BSidesNarrative Best of ’13 Playlist

Everything changes.

2013 was a year of transition: retro, a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Dance floor disco, wall-of-noise dream pop, and a splash of shoegazing post-rock. 80’s synth-pop, ‘fuck-up your life’ folk, and some damn fine electronica. We look back and flash our influences before landing somewhere between here and there. Feel it out and find your way.

Click shuffle and let the music be as random as your life.

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A-Sides

1. Line of Fire – Junip
2. The Mother We Share – Chvrches
3. California Analog Dream – Vondelpark
4. Wasting My Young Years – London Grammer
5. Pink Rabbits – The National
6. New Year’s Resolution – Camera Obscura
7. The Wire – Haïm
8. Song for Zula – Phosophorescent
9. Afterlife – Arcade Fire
10. The Lead Is Galloping – Au Revoir Simone
11. The Smoke, The Feeling – Cloud Control
12. Retrograde – James Blake
13. You Missed My Heart – Mark Kozelek (with Album Leaf)
14. Avant Gardener – Courtney Barnett
15. Lose Yourself to Dance (feat. Pharrell Williams) – Daft Punk
16. She Will – Savages
17. What We Done? – Austra
18. You & I – Local Natives
19. Worsening – Baths
20. Wings – Haerts
21. Colour Yr Lights In – The Besnard Lakes
22. You Are a Memory – Message to Bears
23. Wakin on a Pretty Day – Kurt Vile
24. State Hospital – Frightened Rabbit
25. L-DOPA – Laura Stevenson
26. Youth – Daughter
27. Borrowed Time – Parquet Courts
28.  Swan Dive – Waxahatchee
29. Letter of Intent – Ducktails
30. Ribs – Lorde
31. State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.) – Jim James
32. Step – Vampire Weekend
33. Wedding Song – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
34. Rainbow Trout – Matt Kivel (Not on Spotify OR Rdio) 
35. Beginnings – Houses
36. Shuggie – Foxygen
37. Ludlow – Houndmouth
38. Staying In – Ola Podrida
39. Gold – Wake Owl
40. Broken – Jake Bugg
41. Go Home – Lucius
42. On the Run – Postiljonen
43. Home – Wave Machines
44. In the Kingdom – Mazzy Star
45. Amsterdam – Gregory Alan Isakov
46. Walking Backwards – Leagues
47. Crane Your Neck – Lady Lamb and the Beekeeper (Not on Rdio)
48. At Opportunities – Solander
49. Just Make It Stop – Low
50. What Can I Do? – Scout Niblett (Not on Spotify OR Rdio) 
51. The Gilded Hand – Radical Face
52. Advanced Falconry – Mutual Benefit
53. Raise Me – The Hotel Alexis
54. This Is What Is – Danny Michel with The Garifuna Collective
55. Don’t You Want It – The White Buffalo
56. Another Story – The Head and the Heart
57. Miles and Miles – The Deep Dark Woods
58. A Wake For the Minotaur –  Shearwater
59. Summer Painter  – Bill Callahan (Not on Spotify OR Rdio) 
60. Uncle Ace – Blood Orange
61. Sun Song – Laura Veirs
62. Ramona – Night Beds
63. Down the Deep River – Okkervil River
64. Glass – MØ (Not on Spotify OR Rdio) 
65. My Old Friend – SamAmidon
66. The Old and the Young – Midlake
67. Bar – San Fermin
68. In Two – Blue Hawaii
69. Diamonds – The Boxer Rebellion
70. Illusions – Shout Out Louds
71. Open – Rhye
72. Dust to Dust – The Civil Wars
73. Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) – Daft Punk
74. Something Something – Kaskade
75. Spirited Away – Lily & Madeleine
76. I Should Live in Salt – The National
77. Speed into – Sumie
78. Ohm – Yo La Tengo
79. Recover – Chvrches
80. So Clear – Junip

BSides

1. These Shadows – Wooden Shjips (Not on Rdio) 
2. Vital – Grouper
3. The Quotidian Beasts – Phosphorescent
4. Childhood’s End – Majical Cloudz
5. Memorial (feat. Chelsea Wolfe) –  Russian Circles
6. Moonlight – Message to Bears
7. Feel My Pain – Kurt Vile
8. Sharpteeth – The Octopus Project (Not on Rdio) 
9. Before We Run -  Yo La Tengo
10. We Disappear – Jon Hopkins
11. XXIII – Smith Westerns
12. Gravitron – Au Revoir Simone
13. 46 Satires – The Besnard Lakes
14. Taipei – 65daysofstatic
15.  Hljóma Þú - Samaris
16. Fragment Two – These New Puritans
17. Hello  Stranger – Julia Holter
18. the Place I Live – Mount Eerie
19. Brennisteinn – Sigur Ros
20. Somehow the Wonder of Life Prevails – Mark Kozelek (w/ Album Leaf)

10 Favorite Songs of the Year

• Somehow the Wonder of Life Prevails– Mark Kozelek (w/ Album Leaf)
• Childhood’s End – Majical Cloudz
• Wakin on a Pretty Day – Kurt Vile
• L-DOPA – Laura Stevenson
• Wasting My Young Years – London Grammar
• Pink Rabbits – The National
• Line of Fire – Junip
• The Mother We Share – Chvrches
• The Quotidian Beasts – Phosphorescent
• Vital – Grouper