Onwards in our survey of our favourite stuff that tells the story, or at least a hyper-specific version of it, of each year of the decade just finishing. 2013, then. It doesn't feel like it, either now or reading the contemporary view, but it was Pharrell's year, right? Happy, Get Lucky *and* Blurred Lines! You'd be glad to have a scintilla of a song that colonised the world in the way any of those three did. And yet Williams doesn't feel a very "2013 artist". Not in the year of Miley showing her tongue (and much more), of the multimedia self-consumption of Artpop, of Yeezus and the self-titled Beyonce 'visual album', of the arrival of The 1975 and the stealth return of Bowie. In a year of showiness through straining to stand out - something, of course, that applied to Daft Punk and Robin Thicke's video director too - actually putting your name and vocals to actual indelible hits wasn't enough. Sam Bailey won The X Factor that year and is almost certainly the last X Factor winner you can name. That might not be a coincidence.
Julia Holter - Horns Surrounding Me
Ghostpoet - Them Waters
Benin City - My Love
Youth Lagoon - Dropla
Vampire Weekend - Step
Lorde - Royals
Georgia Ruth - Week Of Pines
Beaty Heart - Lekka Freakout
Public Service Broadcasting - Theme From PSB
Islet - Carlos
Shopping - In Other Words
Hooded Fang - Ode To Subterrania
The Wytches - Beehive Queen
Savages - City’s Full
Telegram - Follow
Joanna Gruesome - Sugarcrush
Fuck Buttons - Brainfreeze
Boards Of Canada - New Seeds
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels
And So I Watch You From Afar - Big Thinks Do Remarkable
Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
Los Campesinos! - Avocado, Baby
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Summer Camp - Two Chords
Daft Punk feat. Panda Bear - Doin' it Right
Kiran Leonard - Dear Lincoln
Future Of The Left - Bread, Cheese, Bow And Arrow
Mowbird - Happy Active Horse Organ
Sky Larkin - Motto
Sweet Baboo - If I Died...
Nadine Shah - To Be a Young Man
Marika Hackman - Bath Is Black
Cate Le Bon feat. Perfume Genius - I Think I Knew
David Bowie - Where Are We Now?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street
Widowspeak - Ballad of the Golden Hour
Daughter - Youth
Bill Callahan - Small Plane
Haiku Salut - Los Elefantes
PREVIOUSLY: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
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