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