Michael Tatum's A Downloader's Diary: Year 2013 Index
- The Dismemberment Plan: Uncanney Valley (Partisan) A
- Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (Aftermath) A-
- The Handsome Family: Wilderness (Carrot Top) A-
- Jon Hopkins: Immunity (Domino) A-
- Lady Gaga: Artpop (Streamline/Interscope) A
- Pusha T: My Name Is My Name (Def Jam) A-
- R. Kelly: Black Panties (RCA) ***
- Red Hot + Fela (Knitting Factory) **
- Swearin': Surfing Strange (Salinas) **
- Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp) C
- Britney Spears: Britney Jean (RCA) B-
- The Chills: Somewhere Beautiful (Fire) B
- Neil Young: Live at the Cellar Door (Reprise) B-
- Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience Vol. 2 (RCA) C+
- Blood Orange: Cupid Deluxe (Domino) C+
- Laura Marling: When I Was an Eagle (Ribbon) C
- Arcade Fire: Reflektor (Merge) A
- Best Coast: Fade Away (Mexican Summer, EP) A-
- Chance the Rapper: Acid Rap (free download) A-
- Brandy Clark: 12 Stories (Slate Creek) B+
- Four Tet: Beautiful Rewind (Text/Temporary Residence) A-
- Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven (Warp) A-
- Lee Ranaldo and the Dust: Last Night on Earth (Matador) B+
- Sleigh Bells: Bitter Rivals (Mom + Pop) A
- Omar Souleyman: Wenu Wenu (Ribbon) A-
- Tal National: Kaani (Fat Cat) A-
- Tamikrest: Chatma (Glitterhouse) A-
- Janelle Monáe: The Electric Lady (Bad Boy) ***
- Parquet Courts: Tally All the Things You Broke (What's Your Rupture?) ***
- Randy Travis: Influence Vol. 1: The Man I Am (Warner Bros.) **
- Haim: Days Are Gone (Columbia) **
- Miley Cyrus: Bangerz (RCA) **
- Court Yard Hounds: Amelita (Columbia) **
- Drake: Nothing Was the Same (Cash Money/Universal) C
- Paul McCartney: New (Hear Music) C
- Moby: The Innocents (Mute) B-
- Minor Alps: Get There (Barsuk) B-
- Robbie Fulks: Gone Away Backward (Bloodshot) B-
- The Chvrches: The Bones of What You Believe (Glassnote) C+
- Amanda Shires: Down Fell the Doves (Lightning Rod) C
- VV Brown: Samson & Delilah (YOY) C
- Babyshambles: Sequel to the Prequel (EMI) A-
- Ceramic Dog: Your Turn (Northern Spy) A-
- Elvis Costello and the Roots: Wise Up Ghost (Blue Note) B+
- Deer Tick: Negativity (Partisan) A-
- Gogol Bordello: Pura Vida Conspiracy (ATO) A
- Clay Harper: Old Airport Road (Terminus) A-
- Elizabeth Morris: Optimism (self-released, EP) A-
- No Age: An Object (Sub Pop) A-
- Young Fathers: Tape Two (Anticon) A-
- Yoko Ono: Take Me to the Land of Hell (Chimera Music) ***
- Garland Jeffreys: Truth Serum (Luna Park) **
- Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks (Columbia) **
- John Mayer: Paradise Valley (Columbia) **
- Guy Clark: My Favorite Picture of You (Dualtone) **
- Lorde: Pure Heroine (Universal) *
- Pity Sex: Feast of Love (Run for Cover) *
- Sebadoh: Defend Yourself (Joyful Noise) B
- Glasvegas: Later . . . When the TV Turns to Static (BMG) B-
- Arctic Monkeys: AM (Domino) C+
- John Wizards: John Wizards (Planet Mu) C+
- Eleanor Friedberger: Personal Record (Merge) C+
- Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake (Story Sound) C
- Earl Sweatshirt: Doris (Columbia) C
- Kool and Kass: Peaceful Solutions (free download) A-
- The Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel Band: Hey Hey It's . . . the Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel Band (self-released) A
- Daniel Romano: Come Cry With Me (Normaltown/New West) A-
- Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch) B+
- Britney Spears: The Essential Britney Spears (Jive/Legacy) A-
- Superchunk: I Hate Music (Merge) A-
- El-P/Killer Mike: Run the Jewels (Fool's Gold) ***
- Young Fathers: Tape One (Anticon) ***
- Robin Thicke: Blurred Lines (Interscope) **
