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Billboard: 15 Best Albums of 2013

20 December 2013

Beyoncé - Beyoncé

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

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

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

Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2013

19 December 2013

Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend

Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2013

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
  2. Yeezus
    Kanye West
  3. Settle
    Disclosure
  4. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
  5. Old
    Danny Brown
  6. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
  7. Random Access Memories
    Daft Punk
  8. Impersonator
    Majical Cloudz
  9. Silence Yourself
    Savages
  10. Reflektor
    Arcade Fire
  11. Psychic
    Darkside
  12. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
  13. Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    Kurt Vile
  14. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
  15. Night Time, My Time
    Sky Ferreira
  16. Dream River
    Bill Callahan
  17. Days Are Gone
    Haim
  18. The Electric Lady
    Janelle Monáe
  19. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
  20. demos
    Jai Paul
  21. Cupid Deluxe
    Blood Orange
  22. Cerulean Salt
    Waxahatchee
  23. Double Cup
    DJ Rashad
  24. R Plus Seven
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  25. Nothing Was the Same
    Drake
  26. Overgrown
    James Blake
  27. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
    Neko Case
  28. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels
  29. Excavation
    The Haxan Cloak
  30. Monomania
    Deerhunter
  31. Anxiety
    Autre Ne Veut
  32. Amygdala
    DJ Koze
  33. Truant / Rough Sleeper
    Burial
  34. Engravings
    Forest Swords
  35. Muchacho
    Phosphorescent
  36. The Bones Of What You Believe
    Chvrches
  37. Immunity
    Jon Hopkins
  38. Tomorrow’s Harvest
    Boards of Canada
  39. Long.Live.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
  40. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
  41. Love’s Crushing Diamond
    Mutual Benefit
  42. Woman
    Rhye
  43. Trouble Will Find Me
    The National
  44. The 20/20 Experience
    Justin Timberlake
  45. Slow Focus
    Fuck Buttons
  46. Matangi
    M.I.A.
  47. Nonfiction
    The Range
  48. Major Arcana
    Speedy Ortiz
  49. Loud City Song
    Julia Holter
  50. My Name Is My Name
    Pusha T

Slate: Carl Wilson: 10 Favorite Albums of 2013

18 December 2013

Carey’s Cold Spring - Frog Eyes

Carl Wilson: 10 Favorite Albums of 2013, in alphabetical order by artist, published by Slate in their 2013 edition of The Music Club

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

Aquarium Drunkard: 2013 Year in Review

17 December 2013

Muchacho - Phosphorescent

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

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2014 • 2012]

Mojo: Top 50 Albums of 2013

17 December 2013

Dream River - Bill Callahan

Mojo Magazine: Top 50 Albums of 2013

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Dream River
    Bill Callahan
  2. Random Access Memories
    Daft Punk
  3. The Next Day
    David Bowie
  4. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
  5. Pale Green Ghosts
    John Grant
  6. Monomania
    Deerhunter
  7. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
  8. Perils From The Sea
    Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle
  9. Push the Sky Away
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  10. The Graceless Age
    John Murry
  11. Muchacho
    Phosphorescent
  12. Crimson/Red
    Prefab Sprout
  13. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
  14. The Inheritors
    James Holden
  15. …Like Clockwork
    Queens of the Stone Age
  16. Factory Floor
    Factory Floor
  17. Victim of Love
    Charles Bradley
  18. Reflektor
    Arcade Fire
  19. Sing to the Moon
    Laura Mvula
  20. Electric
    Pet Shop Boys
  21. One True Vine
    Mavis Staples
  22. Once I Was an Eagle
    Laura Marling
  23. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
  24. Personal Record
    Eleanor Friedberger
  25. Overgrown
    James Blake
  26. Awayland
    Villagers
  27. Settle
    Disclosure
  28. Rewind the Film
    Manic Street Preachers
  29. Immunity
    Jon Hopkins
  30. More Light
    Primal Scream
  31. Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs
    Elvis Costello and The Roots
  32. My Garden State
    Glenn Jones
  33. Tooth & Nail
    Billy Bragg
  34. Needs Continuum
    Karen Gwyer
  35. Antiphon
    Midlake
  36. The Invisible Way
    Low
  37. Mug Museum
    Cate Le Bon
  38. Yeezus
    Kanye West
  39. Man & Myth
    Roy Harper
  40. 13
    Black Sabbath
  41. Tales of Us
    Goldfrapp
  42. New
    Paul McCartney
  43. Days Are Gone
    Haim
  44. The Messenger
    Johnny Marr
  45. Field of Reeds
    These New Puritans
  46. We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
    Foxygen
  47. Loud City Song
    Julia Holter
  48. The Terror
    The Flaming Lips
  49. Virgins
    Tim Hecker
  50. Time Is a Mountain
    Time Is a Mountain

