Year-End Lists

Aquarium Drunkard: 2013 Year in Review, an "unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention"

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2014 • 2012]

• Dream River
  Bill Callahan
• Time Off
  Steve Gunn
• Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
  Bob Dylan
• Push the Sky Away
  Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
• The Next Day
  David Bowie
• Comme à la radio
  Brigitte Fontaine
• Monomania
  Deerhunter
• Long Island
  Endless Boogie
• Solar Motel
  Chris Forsyth
• Haw
  Hiss Golden Messenger
• Sleeper
  Ty Segall
• Mercury
  Marisa Anderson
• Outer Face
  Matthew E. White
• Impossible Truth
  William Tyler
• Muchacho
  Phosphorescent
• Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound
  various artists
• World Psychedelic Classics, Vol. 5: Who Is William Onyeabor
  William Onyeabor
• Free and Easy
  Apple and the Three Oranges
• Crows In The Basilica
  Chuck Johnson
• Visions of the Country
  Robbie Basho
• Between Two Worlds
  Danny Paul Grody
• Graduation
  Henry Flynt
• Hard For To Win And Can't Be Won
  Nathan Salsburg
• Born With The Caul
  Cian Nugent & The Cosmos
• Me Moan
  Daughn Gibson
• MCII
  Mikal Cronin
• Psychic
  Darkside
• One Track Mind
  Psychic Ills
• Pale Green Ghosts
  John Grant
• Appalachian Excitation
  Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun
• The Coincidentalist
  Howe Gelb
• Wooden Wand & the World War IV
  Wooden Wand & the World War IV
• Blood Oaths Of The New Blues
  Wooden Wand
• Wakin on a Pretty Daze
  Kurt Vile
• We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
  Foxygen
• Fade
  Yo La Tengo
• Mug Museum
  Cate Le Bon
• Waiting for Something to Happen
  Veronica Falls
• Torres
  TORRES
• Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971–1972
  Townes Van Zandt
• Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 6 : Origins of American Primitive Guitar
  various artists
• Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Black Religious Music
  various artists
• Artist Proof
  Chris Darrow
• Enjoy The Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992
  various artists
• Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?
  Peter Walker
• Nomad
  Bombino
• What the Brothers Sang
  Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
• The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
  Courtney Barnett
• White Light
  Gene Clark
• Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
  Matana Roberts
• Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Recordings
  various artists
• Siberia
  Polvo
• Stitches
  Califone
• Idle No More
  King Khan and the Shrines
• R Plus Seven
  Oneohtrix Point Never
• Virgins
  Tim Hecker
• mbv
  My Bloody Valentine
• Surrender To the Fantasy
  Magik Markers
• Sunken
  Twin Peaks
• Floating Coffin
  Thee Oh Sees
• I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
  various artists
• The Magnolia Electric Co. (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
  Songs: Ohia
• I Heard The Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From The Nashboro Label 1951-1983
  various artists
• One True Vine
  Mavis Staples
• Good God! Apocryphal Hymns
  various artists
• Lee Hazlewood Industries: There's a Dream I've Been Saving (1966-1971)
  various artists
• The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
  Neko Case
• Jesus I'm A Sinner
  Daniel Bachman
• Southeastern
  Jason Isbell