Best Albums of 2013

[hutch]

My favorite music thing about this year was hellacopters...even though they're an old band getting into them was awesome.


of the stuff that came out this year i really liked the nick cave, north mississippi allstars, franz ferdinand, tricky, and daft punk... there may be other things I'm forgetting..certainly things i'm overlooking..

i expected more from some of my sacred cows: phoenix, bowie (as much as I wanted to love it in only like it), andres calamaro and babasonicos....

i actually read a lot more great books  than anything else...

[andyrichter]

My Bloody Valentine-mbv
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
Frankie Rose - Herein Wild
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
California X - Self Titled
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get...
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty
True Widow - Circumambulation
Night Birds - Born to die in suburbia
Bad Religion - True North

[James Ford]

Too difficult to put any of these in order, but these were my 16 favorites (sorry too lazy to type the album names):

Concha Buika
Bill Callahan
Camera Obscura
Neko Case
Robbie Fulks
Hayden
Susanna Hoffs and Mathew Sweet
Jason Isbell
Laura Marling
The Mavericks
The National
Josh Ritter
Rokia Traore
Vampire Weekend
Laura Veirs
Yo La Tengo

[hutch]

Jason Isbell

do you listen to it a lot? don't you find it kind of slow and depressing?

[James Ford]

I listen to it a fair amount. Slow and depressing probably describes a good deal of the music I listen to.

Jason Isbell

do you listen to it a lot? don't you find it kind of slow and depressing?

[Hexenjagd]

Late editions to my list:
Joanna Gruesome
Black Hearted Brother
Miley Cyrus
Thundercat
Terry Malts

[ggw]

Slow and depressing probably describes me very accurately.

Fixed that for you.

[vansmack]

930 Forum Best of 2003 Lists

The Wrens is the only one I listen to with regularity 10 years on.  I have a few of the Idlewild and Joe Strummer tracks on playlists.  The other albums I probably haven't listened to in 3-4 years.

Funny.  I loved that year of music too, and yet I might only listen to the Postal service album with any regularity from my list...although I did put that Supergrass album on a few weeks ago and enjoyed it.

[BrettnotBritt]

Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Haim - Days Are Gone
Lady - Self-titled
Kanye West - Yeezus
Disclosure - Settle
Justin Timberlake - 20/20 Experience
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
The National - Trouble Will Find Me

[stevewizzle]

Late editions to my list:
Joanna Gruesome
Black Hearted Brother
Miley Cyrus
Thundercat
Terry Malts

these albums are all excellent

[apseni1]

Big Black Delta 'ST'
Cut Copy 'Free Your Mind'
Chvrches 'The Bones of What you Believe'
Jagwar Ma 'Howlin'
Grouplove 'Spreading Rumours'
Flume 'ST'
Major Lazer 'Free the Universe'
Robert DeLong 'Just Movement'
Kavinsky 'OutRun'
Telsa Boy 'The Universe made of Darkness'
St.Lucia 'When the Night'
John Scofield 'Uberjam Deux'