I’m off on holidays for the next ten days. Here’s my parting gift, the top 25 albums of my year so far along with my 10 favourite Irish records of the year. A snapshot of where I’m at right now. Back on July 8th.
Top 25 albums of 2013 so far…
- Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
- I Am The Cosmos – Monochrome
- The Knife – Shaking The Habitual
- Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
- Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
- Gold Panda – Half Of Where You Live
- Rhye – Woman
- Kanye West – Yeezus
- inc. – no world
- Ghostpoet – Some Say I So I Say Light
- Disclosure – Settle
- Italians Do It Better – After Dark 2
- Solar Bears – Supermigration
- James Blake – Overgrown
- FaltyDL – Hardcourage
- Daughter – If You Leave
- Toro Y Moi – Anything In Return
- Austra – Olympia
- Killer Mike/El-P – Run The Jewels
- Villagers – {Awayland}
- Local Natives – Hummingbird
- Dancing Suns – Goldmine
- Space Dimension Controller – Welcome to Mikrosektor-50
- Gramme – Fascination
- Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety
Top Irish albums of 2013 so far
- I Am The Cosmos – Monochrome
- Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
- Solar Bears – Supermigration
- Villagers – {Awayland}
- Dancing Suns – Goldmine
- Space Dimension Controller – Welcome to Mikrosektor-50
- Little Green Cars – Absolute Zero
- Come On Live Long – Everything Fall
- Girls Names – The New Life
- And So I Watch You From Afar – All Hail Bright Futures
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
I love how shite and uninformed this list is.
Surprised you included Run the Jewels in this, with it only being out such a short while. Personally think my favourite record of the year is GI & Costello’s MaryJane http://gicostello.bandcamp.com/
It’s a snapshot of where I’m at. El-P is one of my favourite artists ever and he has form with me so I’m sure of its placement.
Jaimeo brown – transcendence is another one to check, also dj koze amygdala
The Moderat and Jon Hopkins albums are pretty special as well
ASIWYFA only make it at number 10 in your top ten Irish albums of the year (so far)? o_O
No Jon Hopkins or James Holden? Yikes.
No Boards Of Canada!!
No Thr!!!er?!?!
Nice one for the Spotify playlist.
No ‘O Emperor’ in your Irish list?