Nov 16, 2014

The Best Albums Of 2013

Top 50













  1. Factory Floor - FACTORY FLOOR
  2. Shaking the habitual - THE KNIFE
  3. Silence yourself - SAVAGES
  4. More light - PRIMAL SCREAM
  5. M B V - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
  6. Loud city song - JULIA HOLTER
  7. We are the 21st century ambassadors of peace and magic - FOXYGEN
  8. Waiting for something to happen - VERONICA FALLS
  9. Indigo meadow - THE BLACK ANGELS
  10. Reflektor - ARCADE FIRE
  11. Purgatory / Paradise - THROWING MUSES
  12. Push the sky away - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  13. One breath - ANNA CALVI
  14. Interiors - GLASSER
  15. Inform - Educate - Entertain - PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
  16. Slow focus - FUCK BUTTONS
  17. AM - ARCTIC MONKEYS
  18. Mosquito - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
  19. Light up gold - PARQUET COURTS
  20. Cerulean salt - WAXAHATCHEE
  21. Major Arcana - SPEEDY ORTIZ
  22. Static - CULTS
  23. Shulamith - POLIÇA
  24. Holy fire - FOALS
  25. Re-Mit - THE FALL
  26. I hate music - SUPERCHUNK
  27. The double EP: A sea of split peas - COURTNEY BARNETT
  28. Trouble will find me - THE NATIONAL
  29. Dream river - BILL CALLAHAN
  30. Seasons of your day - MAZZY STAR
  31. Defend yourself - SEBADOH
  32. Run fast - THE JULIE RUIN
  33. MCII - MIKAL CRONIN
  34. Right thoughts right words right action - FRANZ FERDINAND
  35. Personal record - ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER
  36. Wakin on a pretty daze - KURT VILE
  37. Last night on earth - LEE RANALDO AND THE DUST
  38. Chelsea Light Moving - CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING
  39. Fade - YO LA TENGO
  40. Back to land - WOODEN SHJIPS
  41. Images du futur - SUUNS
  42. Matangi - M.I.A.
  43. MGMT - MGMT
  44. Cruise your illusion - MILK MUSIC
  45. The argument - GRANT HART
  46. Muchacho - PHOSPHORESCENT
  47. Ghost on ghost - IRON AND WINE
  48. Nature noir - CRYSTAL STILTS
  49. Weird sister - JOANNA GRUESOME
  50. English little league - GUIDED BY VOICES
Also recommended:

