Best Albums of 2013

Listed below are the best albums of 2013 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 7 hours ago).
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2013 year summaryThe best artists of 2013 were Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, Daft Punk, Kanye West, Queens Of The Stone Age, Arcade Fire, The National, Deafheaven, My Bloody Valentine and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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"This album has its moments, and I have a feeling that this might be an album that requires a lot of listens to really get, but overall, the album was fairly boring. I mean, some of the songs were just straight up uninteresting entirely. Long, drawn-out electronic pieces that just stagnated and we..."  [+]  Reply
- RockyRaccoon | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"On my third or fourth play through and am disappointed :-( Different Gear still speeding was not a classic album by any means but it wasn't bad and had quite a few stand out tracks. BE doesn't seem to have ant stand out tracks. The Flick of The Finger is almost a good song but seems to just peter..."  [+]  Reply
- nshaw75 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"I don't quite agree with benjameen that the songs all sound the same. Alive is a great summer pop song, but the entire album is chalk full of songs that aren't just "party tracks." The opening track "LUX" is John Williams-esque, almost as if they are introducing the listener to the "Emperor" of t..."  [+]  Reply
- samistake2ice | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"First. :) Before hitting my teens I used to listen to almost exclusively Jean Michel Jarre's music (and before that Italian schlagers). My introduction to Kavinsky's music came about when I wanted to update my contempt for hipsters' music taste by looking up what kinda music is behind all these w..."  [+]  Reply
- stupidusATmailDOTcom | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"I Didn't expect much from this album, I unfairly saw them as just another hype band, but after a few listen I have been rely impressed with his album and I can't wait to see what they do on their next one."  Reply
- MrBrown | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"The new nine inch nails album sounds like it continues where "The Fragile" left off. So does this album. However, if you want to hear what the new nine inch nails album could've been under an alternate reality where the tracks donned less keyboards and were less like dance tracks and more like th..."  [+]  Reply
- paladisiac | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"This album is absolutely beautiful. I mean, I cannot overstate how good this album really is. Take lead singer Winston Yellen’s beautiful voice and skilled songwriting and you’ve got this impressive work. The album starts off with the acapella “Faithful Heights" that will immediately grab your at..."  [+]  Reply
- RockyRaccoon | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"The dark star from this concert is a truly religious experience. A tital psychedelic masterpiece. The other key tracks are an exploratory playing in the band with a beautiful out there and back performance. There are other must hear tracks. It the third highlight for me is a heart wrenching sing ..."  [+]  Reply
- glynspsa | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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