Miscellaneous
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Albums of the Year
published: 14 /
12 /
2013
Our writers and photographers reflect upon their favourite albums and also their favourite gig of 2013
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CARL BOOKSTEIN
1. Greek Theatre - Lost Out at Sea
2. Bob Dylan - Another Self Portrait
3. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
4. National - Trouble Will Find Me
5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
6. Atoms for Peace - Amok
7. Matthew J Tow - The Way of Things
8. Bill Callahan - Dream River
9. Natalie Maines - Mother
10.Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Favourite Live Gig - Gregg Allman, Soundboard, Detroit 10/23/2013
MALCOLM CARTER
(In no particular order...)
1. Israel Nash Gripa - Rain Plans
2. Louise Aubrie - Time Honoured Alibi
3. Matthew E White - Big Inner
4. Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare
5. Dodson And Fogg - Derring Do
6.. Dodson and Fogg - Sounds Of Day & Night
7. Suzi Chunk - Girl from the Neck Down
8. Crystal Jacqueline - Sun Arise
9. Thea Gilmore - Regardless
10.My Darling Clementine - The Reconciliation
ANDREW CARVER
1.Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
2.Rodion - The Lost Tapes
3.Barn Owl - V
4.Bevis Frond - White Numbers
5.Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion
6.Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
7.Big Dick - Big Dick
8.Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat
9.Circuit des Yeux - Overdue
10.Various Artists - Cosmic Machine
Favourite Live Gig - Deniz Tek and the Bad Men, Dominion Theatre, Ottawa, 18/5/2013
JOHN CLARKSON
1. Godfathers - Jukebox Fury
2. Reichenbach Falls - Reports of Snow
3. Parlour Flames - Parlour Flames
4. Short Stories - Send My Love to Everyone
5. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Ghost Republic
6. Band of Holy Joy - City of Tales (Vol 1. and 2)
7. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
8. Rotifer - The Cavalry Never Showed Up
9. Editors - The Weight of Your Love
10.Bitter Springs - Everyone's Cup of Tea
Favourite Live Gig - Stranglers/Godfathers, Picture House, Edinburgh, 1/3/2013
DAN CRESSEY
1. Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
2. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
3. Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
4. Cornell Campbell (with Soothsayers) – Nothing Can Stop Us
5. Young Fathers – Tape Two
6. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
7. Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die
8. Dobie – We Will Not Harm You
9. Portico Quartet - Live/Remix
10.Cold War Kids - Dear Miss Lonelyhearts
NICK DENT-ROBINSON
1. Arctic Monkeys -AM
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
3. Jules Winchester - A Stranger in Your Home
4. Joe Brown - The Ukelele album (Deluxe Edition
5. The Band - Live At The Academy of Music 1971
6. David Bowie - The Next Day
Favourite Live Gig - Alice Cooper, Fairport's Cropredy Convention, Cropredy,
8/8/2013
GILLIAN FISH
1. The 1975 - The 1975
2. Arctic Monkeys - AM
3. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
4. Peace - In Love
5. Drenge - Drenge
6. Foals - Holy Fire
Favourite Live Gig - The Cribs/Drenge, 100 Club, London, 17/4/2013
DAVE GOODWIN
1. Simon York - Nothing's Ever Quite What You Thought It Would Be
2. Die! Die! Die!- Harmony
3. Luxury Stranger - Face EP
4. Churches - The Bones of What You Believe
5. David Bowie - The Next Day
6. National - Trouble Will Find Me
7. Six by Seven - Love Peace and Sympathy
8. Miles Kane - Don't Forget Who You Are
9. Cat Empire - Steal the Light
10.Dead Wolf Club -Rar
Favourite Live Gig -Die! Die! Die!, Operto, Leeds, 21/7/2013
MARIE HAZELWOOD
1. Bill Ryder-Jones - Bad Wind Blows in My Heart
Favourite Live Gig - Patrick Wolf, Epstein Theatre, Liverpool, 7/2/2013
BEN HOWARTH
1. Rotifer – The Cavalry Never Showed Up
2. It Hugs Back – Recommended Record
3. The Wave Pictures – City Forgiveness
4. David Ford – Charge
5. John Howard – Storeys
6. John Murry – The Graceless Age
7. Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hammer – Child Ballads
8. Roddy Woomble – Listen to Keep
9. Frontier Ruckus – Eternity of Dimming
10.Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards – Blind Spot
Favourite Live Gig: The Wave Pictures, Camden Jazz Café, London, 13/11/2013
ADRIAN HUGGINS
1. 65 Days of Static - Wild Light
2. Humanfly - Humanfly
3. Wet Nuns - Wet Nuns
4. Neon Neon - Praxis Makes Perfect
5. Nails - Abandon All Life
6. Dismemberment Plan - Uncanny Valley
7. We Are Knuckle Dragger - Drone
8. Bonobo - The North Borders
9. Kings of Leon - Mechanica Bull
10.Conan - Live at Roadburn
Favourite Live Gig - Eagulls / Temple of Coke, Riverside, Sheffield - 16/11/2013
FIONA HUTCHINGS
1. Edwyn Collins - Understated
CHRIS JONES
1. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
2. Forest Swords - Engravings
3. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
4. Machinedrum - Vapor City
5. Baths - Obsidian
6. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
7. Kurt Vile - Wakin' on a Pretty Daze
8. Senking - Capsize Recovery
9. Atoms for Peace - Amok
10.Washed Out - Paracosm
JAMIE ROWLAND
1. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
2. Hellfyre Club - Dorner vs Tookie
3. Thundercat - Apocalypse
4. Grand Theft Auto V - Original Sound Track (honestly an amazing compilation!)
5. Akron/Family - Sub Verses
6. David Bowie - The Next Day
7. Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon
8. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
MARK ROWLAND
1. National - Trouble Will Find Me
2. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
3. Deerhunter - Monomania
4. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
5. Buke and Gase - General Dome
6. David Bowie - The Next Day
7. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
8. Bonobo - The North Borders
9. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
10.Ezra Furman - Day of the Dog
MAARTEN SCHIETHART
1. Marvin - Barry
2. Allysen Callery - Mumblin' Sue
3. Burial - Rival Dealer
4. Nancy Elizabeth - Dancing
5. Ty Segall - Sleeper
6. Black Pus - All My Relations
7. Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
8. Pea Sea - The Debatable Land
9. Sidi Touré - Alafia
10.Bazooka -Bazooka
DOMINIC SIMPSON
1, Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Doobie Wonderland"
Favourite Live Gig - Yo La Tengo, Barbican, London, 8/13/2013
ANTHONY STRUTT
1. Johnny Marr - The Messenger.
2. Toy - Join the Dots
3. Poltergeist - Your Mind is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonders)
4. Charlie Boyer And the Voyeurs - Clarietta.
5. Ian McNabb - Eclectric Warrior.
6. Savages - Silence Yourself
7. Young Husband - Dromes.
8. Bailter Space - Trinine.
9. Exit Calm - The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
10.Churches - The Bones of What You Believe.
Favourite Live Gig - Johnny Marr, Institute, Birmingham, 16/3/2013
LISA TOREM
1. Booker T. Jones - 'Sound the Alarm'
2. Dave Davies - 'I Will Be Me'
3. Monster Magnet - 'Last Patrol'
4. Todd Rundgren - 'State'
5. Angele David-Guillou - 'Kourouma'
Favourite Live Gig - Dave Davies, City Winery, Chicago, 18/11/2013
PAUL WALLER
1.Charlotte Church – Two and Three EP’s
2.Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
3.Keaton Henson – Birthdays
4.California X – California X
5.Marnie Stern – The Chronicles of Marnia
6.Mark Mulcahy – Dear Mark J Mulcahy, I Love You
7.Matt Berry – Kill the Wolf
8.Steve Martin & Edie Bricknell – Love Has Come For You
9.Grant Hart – The Argument
10.Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
DENZIL WATSON
1. Arctic Monkeys - AM
2. Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions
3. Luke Haines - Rock 'n' Roll Animals
4. British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy
5. Young Knives - Sick Octave
6. Patrick Duff - Ghosts of the Underworld
7. I Am Kloot - Let It All In
8. Ian McNabb - Eclectic Warrior
9. Gogol Bordello - Pure Vida Conspiracy
10.Eels - Wonderful, Glorious
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