As the end of year approaches we here at Domino HQ have been reflecting on our favourite moments of 2013. Albums, songs, gigs, moments, food, anything that took our fancy really!
Sam Flynn
(In no particular order)
Hookworms – Pearl Mystic
Drenge – Drenge
Rhye – Woman
William Onyeabor – World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?
GTA V
Breaking Bad
The vibes/concern ‘Re: The Cans’ at Latitude
The Amazing Snakeheads @ The Great Escape
Arctic Monkeys AM/Headline slot at Glastonbury
Sainsburys Café Wandsworth (Grand Opening)
Anne Haffmans
1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Push The Sky Away"
2. Nick Cave playing at the Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany, November 10th
3. Goldfrapp "Tales Of Us"
4. Goldfrapp playing at the Manchester Festival in August
5. Jon Hopkins "Immunity"
6. Darkside "Psychic"
7. Kofelgschroa "Mammut"
8. Bilderbuch "Feinste Seide" EP and video for "Maschin" and "Plansch"
9. Arctic Monkeys "AM"
10. Apparat "Krieg & Frieden" live @ Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Stephen Newell
f*ck buttons – the red wing (track)
dj koze – amygdala (lp)
chance the rapper – acid rap (lp)
angel olsen – the waiting (track)
arctic monkeys – am (lp)
william onyeabor – atomic bomb (track)
josh ritter – hopeful (track)
oneohtrix point never – r plus seven (lp)
the sainsbury’s café (eatery)
roky erickson – the evil one / brian hyland s/t (reissue/discovery) (lps)
Donna Vergier
1) Do I Wanna Know?
2) Love Is The Drug (Jazz Age Version)
3) Mercury Nominations
4) Domino Mid-summer’s BBQ party
5) Arctic Monkeys Club 69 Brussels Event
6) Franz Ferdinand at Silencio in Paris
7) The Amazing Snakeheads DJ set at Silencio
8) Domino Night in Paris
9) Anna Calvi – “Sing To Me” on French TV
10) Bill Ryder Jones
Ben Hardman
Velour –Speedway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erVIbIpY3Ew
Eastbound and Down – Season 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoUM8hlJzls
Zomby – With Love – Glass Ocean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXY5zQgSlyw
OneOhTrixPointNever – Still Life http://vimeo.com/75534042
Bioshock Infinite – Beachboys - God only knows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ6FsZClGlY
Rustie – Slasherr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stT4VAnVfY4
Tracks - Man On Road - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK-okdwv09g
Luxury Elite - Midnight – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG1VjQw8qQ4
GTA V - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHyQI_tYHFg
Fatima Al Qadiri –Ghost Raid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV8t0lD94q0
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag – you can get your crew to sing sea shanties - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEj7SV75D38
Bicep’s new Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-mdKx7f-U
Lorn Debris EP - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-oSuX8Vx-o
Neill Blomkamp did a new film called Elysium - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOr6KfyhPwY
Alan Partridge did a film - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ed2pifRpc0
Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTg-q6Drt0
Max Brudi
01. Flume - Flume
02. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
03. Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
04. Matthew E White - Big Inner
05. Bot’ox - Sans Dormir
06. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
07. A$ap Rocky - Live Love A$AP
08. Holy Ghost! - Dynamics
09. Tyler, The Creator - Wolf
10. Kavinsky – Outrun
Gregory Wells
1. Mood Rings ‘VPI Harmony’ album
2. Daniel Avery ‘Drone Logic’ album
3. discovering (and eating a lot of) Mussels
4. Snakehips remixes (all of them)
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘II’ album
6. F*** Buttons headline slot at the Park Stage (Glastonbury)
7. Bugles ‘fromage' flavour Crisps (only available in France unfortunately)
8. Foxygen ‘We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic’ album
9. Fort Romeau ‘Stay True’ artwork
