Sales of digital albums were up 6.8% on 2012, with some 32.6 million albums being legally downloaded during 2013. The most-downloaded artist album was Bastille's debut full-length, Bad Blood (Number 11).
One of the most confident and fully realized studio debuts in recent memory comes from the London post-punk band Savages. Silence Yourself is a much-needed record right now: a feminist statement that combines art, politics and brute-force rock. Jehnny Beth sings with a powerful vibrato, but in case you don't get the message, guitarist Gemma Thompson, bassist Ayse Hassan and drummer Fay Milton provide corporeal reinforcement. (The band's visceral live shows back this up.) As the album title demands, shut up and listen. --Amy Schriefer
Disclosure Settle Full Album 40
Speaking of Disclosure, the dance duo returns to the ranking of the most successful albums in the U.K. every week with their third full-length Energy, which becomes their first effort to fail to reach the summit. 2ff7e9595c
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