Joining in the year-end spirit here’s a list (in arbitrary order) of some music-related items that were favorites of 2013. Some of this material was released this year; much of it was old-and-newly-discovered or old-and-thankfully-rediscovered.
Albums
- Ana Maria Kiefer – Teatro Do Descobrimento
- Tinariwen – Imidiwan
- Various Artists – Goodbye, Babylon
- Rebe and Rabe – Rebe and Rabe Gospel
- Dawn of Midi – Dysnomia
- Dwight Yoakam – 3 Pears
- Kristin Norderval – Aural Histories
- Laurel Halo – Quarantine
- Meridian – Hoquet
- Nathan Bowles – A Bottle, A Buckeye
- Rob Stenson – Gold Mountain EP
- Sibylle Baier – Colour Green
- Ron Pate’s Debonairs featuring Rev. Fred Lane – Raudelunas ‘Pataphysical Revue
- Suicide – Suicide
- Talk Talk – Laughing Stock
- Woody Guthrie – Woody at 100
- Julia Holter – Ekstasis and Loud City Song
- Butch Morris – When the Sun is Out You Don’t See the Stars
- These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
Singles
- Vampire Weekend – “Step”
- Claude Debussy – “Jeux”
- Igor Stravinsky – “Le Sacre du Printemps”
- Big Star – “September Gurls”
- The Blue Nile – “The Wires are Down”
- Hasil Adkins – “Hot Dog Baby”
- Howlin’ Wolf – “Bluebird”
- Lightnin’ Hopkins – “Black and Evil”
- Odds of Survival – “Neshoba”
- Laetitia Sonami – “What Happened”
- Little Milton – “Grits Ain’t Groceries”
- Roxy Music – “Virginia Plain”