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Sundays are slow news days and we're halfway through the year, so I thought now would be a good time to share with you my favourite albums of 2013 so far. At the moment not all of them have been reviewed, but I aim to cover them within the coming months. Streaming links for every record are included.

Of course, please share your favourites - ones you think we've missed and would like to see reviewed at some point, or albums you're excited for in the second half of 2013.

Braid/Balance and Composure - Split (alternative/emo)

Bastions - Bedfellows: The Bastard Son (hardcore)

Captain, We're Sinking - The Future Is Cancelled (alternative/punk)

Caravels - Lacuna (hardcore/screamo/post-rock)

Deafheaven - Sunbather (post-rock/shoegaze/black metal)

Dorena - Nuet (post-rock)

Io - Our Disentegrating Museum (post-metal)

Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Wheel (folk)

Lights & Motion - Reanimation (post-rock)

The National - Trouble Will Find Me (indie/rock)

Old Gray - An Autobiography (screamo)

Polyenso - One Big Particular Loop (funk/jazz/indie)

Restortions - LP2 (punk)

The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (pop punk)