Year-End Lists

Uncut Magazine: 80 Best Albums of 2013

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1. mbv
   My Bloody Valentine
2. The Next Day
   David Bowie
3. Push the Sky Away
   Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
4. Pale Green Ghosts
   John Grant
5. Once I Was an Eagle
   Laura Marling
6. Man & Myth
   Roy Harper
7. Dream River
   Bill Callahan
8. Wakin on a Pretty Daze
   Kurt Vile
9. AM
   Arctic Monkeys
10. Tomorrow’s Harvest
    Boards of Canada
11. Big Inner
    Matthew E. White
12. Crimson/Red
    Prefab Sprout
13. Random Access Memories
    Daft Punk
14. Trouble Will Find Me
    The National
15. Loud City Song
    Julia Holter
16. Floating Coffin
    Thee Oh Sees
17. Yeezus
    Kanye West
18. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
19. Long Island
    Endless Boogie
20. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
21. Berberian Sound Studio
    Broadcast
22. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
23. Fanfare
    Jonathan Wilson
24. II
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra
25. The Stand-In
    Caitlin Rose
26. Southeastern
    Jason Isbell
27. Amok
    Atoms for Peace
28. The Messenger
    Johnny Marr
29. Haw
    Hiss Golden Messenger
30. Fade
    Yo La Tengo
31. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
    Neko Case
32. Field of Reeds
    These New Puritans
33. Electric
    Pet Shop Boys
34. Corsicana Lemonade
    White Denim
35. Perils From The Sea
    Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle
36. Mark Kozelek & Desertshore
    Mark Kozelek & Desertshore
37. Personal Record
    Eleanor Friedberger
38. Days Are Gone
    Haim
39. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
40. Solar Motel
    Chris Forsyth
41. The Invisible Way
    Low
42. Reflektor
    Arcade Fire
43. The Silver Gymnasium
    Okkervil River
44. Fuzz
    Fuzz
45. Rewind the Film
    Manic Street Preachers
46. Factory Floor
    Factory Floor
47. Bankrupt!
    Phoenix
48. Ghost on Ghost
    Iron & Wine
49. Seasons of Your Day
    Mazzy Star
50. Ride Out The Dark
    Houndstooth
51. Jama Ko
    Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
52. Open
    The Necks
53. Won’t Be Long Now
    Linda Thompson
54. Beautiful Africa
    Rokia Traoré
55. Mind Control
    Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
56. Understated
    Edwyn Collins
57. Pedestrian Verse
    Frightened Rabbit
58. MCII
    Mikal Cronin
59. Rock and Roll Animals
    Luke Haines
60. 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
    King Krule
61. Caramel
    Connan Mockasin
62. Immunity
    Jon Hopkins
63. Electric
    Pet Shop Boys
64. One Breath
    Anna Calvi
65. The Civil Wars
    The Civil Wars
66. Muchacho
    Phosphorescent
67. Regions of Light and Sound of God
    Jim James
68. Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time
    Steve Mason
69. Anxiety
    Autre Ne Veut
70. Impossible Truth
    William Tyler
71. Temperamental
    Don Cavalli
72. Old Yellow Moon
    Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell
73. Warp and Weft
    Laura Veirs
74. Lonesome Dreams
    Lord Huron
75. The Diving Board
    Elton John
76. Images du Futur
    Suuns
77. Mug Museum
    Cate Le Bon
78. Pearl Mystic
    Hookworms
79. Love From London
    Robyn Hitchcock
80. Hoodoo
    Tony Joe White