Our contributors’ favourite albums of 2013
We’ve already brought you all of somethingyousaid.com’s collective End of Year lists, but we’ve had a few requests to post all of our contributors’ individual favourite albums of 2013. So here are the lists we’ve trawled back through our emails and found (you can see our overall top 20 albums here). The ones that were submitted having been scrawled on the back of a napkin/fag packet etc, probably aren’t included here.
Marcus Thaine
1. Kirin J Callinan – Embracism
2. Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
3. Serafina Steer – The Moths Are Real
4. Juana Molina – Wed 21
5. Other Life – Sean Nicholas Savage
6. Black Vanilla – Black On Black On Black
7. Doldrums – Lesser Evil
8. True Romance – Charli XCX
9. Andras Fox – Embassy Cafe
10. Untogether – Blue Hawaii
Jack Colwell
1. Long Vacation EP – Rainbow Chan
2. Embracism – Kirin J. Callinan
3. Walking on a Pretty Daze – Kurt Vile
4. The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas – Courtney Barnett
5. Dream Cave – Cloud Control
6. Push The Sky Away – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
7. Stepbrothers – Palms
8. Is This How You Feel EP – The Preatures
9. Trouble Will Find Me – The National
10. I Awake – Sarah Blasko (technically an end of 2012 release but was still in the 2013 ARIA Album noms)
Carol Bowditch
1. II – UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
2. Monomania – DEERHUNTER
3. Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – MOUNT KIMBIE
4. Dream Cave- CLOUD CONTROL
5. Mosquito – YEAH YEAH YEAHS
6. Embracism – KIRIN J. CALLINAN
7. Caramel – CONNAN MOCKASIN
8. Hung at Heart – THE GROWLERS
9. Howlin’ – JAGWAR MA
10. Psychic – DARKSIDE
Neil Martin
1. Modern Vampires Of The City – Vampire Weekend
2. Private Airplane – Connections
3. The Island Come True – L. Pierre
4. Light Up Gold – Parquet Courts
5. Perils From The Sea – Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle
6. Dream River – Bill Callahan
7. Nepenthe – Juliana Barwick
8. Immunity – Jon Hopkins
9. Melt Yourself Down – Melt Yourself Down
10. Spectral Park – Spectral Park
Joe Haddow
1. From The Hills Below The City – Houndmouth
2. The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
3. Golden – Lady Antebellum
4. Push The Sky Away – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Sunken Condos – Donald Fagen
6. Liquid Spirit – Gregory Porter
7. Tales Of Us – Goldfrapp
8. Charge! – David Ford
9. The Electric Lady – Janelle Monae
10. Snow Globe – Erasure
Kaya Strehler
1. Give up: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition – The Postal Service (it counts!!)
2. Holy Fire – The Foals
3. Shaking the Habitual – The Knife
4. Matangri – M.I.A
5. Yeezus – Kanye West
25ThC
1. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s harvest
2. Mr Benn – Shake a leg
3. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
4. DJ Format and Phill most chill – The Foremost
5. Quasimoto – Yessir Whatever
6. Congo Natty – Jungle Revolution
7. 7 Days of funk – 7 Days of Funk
8. Neon Neon – Praxis makes perfect
9. The Lions – This Generation
10. Deltron 3030 – The Event 2
Madeline Kragh
1. Dream River – Bill Callahan
2.The 20/20 experience – Justin Timberlake
3. Holy Fire – Foals
4. Anything in Return – Toro y Moi
5. Monomania – Deerhunter
Golden Lady
1. II – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
