Incidentally, it was Dan at End of an Ear who turned me on to my number 1 record this year. How do you like that? In 2013 with everything that's changed about the music industry, the owner of my neighborhood record shop introduced me to something I was totally unaware of and it became my favorite record of the year.
In this list clicking the artist's name takes you to their Facebook page, clicking the album title MOSTLY brings you to the record on Spotify so you can preview before purchasing at your favorite local record shop. Enough words, we all know you just want THE LIST!
Brazos - Charm video via YouTube
- Brazos - Saltwater
- Local Natives - Hummingbird
- Glasser - Interiors
- Cults - Static
- Darkside - Psychic
- Widowspeak - Almanac
- Pusha T - My Name is My Name
- Minks - Tides End
- Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
- Elephant Stone - Elephant Stone
- Heavenly Beat - Prominence
- Milosh - Jetlag
- Suuns - Images du Futur
- Kanye West - Yeezus
- Toro y Moi - Anything in Return
- Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
- Haerts - Hemiplegia
- Danny Brown - Old
- Hiatus Kaiyote - Tawk Tomahawk
- Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
- Tristen - Caves
- CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
- High Highs - Open Season
- Quadron - Avalanche
- Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
- Young Dreams - Between Places
- Washed Out - Paracosm
- Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
- MS MR - Secondhand Rapture
- Empress Of - Systems
- Charli XCX - True Romance
- Braids - Flourish//Perish
- Savages - Silence Yourself
- White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade
- Disclosure - Settle
- Mikal Cronin - MCII
- Active Child - Rapor EP
- Giraffage - Needs
- Arcade Fire - Reflektor
- Rhye - Woman
- Blue Hawaii - Untogether
- Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
- Ex Cops - True Hallucinations
- Haim - Days Are Gone
- Caveman - Caveman
- Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
- Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
- Teen Daze - Glacier
- Diana - Perpetual Surrender
- inc. - no world
inc. - the place video via YouTube