For the year's remaining editions of The Well-Played List, music tastemakers participating in the ongoing listening series (the CL Music Team and select staffers along with local music promoters, record store and venue owners, music fans and scenesters, DJs, musicians, and a radio personality or two) will be reflecting on our favorite albums of the year — the Best of 2013. Since we're off on consecutive Wednesdays (for Christmas and New Year's), and make up such a large group with varying tastes, I'll be breaking our lists up into four parts, running two this week (Part 1 ran on Wednesday, the second today), and the last two will be posted next week. Hopefully, all four will give you something to fill your ears while you enjoy your holiday breaks... and as always, a Spotify Playlist will be included at the end of each post, for your listening pleasure.
Check out past editions of The Well-Played List here. And on that note, what are your favorite albums of 2013? Tell us in the comments…
SHAE K. | Local musician, Y Los Dos Pistoles, writer, poet
Bill Callahan, Dream River
Shannon Wright, In Film Sound
M.I.A., Matangi
Valerie June, Pushin' Against a Stone
Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Serives vol. 10: Another Self Portrait
Phosphorescent, Muchacho
Speedy Ortiz, Major Arcana
John Vanderslice, Dagger Beach
Scout Niblett, It's Up to Emma
Rykarda Parasol, Against the Sun
[jump]DEREK CLARK | Brasky.org
Bibio, Silver Wilkinson
Chrome Sparks, Sparks EP
Classixx, Hanging Gardens
Ducktails, The Flower Lane
Foxygen, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
fthrsn, middle school swag
Gangplans, Alca
Jai Paul, Jai Paul
Machinedrum, Vapor City
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Blue Record
SARAH GECAN | Daddy Kool Records and No Clubs Entertainment
Frank Turner, Tape Deck Heart
Restorations, LP 2
Bear's Den, Agape
Masked Intruder, Masked Intruder
Lorde, Pure Heroine
letlive., The Blackest Beautiful
Superchunk, I Hate Music
Daughter, If You Leave
Luxury Mane, Luxury Mane
AFI, Burials
MOJO BOOKS & RECORDS (PART 1)
-Mojo has a rotating group of Well-Played List participants - co-owners Melanie Cade and Danny Drummond along with several knowledgeable staffers. Thus, we are splitting up their entries into two parts; the second half will run on the next WPL...
MELANIE CADE
The National, Trouble Will Find Me
Kanye West, Yeezus
Jeremy Denk, J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
Deerhunter, Monomania
Bill Callahan, Dream River
Kronos Quartet / Bryce Dessner, Aheym
Oneohtrix Point Never, R Plus Seven
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold
San Fermin, San Fermin
ROBBY MCDONALD
Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Darkside, Psychic
Oneohtrix Point Never, R Plus Seven
Thee Oh Sees, Singles Vol. 3
Cosmic Machine, A Voyage Across French Cosmic and Electronic Avant Garde (1970-1980)
William Onyeabor, Who is...
Grails, Black Tar Prophecies 4,5,6
Serpentina Satellite, Mecanica Celeste
Chrome, Half Machine from the Sun
Annapurna Illusion, Life Is an Illusion
