2013 in music. • Page 2

Holy shit I forgot this was the year of @Thomas Nassiff's Young New England review haha. I know it's from their 2014 album, but "Rest to Get Better" is the only Transit song I like, but I really like it!

 

1. Kanye West - Yeezus
2. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
3. Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends
4. Haim - Days Are Gone
5. Paramore - Paramore
6. Beyoncé - Beyoncé
7. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
8. Major Lazer - Free The Universe
9. Lissie - Back To Forever
10. Charli XCX - True Romance
11. Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady
12. Drake - Nothing Was The Same
13. letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
14. Volcano Choir - Repave
15. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - We The Common
16. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2
17. Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
18. I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business - Enola
19. Big D & The Kids Table - Stomp
20. Kevin Devine - Bubblegum

 

I see Manchester Orchestra’s COPE on a couple lists but that came out in 2014 right?

 

1. The 1975 - the 1975.
2. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - You're always on my mind
3. Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman

 

UGH you're right!

I've come across more and more labeling errors on Spotify, which you would think would be the opposite. They have it labeled as 2013, I thought that felt wrong too. Sigh

 

Huh, spotify has it as 2013 so thats the only reason I had it in mine

 

1. Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest
2. The 1975 - The 1975
3. Childish Gambino - Because the Internet

4. Kanye West - Yeezus
5. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
6. Lorde - Pure Heroine
7. Arctic Monkeys - AM
8. Haim - Days are Gone
9. Volcano Choir - Repave
10. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

11. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
12. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
13. Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
14. Paramore - Paramore
15. Hellogoodbye - Everything is Debatable
16. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
17. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
18. Beyonce - Beyonce
19. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
20. Kid Cudi - Indicud

 

Don't use streaming apps to base the years off, typically I use wikipedia which is nearly always right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2013_albums

 

For sure - I use both - even with that I still have to parse through all of y’all’s lists and am always surprised each year what’s missing from that Wiki list lol

 

1. Jason Isbell – Southeastern
2. Charlie Worsham – Rubberband
3. Dawes – Stories Don’t End

Tough cuts:
Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park
Will Hoge – Never Give In
The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
Jimmy Eat World – Damage

Also love:
Butch Walker - Peachtree Battle
Matt Nathanson – Last of the Great Pretenders
The 1975 – The 1975
Frank Turner – Tape Deck Heart
Sara Bareilles – The Blessed Unrest
John Mayer – Paradise Valley
John Moreland – In the Throes

Honorables:
Donovan Woods - Don't Get Too Grand
The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation
The Summer Set – Legendary
Logan Brill – Walking Wires
The Dangerous Summer – Golden Record
Haim – Days Are Gone
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
The Lone Bellow – The Lone Bellow
Lori McKenna – Massachusetts
Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain
Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose
Goo Goo Dolls – Magnetic
The Head and the Heart – Let’s Be Still
The National – Trouble Will Find Me
Volcano Choir – Repave
William Clark Green – Rose Queen
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
City and Colour – The Hurry and the Harm
Josh Ritter – The Beast in Its Tracks
Night Beds – Country Sleep
Jeremy Porter and the Tucos – Partner in Crime
Los Campesinos - No Blues

 

It's taken a long time for the music of 2013 not to be stained by how miserable I was for much of that year. Some great albums from that year, though, including a truly unbelievable slate of country music records. A whole bunch of artists in that scene either debuted or broke through that year, and they completely reshaped the genre.

 

1. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
2. Matthew E. White - Big Inner
3. Hiss Golden Messenger - Haw
4. Vampire Weekend - High Top Mountain
5. Bill Callahan - Dream River
6. Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain
7. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
8. William Tyler - Impossible Truth
9. Robbie Fulks - Gone Away Backwards
10. Valerie June - Pushin Against A Stone
11. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
12. Guy Clark - My Favorite Picture of You
13. Willy Mason - Carry On
14. John Moreland - In The Throes
15. Run The Jewels - s/t

 

Honestly, probably one of the 10 or so times when I was most disappointed in an album. I've come to realize over the years that my disappointment had way more to do with me than the actual music, since that summer fucking sucked for me and the previous two Dangerous Summer albums had soundtracked all-time great summers. I do still have some big problems with that record -- mostly the sequencing, which no joke sounds like it was put together by someone who'd never heard the album -- but there are 5-6 amazing songs, including probably two I'd put in my TDS top 10.

