Check out Eric J Lawrence’s top picks of 2013. Find ALL the DJ’s Top 10 lists here.
1. Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)
2. Andrew Wyatt – Descender (Downtown)
3. Public Service Broadcasting – Inform-Educate-Entertain (Test Card)
4. Pretty & Nice – Golden Rules for Golden People (Equal Vision)
5. Cayucas – Bigfoot (Secretly Canadian)
6. Kelley Stoltz – Double Exposure (Third Man)
7. Matt Berry – Kill the Wolf (Acid Jazz)
8. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Haunted Head (In The Red)
9. Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze (Matador)
10. Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum (Wichita)
11. Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
12. The Moore Brothers – California Sister
13. Fuzz – Fuzz
14. Dutch Uncles – Out of Touch in the Wild
15. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II
16. Okkervil River – The Silver Gymnasium
17. Don Cavalli – Temperamental
18. Golden Suits – Golden Suits
19. Of Montreal – Lousy with Sylvianbriar
20. Bill Callahan – Dream River
21. Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie Prince Billy – What the Brothers Sang
22. Ty Segall – Sleeper
23. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
24. The Kingsbury Manx – Bronze Age
25. Jacco Gardner – Cabinet of Curiosities
26. Amor De Dias – The House of Sea
27. Goldfrapp – Tales of Us
28. The Fall – Re-Mit
29. Camera Obscura – Desire Lines
30. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Eric J Lawrence’s Honorable Mentions
– Barbarossa – Bloodlines
– The Sufis – Inventions
– Broncho – Can’t Get Past the Lips
– Natalie Dawn – How I Knew Her
– Blaudzen – Heavy Flowers
– Everything Everything – Arc
– Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record
– Har Mar Superstar – Bye Bye 17
– Javelin – Hi Beams
– Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
– Carmen Villain – Sleeper
– Still Corners – Strange Pleasures
– Washed Out – Paracosm
– Fol Chen – The False Alarm
– Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
– Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
– Bibio – Silver Wilkinson
– Surfer Blood – Pythons
– Paul McCartney – New
– Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends
– Cloud Control – Dream Cave
– The Duckworth Lewis Method – Sticky Wickets
– Kendra Morris – Mockingbird
– Alexander Von Mehren – Aeropop
– Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
– Midlake – Antiphon
– MGMT – MGMT
– The Darcys – Warring
– Wooden Shjips – Back to Land
– Euros Childs – Situation Comedy
– Dr. Dog – B-Room
– Blitzen Trapper – VII
– Deltron 3030 – Event II
– Arcade Fire – Reflektor
– The Electric Peanut Butter Company