Music // 2013 ROUND UP // Loved LPs

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My 5 favorite albums released in 2013

Selection based on:

How often & intensely I listened to them
How much they open my musical horizons

1. The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake: A beautiful journey about love, from the tingling thrill of a lusting chase, to the dark sexually charged songs in the center of the album to the grand finally of deep sacrificial love, unity and wholeness with Mirrors and Blue Ocean Floor (a song a wrote about earlier this year as a PICK 6 love song). Musically this album shifts from classic round shallow pop sounds to blues, focusing all the while on captivating vocal harmonies.
2. Yeezus – Kanye West: All Songs Considered's end of year discussion makes some great points about this album, namely, Kanye is a hugely dislike-able figure, but his music, despite him, is very powerfully constructed. He is hugely polarising, but this album was hands down one of my most enjoyed, dark, aggressive and tribal. (Read more here at #8). 
3. Silence Yourself – Savages: A tremendously earnest album, angry female post punk excellence, I wrote about their presence and sound here earlier this year. Have a peek!
4. Amok – Atoms for Peace:  Is it just me that's surprise this isn't on any major music blog's round up!? I loved this poetic, calculated, cold and echoing album. It completely resonates with a layered monochromatic sound. Beautiful.
5. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels : Sweet Mother. This album completely rocks my socks, I can't even deal with it. This is the album that open my eyes to the sheer delights of hip-hop. If you don't move to this, go see your doctor, you're probably dead. Witty, intelligent with killer base and even catchier beats. Listen to my favorite track here with an outfit I styled, inspired by it.

Other albums of note!

• Anxiety – Autre Ne Veut
• Pokey La Farge - Pokey La Farge
• The Eulogy - Cakes Da Killa (read here at #2)
• Dangerous Intentions - Patterns
• Hit Vibes - Saint Pepsi (read here at #2)

I feel like it's a strange list and there is so much I haven't listened to it's overwhelming! Your thoughts on 2013's new releases? What did you rate the most?