Top 25 Music Albums of 2013
by JamesMowbray 
- Chart updated: 06/22/2021 11:15
- (Created: 04/21/2017 22:35).
- Chart size: 25 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
Year of Release:
2013
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Rank Score:
10,099
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Kanye West followed up his 2010 masterpiece 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' in one of the best ways possible, by creating something almost completely different. But unlike the softer more vulnerable personality shown on his other major left swerve '808s and Heartbreak', West made 'Yeezus' possibly the most abrasive album a major hip hop star has ever released. The main criticism this album faces regard the shallow or sometimes moronic lyrics, but this misses the point that the album is about letting the Id run loose, so when taken individually some songs can seem ridiculous but collectively a vicious state of mind is built up, culminating in the release and redemption of 'Bound 2'.
Opener 'On Sight' kicks off the album in brutal fashion, with wild electronic blasts giving way to an unruly but rhythmic loop. The lyrics are immediately aggressive starting "Yeezy season approaching, fuck whatever y'all be hearing, fuck whatever y'all be wearing" touching on Kanye's anger at the fashion industry for underestimating him at that time. Out of nowhere the cagey verse expands into an open and relaxed sample before the listener is dragged back into the ferocious nature of the song, which somehow manages to be more unnerving than what you've already been listening to.
There's no let up as 'Black Skinhead' follows giving a far more catchy beat with some crazy drums providing the backbone of the track. The verses feel like the hip hop equivalent of Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk' as a tribal energy carries the song. When the drones hit in the hook the level of intensity increases further culminating in shouts of "god" with the instrumental getting louder and featuring more layers up to the end of the track.
'I am a God' features the peak of the egotistic power of Yeezus in both lyrics and title by expressing intense vocal delivery for trivialities, "Hurry up with my damn croissants". As with 'Black Skinhead' more layers of instrumentation get added in the hooks to build the intensity. Eventually the track completely degenerates into screams and higher synths with a Bon Iver guest spot calming to mood slightly. But this is immediately followed the the harsh and loud intro of 'New Slaves', the best track on the project. This is the main track where the lyrics do more than build on the atmosphere with Kanye writing his most powerful political material along with 'Two Words', with lines like "You see it's broke nigga racism, that's that 'don't touch anything in the store', and it's rich nigga racism, that's that 'come in please buy more' ". The second verse may be Kanye's best ever building up to a fever pitch ending in a completely unexpected outro from Frank Ocean.
'Hold my Liquor' is the first track without a completely brutal atmosphere. The track is all over the place, and the better for it, by helping to build a chaotic and gloomy atmosphere. When Kanye's verse enters every line ends in this electric screech, a far more effective way to take pauses in a verse than just letting the instrumental fill the gaps. After the verse the song becomes the second to degenerate with vocal touches and instrumental flairs appearing all over the place for the next 2 and a half minutes.
'I'm in it' is the only big misstep in the album. First of all it's strangely sandwiched between two of the most vulnerable tracks on the record and lacks the threatening nature of the first four tracks. It's still not a bad track though and fits with the overall themes of the album it just seems to be difficult to effectively get it into the sequence of the rest of the record.
'Blood on the Leaves' raises the standard back to the best of Kanye's abilities with a far more intense take on his autotuned singing of '808s and Heartbreak'. This is also exaggerated by the wave of horns that hits after about a minute. The verse featured towards the middle of the track shifts things up but keeps up a chaotic, confrontational and tragic atmosphere, before the bombastic production clears to give the repeated lines in the outro of "and breathe, and breathe" and "and live and learn" bringing things back full circle to the vulnerable first minute of the song.
'Guilt Trip' follows on perfectly going back more to the core sound of '808s' with vocal delivery and lyrics building a sense of confusion and rejection with vague lines like 'Peeking through the keyhole, the door locked by myself' doing enough to build on these themes. It culminates in a beautiful repetition of Kid Cudi singing 'If you love me so much, then why'd you let me go?' whilst entering strings to stop it blending with Kanye's verses.
The second track that feels misplaced is 'Send it Up'. I love the beat of this track and King Louie flows perfectly over it, providing Yeezus' only guest verse. It also features hilariously braggadocios lines like "She say 'Can you get my friends in the club?', I say 'Can you get my Benz in the club?', if not treat your friends like my benz, park they ass outside til the evening end". However I feel that the album would have flowed much better with 'Guilt Trip' going into 'Bound 2' similar to how 'Blame Game' went perfectly into 'Lost in the World' on MBDTF.
Album closer 'Bound 2' is the only remotely positive track on the record being a love song with the clumsy and egotistic nature of the rest of the album being used in completely different way. It prevents itself getting corny by using very real lines like "remember where we first met?, ok I don't remember where we first met" and "we made it thanksgiving, maybe we can make it to Christmas" fitting perfectly with the scattered personality on the rest of Yeezus.
Whilst it doesn't reach the heights of MBDTF, Yeezus still feels like a resounding success because it doesn't try to sound anything like it. Some people may have been put off by the lyrics on some of the tracks when coupled with West's public comments but this misses the cohesive nature of the subjects of the tracks to portray a Kanye West who says some really egotistic stuff but at heart is far more unsure of things.
