Year-End Lists

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