2013 album(s) of the year - an introduction
Every December, it’s become customary for me to pontificate about the state of the musical landscape over the past year before definitively stating the single album which I think surpassed all others.
Reading back over years past, I always tend to have some minor get out clause - hey! this isn’t the only album that’s been good! there have been others too! so here’s a list which I’m not really going to expand on.
This year, I would suggest, has been pretty average. Some buzzbands that rose and fall, lots of landfill churn, no big cultural shifts, no big changes.
What there has been is a plethora of really good records. Ensuing convention, I feel compelled to suggest ten records that I’ve enjoyed more than others over the past twelve months. What follows over the next few days is a crude countdown; not a declaration of the ten definitive albums of the year, more an ordered list of the new albums that I really love.
Sit tight.