The Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2013
[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- Kanye West — Yeezus
- John Grant — Pale Green Ghosts
- Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
- Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
- James Blake — Overgrown
- Disclosure — Settle
- Kelela — Cut 4 Me
- John Wizards — John Wizards
- Janelle Monáe — The Electric Lady
- My Bloody Valentine — mbv
- The National — Trouble Will Find Me
- Haim — Days Are Gone
- Lorde — Pure Heroine
- Chance The Rapper — Acid Rap
- Earl Sweatshirt — Doris
- Kacey Musgraves — Same Trailer Different Park
- Laura Marling — Once I Was an Eagle
- These New Puritans — Field of Reeds
- Arctic Monkeys — AM
- David Bowie — The Next Day
- Paramore — Paramore
- DJ Rashad — Double Cup
- Savages — Silence Yourself
- Matthew E. White — Big Inner
- Deerhunter — Monomania
- Pet Shop Boys — Electric
- Sky Ferreira — Night Time, My Time
- Jai Paul — demos
- Autre Ne Veut — Anxiety
- Julia Holter — Loud City Song
- Drake — Nothing Was the Same
- John Murry — The Graceless Age
- White Denim — Corsicana Lemonade
- Miley Cyrus — Bangerz
- Jessy Lanza — Pull My Hair Back
- Hookworms — Pearl Mystic
- Jon Hopkins — Immunity
- King Krule — 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
- Ciara — Ciara
- London Grammar — If You Wait