Top Songs of 2013
We’ve put our pretty little heads together ladies and gentlemen to bring you our favorite songs from this past year. It was a difficult task with our ever growing staff, but we feel like this list best represents the diverse taste of our staff. Love it or hate it, it’s ours to call our own. Hit play and put your head down or dance or shimmmy or drool or whatever works. Most of all we hope you hear something you missed, something you want to buy or something you want to see live.
Scroll past the playlist for full the run of the bestest songs ever this year.
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If the song was featured on ATH, you have a link to downloads or individual streams opening in a new window so as to maintain playlist streaming goodness. Streaming only posts have one of them star things or notes that you can DL another track as a freebie. We are pretty surprised by how many tracks we fell in love with from listening to albums (hint, the album is not dead).
In alphabetical order (ranking these proved to be too great a task):
Bad Sports – Let Me In
Beisbol – That Feeling
Bent Shapes – Behead Yrself Pt. II*
Big Deal – Dream Machines
Body Parts – Be a God
Bonobo – Cirrus
Braids – Juniper
Bubblegum Lemonade – Dead Poets Make Me Smile*
Coma Cinema – Satan Made a Mansion*
Crystal Antlers – Rattlesnake
Daughn Gibson – You Don’t Fade
Fidlar – Max Can’t Surf
First Rate People – Dark Age*
Fuzz – What’s in My Head
Gambles – Far From Your Arms
Gems – All I ever
Generationals – Put a Light On*
Girls Names – Hypnotic Regression*
Golden Grrrls – We’ve Got*
Gracie – Habits
Grooms – I Think We’re Alone Now
Horrible Houses – Sun Leaving
I Break Horses – Faith*
Jon Hopkins – Open Eye Signal*
Legs – Go Ask Your Mother
Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End
Message to Bears – Moonlight
Mint Julep – Soon the Sea
Murray A. Lightburn – Motherfuckers
Painted Palms – Click*
Parenthetical Girls – Evelyn McHale
Phoenix – Entertainment
Ski Lodge – Boy*
Small Black – Breathless*
Still Corners – Midnight Drive
Swearin – Dust in the Gold Sack*
Tape Deck Mountain – Always Lie
The Belle Game – River (you canDL Blame Fiction)
The Black Watch – Meg
The Growlers – Someday
The Mary Onettes – Evil Coast
The National – Sea of Love
Var – The World Fell
Veronica Falls – Broken Toy*
Wampire – The Hearse (DL Trains)
Warm Soda – Reaction
Weekend – Mirror
Western Medication – 50ft. Dive (DL Dive)
White Birds – Woman
Youth Lagoon – Dropla