Records of 2013

I am sure that other people will have their own ideas and maybe we could also have films of the year, plays of the year and art installation that makes you feel like you have gone down a rabbit hole and entered an entirely new world altogether, of the year. When you are as passionate about music as I am and you spend much of your life listening to it, I guess there is a need to listen to something new. I know there is lots of really good conventional music, but I want to hear new things that are a bit different. Top twenty five and in random order:

DANIEL WOHL AND TRANSIT CORPS EXQUIS

JULIA HOLTER LOUD CITY SONG

MATANA ROBERTS COIN COIN CHAPTER TWO

ELIZABETH BROWN MIRAGE

JULIA KENT CHARACTER

THE HAXAN CLOAK EXCAVATIONS

NILS FRAHM SPACES

DEAN BLUNT THE REDEEMER

CALEB BURHANS EVENSONG

MAILE COLBERT COME KINGDOM COME

DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET BROOKLYN BABYLON
SOCIETY

TIM HECKER VIRGINS

THE KNIFE SHAKING THE HABITUAL

JEM FINER AND ANDREW KOTTING VISIONARY SEASCAPES

FOREST SWORDS EXCAVATIONS

PAUL JEBANASAM RITES

SEAN MCCANN MUSIC FOR PRIVATE ENSEMBLE

BASQUIAT STRINGS PART TWO

DANIEL BJARNASON OVER LIGHT EARTH

THESE NEW PURITANS FIELD OF REEDS

ARVE HENRIKSEN PLACES OF WORSHIP

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER R PLUS SEVEN

ROLY PORTER LIFE CYCLE OF A MASSIVE STAR

PHILIPPE PETIT NEEDLES IN PAIN

SEVEN TEARES POWER BALLADS