The time has come to reveal the Top 13 Canadian albums of 2013.
It was a tough decision for these albums to be place in this list.
Agree or disagree these albums in my opinion were my favorites of 2013.
Check it out!
- Yamantaka//Sonic Titan – Uzu
- Basia Bulat – Tall Tall Shadow
- Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love Is The Devil
- Young Galaxy – Ultramarine
- hilotrons – At Least There’s Commotion
- Diana – Perpetual Surrender
- Braids – Flourish//Perish
- Blue Hawaii – Untogether
- Suuns – Images du Futur
- Arcade Fire – Reflektor
- The Darcys – Warring
- Big Dick – Big Dick
- Fevers – No Room For Light

I’ve been waiting for this since I saw them preview it in 2012 at Pop Montreal.
It’s bold, unique, Asian (Had to say it) and not anywhere like this in Canada’s music scene.
Best tracks: Atalanta//Whalesong, Windflower, One and Saturn’s Return.

It is a change from the previous two album since there is no autoharp.
More of a personal record that she made.
Lots of emotional songs filled with loss and heartbreak.
Best tracks: Tall Tall Shadow, It Can’t Be You, Promise Not To Think About Love and Never Let Me Go

Dirty Beaches released Drifters/Love Is The Devil
First half is like a journey through the dark and seedy nightlife in unknown city.
Second half is like a dream like atmosphere where you try to forget the troubles you did that night or forget the break up.
Best tracks: Night Walk, Casino Lisboa, Love Is The Devil and Like The Ocean We Part.

While Shapeshifting was my #1 of 2011 and a game changer for them.
Ultramarine is their follow-up and eventually got short-listed for Polaris Music Prize 2013.
This album still maintains the Young Galaxy sound and gets you moving!
Best tracks: Pretty Boy, New Summer and Hard To Tell

You can say it is the last album to feature the original members.
It’s a superb pop rock album.
Best tracks: Venus at Your Back Door, Not There Tonight and She Knows My Condition Pt 1 & 2

The album is a throwback to 80s New Wave Pop Dance music.
Best tracks: Foreign Installation, Born Again and That Feeling

Gone is their lighter guitar happy sound and more of darker pulsating synth electro dance pop album.
Best tracks: In Kind, December and Amends

This is more of a darker and colder album about sadness and loneliness.
Love the album cover too.
Best tracks: Follow, In Two (Part 1 & 2) and The Other Day

They sort of drifted away from the Clinic sound and making it their own.
Best tracks: 2020, Mirror Mirror and Edie’s Dream

It’s different, long and daring.
Best tracks: Reflektor, Afterlife and Here Comes The Night

I think it is their best album that they have put out!
Mix of rock with some added arts and experimentation
Best tracks: Muzzle Blast, The River and Hunting

This is their debut full length album.
Filled with great bass and drum punk and rock music.
Best tracks: Wolves, Medic and Colours
Filled with great catchy fun electro-dance pop music.
Best tracks: Dance Cry Dance and Monuments
Music video:
http://youtu.be/CSpM9zDPwj4
http://youtu.be/NTPjDpjSRqE
http://youtu.be/cc-kOl24pXo