Best Albums of 2013 (Part 2)

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David

Always looking forward to your Year’s Best list, since I usually find some gems in there which I missed. Any particular reason why Boysen’s “Gravity” and Goldfrapp’s latest didn’t make the cut? I was pretty sure they would end up somewhere.

David

Actually, I tend to agree with you, but for some reason I noticed that I heard both albums quite a lot and they somewhat grew on me.

The first time I heard ‘Gravity’, I was disappointed as well. However, I found I listened to it a *lot* at work. I know it is small praise when music primarily works as “background music”,but still, I really like it. Boysen has done far greater work, for sure, but you can still hear that he is a masterful producer.

Similar for Goldfrapp: there’s no “Strict machine” anywhere; a very quiet and also conventional album, but really solid songwriting with an incredible voice.

Both are surely not Top 10 material, but Top 40: yes, absolutely. But maybe I’m just too forgiving since I’m in love with both (although I really didn’t like what Boysen released as “Hecq” this year; that really was just left-overs). I think we can both agree that they can do *much* better.

BTW, thanks for your article on Man with Country. They are amazing. “Entropy” is clearly the EP of the year.

David

Sheesh, Man *without* Country, of course…

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