2013: Music Favorites and Digging Deeper

I dug deeper into (clockwise from top left) Passion Pit, Haim, The National and my new favorite band, Vampire Weekend in 2013.

I do this every year and I wasn't going to forget in a year where I dove deeper into more artists and took some chances.

Favorite 10 albums (I wrote about four of them here at Bro Jackson)

10. Booker T. - Sound the Alarm (A summer classic from one of America's finest soul men/arrangers)

9. Mayer Hawthorne – Where Does This Door Go (Finally realize how great he is)

8. Killer Mike/El-P - Run The Jewels

7. Justin Timberlake – 20/20 Experience Part 1 (Welcome back JT)

6. Janelle Monae – Electric Lady (Best R&B album of the year

5. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (It got so much better with time)

4. The National – Trouble Will Find Me

3. Haim – Days Are Gone

2. Arctic Monkeys - AM

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Why Vampire Weekend? Modern Vampires is a great album about growing up and questioning your world around you. It’s questioning faith without giving it up. The single “Unbelievers” sounds like a folk song that fits the grown nature of the album without sacrificing the light-hearted optimism in Ezra Koenig’s voice.