10. Moodoid ‘De Folie Pure’ video
Paula Williams
Getting married
Finishing my CIMA qualification
Breaking Bad (I watched the whole lot this year)
Liverpool Ladies winning the FAWSL
The Skints at Koko
QOTSA at Wembley
King Prawn at Koko
QOTSA - …Like Clockwork
By The Rivers – self titled debut album
Alkaline Trio – My Shame is True
Sam Williams
DJ Koze – Amygdala
Kanye West – Yeezus
Galcher Lustwerk – 100% Galcher Mixtape for Blowing Up The Workshop
Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze
Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels
Ten Walls – Gotham (track)
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Brendan O’Boyle
Jon Hopkins - ‘Immunity’
The Acid - ‘The Acid’ (EP)
Kit Grill - ‘Mirror Image’
Darkstar - ‘News From Nowhere’
Savages - ‘Silence Yourself’
These New Puritans – ‘Field of Reeds’
Atoms For Peace - ‘AMOK’
Bonobo - ‘Late Night Tales’ (Mixtape)
Darkside - ‘Psychic’
Moderat – ‘II’
Christophe Moracin
1- Fuck Buttons " Slow Focus "
2- Majical Cloundz " Impersonator "
3- Factory Floor " S/T "
4- Anna Calvi " One Breath"
5 - Magik Markers " Surrender to the Fantasy "
6 - No Age " An Object "
7 - Yo La Tengo " Fade "
8 - The Knife " Shaking the Habitual"
9 - My Bloody Valentine " mbv "
10- Deafheaven " Sunbather"
Natasha Parker
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
Drenge – Drenge
Daughter – If You Leave
Bonobo – Late Night Tales
Daniel Avery – Drone Logic
Arctic Monkeys – AM
Julia Holter – Loud City Song
Mazzy Star – Seasons of Your Day
Savages –Silence Yourself
Bernie Devilly
Bill Callahan ‘Dream River’
Autre Ne Veut ‘Anxiety’
Jon Hopkins ‘Immunity’
Phosphorescent ‘Muchacho’
MØ ‘Bikini Daze’
John Grant & Conor J O’Brien performing ‘Glacier’ together at Other Voices, Wiltons Music Hall. Shivers.
Arctic Monkeys at The Roundhouse, iTunes Festival
The favourable Domino vibes/cans ratio at Latitude
The Book Of Mormon. Twice. No regrets.
The Red Rooster dining experience, Harlem, NY. Twice. No regrets.
Henry Thomas
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, II
2. Windhand, Soma
3. Jon Hopkins, Immunity
3. QOTSA, Like Clockwork
5. Chelsea Wolfe, Pain Is Beauty
6. Mikael Cronin, MC II
7. Courtney Barnett, The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
8. Speedy Ortiz, Major Arcana
9. Boards Of Canada, Tomorrow’s Harvest
10. Midlake, Antiphon
Louis Lloyd
1) Spending January enjoying the sunshine in Argentina/Uruguay/Brazil
2) The vibes, cans, Texas and Tom Hardman at Latitude
3) Blurred Lines
4) House of Cards
5) The Glastonbury tipi
6) iTunes Festival: Katy Perry, AM, Avicii, HAIM, Tinie and hanging out with Josh at QOTSA
7) Girls Aloud reunion at The O2
8) Major Lazer album/Warehouse Project/Glasto/night in Shoreditch
9) Arcade Fire @ the Roundhouse
10) Pet Shop Boys – Electric
Duncan Spiers
Kanye West – On Sight
Tired Pony – All Things At Once
Baby Blue – Bump
Migos – Versace (feat. Drake)
Mariah Carey – #Beautiful (feat. Miguel)
Kitty – No Offense
Drake – 5AM In Toronto
Lorde – Team
Daft Punk – Touch (feat. Paul Williams)
Kanye West – Bound 2
Helen Kennedy
In no particular order!
Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Drake – Nothing Was the Same
Kendrick Lamar - Hammersmith Apollo
Parquet Courts & a Kevin Bacon– Sebright Arms
Arctic Monkeys – Glastonbury Headline
Kanye West - Yeezus
Todd Terje – Strandbar (Disko Version)
Savages – Silence Yourself
Free Planet Organic coffee every day for the month of November
Tom Hardman
Top Single Track - Thefft - Ethos
Top Event - (The vibes at) Latitude 2013
Top Albums
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
Zomby - With Love
Drenge - Drenge
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
James Holden - The Inheritors
Haim - Days are Gone
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Ghostpoet – Some Say So I Say Light
Mark Austin
Phosphorescent – Muchacho
Bill Callahan – Dream River
Riding 500 Miles in 5 Days across 3 Countries
Julia Holter – Loud City Song
Nadine Shah – Love your Dum and Mad
Hearing Mingus’ “Better Git in Your Soul” for the first time and all the Jazz it led to!
