Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2013 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. Kanye West — Yeezus
2. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
3. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
4. Beyoncé — Beyoncé
5. Chance The Rapper — Acid Rap
6. My Bloody Valentine — mbv
7. Haim — Days Are Gone
8. Janelle Monáe — The Electric Lady
9. Kurt Vile — Wakin on a Pretty Daze
10. Kacey Musgraves — Same Trailer Different Park
11. Neko Case — The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
12. Savages — Silence Yourself
13. Disclosure — Settle
14. Arcade Fire — Reflektor
15. David Bowie — The Next Day
16. Sky Ferreira — Night Time, My Time
17. Jason Isbell — Southeastern
18. Drake — Nothing Was the Same
19. Deafheaven — Sunbather
20. The National — Trouble Will Find Me
21. Queens of the Stone Age — …Like Clockwork
22. Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels
23. Ashley Monroe — Like a Rose
24. Parquet Courts — Light Up Gold
25. Lorde — Pure Heroine
26. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Push the Sky Away
27. Danny Brown — Old
28. M.I.A. — Matangi
29. The Knife — Shaking the Habitual
30. Pusha T — My Name Is My Name
31. Waxahatchee — Cerulean Salt
32. Tim Hecker — Virgins
33. Tegan and Sara — Heartthrob
34. Paramore — Paramore
35. Deerhunter — Monomania
36. Laura Marling — Once I Was an Eagle
37. Carcass — Surgical Steel
38. Superchunk — I Hate Music
39. Mikal Cronin — MCII
40. Chvrches — The Bones Of What You Believe
41. Majical Cloudz — Impersonator
42. Earl Sweatshirt — Doris
43. Oneohtrix Point Never — R Plus Seven
44. Arctic Monkeys — AM
45. Brandy Clark — 12 Stories
46. Bombino — Nomad
47. Bill Callahan — Dream River
48. Yo La Tengo — Fade
49. Rhye — Woman
50. Phosphorescent — Muchacho
51. Justin Timberlake — The 20/20 Experience
52. The Julie Ruin — Run Fast
53. Pet Shop Boys — Electric
54. Autre Ne Veut — Anxiety
55. Blood Orange — Cupid Deluxe
56. Julia Holter — Loud City Song
57. Fuck Buttons — Slow Focus
58. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP 2
59. Darkside — Psychic
60. Boards of Canada — Tomorrow’s Harvest
61. Valerie June — Pushin’ Against a Stone
62. Elvis Costello and The Roots — Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs
63. John Grant — Pale Green Ghosts
64. Black Sabbath — 13
65. Kelela — Cut 4 Me
66. Nine Inch Nails — Hesitation Marks
67. Atoms for Peace — Amok
68. Gorguts — Colored Sands
69. Bob Dylan — Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
69. Ka — The Night’s Gambit
71. Low — The Invisible Way
71. Charli XCX — True Romance
73. DJ Rashad — Double Cup
74. Laura Mvula — Sing to the Moon
75. The Uncluded — Hokey Fright
76. Matana Roberts — Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
77. Speedy Ortiz — Major Arcana
78. Lady Gaga — ARTPOP
79. SubRosa — More Constant Than The Gods
79. Forest Swords — Engravings
81. Kvelertak — Meir
82. FIDLAR — FIDLAR
83. DJ Koze — Amygdala
84. Jon Hopkins — Immunity
85. Body/Head — Coming Apart
86. William Onyeabor — World Psychedelic Classics, Vol. 5: Who Is William Onyeabor
87. Rachid Taha — Zoom
88. The Haxan Cloak — Excavation
89. In Solitude — Sister
90. James Blake — Overgrown
91. Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge — Twelve Reasons To Die
92. Dean Blunt — The Redeemer
93. Lonnie Holley — Keeping a Record of It
94. James Holden — The Inheritors
95. Pissed Jeans — Honeys
96. Thundercat — Apocalypse
97. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba — Jama Ko
98. Steven Wilson — The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
99. Jagwar Ma — Howlin’
100. Thee Oh Sees — Floating Coffin

Dennis Cooper: 20 Favorite Albums of 2013 (as numbered on Cooper’s site, but note that he precedes the list with “in no order”)

[see also 2019, 2015, 2012, 2011]

1. Vår — No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers
2. Death Grips — Government Plates
3. The Haxan Cloak — Excavation
4. Oneohtrix Point Never — R Plus Seven
5. Julia Holter — Loud City Song
6. Moonface — Julia With Blue Jeans On
7. Tim Hecker — Virgins
8. Castevet — Obsian
9. Robert Pollard — Honey Locust Honky Tonk
10. Iceage — You’re Nothing
11. Aki Onda — Cassette Memories, Vol. 3: South of the Border
12. Guided By Voices — English Little League
13. Laurel Halo — Chance of Rain
14. Deerhunter — Monomania
15. Wire — Change Becomes Us
16. My Bloody Valentine — mbv
17. ÄÄNIPÄÄ — Through A Pre-Memory
18. Deafheaven — Sunbather
19. Pharmakon — Abandon
20. Burial — Rival Dealer

