Other Music’s Top 30 Albums of 2013
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Other Music, the NYC record store (15 E 4th St) and record label (home to Nude Beach, Mutual Benefit, and others), has published its top 30 albums of 2013 list. The multi-genre list has a lot of cool, generally smaller releases in the electronic, hip hop, garage rock, folk, jazz, and other genres, steering clear of the big names that end up on a lot of these lists.
Check out the whole list in alphabetical order below, and read commentary on each one, plus take a look at Other Music's favorite reissues here.
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Other Music's Top 30 Albums of 2013
Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
Dean Blunt- The Redeemer
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Jace Clayton - Julius Eastman Memory Depot
Mikal Cronin - MCII
Lucrecia Dalt - Syzgy
Marcel Dettman - Dettman II
Express Rising - Express Rising
Factory Floor - Factory Floor
Forest Swords - Engravings
Steve Gunn - Time Off
Huerco S - Colonial Patterns
Inc. - No World
Ka - The Night's Gambit
King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Jessica Pratt - Jessica Pratt
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Missisippi Moonchile
Shifted - Under a Single Banner
Special Request - Soul Music
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications & Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles
The Stranger - Watching Dead Empires in Decay
These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
Various Artists - American Noise
Various Artists - Music for Shut-Ins
White Fence - Cyclops Reap
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Zomby - With Love
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