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| From | francesc sole <soleriba@gmail.com> |
| Subject | My list of top albums of 2013 |
| Date | Sat, 21 Dec 2013 23:04:40 +0100 |
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OK, here's my list of albums I enjoyed this year.
I have listened to a lot of music this year, and have discovered many great
albums and new artists. While not everything is guitar pop or power pop
(there's folk, alt.folk, jazzy sounds, baroque music, soul, electronic -but
melodic- sounds...), all of these records have made me enjoy a lot, and I
believe you'd like them too. Most still need to be relistened to many other
times. I'll do my best!
I came up with... mmmm... 200 albums (God bless Bandcamp and the digital
flac downloads). Needless to say, I may be forgetting/may have overlooked
so many gems, I can't wait for you guys to post your lists as well.
And well, from #30 or so, I can't control anymore which one I like
better... they're just numbered, I like them all.
1- Wyatt Funderbunk - Novel and Profane
2- Eureka Machines - Remain In Hope
3- Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit (what a soul album, OMG!)
4- Dynamo Bliss - Poplar Music
5- Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities
6- The Leisure Society - Alone Aboard The Ark
7- Lisa Mychols - Above, Beyond & In Between
8- Red Jacket Mine - Someone Else's Cake
9- Lily & Madeleine - s/t (no First Aid Kit this year, but we've got this)
10- Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare
11- Chase Hamblin & The Roustabouts - VAUdeVILLE
12- The Nines - s/t
13- Matt Duncan - Soft Times
14- The Blank Tapes - Vacation
15- Elephant Stone - st
16- Sin Fang - Flowers
17- Paul McCartney - New
18- Frank Bango - Touchy/Feely
19- Scud Mountain Boys - Do You Love the Sun
20- Joel Sarakula - The Golden Age
21- Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns - Fooler's Gold (jazzy, wtih a
fabulous female singer)
22- The Magic Theatre - The Long Way Home
23- Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
24- Attic Lights - Super De Luxe
25- Nick Lowe - Quality Street
26- The Beat Rats - Have Mersey!
27- She & Him - Volume 3
28- Midnight Juggernauts - Uncanny Valley
29- Wiretree - Get Up
30- Hungry Kids of Hungary - You're a Shadow
31- Adrian Bourgeois - Pop/Art
32- Maston - Shadows
33- Ron Sexsmith - Forever Endeavour
34- Lamar Holley - The Color of Day
35- The Computers - Love Triangles Hate Squares
36- Gary Ritchie - Drake, Near The Alley
37- Poland - The Colors of the Merchant Star
38- The Resonars - Crummy Desert Sound
39- Circe Link - Dumb Luck
40- Imperial State Electric - Reptile Brain Music
41- London Egg - If It Takes Forever
42- The Electric Soft Parade - IDIOTS
43- San Fermin - s/t (quirky and great in my book)
44- The Connection - Let It Rock!
45- Zervas & Pepper - Lifebringer
46- Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
47- The Cherry Drops - Evyerything's Groovy
48- The Sun Sawed In 1/2 - Elephants Into Swans
49- Andrea Perry - Four
50- Eric Barao - s/t
51- Liar's Club - Come and Go
52- Nik Freitas - The Asterisk
53- Sugar Stems - Can't Wait
54- The Yum Yums - ...Play Good Music
55- Fresh Body Shop - Rainbow Stone
56- Radio Days - Get Some Action
57- Gemma Ray - Down Baby Down
58- Dear Georgiana - st
59- Suzi Chunk with Groovy Uncle - Girl from The Neck Down
60- Corin Ashley - New Lion Terraces
61- Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I
Fight, the More I Love You
62- Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
63- Males - Run Run Run/MalesMalesMales
64- Secret Friend - Time Machine
65- Daughter - If You Leave
66- The Tor Guides - Lots Of The Pops! Volume I - Caught in a Sweet Refrain
67- Iron & Wine - Ghost On Ghost
68- Laurie Biagini- Sanctuary Of Sound
69- Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers - st
70- The Bye Bye Blackbirds - We Need The Rain
71- Vegas with Randolph - Rings Around the Sun
72- Shake Some Action - Full Fathom Five
73- Kelly Jones - Alta Loma
74- Agony Aunts - Big Cinnamon
75- Silver Sun - A Lick And A Promise (mp3 only...no way!)
76- And The Professors - Our Postmortem
77- The Orange Peels - Sun Moon
78- Richard X Heyman - X
79- Lucy Wainwright Roche - There’s a Last Time for Everything
80- Shelby Earl - Swift Arrows
81- Beach Day - Trip Trap Attack
82- Wild Honey - Big Flash
83- Midlake - Antiphon
84- Of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar
85- Ejecta - Dominae (and the single ain't half bad either...and I don't
mean the artwork -only-)
86- Valley Lodge - Use Your Weapons (another mp3-only...ugh!)
87- King Khan & The Shrines - Idle No More
88- Anna Calvi - One Breath
89- The Virginmarys - King of Conflict (rock and rolllllll.....!!!)
90- The Spinto Band - Cool Cocoon
91- Regurgitator - Dirty Pop Fantasy
92- The Dirtbombs - Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey!
