Albums of the Year: 2013 - Critic's Choice - 50-21

2013 has been a terrific year for music. What's your favourite album of 2013?

I've done a compilation of End-of-Year lists made by various Music Critic websites, sourced from Album of the Year.  All up, there are 41 lists.  There is a LOT of variation, with an overall 266 albums making the Top 20s of these various lists.

To make some sense of this huge list, my scoring is as follows:

• Ranked 1-5 = 4 points
• Ranked 6-10 = 3 points
• Ranked 11-15 = 2 points
• Ranked 16-20 = 1 point

So, what was the final outcome?

Here are numbers 50-20:


48-51 were all tied (10 points):

• Haxan Cloak - Excavation
• Ka - The Night's Gambit
• King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
• Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain

Tied for 43rd (11 points):

• Bill Callahan - Dream River
• Foxygen - We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
• Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
• Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
• Darkside - Psychic

Tied for 39th (12 points):

• Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
• James Holden - The Inheritors
• Jason Isbell - Southeastern
• Kelela - CUT 4 ME

38th:  Foals - Holy Fire (13 points):

Tied for 35th (14 points)

• Atoms for Peace - AMOK
• Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
• Phosphorescent - Muchacho

Tied for 30th:

• Deerhunter - Monomania
• Drake - Nothing Was the Same
• Factory Floor - Factory Floor
• Neko Case - The Worse Things Get
• Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

29th: Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety (16 points)

Tied for 25th (21 points)

• Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
• James Blake - Overgrown
• Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus 7
• Tim Hecker - Virgins

24th: Deafheaven - Sunbather (22 points)

23rd: Julia Holter - Loud City Song (25 points)

22nd: CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe (26 points)


For the Top 20, check out my other post.