on: the top three albums of 2013

fka twigs
ep2

early tricky.  maxinquaye.  and the first time you heard martina topley bird...

this is that all over again.





jenny hval
innocence is kinky

remember the girl next door?  remember the first time you glimpsed that perhaps -- just perhaps -- she was no longer simply that girl.  this is the audiation.

run the jewels
run the jewels

and while so many others had a certain other hip hop offering atop their lists.  here.  no.  not here.

here, the bump is preferred to the shock.