Best Albums of 2013

01/02/2014

By Aman Mittal

The year ends and what a year it has been. When it comes to music we saw a lot of albums, singles, performances come and go. In a year when DJ Hardwell became the no. 1 DJ and Metallica played a concert in Antarctica. Funny how time goes by. So this time I bring to you a list of the top rated albums by users and even critic scores as seen on http://www.albumoftheyear.org . Pretty awesome site for all music lovers. It gave me immense help in compiling this and presenting it in an ordered format. Feel free to comment with your favourite music/album for this year and check out some of the ones mentioned here.

ACCORDING TO USER RATING

1. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Released: October 29th, 2013

Genre: Indie Rock

2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Released: May 14th, 2013

Genre: Indie Rock

3. Darkside - Psychic
Released: October 8th, 2013

Genre: Art Pop

4. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Released: August 19th, 2013

Genre: Experimental

5. Nils Frahm - Spaces
Released: November 18th, 2013

Genre: Ambient

6. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Released: May 21st, 2013

Genre: Indie Rock

7. Arctic Monkeys - AM
Released: September 9th, 2013

Genre: Indie Rock

8. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Released: May 21st, 2013

Genre: French House

ACCORDING TO CRITIC RATING

1. Deafheaven - Sunbather
Released: June 11th, 2013

Genre: Black Metal

2. Patty Griffin - American Kid
Released: May 7th, 2013

Genre: Folk

3. My Bloody Valentine - m b vReleased: February 3rd, 2013

Genre: Shoegaze

4. Nils Frahm - Spaces
Released: November 18th, 2013

Genre: Ambient

5. Julia Holter - Loud City SongReleased: August 19th, 2013

Genre: Experimental

6. Kanye West - Yeezus
Released: June 18th, 2013

Genre: Hip Hop

7. The Knife - Shaking the HabitualReleased: April 8th, 2013

Genre: Electronic

8. Danny Brown - OLDReleased: October 8th, 2013

Genre: Hip Hop

I am sure for many including myself this list was a surprise, which only shows how restricted our music library is even when we think we have heard enough. The list gives you an opportunity to explore new music and this surely gives me a chance to give more such articles in the future.

Notable Mentions

The 20/20 experience – Justin Timberlake

The Next Day – David Bowie

Born Sinner – J.Cole

Long.Live.A$AP – ASAP Rocky

...Like Clockwork – Queens of the Stone Age

Comments

Kashish Sharma

01/03/2014 6:57am

timberlake's album isnt in the top .... i am not even a fan and even i know that it deserves to be there.

now... my biggest and most major concern.

Marshal Mathers LP II !!!!!!!
One of the BEST rap album of the year, okay i get it that its subjective and my opinion but the album was FANTASTIC, raps were amazin. Should have atleast been mentioned. This album was a gentle, okay not really gentle more like vulgar reminded to people what rap is.

Aman

01/04/2014 6:45am

Well, this wasn't my personal choice but whatever users voted on the site. Hence I included the according to user/ critic part. And Thanks for the comment. Always good to know. And I agree about the Eminem album. Brilliant.

Rohit

01/03/2014 2:55pm

Disclosure's "Settle" was absolutely brilliant, so was Andrew Bayer's masterpiece "If It Were You We'd Never Leave".

01/04/2014 6:50am

Thanks for the feedback. Highly appreciated. :D And yes both were good if not my personal choice.

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