2013

2013 was the year of the comeback.  Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, Throwing Muses, Boards of Canada, Beck, Cibo Matto, Daft Punk, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, and countless others I can't remember at this moment all released new music after years of silence.  The pictures above reference the two great shows I saw this year: Speedy Ortiz and Body/Head.  I loved many things this year, but here are 30 records that I'll still be playing next year.



1. Akkord - Akkord (Houndstooth)
2. Autechre - Exai (Warp)
3. Basic House - Oats (Alter)
4. Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ (Capitol)
5. Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)
6. Body/Head - Coming Apart (Matador)
7.The Focus Group - The Elektrik Karousel (Ghost Box)
8. Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Photographs (Erstwhile)
9. Inc. - No World (4AD)
10. IVVVO - All Shades White (Opal Tapes)
11. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
12. The Julie Ruin - Run Fast (The Julie Ruin)
13. Kim Free - Nevermind The Blue Skies (LA's Fine)
14. Kit Grill - Mirror Image (Get Me!)
15. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
16. Laurel Halo - Chance Of Rain (Hyperdub)
17. The Magik Markers - Surrender To The Fantasy (Drag City)
18. My Bloody Valentine - MBV (MBV)
19. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven (Warp)
20. Ovlov - Am (Exploding In Sound)
21. Perfume Advert - Tulpa (1080p)
22. Phoenix - Bankrupt (Glassnote)
23. Phono Ghosts - Chrome Position (Skam)
24. Polvo - Siberia (Merge)
25. Special Request - Soul Music (Houndstooth)
26. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana (Carpark)
27. Synkro - Acceptance (Apollo)
28. Throwing Muses - Purgatory / Paradise (The Friday Project)
29. Tim Hecker - Virgins (Kranky)
30. Two Inch Astronaut - Bad Brother (Exploding In Sound)

Breaks

1. Forbidden - SPECIAL REQUEST
2. Shadows Breaking Over My Head - THE LEFT BANKE
3. Ar II - BASIC HOUSE
4. Black Refraction - TIM HECKER
5. New Grass - TALK TALK
6. To A Flame - ASTRUD GILBERTO & STANLEY TURRENTINE
7. Disappear - SYNKRO
8. Aerial Boundaries - MICHAEL HEDGES
9. Sand Worm - PERFUME ADVERT
10. The Dance Of Cupid And Psyche - LIAM SINGER
11. We Have Been Here For Too Long - KIM BROWN
12. Freezing - PHILIP GLASS
13. Blackpool Late Eighties - HOLDEN
14. The Cool, Cool River - PAUL SIMON
15. Insight - CUPP CAVE
16. On Your Shore - ENYA
17. Night Flight - LOGOS
18. I'll Be Waiting - ARCHER PREWITT

Area Login

1. Global Lunch - JAMES FERRARO
2. Visiting - WILLIAM ACKERMAN
3. The Sky - OTOMO YOSHIHIDE
4. After Thought - BASSNECTAR
5. Les Traces D'Un Pont - BENJAMIN LEW
6. One Day - SKINNY PUPPY
7. The Lesson - PAUL LANSKY
8. From A Harmonic Algorithm - LAURIE SPIEGEL
9. Unicorn - FOUR TET
10. Pleocene - HARUOMI HOSONO
11. Momo No Hana - YASUAKI SHIMIZU
12. Autumn Breeze - TERJE RYPDAL
13. Involuntary Song #2 - SCOTT JOHNSON
14. Souvenir Glace - TESTPATTERN
15. Circular Breathing - SOFT VERDICT
16. One White Whale - LAURIE ANDERSON
17. Clusters 2 - MEREDITH MONK
18. Chrome Country - ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
19. In The Blue Distance - MARK ISHAM
20. Timeless - INTERIOR

Rattled By The Rush

1. Ka-Pow! - SPEEDY ORTIZ
2. Safari - THE BREEDERS
3. Sea Song - FARAQUET
4. Natural Disasters - UNWOUND
5. Somebody's Something - GRASS IS GREEN
6. JC - SONIC YOUTH
7. Memory - REPLIKANTS
8. Winona - DROP NINETEENS
9. What A Life - JULIANA HATFIELD
10. In This Life - POLVO
11. Check The Yard - TWO INCH ASTRONAUT
12. No Surprise - FUGAZI
13. Kid's Alright - BETTIE SERVEERT
14. Grounded - PAVEMENT
15. Love Goes Blank - SMART WENT CRAZY
16. Shadow Pugilist - JUNE OF 44
17. Honeycomb - HELIUM
18. So Hard - PILE

Diamond Head

1. Quasars - BEARNS & DEXTER
2. Circular Breathing - SOFT VERDICT
3. Locked Eyes - THREE LEGGED RACE
4. Land Of Mists - RON GEESIN
5. Illiaster - AXOLOTL
6. Synopsis - WILLIAM ACKERMAN
7. The Doppelgänger - MICHAEL ROTHER
8. Epilogue - MAUVE SIDESHOW
9. Diamond Head - PHIL MANZANERA
10. Half Moon Bay - WILLIAM AURA
11. On The Threshold Of Liberty - MARK ISHAM
12. View From My Window - HIROSHI YOSHIMURA
13. Pluto The Planet - MARY LATTIMORE
14. Nachsaison - LILIENTAL

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