Best Music Of 2013

There aren’t any qualifiers, these are just my favorite albums, eps, and bands from 2013. If you don’t recognize an artist, please click through and give them a listen.

Favorite Albums

10 // The National - Trouble Will Find Me

9 // Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love

8 // Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

7 // Rhye - Woman

6 // Hoyle - Massa Pecatti

5 // The Lone Bellow -The Lone Bellow

4 // Lorde - Heroine

3 // Andrew Belle - Black Bear

2 // Shout Out Louds - Optica

1 // Canopy Climbers - Miles

Favorite EPs

6 // Marc Scibilia - The Shape I’m In

5 // Smallpools - Smallpools

4 // Sleeping At last - Atlas: Space 1

3 // The Night Terrors of 1927 - Guilty Pleas

2 // Dallas - Dallas

1 // The Cowards Choir - Reunion

Honorable Mentions

• Roman Candle - Debris
• Air Review - Low Wishes

Up and coming artists

• The Careful Ones
• Fou De Toi
• Nonono
• Grizfolk

Writing About Music In 2013

• The Brave (And Profitable) New World Of Curation-As-Business - Music licensing is a financial savior for a lot of independent artists.

• How Do You Reverse Engineer A Song? - The technical work that goes into building software that dissects a song.

• One Little App Trying To Reinvent Music Videos - About the app Mindie and its impact on music videos.

These are some of my favorites, but you can find more of my writing here