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”