Anna Calvi – One Breath
Stage 18 of the tour, the double ascent of Alpe D’huez
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
The last ever Brute Chorus gig
Jacob Nicholson
Graeme Obree’s speed record attempt
Anna Calvi- One Breath
Brad Cromer turning pro
King Krule- 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
Marianne Vos’ world title defence
Blood Orange- Cupid Deluxe
Eleventh Hour by Jacob Harris
DJ Koze- Amygdala
LLSB campaign
Mount Kimbie- Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Jason Reed
Arctic Monkeys at Glastonbury 2013
Mutya Keisha Siobhan at Scala, London (August 2013)
Sophie - Bipp (single)
Janelle Monáe - Dance Apocalyptic (single)
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back (album)
Stromae - racine carrée (album)
Villagers at Heaven, London (November 2013)
Glass Candy - Warm in the Winter (from After Dark 2)
Greco-Roman - We Make Colourful Music Because We Dance in the Dark (compilation)
Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light (album)
Lisa Goodall
Mojo at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Neon Neon at Latitude Festival
Running the Royal Parks Half Marathon
The beer I drank after running the half marathon
The architecture of Copenhagen
The Great Beauty (film)
Vintage shops of Stockholm
Sean Lock at The Hammersmith Apollo
Jordaan district of Amsterdam
Arctic Monkeys headlining the iTunes festival
Ben Morris
Mount Kimbie - Break Well (song)
The Duran Duran episode of Derek (TV)
Breaking Bad (TV)
Karaoke
Fruitvale Station (film)
Mission Chinese - NYC (food)
Son Of A Gun - L.A. (food)
Tottingham Hotspurs (sports)
Disclosure - When A Fire Starts To Burn (song)
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (song)
ikeaordeath.com (internet)
Kris Gillespie
1. The Knife - Shaking The Habitual (Mute/Brille)
2. Tall Tales & The Silver Lining - s/t (Rocketship Records)
3. Disclosure - Settle (Universal)
4. William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop)
5. Y(our) Fri(end) - Jekyll/Hyde (801 Litterbox Studios)
6. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (What's Your Rupture?)
7. The Clash - Sound System (Sony)
8. Hookworms - Pearl Mystic (Gringo/Weird World)
9. Mount Kimbie - "Break Well" (Warp)
10. Paul McCartney - NEW (Concord)
Jack Wade
Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
Darkside – Psychic
Pional – Invisible Amenaza EP
Tripwires – Spacehopper
Quasimoto – Yessir Whatever
Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II
Ducktails – The Flower Lane
Connan Mockasin – Caramel
Tara Miller
My Bloody Valentine – MBV
Son Lux – Lanterns
Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind
Splashh – Comfort
Fuzz – Fuzz
Hookworms – Pearl Mystic
Ty Segall – Sleeper
Parquet Courts – Tally All The Things That You Broke
Skinny Friedman – Chobani & Adderall Vol. 2 Romper Season
Best Internet Video: Ketchup Bot (apparently this came out in 2011, but I only saw it this year, so I’m counting it.)
Pat Riley
1) Parquet Courts "Light Up Gold"
2) Big Business "Battlefields Forever''
3) Snowboarding on Red Mountain, British Columbia, Canada
4) Inc. "No World"
5) Adam Marnie "Phantom Limb" at Derek Eller Gallery
6) Gap Dream "Gap Dream"
7) Disclosure "Settle"
8) Quasi "Mole City"
9) King Krule "6 Feet Beneath the Moon"
10) Arctic Monkeys "AM"