Quietus: 100 Albums of 2013

17 December 2013

Glynnaestra - Grumbling Fur

The Quietus: 100 Albums of 2013

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Glynnaestra
    Grumbling Fur
  2. Field of Reeds
    These New Puritans
  3. The Next Day
    David Bowie
  4. Factory Floor
    Factory Floor
  5. Champagne Holocaust
    The Fat White Family
  6. Push the Sky Away
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  7. Drone Logic
    Daniel Avery
  8. Dansktoppen møder Burkina Faso i det himmelblå rum hvor solen bor, suite
    Frisk Frugt
  9. Holy Fire
    Foals
  10. Legacy
    RP Boo
  11. Silence Yourself
    Savages
  12. Cień Chmury Nad Ukrytym Polem
    Stara Rzeka
  13. Yeezus
    Kanye West
  14. Excavation
    The Haxan Cloak
  15. Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I
    Rashad Becker
  16. Still Smiling
    Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld
  17. Immunity
    Jon Hopkins
  18. R Plus Seven
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  19. The Drop
    Pinkunoizu
  20. Cold Mission
    Logos
  21. Chance of Rain
    Laurel Halo
  22. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
  23. Cut 4 Me
    Kelela
  24. Exit!
    Fire! Orchestra
  25. Master
    Teeth of the Sea
  26. Electric
    Pet Shop Boys
  27. Paradise
    Floorplan
  28. Remember Your Black Day
    Vatican Shadow
  29. The Marriage Of True Minds
    Matmos
  30. Long.Live.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
  31. Trap Lord
    A$AP Ferg
  32. Re-Engineering
    Heatsick
  33. Machineries Of Joy
    British Sea Power
  34. Change Becomes Us
    Wire
  35. The Redeemer
    Dean Blunt
  36. Ensemble Pearl
    Ensemble Pearl
  37. Fly Zone
    Le1f
  38. You Have Already Gone To The Other World
    A Hawk and a Hacksaw
  39. The Wayfarer
    DonChristian
  40. The Island Come True
    L. Pierre
  41. Piss Fell Out Like Sunlight
    Wanda Group
  42. Bloodsports
    Suede
  43. The Middle Distance
    Charles Cohen
  44. Transister
    Satelliti
  45. Albidaya
    Rabih Beaini
  46. Julia With Blue Jeans On
    Moonface
  47. Evidence
    John Foxx and the Maths
  48. NYPC
    NYPC
  49. Kill The Wolf
    Matt Berry
  50. Katie Gately
    Katie Gately
  51. Chatma
    Tamikrest
  52. No Answer: Lower Floors
    Wolf Eyes
  53. Valonielu
    Oranssi Pazuzu
  54. Through The Window
    Prurient
  55. Recur
    Emptyset
  56. Splinter
    Gary Numan
  57. Love & Devotion
    Heterotic
  58. Watching Dead Empires In Decay
    The Stranger
  59. Burn
    Sons of Kemet
  60. Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
    Matana Roberts
  61. Mercury
    Miracle
  62. “Anti-Heroes”
    English Heretic
  63. Raj
    Derek Piotr
  64. A Fallen Empire
    Kerridge
  65. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
  66. IV: Mandragora
    Botanist
  67. The Electric Lady
    Janelle Monáe
  68. Kaani
    Tal National
  69. Nexus
    Young Echo
  70. Innocence Is Kinky
    Jenny Hval
  71. GoldenHeart
    Dawn Richard
  72. Årabrot
    Årabrot
  73. Long Island
    Endless Boogie
  74. Coming Apart
    Body/Head
  75. Red Night Variations
    TVO / Covered In Sand
  76. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
  77. Racial Golf Course No Bitches
    Dethscalator
  78. Christs, Redeemers
    The Body
  79. The Inheritors
    James Holden
  80. My Name Is My Name
    Pusha T
  81. Double Cup
    DJ Rashad
  82. Succession
    *AR
  83. Wölfbait
    Wölfbait
  84. V
    Barn Owl
  85. Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
    Hey Colossus
  86. Abisso
    OvO
  87. Surgical Steel
    Carcass
  88. Lescop
    Lescop
  89. Sing to the Moon
    Laura Mvula
  90. The Man Who Died In His Boat
    Grouper
  91. Harm Starts Here
    Palehorse
  92. Mind Control
    Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
  93. You Owe Me Nothing But Love
    Comanechi
  94. The Last Spire
    Cathedral
  95. So You Are… So You’ll Be
    White Hills
  96. Chrome Black Gold
    Chrome Hoof
  97. Wenu Wenu
    Omar Souleyman
  98. Through A Pre-Memory
    ÄÄNIPÄÄ
  99. Enormous Door
    The Ex & Brass Unbound
  100. Sucks Cocks In Hell
    Shitfucker

Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2013

14 December 2013

Yeezus - Kanye West

Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2013

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2011]

  1. Yeezus
    Kanye West
  2. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
  3. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
  4. The Bones Of What You Believe
    Chvrches
  5. Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    Kurt Vile
  6. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
  7. Reflektor
    Arcade Fire
  8. Settle
    Disclosure
  9. Trouble Will Find Me
    The National
  10. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
  11. Days Are Gone
    Haim
  12. Loud City Song
    Julia Holter
  13. Push the Sky Away
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  14. Old
    Danny Brown
  15. Hummingbird
    Local Natives
  16. R Plus Seven
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  17. MCII
    Mikal Cronin
  18. Ripely Pine
    Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
  19. Nothing Was the Same
    Drake
  20. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
  21. Psychic
    Darkside
  22. The Man Who Died In His Boat
    Grouper
  23. The Terror
    The Flaming Lips
  24. Muchacho
    Phosphorescent
  25. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels
  26. The Silver Gymnasium
    Okkervil River
  27. Major Arcana
    Speedy Ortiz
  28. Blue Chips 2
    Action Bronson & Party Supplies
  29. Silence Yourself
    Savages
  30. …Like Clockwork
    Queens of the Stone Age
  31. New History Warfare, Vol. 3: To See More Light
    Colin Stetson
  32. Honeys
    Pissed Jeans
  33. Impersonator
    Majical Cloudz
  34. New Moon
    The Men
  35. The Electric Lady
    Janelle Monáe
  36. Cerulean Salt
    Waxahatchee
  37. Overgrown
    James Blake
  38. Random Access Memories
    Daft Punk
  39. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
  40. The Next Day
    David Bowie
  41. Centralia
    Mountains
  42. Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You
    Mark Mulcahy
  43. Pain Is Beauty
    Chelsea Wolfe
  44. My Name Is My Name
    Pusha T
  45. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
  46. Excavation
    The Haxan Cloak
  47. Pure Heroine
    Lorde
  48. Love’s Crushing Diamond
    Mutual Benefit
  49. Night Time, My Time
    Sky Ferreira
  50. Blowout
    The So So Glos

Clash: Top Albums of 2013

13 December 2013

Doris - Earl Sweatshirt

Clash Magazine: Top Albums of 2013

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
  2. Overgrown
    James Blake
  3. Yeezus
    Kanye West
  4. Amok
    Atoms for Peace
  5. 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
    King Krule
  6. Tomorrow’s Harvest
    Boards of Canada
  7. The Inheritors
    James Holden
  8. II
    Moderat
  9. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
  10. Pure Heroine
    Lorde
  11. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
  12. The Next Day
    David Bowie
  13. The North Borders
    Bonobo
  14. Push the Sky Away
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  15. Matangi
    M.I.A.
  16. Vapor City
    Machinedrum
  17. Wolf
    Tyler, The Creator
  18. Pale Green Ghosts
    John Grant
  19. Slow Focus
    Fuck Buttons
  20. Soul Music
    Special Request
  21. Engravings
    Forest Swords
  22. Beautiful Rewind
    Four Tet
  23. The Redeemer
    Dean Blunt
  24. Mechanical Bull
    Kings of Leon
  25. Embracism
    Kirin J Callinan
  26. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
  27. Watching Movies with the Sound Off
    Mac Miller
  28. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels
  29. Apocalypse
    Thundercat
  30. Old
    Danny Brown
  31. Life After Defo
    Deptford Goth
  32. Immunity
    Jon Hopkins
  33. Shangri La
    Jake Bugg
  34. If You Leave
    Daughter
  35. The Shadow of Heaven
    Money
  36. Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
    Mount Kimbie
  37. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
  38. Drone Logic
    Daniel Avery
  39. My Name Is My Name
    Pusha T
  40. John Wizards
    John Wizards

