EP: Cedar Falls - Elsa

Artist: Cedar Falls
Album: Elsa EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








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01. The Last Time I Saw Elsa
02. There
03. Memorybook
04. Isolated Roads
05. Julia
06. The First Time I Saw Elsa
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Cedar Falls is a band, who records music in the basement of a member's house. "Elsa" is a 6 song/20 minute EP of ambient/post-rock and dark folk songs something along the lines of Grouper, Elliott Smith, Eluvium, Cocteau Twins.

A great debut EP, which leaves the audience a nostalgic feeling!

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Album: ItsTeeth + Travis Orbin - Divided

Artist: ItsTeeth + Travis Orbin
Album: Divided
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








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01. ItsTeeth - TDB
02. ItsTeeth - AKT
03. ItsTeeth - CKW
04. ItsTeeth - HLB
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A collaboration between Jacob Belcher (Drop Dead Gorgeous, guitar) and Travis Orbin (Ex-Periphery, ex-Sky Eats Airplane, drums). The two met while touring together with their bands, and then developed a relationship while playing alongside each other in Of Legends. This is the product of two musicians and a couple years of development.

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EP: Gefradah - Medusa

Band: Gefradah
Album: Medusa
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








Tracklist
01. Medusa
02. Lamia
03. Lilith
04. Enchained (Edit)
05. Morana
06. Cancertid (Lifelover Cover)
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Gefradah is an one man band from Odessa, Ukraine.

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Album: Zero Absolu - Küsse Aus Berlin

Band: Zero Absolu
Album: Küsse Aus Berlin
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








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01. One Second Lag
02. Time Fades Away
03. Stockholm Syndrome / The Fall
04. The Disclaimer
05. Hail In The Soul
06. Küsse Aus Berlin
07. Old Pictures Of Girls I Used To Love
08. Over The bridge
09. The Third Finger
10. Minute Butterfly
11. Andalucía
12. Folding The Reed
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Crossbred between post-noise, metal, shoegaze, math rock and electronical music, Zero Absolu (Lyon - France) is a modern one man band, based on loops where electronical music intervene with diverse musical instruments.

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Album: Todos Caerán - Town Of Cats

Band: Todos Caerán
Album: Town Of Cats
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








Tracklist
01.Norwegian Wood
02.South Of The Border, West Of The Sun
03.Underground
04.1Q84
05.Kafka On The Shore
06.Sputnik Sweetheart
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After many years of playing various styles of music together, in 2009 Todos Caerán formed and began writing post rock influenced screamo. Now, nearly 4 years later and after a host of releases including an EP, full length and 6 splits, as well as a line up change which brought in two new integral members, they return with their sophomore LP, Town of Cats.

Following in the footsteps of their first album, After Dark, Town of Cats weaves between pounding, driving crescendos and soft eerie lulls for six tracks lyrically inspired by the works of Haruki Murakami.

Pulling influences from multiple bands and genres and mixing them together amid the cold Canadian winter has pushed Todos Caerán’s sound from mere Funeral Diner worship to something more explosive and dynamic which they can call their own.

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Poll: Our readers' TOP 20 for 2013

01. Russian Circles - Memorial 72 votes (33%)

02. Cult Of Luna - Vertikal 70 votes (32%)

03. Rosetta - The Anaesthete 47 votes (21%)

04. The Ocean - Pelagial 46 votes (21%)

05. Light Bearer - Silver Tongue 42 votes (19%)

06. Pelican - Forever Becoming 34 votes (15%)

07. Palms - Palms 33 votes (15%)

07. Celeste - Animale(s) 33 votes (15%)

09. 65daysofstatic - Wild Light 32 votes (14%)

10. Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty 29 votes (13%)

11. God Is An Astronaut - Origins 26 votes (12%)

12. Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains 21 votes (9%)

12. Year Of No Light - Vampyr 21 votes (9%)

14. Touché Amoré - Is Survived By 19 votes (8%)

15. TesseracT - Altered State 18 votes (8%)

15. Kokomo - Kokomo 18 votes (8%)

17. Ólafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter 17 votes (7%)

18. A Storm Of Light - Nations To Flames 14 votes (6%)

18. Exxasens - Satellites 14 votes (6%)

20. Hypnos - The Fall EP 13 votes (6%)

I wanna thank each and everyone of you for taking the time to vote! This was the first post-engineering's poll ever! 214 readers cast 705 votes in about a month's period! I must admit it wasn't organized perfectly, because unintentionally some great albums were left out of the poll! Next year the poll will be better and hopefully more people will vote!

So thank you all and have a happy new year!

Happy 2014!

Happy New Year! May 2014 bring you all whatever 2013 didn't! 2013 was a good year for post-rock/metal music and hopefully 2014 will be even better! And most of all may everyone be healthy and well!