This year I got encouraged to publish my list with the Top albums of the year.
I do not know if these have been the best, but certainly these are the 30 albums I enjoyed, learnt and recommended the most throughout 2013.
Needless to say that this is an open list. There are albums that age better than others. My tastes also change (even within the year). There is a lot of music that I didn’t get a chance to listen to. And then those albums I probably didn’t pay too much attention to because I was busy with other stuff. Maybe they were better than what I thought.
And of course, there are treasures waiting to be discovered…
Anyway, today (December 2013), here’s the list:
1. James Blake “Overgrown” (Spotify)
2. Daft Punk “Random Access Memories” (Spotify)
3. Speedy Ortiz “Major Arcana” (Spotify)
4. Kanye West “Yeezus” (Spotify)
5. CHVRCHES “The Bones Of What You Believe” (Spotify)
6. Vampire Weekend “Modern Vampires Of The City” (Spotify)
7. Artic Monkeys “AM” (Spotify)
8. James Holden “The Inheritors” (Spotify)
9. Kurt Vile “Wakin On A Pretty Daze” (Spotify)
10. M.I.A “Matangi” (Spotify)
11. Joanna Gruesome “Weird Sister” (Spotify)
12. Mikal Cronin “MCII” (Spotify)
13. Jon Hopkins “Immunity” (Spotify)
14. Janelle Monáe “The Electric Lady” (Spotify)
15. Cass McCombs “Big Wheel And Others” (Spotify)
16. Oneohtrix Point Never “R Plus Seven” (Spotify)
17. Yuck “Glow & Behold” (Spotify)
18. A$AP Rocky “Long Live A$AP” (Spotify)
19. Triángulo de Amor Bizarro “Victoria Mística” (Spotify)
20. Disclosure “Settle” (Spotify)
21. Grouper “The Man Who Died In His Boat” (Spotify)
22. Sigur Ros “Kveikur” (Spotify)
23. Arcade Fire “Reflektor” (Spotify)
24. Phosphorescent “Muchacho” (Spotify)
25. Deerhunter “Monomania” (Spotify)
26. Bill Callahan “Dream River”
27. David Bowie ” The Next Day” (Spotify)
28. Darkside “Psychic” (Spotify)
29. Tim Hecker “Virgins” (Spotify)
30. Julia Holter “Loud City Song” (Spotify)