Listened to two more 2013 releases today --
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and
Asymmetry.
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is probably among the most anticipated releases this year, and I'll go ahead and just say that it's pretty average to me. The title track, "Choke" and a few others were nice, but overall... hmmm. It felt like it didn't have a whole lot to it, I guess.
As for
Asymme--
Probably their least metal album but the new Karnivool album is ****ing magnificant. Idk if the stream on their website's still up but I highly recommend you check it out
Basically, this. It's a really, really good album, with some very nice technical bits to it, but I do suppose that, yes, this is Karnivool at their lightest, arguably. Not that they're not still heavy.
edit: Not metal by
any stretch, but Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'
Push the Sky Away is a pretty good listen. No one track really sticks out, though, I guess, but it's still quite enjoyable.
edit 2: Also not metal by any stretch, but Adam Ant's
...is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter is ... well, I have about 20-25 minutes of it left, and it's not terribly special, in my opinion. It has a few nice songs, but a lot of it is just not terribly special. I'm kind of impressed, though, that he actually made another album after, what, twenty years? If I hadn't known about it, it'd be pretty much out of left field. I'm not sure I could call much of it "bad," honestly, just not really for me.