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Hello everyone. You know how this goes. The end of 2013 is almost here and every music mag/blog/web does its "best of". Here we can post the best releases of 2013. They can be new releases or reissues, but anyway published this year (physical or download)

 

Here is my list of Best New Music of 2013 (no particular order except the first one)

 

Bill Callahan - Dream River

Iron&Wine-Ghost on Ghost

Tim Hecker-Virgins

Mark Kozelek and Desershore-Mark Kozelek and Desershore

Richard Youngs-Summer through my mind

Forest Swords-Engravings

Jon Hopkins-Inmunity

Steve Gunn-Time off

Yo la tengo-Fade

Mark Mucahy- Dear Mark M. I love you

Nick Cave-Push the sky away

Mikal Cronin-MCII

Jim James-Region of Light and Sound of God

Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood- black Pudding

The Fall- Re-Mit

The Drones - I see Seaweed

Wolf Eyes-No Answer:Lower floors

Mogwai-Les Revenants

Mazzy Star-Seasons of your day

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Jazz:

Reis / Demuth / Wiltgen

Tingvall Trio In Concert

Shai Maestro Trio: The Road To Ithaca

Jan Lundgren: Man In The Fog

Aaron Diehl: The Bespoke Man's Narrative

 

Classical:

Bach: St. John's Passion - Butt & Dunedin Consort

Bach: Double & Triple Concertos - Rachel Podger

Bellini: Norma - Bartoli

Andreas Staier: Pour Passer La Mélancolie

 

Pop:

Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

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In no particular order except for the first, which for me is by far the best recording of the year.

 

Jason Isbell, "Southeastern"

Aaron Parks, "Arborescence"

Sarah Jarosz, "Build Me Up from Bones"

Robbie Fulks, "Gone Away Backwards"

J.S. Bach (Dunedin Consort & Players), "Passion According to St. John"

Miles Davis, "Bootleg Series, vol. 2: Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe 1969"

John Scofield, "Uberjam Deux"

Dave Holland Quartet, "Prism"

D. Shostakovich (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Petrenko) "Symphony No. 4"

Aoife O'Donovan, "Fossils"

Bach, J.S. (Chris Thile), "Sonatas and Partitas, vol. 1"

Beausoleil, "From Bamako to Carencro"

Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran, "Hagar's Song"

Della Mae, "This World Oft Can Be"

Fred Hersch & Julian Lage, "Free Flying"

Lee Ranaldo & the Dust, "Last Night on Earth"

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In no particular order except for the first, which for me is by far the best recording of the year.

 

Jason Isbell, "Southeastern"

Aaron Parks, "Arborescence"

Sarah Jarosz, "Build Me Up from Bones"

Robbie Fulks, "Gone Away Backwards"

J.S. Bach (Dunedin Consort & Players), "Passion According to St. John"

Miles Davis, "Bootleg Series, vol. 2: Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe 1969"

John Scofield, "Uberjam Deux"

Dave Holland Quartet, "Prism"

D. Shostakovich (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Petrenko) "Symphony No. 4"

Aoife O'Donovan, "Fossils"

Bach, J.S. (Chris Thile), "Sonatas and Partitas, vol. 1"

Beausoleil, "From Bamako to Carencro"

Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran, "Hagar's Song"

Della Mae, "This World Oft Can Be"

Fred Hersch & Julian Lage, "Free Flying"

Lee Ranaldo & the Dust, "Last Night on Earth"

 

I have not heard Isbell's album yet. I bet that It is very good. And this year's Ranaldo record is a very, very solid effort.

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In no particular order:

 

Atoms for Peace - Amok

Glenn Jones - My Garden State

William Tyler - Impossible Truth

Juliana Barwick - Nepenthe

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

Mikal Cronin - MCII

Raum - Event of Your Leaving

Tim Hecker - Virgins

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

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In no particular order:

 

Atoms for Peace - Amok

Glenn Jones - My Garden State

William Tyler - Impossible Truth

Juliana Barwick - Nepenthe

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

Mikal Cronin - MCII

Raum - Event of Your Leaving

Tim Hecker - Virgins

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

 

 

I haven't listened to all of this, but a lot of strong albums here

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Hello there

 

 

Does Bob Marley - Legend 24-96 count, my first Hi res purchase (from Linn)

 

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London Grammar - If You Wait

Julia Holter - Loud City Song

Beacon- The Ways We Separate

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Burial - Rival Dealer

Classixx - Hanging Gardens

Dauwd - Heat Division

Emptyset - Material

Fort Romeau - Stay/True

The Haxan Cloak - Excavation

Maya Jane Coles - Comfort

Moderat - II

Nils Frahm - Juno Reworked

Vangelis - Blade Runner Trilogy - 25th Anniversary Remaster

Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze

Weekend - Jinx

Alpine - A is for Alpine

The KVB - Immaterial Visions Remixes

Kurt Vile & The Violators - It's a Big World Out There

Iceage - You're Nothing

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My best of 2013 of Pop/Rock (in no particular order)

 

Bill Callahan - Dream River

Charles Bradley - Victim of Love

David Bowie - The next Day

Doug MacLeod - There's a Time

Franz Ferdinand - Right thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

Haken - The Mountain

James Blake - Overgrown

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

Nick Cave - Push the Sky away

Sara Bareilles - The blessed Unrest

The National - Trouble will find me

Trixie Whitley - Fourth Corner

Valerie June - Pushin against a Stone

Paul McCartney - New

Elton John - The Diving Board

 

My best five:

 

Steve Earle & the Dukes - The low Highway

 

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Mayer Hawthorne - Where does this door go

 

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Janelle Monae - The electric Lady

 

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London Grammar - If you wait

 

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Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare

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My best of 2013 of Jazz (in no particular order)

 

Chris Potter - The Sirens

Antonio Sanchez - New Life

NEXT Collective - Cover Art

Bob James and David Sanborne - Quartette Humaine

Terence Blanchard - Magnetic

Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Slippery Rock

The New Gary Burton Quartet - Guided Tour

Ahmad Jamal - Saturday Morning

Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit

Aaron Parks - Arborescence

Eric Alexander - Touching

Warren Wolf - Wolgang

 

My best three:

 

Wayne Shorter - Without a Net

 

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Dave Douglas - Time Travel

 

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Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet - Wislawa

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My best of 2013 of Pop/Rock (in no particular order)

 

 

Janelle Monae - The electric Lady

 

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This album made my top three! Great stuff.

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A lot of good records in your list, chriss71.

On other order, I felt slightly disappointed with Jonathan Wilson's new album. Too much prog for me.

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This album made my top three! Great stuff.

 

Yep, this is really very good. I think it is more consistent than the album before The Archandroid (which I love).

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A lot of good records in your list, chriss71.

On other order, I felt slightly disappointed with Jonathan Wilson's new album. Too much prog for me.

 

Thanks. Hhm, I love the new Wilson Record... OK, tastes differ.

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