End of the year!

Hello and welcome to the annual end of the year post!

Sadly this year was the worst yet for Flying Teapot due to almost complete lack of posting. This was unfortunately unavoidable due to troubles that unexpectedly arose in my private life around late march. The ensuing situation left me with little to no will to do anything so that's why everything slowed down to almost a halt. But not all was depressing since I managed to see Swans and Colin Stetson live. Both concerts were really, really impressive and I warmly recommend seeing them live if you have the opportunity. Aside from that, I spent 7 days of this summer on an island being completely drunk and remembering very little of it afterwards (so hardcore). That was really great and I'm not being ironic. It cleans you up in a way. So yeah, lots of things happened and a lot of changes occurred in the daily lives of me and my friends. Hopefully 2014 will be a much more calmer and milder year than 2013 was. Fingers crossed.

Aside from personal bullshit 2013 was really great for music. Plenty of good albums came out although very little jazz records piqued my interest this year but maybe I'll eventually find something that flew under my radar. Plenty of black metal tho so that's a plus also I heard some rumors that Noevdia will release something big in 2014 (not DsO related).

Here's a list of alphabetically sorted albums that made a positive impression on me:

Agents of Abhorrence - Relief
Agrypnie - Aetas Cineris
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Live at The Crescent Ballroom
Aoki Takamasa - RV8
Aosoth - IV: An Arrow In Heart
Ash Borer - Bloodlands
Autechre - Exai
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Balázs Pándi, Mats Gustafsson & Merzbow - Cuts
Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber III
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Bölzer - Aura
Boris - Praparat
Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
Celeste - Animale(s)
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Clandestine Blaze - Harmony Of Struggle
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 3: To See More Light
Cult Of Fire - मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Elffor - Heriotz Sustraiak
Endstille - Kapitulation 2013
Ensemble Pearl - Ensemble Pearl
Falkenbach - Asa
Fell Voices - Regnum Saturni
Fire! Orchestra - Exit!
Galdr - Ancient Lights from the Stars
Giles Corey - Hinterkaifeck
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Hatred Surge - Human Overdose
Inferno - Omniabsence Filled by His Greatness
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Iron Lung - White Glove Test
James Blake - Overgrown
Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady
Joey Bada$$ - Summer Knights
Keaton Henson - Birthdays
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi - Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery
Kid Rađa - Sve Šta Đaku Treba
Kiša Metaka - Kiša Metaka
Knokkelklang - Avgrunnens Klangverk
Krypts - Unending Degradation
Light Bearer - Silver Tonge
Little Women - Lung
Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Melvins - Tres Cabrones
Mephistopheles - Sounds Of The End
Mumakil - Flies Will Starve
Nails - Abandon All Life
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
P.L.F. - Devious Persecution And Wholesale Slaughter
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Plaga - Magia Gwiezdnej Entropii
Portal - Vexovoid
Pro Era - PEEP: The aPROcalypse
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Gamak
Satan - Life Sentence
Sea Of Shit - Sea Of Shit
Sex Prisoner - State Property
Shlohmo - Laid Out
Sissy Spacek - Wreck
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Svart Crown - Profane
The Rita & Prurient - Women Pissing
Ulcerate - Vermis
Wayne Shorter - Without a Net
Whirr - Around
きのこ帝国 - eureka

Feel free to mention your favorites in the comments!

Best wishes to everyone in the coming year and have fun on NYE. Don't drink too much and if you do at least drink something good!

Oh and Terror Noise Audio is going to be up and running again in 2014.