Top 10 albums of 2013
Gentle men and women, lend me your eyes for this fifth annual instalment of my end of year favourite records list. I am quietly hopeful that my audience might even number more than ten folks this time around. How’s that for passive expansion? Despite the glut of these lists around the internet and the big words used, let’s be honest for a moment. They’re not even remotely objective, arguably not really proper journalism and as comforting as they are, lists are an extraordinarily lazy way of forming and writing an article. Neither they nor the music they mention are going to cure cancer or strife in Syria anytime soon, not even the new Daft Punk record on the 67th listen. Still with me? Great, clearly you care about music not sorting out the world's problems as much as I do (maybe it can, but I'll save that for another time), so let's plow on together regardless. My shame Not that it really matters, but I do like to point out that I ...