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Sidebar 2: SM's Favorite Records of 2013

1) Jenny Hval: Innocence Is Kinky (CD/LP, Rune Grammofon RCD/LP3142)

2) Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (CD/LP, Columbia 88883716862)

3) Kanye West: Yeezus (CD, Def Jam B0018653-02)

4) Aidan Baker: Already Drowning (LP, Gizeh GZH43LP)

5) Julia Holter: Loud City Song (LP, Domino WIGLP306)

6) Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven (LP, Warp WARP240)

7) Circuit des Yeux: Overdue (LP, Lewis + Lynn/Ba Da Bing 92)

8) Blood Orange: Cupid Deluxe (LP, Domino WIGLP322)

9) Sigur R¢s: Kveikur (CD, XL Recordings XLCD606)

10) Tim Hecker: Virgins (LP, Kranky KRANK 183)

11) Laurel Halo: Chance of Rain (LP, Hyperdub HDBLP021)

12) Darkside: Psychic (LP, Matador OLE-1035)

13) La Luz: It's Alive (LP, Hardly Art HAR-076)

14) L. Pierre: The Island Come True (LP, Melodic MELO 081)

15) The Asphodells: Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust (CD, Rotters Golf Club BRC-347)

16) Fuck Buttons: Slow Focus (LP, ATP Recordings ATPRLP49)

17) The Knife: Shaking the Habitual (LP, Mute 9556-1)

18) Beacon: The Ways We Separate (CD, Ghostly International GI-180)

19) Moderat: II (CD, Monkeytown 9571-2)

20) King Krule: 6 Feet Beneath the Moon (LP, True Panther Sounds TRUE-101-1)

21) Willis Earl Beale: Nobody Knows (LP, HXC Recordings 6 34904 07011 3)

22) The Memories: Love Is the Law (LP, Burger BRGR301)

23) Dean Blunt: The Redeemer (LP, Hippos in Tanks HIT025LP)

24) Ulrich Schnauss: A Long Way to Fall (LP, Domino LPDNO318)

25) The Haxan Cloak: Excavation (LP, Tri Angle Records TRIANGLE18)