End of 2013 Playlist

2013: MY TRUMAN SHOW BOAT 
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01. INTRO 
02. JAI PAUL — JASMINE
03. AUTRE NE VEUT — COUNTING 
04. DISCLOSURE (F. SAM SMITH) — LATCH
05. VAMPIRE WEEKEND — UNBELIEVERS
06. BURIAL — HIDERS
07. JEREMIAH — FUCK U ALL THE TIME (SHLOMO RMX)
08. KANYE WEST — BLOOD ON THE LEAVES
09. BURIAL — ROUGH SLEEPER
10. VAMPIRE WEEKEND — HANNAH HUNT
11. HAIM — THE WIRE
12. JOHN TALABOT — WITHOUT YOU
13. ALEX BOMAN — KLINSMANN
14. FUTURE — HONEST (SUICIDEYEAR WATER TEMPLE RMX)
15. BURIAL — COME DOWN TO US
16. CHANCE THE RAPPER — CHAIN SMOKER
17. GLASS — ROUND
18. LORDE — ROYALS
19. PIONAL — IT'S ALL OVER (LOCKED GROOVE RENDITION)
20. KANYE WEST (F. FRANK OCEAN) — NEW SLAVES
21. OUTRO

Chris Ott Knows More About Pop Music Than You

". . . by a boarder called I Push Miracle Whips . . ."

Chris Ott knows an astounding amount about independent pop music, and he moonlights—pretty sure he has a day job—sharing that knowledge with those of us who weren't paying attention to the rise and development of independent pop music in the early 1980s onward.  

Presently, Ott has been producing a series of videos on YouTube where he spends fifteen to twenty minutes per installation sharing information and opinion alike about developments in independent music. He also shares snippets of the bands/sounds/songs he discusses in the videos, and he also provides a Spotify playlist for each video.  

The video series is called Shallow Rewards, and I highly, highly recommend that you check it out.  This link will take you to the Shallow Rewards YouTube Page [dead link].  You can also check out his Spotify and non-Spotify mixes over at his Shallow Rewards website [dead link], and you can follow him on Twitter here. 

I've embedded one of my personal favorite installations below, SHALLOW REWARDS // 15 GENREWAVE & THE GOLDFISH BOWL, but I highly recommend watching the full series.  

UPDATE

Ott's removed all the episodes from YouTube.  An alternate copy of SHALLOW REWARDS // 15 GENREWAVE & THE GOLDFISH BOWL is provided below. 

The Ten Best Albums of 2013

Jeff Manning via Yeezy Graffiti

10. HAIM — Days Are Gone

09. Danny Brown — Old

08. Autre Ne Veut — Anxiety

07. Bill Callahan — Dream River

06. My Bloody Valentine — m b v

05. Chance the Rapper — Acid Rap

04. Disclosure — Settle

03. Burial — Rival Dealer EP / Truant / Rough Sleeper

02. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City

01. Kanye West — Yeezus