2. Pure Heroin- Lorde
3. Settle-Disclosure
4. Comfort- Splassh
5. Howlin- Jaguar Ma
6. Walking on a Pretty Daze- Kurt Vile
7. Static- Cults
8. Tomorrows Harvest- Boards of Canada
9. We Are…..- Foxygen
10. Reflektor- Arcade Fire
Tom Spooner
1. ‘Leak’ – Jai Paul
2. Dream River – Bill Callahan
3. Big Inner – Matthew E. White
4. Lesser Evil – Doldrums
5. R Plus Seven – Oneohtrix Point Never
Jess Matthews
1. Bonobo – North Borders.
2. Booka Shade – Eve
3. Moderat – 2
4. Maya Jane Coles – Comfort
5. Danny Brown – Old
Gary Page
1. Crimson/Red – Prefab Sprout
2. Antiphon – Midlake
3. Alone Aboard the Ark – The Leisure Society
4. Muchacho – Phosphorescent
5. Reflektor – Arcade Fire
6. The Next Day – David Bowie
7. Rewind the Film – Manic Street Preachers
8. Fade – Yo La Tengo
9. Mole City – Quasi
10. Electric – Pet Shop Boys
Melissa Oey
1. Embracism – KIRIN J. CALLINAN
2. 6 Feet Beneath the Moon – KING KRULE
3. Arctic Monkeys – AM
4. II – UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
5. Days Are Gone – HAIM
Bobby Townsend
1. Pure Heroine – LORDE
2. What I Think About When I Think About You – JIM BOB
3. Waking Up is Hard to Do – GIANT DRAG
4. Reflektor – ARCADE FIRE
5. Embracism – KIRIN J CALLINAN
6. Dream River – BILL CALLAHAN
7. Settle – DISCLOSURE
8. Once I was an Eagle – LAURA MARLING
9. Charge – DAVID FORD
10. Mosquito – YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Liana Gow-Killingbeck
1. Paracosm – WASHED OUT
2. Tomorrow’s Harvest – BOARDS OF CANADA
3. Repave- VOLCANO CHOIR
4. Reflektor – ARCADE FIRE
5. m b v – MY BLOODY VALENTINE
6. Immunity – JON HOPKINS
7. Overgrown – JAMES BLAKE
8. Wondrous Bughouse – YOUTH LAGOON
9. Atlas – RUFUS
10. Silver Wilkinson – BIBIO
Harriet Cheney
1. Haim – Days Are Gone
2. James Blake – Overgrown
3. Cloud Control – Dream Cave
4. Kanye West – Yeezes
5. Sigur Ros – Kveikur
6. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
7. Kurt Vile – Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
8. Arctic Monkeys – AM
9. Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe
10. Polica – Shulamith
Kate Holcombe
1. Days are gone – HAIM
2. Shangri La – JAKE BUGG
3. The Hurry and the Harm – CITY AND COLOUR
4. Trouble Will Find Me – THE NATIONAL
5. If You Wait – LONDON GRAMMAR
Sophie Metcalfe
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
2. The Growl – What would Christ Do??
3. …Like Clockwork – Queens of the Stone Age
4. Laura Marling – Once I was an Eagle
5. Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
Tammy Potakh
1. Open Season – HIGH HIGHS
2. Overgrown (Deluxe Edition) – JAMES BLAKE
3. Atlas – Rüfüs
4. Settle – DISCLOSURE
5. Random Access Memories – DAFT PUNK
Adam Davis-Powell
1. AM – Arctic Monkeys
2. …Like Clockwork – QOTSA
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One of us is the Killer
4. Sunbather – Deafheaven
5. baths – Obsidian
6. The Bronx iiii – The Bronx
7. Die Young – Hellions
8. North Borders – Bonobo
9. Live at CBGB’s – Daughters
10. Hesitation Marks – NIN
Sonia Clarke
1. Confess to me – DISCLOSURE FEATURING JESSIE WARE
2. Get lucky – DAFT PUNK FEATURING PHARRELL WILLIAMS
3. White Noise – ALUNA GEORGE
4. Indecision – SAMPHA
5. Cirrus – BONOBO
Elaina Ransford
1. Trust- Gambles
2. If You Wait- London Grammar
3. Pure Heroine- Lorde
Tenley Nordstrom
1. M.I.A. – Matangi
2. Arcade Fire- Reflektor
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