Gorilla vs. Bear: 40 Favorite Albums of 2013

12 December 2013

Anxiety - Autre Ne Veut

Gorilla vs. Bear: 40 Favorite Albums of 2013

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Anxiety
    Autre Ne Veut
  2. Old
    Danny Brown
  3. Nepenthe
    Julianna Barwick
  4. Truant and Rough Sleeper
    Burial
  5. R Plus Seven
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  6. Dominae
    Ejecta
  7. Untogether
    Blue Hawaii
  8. Perpetual Surrender
    DIANA
  9. demos
    Jai Paul
  10. EP2
    FKA twigs
  11. The Man Who Died In His Boat
    Grouper
  12. Moon Tides
    Pure Bathing Culture
  13. &&&&&
    Arca
  14. Corsicana Lemonade
    White Denim
  15. After Dark 2
    various artists
  16. Skyer
    Postiljonen
  17. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
  18. True Romance
    Charli XCX
  19. In Transit
    Recycle Culture
  20. Anthology
    Knx
  21. Hemiplegia + remixes
    HAERTS
  22. The Redeemer
    Dean Blunt
  23. Yessir Whatever
    Quasimoto
  24. Yours Truly
    Ariana Grande
  25. Butterfly Case
    Cuushe
  26. Still Goin In and I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In
    Rich Homie Quan
  27. Psychic
    Darkside
  28. Hanging Gardens
    Classixx
  29. Double Cup
    DJ Rashad
  30. $.
    $3.33
  31. Anything In Return
    Toro y Moi
  32. Systems
    Empress Of
  33. Strange Pleasures
    Still Corners
  34. Black Water
    Tinashe
  35. S
    SZA
  36. Government Plates
    Death Grips
  37. Ultramarine
    Young Galaxy
  38. Outside
    CFCF
  39. Never/mind/the/darkness/of/it
    Lee Bannon
  40. Chance of Rain
    Laurel Halo

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2013

12 December 2013

Yeezus - Kanye West

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2013

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Yeezus
    Kanye West
  2. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
  3. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
  4. Settle
    Disclosure
  5. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
  6. Night Time, My Time
    Sky Ferreira
  7. Old
    Danny Brown
  8. Days Are Gone
    Haim
  9. Random Access Memories
    Daft Punk
  10. Reflektor
    Arcade Fire
  11. Repave
    Volcano Choir
  12. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels
  13. Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    Kurt Vile
  14. Silence Yourself
    Savages
  15. Meir
    Kvelertak
  16. Cerulean Salt
    Waxahatchee
  17. Soma
    Windhand
  18. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
  19. Heartthrob
    Tegan and Sara
  20. Cupid Deluxe
    Blood Orange
  21. The Bones Of What You Believe
    Chvrches
  22. I Hate Music
    Superchunk
  23. Monomania
    Deerhunter
  24. Dream River
    Bill Callahan
  25. Hesitation Marks
    Nine Inch Nails
  26. YRN
    Migos
  27. Trouble Will Find Me
    The National
  28. Nothing Was the Same
    Drake
  29. Bankrupt!
    Phoenix
  30. R Plus Seven
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  31. Major Arcana
    Speedy Ortiz
  32. You’re Nothing
    Iceage
  33. Cupid’s Head
    The Field
  34. Glow and Behold
    Yuck
  35. Colored Sands
    Gorguts
  36. Loud City Song
    Julia Holter
  37. Engravings
    Forest Swords
  38. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
  39. Moon Tides
    Pure Bathing Culture
  40. Abandon
    Pharmakon
  41. The Electric Lady
    Janelle Monáe
  42. Anxiety
    Autre Ne Veut
  43. RockaByeBaby
    Cassie
  44. Trap Lord
    A$AP Ferg
  45. Wondrous Bughouse
    Youth Lagoon
  46. Fade
    Yo La Tengo
  47. Long.Live.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
  48. Surgical Steel
    Carcass
  49. The 20/20 Experience Pt. 1
    Justin Timberlake
  50. Muchacho
    Phosphorescent

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