Julia Holter - Loud City Song (2013)
I enjoyed the album she released last year Ekstasis but my golly this is even better. I had high hopes for this album and this has certainly met my expectations. Like Ekstasis she channels dream-pop through a kaleidoscopic medium so that her music seems familiar yet completely alien at the same time. On Loud City Song she expands on that formula with far more variety and more interesting, off-the-wall ideas and yet despite this seems more accessible and engaging. This could end up among my favourite albums of 2013.