What’s your favorite writing music from 2013? We’ve already found some great albums for our annual list of the best music that helped us write this year.

Follow the links below to listen to the instrumental songs we’ve picked so far this year. Share the instrumental songs or albums that inspired you in the comments section and we will add it to our growing Spotify playlist (also posted below).

Follow this link to read our Best Writing Music of 2011 list and our 2012 list. If you want more inspiration, check out Largehearted Boy’s annual list of Year-End Music Lists and Open Culture’s timeless Best Music to Write By list.

Best Writing Music of 2013, So Far…

Mogwai – Hungry Face
Mogwai – Jaguar
Mogwai – The Huts
Mogwai – Kill Jester
Mogwai – This Messiah Needs Watching
Mogwai – Whisky Time
Mogwai – Special N
Mogwai – Relative Hysteria
Mogwai – Fridge Magic
Mogwai – Portugal
Mogwai – Eagle Tax
Mogwai – Modern
Mogwai – Wizard Motor
Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Only The Winds
Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: We (Too) Shall Rest
Arnalds, Ólafur – Arnalds: This Place Was A Shelter – This Place Was A Shelter
William Tyler – Country of Illusion
William Tyler – The Geography of Nowhere
William Tyler – Cadillac Desert
William Tyler – We Can’t Go Home Again
William Tyler – A Portrait of Sarah
William Tyler – Hotel Catatonia
William Tyler – The Last Residents of Westfall
William Tyler – The World Set Free
Clint Mansell – Happy Birthday
Clint Mansell – Uncle Charlie
Clint Mansell – The Hunter and the Game
Clint Mansell – Blossoming…
Clint Mansell – A Family Affair
Clint Mansell – Becoming…
Clint Mansell – Crawford Institute
Clint Mansell – The Hunter Plays the Game
Clint Mansell – In Full Bloom
Clint Mansell – The Hunter Becomes the Game
Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Sudden Throw
Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Brim
Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Words Of Amber
Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Hands, Be Still
Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Only The Winds
Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Carry Me Anew
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Open It, Rose (Hungary)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – You Have Already Gone to the Other World
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Witch’s Theme
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Wedding Theme (Ukraine)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Dance Melodies from Bihor County (Romania)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Hora Pa Bataie (Romania)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Nyisd Ki Rózsám (Hungary)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Where No Horse Neighs and No Crow Flies
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Învârtîta Din Blaj (Romania)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Horses of Fire Rachenitsa
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Bury Me in the Clothes I Was Married In . . .
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Marikam, Marikam (Hungary)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – The Snow in Kryvorivnya
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Oh, Lord, Saint George, Bewitch Ivan, Make Him Mine
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Ivan and Marichka / The Sorceror
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – On the River Cheremosh (Ukraine)
Kit Downes – Wander and Colossus
Kit Downes – Bleydays
Kit Downes – Outlawed
Kit Downes – What’s The Rumpus?
Kit Downes – Two Ones
Kit Downes – Falling Dancing
Kit Downes – Owls
Kit Downes – The Mad Wren
Kit Downes – Jan Johansson
Phronesis – Walking Dark – From ‘Walking Dark’
Dave Stapleton – Henryk Part II – From ‘Flight’
Daniel Herskedal – Neck of the Woods