Top Ten Albums of 2013 - #10
Travis' Where You Stand Editor's Note: This is the 1st in a quasi-weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2013. The 10th edition is wrapped into the larger year-end post I call "The Ho Media Awards", which will be published just after the new year. Stay tuned! It's really, really good to hear these guys back away from the sound of the last album. I was not a fan and I made that clear with the release of Ode To J. Smith . This is a decidedly more relaxed affair in which you can actually hear music instead of distortion. It's a little more lighthearted than I'd normally prefer; 12 Memories is one of my favorite albums of all time for its combination of the outright depressing and the negative-ironically-dressed-in-positive-shtuff. But it's hard to deny a song in any vein that comes with a video this awesome: Album Highlights: Mother; Moving; New Shoes