Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 25 Best Albums of 2013

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1. Modern Vampires of the City
   Vampire Weekend
2. Reflektor
   Arcade Fire
3. Pure Heroine
   Lorde
4. Yeezus
   Kanye West
5. Settle
   Disclosure
6. White Lighter
   Typhoon
7. Shaking the Habitual
   The Knife
8. Trouble Will Find Me
   The National
9. Nothing Was the Same
   Drake
10. Electric
    Pet Shop Boys
11. The Electric Lady
    Janelle Monáe
12. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
    Neko Case
13. Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    Kurt Vile
14. Born Sinner
    J. Cole
15. Hummingbird
    Local Natives
16. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
17. Government Plates
    Death Grips
18. True Romance
    Charli XCX
19. Slow Focus
    Fuck Buttons
20. Once I Was an Eagle
    Laura Marling
21. Fantasy
    Lightning Dust
22. The Bones Of What You Believe
    Chvrches
23. The Civil Wars
    The Civil Wars
24. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
25. Nocturnes
    Little Boots

A.O. Scott: 35 Favorite Films of 2013, as published by The New York Times

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1. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
2. 12 Years a Slave
   Steve McQueen
3. Blue is the Warmest Color
   Abdellatif Kechiche
4. Enough Said
   Nicole Holofcener
5. A Touch of Sin
   Jia Zhang-ke
6. All Is Lost
   J.C. Chandor
7. Frances Ha
   Noah Baumbach
8. Hannah Arendt
   Margarethe von Trotta
9. Lee Daniels’ The Butler
   Lee Daniels
10. The Great Gatsby
    Baz Luhrmann
10. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
10. The Bling Ring
    Sofia Coppola
10. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
10. Pain & Gain
    Michael Bay
10. American Hustle
    David O. Russell

And, Alphabetically

• Before Midnight
  Richard Linklater
• Beyond the Hills
  Cristian Mungiu
• Caesar Must Die
  Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• Computer Chess
  Andrew Bujalski
• Fill the Void
  Rama Burshtein
• Fruitvale Station
  Ryan Coogler
• The Great Beauty
  Paolo Sorrentino
• Her
  Spike Jonze
• In a World…
  Lake Bell
• Much Ado About Nothing
  Joss Whedon
• Museum Hours
  Jem Cohen
• Nebraska
  Alexander Payne
• An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
  Terence Nance
• Viola
  Matías Piñeiro
• You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
  Alain Resnais

Documentaries

1. The Act of Killing
   Joshua Oppenheimer
2. Stories We Tell
   Sarah Polley
3. The Square
   Jehane Noujaim
4. Let the Fire Burn
   Jason Osder
5. Cutie and the Boxer
   Zachary Heinzerling

Manohla Dargis: Top 39 Movies of 2013, as published by The New York Times

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Top 16, Alphabetically

• 12 Years a Slave
  Steve McQueen
• American Hustle
  David O. Russell
• Before Midnight
  Richard Linklater
• Behind the Candelabra
  Steven Soderbergh
• Captain Phillips
  Paul Greengrass
• The Counselor
  Ridley Scott
• The Grandmaster
  Wong Kar-Wai
• The Great Beauty
  Paolo Sorrentino
• Her
  Spike Jonze
• Inside Llewyn Davis
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• MANAKAMANA
  Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
• Redemption
  Steven Knight
• Rush
  Ron Howard
• Spring Breakers
  Harmony Korine
• The Square
  Jehane Noujaim
• A Touch of Sin
  Jia Zhang-ke

Honor Roll, Alphabetically

• All Is Lost
  J.C. Chandor
• Bastards
  Claire Denis
• Blue Caprice
  Alexandre Moors
• Blue Jasmine
  Woody Allen
• Computer Chess
  Andrew Bujalski
• Crystal Fairy
  Sebastián Silva
• Enough Said
  Nicole Holofcener
• Faust
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• Gimme the Loot
  Adam Leon
• In the Fog
  Sergei Loznitsa
• The Invisible Woman
  Ralph Fiennes
• Kill Your Darlings
  John Krokidas
• Mother of George
  Andrew Dosunmu
• Nebraska
  Alexander Payne
• Our Children
  Joachim Lafosse
• Post Tenebras Lux
  Carlos Reygadas
• Reality
  Matteo Garrone
• Room 237
  Rodney Ascher
• Something in the Air
  Olivier Assayas
• Stories We Tell
  Sarah Polley
• This Is the End
  Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
• This Is Martin Bonner
  Chad Hartigan
• Viola
  Matías Piñeiro

