(short and sweet and to the point; culled from listening to 724 releases—at time of publishing—from 2013. ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be drastically different, but you have to lock ’em in sometime.)
Honorable Mention
The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law; Indians – Somewhere Else; Young Galaxy – Ultramarine; Cansei de Ser Sexy – Planta; Kodaline – In a Perfect World; Frank Turner – Tape Deck Heart; Black Blinds – Black Blinds; Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away; The Jungle Giants – Learn To Exist; GRMLN – Empire; Holy Ghost! – Dynamics; Ours – Ballet The Boxer 1; KT Tunstall – Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon; Jim James – Regions of Light and Sound of God; Chapel Club – Good Together; Armin Van Buuren – Intense; The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow; Volcano Choir – Repave; Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You; Matt Pond – The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Head; Foals – Holy Fire; Blue October – Sway; Bastille – Bad Blood.
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
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by
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by
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by
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Atlas Genius
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by
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#57
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by
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#51
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by
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by
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by
Gin Wigmore
#47
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by
Birds Of Tokyo
#46
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by
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#44
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by
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#43
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#42
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by
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by
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#40
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by
Smith Westerns
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The Features
#35
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by
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by
The Neighbourhood
#32
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by
Youngblood Hawke
#31
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by
Coheed and Cambria
#30
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by
Janelle Monáe
#29
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by
Portugal. The Man
#28
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by
Local Natives
#27
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by
Guards
#25
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by
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#24
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by
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#23
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by
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#21
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by
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
#20
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by
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#19
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by
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#18
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by
Sky Ferreira
#17
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by
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#15
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by
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#14
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by
Aloe Blacc
#13
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by
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#10
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Miles Kane
#09
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by
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#07
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by
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#05
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