Who cares about doing a Year Top List in fuckin' November? Right decision right time, and here we go: 32 albums by 30 artists who kept my ears and my soul vibrating in 2013. Thanks to them.
LOVE YA ALL
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LOVE YA ALL
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In memory of Kevin Ayers (1944-2013)
30(+2) For 2013
ADRIAN UTLEY'S GUITAR ORCHESTRA - In C 2xLP (Invada)
AGATHE MAX - Dangerous Days LP (Inglorious Records)
AKRON / FAMILY - Sub Verses 2xLP (Dead Oceans)
BARDO POND - Kiss Above It All LP (Fire Records)
BEAK > - 0898 / Welcome To The Machine 10" (Invada)
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - S/T LP (Drag City)
CHANTAL ACDA - Let Your Hands Be My Guide CD (Gizeh Records)
COLIN STETSON - New History Warfare Vol.3: To See More Light 2xLP (Constellation)
ENSEMBLE PEARL - Ensemble Pearl 2xLP (Drag City)
ESMERINE - Dalmak LP (Constellation)
GASPAR CLAUS - Jo-ha-kyū LP (Modest Launch / Important)
GETATCHEW MEKURIA & THE EX - Y'Anbessaw Tezeta 2xLP (Terp Records African Series)
JULIA KENT - Character LP (Leaf Label)
JULIANNA BARWICK - Nepenthe LP (Dead Oceans)
KRAFTWERK - Live 1971 2xLP (B13)
LES COLETTES - Children CD (Self-Released)
LORI GOLDSTON - Film Scores LP (Sub Rosa)
MARK LANEGAN & DUKE GARWOOD - Black Pudding LP (Ipecac / Heavenly Recordings)
MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE - Far West LP (Important)
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Push The Sky Away LP+2x7" Boxset (Bad Seed Ltd) // Live From KCRW LP (Bad Seed Ltd)
ORLA WREN - Book Of The Folded Forest - CD (Home Normal)
SAÅAD - Orbs & Channels K7 (Blwck)
SCANNER - Colofon & Compedium 1991-1994 2xLP (Sub Rosa)
SIGUR ROS - Kveikur 2xLP (Parlophone)
TEHO TARDO & BLIXA BARGELD - Still Smiling LP (Spècula)
THE OSCILLATION - From Tomorrow LP (All Time Low / Hands in the Dark)
THESE NEW PURITANS - Field of Reeds 2xLP (Infectious Music)
TINDERSTICKS - Les Salauds (OST) LP (Naïve) // Across Six Leap Years 2xLP (City Slang)
TRUE WIDOW - Circumambulation LP (Relapse)
WITXES - A Fabric Of Beliefs 2xLP (Denovali)
And The Outsider, listening to this frenetically in the plane during my recent trip to Iceland:
WREKMEISTER HARMONIES - You've Always Meant So Much To Me LP (Thrill Jockey)
30(+2) For 2013
ADRIAN UTLEY'S GUITAR ORCHESTRA - In C 2xLP (Invada)
AGATHE MAX - Dangerous Days LP (Inglorious Records)
AKRON / FAMILY - Sub Verses 2xLP (Dead Oceans)
BARDO POND - Kiss Above It All LP (Fire Records)
BEAK > - 0898 / Welcome To The Machine 10" (Invada)
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - S/T LP (Drag City)
CHANTAL ACDA - Let Your Hands Be My Guide CD (Gizeh Records)
COLIN STETSON - New History Warfare Vol.3: To See More Light 2xLP (Constellation)
ENSEMBLE PEARL - Ensemble Pearl 2xLP (Drag City)
ESMERINE - Dalmak LP (Constellation)
GASPAR CLAUS - Jo-ha-kyū LP (Modest Launch / Important)
GETATCHEW MEKURIA & THE EX - Y'Anbessaw Tezeta 2xLP (Terp Records African Series)
JULIA KENT - Character LP (Leaf Label)
JULIANNA BARWICK - Nepenthe LP (Dead Oceans)
KRAFTWERK - Live 1971 2xLP (B13)
LES COLETTES - Children CD (Self-Released)
LORI GOLDSTON - Film Scores LP (Sub Rosa)
MARK LANEGAN & DUKE GARWOOD - Black Pudding LP (Ipecac / Heavenly Recordings)
MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE - Far West LP (Important)
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Push The Sky Away LP+2x7" Boxset (Bad Seed Ltd) // Live From KCRW LP (Bad Seed Ltd)
ORLA WREN - Book Of The Folded Forest - CD (Home Normal)
SAÅAD - Orbs & Channels K7 (Blwck)
SCANNER - Colofon & Compedium 1991-1994 2xLP (Sub Rosa)
SIGUR ROS - Kveikur 2xLP (Parlophone)
TEHO TARDO & BLIXA BARGELD - Still Smiling LP (Spècula)
THE OSCILLATION - From Tomorrow LP (All Time Low / Hands in the Dark)
THESE NEW PURITANS - Field of Reeds 2xLP (Infectious Music)
TINDERSTICKS - Les Salauds (OST) LP (Naïve) // Across Six Leap Years 2xLP (City Slang)
TRUE WIDOW - Circumambulation LP (Relapse)
WITXES - A Fabric Of Beliefs 2xLP (Denovali)
And The Outsider, listening to this frenetically in the plane during my recent trip to Iceland:
WREKMEISTER HARMONIES - You've Always Meant So Much To Me LP (Thrill Jockey)