93- Patty Griffin - Silver Bell
94- Hero & Leander - Tumble
95- Tired Pony - The Ghost of the Mountain
96- Alfa 9 - Gone To The Ground
97- Vincent Delerm - Les Amants Parallèles
98- Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
99- Lotte Kestner - The Bluebird Of Happiness
100- Cool Ghouls - st
101- The Bottle Kids-Such A Thrill
102- The Woggles - The Big Beat
103- Ryan Powers and The Secret Weapons - The Goodnight, Goodbye Hour LP
104- The Domnicks - Super Real
105- Carly Ritter - Carly Ritter
106- The Melodic - Effra Parade
107- Gossling - Harvest of Gold
108- JoDee Purkeypile - Messenger
109- Harper Simon - Division Street
110- The Boy Least Likely To - The Great Perhaps
111- Brett Dennen - Smoke and Mirrors
112- Phoenix - Bankrupt!
113- Gleeson - Gleeson II
114- Royal Bangs - Brass
115- Blue Cartoon - Are You Getting On?
116- Devon Sproule & Mike O'Neill - Colours
117- Lloyd Cole - Standards
118- Basia Bulat - Tall Tall Shadow
119- Silver Screen - When You and I were Very Young
120- Officer Jenny - The Gods Must Be Giddy, a Gaggle of Unexceptional
Songs Written for Unexceptional People
121- Dan Vapid and The Cheats - Two
122- The Outta Sites - Shake All Night with the Outta Sites
123- Hey Marseilles - Lines We Trace
124- Ivan Mudd - Spaceminister
125- Magic Brothers - The Magic Line
126- Wyldlife - The Time Has Come to Rock & Roll
127- Laki Mera - Turn All Memory To White Noise
128- The Duckworth Lewis Method - Sticky Wickets
129- Schooltree - Rise
130- The Candle Thieves - All's Well That Ends Well
131- The Shivas - Whiteout
132- The Mantles - Long Enough To Leave
133- The Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay
134- The Civil Wars - s/t
135- Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
136- The Treasures - Bring The Night Home
137- Amy Gore & Her Valentines - s/t
138- Paul Messis - Case Closed (Lp only)
139- The Launderettes - Getaway
140- Andy Klingensmith - Pictures Of
141- Trolley - Head vs. Heart
142- Neils Children - Dimly Lit
143- Alessi's Ark - The Still Life
144- Josh Rouse - The Happiness Waltz
145- James Skelly & The Intenders - Love Undercover
146- Feeding People - Island Universe
147- Mothboxer- Three
148- Any Version Of Me - We Are You
149- Third of Never - Downrising
150- The Sadies - Internal Sounds
151- Greg Trooper - Incident On Willow Street
152- Jason Isbell - Southeastern
153- Dom Mariani & The Majestic Kelp - Turn Up The Sun
154- Edie Brickell & Steve Martin - Love Has Come for You
155- The Capsules - Northern Lights & Southern Skies
156- Palmyra Delran - You Are What You Absorb
157- Smooth Hound Smith - s/t
158- Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
159- Adam Daniel - Pop, Baby
160- Scott Brookman - Smellicopter
161- Samantha Crain - Kid Face
162- Mayer Hawthorne - Where Does This Door Go
163- Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - Untamed Beast
164- Monocle - Transpacific Sound Paradise
165- The Handsome Family - Caterpillars
166- Miss Chain & The Broken Heels - The Dawn
167- Phildel - The Disappearance of the Girl
168- Mike Clark & The Sugar Sounds - Round & Round
169- Martin Hall - Phasewide, Exit Signs
170- The North & South Dakotas - Big Dipper
171- My Baby - Loves Voodoo
172- Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
173- The Damselles & The TC4 ?- .?.?. Know How To Party
174- Silver Seas - Alaska
175- The Mowgli's - Waiting for the Dawn
176- Smith Westerns - Soft Will
177- The High Learys - Here Come The High Learys
178- Josh Ritter - The Beast in Its Tracks
179- Agnes Obel - Avantine
180- Richard Thompson - Electric
181- Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
182- Birdy - Fire Within
183- John Brodeur - Little Hopes
184- Atlas Genius - When It Was Now
185- Leafblade - The Kiss of Spirit and Flesh
186- Arborea - Fortress Of The Sun
187- dream boys - st
188- Candy Claws - Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time
189- Bob Evans - Familiar Stranger
190- Fitz and The Tantrums - More Than Just a Dream
191- Lucius - Wildewoman
192- The Secret History - Americans Singing in the Dark
193- Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
194- The Well-Informed - Everybody Knows
195- Leftover Cuties - The Spark & the Fire
196- London Grammar - If You Wait
197- Glenn Case - Throw Money
198- Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium
199- Low - The Invisible Way
200- Lady Maisery - Mayday (beautiful baroque harmony English music)
EP's
Chalk and Numbers - Parade
Belle Ghoul - Saturday Knife Fight
The Ragamuffins - The Telling Tales EP
Stornoway - You Don't Know Anything
Miracles of Modern Science - MEEMS
Joey Ryan & The Inks - [pause]
Erik Voeks - Finulu
A.K.Ellis - st (Sylvie Lewis)
Lily & Madeleine - The Weight of the Globe
Drivin' N' Cryin' - Songs From The Psychedelic Time Clock
The Lovely Wars - Young Love
Broken Fences - Stormy Clouds
The Dandelion - Strange Case of the Dandelion
Parkington Sisters - Inside My Head
The Well Wishers - Dunwoody
Shy Nature - Ep
Shadow Folk - Seagul Visions
Haley Bonar - Wntr Snds
Various Artists
IPO 16
Drink a Toast to Innocence: A Tribute to Lite Rock
Songs For Slim- Rockin' Here Tonight - A Benefit Compilation For Slim Dunlap
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
And not forgetting... The Beach Boys - Made In California
That's all, my friends. Keep your lists coming, and happy Christmas and a
great new pop year to everyone.
francesc
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