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Top 5 Art music albums of 2013

Can something still swing when it hardly moves at all?

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by Alex V. Cook, Music Editor for outsideleft.com
originally published: December, 2013

His music is breathtaking and yet immediately accessible, like an open elevator shaft

this is love...

ALAN DEVEY
Alan Devey's new speculative Brexit novel, Gestalt Switch... Get it now from Amazon and elsewhere

Juliana Barwick - Nepenthe

Caleb Burhans - Evensong
Simone Dinerstein & Tift Merritt - Night
The Necks - Open

John Luther Adams - Inuksuit

Alex V. Cook
Music Editor

Alex V. Cook listens to everything and writes about most of it. His latest book, the snappily titled Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-Tonks, and Dance Halls is an odyssey from the backwoods bars and small-town dives to the swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns of a Louisiana Saturday Night. Don't leave Heathrow without it. His first book Darkness Racket and Twang is available from SideCartel. The full effect can be had at alex v cook.com

this is love...

ALAN DEVEY
Alan Devey's new speculative Brexit novel, Gestalt Switch... Get it now from Amazon and elsewhere

Bitchin' Stitchin' Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry's tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences roll up and are soon to be rolled up in Birmingham, UK

Beaten to death with chandeliers

It's a lot like killing you with kindness, except it's really more soothing you with savagery. Intronaut, Isis and Khlyst send you soaring to hell like a condor.

Momus Flames into Being

Momus in a Box. Albums. Singles. And All That...

Salt n' Sgt. Pepper

Hey, The Beatles, never allowed the time of day here previously have this album out and it's 50 years old and we'd never heard it, so new staffer Katherine Pargeter gave it a listen, so you/we don't have to...

Man vs. Chicken

Mr. Ambrose, back in Morocco, begins the Big Bird Cull

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Top 5 Art music albums of 2013