AllMusic: 50 Best Albums of 2013 presented alphabetically
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- AlunaGeorge — Body Music
- Arctic Monkeys — AM
- Daniel Avery — Drone Logic
- Bibio — Silver Wilkinson
- Bilal — A Love Surreal
- Boards of Canada — Tomorrow’s Harvest
- David Bowie — The Next Day
- Danny Brown — Old
- Neko Case — The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
- Brandy Clark — 12 Stories
- Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
- Deafheaven — Sunbather
- Disclosure — Settle
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels
- Sky Ferreira — Night Time, My Time
- The Foreign Exchange — Love In Flying Colors
- Foxygen — We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
- The Flaming Lips — The Terror
- Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge — Twelve Reasons To Die
- Goldfrapp — Tales of Us
- Haim — Days Are Gone
- Julia Holter — Loud City Song
- José James — No Beginning No End
- Joy Formidable — Wolf’s Law
- The Knife — Shaking the Habitual
- Kvelertak — Meir
- Janelle Monáe — The Electric Lady
- Ashley Monroe — Like a Rose
- Mudhoney — Vanishing Point
- Kacey Musgraves — Same Trailer Different Park
- My Bloody Valentine — mbv
- Nails — Abandon All Life
- Obits — Bed & Bugs
- Paramore — Paramore
- Gregory Porter — Liquid Spirit
- Pusha T — My Name Is My Name
- Quadron — Avalanche
- Queens of the Stone Age — …Like Clockwork
- Caitlin Rose — The Stand-In
- Savages — Silence Yourself
- Alice Smith — She
- Suede — Bloodsports
- Tegan and Sara — Heartthrob
- Thundercat — Apocalypse
- Toro y Moi — Anything In Return
- Trombone Shorty — Say That To Say This
- Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
- Kurt Vile — Wakin on a Pretty Daze
- Kanye West — Yeezus
- Zomboy — With Love