Modern vampires of the city - VAMPIRE WEEKEND, Run the jewels - RUN THE JEWELS, Yeezus - KANYE WEST, Old - DANNY BROWN, Bitter rivals - SLEIGH BELLS, Strange pleasures - STILL CORNERS, Herein wild - FRANKIE ROSE, The worst things get, the harder I fight, the harder I fight, the more I love you - NEKO CASE, Monomania - DEERHUNTER, Corsicana Lemonade - WHITE DENIM, Coming out of the fog - ARBOURETUM, Almanac - WIDOWSPEAK, The terror - THE FLAMING LIPS, ...Like clockwork - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Comedown machine - THE STROKES, Specter at the feast - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, FIDLAR - FIDLAR, You're nothing - ICEAGE, Girls like us - PINS, Wash the sins not only the face - ESBEN AND THE WITCH, Cupid deluxe - BLOOD ORANGE, Big inner - MATTHEW E. WHITE, Desire lines - CAMERA OBSCURA, One track mind - PSYCHIC ILLS, New moon - THE MEN, Vanishing point - MUDHONEY, Change becomes us - WIRE, An object - NO AGE, Out of view - THE HISTORY OF APPLE PIE, The new life - GIRLS NAMES, You owe me nothing but love - COMANECHI, Rat farm - MEAT PUPPETS, The invisible way - LOW, Excavation - THE HAXAN CLOAK, The bones of what you believe - CHVRCHES, Body music - ALUNAGEORGE, Olympia - AUSTRA, Hard coming down - GUN OUTFIT, Drenge - DRENGE, Fade away - BEST COAST, California X - CALIFORNIA X, Honeys - PISSED JEANS, Fuzz - FUZZ, Floating coffin - THEE OH SEES, Howlin - JAGWAR MA, Immunity - JON HOPKINS, Tomorrow’s harvest - BOARDS OF CANADA, With love - ZOMBY, Night time, my time - SKY FERREIRA, Wolf's law - THE JOY FORMIDABLE, The flower lane - DUCKTAILS, Clash the truth - BEACH FOSSILS, II - UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, Slow summits - PASTELS, Pale green ghosts - JOHN GRANT, Monkey's mind in the devil's time - STEVE MASON, Engravings - FOREST SWORDS, Field of reeds - THESE NEW PURITANS, Drifters / Love is the devil - DIRTY BEACHES, Crimes of passion - CROCODILES, Imps of perversion - POP. 1280, Coming Apart - BODY/HEAD, Nepenthe - JULIANNA BARWICK, Waiting for the summer - THE PROPER ORNAMENTS, Costa Blanca - THE LIMIÑANAS, Badwater - SPECK MOUNTAIN, 3 - RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR, Lady from Shanghai - PERE UBU, American twilight - CRIME AND THE CITY SOLUTION, Troubles - DIRT MUSIC, Clarietta - CHARLIE BOYER AND THE VOYEURS, How to stop your brain in an accident - FUTURE OF THE LEFT, Pearl mystic - HOOKWORMS, No passion all technique - PROTOMARTYR, Totale nite - MERCHANDISE, Wait to pleasure - NO JOY, Surfing strange - SWEARIN', Imperium - BLOUSE, Join the dots - TOY, The silver gymnasium - OKKERVIL RIVER, Cabinet of curiosities - JACCO GARDNER, Fanfare - JONATHAN WILSON, The messenger - JOHNNY MARR, Amok - ATOMS FOR PEACE, Lenses - SOFT METALS, Chance of rain - LAUREL HALO, Psychic - DARKSIDE, Beautiful rewind - FOUR TET, At home - KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS, A long walk - TANGO WITH LIONS, If you leave - DAUGHTER, Once I was an eagle - LAURA MARLING, Warp and weft - LAURA VEIRS, The stand-in - CAITLIN ROSE, Mug museum - CATE LE BON, Sleeper - TY SEGALL, Imitations - MARK LANEGAN, Until in excess, imperceptible UFO - BESNARD LAKES, The drop - PINKUNOIZU, Fain - WOLF PEOPLE, Perhaps - HAIGHT-ASHBURY, Hobo rocket - POND, Mole city - QUASI, Glow & behold - YUCK, Lightning bolt - PEARL JAM, Bonnie "Prince" Billy - BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY, Love your dum and mad - NADINE SHAH, Julia with blue jeans on - MOONFACE, Days are gone - HAIM, Wise up ghost and other songs - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ROOTS, Acid rap - CHANCE THE RAPPER, Doris - EARL SWEATSHIRT, My name is my name - PUSHA T, Long.Live.A$AP - A$AP ROCKY, Government plates - DEATH GRIPS, Drone Logic - DANIEL AVERY, Pop obskura - LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO, Jinx - WEEKEND, Love and peace and sympathy - SIX BY SEVEN, Slave vows - THE ICARUS LINE, Surrender to the fantasy - MAGIK MARKERS, Abandon - PHARMAKON, Cosy moments - KINSKI, Desperate ground - THE THERMALS, Antiphon - MIDLAKE, Haw - HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, Regions of light and sound of God - JIM JAMES, Settle - DISCLOSURE, Impersonator - MAJICAL CLOUDZ, Random access memories - DAFT PUNK, False idols - TRICKY, Overgrown - JAMES BLAKE, R plus seven - ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, 6 feet beneath the moon - KING KRULE, Perils from the sea - MARK KOZELEK & JIMMY LAVELLE, Mala - DEVENDRA BANHART, Wonderful, glorious - EELS, Long islands - ENDLESS BOOGIE, 2 - MODERAT, Anxiety - AUTRE NE VEUT, Sunbather - DEAFHEAVEN, 180 - PALMA VIOLETS, In love - PEACE, Bankrupt! - PHOENIX, Ruled by passion, destroyed by lust - THE ASPHODELLS, Wilderness - THE HANDSOME FAMILY, Southeastern - JASON ISBELL, Caramel - CONNAN MOCKASIN, Machineries of joy - BRITISH SEA POWER, Via - THALIA ZEDEK BAND, Four (acts of love) - MICK HARVEY, Revolutionary suicide - JULIAN COPE, Love from London - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, The next day - DAVID BOWIE, The electric lady - JANELLE MONÁE, True romance - CHARLI XCX, Wolf - TYLER, THE CREATOR, Thr!!!er - !!!, Sistrionix - DEAP VALLY, About farewell - ALELA DIANE, Fantasy - LIGHTNING DUST, Soft will - SMITH WESTERNS, Pythons - SURFER BLOOD, Bed & bugs - OBITS, Collision course / Trust the witch - BIG SEXY NOISE, Dromes - YOUNGHUSBAND, The coincidentalist - HOWE GELB, You were right - BRENDAN BENSON, Lousy with Sylvianbriar - OF MONTREAL, Kveikur - SIGUR ROS, Hesitation marks - NINE INCH NAILS, The way things fall - ADULT., Wondrous bughouse - YOUTH LAGOON, Long enough to leave - THE MANTLES, Curiosity - WAMPIRE, It's up to Emma - SCOUT NIBLETT, The chronicles of Marnia - MARNIE STERN, Cyclops reap - WHITE FENCE, Dear Miss Lonelyhearts - COLD WAR KIDS, Black pudding - MARK LANEGAN AND DUKE GARWOOD, Tales of a grass widow - COCO ROSIE, Moon tides - PURE BATHING CULTURE, NYPC - NYPC, Nothing is real - CRYSTAL ANTLERS, No blues - LOS CAMPESINOS!,  Magic hour - LUSCIOUS JACKSON, Versions - ZOLA JESUS, Tally all the things that you broke - PARKAY QUARTS, The remainderer EP - THE FALL, Strange moon - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS