All right, here's an updated list of where I would rank all the 2013 albums I was able to spend a decent amount of time with. Everything here has merit, regardless of ranking. Obviously I'm way higher on Trouble Will Find Me and Light Up Gold than Major Arcana, but this list only contains albums I found worthwhile.
Biggest surprise for me is how much some of the years folkier releases - Once I Was An Eagle, American Kid, Dream River - grew on me as year went on, and how hard it was for me to truly buy into two of the year's most celebrated releases - MBV and Disclosure's Settle.
HIGHEST RECOMMENDS
1. Trouble Will Find Me - The National
2. Push The Sky Away - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts
STRONG RECOMMENDS
4. Southeastern - Jason Isbell
5. Modern Vampires Of The City - Vampire Weekend
6. Sunbather - Deafhaven
SOLID RECOMMENDS
7. New Moon - The Men
8. Psychic - DARKSIDE
9. Women - Rhye
10. Holy Fire - Foals
11. The Silver Gymnasium - Okkervil River
12. Howlin - Jagwar Ma
13. Silence Yourself - Savages
14. Once I Was An Eagle - Laura Marling
15. Dream River - Bill Callahan
16. American Kid - Patty Griffin
17. Pearl Mystic - Hookworms
18. Excavation - The Haxan Cloak
19. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
20. Immunity - Jon Hopkins
21. MCII - Mikal Cronin
22. The Worse Things Get... - Neko Case
23. The Bones Of What You Believe - Chvrches
24. Shaking The Habitual - The Knife
25. Yeezus - Kanye West
26. Reflektor - Arcade Fire
27. Cerulean Salt - Waxahatchee
28. More Light - Primal Scream
29. Absolute Zero - Little Green Cars
30. We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors - Foxygen
31. The Electric Lady - Janelle Monae
32. Muchacho - Phosphorescent
33. Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant
34. Signed And Sealed In Blood - Dropkick Murphy's
35. Virgins - Tim Hecker
36. Days Are Gone - Haim
37. Floating Coffin - Thee Oh Sees
38. Wakin On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
39. Pedestrian Verse - Frightened Rabbit
40. Fade - Yo La Tengo
41. The Next Day - David Bowie
42. Kveikur - Sigur Ros
43. Slow Focus - Fuck Buttons
44. AM - Arctic Monkeys
45. ...Like Clockwork - Queens Of The Stone Age
46. Pure Heroine - Lorde
47. The Terror - The Flaming Lips
48. Innocence Is Kinky - Jenny Hval
MILD RECOMMENDS
49. The Messenger - Johnny Marr
50. Welcome To Oblivion - How To Destroy Angles
51. Monomania - Deerhunter
52. Pushin' Against A Stone - Valerie June
53. Same Trailer, Different Park - Kacey Musgraves
54. Hummingbird - Local Natives
55. Wonderful, Glorious - Eels
56. Overgrown - James Blake
57. In Guards We Trust - Guards
58. Head In The Dirt - Hanni El Khatib
59. The Bomb Shelter Sessions - Vintage Trouble
60. Settle - Disclosure
61. Jake Bugg
62. Old - Danny Brown
63. The Blowout - The So So Glos
64. Mosquito - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
65. Wise Up Ghost - Elvis Costello & The Rootsr
66. Anxiety - Autre Ne Veut
67. Nepenthe - Julianna Barwick
68. I Hate Music - Superchunk
69. Loud City Song - Julia Holte
70. Tomorrow's Harvest - Boards Of Canada
71. Run The Jewels
72. Wondrous Bughouse - Youth Lagoon
73. Twelve Reasons To Die - Ghostface Killah
74. Grownass Man - The Shouting Matches
75. MBV - My Bloody Valentine
76. Nomad - Bombino
77. Every Kingdom - Ben Howard
78. 6 Feet Beneath The Moon - King Krule
79. Repave - Volcano Choir
80. You're Nothing - Iceage
81. 180 - Palma Violets
82. Major Arcana - Speedy Ortiz
Last Updated 09.04.2014
Biggest surprise for me is how much some of the years folkier releases - Once I Was An Eagle, American Kid, Dream River - grew on me as year went on, and how hard it was for me to truly buy into two of the year's most celebrated releases - MBV and Disclosure's Settle.
HIGHEST RECOMMENDS
1. Trouble Will Find Me - The National
2. Push The Sky Away - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts
STRONG RECOMMENDS
4. Southeastern - Jason Isbell
5. Modern Vampires Of The City - Vampire Weekend
6. Sunbather - Deafhaven
SOLID RECOMMENDS
7. New Moon - The Men
8. Psychic - DARKSIDE
9. Women - Rhye
10. Holy Fire - Foals
11. The Silver Gymnasium - Okkervil River
12. Howlin - Jagwar Ma
13. Silence Yourself - Savages
14. Once I Was An Eagle - Laura Marling
15. Dream River - Bill Callahan
16. American Kid - Patty Griffin
17. Pearl Mystic - Hookworms
18. Excavation - The Haxan Cloak
19. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
20. Immunity - Jon Hopkins
21. MCII - Mikal Cronin
22. The Worse Things Get... - Neko Case
23. The Bones Of What You Believe - Chvrches
24. Shaking The Habitual - The Knife
25. Yeezus - Kanye West
26. Reflektor - Arcade Fire
27. Cerulean Salt - Waxahatchee
28. More Light - Primal Scream
29. Absolute Zero - Little Green Cars
30. We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors - Foxygen
31. The Electric Lady - Janelle Monae
32. Muchacho - Phosphorescent
33. Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant
34. Signed And Sealed In Blood - Dropkick Murphy's
35. Virgins - Tim Hecker
36. Days Are Gone - Haim
37. Floating Coffin - Thee Oh Sees
38. Wakin On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
39. Pedestrian Verse - Frightened Rabbit
40. Fade - Yo La Tengo
41. The Next Day - David Bowie
42. Kveikur - Sigur Ros
43. Slow Focus - Fuck Buttons
44. AM - Arctic Monkeys
45. ...Like Clockwork - Queens Of The Stone Age
46. Pure Heroine - Lorde
47. The Terror - The Flaming Lips
48. Innocence Is Kinky - Jenny Hval
MILD RECOMMENDS
49. The Messenger - Johnny Marr
50. Welcome To Oblivion - How To Destroy Angles
51. Monomania - Deerhunter
52. Pushin' Against A Stone - Valerie June
53. Same Trailer, Different Park - Kacey Musgraves
54. Hummingbird - Local Natives
55. Wonderful, