Here we are again at list time, halfway through 2013 and already there have been a swathe of great albums released. We’ve been listening to an eclectic mix of stuff as usual including dub electronica, skronking freeform saxophone, abrasive art rock, retro-leaning post punk and heartstring americana. These are the records we’ve loved the most from what we’ve heard this year. There will be others from the last six months that we’ll discover as the rest of the year rolls out but we can at least highly recommend these ones – in no particular order…
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
- Protomartyr – No Passion All Technique
- The Phoenix Foundation – Fandango
- Kirin J Callinan – Embracism
- The Drones – I See Seaweed
- Fat Freddy’s Drop – Blackbird
- Jason Isbell – Southeastern
- DJ Koze – Amygdala
- Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record
- Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol 3: To See More Light
- Zomby – With Love
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It’s been a great year so far. I’d add:
Underground Lovers – Weekend
My Bloody Valentine – mbv
The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
Jim James – Regions of Light and Sound of God
Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost
CocoRosie – Tales of a Grass Widow
And a bunch of others. There’s a few in your list I still need to check out too.
(I won’t mention The National here 🙂 )
A great list!
I’m expecting most of those to be great records, especially Iron & Wine and CocoRosie which I’ve only had a brief listen to.