Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker: 42 Best Albums of 2013 (listed chronologically within three tiers)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- The Haxan Cloak — Excavation
- Queens of the Stone Age — …Like Clockwork
- Kanye West — Yeezus
- Fuck Buttons — Slow Focus
- Dawn of Midi — Dysnomia
- King Krule — 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
- Tim Hecker — Virgins
- Swans — Not Here/Not Now
- The Necks — Open
- M.I.A. — Matangi
I have lost sensation in my extremities.
- William Basinski — Nocturnes
- Laura Marling — Once I Was an Eagle
- Old Apparatus — Compendium
- Jon Hopkins — Immunity
- Disclosure — Settle
- Daftside — Random Access Memories Memories
- Pet Shop Boys — Electric
- Blondes — Swisher
- Earl Sweatshirt — Doris
- Anna Calvi — One Breath
- Danny Brown — Old
- Four Tet — Beautiful Rewind
- Brandy Clark — 12 Stories
- Son Lux — Lanterns
- YVETTE — Process
- Gardland — Syndrome Syndrome
- various artists — Saint Heron
- Mutual Benefit — Love’s Crushing Diamond
I feel funny.
- Atoms for Peace — Amok
- William Tyler — Impossible Truth
- My Bloody Valentine — mbv
- Xenia Rubinos — Magic Trix
- Julia Holter — Loud City Song
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels
- Drake — Nothing Was the Same
- Haim — Days Are Gone
- Lorde — Pure Heroine
- Noveller — No Dreams
- Sky Ferreira — Night Time, My Time
- Chris Forsyth — Solar Motel
- Juana Molina — Wed 21
- David Van Tieghem x Ten — FRKWYS Vol. 10 Fits & Starts