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2013

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1. Loud City Song
   Julia Holter
2. Chance of Rain
   Laurel Halo
3. Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I
   Rashad Becker
4. The Glass Trunk
   Richard Dawson
5. Virgins
   Tim Hecker
6. R Plus Seven
   Oneohtrix Point Never
7. Legacy
   RP Boo
8. No Answer: Lower Floors
   Wolf Eyes
9. Photographs
   Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet
10. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
11. Yeezus
    Kanye West
12. Double Cup
    DJ Rashad
13. Exai
    Autechre
14. Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
    Matana Roberts
15. November
    Dennis Johnson
16. Abandon
    Pharmakon
17. Ghil
    Okkyung Lee
18. Field of Reeds
    These New Puritans
19. Your Crate Has Changed
    eMMplekz
20. Ablation
    Main
21. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
22. Exit!
    Fire! Orchestra
23. Tomorrow’s Harvest
    Boards of Canada
24. A Wonder Working Stone
    Alasdair Roberts & Friends
25. Nexus
    Young Echo
26. The Redeemer
    Dean Blunt
27. The Inheritors
    James Holden
28. Austerity Dogs
    Sleaford Mods
29. Psi 847
    Eliane Radigue
30. Anxiety
    Autre Ne Veut
31. Svaevninger
    Jacob Kirkegaard & Else Marie Pade
32. Armed Courage
    The Dead C
33. The Outer Church
    various artists
34. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
35. Engravings
    Forest Swords
36. Pull My Hair Back
    Jessy Lanza
37. HD
    Atom TM
38. Line The Clouds
    Ashley Paul
39. Open
    The Necks
40. Long Island
    Endless Boogie
41. Sub
    G*Park
42. Wed 21
    Juana Molina
43. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
44. Soul Music
    Special Request
45. Joy One Mile
    Stellar OM Source
46. John Wizards
    John Wizards
47. NYC, Hell 3:00am
    James Ferraro
48. The Marianne
    Call Back the Giants
49. Glynnaestra
    Grumbling Fur
50. Visionary Seascapes
    Jem Finer & Andrew Kötting

John Waters: 10 Best Films of 2013, as published by Artforum

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1. Spring Breakers
   Harmony Korine
2. Camille Claudel 1915
   Bruno Dumont
3. Abuse of Weakness
   Catherine Breillat
4. Outside Satan
   Bruno Dumont
5. After Tiller
   Martha Shane and Lana Wilson
6. Hannah Arendt
   Margarethe von Trotta
7. Beyond the Hills
   Cristian Mungiu
8. Blue Jasmine
   Woody Allen
9. Blackfish
   Gabriela Cowperthwaite
10. I’m So Excited!
    Pedro Almodóvar

Pretty Much Amazing: 40 Best Albums of 2013, top 10 presented alphabetically

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• Anxiety
  Autre Ne Veut
• The Bones Of What You Believe
  Chvrches
• Random Access Memories
  Daft Punk
• Settle
  Disclosure
• The 20/20 Experience
  Justin Timberlake
• Yeezus
  Kanye West
• Trouble Will Find Me
  The National
• Silence Yourself
  Savages
• Modern Vampires of the City
  Vampire Weekend
• Repave
  Volcano Choir

11. R Plus Seven
    Oneohtrix Point Never
12. Torres
    TORRES
13. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
14. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
15. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
16. We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
    Foxygen
17. Muchacho
    Phosphorescent
18. Wondrous Bughouse
    Youth Lagoon
19. Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    Kurt Vile
20. Monomania
    Deerhunter
21. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
    Neko Case
22. Cerulean Salt
    Waxahatchee
23. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
24. Days Are Gone
    Haim
25. You’re Nothing
    Iceage
26. Once I Was an Eagle
    Laura Marling
27. If You Wait
    London Grammar
28. Woman
    Rhye
29. EP2
    FKA twigs
30. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
31. Tomorrow’s Harvest
    Boards of Canada
32. Overgrown
    James Blake
33. Holy Fire
    Foals
34. demos
    Jai Paul
35. Kiss Land
    The Weeknd
36. Slow Focus
    Fuck Buttons
37. After Dark 2
    various artists
38. The Next Day
    David Bowie
39. The Chronicles of Marnia
    Marnie Stern
40. The Electric Lady
    Janelle Monáe

Miriam Bale: Top 11 Films of 2013, as published by Movie City News

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1. Computer Chess
   Andrew Bujalski
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
   Martin Scorsese
3. Bastards
   Claire Denis
4. Museum Hours
   Jem Cohen
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
6. Let the Fire Burn
   Jason Osder
7. Berberian Sound Studio
   Peter Strickland
8. The Butler
   Lee Daniels
9. Blue is the Warmest Color
   Abdellatif Kechiche
10. At Berkeley
    Frederick Wiseman
10. The Bling Ring
    Sofia Coppola

