My Favorite Albums of 2013

I had planned on a Top 30 combined "new release" and "archival" list, but I ran out of room.  Sorry, I don't have time for writing the usual capsule reviews for the albums on my list this year.  See you in 2014, mofos.

1.      Parquet Courts – Light up Gold  Spotify or Youtube

2.      Savages – Silence Yourself Spotify or Youtube

3.      Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou -- The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk 1969-1980 Youtube

4.      Hookworms – Pearl Mystic Spotify or Youtube 

5.      Fuzz – Fuzz Spotify or Youtube

6.      Various Artists - Stand Up, People: Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito's Yugoslavia 1964-1980 Youtube

7.      Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady Spotify or Youtube

8.      Waxahatchee – Cerluean Salt Spotify or Youtube

9.      Mikal Cronin – Mc II Spotify or Youtube

10.   Wooden Shijps – Back to Land Spotify or Youtube

11.   Various Artists -- The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Bollywood

12.   Robbie Fulks – Gone Away Backwards

13.   David Bowie – The Next Day

*14.   Bob Dylan -- Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10

15.   Various Artists -- Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound

16.   Kurt Vile – Walkin on a Pretty Daze

17.   Tamikrest -- Chatma

18.   Grant Hart – The Argument

19.   Various Artists -- Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings From The 1970s & 80s

20.   Ty Segall – Sleeper

21.   William Onyeabor – World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?

22.  Guy Clark -- My Favorite Picture of You

23.  Iceage – You’re Nothing

24.   Anna Calvi – One Breath

25.   The Fall – Re-mit

26.   Various Artists -- Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-83

27.   of Montreal – Lousy with Sylvianbriar

28.   Jason Isbell – Southeastern

29.   Torres -- Torres

30.   Purling Hiss – Water on Mars

31.   Various Artists -- I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from The Nashboro Label 1951-1983

32.   Richard Thompson -- Electric

33.   Bombino -- Nomad

34.   Charles Bradley – Victim of Love

35.   White Denim – Corsicana Lemonade

36.   Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin

37.   Wire – Change Becomes Us

38.  Laura Marling -- Once I was an Eagle

*Bob's 10th bootleg series release is probably really my #1 album of the year, but sometimes I need to hide the degree of my Dylanphile-ness in order to maintain overall credibility.