- Major Lazer: Free the Universe (Secretly Canadian) **
- Dessa: Parts of Speech (Doomtree) **
- Pet Shop Boys: Electric (X2) **
- Speedy Ortiz: Major Arcana (Carpark) *
- Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (Daft Life/Columbia) *
- Camera Obscura: Desire Lines (4AD) C+
- George Strait: Love Is Everything (MCA Nashville) C+
- Wings: Wings Over America (Hear Music) C+
- Wayne Shorter: Without a Net (Blue Note) B
- Thundercat: Apocalypse (Brainfeeder) B-
- Natalie Maines: Mother (Columbia) B-
- Alice Smith: She (Rainwater/Thirty Tigers) C+
- French Montana: Pardon My French (Interscope) C
- Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China (Sublime Frequencies) A-
- Future Bible Heroes: Partygoing (Merge) A-
- The Lonely Island: The Wack Album (Republic) A-
- Tricky: False Idols (!K7) A-
- The Uncluded: Hokey Fright (Rhymesayers) A
- Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (XL) A+
- Kanye West: Yeezus (Def Jam) A+
- Mavis Staples: One True Vine (Anti-) **
- Gurf Morlix: Gurf Morlix Finds the Present Tense (Rootball) **
- The National: Trouble Will Find Me (4AD) **
- Surfer Blood: Pythons (Sire) **
- Gold Panda: Half of Where You Live (Ghostly International) *
- Jason Isbell: Southeastern (Southeastern) B
- Public Service Broadcasting: Inform-Educate-Entertain (Test Card) B-
- The Strokes: Comedown Machine (RCA) E
- John Murry: The Graceless Age (Evangeline Recording) C+
- Meat Puppets: Rat Farm (Megaforce) C+
- Disclosure: Settle (Interscope) C+
- Will.i.am: #Willpower (Interscope) C
- Haxan Cloak: Excavation (Tri Angle) C-
- Bombino: Nomad (Nonesuch) A-
- Chicha Libre: Cuatro Tigres (Barbès, EP) A-
- Deerhunter: Monomania (4AD) A
- Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchesses): The Low Highway (New West) A-
- The Knife: Shaking the Habitual (Mute) A
- Pistol Annies: Annie Up (RCA Nashville) B+
- Rainbow Arabia: F.M. Sushi (Kompakt) A-
- The Rough Guide to African Disco (World Music Network) A-
- Rachid Taha: Zoom (Wrasse) A
- Wussy: Duo (Shake It) A-
- Fantasia: Side Effects of You (J) ***
- Aaron Neville: My True Story (Blue Note) ***
- Ghostface Killah: Twelve Reasons to Die (Soul Temple Entertainment) **
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito (Interscope) **
- Wavves: Afraid of Heights (Warner Bros.) *
- The Rough Guide to Arabic Revolution (World Music Network) *
- Paramore: Paramore (Fueled by Ramen) B
- Mikal Cronin: MCII (Merge) B-
- James Blake: Overgrown (Universal Republic) B-
- Kurt Vile: Wakin' on a Pretty Daze (Matador) B-
- Bleached: Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans) B-
- The Rough Guide to Latin Psychedelica (World Music Network) C+
- The Mavericks: In Time (Valory/Big Machine) C+
- DJ Koze: Amygdala (Pampa) C+
- Savages: Silence Yourself (Matador) C
- Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès: Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1 (Teranga Beat) A-
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Jama Ko (Out Here) A
- Kate Nash: Girl Talk [Deluxe Edition] (Ingrooves) A-
- Orchestra Super Mazembe: Mazembe @ 45rpm, Vol.1 (Sterns Africa) A-
- Brad Paisley: Wheelhouse (Arista Nashville) B+
- Rilo Kiley: Rkives (Little Record Company) A
- Rokia Traoré: Beautiful Africa (Out Here) A
- Wire: Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag) B+
- Suede: Bloodsports (Suede Ltd.) ***
- Atoms for Peace: Amok (XL) ***
- Telekinesis: Dormarion (Merge) **
- The Rough Guide to Acoustic Africa (World Music Network) **
- Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience (RCA) *
- David Bowie: The Next Day (Columbia) B
- Johnny Marr: The Messenger (Sire) C+
