Hardly been prolific with the postings this year, huh? No matter though as this 2013 album list is effectively 52 posts crammed into 5, singling out the best tracks from the best albums of the year, starting with OutFit's other-wordly début through the unsettling and unrestrained Destruction Unit and ending up at Daughn Gibson's country noir.
While this year's Latitude line-up may not have had quite the commercially attractive draws of its preceeding year, it was without doubt as engaging, diverse and inspiring as ever.
A festival that fails to sell out is perhaps a sign that your ticket investment may not offer equal returns. However, a festival is better judged on the number of tough, band-clash choices you have to make, so with Suede up against Eels, Lykke Li battling Gold Panda, Anna Calvi vying with The Leisure Society, Everything Everything mixing it with Iron & Wine, and Foals locking horns with Paolo Nu... Well perhaps not all decisions were difficult.
Here's our pick of the music we caught at Latitude 2011, with a couple of live videos from The National and Suede, alongside the pick of the rest.
The National: Son and About Today - Friday, Obelisk
Suede: Animal Nitrate - Sunday, Obelisk
Foals: Blue Blood - Saturday, Word Arena
The Walkmen: Angela Surf City - Saturday, Word Arena
Mazes: Summer Hits or J+J Don't Like - Sunday, Lake Stage
Welcome to No Action.
Based in Bow, East London, writing about stuff that sounds good.
No Action has also written for High Voltage and The Fugitive Motel.
