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in no particular order

Autechre - Exai
Boards of Canada - Tomorrows Harvest
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Clark - Feast/Beast
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I don't recall enjoying any other new releases this year.

Deafheaven - Sunbather
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow Harvest
James Blake - Overgrown
Tyler, The Creator - Wolf*
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City**
Disclosure - Settle
Olafur Arnalds - For Now I am Winter
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

I'm sure I'm missing something, and there's still a few big releases from this year that I haven't listened to, but this is just off the top of my head.


*I've played this one a few too many times
**A sleeper hit for me - It wouldn't have made the list last week

In no particular order:

Tomorrow's Harvest
Clark - Feast/Beast
Lapalux - Nostalchic
Gold Panda - Half of Where You Live
Four Tet - 0181
The Field - Cupid's Head

I'm still evaluating a few others like James Holden 'The inheritors' and Oneohtrix point never. Immunity by Jon Hopkins is very good too. I really loved the tail end of 2012 too. Beach House - Bloom and Tame Impala - Lonerism were both remarkable albums that for me beat the above list combined.

I think my musical bias is showing as the most accessible thing on here is TH.

lets double that number;

1. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
2. James Blake - Overgrown
3. Jai Paul - Jai Paul [bootleg]
4. King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
5. SAINT PEPSI - Hit Vibes
6. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
7. Letherette - Letherette
8. Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind
9. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
11. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
12. Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
13. Mutual Benefit - Love's Crushing Diamond
14. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
15. Pond - Hobo Rocket
16. Machinedrum - Vapor City
17. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
18. DJ Koze - Amygdala
19. Heurco S. - Colonial Patterns
20. Lapalux - Nostalchic

Virgins - Tim Hecker,
Bright Sunny South - Sam Amidon,
Push The Sky Away - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,
Immunity - Jon Hopkins,
The Man Who Died in His Boat - Grouper,
Sunbather - Deafheaven,
Reflektor - Arcade Fire,
Tomorrow's Harvest - BoC,
Not Here / Not Now - Swans,
...Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age

in no order,

boc tomorrow's harvest
natasha kmeto - crisis (most criminally underrated thing of 2013 for me, i hope she's on the verge of getting huge)
machinedrum - vapor city
shxcxchxsh - strgths
moderat II
photodementia - fig. 04c
diamond version eps 1-5
john hopkins - immunity
autechre - exai
perfume - level 3

this year i did a lot of single/ep listening and playing around with dj tools more than album listening. there are a lot of individual songs here and there i really dug but as far as whole albums as cohesive units go i didn't pay the strictest attention

Albums that I know are great:

MBV (album of the year for me)
BoC
Queens of the Stone Age
Primal Scream
Daft Punk
Arctic Monkeys.

Albums that I suspect will be, but haven't got around to checking them out fully:

Bowie
Laura Marling
Fourtet
Forest Swords
Jon Hopkins
Mazzy Star
James Holden

In order, at least the top 4/5 is in order, the rest is still wiggling around.

1. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
2. Coppice Halifax - Leaf Cloak
3. David Bowie - The Next Day
4. Autechre - Exai
5. Max Loderbauer - Transparenz
6. Function - Incubation
7. Jimi Tenor and the Impostor Orchestra - Exocosmos / Soft Focus - Soft Focus (two Jimi Tenor projects that I frankly could not decide which one was the best)
8. Glossata - Pearls and Smoke
9. Vita - Infinity
10. Horror Inc. - Briefly Eternal

Other kickass picks : Emptyset - Recur, Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady, Felix K. - Flowers of Destruction, Mark Ernestus pres. Jeri-Jeri - 800% Ndagga, Prince of Denmark - The Body, Kanye West - Yeezus, Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain, Docetism - Roots, Barn Owl - V...

A-Z order

Bardo Pond - Peace On Venus
Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat
Jackson Scott - Melbourne
Jim Guthrie - Takes Time
Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
Taake - Gravkamre, Kroner og Troner
The Proper Ornaments - Waiting For The Summer
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
Windhand - Soma

this I think

MBV - My Bloody Valentine
TH - BoC
Loud City Song - Julia Holter
Virgins - Tim Hecker
You're Nothing - ICEAGE
The Man Who Died In His Boat - Grouper
The Island Come True - L.Pierre
Wakin' On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
Watching Dead Empires In Decay - The Stranger
Nexus - Young Echo

^ must check out the L.Pierre album.

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
Saturday Index - Saturday Index LP
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Ochre - National Ignition
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Tyler The Creator - Wolf
Atoms For Peace - AMOK
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2

In No Particular Order:

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Death Grips - Government Plates
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Pet Shop Boys - Electric
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
Tyler The Creator - Wolf
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
and, of course:
BoC - Tomorrow's Harvest

Great lists I'm going over the things on everyone's lists I'm not familiar with. Euue thanks for mentioning the Natasha Kmeto. Just listening to letherette remix of The Ache. Good stuff.

OH DANG i forgot about that function album!!! that goes on my list

I've had a rubbish year, with a great soundtrack.

Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time - Steve Mason
Immunity - Jon Hopkins
Tomorrow's Harvest - BoC
Tales of Us - Goldfrapp
Spaces - Nils Frahm
Drone Logic - Daniel Avery
Change Becomes Us - Wire
Engravings - Forest Swords
Supermigration - Solar Bears
Silver Wilkinson - Bibio

Honourable mentions for mbv, Kveikur and Slow Focus

^ forgot all about Steve Mason - love the bits I've heard of that one.

Must give Goldfrapp a listen too.

In no particular order:

Autechre - Exai
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Kinesthetiac - Holy Shit I'm A Werewolf (Part I)
Boreal Network - Boreal Network LP
Saturday Index - Saturday Index LP
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
Nyetscape - E-Scape
Nyetscape - After
Simulate Televangelist - Simulate Televangelist LP (I'm ok to rate this because I wasn't part of the group at the time )
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

Ian mbv isn't in your top 10?