Jan 09, 2014 Best of 2013 NEW Steve Gunn "Time Off" (Paradise of Bachelors) Gun Outfit "Hard Coming Down" (Post Present Medium) Call Back the Giants "The Marianne" (Kye) Dean Blunt "The Redeemer" (Hippos in Tanks) Cass McCombs "Big Wheel & Others" (Domino) The Cherry Blossoms "Live in Amsterdam" (Hairy Spider Legs) Pharmakon "Abandon" (Sacred Bones) Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescaleet "Photographs" (Erstwhile) The Ukiah Drag "Jazz Mama Is Cryin'" (Self-Released) Lubomyr Melnyk "Three Solo Pieces" (Unseen Worlds) Michael Hurley "Land of Lo-fi" (Mississippi) Case Studies "This is Another Life" (Sacred Bones) These New Puritans "Field of Reeds" (Infectious) However, the two albums I listened to the most this year were from 2012: Jessica Pratt "JP" (Birth) Lambchop "Mr. M" (Merge) OLD The Blue Nile "A Walk Across the Rooftops / Hats" (Virgin) Bob Dylan "Another Self Portrait" (Columbia) Sun Ra "Continuation" (Corbett vs. Dempsey) Anton Heyboer "Rules of the Universe" (Kye) Songs: Ohia "Magnolia Electric Co." (Secretly Canadian) The Garbage and The Flowers "Eyes Rind As If Beggars" (Bo'Weavil/Fire) Conrad Schnitzler "Conrad & Sohn" (Staubgold) Various Artists "Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988" (Strut) Woo "Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong" (Emotional Rescue) Naffi Sandwich "Hoochie Pooch/Space Alligator - Freddie Viaduct at Naffi H.Q. 1973-83" (EM) ETC. Matana Roberts at Jazz Gallery La Monte Young at Dream House Yellow Tears at 285 Kent PC Worship at Issue Project Room The Source Family - Documentary Naomi Punk at DC9 Raymond Pettibon 'To Wit' at David Zwirner Gallery Gas Rag at 538 Johnson S.H.I.T. / Green Beret / Limp Wrist at Not Dead Yet, Toronto 2013