Morgan Lebus
1. Parquet Courts, "Stoned & Starving"
2. Vampire Weekend, "Ya Hey"
3. Arctic Monkeys, "R U Mine?"
4. Phosphorecent, "Song For Zula"
5. Trentmoeller ft Jana Hunter, "Gravity"
6. Jon Hopkins, "We Disappear"
7. Darkside, "First 11 Mns"
8. Cass McCombs, "There Can Be Only One"
9. Laura Marling, "Once"
10. Haim, "Don't Save Me"
Ryan McCann
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld 'Still Smiling'
Atom TM 'HD'
Moin 'Moin EP'
Kingdom 'Vertical XL'
DJ Koze 'Amygdala'
DJ Rashad 'Double Cup'
Carol Kleyn 'Return of Silkie' (Reissue)
Hailu and His Classical Instrument (Reissue)
Oneohtrix Point Never 'R Plus 7'
Tropic of Cancer 'Restless Idylls'
Paul Briggs
1. Classic Album Sundays
2. Lucky Cloud Soundsystem
3. Arctic Monkeys "AM"
4. Julia Holter "Loud City Song"
5. Blood Orange "Chamakay"
6. Tom falling down a manhole (obviously this is only a highlight because he wasn't seriously injured)
7. Garrard 401
8. B&W DM3
9. Sugden A21
10. Ripasso Valipolicella
Helena Gee
1. AM
2. Breaking Bad
3. The Returned/Game Of Thrones
4. Conan Mockasin - Caramel
5. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
6. These New Puritans - Field Of Reeds
7. Ty Segall - Sleeper
8. Yeesus / Low
9. Cass McCombs - Big Wheel & Others
10. iPlayer documentaries
Jules Gilchrist
1. Arrested Development s.4
2. Beef & Chianti Ragu, M&S
3. Berghain, Berlin
4. Brazil travels
5. Dan Deacon, Village Underground
6. Francobollo, Halloween house gig
7. Franz Ferdinand
8. The Ragamuffins impromptu reunion @TGE
9. Warehouse Project, Manchester
10. Wild Beasts, Oxford
Cyrus Lubin
(In no particular order)
1. Fuzz: s/t (In The Red)
2. King Krule: 6 Feet Beneath The Moon (True Panther)
3. Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label (Numero Group)
4. Kurt Vile: Walkin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
5. The Snails: Worth The Wait (Friends Records)
6. Thee Oh Sees: Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
7. Cass McCombs: Big Wheel And Others (Domino)
8. Deerhunter: Monomania (4AD)
9. King Tuff: Was Dead reissue (Burger Records)
10. Darlings: Perfect Trip (Self Released)
Johanna McManus
Diane Coffee - "Hymn"
Bishop Nehru - "Elder Blossoms"
Laura Marling - "I Was an Eagle"
Disclosure - "Latch"
Lucius - "Tempest"
Vampire Weekend - "Ya Hey"
Blood Orange - "Chosen"
War on Drugs - "Red Eyes"
Painted Palms - "Spinning Signs"
James Blake - "Retrograde"
Susan Busch
Hookworms-Away/Towards
White Lung-Blow It South
Joanna Gruesome-Secret Surprise
Eagulls-Nerve Endings
Jon Hopkins-Open Eye Signal
Chelsea Wolfe-We Hit A Wall
Courtney Barnett-Avant Gardener
Merchandise-Anxiety's Door
Julia Holter-This Is a True Heart
Ski Lodge-I Can't Tell
Matthieu Bourrit
Majical Cloudz "Impersonator"
The Flaming Lips "The Terror"
Low "The Invisible Way"
No Age "An Object"
Julia Holter "Loud City Song"
The Knife "Shaking The Habitual"
Jon Hopkins "Immunity"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Push The Sky Away"
Magik Markers "Surrender The Fantasy"
Bill Callahan "Dream River"
Gillian Fleet
1. Wraps
2. C.H.A.M.P.S. at The Servant Jazz Quarters
3. The David Bowie impersonator at Latitude
4. Domino half marathon
5. 'Dream Cave' - Cloud Control
6. Jon Hopkins at Koko
7. Optimus Primavera
8. The Franz Ferdinand conga
9. 'Down Like Gold' - C.H.A.M.P.S.
10. This
Matthew Cooper
1. Shark cage diving with Great White Sharks, Port Lincoln, South Australia
2. Black Pus live at The Dome
3. Roddy Frame at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane
4. These New Puritans at Heaven
5. Franz Ferdinand at The Victoria
6. Bill Orcutt at Cafe Oto
7. Finally catching up (almost) with Breaking Bad
Family favourites:
8. Harry Potter Studio Tour
9. Arctic Monkeys - AM. The cause of much all-ages excitement around ours.
10. Prefab Sprout - Crimson/Red (album) - esp. "List of Impossible Things" & "Billy"