{"id":13728,"date":"2013-12-18T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T10:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=13728"},"modified":"2013-12-18T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T10:21:53","slug":"top-30-albums-of-the-year-for-2013-as-selected-by-urban75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/top-30-albums-of-the-year-for-2013-as-selected-by-urban75\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 30 albums of the year for 2013 as selected by urban75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13729\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/top-30-albums-of-the-year-for-2013-as-selected-by-urban75\/urban75-albums-of-the-year-2013\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/urban75-albums-of-the-year-2013.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"621,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Top 30 albums of the year as selected by urban75 posters &amp;#8211; 2013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/urban75-albums-of-the-year-2013.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13729\" alt=\"Top 30 albums of the year as selected by urban75 posters - 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/urban75-albums-of-the-year-2013.jpg\" width=\"621\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/urban75-albums-of-the-year-2013.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/urban75-albums-of-the-year-2013-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/urban75-albums-of-the-year-2013-620x300.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The posters on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/urban75-album-of-the-year-2013-the-results.318524\/\" target=\"_blank\">urban75 boards<\/a> have voted in their top 30 albums of the year, and there&#8217;s a cracking selection on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 albums were nominated, and there&#8217;s one or two surprise omissions from the top 30, but here&#8217;s the top three selections in reverse order:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">3 My Bloody Valentine &#8211; m b v<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pWyRfqfEC2s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s the album everyone expected to be Number 1 (unless they thought it&#8217;d be Bowie), and it\u2019s not exactly far off. Returning exactly where they left off, m b v immediately throbs into life, and keeps on giving. Psychedelic, ambient, melodic and even almost poppy. As good as they said it was at the time<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Low \u2013 The Invisible Way<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rAdzJ1U0RU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The big surprise of the year? It could well be. A fucking wonderful album. The track below is the finest piece of music released this year, without a doubt. Sometimes Urban shows just fantastic taste, and this is one of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds &#8211; Push the Sky Away<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2TX_OEvp_s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Growing older, and, according to that honorary degree wiser, although you\u2019d never tell from the continuing Avril Lavigne fixation. It\u2019s majestic, its desolate, its gothic it\u2019s luscious. What\u2019s more: it\u2019s eerie, it\u2019s a bit psych, and it\u2019s cinematic. It is the Holy Troika, so it is this years\u2019 <em>Album of the Year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full listing below. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/urban75-album-of-the-year-2013-the-results.318524\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the thread on urban75<\/a> for videos of all the nominated albums &#8211; and free free to join in with the discussion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Urban75 albums of the year 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds &#8211; Push the Sky Away<br \/>\n2 Low &#8211; The Invisible Way<br \/>\n3 My Bloody Valentine &#8211; m b v<br \/>\n4 Boards Of Canada &#8211; Tomorrows Harvest<br \/>\n5 Bill Callahan &#8211; Dream River<br \/>\n6 Congo Natty &#8211; Jungle Revolution<br \/>\n7 Daft Punk &#8211; Random Access Memories<br \/>\n8 Caitlin Rose &#8211; The Stand In<br \/>\n9 Manix &#8211; Living in the Past<br \/>\n10 Fuck Buttons &#8211; Slow Focus<br \/>\n11 Mogwai &#8211; Les Revenants Soundtrack<br \/>\n12 Haiku Salut &#8211; Triclore<br \/>\n13 Phospherescence &#8211; Muchacho<br \/>\n14 Oneohtrix Point Never &#8211; R Plus Seven<br \/>\n15 Kanye West \u2013 Yeezus<br \/>\n16 Forest Swords &#8211; Engravings<br \/>\n17 These New Puritans &#8211; Field of Reeds<br \/>\n18 Colin Stetson, New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light<br \/>\n19 Julia Holter &#8211; Loud City Song<br \/>\n20 Hey Colossus &#8211; Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo<br \/>\n21 Parquet Courts &#8211; Light up gold<br \/>\n22 Haxan Cloak &#8211; Excavation<br \/>\n23 Tim Hecker, Virgins<br \/>\n24 Machinedrum &#8211; Vapor City<br \/>\n25 Major Lazer &#8211; Free the Universe<br \/>\n26 The Ex &amp; Brass Unbound &#8211; Enormous Door<br \/>\n27 Hookworms &#8211; Pearl Mystic<br \/>\n28 Future of the Left &#8211; How To Stop Your Brain In an Accident<br \/>\n29 The Asphodells &#8211; Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust<br \/>\n30 Charles Bradley &#8211; Victim Of Love<br \/>\n31 Laurel Halo &#8211; Chance of Rain<br \/>\n32 Sleaford Mods &#8211; Austerity Dogs (2013)<br \/>\n33 DJ Rashad \u2013 Double Cup<br \/>\n34 Jon Hopkins &#8211; Immunity<br \/>\n35 Mazzy Star &#8211; Seasons of Our Day<br \/>\n36 The Knife &#8211; Shaking the Habitual &#8211;<br \/>\n37 Savages &#8211; Silence Yourself<br \/>\n38 The Marshall Mathers LP2 &#8211; Eminem<br \/>\n39 Laura Veirs &#8211; Warp &amp; Weft<br \/>\n40 Hacker Farm &#8211; UHF<br \/>\n41 Edwyn Collins &#8211; Understated<br \/>\n42 The Rockingbirds &#8211; The Return of the Rockingbirds<br \/>\n43 Handsome Family &#8211; Wilderness<br \/>\n44 Crime &amp; The City Solution &#8211; American Twilight<br \/>\n45 Wooden Shjips \u2013 Back to Land<br \/>\n46 Wire &#8211; Change Becomes Us<br \/>\n47 David Bowie &#8211; The Next Day<br \/>\n48 Chelsea Light Moving &#8211; Chelsea Light Moving<br \/>\n49 Lorde &#8211; Pure Heroine<br \/>\n50 Factory Floor &#8211; Factory Floor<\/p>\n<p>The Spotify playlist &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/belboid\/playlist\/2eHXfVdXg7UClX5q6cufde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/belboid\/playlist\/2eHXfVdXg7UClX5q6cufde<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big thanks are due to belboid for organising this, and to all the urban75 posters who voted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The posters on the urban75 boards have voted in their top 30 albums of the year, and there&#8217;s a cracking selection on offer. Over 200 albums were nominated, and there&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[740,739,742,741,738,1197,737,68],"class_list":["post-13728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-740","tag-albums","tag-awards","tag-best-of","tag-cds","tag-music","tag-top-albums","tag-urban75"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/urban75-albums-of-the-year-2013.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3zq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13732,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728\/revisions\/13732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}