 

I feel the same, but yeah. Any record with Catholic Girls and Sins warrants a mention!

 

As a young and stupid college kid at the time, this felt like a huge hip-hop year for that demo.

There were releases from (then new) and old heavy hitters such as:
Kanye, Kid Cudi, Drake, Jay-Z, Eminem, Mac Miller, J.Cole, Chance the Rapper, Childish Gambino, Run the Jewels, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator, A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg, Lil Wayne, Danny Brown, Denzel Curry, Pusha-T, Action Bronson, Juicy J, Freddie Gibbs, Wiz Khalifa, Young Thug, French Montana, Wale, Big Sean, The Underachievers, Flatbush Zombies, Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Death Grips, Ghostface Killah, Armand Hammer, Czarface, Tech N9ne, Boldy James, Talib Kweli, Styles P, DJ Khaled, MMG

Plus here was the XXL Freshman Class of 2013:
ScHoolboy Q, Trinidad Jame$, Joey Bada$$, Ab-Soul, Logic, Action Bronson, Kirko Bangz, Travi$ Scott (the original spelling of his name lol), Dizzy Wright, Angel Haze and Chief Keef.

 

Anyone else ever check out the soundtrack to Sound City? I absolutely adore that documentary still, and the soundtrack is a lot of fun, if not an actually cohesive 'album'. The whole thing is basically the Foos just goofing around in the studio with other legendary artists that had recorded at that studio on vocals.

"You Can't Fix This" with Stevie Nicks, "Cut Me Some Slack" with McCartney and Krist Novoselic, and "Mantra" with Homme and Reznor are particular faves of mine.

 

"Catholic Girls" and "Miles Apart" have always been the two for me.

 

Forgot about that Matt Nathanson record. Love that album.

 

So adventurous and fun. An all-over-the-place listen, but in a good way.

 

The first few are stellar, but not the deepest year

1. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
3. Kanye West - Yeezus
4. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
5. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
6. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
7. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
8. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
9. Danny Brown - Old
10. Los Campesinos! - No Blues
11. Restorations - LP2
12. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
13. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
14. Volcano Choir - Repave
15. Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium

 

I don’t see this year as all that weak tbh. My Bloody Valentine somehow didn’t blow it, the two biggest big tent indie bands put out good albums, Yeezus kind of speaks for itself in terms of Kanye at the peak of his notoriety. Not my favorite year ever or even of the decade, but a good year (imo) nonetheless.

 

I keep forgetting to do these. But Sunbather was a game changer for me and Deafheaven has consistently been one of if not my favorite band for a decade now.

Deafheaven- Sunbather
Childish Gambino- Because the Internet
Touche Amore- Is Survived By

 

daughter, infinity crush and frameworks (latter two of which I forgot on my list) albums are so fucking good

 

Comeback records from shoegaze and space rock bands seem to go way better, proportionately, than pretty much every other comeback album - MBV, Hum, Failure, Slowdive...

 

1. Jamie Lenman – Muscle Memory
   
2. Inc. – no world
3. L Pierre – The Island Come True

I have to recommend Muscle Memory - it's a double album with a not dissimilar concept to In Your Honor by Foo Fighters (one side heavy, one side softer), but pushed way more extreme and bombastic, and much better. The heavy side is crushingly and almost relentlessly heavy, like listening to bits of Botch or Every Time I Die with dirtier production. The soft side is where the real magic is, a delightful mix of not just acoustic tracks but also banjo folk, big band, even a marching acapella number. Given the common pitfalls of double albums, the quality control is really high - a bit more 'colour' on the heavy side and it would be not far off perfect. The audacity to commit so fully to the concept and then pull it off to that level is incredibly impressive.

Honourable mentions:

• Northcape – Exploration and Ascent
• Pan-American – Cloud Room, Glass Room
• suicideyear – Japan
• Gold Panda – Half Of Where You Live
• My Bloody Valentine – m b v