Indiewire 15 Best Soundtracks of 2013

Last saturday, I playlisted Indiewire chart of best film scores of the year. Now it's time to do the same with 15 Best Soundtracks list. These are mostly great collections of previously released pop, rock & jazz songs: you get music by Elton John and Nick Drake, Kevin Ayers and Gloria Jones, M.I.A. and Kanye West, Foxygen and MGMT, Blur and Primal Scream... plus some newly composed tracks (like those in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire). Not all official albums are available on Spotify, but all soundtracks are included in the playlists (at least, partially). See below for more explanations.

Enjoy.

Complete series of Spotirama end-of-2013 playlists (with charts by Amazon, BuzzFeed, Indiewire, Jazzwise, Les Inrockuptibles, Mojo, NPR, Paste, PopMatters, Pretty Much Amazing, Q, Renowned for Sound, Revolver, Rolling Stone, Rough Trade, Stereogum, Uncut, The Wire, Zane Lowe)

INDIEWIRE 15 BEST SOUNDTRACKS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #15)

(3 tracks each album, from #1 to #15)

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Soundtrack albums in italics (7/15) are not officially available on Spotify. I selected tracks used in the movies, following indications on Soundtrack.net (they are not all the songs played in each movie, but they can give you an idea of the sonic atmosphere).

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Frances Ha
3. American Hustle
4. Something in the Air (in the full albums playlist, songs from Green Onions to Decadence)
5. Sightseers (songs from Soft Cell's Tainted Love to Gloria Jones' Tainted Love)
6. The Bling Ring
7. The Broken Circle Breakdown
8. Simon Killer (songs from It Takes a Muscle (To Fall In Love) to Animal)
9. Drinking Buddies
10. The Wolf of Wall Street (songs from Mercy, Mercy, Mercy to Cast Your Fate to the Wind)
11. The World's End (songs from Loaded to Happy Hour)
12. The Kings of Summer (songs from Cowboy Song to Golden Clouds)
13. Afternoon Delight (songs from Hit It and Quit It to Impregnable Question)
14. Frozen
15. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

NME Top 15 EPs in 2013

A great cover for a great record, #1 2013 EP for NME

Spotirama is against all kind of discrimination: gender, race, skin colour, eating habits, supported sport teams (... but Juventus is evil) and/or recording format. So, here it is a playlist based on NME picture chart of Top 15 EPs in 2013. No age discrimination, either: inside you'll find Parquet Courts, Pixies, Vaccines, Flaming Lips...

Enjoy.

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NME TOP 15 EPS IN 2013

(full eps, from #1 to #15)

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Strikethrough EPs are not available on Spotify

1. Parquet Courts - Tally All The Things That You Broke
2. Radkey - Devil Fruit
3. Wolf Alice - Blush
4. The Orwells - Other Voices
5. Pixies - EP 1
6. Banks - London
7. FKA Twigs - EP 2
8. The Vaccines - Melody Calling
9. Chvrches - Recover
10. Sampha - Dual
11. Fear of Men - Early Fragments
12. The Fall - The Remainderer
13. Flaming Lips - Peace Sword
14. Courtney Barnett - How To Carve a Carrot Into a Rose
15. Tropes - Crushed Beaks

Indiewire 15 Best Film Scores of 2013

While waiting for the few missing big shots in rocklandia (end-of-year lists from Pitchfork, The Guardian...), let's take a look at a different music horizon: movie soundtracks. Indiewire picked its 15 best film scores of 2013. It's a very good selection, filled with atmospheric landscapes, based on original music composed by artists like M83, Hans Zimmer, Jon Hopkins, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Explosions in the Sky... Unfortunately, just 66% of albums are available on Spotify, but I'm going to keep an eye on it, periodically adding the missing works (by Arcade Fire, Tindersticks, Skrillex...) when/if they'll be added on the service.

Enjoy.

P.S. Complete series of Spotirama end-of-2013 playlists (with charts by Amazon, Jazzwise, Mojo, Paste, PopMatters, Pretty Much Amazing, Q, Renowned for Sound, Revolver, Rolling Stone, Rough Trade, Stereogum, Uncut, Zane Lowe) is here.

INDIEWIRE THE 15 BEST FILM SCORES OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #15)

(3 tracks, from #1 to #15)

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Strikethrough albums are not available on Spotify. All albums are original scores (not soundtrack collections of previously released songs). One exception: 12 Years a Slave. I put it in the playlists because it includes (along with songs by John Legend, Laura Mvula, Chris Cornell...) the Hans Zimmer's theme praised by Indiewire. I'm still not sure it's the right choice. I will think about it.

1. Alexander Ebert - All Is Lost
2. Explosions in the Sky & David Wingo - Prince Avalanche
3. Shane Carruth - Upstream Color
4. Daniel Hart - Ain't Them Bodies Saints
5. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Prisoners
6. Hans Zimmer - Man of Steel
7. Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett - Her
8. Cliff Martinez & Skrillex - Spring Breakers
9. Steven Price - Gravity
10. Clint Mansell - Stoker
11. Tindersticks - Bastards
12. Jon Hopkins - How I Live Now
13. Hans Zimmer - 12 Years a Slave
14. David Wingo - Mud
15. M83 - Oblivion