HAPPY 2014!!
As revealed on Monday’s Photogmusic LIVE.
In case you didn’t hear it but want to check it out.
I revealed my Top 13 Non-Canadian Albums of 2013:
- Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
- Disclosure – Settle
- AlunaGeorge – Body Music
- HAIM – Days Are Gone
- Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe
- Local Natives – Hummingbird
- Julia Barwick – Nepenthe
- London Grammar – If You Wait
- Jon Hopkins – Immunity
- The National – Trouble Will Find Me
- Savages – Silence Yourself
- Peals – Walking Fields
- M.I.A. – Mantangi
This was the album of 2013!
Best tracks: Diane Young, Step and Worship You.
Best tracks: White Noise feat. AlunaGeorge, You & Me feat. Eliza Doolittle and F For You
R&B and electronica mixing into a superb album.
Best tracks: “Your Drums, Your Love”, You Know You Like It, Diver and B Ur Boo
The only band that keeps popping into my head is The Bangles.
Great fun pop rock album.
Best tracks: Falling, Forever and The Wire
Best tracks: Lies, The Mother We Share and Science/Visions
A change in direction with the death of Kelcey Ayer’s mother and the departure of bassist Andy Hamm.
A serious and mature album.
Best tracks: Breakers, Wooly Mammoth and Black Balloons.
Makes you want to flow in a dreamlike state.
Think of it as the female version of Sigur Ros (Who she happened to tour with them recently)
Best tracks: One Half, The Harbinger, Adventurer of the Family and Crystal Lake
A blend of ambient, ethereal and classical sounds.
Best tracks: Stronger, Interlude and High Life
It’s a mix of electro-ambient dance, IDM at it’s best.
Best tracks: Collider, Breathe This Air feat. Purity Ring (On the deluxe version) and Open Eye Signal.
Best tracks: Sea of Love, Graceless and Demons
Full of angst and fury.
Best tracks: Shut Up, City’s Full and She Will
Happened to see them at 2013 NXNE.
This album is all instrumental.
Has that quaint mellow chillax feel when you are camping.
Best tracks: Blue Elvis, Belle Air and Believers
Mix of Worldbeat and Electronica-Dance.
Best tracks: Double Bubble Trouble, Come Walk With Me and Bring the Noize
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