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20. Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden Of Delete Toying with Oneohtrix Point Never and his conceptual ideas is great: Garden Of Delete is his reoccurrence of youth, the revenge of a kid, not cool enough to be grunge. His own Jeremy, “Ezra” is not the story of shooting up schools, it´s about a acne ridden kid. Garden Of Delete as a whole is the guitar wielding dream of Daniel Lopatin, the wish of becoming like the great bands of the 90´s, shredding away their pain. But dude only knows his electronics, his weird sounds and warped processed voices and has to make do with what he can. So you´ll hear the weirdest and roughest of Oneo´s digital clash yet, like puberty, not knowing where to go and what to do, your face melting constantly. 19. Battles – La Di Da Di La Di Da Di is pure energy. A band playing math-rock with such an intensity and sense of progression over crazy starts and stops, you´ll never catch a hint of strain in the twists and turns of their music. ...

30. Container – Remover ( LP ) Container´s short LP bore some of the best electronic tunes of this year. While the mind-shattering “Eject” is an unforgettable introduction to gutbumping noise, Remover blends these elements even better. The deep bass is carried by a wide array of percussion, remaining constant throughout with Container adding and subtracting looping elements and effects into little islands of noise. The great thing here is that Container never breaks away from something that is more danceable than experimental, more likely to get the crowd dancing and jumping around rather than distracted or confused about the evolution of the song. Slam dance and riot! 29. Years&Years – Take Shelter ( Communion ) Years&Years were a huge find for me this year and only after pestering all my friend I found out that they were having quite some sucess in the radio. Rightfully so, because with singles like Take Shelter, the bands delivers music that is so fi...

Violet Cold – Desperate Dreams  Seeing the title "Desperate Dreams" and the tag "black metal", most minds will be set to the most normative standard of what black metal is supposed to be: A dark convulsion of feelings. Anger, frustration, ill-intent and whatever is considered to be negative. But, there is another side to this musical landscape that, for me, seems to come to fruition in newer bands and the iterations and mingling of different musical elements. Some annotate this kind with the denominator of "hipster", which in more considered and less visually inclined terms still is better said in the prefix of "post-" metal. Deafheaven might be one of the first and biggest name to fall under this newish category and rightfully so. They were the first band who’s piercing shrieking I found fitting and listenable by means of emotional depth and affective appeal.  In Violet Cold we find, what often times can be found in this field of music,...