EOY 2013 Resident Music (UK)

[granit]

http://www.resident-music.com/annual

01 matthew e. white Big Inner
02 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds push the sky away
03 savages silence yourself
04 daughter if you leave
05 Valerie June Pushin' Against A Stone
06 Jon Hopkins Immunity
07 JOHN GRANT pale green ghosts
08 laura mvula sing to the moon
09 hookworms pearl mystic
10 melt yourself down melt yourself down
11 Follakzoid ii
12 Mazzy Star seasons of your day
13 Forest Swords Engravings
14 charles bradley Victim Of Love
15 fuck buttons slow focus
16 public service broadcasting inform - educate - entertain
17 dirty beaches drifters / love is the devil
18 ROKIA TRAORE BEAUTIFUL AFRICA
19 Ghostpoet some say I so I say light
20 DEVENDRA BANHART mala

[Harold]

This isn't the same source as Resident Advisor, is it? If not, I don't think we've seen this one here before.

[Harold]

As it turns out, The Resident is a record store in Brighton. Its website, resident-music.com, has decent Alexa stats (current rank: 872,502; sites linking in: 151), and I'm assuming its EOY list is compiled by several people. Henrik, do you think it's eligible? (If it is eligible, their list - contained in the annual newsletter, which is fully available for viewing on the site - is actually a top 100, and I would appreciate it if granit or someone else could transcribe and post it here. Thanks in advance!)

[SuperFurry]

1 . Matthew E. White - Big Inner
2 . Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
3 . Savages - Silence Yourself
4 . Daughter - If You Leave
5 . Valerie June - Pushin' Against A Stone
6 . Jon Hopkins - Immunity
7 . John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
8 . Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon
9 . Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
10 . Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down
11 . Follakzoid - II
12 . Mazzy Star - Seasons Of Your Day
13 . Forest Swords - Engravings
14 . Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love
15 . Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
16 . Public Service Broadcasting - Inform Educate Entertain
17 . Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love Is The Devil
18 . Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa
19 . Ghostpoet - Some Say I So Light
20 . Devendra Banhart - Mala
21 . David Bowie - The Next Day
22 . Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
23 . Tropic Of Cancer - Restless Idylls
24 . Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
25 . Mogwai - Les Revenants
26 . Suuns - Images Du Futur
27 . Phosphorescent - Muchacho
28 . Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
29 . Dutch Uncles - Out Of Touch, In The Wild
30 . Neko Case - The Worse Things Get The Harder I Fight The Harder I Fight The More I Love You
31 . Yo La Tengo - Fade
32 . The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
33 . Mavis Staples - One True Vine
34 . Agnes Obel - Aventine
35 . Connan Mockasin - Caramel
36 . Elvis Costello & The Roots - Wise Up Ghost
37 . Emily Wells - Mama
38 . Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.3: To See More Light
39 . Barn Owl - V
40 . Mulatu Astatke - Sketches Of Ethiopia
41 . Volcano Choir - Repave
42 . The National - Trouble Will Find Me
43 . The Besnard Lights - Until In Excess Imperceptible UFO
44 . Richard Thompson - Electric
45 . Drenge - Drenge
46 . Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea Of Split Peas
47 . Factory Floor - Factory Floor
48 . Low - The Invisible Way
49 . Julia Holter - Loud City Song
50 . Bombino - Nomad
51 . These New Puritans - Field Of Reeds
52 . Alela Diane - About Farewell
53 . The Flaming Lips - The Terror
54 . Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind
55 . Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
56 . Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
57 . Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
58 . Traams - Grin
59 . James Holden - The Inheritors
60 . Thee Oh Sees - Floatin Coffin
61 . Nadine Shah - Love Your Dum And Mad
62 . Ludovico Einaudi - In A Time Lapse
63 . Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions
64 . Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus 7
65 . Fuzz - Fuzz
66 . William Basinski - Nocturnes
67 . Deerhunter - Monomania
68 . John Wizards - John Wizards
69 . On An On - Give In
70 . She & Him - Volume 3
71 . Bill Callahan - Dream River
72 . Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
73 . Villagers - {Awayland}
74 . Retribution Gospel Choir - 3
75 . The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
76 . Tony Joe White - Hoodoo
77 . King Krule - 6 Feet Below The Moon
78 . Laura Veirs - Warp & Weft
79 . Lanterns On The Lake - Until The Colours Run
80 . Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
81 . CocoRosie - Tales Of A Grass Widow
82 . Anna Calvi - One Breath
83 . Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
84 . Wire - Change Becomes Us
85 . Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
86 . Iron & Wine - Ghost On Ghost
87 . Houndstooth - Ride Out The Dark
88 . Eluvium - Nightmare Ending
89 . Emiliana Torrini - Tookah
90 . Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - Black Pudding
91 . Otis Taylor - My World Is Gone
92 . Jagwar Ma - Howlin
93 . Seasick Steve - Hubcap Music
94 . Pyschic Ills - One Track Mind
95 . Shovels & Rope - O' Be Joyful
96 . Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
97 . Field Report - Field Report
98 . John Fullbright - From The Ground Up
99 . Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
100 . Younghusband - Dromes

[Harold]

Thanks, SuperFurry!

[Harold]

As it turns out, The Resident is a record store in Brighton. Its website, resident-music.com, has decent Alexa stats (current rank: 872,502; sites linking in: 151), and I'm assuming its EOY list is compiled by several people. Henrik, do you think it's eligible?

Bumped for the eligibility question. Henrik, what do you think?

[Henrik]

There seem to be an increasing amount of lists from record stores. It's really difficult to say that one would be eligible and another one not, and since they are not "the core of music criticism" maybe we should exclude them all (except maybe really big ones like amazon).

I'm not sure about this though. Harold, if you have an opinion I'll go with that.

[Harold]

There seem to be an increasing amount of lists from record stores. It's really difficult to say that one would be eligible and another one not, and since they are not "the core of music criticism" maybe we should exclude them all (except maybe really big ones like amazon).

I'm not sure about this though. Harold, if you have an opinion I'll go with that.

I'm happy to exclude the record stores, but where does that leave the ones that have been part of the spreadsheet in the past, specifically Piccadilly and Rough Trade? Would those be "grandfathered" and allowed to remain?

[Federico]

I think you can't exclude a list that meets the criterias. And what about the old lists, that are included?

[Henrik]

In that case I think Piccadilly and Rough Trade should be excluded too. In the last site update I made the criteria for EOY inclusion stricter from 2010 (at least for the calculations, some lists still appear in the listings) when the number of EOY lists increased rapidly, and I think we could add record stores as another excluision criterion from that year. It's a bit sad to do this, but there's simply enough lists (over 100) anyway.

[Harold]

In that case I think Piccadilly and Rough Trade should be excluded too. In the last site update I made the criteria for EOY inclusion stricter from 2010 (at least for the calculations, some lists still appear in the listings) when the number of EOY lists increased rapidly, and I think we could add record stores as another excluision criterion from that year. It's a bit sad to do this, but there's simply enough lists (over 100) anyway.

I have to say I agree - although as the editor of the spreadsheet, I may be a little biased in favor of anything that reduces my workload! I'll keep Amazon (which isn't really a "record store") but omit the rest of the retail outlets. (By all means, please keep posting them to the forum, though.)