Mid-Year Music Roundup
The other day my friend asked “what music have you been listening to lately?” and I couldn’t give him a good answer. Maybe because we were playing videogames at the time and that activity rots your brain, but I think also because I’ve been too busy checking out new music that I haven’t stepped back to look at it in a big picture sort of way. So, being at the halfway mark of 2013 I wanted to do an album roundup for myself, but also for my buddy, and whoever else might be interested!
To put it simply: the following albums have multiple songs on my “Best of 2013” playlist, and the YouTube links are a handy way to give you a quick taste (some may be NSFW). Maybe there’s something you’ll like that you haven’t heard yet! Maybe not! That’s ok too!
- Alex Bleeker and the Freaks – How Far Away
- The Black Twig Pickers – Rough Carpenters
- Bleached – Ride Your heart
- BOAT – Pretend To Be Brave
- Bored Nothing – Bored Nothing
- Born Ruffians – Birthmarks
- California X – California X
- Caveman – Caveman
- Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
- Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
- Connections – Private Airplane
- Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
- Daniel Romano – Come Cry With Me
- David Bowie – The Next Day
- Disclosure – Settle
- Ducktails – The Flower Lane
- Dungeonesse – Dungeonesse
- Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record
- Ex Cops – True Hallucinations
- Fidlar – Fidlar
- Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
- Free Energy – Love Sign
- Futurebirds – Baba Yaga
- Guards – In Guards We Trust
- Guided By Voices – English Little League
- Junip – Junip
- Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze
- Lady – Lady
- Local Natives – Hummingbird
- The Men – New Moon
- Mikal Cronin – MCII
- Oblivians – Desperation
- Palma Violets – 180
- Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
- Phoenix – Bankrupt!
- Phosphorescent – Muchacho
- Pretty & Nice – Golden Rules For Golden People
- Quadron – Avalanche
- Renny Wilson – Sugarglider
- Rhye – Woman
- Savages – Silence Yourself
- Shannon and the Clams – Dreams in the Rat House
- Shout Out Louds – Optica
- The So So Glos – Blowout
- Son Volt – Honky Tonk
- Surfer Blood – Pythons
- Telekinesis – Dormarion
- Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – We The Common
- The Thermals – Desperate Ground
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II
- Veronica Falls – Waiting for Something to Happen
- Wampire – Curiosity
- Widowspeak – Almanac
- Xenia Rubinos – Magic Trix
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
- Yo La Tengo – Fade
- Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse
Sorry, Vampire Weekend, I gave your new album three tries and it just isn’t doing it for me. We’re through.