Favourite Releases of 2013

Though, in some sense, unrelated to this radio show, I thought I would share this here anyways. This is a list of music releases I really enjoyed from 2013, in no particular order. They are to some extent my personal 'favourites' from the year, as of late December. I've marked off the ones that I personally feel to be more accessible or 'listenable' with (*). There are 34 selections in the main list in total.

'for we have heard' by steven lugerner 

'journals' by justin bieber
'r plus seven' by oneohtrix point never
'trainwrekz' by ensemble skalectrik

(*) 'pale machine' by bo en

'world music' by ahnnu
'partita for 8 voices ep' by caroline shaw / roomful of teeth 

's/h' by steve hauschildt

(*) 'bent nail ep' by palehound 

'fire moss' by fire moss 

'rays of the sun' by tiger hatchery 

'the homeshake tape' by homeshake

'excavation' by the haxan cloak

'character' by julia kent 

(*) '&&&&&' by arca

'hinterland' by recondite

'abandon' by pharmakon

'shaking the habitual' by the knife

'tally all the things that you broke ep' by parquet courts

'no answer : lower floors' by wolf eyes

'split tape' by aloonaluna / motion sickness of time travel 

(*) 'systems ep' by empress of

(*) 'ep2' by fka twigs
'surfing strange' by swearin

(*) 'anxiety' by autre ne veut

'the withdrawing room' by mary latimore  

(*) 'to be close to you' by julia brown

(*) 'cerulean salt' by waxahatchee

(*) 'jai paul' by jai paul

'beyonce' by beyonce

'vertical xl' by kingdom 

'loud city song' by julia holter

'new history warfare vol. 3: to see more light' by colin stetson

'chance of rain' by laurel halo

OTHER RELEASES - I definitely enjoyed these as well:

'the man who died in his boat' by grouper

'wake up awesome' by c spenser yeh, okkyung lee, lasse marhaug

'anything in return' by toro y moi

'the 20/20 experience' by justin timberlake

'nothing was the same' by drake

'days are gone' by haim

'night time, my time' by sky ferreira

'yeezus' by kanye west

'modern vampires of the city' by vampire weekend

'pure heroine' by lorde 

'virgins' by tim hecker

'lines' by julian lynch

My end-of-year list from last year (and other lists going back to 2009) can be viewed here.