Uncut Magazine: 80 Best Albums of 2013

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012]

1. My Bloody Valentine — mbv
2. David Bowie — The Next Day
3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Push the Sky Away
4. John Grant — Pale Green Ghosts
5. Laura Marling — Once I Was an Eagle
6. Roy Harper — Man & Myth
7. Bill Callahan — Dream River
8. Kurt Vile — Wakin on a Pretty Daze
9. Arctic Monkeys — AM
10. Boards of Canada — Tomorrow’s Harvest
11. Matthew E. White — Big Inner
12. Prefab Sprout — Crimson/Red
13. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
14. The National — Trouble Will Find Me
15. Julia Holter — Loud City Song
16. Thee Oh Sees — Floating Coffin
17. Kanye West — Yeezus
18. Parquet Courts — Light Up Gold
19. Endless Boogie — Long Island
20. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
21. Broadcast — Berberian Sound Studio
22. The Knife — Shaking the Habitual
23. Jonathan Wilson — Fanfare
24. Unknown Mortal Orchestra — II
25. Caitlin Rose — The Stand-In
26. Jason Isbell — Southeastern
27. Atoms for Peace — Amok
28. Johnny Marr — The Messenger
29. Hiss Golden Messenger — Haw
30. Yo La Tengo — Fade
31. Neko Case — The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
32. These New Puritans — Field of Reeds
33. Pet Shop Boys — Electric
34. White Denim — Corsicana Lemonade
35. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle — Perils From The Sea
36. Mark Kozelek & Desertshore — Mark Kozelek & Desertshore
37. Eleanor Friedberger — Personal Record
38. Haim — Days Are Gone
39. Earl Sweatshirt — Doris
40. Chris Forsyth — Solar Motel
41. Low — The Invisible Way
42. Arcade Fire — Reflektor
43. Okkervil River — The Silver Gymnasium
44. Fuzz — Fuzz
45. Manic Street Preachers — Rewind the Film
46. Factory Floor — Factory Floor
47. Phoenix — Bankrupt!
48. Iron & Wine — Ghost on Ghost
49. Mazzy Star — Seasons of Your Day
50. Houndstooth — Ride Out The Dark
51. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba — Jama Ko
52. The Necks — Open
53. Linda Thompson — Won’t Be Long Now
54. Rokia Traoré — Beautiful Africa
55. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats — Mind Control
56. Edwyn Collins — Understated
57. Frightened Rabbit — Pedestrian Verse
58. Mikal Cronin — MCII
59. Luke Haines — Rock and Roll Animals
60. King Krule — 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
61. Connan Mockasin — Caramel
62. Jon Hopkins — Immunity
63. Pet Shop Boys — Electric
64. Anna Calvi — One Breath
65. The Civil Wars — The Civil Wars
66. Phosphorescent — Muchacho
67. Jim James — Regions of Light and Sound of God
68. Steve Mason — Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time
69. Autre Ne Veut — Anxiety
70. William Tyler — Impossible Truth
71. Don Cavalli — Temperamental
72. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell — Old Yellow Moon
73. Laura Veirs — Warp and Weft
74. Lord Huron — Lonesome Dreams
75. Elton John — The Diving Board
76. Suuns — Images du Futur
77. Cate Le Bon — Mug Museum
78. Hookworms — Pearl Mystic
79. Robyn Hitchcock — Love From London
80. Tony Joe White — Hoodoo

Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2013

[see also 2020, 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
2. Kanye West — Yeezus
3. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
4. Paul McCartney — New
5. Arcade Fire — Reflektor
6. Queens of the Stone Age — …Like Clockwork
7. Lorde — Pure Heroine
8. The National — Trouble Will Find Me
9. Arctic Monkeys — AM
10. John Fogerty — Wrote A Song For Everyone
11. Parquet Courts — Light Up Gold
12. Jake Bugg — Jake Bugg
13. Disclosure — Settle
14. Drake — Nothing Was the Same
15. Atoms for Peace — Amok
16. David Bowie — The Next Day
17. Danny Brown — Old
18. Ashley Monroe — Like a Rose
19. Nine Inch Nails — Hesitation Marks
20. Laura Marling — Once I Was an Eagle
21. Sky Ferreira — Night Time, My Time
22. Phoenix — Bankrupt!
23. My Bloody Valentine — mbv
24. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP 2
25. Elton John — The Diving Board
26. Chance The Rapper — Acid Rap
27. Miley Cyrus — Bangerz
28. Kacey Musgraves — Same Trailer Different Park
29. Bombino — Nomad
30. Tegan and Sara — Heartthrob
31. Haim — Days Are Gone
32. Chvrches — The Bones Of What You Believe
33. Pusha T — My Name Is My Name
34. Neko Case — The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
35. Best Coast — Fade Away
36. Waxahatchee — Cerulean Salt
37. The So So Glos — Blowout
38. Kurt Vile — Wakin on a Pretty Daze
39. Keith Urban — Fuse
40. Pearl Jam — Lightning Bolt
41. J. Cole — Born Sinner
42. Earl Sweatshirt — Doris
43. Savages — Silence Yourself
44. Valerie June — Pushin’ Against a Stone
45. Avicii — TRUE
46. Franz Ferdinand — Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
47. M.I.A. — Matangi
48. Fuck Buttons — Slow Focus
49. The Flaming Lips — The Terror
50. Beck — Song Reader

