01 January 2014

THE SOFT GLOW OF ELECTRIC SEX GLEAMING IN THE WINDOW

our best music albums/tracks/videos of 2013, a year of exquisite & sexy electronica...

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19 ALBUMS

1. Daft Punk - 'Random Access Memories'
2. of Montreal - "Lousy With Sylvianbriar'
3. Boards of Canada - 'Tomorrow's Harvest'
4.
Big K.R.I.T. - 'King Remembered In Time'
5.
Bonobo - 'The North Borders' 
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Mosquito'
7. Atoms For Peace - 'Amok' 
8. Dr. Dog - 'B-Room'
9. Autechre - 'Exai'
10. Vampire Weekend - 'Modern Vampires Of The City'
11. Tennis - 'Small Sound'
12. Iron & Wine - 'Ghost On Ghost' 
13. Mutual Benefit - 'Love's Crushing Diamond'
14.
Beach Fossils - 'Clash The Truth'
15. Julianna Barwick - 'Nepenthe'
16. Classixx - 'Hanging Gardens'
17. Dent May - 'Warm Blanket'
18. Kid Cudi - 'Indicud'
19. Young Man - 'Beyond Was All Around Me'






152 TRACKS

1. Vampire Weekend - "Hannah Hunt"
2. Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams - "Lose Yourself To Dance"
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Sacrilege"
4. Big K.R.I.T. - "Bigger Picture"
5. Lisa Germano - "Ruminants"
6. !!! - "Get That Rhythm Right"
7. Atoms For Peace - "Ingenue"
8. Kid Cudi with A$AP Rocky & Kid Chip -  "Brothers"
9. Everything Everything - "Choice Mountain"
10. Boards Of Canada - "New Seeds"

11. Tennis - "Cured Of Youth"
R.J.D.2 - "Behold, Numbers!"
James Blake - "Retrograde"
Phosphorescent - "The Quotidian Beasts"
Foxygen - "Shuggie"
Grouper - "Being Her Shadow"
Charles Bradley - "Victim Of Love"
Colin Stetson - "To See More Light"
Jim James - "State Of The Art (A.E.I.O.U.)"

20. of Montreal - "Obsidian Currents"
Gold Panda - "We Work Nights"
Yo La Tengo - "Ohm"
Islands - "Hushed Tones"
Iron & Wine - "Low Light Buddy Of Mine"
King Khan & The Shrines - "Darkness"
Toro Y Moi - "Studies"
Arctic Monkeys - "Mad Sounds"
Autechre - "T ess xi"
Devendra Banhart - "Für Hildegard von Bingen"

30. Dr. Dog - "Can't Remember"
Bonobo - "Emkay"
The National - "I Should Live In Salt"
CHVRCHES - "Under The Tide"
Janelle Monáe - "Dance Apocalyptic"
Still Corners - "The Trip"
Earl Sweatshirt - "Chum"
Blood Orange - "Chosen"
The Knife - "A Tooth For An Eye"

Young Man - "School"
 

40. M.I.A. - "Bad Girls"
Melt-Banana - "Infection Defective"
Mount Kimbie - "Break Well"
Pond - "O Dharma"
Pusha T with Kendrick Lamar - "Nosetalgia"
Beach Fossils - "Sleep Apnea"
Elvis Costello & The Roots - "The Puppet Has Cut His Strings"
Crystal Stilts - "Spirit In Front Of Me"
The Range - "Hamiltonian"
The Besnard Lakes - "The Specter"

50. Mutual Benefit - "Advanced Falconry"
Ed Harcourt - "The Cusp & The Wane"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Problem Areas"
Stornoway - "Farewell Appalachia"
The Dodos - "Relief"
Deerhunter - "T.H.M."
Jagwar Ma - "The Throw"
Julianna Barwick - "The Harbinger"
Thee Oh Sees - "Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster"
Cecile McLorin Salvant - "Baby Have Pity On Me"

60. Akron/Family - "Until The Morning"
Wild Nothing - "Body In Rainfall"
The Replacements - "Busted Up"
Parquet Courts - "Stoned And Starving"
Moderat - "This Time"
Oblivians covering Paul Butterfield - "Loving Cup"
These New Puritans - "This Guy's In Love With You"
Cage The Elephant - "Telescope"
Darkside - "Paper Trails"
Harper Simon - "Just Like St. Teresa"

