Here are our favorite records of the year! We all compiled our lists this year into one big list, which means numbering them in any order is just a waste of time. There was one record that kept getting played in the store since its release that we feel is probably our favorite of the year–Phosphorescent’s “Muchacho.” So we’ll call that our #1. The rest of the list is in no order but is compiled of our favorite’s! Enjoy and stop by the shop to see our “best of” section where you can purchase the records on this list.
#1 Phosphorescent “Muchacho” (Dead Oceans)
-Dirty Beaches “Drifters/Love is the Devil” (this was David’s favorite; read what we said about it here)
-Joanna Gruesome “Weird Sisters” (Jimmy wouldn’t shut up about this record)
-Bonnie Prince Billy s/t (Self Released; read what we said about it here)
-Anna Von Hausswolff “Ceremony” (Other Music)
-Bill Callahan “Dream River” (Drag City)
-2013 was a great year for new records coming right out of Oxford and we’re glad to call them our buddies; Dead Gaze “Brain Holiday,” Bass Drum of Death s/t, Dent May “Warm Blanket,” ILLLS “Hideout from the Feeders”
-My Bloody Valentine “m b v” (FINALLY!!!)
-King Krule “6 Feet Beneath the Moon” (True Panther)
-Prodigy & Alchemist “Albert Einstein” (Jimmy’s favorite rap album of the year)
-Juliana Barwick “Nepenthe”
-Lonnie Holley “Keeping a Record of It” (Dust to Digital; it was our LP of the Month)
-Yo La Tengo “Fade” (Matador; YLT also had one of our favorite concerts of the year in Birmingham at Workplay Theater)
-Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds “Push the Sky Away” (we also really loved their RSDBF release “Live from KCRW“)
-Volcano Choir “Repave” (one of Bill’s favorites)
-Medecine “To the Happy Few” (Captured Tracks)
-Polvo “Siberia” (Merge)
-David Bowie “The Next Day” (read about it here)
Our favorite reissues:
#1 Bob Dylan “Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait”
-Dan Penn “Fame Recordings Sessions” (finally on vinyl!)
-The Clean “Vehicle” (and all the other Flying Nun/Captured Tracks releases!)
-Big Star “Nothing Can Hurt Me” Soundtrack LP
-The Dentist “Some People Are On The Pitch They Think It’s All Over It Is Now” (Trouble in Mind)
-King Tuff “Was Dead” (Burger Records)
-Songs: Ohia “Magnolia Electric Co.” Deluxe Reissue (Secretly Canadian)
-The Birthday Party “Live 81-82” (4AD)
-“Who is William Onyeabor?” (Luaka Bop)
-“Sorrow Come Pass Me Around” (excellent gospel compilation from Dust to Digital; it was also our LP of the Month)
-Irma Thomas “In Between Tears”
-Nirvana “In Utero” (and the “Live and Loud” DVD!)
-Roky Erickson solo LPs (Light in the Attic)
-Human Expression “Love at a Psychedelic Velocity” (Mississippi Records)
-Sam Langhorne “The Gospel According to Sam” 10″ (Big Legal Mess; see it on our holiday gift guide)