- Roger Knox & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Stranger in My Land (Bloodshot) B-
- Josh Ritter: The Beast in Its Tracks (Pytheas Recordings) C+
- Bilal: A Love Surreal (Entertainment One Music) C+
- Holly Williams: The Highway (Georgiana) C
- Jake Bugg: Jake Bugg (Mercury) C
- David Greenberger/Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound: They Like Me Around Here (2013, Pel Pel) A-
- Ashley Monroe: Like a Rose (2013, Warner Bros.) A-
- Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer, Different Park (Mercury Nashville) A-
- The Rough Guide to Cumbia (2013, World Music Network) A-
- Salva: Odd Furniture (2013, Friend of Friends, EP) A-
- Serengeti: Saal (2013, Graveface) A-
- They Might Be Giants: Nanobots (2013, Idlewild/Megaforce) A
- Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt (2013, Don Giovanni) A-
- Wussy: Berneice Huff and Son, Bill Sings . . . Popular Favorites (2013, Shake It) ***
- Chelsea Light Moving: Chelsea Light Moving (2013, Matador) **
- Nuru Kane: Exile (2013, Riverboat) **
- Marcos Valle: Previsão do Tempo (2013, Light in the Attic) **
- Richard Thompson: Electric (2013, New West) *
- Golden Grrrls: Golden Grrrls (2013, Slumberland) *
- The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age (2013, BMG) C
- Iceage: You're Nothing (2013, What's Your Rupture?) B-
- Jamie Lidell: Jamie Lidell (2013, Warp) B-
- Pissed Jeans: Honeys (2013, Sub Pop) B-
- Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: Old Yellow Moon (2013, Nonesuch) C+
- The Joy Formidable: Wolf's Law (2013, Atlantic) C
- Grouper: The Man Who Died in His Boat (2013, 1-2-3-4-Go) D+
- Bettie Serveert: Oh, Mayhem! (2013, Second Motion) A-
- The Box Tops: Playlist: The Very Best of the Box Tops (2013, Sony/Legacy) A-
- Cakes Da Killa: The Eulogy (2013, Mishka download) A-
- Kitty: D.A.I.S.Y. Rage (2013, self-released, EP) A-
- My Bloody Valentine: mbv (2013, Pickpocket) A-
- Parquet Courts: Light Up Gold (2013, What's Your Rupture?) A-
- The Rough Guide to the Music of Senegal (2013, World Music Network) A-
- Skrillex: Leaving (2013, OWSLA, EP) A-
- Tegan and Sara: Heartthrob (2013, Warner Bros.) A-
- Yo La Tengo: Fade (2013, Matador) A-
- Solange: True (2013, Terrible) ***
- Peter Stampfel & the Ether Frolic Mob: The Sound of America (Frederick Productions/Red Newt) **
- Monoswezi: The Village (Riverboat) **
- A$AP Rocky: Long.Live.A$AP (2013, RCA) **
- The History of Apple Pie: Out of View (2013, Marshall Teller) *
- Tim McGraw: Two Lanes of Freedom (2013, Big Machine) C+
- Christopher Owens: Lysandre (2013, Fat Possum) C
- Ex Cops: True Hallucinations (2013, Fat Possum) B
- Foxygen: We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (2012, Jagjaguwar) B-
- Camper Van Beethoven: La Costa Perdida (429) B-
- Dawn Richard: Goldenheart (101 Distribution) C+
- Adam Green & Binki Shapiro: Adam Green & Binki Shapiro (Rounder) C+
- West of Memphis: Voices for Justice (429) C
- Dobie: Nothing to Fear (2012, Big Dada, EP) A-
- Dobie: . . . But Fear Itself (2012, Big Dada, EP) A-
- Carolyn Mark: The Queen of Vancouver Island (2012, Mint) A-
- Chris Knight: Little Victories (2012, Drifter's Church) ***
- Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby: A Working Museum (2012, Southern Domestic) ***
- Macy Gray: Talking Book (2012, 429) **
- Bruno Mars: Unorthodox Jukebox (2012, Atlantic) B
- Soundgarden: King Animal (2012, Republic) B-
- Clinic: Free Reign (2012, Domino) C
- Tame Impala: Lonerism (2012, Modular) C
- Andy Stott: Luxury Problems (Modern Love) C
- Miguel: Kaleidoscope Dreams (2012, RCA) B-
- Ryan Bingham: Tomorrowland (2012, Axster Bingham) C+
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