As
with many recent years there has been an over abundance of phenomenal
music being made despite the fact that a large percentage of it is
not being heard via commercial outlets. Those of us who have had rock
music as the backdrop of our lives will continue to seek out the
music we love despite the forlorn state of the music industry. On a
positive note there are more places to discover music than ever
before be it via sites like Soundcloud,
Bandcamp,
CDBaby,
eMusic, independent music blogs & streaming music services.
This best of list reflects those particular albums that need to be heard. I had hoped for the list to be posted much sooner than this but I wanted to make sure that it was an accurate summation of those albums that were truly loved in addition to the ability of holding up in future time.
Hope some of you reading this list will fall in love with a musician and/or band's music, seek out their output and support them either by purchasing their music or seeing them perform.
Breaking with tradition, Mr Qwerty & I are publishing our best of lists separately for 2013 – this is mine.
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| Gary surveys the tip of the Top Ten |
Top 10 in no particular order
01
Eric Barao - Eric Barao
02
Dark Ocean Colors - Close Enough to See
03
Ulysses - Kill You Again
04
Shake Some Action - Full Fathom Five
05
Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities
06
Split Sofa - Coloured Dream
07
Corin Ashley - New Lion Terraces
08
Groovy Uncle / Suzy Chunk - One
Vowel Away From The Truth
09 Electric Soft Parade - Idiots
10
Mothboxer - Three
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| PowerPop Review's Best of 2013 - The Next Ten |
And
the next ten:
11
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs - Under the Covers Volume 3
12
Grip Weeds - Inner Grooves
13
Chris Stamey - Lovesick Blues
14
Contrast – A Sinister Flick
15
Stephen Lawrenson - Obscuriosity
16
Resonars- Crummy Desert Sound
17
Mikal Cronin – MC11
18
Schnauser - Where Business Meets Fashion
19
Michael Mazzarella -Love In Laureltide Green
20
House
Of Love
- She Paints Words In Red
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| PowerPop Review's Best of 2013 - The Rest |
And
the rest:
21
Ex-Norwegian – Crack
22
And The Professors – Our Post Mortem
23
Hot Nun – Hot Nun
24
Jo Dee Purkeypile – Messenger
25
Autumn Defense – Ten Full Paces
26
Beachwood Sparks – Desert Skies
27
Elephant Stone – Elephant Stone
28
Wiretree – Get Up
29
Robert Vincent – Life In Easy Steps (De-luxe issue)
30
Higher State – The Higher State
31
Sadies – Internal Sparks
32
The Green Pajamas – November
33
Steve Cradock – Travel Wild Travel Free
34
Brendan Benson – You Were Right
35
Nines – The Nines
36
Grapes of Wrath – Good To See You
37
Richard X. Heyman – X
38
Alfa 9 – Gone To The Ground
39
Any Version Of Me – We Are You
40
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp – Turn Up The Sun
41
8 x 8 – Azalea's Room
42
Dutch Barn – Didn't Suit Me Anyway
43
Brother Kite – Model Rocket
