söndag 23 Jun 2013, 15:16
Below are my nominees and other albums considered or being considered for my best of 2013. For past lists, check out my journal. Please post your recommendations below!
Nominees:
phosphorescent - muchacho
sin fang - flowers
jason isbell - southeastern
vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city
The Head and the Heart - Let's Be Still
the national - trouble will find me
frightened rabbit - pedestrian verse
kanye west - yeezus
daft punk - random access memories
the dear hunter - migrant
camera obscura - desire lines
young galaxy - ultramarine
nataly dawn - how i knew her
patty griffin - american kid
chance the rapper - acid rapkeaton henson - birthdays
telekinesis - dormarion
chvrches - the bones of what you believe
the stone foxes - small fires
j. cole - born sinner
born ruffians - birthmarks
the civil wars - the civil wars
drake - nothing was the same
neko case - the worse things get, the harder I fight, the harder i fight, the more i love you
foxygen - we are the 21st century ambassadors of peace & magic
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
The Avett Brothers - magpie and the dandelion
villagers - {awayland}
houses - a quiet darkness
lorde - pure heroine
sleigh bells - bitter rivals
someone still loves you boris yeltsin - fly by wire
the neighbourhood - i love you.
beyonce - beyonce
Gregory Alan Isakov - the weatherman
Considered but not likely to contend:
caitlin rose - the stand-in
the joy formidable - Wolf's Law
bastille - bad blood
auland - lobau
tift merritt - traveling companion
mona & maria[/artist= - my sun
upset - she's gone
james blunt - moon landing
m.i.a. - matangi
kelea - cut 4 me
mutual benefit - love's crushing diamond
the range - nonfiction
fossil collective - tell where i lie
oh no oh my - I am on your side
ace reporter - yearling
night beds - country sleep
the wilderness of manitoba - the leslieville sessions
arcade fire - reflektor
laura mvula - Sing to the moon
ben harper - get up!
mgmt - mgmt
teen daze - glacier
moby - innocents
Haim - days are gone
the growlers - [album artist=the growlershung at heart
typhoon - white lighter
charli xcx - true romance
the wonder years - the greatest generation
run the jewels - run the jewels
coliseum - sister faith
ghostpoet - some say I so I say the light
jay-z - magna carta holy grail
everything everything - arc
suede - bloodsports
Vince Staples and Larry Fisherman - Stolen Youth
john grant - pale green ghosts
defeater - letters home
mac miller - watching movies with the sound off
lady lamb the beekeeper - Ripely Pine
Julianna Barwick - nepenthe
fuck buttons - slow focus
julia holter - loud city song
big sean - hall of fame
guy clark - my favorite picture of you
goodie mob - age against the machine
bettie serveert - oh, mayhem!
laura veirs - warp and weft
charles bradley - victim of love
grouper - the man who died in his boat
water liars - wyoming
yo la tengo - fade
silverstein - this is how the wind shifts
the wild feathers - the wild feathers
martin simpson - vagrant stanzas
daniel romano - come cry with me
little green cars - absolute zero
Janelle monae - The electric lady
astro safari usa - future cover songs
kings of leon - mechanical bullfranz ferdinand - right thoughts, right words, right action
king krule - 6 feet beneath the moon
john mayer - paradise valley
rocketnumbernine - meyouweyou
dead in the dirt - the blind hole
norma jean - wrongdoers
the icarus line - slave vows
ashley monroe - album artist=ashley monroe]like a rose
the dodos - carrier
Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
surfer blood - pythons
a$ap rocky - log.live.a$ap
rouge wave - nightingale floors
bur ives - the genius of bur ives
these new puritans - field of reeds
melt yourself down - melt yourself down
the ceremonies - the ceremonies
speedy ortiz - major arcana
david bowie - the next day
queens of the stone age - like clockwork
mayer hawthorne - where does this door go
the new amsterdams - outroduction
queens of the stone age - ...like clockwork
mikal cronin - mcii
deerhunter - monomania
smith westerns - soft will
owen - l'ami de peuple
daughter - if you leave
leagues - you belong here
deptford goth - life after defo
it hugs back - recommended record
ducktails - the flower lane
capital cities - in a tidal wave of mystery
steve gunn - time off
sonny and the sunsets - antenna to the afterworld
jon hopkins - immunity
disclosure - settle
obsidian - baths
willie nile - american ride
thao & the get down stay down - we the common
bassekou kouyate + ngoni ba - jama ko
pistol annies - annie up
laura marling - once i was an eagle
tesseract - altered state
the front bottoms - talon of the hawk
big deal - june gloom
yeah yeah yeahs - mosquito
majical cloudz - impersonator
no joy - wait to pleasure
peals - walking field
senses fail - renacer
phillip phillips - the world from the side of the moon
she & him - volume 3
savages - silence yourself
justin timberlake - the 20/20 experience
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
Sève duo - viking jeannette
waxahatchee - cerulean salt
rhye - woman
youth lagoon - wondrous bughouse
cayucas - bigfoot
noah and the whale - heart of nowhere
sigur ros - kveikur
iron & wine - ghost on ghost
the flaming lips - the terror
Eisley - Currents
dawes - stories don't end
deafheaven - sunbather
liane carroll - ballads
cayucas - bigfoot
dirty beaches - drifters / love is the devil
junip - junip
the shouting matches - grownass man
still corners - strange pleasures
black rebel motorcycle club - specter at the feast
ours - ballet the boxer 1
bonobo - the north borders
bombino - nomad
bring me the horizon - sempiternal
the story so far - what you dont see
john murray - the graceless age
the knife - shaking the habitual
jimmy eat world - damage
spin doctors - if the river was whiskey
m83 - oblivion