2013 Music So Far

Just a quick update and summary.  All new additions in the last month or so are in bold.

I keep noticing music reviewers who are claiming that 2013 is the best year for music in quite a long time.  I hope it keeps up.


The Knife--Shaking the Habitual (94/100)

Koze--Amygdala (90/100)

Youth Lagoon--Wondrous Bughouse (88/100)

Foxygen--We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (88/100)

My Bloody Valentine--MBV (87/100)

Yo La Tengo--Fade (85/100)

Kurt Vile--Wakin' on a Pretty Daze (84/100)

Atoms for Peace--Amok (84/100)

Devendra Banhart--Mala (83/100)

Matmos--The Marriage of True Minds (83/100)

Wooden Wand--Blood Oaths of the New Blues (83/100)

Waxahatchee--Cerulean Salt (83/100)

Rhye--Woman (82/100)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds--Push the Sky Away (82/100)

The Haxan Cloak--Excavation (82/100)

Autechre--Exai (82/100)

Nosaj Thing--Home (81/100)

Grouper--The Man Who Died in His Boat (81/100)

The James Hunter Six--Minute by Minute (81/100)

David Bowie--The Next Day (81/100)

Mogwai--Les Revenants (81/100)

Parquet Courts--Light Up Gold (80/100)

Steve Mason--Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time (80/100)

Jim James--Regions of Light and Sound of God (80/100)

Iceage--You're Nothing (79/100)

Indians--Somewhere Else (79/100)

Mountains--Centralia (78/100)

Bilal--A Love Surreal (78/100)

Local Natives--Hummingbird (78/100)

Autre Ne Veut--Anxiety (77/100)

Phoenix--Bankrupt! (77/100)

Ex Cops--True Hallucinations (77/100)

Toro Y Moi--Anything in Return (77/100)

Low--The Invisible Way (77/100)

Broadcast--Berberian Sound Studio (74/100)

Night Beds--Country Sleep (74/100)

Johnny Marr--The Messenger (73/100)

Josh Ritter--The Beast in Its Tracks (73/100)

Justin Timberlake--The 20/20 Experience (72/100)

The Men--New Moon (72/100)

Young Galaxy--Ultramarine (72/100)

A$AP Rocky--Long.Live.A$AP (72/100)

FIDLAR--FIDLAR (71/100)

Foals--Holy Fire (71/100)

California X--California X (70/100)

Chvrches--Recover EP (70/100)

Bonobo--The North Borders (70/100)

Four Tet--0181 (70/100)

Suede--Bloodsport (69/100)

Phosphorescent--Muchacho (68/100)

The Flaming Lips--The Terror (68/100)

Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory--Elements of Light (67/100)

Widowspeak--Almanac (67/100)

Jacco Gardner--Cabinet of Curiosities (66/100)

Frightened Rabbit--Pedestrian Verse (66/100)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs--Mosquito (65/100)

Sally Shapiro--Somewhere Else (64/100)

James Blake--Overgrown (64/100)

Suuns--Images Du Futur (64/100)

Chelsea Light Moving--Chelsea Light Moving (64/100)

Brokeback--Brokeback and the Black Rock (57/100)

Various Artists--Trance (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (56/100)

Clinic--Free Reign II (48/100)

Everything Everything--Arc (46/100)

Depeche Mode--Delta Machine (29/100)

Jamie Lindell--Jamie Lindell (16/100)

The Strokes--Comedown Machine (7/100)