These are my favorite albums and tapes of 2013. My two big rules are that a release has to have come out in the calendar year and that I have to have listened to it a lot over the past twelve months. I don't really have much to say about 2013 to sum it up. I listened to a lot of things that fall under the broad generalization that is noise. That's what I've been into lately and those are the shows that I like going to the best. At the same time, I think my listening covers a variety of different sounds so it isn't just twenty versions of the same thing.
I bought more tapes than anything, which is why I made a separate list of cassettes. It feels like a dick move to include something that was released in an edition between 25 and maybe 100 in a list of more available albums. Maybe it is that limited availability that is part of the appeal. You feel like you've found something special. I'm happy about tapes. No need to over think the matter.
The list goes band/album/label for those with questions of that nature.
Top Twenty Albums Of 2013
01. Alterity Problem - Don't Hate To Investigate - She Sells Records
02. Lea Bertucci - Resonance Shapes - Obsolete Units
03. Cellular Chaos - s/t - ugEXPLODE
04. The Dead C - Armed Courage - Ba Da Bing!
05. Form A Log - The Two Benji's - Decoherence
06. Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat - Kranky
07. High Wolf - Kairos: Chronos - Not Not Fun
08. Human Beast - Venus Ejaculates into the Banquet - Load
09. Noise Nomads - Ernest Thrasher - Feeding Tube Records
10. Pharmakon - Abandon - Sacred Bones
11. Pod Blotz - Glass Tears - Clan Destine Records
12. Pulse Emitter - Crater Lake - Immune Recordings
13. Robedoor - Primal Sphere - Hands In The Dark
14. Russian Tsarlag - Gagged In Boonesville - Not Not Fun
15. Secret Pyramid - Movements Of Night - Students Of Decay
16. Sightings - Terribly Well - Dais Records
17. Pete Swanson - Punk Authority - Type
18. Unicorn Hard-On - Weird Universe - Spectrum Spools
19. Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors - De Stijl
20. Yo La Tengo - Fade - Matador
Top Twenty Tapes Of 2013
01. Lea Bertucci - tour tape - self released
02. Bleaching Agent - Stride For Stride - Opal Tapes
03. C. Lavender - Fortitude in Wintamanoth - Ecstatic Peace!
04. Chasms - Silicone Islands - Orange Milk Records
05 Cliffsides - Spirit In The Mountain Temple - Hooker Vision
06. Aaron Dilloway and Jason Lescalleet - Building A Nest - Hanson Records
07. Interference - Down Chanson - Vaald
08. Isolde Touch - Polyvalence - Further Records
09. Metalux - Paw The Elated Ruin - Obsolete Units
10. Justin Meyers - Albuterol Auteur - NNA
11. N Colyar P/Wish Fulfillment - split - self released
12. Patricia - Body Issues - Opal Tapes
13. Pod Blotz - Timeless - Dungeon Taxis
14. Derek Rogers/Good Willsmith - split - Hausu Mountain
15. Secret Boyfriend - Skin On The Clock - Price Tapes
16. Some Pepper - Ice Is Alive - Refulgent Sepulchre
17. Stag Here - Angel Tech - Space Slave
18. Timeghost - Threshole45 - CVSS
19. Unguent - Dusk Desk - I Just Live Here
20. Zaïmph - Evolucao - Dungeon Taxis
