2013: Got engaged, traveled, got married, changed jobs, other big things. Loved music so much this year, and loved so much music – especially coming out of Toronto home – but had a tough time in the short span finalizing this list. Huge Top 5. Up to Top 11 I still loved. The rest kind of unfold after that, and I have a huge list of yet-to-be-listened to's. Appreciate any suggestions you may have based on what you see and see missing. To bigger things in 2014!

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away


2. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You


3. Cass McCombs - Big Wheel & Others


4. Rhye - Woman


5. Jim Guthrie - Takes Time


6. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
7. Majical Cloudz - Impersonator
8. Scott Churchman - Ignore That Noise
9. Bill Callahan - Dream River
10. William Tyler - Impossible Truth

11. The Sadies - Internal Sounds
12. Califone - Stitches
13. James Holden - The Inheritors
14. Hooded Fang - Gravez
15. Van Dyke Parks - Super Chief: Music for the Silver Screen
16. Juana Molina - Wed 21
17. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
18. Low - The Invisible Way
19. Kurt Vile - Wakin' On A Pretty Daze
20. Brokeback - Brokeback & The Black Rock

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Goat - Live Ballroom Ritual
Forêt - Forêt
Milosh - Jetlag
Washed Out - Paracosm
Adam Green & Binki Shapiro - Adam Green, Binki Shapiro
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Wavves - Afraid of Heights
The Field - Cupid's Head
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Phèdre - Golden Age
Eluvium - Nightmare Ending
Esmerine - Dalmak
Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind
Mick Turner - Don't Tell The Driver
bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE
Anna Calvi - One Breath
Nightlands - Oak Island
Akron/Family - Sub Verses
Suuns - Images du futur
Disclosure - Settle
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live From KCRW
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
DIANA - Perpetual Surrender
Austra - Olympia
Saltland - I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3
Helado Negro - Invisible Life
Sean Nicholas Savage - Other Life
Doldrums - Lesser Evil
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Beliefs - Beliefs
DARKSIDE - Psychic
Frankie Rose - Herein Wild
Hayden - Us Alone
Retribution Gospel Choir -3
Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus?
Grizzly Bear - Shields: B-Sides
Blue Hawaii - Untogether
The Good Family - The Good Family Album

Listening to that Scott Churchman.
Goddamn impressive stuff.

Really good, isn't it? Must hear if you like low slow music. Maybe Scott Walker ish.

Stitches is really great. This is I think the third album in a row where Califone has surpassed my expectations.

That Holden album is very close to the top of my list. My favorite electronic album of the past few years, probably.

our #1 is the same!

I like the new Neko, but I don't think it's even in the Top 10 for me. I think Daniel Romano - Come Cry With Me might be in my #2 spot.

Really? It's one of my favourites of hers. I love all of them, though, I guess.

Totally! I had kind of written them off for some reason, but I guess I need to pay closer attention.

Things I've been enjoying since submitting this list:

Jai Paul
Jon Hopkins
Burial Rival Dealer EP

Nice coherency to your tastes. The Nick Cave has really help up... and is better when returning to it.