In Case You Missed It: Notable Albums, January-June 2013
by Samuel Tolzmann on June 13, 2013
Posted in: Album Review, Music
Feeling left out of discussions about music this year? Worried you were so busy trying to decide if you liked the new David Bowie LP that you missed something great? Never fear, WRMC’s got you covered. Below, find an alphabetical listing of some of the year’s most notable releases — notable either because they’re great, or because they’ve been popular here or at large, or because the artists who made them are kind of a big deal (hey Daft Punk!). If you’re wondering what to get into next, you can’t go too wrong picking any of these at random. Did we miss something? Let us (and, more importantly, your fellow WRMC blog readers) know in the comments!
Altar Of Plagues, Teethed Glory And Injury
Akron/Family, Sub Verse
Anthony Childs, The Space Between People And Things
A$AP Rocky, LongLiveA$AP
Autre Ne Veut, Anxiety
Baths, Obsidian
Beacon, The Ways We Separate
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
Black Angels, Indigo Meadow
Bleached, Ride Your Heart
Blue Hawaii, Untogether
Boards Of Canada, Tomorrow’s Harvest
Born Ruffians, Birthmarks
Buke And Gase, General Dome
Burial, Truant/Rough Sleeper 7″
Cassie, #RockaByeBaby
Caveman, Caveman
Chance The Rapper, Acid Rap
Charles Bradley, Victim Of Love
Charli XCX, True Romance
CHVRCHES, Recover EP
Colin Stetson, New History Warfare, Vol. 3: To See More Light
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
Daughter, If You Leave
David Bowie, The Next Day
Deafheaven, Sunbather
Dean Blunt, The Redeemer
Deerhunter, Monomania
Deptford Goth, Life After Defo
Devendra Banhart, Mala
Dirty Beaches, Drifters/Love Is The Devil
Disclosure, Settle
DJ Koze, Amygdala
Dungeonesse, Dungeonesse
Eleanor Friedberger, Personal Record
Esben And The Witch, Wash The Sins Not Only The Face
Ex Cops, True Hallucinations
FIDLAR, FIDLAR
The Flaming Lips, The Terror
The Focus Group, The Elektrik Karousel
Foxygen, We Are The 21st-century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
The Front Bottoms, Au Revoir
Generationals, Heza
Girls’ Names, The New Life
Grouper, The Man Who Died In His Boat
Gucci Mane, Trap House 3
The Haxan Cloak, Excavation
Houses, A Quiet Darkness
Iceage, You’re Nothing
Iron And Wine, Ghost On Ghost
Italians Do It Better, After Dark 2 (label compilation)
Jagwar Ma, Howlin
Jai Paul, Demos
James Blake, Overgrown
Jenny Hval, Innocence Is Kinky
John Grant, Pale Green Ghosts
Jon Hopkins, Immunity
Junip, Junip
Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience
Keaton Henson, Birthdays
The Knife, Shaking The Habitual
Koreless, Yugen
Kurt Vile, Wakin On A Pretty Daze
Laura Marling, Once I Was An Eagle
The Lonely Island, The Wack Album
Lorde, The Love Club
Low, The Invisible Way
Lust For Youth, Perfect View
Majical Cloudz, Impersonator
Major Lazer, Free The Universe
Marnie Stern, The Chronicles Of Marnia
Mikal Cronin, MCII
Mount Kimbie, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
My Bloody Valentine, m b v
The National, Trouble Will Find Me
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push The Sky Away
No Joy, Wait To Pleasure
Oberhofer, Notalgia
Peals, Walking Field
Pharmakon, Abandon
Phoenix, Bankrupt!
Phosphorescent, Muchacho
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
Queens Of The Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
Rhye, Woman
Ryan Hemsworth, Still Awake
Savages, Silence Yourself
Sean Nicholas Savage, Other Life
Small Black, Limits Of Desire
Still Corners, Strange Pleasures
The Strokes, Comedown Machine
Surfer Blood, Pythons
Tegan And Sara, Closer
The-Dream, IV Play
Thee Oh Sees, Floating Coffin
These New Puritans, Field Of Reeds
Torres, Torres
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires Of The City
Var, No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers
Wax Idols, Discipline & Desire
Waxahatchee, Cerulean Salt
Wavves, Afraid Of Heights
Wild Nothing, Empty Estate
Wolf Eyes, No Answer: Lower Floors
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mosquito
Young Galaxy, Ultramarine
Youth Lagoon, Wondrous Bughouse
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