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Good Music in 2013

As I took my friend Jia’s advice and started getting serious about the prospect of writing through this year, all the energy I once put into my music collection waned, especially toward these last few months. I’ve found it harder and harder to write about what I’m listening to. But 2013 featured some good records, despite the preponderance of dude producers taking female names, which is a trend for some reason. Looking back, Alpha Pup is represented much more than I expected, but great labels abound (Don’t Be Afraid, Mr. Saturday Night, Teal Recordings, NNA Tapes, etc).

Here are my favorite albums of 2013, plus a lot more. I could expound on any at length, but these are submitted without comment. Links to songs where available:

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Particular Favorites (LPs)

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• Beastie Respond – Fictitious Nostalgia

• Kim Brown - Somewhere Else It’s Going To Be Good

• Graze - Edges

• Dean Blunt - The Redeemer

• Pharmakon - Abandon

• DJ Rashad - Double Cup

• RP Boo - Legacy

• Miracle - Mercury

• Patricia - Body Issues

• Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe

• The Black Dog – Tranklements

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Honorable Mention LPs:

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• Natasha Kmeto – Crisis ;
• Anton Zap – Water ;
• Swans – Not Here / Not Now ;
• The Range - Nonfiction ;
• Borealis - Glittervoice ;
• C L N K - Black Ecstasy ;
• The Stranger - Watching Dead Empires In Decay ;
• Coco Bryce - Club Tropicana ;
• Cross Record - Be Good ;
• Forest Swords - Engravings ;
• Ex-Easter Island Head - Mallet Guitars Three ; 
• Funkinevil - Ignorant / In the Grid EP
• Evenings - Yore ;
• Mika Vanio - Kilo ;
• Ekin Fil - Ekin Fil ;
• Third Person Lurkin - The Lake of Woods ;
• John Lemke - People Do ;
• Giant Claw - Music For Film ;
• Olan Mill - Hiraeth ;
• John Cohen - Deaf Arena ;
• Julia Holter - Loud City Song ;
• Zomes - Time Was ;
• Giorgio Corroder - Pomp Sluice ;
• Outboxx – Outboxx ;
• Kyle Hall – The Boat Party ;
• Old Apparatus - Compendium

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Good EPs / Singles from 2013:

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1. Various Production – Rush ;
2. The Harrow – The Harrow ;
3. Kingthing - Unity EP ;
4. Circle Traps – Obelisk ;
5. Battista - Records Hold Memories ; 
6. Aardvarck - 1990 ; 
7. Goth Trad – Born To Know ;
8. Arkist – Never Forgotten EP ;
9. Nphonix - Gettin Run Down EP ;
10. Dauwd – Heat Division ;
11. Qoso – Like It Soft EP ;
12. Isnaj Dui – Collision/Detection v8 ;
13. Interstellar Funk – House Train ;
14. Preditah – El Futuro ;
15. Py – Polyethers ;
16. Jaw & Kevork Keshishian – Hazihi Laylaty ;
17. Dark Sky – In Brackets ;
18. Sophie – Bipp / Elle ;
19. Typesun – the PL ;
20. Alis - Azimuth EP ;
21. Reverend Dollars - Arson EP ;
22. LAS - Uuha ;
23. S L V - Dagger ;
24. Bone Squad - Skal & Bones ;
25. Bruh Jackman - Bruh Jackman EP ;
26. Chasing Voices - Scold ;
27. Clap! Clap! – Gwidingwi Dema ;  
28. Copeland & Gast - Ukmerge / Strict ;
29. Flava D - BRVIP003 ; 
30. Elmono – ColdR001 ;
31. Strago – The Fort ;
32. Manni Dee - Being and Nothingness EP ;
33. Innershades - No Stopping ;
34. James Ruskin - Jealous God 02 ;
35. Echologist - The Mechanics of Joy ;
36. BNJMN - Hummingbird ;
37. WOLS - Outgunned EP ; 
38. Ssaliva - Birth Body ;
39. WANDA GROUP - A Slab About Being Held Captive ;
40. Mick Finesse – Forage / Frolic EP ;
41. Randomer – RNMDR01 ;
42. Spatial – The Spatial Sessions ½ ;
43. Trade – SHEWORKS005 ;
44. E.R.P. – Pith ;
45. Olugbenga – Hafiza [INNOCENCE] ;
46. Laurel Halo – Behind the Green Door ;
47. Arkist & Komon – Kitchen Monks EP

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