A YEAR-END LIST BY AARON EDGE (LUMBAR)

(We are most happy to bring you a list of favorite 2013 albums by Aaron Edge of Lumbar — whose own 2013 album, The First and Last Days of Unwelcome, is one of my favorites.)

I am most honored to be asked by No Clean Singing to share with you my favorite sonic gems of 2013. It must be said, though, that my year has been the most turbulent in my history as a human being. I am quite out of the loop on perhaps most of the killer new releases… so many swam by, uncaught in my small, old, holed net. That said, the following bands got snatched by my tinnitus-plagued head holes, were hauled in, and gave a truly fantastic bloody birth to perfect gifts. We, as listeners, should thank the giant universe that we are so blessed to have them (in no order):

Purist – Purist

 

Sea of Bones – The Earth Wants Us Dead


 

Dead in the Dirt – The Blind Hole

 

Gorguts – Colored Sands

 

Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty

 

Baptists – Bushcraft

 

Sigur Rós – Kveikur
http://kveikur.sigur-ros.co.uk

 

Ulcerate – Vermis

 

True Widow – Circumambulation

 

As always, buy vinyl if able!

— Aaron D.C. Edge, of Lumbar