list.co.uk/music Records Best of 2013 | MUSIC

As chosen by the List’s collective hive-brain of music writers, we pick out the year's most danceable, beguiling, hype- deserving, scene-refl ecting records from Scotland and beyond. See page 110 for more picks from the music editor . . . BEST ALBUMS OF 2013

CONQUERING ANIMAL SOUND On Floating Bodies (Chemikal Underground) NEIL LANDSTRUMM Dragon Under (Sneaker Social Club)

BOARDS OF CANADA Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp) WILLIAM ONYEABOR Who Is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop)

JAISU A Short Album (Astral Black) VARIOUS ARTISTS Music Language Compilation (Cry Parrot)

JULIA HOLTER Loud City Song (Domino) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Push the Sky Away (Bad Seeds Ltd.)

MY BLOODY VALENTINE mbv (Self-released) YOUNG FATHERS Tape Two (Anticon)

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