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Glasswerk Staff Releases Of 2013 – Part 2

• 16th Dec 2013

In part two of our 2013 end of year list round-up we catch up with Adam Taylor who works at our London venue Surya to find out what’s been rocking the stereo, and our resident metal reviewer Mercedes Brown takes us through the highs and lows in the world of heavy….

Can we talk about balls on the site? For me, 2013 was all about balls. The well established, firmly weighted balls of John Grant and Nick Cave. The new, up and coming balls of Drenge and Holograms. The soulful, “Come on baby” crooning balls of Charles Bradley and Matthew E White. But most impressively of all, I’ve gone through the whole of 2013 without really knowing who Robin Thicke is.

– Adam Taylor (Glasswerk promoter)

1. CHARLES BRADLEY – Victim Of Love
2. MATTHEW E. WHITE – Big Inner
3. OBLIVIANS – Desperation
4. JOHN GRANT – Pale Green Ghosts
5. CRYSTAL STILTS – Nature Noir
6. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Push The Sky Away
7. WILLIS EARL BEAL – Nobody Knows
8. HOLOGRAMS – Forever
9. DRENGE – Drenge
10. MAVIS STAPLES – One True Vine

2013 has, quite frankly, been revolutionary for Rock. With an endless stream of break-through debuts and revolutionary come-backs, choosing only 10 albums has been more difficult that first anticipated, but here are my picks! 2014 has a lot to live up to, that’s for sure.

– Mercedes Brown (Resident Metal-head Reviewer)

1. Bring Me The Horizon – Sempiternal
2. Letlive. – The Blackest Beautiful
3. The Hell – You’re Listening To The Hell
4. Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol 1 & 2
5. While She Sleeps – This Is The Six
6. AFI – Burials
7. Common Courtesy – A Day To Remember
8. Stray From The Path – Anonymous
9. The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation
10. Biffy Clyro -Opposites