AllMusic: 50 Best Albums of 2013 presented alphabetically

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• Body Music
  AlunaGeorge
• AM
  Arctic Monkeys
• Drone Logic
  Daniel Avery
• Silver Wilkinson
  Bibio
• A Love Surreal
  Bilal
• Tomorrow’s Harvest
  Boards of Canada
• The Next Day
  David Bowie
• Old
  Danny Brown
• The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
  Neko Case
• 12 Stories
  Brandy Clark
• Random Access Memories
  Daft Punk
• Sunbather
  Deafheaven
• Settle
  Disclosure
• Run the Jewels
  Run the Jewels
• Night Time, My Time
  Sky Ferreira
• Love In Flying Colors
  The Foreign Exchange
• We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
  Foxygen
• The Terror
  The Flaming Lips
• Twelve Reasons To Die
  Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge
• Tales of Us
  Goldfrapp
• Days Are Gone
  Haim
• Loud City Song
  Julia Holter
• No Beginning No End
  José James
• Wolf’s Law
  Joy Formidable
• Shaking the Habitual
  The Knife
• Meir
  Kvelertak
• The Electric Lady
  Janelle Monáe
• Like a Rose
  Ashley Monroe
• Vanishing Point
  Mudhoney
• Same Trailer Different Park
  Kacey Musgraves
• mbv
  My Bloody Valentine
• Abandon All Life
  Nails
• Bed & Bugs
  Obits
• Paramore
  Paramore
• Liquid Spirit
  Gregory Porter
• My Name Is My Name
  Pusha T
• Avalanche
  Quadron
• …Like Clockwork
  Queens of the Stone Age
• The Stand-In
  Caitlin Rose
• Silence Yourself
  Savages
• She
  Alice Smith
• Bloodsports
  Suede
• Heartthrob
  Tegan and Sara
• Apocalypse
  Thundercat
• Anything In Return
  Toro y Moi
• Say That To Say This
  Trombone Shorty
• Modern Vampires of the City
  Vampire Weekend
• Wakin on a Pretty Daze
  Kurt Vile
• Yeezus
  Kanye West
• With Love
  Zomboy

Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker: 42 Best Albums of 2013 (listed chronologically within three tiers)

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I have lost sensation in my extremities.

• Excavation
  The Haxan Cloak
• …Like Clockwork
  Queens of the Stone Age
• Yeezus
  Kanye West
• Slow Focus
  Fuck Buttons
• Dysnomia
  Dawn of Midi
• 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
  King Krule
• Virgins
  Tim Hecker
• Not Here/Not Now
  Swans
• Open
  The Necks
• Matangi
  M.I.A.

I feel funny.

• Nocturnes
  William Basinski
• Once I Was an Eagle
  Laura Marling
• Compendium
  Old Apparatus
• Immunity
  Jon Hopkins
• Settle
  Disclosure
• Random Access Memories Memories
  Daftside
• Electric
  Pet Shop Boys
• Swisher
  Blondes
• Doris
  Earl Sweatshirt
• One Breath
  Anna Calvi
• Old
  Danny Brown
• Beautiful Rewind
  Four Tet
• 12 Stories
  Brandy Clark
• Lanterns
  Son Lux
• Process
  YVETTE
• Syndrome Syndrome
  Gardland
• Saint Heron
  various artists
• Love’s Crushing Diamond
  Mutual Benefit

Something is up.

• Amok
  Atoms for Peace
• Impossible Truth
  William Tyler
• mbv
  My Bloody Valentine
• Magic Trix
  Xenia Rubinos
• Loud City Song
  Julia Holter
• Run the Jewels
  Run the Jewels
• Nothing Was the Same
  Drake
• Days Are Gone
  Haim
• Pure Heroine
  Lorde
• No Dreams
  Noveller
• Night Time, My Time
  Sky Ferreira
• Solar Motel
  Chris Forsyth
• Wed 21
  Juana Molina
• FRKWYS Vol. 10 Fits & Starts
  David Van Tieghem x Ten

Magnet Magazine: Top 25 Albums of 2013

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1. The Silver Gymnasium
   Okkervil River
2. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
   Neko Case
3. Fade
   Yo La Tengo
4. Amok
   Atoms for Peace
5. Trouble Will Find Me
   The National
6. Monomania
   Deerhunter
7. I Hate Music
   Superchunk
8. Random Access Memories
   Daft Punk
9. Tonight You Look Like a Spider
   David Yow
10. We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
    Foxygen
11. Silence Yourself
    Savages
12. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
13. The Bones Of What You Believe
    Chvrches
14. English Little League
    Guided By Voices
15. Siberia
    Polvo
16. Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    Kurt Vile
17. Self-Titled
    Wesley Stace
18. Honeys
    Pissed Jeans
19. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
20. Dream River
    Bill Callahan
21. B-Room
    Dr. Dog
22. Personal Record
    Eleanor Friedberger
23. Push the Sky Away
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
24. Days Are Gone
    Haim
25. Muchacho
    Phosphorescent