We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Read more installments of My Year in Music.
Your Most Played Song of 2013: According to iTunes, it is "Duper" by Crooks on Tape. Two-thirds of Crooks on Tape were also largely responsible for Enon's 2000 debut album Believo!, and there's a similarly loose and off-the-cuff thing going on here that I keep coming back to. Superchunk's "Me & You & Jackie Mittoo" is a close second.
An Old Album I Discovered/Rediscovered This Year: I don't think it gets any cornier or more pedestrian than this, but the "Breaking Bad" finale compelled me to finally spend some quality time with the Badfinger catalog.
Musical Highlights: I was incredibly lucky to spend a good deal of 2013 playing music and mixing records with exceptionally talented and generous folks. 2013 will also be remembered as the year I finally came to terms with the fact that the guitar sound on Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy" is my favorite guitar sound ever, which was kind of a big one for me.
Musical Lowlights: I was absolutely gutted by the sudden passing of Scott Miller, who is unreservedly my favorite songwriter of all time. For anyone unfamiliar with his work, I recommend starting with either Game Theory's The Big Shot Chronicles or The Loud Family's Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things.