The top 10

With an attempt at ordering them.

1. Indians - Somewhere Else
2. Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
3. Swearin' - Surfing Strange
4. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
5. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
6. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
7. Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse
8. Low - The Invisible Way
9. The Pastels - Slow Summits
10. Deafheaven - Sunbather

Spotify playlist

11-30

In alphabetical order because I can't possibly order them.

• Advance Base - The World Is In A Bad Fix Everywhere EP
• Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
• Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
• Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
• Baths - Obsidian
• Braids - Flourish//Perish
• Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
• Charles Bradley - Victim of Love
• The Casket Girls - The Casket Girls EP
• Daughter - If You Leave
• Diana - Perpetual Summer
• John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
• Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
• Manic Street Preachers - Rewind the Film
• Monoganon - F A M I L Y
• Shinies - Tangle EP
• Son Lux - Lanterns
• Sparrow and the Workshop - Murderopolis
• These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
• When Saints Go Machine - Infinity Pool

Nepotism

Records that would all have made the top list, had they not been made by people I know. Sorry to the ones I've forgotten.

• Adam Stafford - Imaginary Walls Collapse
• Rick Redbeard - No Selfish Heart
• Conquering Animal Sound - On Floating Bodies
• eagleowl - this silent year
• RM Hubbert - Breaks and Bone
• The Yawns - The Yawns
• Burnt Ones - You'll Never Walk Alone
• Over the Wall - This Is How We Did it EP

New to me in 2013

Records that I discovered this year that would definitely make my top list if they'd been released in 2013.

• Nils Frahm - Screws
• The Casket Girls - Sleepwalking
• King's Daughters and Sons - If Then Not When
• Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming