Midyear Best Ofs, 2013

Something for the weekend? How about an overview of what I consider the best of the best at the midyear point, 2013? More art than science, more opinion than fact, in the end it's all more great music. According to me.

Top 25 Albums

#1 - Elephant Stone - Elephant Stone (Hidden Pony)

#2 - Jacco Gardner - Cabinet Of Curiousities (Trouble In Mind)

#3 - Black Lizard - Black Lizard (Soliti)

#4 - The Purrs - The Boy With Astronaut Eyes (FIN Records)

#5 - Secret Colours - Peach (Self-released)

#6 - Beaulieu Porch - We Are Beautiful (Tillsammans Records)

#7 - Neils Children - Dimly Lit (Boudoir Moderne)

#8 - Dead Rabbits - The Ticket That Exploded (Fuzz Club Records)

#9 - Black Springs - Sunrise (Self-released)

#10 - (tie) Telstar Sound Drone - Comedown (Bad Afro)
----------- Vibravoid - Delerio Dei Sensi (Go Down Records)

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(the rest, alphabetically):

12 - The Blondi's Salvation - To Our Future (Self-released)
13 - Buried Feather - Buried Feather (Self-released)
14 - Chatham Rise - Chatham Rise (Picture In My Ear)
15 - Children of Leir - Children of Leir (Self-released)
16 - The Citradels - Psychotic Syndrone (Self-released)
17 - Cult of Dom Keller - Cult of Dom Keller (Mannequin/Cardinal Fuzz)
18 - Electric Eye - Pick Up, Lift Off, Space, Time (Fuzz Club)
19 - Heaven's Gateway Drugs - You Are Heaven's Gateway Drugs (Self-released)
20 - The Holydrug Couple - Noctuary (Sacred Bones)
21 - Hookworms - Pearl Mystic (Gringo Records)
22 - Navel - Loverboy(Noisolution)
23 - Todd Parker & The Witches - Martians (Bakery Records)
24 - Psychlops Eyepatch - Paranoise (Octopus Pi Records)
25 - Strangers Family Band - Strangers Family Band (Xemu Records)

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Top 9 EPs

(Alphabetically)

1 - The Auras - The Auras (Optical Sounds)
2 - Celestial Bums/Helicon - Mind Explosion (Psyilocybin Sounds)
3 - Dead Parties - Tribe (Self-released)
4 - Dean Allen Foyd - Road To Atlas (Crusher Records)
5 - Piatcions - Heaven's Sins (Fuzz Club Records)
6 - Surly Gates - Surly Gates (Self-released)
7 - This Other Kingdom - Sunlight (Self-released)
8 - Uberfuzz - RE:Enlightenment (Camerashy)
9 - Weekender - Spanish Peaks (Self-released)

Okay. There it is. Any suggestions I might have missed? Put them in the comments, that's what it's there for. Have a great weekend everyone. -valis