70. Boardwalk - "Crying"
Grizzly Bear - "Everyone I Know (Marfa Demo)"
Julia Holter - "Maxim's I"
Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - "Photon"
Man Man - "Deep Cover"
Drake with Jhene Aiko - "From Time"
Youth Lagoon - "Attic Doctor"
Phoenix - "Chloroform"
The Men - "Open The Door"
Classixx - "Holding On"

80. Kanye West - "On Sight"
Caveman - "Where's The Time"
Danny Brown - "Lonely"
Haim - "Falling"
The Octopus Project - "Pyramid Kosmos"
Valerie June - "Workin' Woman Blues"
Una - "Out Of The Dark"
Arcade Fire - "We Exist"
Bibio - "Look At Orion!"
Rhye - "The Fall"

90. Nihls Frahm - "Hammers"
Shannon & The Claims covering  Del Shannon - "Runaway"
Tim Hecker - "Prism"
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - "Holy Roller"
The Joy Formidable - "Forest Serenade"
Rouge Wave - "No Magnatone"
Local Natives - "Mt. Washington"
Russian Circles - "1777"
Nightmares On Wax - "Tapestry"
Wavves - "Beat Me Up"

100. Dent May - "
Yazoo" 
Dirty Beaches - "Belgrade"
Fuzz - "Sleigh Ride"
Deafheaven - "Irresistible"
Neko Case - "Ragtime"
Hamid Drake & Paolo Angeli - "Fuga Dal Mouse"
A$AP Rocky - "Phoenix"
Sébastien Tellier - "Coco"
Tricky remixing The Antlers - "Parenthesis"
Mikal Cronin - "See It My Way"

110. Múm - "The Colorful Stabwound"
The Haxan Cloak - "Dieu"
Paul McCartney - "Get Me Out Of Here"
Sigur Rós - "Var"
Camera Obscura - "New Year's Resolution"
My Bloody Valentine - "She Found Now"
Disclosure - "When A Fire Starts To Burn"
DJ Koze - "Royal Asscher Cut"
Sonny & The Sunsets - "Natural Acts"
Washed Out - "All I Know"

120. Franz Ferdinand - "Right Action"
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Dawn"
Nicolas Jaar remixing Grizzly Bear - "Sleeping Ute"
Ducktails - "International Date Line"
Yuck - "Memorial Fields"
White Fence - "Beat"
King Krule - "Baby Blue"
Jacuzzi Boys - "Double Vision"
The FIeld - "A Guided Tour"
Baths - "Inter"

130. Burial - "Come Down To Us"

Childish Gambino with Chance The Rapper - "The Worst Guys"
Quasimoto - "Youngblood"
King Tuff - "Lady"
Chelsea Light Moving - "Alighted"
Eleanor Friedberger - "Stare At The Sun"
Shearwater covering Jesca Hoop - "Our Only Sun"
Best Coast - "I Don't Know How"
M.G.M.T. - "Introspection"
Kurt Vile - "Wakin' On A Pretty Day"

140.
Christopher Owens - "Riviera Rock"
Starlito & Don Trip with Singa B. - "Where Do We Go"
Portugal. The Man - "Atomic Man"
Midlake - "Vale"
Major Lazer with Laidback Luke & Ms. Dynamite - "Sweat"
Savages - "Strife"
The Strokes - "80's Comedown Machine"
Aloe Blacc - "Love Is The Answer"
A$AP Ferg - "Dump Dump"
Forest Swords - "Gathering"
 

150. DJ Rashad with Spinn & Taso - "Pass That Shit"
C.S.S. - "Teenage Tiger Cat"
Iceage - "Interlude".


10 VIDEOS

Bob Dylan - "Like A Rolling Stone"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Sacrilege"

Daft Punk - "Lose Yourself To Dance"

Atoms For Peace - "Ingenue"

Goldfrapp - "Drew" 

Janelle Monáe - "Dance Apocalyptic"

Yo La Tengo - "I'll Be Around"

Nihls Frahm - "Says"

Jagwar Ma - "The Throw"

Fiona Apple - "Hot Knife"


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Death Grips does not exist in this world... :(

pop-analysis said...

we like experimental hiphop like Dälek and some LTJ Bukem with MCs even but really feel MC Ride is the weakest link in DG ...still the production's visceral and synthy, so we may put "Two Heavens" or "Big House" on the list when we revisit things later.

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