My Top 20 Favorite Records of 20131)
Mike Krol –
Trust Fund – Counter Counter Culture
2)
Warm Soda –
Someone For You – Castle Face
3)
King Khan & The Shrines –
Idle No More – Merge
4)
Fuzz –
Fuzz – In The Red
5)
Hookworms –
Pearl Mystic – Gringo/Weird World
6)
The Resonars –
Crummy Desert Sound – Burger
7)
Obits –
Bed & Bugs – Sub Pop
8 )
The Night Marchers –
Allez, Allez – Swami
9)
Thee Oh Sees –
Floating Coffin – Castle Face
10)
The Wrong Words –
Everything Is Free – Trouble In Mind
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11)
The Mantles –
Long Enough To Leave – Slumberland
12)
Maston –
Shadows – Trouble In Mind
13)
Heavy Times –
Fix It Alone – HoZac
14)
Radioactivity –
Radioactivity – Dirtnap
15)
Kelley Stoltz –
Double Exposure – Third Man
16)
The Blind Shake –
Key To A False Door – Castle Face
17)
Purling Hiss –
Water On Mars – Drag City
18)
Mikal Cronin –
MCII – Merge
19)
Shocked Minds –
Shocked Minds – HoZac
20)
The Living Eyes –
The Living Eyes – Anti-Fade
Best Of The Rest:The Bronx – The Bronx IV;
Jeffrey Novak – Lemon Kid;
NoBunny – Secret Songs;
Jacco Gardner – Cabinet of Curiosities;
Klaus Johann Grobe – S/T E.P.
Parquet Courts – Tally All The Things You Broke E.P.
Caveats (Stuff I Haven’t Gotten Yet)
Kurt Vile – Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
Audacity – Butter Knife
The Liminanas – Costa Blanca
Hunx & His Punx – Street Punk
Mind Spiders – Inhumanistic
You can hear my radio show where I play tracks from all of the Top 20 here:
http://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisWhiteheadShow/the-chris-whitehead-show-on-preston-fm-from-january-1st-best-of-2013/I really feel that 2013 was one of the best years for new music in a long time. Anything in that top 10 would be a worthy #1 pick.
