Best Albums and Songs of 2013

2013’s Best Albums

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

2. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

3. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze

4. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe

5. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight…

6. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

7. Volcano Choir - Repave

8. Haim - Days Are Gone

9. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse

10. Phosphorescent - Muchacho

11. Local Natives - Hummingbird

12. Mikal Cronin - MCII

13. Mutual Benefit - Love’s Crushing Diamond

14. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - The Speed of Things

15. The Front Bottoms - Talon of the Hawk

More albums I liked (just not as much as my top 15):

Explosions in the Sky - Prince Avalanche (original soundtrack)

John Wizards - John Wizards

Junip - Junip

Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium

Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Telekinesis - Dormarion

[various artists] - Inside Llewyn Davis (original soundtrack)

Yo La Tengo - Fade

Even more albums I liked (but which I haven’t listened to enough to put them on a list without feeling like a total charlatan):

Bill Callahan - Dream River

Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Deerhunter - Monomania

Disclosure - Settle

James Blake - Overgrown

Kanye West - Yeezus

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle

Savages - Silence Yourself

Typhoon - White Lighter

2013’s Best Songs:

1. Awful Sound (Oh Euridice), Arcade Fire

2. Humiliation, The National

3. Hannah Hunt, Vampire Weekend

4. The Day You Died, Phantogram

5. It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus), Arcade Fire

6. Shame Chamber, Kurt Vile

7. Step, Vampire Weekend

8. Pink Rabbits, The National

9. Tiderays, Volcano Choir

10. The Mother We Share, Chvrches

11. Calling Cards, Neko Case

12. CMF, Caspian

13. Power Lines, Telekinesis

14. The Wire, Haim
15. Planet Phrom, Ducktails