Nialler9’s albums of 2013 so far…
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
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