Best Track: New Slaves [First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
Opener 'On Sight' kicks off the album in brutal fashion, with wild electronic blasts giving way to an unruly but rhythmic loop. The lyrics are immediately aggressive starting "Yeezy season approaching, fuck whatever y'all be hearing, fuck whatever y'all be wearing" touching on Kanye's anger at the fashion industry for underestimating him at that time. Out of nowhere the cagey verse expands into an open and relaxed sample before the listener is dragged back into the ferocious nature of the song, which somehow manages to be more unnerving than what you've already been listening to.
There's no let up as 'Black Skinhead' follows giving a far more catchy beat with some crazy drums providing the backbone of the track. The verses feel like the hip hop equivalent of Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk' as a tribal energy carries the song. When the drones hit in the hook the level of intensity increases further culminating in shouts of "god" with the instrumental getting louder and featuring more layers up to the end of the track.
'I am a God' features the peak of the egotistic power of Yeezus in both lyrics and title by expressing intense vocal delivery for trivialities, "Hurry up with my damn croissants". As with 'Black Skinhead' more layers of instrumentation get added in the hooks to build the intensity. Eventually the track completely degenerates into screams and higher synths with a Bon Iver guest spot calming to mood slightly. But this is immediately followed the the harsh and loud intro of 'New Slaves', the best track on the project. This is the main track where the lyrics do more than build on the atmosphere with Kanye writing his most powerful political material along with 'Two Words', with lines like "You see it's broke nigga racism, that's that 'don't touch anything in the store', and it's rich nigga racism, that's that 'come in please buy more' ". The second verse may be Kanye's best ever building up to a fever pitch ending in a completely unexpected outro from Frank Ocean.
'Hold my Liquor' is the first track without a completely brutal atmosphere. The track is all over the place, and the better for it, by helping to build a chaotic and gloomy atmosphere. When Kanye's verse enters every line ends in this electric screech, a far more effective way to take pauses in a verse than just letting the instrumental fill the gaps. After the verse the song becomes the second to degenerate with vocal touches and instrumental flairs appearing all over the place for the next 2 and a half minutes.
'I'm in it' is the only big misstep in the album. First of all it's strangely sandwiched between two of the most vulnerable tracks on the record and lacks the threatening nature of the first four tracks. It's still not a bad track though and fits with the overall themes of the album it just seems to be difficult to effectively get it into the sequence of the rest of the record.
'Blood on the Leaves' raises the standard back to the best of Kanye's abilities with a far more intense take on his autotuned singing of '808s and Heartbreak'. This is also exaggerated by the wave of horns that hits after about a minute. The verse featured towards the middle of the track shifts things up but keeps up a chaotic, confrontational and tragic atmosphere, before the bombastic production clears to give the repeated lines in the outro of "and breathe, and breathe" and "and live and learn" bringing things back full circle to the vulnerable first minute of the song.
'Guilt Trip' follows on perfectly going back more to the core sound of '808s' with vocal delivery and lyrics building a sense of confusion and rejection with vague lines like 'Peeking through the keyhole, the door locked by myself' doing enough to build on these themes. It culminates in a beautiful repetition of Kid Cudi singing 'If you love me so much, then why'd you let me go?' whilst entering strings to stop it blending with Kanye's verses.
The second track that feels misplaced is 'Send it Up'. I love the beat of this track and King Louie flows perfectly over it, providing Yeezus' only guest verse. It also features hilariously braggadocios lines like "She say 'Can you get my friends in the club?', I say 'Can you get my Benz in the club?', if not treat your friends like my benz, park they ass outside til the evening end". However I feel that the album would have flowed much better with 'Guilt Trip' going into 'Bound 2' similar to how 'Blame Game' went perfectly into 'Lost in the World' on MBDTF.
Album closer 'Bound 2' is the only remotely positive track on the record being a love song with the clumsy and egotistic nature of the rest of the album being used in completely different way. It prevents itself getting corny by using very real lines like "remember where we first met?, ok I don't remember where we first met" and "we made it thanksgiving, maybe we can make it to Christmas" fitting perfectly with the scattered personality on the rest of Yeezus.
Whilst it doesn't reach the heights of MBDTF, Yeezus still feels like a resounding success because it doesn't try to sound anything like it. Some people may have been put off by the lyrics on some of the tracks when coupled with West's public comments but this misses the cohesive nature of the subjects of the tracks to portray a Kanye West who says some really egotistic stuff but at heart is far more unsure of things.
Best Track: New Slaves [First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
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2013
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7,302
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[First added to this chart: 02/10/2018]
Year of Release:
2013
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3,101
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4. (=)
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[First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
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2013
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7,074
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[First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
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2013
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1,945
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[First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
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2013
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3,664
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[First added to this chart: 04/15/2018]
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2013
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1,781
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[First added to this chart: 05/05/2018]
[First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
Year of Release:
2013
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956
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[First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
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2013
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Top 25 Music Albums of 2013 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Lorde | 1 | 4% | |
| Disclosure | 1 | 4% | |
| Danny Brown | 1 | 4% | |
| Daft Punk | 1 | 4% | |
| Mount Eerie | 1 | 4% | |
| Vampire Weekend | 1 | 4% | |
| Cats Millionaire | 1 | 4% | |
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Top 25 Music Albums of 2013 chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 16th to 17thNothing Was The Same by Drake |
| Down 1 from 17th to 18thDoris by Earl Sweatshirt |
| Down 1 from 18th to 19thBeyoncé by Beyoncé |
| New entries |
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| Jouissance by Uboa |
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