Top 82 Music Albums of 2013
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MadhattanJack 
This was probably the last Really Big Year™ for albums before smartphones and streaming services started to take over. This was also the tail-end of the Nugaze Era™, and also the peak of the Great Pop Songwriter Shakeout™, after which only two or three people wrote hit songs. (I think they're down to just that one Swedish guy now.) It was also the beginning of The Golden Age of Adding Trademark Symbols To Arbitrarily-Named Time Periods™, which is somehow still going on as I type this.
- Chart updated: 05/25/2026 04:45
- (Created: 08/04/2022 22:53).
- Chart size: 82 albums.
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I can't really explain it, and most people will of course disagree, but somehow this obscure album by an obscure band from somewhere in the Pacific Northwest represents, to me, the pinnacle of the entire shoegaze-nugaze-spacerock genre. I'd rate it as highly as Souvlaki or Loveless if the last half of it were as good as the first half. Also, "Jetman Jet Team" may be the best band-name ever. They're probably really nice people if you meet them in person too, though I've never met them in person. I just thought I'd throw that in there.
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In some ways I actually like this album more than Loveless, though this opinion is considered heretical by fellow shoegazers. I sort of wish the shoegazers hadn't formed their own religion and churches and the inevitable Inquisitions and torture chambers to go with it all, because that way I could maybe express opinions like this more openly, but apparently this is what the music industry is all about now.
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There are people who will tell you Robyn has been "coasting" ever since 1993, but even if that's true, which it isn't, this is one of the three or four best records he's made since then. Oddly enough though, there are relatively few insect references.
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This was the closest thing to an actual shoegaze album involving Neil Halstead to come out between the years 1994 and 2017, so it gets extra points for that. (Otherwise it would be more like #9 or #10 on this list.)
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The early Stargazer Lilies singles were so uniformly fantastic that when they finally recorded a whole album, namely this one, it was kind of a disappointment. So if you want to get into this band the way I did, listen to their "Lost" compilation first, then this one. But why would anyone want to be like me? What makes me so special? Is it my hair? It's my hair, isn't it? Should I just shave it all off, then? Is that what you want?
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Still Corners started out as a more guitar-oriented tweegaze-type band, and with this album they started getting more synth-oriented. Obviously the main thing anyone's going to like about this band is Tessa Murray's voice, if not Tessa Murray herself, but if you like a nice balance between guitars and keyboards then this is probably the album of theirs to check out first. (If you like a nice balance between egg salad and heavy-duty hydraulic fluid, you might want to go with their later stuff.)
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The last great Bowie album. Or maybe just the last really good one. After 1983 everything got a little "fuzzy," Bowie-wise.
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They'll probably never get the credit and accolades they deserved, what with being from Bristol and everything. They eventually did make another album though, 2024's 'How Lost," but whatever happens in the future I still think they would have been huge back in 2013 if they'd only given themselves a better name like "The Fangs" or "The Prawns."
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It's not quite up to the high standards of their earlier material, but it's still great, and really, why would you apply such standards to a kite? Especially if the kite is your own brother. Sure, you might be from a dysfunctional family and maybe you don't like to play outside in high winds, but c'mon, give these guys a break.
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This is Album #3 of Wire Phase IV, though it could also be Album #4 of Wire Phase III if you're one of "those" people.
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| The Suburbs | 1 | 1% | |
| Arcade Fire | 1 | 1% | |
| The Asteroid No. 4 | 1 | 1% | |
| Blouse | 1 | 1% | |
| Destruction Unit | 1 | 1% | |
| Soft Shadows | 1 | 1% | |
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From MadhattanJack 08/06/2026 21:31 in Release Day Eve
MadhattanJack 08/06/2026 21:31 in Release Day Eve“What August 7, 2026 releases are YOU going to regret mentioning a week later when you realize you were unwittingly participating in a media pile-on that the celebrity being piled on hardly deserved? No blockbusters this week — there's a new album from emo-rockers Citizen and another from folk-rock…”
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albummaster 12/06/2025 08:35 in Track ratings“I also don't fully believe that ratings are completely accurate or honest. In he past, when I paid more attention to them, I would see an album with 10 tracks rated with 4 stars, and each of the ten tracks rated with 4 stars. I don't believe the odds of that being true are very good at all, but it…”
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imacgill 08/07/2026 23:14 | #315585
Excellent shoe-gazey chart. (Edited)
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