Eclectic Grooves

As promised, here is my list of favorite records that barely missed the cut, compilations, reissues and ep's. I hope that you find some things on here that are to your liking. Happy New Year! Honorable Mentions 1) Bill Callahan- Dream River 2) Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears- Electric Slave 3) Day Ravies- Tussle 4) Jeffrey Novak- Lemon Kid 5) Magik Markers- Surrender to the Fantasy 6) Sebadoh- Defend Yourself 7) Steve Gunn- Time Off 8) The Liminanas- Costa Blanca 9) No Joy- Wait to Pleasure 10) Mike Donovan- Wot 11) The Shivas- Whiteout 12) Dirty Beaches- Drifter/Love is the Devil 13) Retribution Gospel Choir- 3 14) Follakzoid- II 15) Charlie Megira and the Modern Dance Club- Love Police 16) The Spyrals- Out of Sight 17) Mdou-Moctar- Afelan 18) Kurt Vile- Wakin' On a Pretty Daze 19) Julian Lynch- Lines 20) Girls Names- The New Life 21) Ghostface Killah- 12 Reasons to Die 23) Tape Deck Mountain- Sway 24) Akron Family- Sub Verses 25) Pond- Hobo ...

It's once again that time of year where I listen solely to records that I have bought or downloaded that were released in 2013. This year, it was going to be different. I already had been working on a list several months ago, and I had planned to have most of my post written a couple months before the year-end lists from magazines and music blogs were posted on the internet. By doing this, I could look through the other year-end lists to see if there were any records that slipped below my radar, and that warranted a spot on my list. Sadly, the universe had other plans for me. Starting in late September, I started to experience neck and back pain which didn't get better for 2-3 weeks. Then, I got a terrible cold that lasted over a month, leading into a period of fatigue that left me with no energy to do much of anything. Needless to say, my brain could barely function at the level necessary to do my job,  let alone to write reviews of my favorite albums of 2013. After late Oct...