Favorite Music of 2013

* In reverse alphabetical order

Albums
Postijonen -- Skyer
King Krule -- 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
Ka -- The Night’s Gambit
Grouper -- The Man Who Died in His Boat
Frankie Rose -- Herein Wild
Forest Swords -- Engravings
Dawn of Midi -- Dysnomia
Darkside -- Psychic
Chvrches -- The Bones of What You Believe
Bill Callahan -- Dream River

Other albums
Kurt Vile, Shout Out Louds, The National, Laura Mvula, Charles Lloyd / Jason Moran, Valerie June, Haim, Daughn Gibson, Grails, Charles Bradley, Black Host, Julianna Barwick

EP
Matthew White -- Outer Face

Songs
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Favorite Music of 2012

* In reverse alphabetical order

Albums
The XX -- Coexist

Saint Etienne -- Words and Music
Nitemoves -- Longlines
Julia Holter -- Ekstasis

Grimes -- Visions
Daughn Gibson -- All Hell

Disasterpeace -- FEZ
Leonard Cohen -- Old Ideas
Brad Mehldau Trio -- Ode
Beach House -- Bloom

Other albums
Dustin Wong, Wild Nothing, Jessie Ware, Tame Impala, Social Studies, Pye Corner Audio, Anna Meredith, Lotus Plaza, Hundred Waters, Caspian, Blues Control, Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves Of Destiny, Bat for Lashes, Aesop Rock, Actress

Lyrical Verse
"Where's a dissipating plume of smoke when you need one?"
Grace from Skelethon by Aesop Rock 

Song

Haunted Jukebox by Saint Etienne

Concerts 

Bill Callahan @ The Allen Room -- February 8th

Colin Stetson @ Glasslands -- April 3rd
The Dawn of Midi @ Joe's Pub -- November 24th

Kraftwerk performing Autobahn @ MOMA -- April 10th

Eid Ma Clack Shaw

Favorite Music of 2011

* In reverse alphabetical order

Albums
Wye Oak -- Civilian
Veronica Falls -- Veronica Falls
Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
Mark McGuire -- Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire

Lykke Li -- Wounded Rhymes

Julianna Barwick -- The Magic Place
Holy Ghost! -- Holy Ghost!
Destroyer -- Kaputt

Clams Casino -- Instrumentals
Bill Callahan -- Apocalypse

Other albums
Tim Hecker, Teenburger, Roman Flugel, PJ Harvey, John Maus, Grails, Cut Copy, Com Truise, Colin Stetson, The Caretaker, Battles, Balam Acab

Song
The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man by Colin Stetson

Concert

Bill Callahan @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC -- July 12th