The year 2013 was not a very good one for me but luckily there was plenty of good music to get me through. Music has a way of uplifting and inspiring us to keep going when things are tough. It certainly has gotten me through some rough spots. If you were listening to CBC R3 then, you will recognize many of the songs on the playlist. There are a lot of tracks that might not be as familiar but the artist playing them is because it was from an earlier album before you became aware of them. Or there are some you may have just not have heard from before. So while it is a look back at 2013 there may still be some new to you tracks.

We started with 2006 in March because I planned to make this a monthly playlist and there are 12 months in a year and 2006 was 12 years ago. I got a little behind in October. We are now on 2013 this month and 2014 next month, etc until we get to the current year and then see how it goes from there. It can be fun to check back and see what music we still love and what music we once loved but have moved on from and to find out what we missed. I made a YouTube playlist that you can find below, with the same songs that are on the Spotify playlist. The bonus of that is many have videos to watch as well and that can be fun to check out too.

2013 brought us great albums from A Tribe Called Red, Shad, Lightning Dust, Imaginary Cities, Basia Bulat, Classified and so many more. I really don’t want to relive 2013 ever again but I sure don’t mind listening to the music from that year. I hope you enjoy it as well.