Top Albums/Tracks of 2013

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A L B U M S*

1. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of The City
2. DJ Koze: Amygdala
3. Chance The Rapper: Acid Rap**
4. Autre Ne Veut [Oh-truh Neh Vuh]: Anxiety
5. Disclosure: Settle
6. The National: Trouble Will Find Me 
7. Kanye West: Yeezus
8. Arctic Monkeys: AM
9. Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
10. Drake: Nothing Was The Same

HM. Pusha T: My Name is My Name

T R A C K S***
1. James Blake: "Retrograde"

2. Lorde: "Royals"

3. Drake: "Hold On, We're Going Home"

4. FKA Twigs: "Water Me"

5. Daft Punk: "Lose Yourself To Dance"

6. Chance The Rapper: "Juice"

 7. Disclosure: "White Noise"

8. Autre Ne Veut: "Counting"

9. Pusha T: "Numbers On The Boards"

10. Local Natives: "Heavy Feet"


HM. Vampire Weekend: "Don't Lie"

* HM = Honorable Mention does actually rank at #11 this year
** Technically this is a mixtape, but the quality is the difference
*** Excludes repeated artists (#s 1, 6, 7, HM) for breadth

Arctic Monkeys: AM. Review Sketch

year: 2013 

tones of: the black keys, red hot chili peppers, the beatles, the strokes, coldplay, the white stripes

genre samples: blues, rock n roll, soul, psychedelic rock, punk, lo-fi rock, garage rock

music: marching, bombastic, busy, drumming, big, winding, jangling, cruising, lazy, swirling, mellow 

favs: do you wanna know?, r u mine?, one for the road, arabella, no. 1 party anthem, why'd you only call me when you're high?, knee socks

nb: if you're anything like me, it's been a minute since you've really liked a rock album so give this a couple of spins. feels like a maturation of that early 2000s "post-punk/garage rock revival".

score: 8/10 (and the first half of this is just really on point)