Fact Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2013

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. Dean Blunt — The Redeemer
2. Sky Ferreira — Night Time, My Time
3. Kanye West — Yeezus
4. Galcher Lustwerk — 100% Galcher
5. Kelela — Cut 4 Me
6. Stellar OM Source — Joy One Mile
7. Kevin Gates — The Luca Brasi Story
8. Lil Ugly Mane — The Three Sided Tape Volume One
9. DJ Rashad — Rollin’
10. Omar S — Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself
11. Ka — The Night’s Gambit
12. Jai Paul — leaked demos
13. Logos — Cold Mission
14. Colleen — The Weighing of the Heart
15. Rome Fortune — Beautiful Pimp
16. James Holden — The Inheritors
17. Mumdance — Twists and Turns
18. Powell — Untitled
19. DJ Mustard — Ketchup
20. MssingNo — MssingNo
21. Prurient — Through The Window
22. The House In the Woods — Bucolica
23. Chance The Rapper — Acid Rap
24. Grumbling Fur — Glynnaestra
25. MGUN — The Near Future
26. Syclops — A Blink of an Eye
27. Ron Morelli — Spit
28. Danny Brown — Old
29. These New Puritans — Field of Reeds
30. Earl Sweatshirt — Doris
31. Huerco S — Colonial Patterns
32. FKA twigs — EP2
33. Roly Porter — Life Cycle of a Massive Star
34. Oneohtrix Point Never — R Plus Seven
35. Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire — Kismet
36. Laurel Halo — Chance of Rain
37. Tree — Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out
38. Donato Dozzy — Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask
39. King Louie — Jeep Music
40. suicideyear — Japan
41. Ciara — Ciara
42. Drake — Nothing Was the Same
43. Vakula — You’ve Never Been To Konotop
44. Filter Dread — Space Loops
45. Autre Ne Veut — Anxiety
46. Autechre — Exai
47. Friendzone — DX
48. The Knife — Shaking the Habitual
49. Miley Cyrus — Bangerz
50. Cream Juice — Man Feelings

Antiquiet: 20 Best Albums of 2013

[see also 2014, 2011]

1. Queens of the Stone Age — …Like Clockwork
2. Arctic Monkeys — AM
3. Nine Inch Nails — Hesitation Marks
4. Atoms for Peace — Amok
5. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP 2
6. Pearl Jam — Lightning Bolt
7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — Specter at the Feast
8. Clutch — Earth Rocker
9. Portugal. The Man — Evil Friends
10. David Bowie — The Next Day
11. Lorde — Pure Heroine
12. Tricky — False Idols
13. Kanye West — Yeezus
14. Arcade Fire — Reflektor
15. How to Destroy Angels — Welcome to Oblivion
16. Russian Circles — Memorial
17. Junip — Junip
18. Janelle Monáe — The Electric Lady
19. Palms — Palms
20. Biffy Clyro — Opposites

Cokemachineglow: Top 50 Albums of 2013

[see also 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. Frog Eyes — Carey’s Cold Spring
2. Danny Brown — Old
3. Friendzone — DX
4. Oneohtrix Point Never — R Plus Seven
5. My Bloody Valentine — mbv
6. Tim Hecker — Virgins
7. Majical Cloudz — Impersonator
8. Deafheaven — Sunbather
9. Jenny Hval — Innocence Is Kinky
10. Chance The Rapper — Acid Rap
11. Califone — Stitches
12. Julia Holter — Loud City Song
13. Yo La Tengo — Fade
14. Braids — Flourish//Perish
15. Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels
16. Moonface — Julia With Blue Jeans On
17. A$AP Rocky — Long.Live.A$AP
18. Rhye — Woman
19. Julianna Barwick — Nepenthe
20. Neko Case — The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
21. The Knife — Shaking the Habitual
22. Waxahatchee — Cerulean Salt
23. Pharmakon — Abandon
24. Viet Cong — Cassette
25. Blood Orange — Cupid Deluxe
26. James Blake — Overgrown
27. Boards of Canada — Tomorrow’s Harvest
28. The National — Trouble Will Find Me
29. Janelle Monáe — The Electric Lady
30. Savages — Silence Yourself

Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Albums of 2013

[see also 2010s, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. Oneohtrix Point Never — R Plus Seven
2. Dean Blunt — The Redeemer
3. Julia Holter — Loud City Song
4. Pharmakon — Abandon
5. Kanye West — Yeezus
6. Autre Ne Veut — Anxiety
7. Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet — Photographs
8. 18+ — MIXTAP3
9. Arca — &&&&&
10. Forest Swords — Engravings
11. Tim Hecker — Virgins
12. Mohammad — Som Sakrifis
13. Sean McCann — Music for Private Ensemble
14. Laurel Halo — Chance of Rain
15. D/P/I — Fresh Roses
16. Lucrecia Dalt — Syzygy
17. James Ferraro — NYC, Hell 3:00am
18. The Knife — Shaking the Habitual
19. Dean Blunt — Stone Island
20. DJ Rashad — Double Cup
21. Andrew Pekler — Cover Versions
22. Bill Orcutt — A History Of Every One
23. My Bloody Valentine — mbv
24. Dirty Beaches — Drifters/Love Is the Devil
25. James Blake — Overgrown
26. Inga Copeland — Higher Powers
27. Danny Brown — Old
28. Stara Rzeka — Cień Chmury Nad Ukrytym Polem
29. The Body — Christs, Redeemers
30. Bill Callahan — Dream River
31. Matana Roberts — Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
32. Nmesh — Nu.wav Hallucinations
33. Lee Noble — Ruiner
34. The Flaming Lips — The Terror
35. Julianna Barwick — Nepenthe
36. Wolf Eyes — No Answer: Lower Floors
37. Colin Stetson — New History Warfare, Vol. 3: To See More Light
38. Ahnnu — World Music
39. Chief Keef — Almighty So
40. Jenny Hval — Innocence Is Kinky
41. Death Grips — Government Plates
42. Huerco S — Colonial Patterns
43. The Dead C — Armed Courage
44. Grouper — The Man Who Died In His Boat
45. Earn — Hell on Earth
46. Paisley Parks — Бｈ○§†
47. These New Puritans — Field of Reeds
48. Frog Eyes — Carey’s Cold Spring
49. Foodman — Shokuhin
50. Lil Ugly Mane — Three Sided Tape (Volumes One and Two)

The Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2013

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. Kanye West — Yeezus
2. John Grant — Pale Green Ghosts
3. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
4. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
5. James Blake — Overgrown
6. Disclosure — Settle
7. Kelela — Cut 4 Me
8. John Wizards — John Wizards
9. Janelle Monáe — The Electric Lady
10. My Bloody Valentine — mbv
11. The National — Trouble Will Find Me
12. Haim — Days Are Gone
13. Lorde — Pure Heroine
14. Chance The Rapper — Acid Rap
15. Earl Sweatshirt — Doris
16. Kacey Musgraves — Same Trailer Different Park
17. Laura Marling — Once I Was an Eagle
18. These New Puritans — Field of Reeds
19. Arctic Monkeys — AM
20. David Bowie — The Next Day
21. Paramore — Paramore
22. DJ Rashad — Double Cup
23. Savages — Silence Yourself
24. Matthew E. White — Big Inner
25. Deerhunter — Monomania
26. Pet Shop Boys — Electric
27. Sky Ferreira — Night Time, My Time
28. Jai Paul — demos
29. Autre Ne Veut — Anxiety
30. Julia Holter — Loud City Song
31. Drake — Nothing Was the Same
32. John Murry — The Graceless Age
33. White Denim — Corsicana Lemonade
34. Miley Cyrus — Bangerz
35. Jessy Lanza — Pull My Hair Back
36. Hookworms — Pearl Mystic
37. Jon Hopkins — Immunity
38. King Krule — 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
39. Ciara — Ciara
40. London Grammar — If You Wait

Billboard: 15 Best Albums of 2013 (as voted by Billboard staff)

[see also 2020, 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. Beyoncé — Beyoncé
2. Kanye West — Yeezus
3. Disclosure — Settle
4. Lorde — Pure Heroine
5. Drake — Nothing Was the Same
6. Haim — Days Are Gone
7. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
8. Rhye — Woman
9. Arcade Fire — Reflektor
10. Kacey Musgraves — Same Trailer Different Park
11. Justin Timberlake — The 20/20 Experience
12. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
13. Chvrches — The Bones Of What You Believe
14. Lady Gaga — ARTPOP
15. Chance The Rapper — Acid Rap