{"id":880,"date":"2013-12-10T23:03:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T23:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=880"},"modified":"2013-12-10T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T23:03:36","slug":"top-albums-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"SullDaBull&#8217;s Albums of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2013 is rapidly coming to a close which is good and bad in equal amounts. Good because this is when all the end of year lists start to surface. Bad because we&#8217;re all that little bit older&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Any list you can think of, published by any magazine or website you can think of, begin to do the rounds;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Albums of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Best Films of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Best Books of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Best Games of the Year<\/li>\n<li>and I shit you not, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/wigsalon\/best-wigs-of-2013\/\">Best Wigs of the Year<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which goes to show that there really is a list for everyone out there.   So for what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;ve waded into the list maelstrom with my albums of the year below (complete with an added bonus of my BBC essential mix of the year too).  It&#8217;s based on nothing more scientific than a bunch of albums I&#8217;ve played and enjoyed the most this year.  Which, let&#8217;s be honest, is all it really should be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more(null)--><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arctic Monkeys &#8211; AM<\/li>\n<li>Autre Ne Veut &#8211; Anxiety<\/li>\n<li>Chance the Rapper &#8211; Acid Rap<\/li>\n<li>Daft Punk &#8211; Random Access Memories<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Avery &#8211; Drone Logic<\/li>\n<li>Disclosure &#8211; Settle<\/li>\n<li>El-P &#038; Killer Mike &#8211; Run the Jewels<\/li>\n<li>Haim &#8211; Days Are Gone<\/li>\n<li>Jagwar Ma &#8211; Howlin<\/li>\n<li>James Blake &#8211; Overgrown<\/li>\n<li>Janelle Monae &#8211; The Electric lady<\/li>\n<li>Jon Hopkins &#8211; Immunity<\/li>\n<li>John Grant &#8211; Pale Green Ghosts<\/li>\n<li>Kanye West &#8211; Yeezus<\/li>\n<li>Kendrick Lamar &#8211; Good Kid, M.A.A.D City<\/li>\n<li>Matthew White &#8211; Big Inner<\/li>\n<li>Moderat &#8211; II<\/li>\n<li>Queens of The Stone Age &#8211; like Clockwork&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/everybodywantstobethedj\/catz-n-dogz-essential-mix-2013\">Essential Mix of the Year &#8211; Catz N Dogz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve knocked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/mrdabull\/playlist\/1ZEv9Of1dhTUzCQ03AjTJA\">spotify playlist<\/a> which includes most of the above.  Acid Rap by Chance the Rapper is free from his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/chanceraps.com\">chanceraps.com<\/a> or over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datpiff.com\/Chance-The-Rapper-Acid-Rap-mixtape.483826.html\">dattpiff<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Run the Jewels available over at <a href=\"http:\/\/foolsgoldrecs.com\/runthejewels\/\">Fools Gold Records<\/a> for the princely sum of your email.  Totally worth it breadbin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013 is rapidly coming to a close which is good and bad in equal amounts. Good because this is when all the end of year lists start to surface. Bad because we&#8217;re all that little bit older&#8230; Any list you can think of, published by any magazine or website you can think of, begin to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SullDaBull&#8217;s Albums of 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}