 tracks irritate me. I realize we're a generation of short attention spans, but give me a little more credit than this. Exceptions can be made of course; this year, I actually have two albums with 9 tracks in the Top Ten. In at #9 is Thom, Flea, and Co. with the electronically spastic "AMOK".
To rank higher, it would have had to be a perfect 9 out of 9, but the album isn't without mediocrity. "Ingenue" and "Dropped" both lose me towards the center of the album. They start to blur together a little. It's not until "Stuck Together Pieces" that it really grabs my attention again - and grabs it hard for the remaining four tracks.
It's hard to see this as any other than The King of Limbs: Part II. Although it's clearly a different band, Thom is continuing and evolving some of the expressions he started exploring with Radiohead over the last few years.
"Judge Jury and Executioner" is probably my favorite, probably because it's got Radiohead written all over it.
Album Highlights: Before Your Very Eyes; Judge Jury and Executioner; Stuck Together Pieces
Editor's Note: This is the 2nd in a quasi-weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2013. The 10th edition is wrapped into the larger year-end post I call "The Ho Media Awards", which will be published just after the new year. Stay tuned!As a general rule, "albums" of less than 10 tracks irritate me. I realize we're a generation of short attention spans, but give me a little more credit than this. Exceptions can be made of course; this year, I actually have two albums with 9 tracks in the Top Ten. In at #9 is Thom, Flea, and Co. with the electronically spastic "AMOK".
To rank higher, it would have had to be a perfect 9 out of 9, but the album isn't without mediocrity. "Ingenue" and "Dropped" both lose me towards the center of the album. They start to blur together a little. It's not until "Stuck Together Pieces" that it really grabs my attention again - and grabs it hard for the remaining four tracks.
It's hard to see this as any other than The King of Limbs: Part II. Although it's clearly a different band, Thom is continuing and evolving some of the expressions he started exploring with Radiohead over the last few years.
"Judge Jury and Executioner" is probably my favorite, probably because it's got Radiohead written all over it.
Album Highlights: Before Your Very Eyes; Judge Jury and Executioner; Stuck Together Pieces
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