To kick off our two week celebration of all of the best musical things in 2013, here’s a selection of some of our writer’s favourite tracks. Expect more playlists and podcasts, plus our favourite gigs and albums to follow shortly…
Adrian Berry’s Tracks Of The Year:
MIA: Bring The Noize
Parquet Courts – Stoned and Starving
Janelle Monáe & Miguel: Primetime
Future Bible Heroes – All I Care About Is You
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Higgs Boson Blues
Arctic Monkeys: Do I Wanna Know
Daft Punk/Pharrell Williams: Get Lucky
Beat Mark: Am I Five
John Cale: Living With You
Disclosure: White Noise
Elephant: Skyscraper
David Bowie: Love is Lost
!!!: One Girl/One Boy
Marika Hackman: Bath is Black
Kanye West: Bound 2
Courtney Barnett: Avant Gardener
Jagwar Ma – The Throw
James Blake: Retrograde
Jay Z: Picasso Baby
Willis Earl Beal feat Cat Power: Coming Through
http://open.spotify.com/user/adey6498/playlist/0h359QKbP48UWcd1gCwkTk
Holly Cruise: 20 tracks Of The Year.
1. Sigur Ros – ‘Brennisteinn’
2. Maya Jane Coles and Karin Park – ‘Everything’
3. Chvrches – ‘Recover’
4. Daughter – ‘Still’
5. Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
6. Anna Calvi – ‘Piece By Piece’
7. Tegan And Sara – ‘Closer’
8. Jon Hopkins and Purity Ring – ‘Breathe This Air’
9. Icona Pop and Charli XCX – ‘I Love It’
10. The Knife – ‘Without You My Life Would Be Boring’
11. Suuns – ‘2020’
12. Torres – ‘Jealousy And I’
13. Polica – ‘Chain My Name’
14. Sleigh Bells – ‘Bitter Rival’
15. Savages – ‘She Will’
16. Disclosure and AlunaGeorge – ‘White Noise’
17. Haim – ‘Falling’
18. MIA – ‘Exodus’
19. Janelle Monae and Miguel – ‘Prime Time’
20. MS MR – ‘Bones’
Ed Jupp’s 50 tracks of the Year
1. Daft Punk ‘Get Lucky.’
2. Mogwai ‘What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?’
3. Chvrches ‘The Mother We Share.’
4. Disclosure featuring AlunaGeorge ‘White Noise.’
5. Arctic Monkeys ‘Why Do You Only Call Me When You’re High?’
6. David Bowie ‘Where Are We Now?’
7. Haim ‘Save Me.’
8. Withered Hand ‘Black Tambourine.’
9. Steve Mason ‘Come To Me.’
10.Last Battle ‘Perfecting The Art Of Saying Nothing.’
11.Dead Flowers ‘Make It Bright.’
12.Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ‘Jubilee Street.’
13.Chvrches ‘Recover.’
14.National ‘Fireproof.’
15.Euros Childs ‘Trick Of The Mind.’
16.Girl Called Johnny ‘Heaven Knows.’
17.Suede ‘Barriers.’
18.Tegan & Sara ‘Closer.’
19.Savages ‘She Will.’
20.Primal Scream ’2013.’
21.M.I.A. ‘Bring The Noize.’
22.Lorde ‘Royals.’
23.Sparrow and the Workshop ‘The Faster You Spin.’
24.Laura Mvula ‘Green Grass.’
25.Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Sacrilege.’
26.Parquet Courts ‘N Dakota.’
27.Daft Punk ‘Instant Crush.’
28.Crocodiles ‘She Splits Me Up.’
29.Joanna Gruesome ‘Sugar Crush.’
30.Prince ‘Breakfast Can Wait.’
31.Laura Mvula ‘Morning Dew.’
32.New Model Army ‘Horsemen.’
33.Foals ‘Late Night.’
34.Dead Flowers ‘The Beach.’
35.Mark Lanegan ‘Solitaire.’
36.Arcade Fire ‘Reflektor.’
37.Teleman ‘Cristina.’
38.Parquet Courts ‘Stoned and Starving.’
39.Those Darlins’ Oh God.’
40.Fall ‘Sir William Wray.’
41.Anna Calvi ‘Suddenly.’
42.Depeche Mode ‘Soothe My Soul.’
43.Black Sabbath ‘God Is Dead?’
44.Nadine Shah ‘To Be A Young Man.’
45.Pixies ‘Indie Cindy.’
46.Greek Street Band ‘Harbour This Love.’
47.Mark Lanegan ‘You Only Live Twice.’
48.Luke Haines ‘The Angel Of The North.’
49.Prince ‘Screwdriver.’
50.Franz Ferdinand ‘Right Action.’
Nikolai Rainbow’s Tracks of the Year.
1.Arcade Fire – Reklektor
2.The Strokes – Tap Out
3. Primal Scream – 2013
4. Nine Inch Nails – Came Back Haunted
5.Sigur Ros – Isjaki
Dominic Valvona’s Tracks of the Year.
Selection:
Higamos Hogamos – Dendron
Anna Calvi – Eliza
Crime and City Solution – My Love It Takes Me There
Quamisto – Broad Factor
Deerhunter – Back to the Middle
Julian Cope – Paradise Mislaid
Wampire – The Hearse
Ghostpoet – Cold Win
Tamik Rest- Imanin Bas Zihou
British Sea Power – Loving Animals
Eleanor Freiderberger – Stare At The Sun
Fuck Buttons – Stalker
Mick Harvey – I Wish That I was Stone
Wes White Tracks of the Year.
1. Jemma Roper – Both Eyes of the Tiger
2. Marine – Selkie
3. Emily Barker – A Spadeful of Ground
4. Ralfe Band – Come On Go Wild
5. The Horn the Hunt – The Wild Gaze
6. Mariam the Believer – The String of Everything
7. San Fermin – Sonsick
8. Kutiman – Thru-Tokyo
9. Rotifer – You Know I Just Couldn’t Eat as Much (As I’d Like to Throw Up)
10. Death Grips – You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You for It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat
11. ANTA – Dolmen
12. Mary Epworth – September
Mark Barton’s Tracks of the Year:
As to the tracks of the year – I suggest you thumb through the blog entries via www.marklosingtoday.wordpress.com for enlightenment as it gives a perfect insight as to where our headspace is at any given time, however if I was to choose the tracks of the year based on –
1. The track that made me cry and had me much humbled
2. The track that had me going wow
3. The track that’s had us manically hitting the repeat button and connecting us with our younger self…….
Then these are the dudes…..
1. The Bordellos – Temperature Drop
2. Georges Vert – Interrupteur Jones
3. The New Fabian society – Barbarossa
