Thursday 12 December 2013

Albums of 2013

As usual Jason at perfectsoundforever.com has asked for everyone's twenty favourite albums of the year so here are mine. Thalia Zedek goes first due to more emotional content than other music of similar excellence. Also honourable mention for two five song CD EPs "Last Days of Butterfly" by Stranger Son and "The Ghost List" by Girls Against Boys and the 6 track "Stories" by Chris Brokaw. I could almost be living in the 1990s.

Thalia Zedek Band - Via
Bardo Pond - Peace On Venus
Wire - Change Becomes Us
Melt Banana - Fetch
Califone - Stitches
White Hills - So You Are... So You'll Be
Rodan - Fifteen Quiet Years (compilation / Peel session)
Arbouretum - Coming Out of the Fog
Carlton Melton - Always Even
Low - The Invisible Way
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Polvo - Siberia
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
King Champion Sounds - Different Drummer
The Ex and Brass Unbound -Enormous Door
Mick Turner - Don't Tell the Driver
Pelican - Forever Becoming
Mainliner - Revelation Space
Kandodo - K2O

Plus a few more...

Acid Mother Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO - In Search of the lost Divine Arc
Grant Hart - The Argument
Bailter Spae - Trinine
Mogwai - Les Revenants
Dead C vs Rangda
Lee Ranaldo - Last Night on Earth
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Sebadoh - Defend Yourself
Fennesz - 17.02.12 Live at the Museum
Brokeback and the Black Rock
Mountains - Centralia
Mark Lanegan - Imitations
Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood - Black Pudding
Cowtown - Dudes vs Bad Dudes
Desmadrados de Soldados Ventura
DBH - Time Flies
Jon Collin - High Peak Selections
Big Naturals
Guantanamo School of Medecine - White People and the Damage Done
Flaming Lips - The Terror
Iggy and the Stooges -Reday to Die
Chelsea Light Moving
The Fall - Remit



And some CDRs
Mugstar - Centralia
Cleft - Whale Bone
White Hills - Oddity IV Black Valleys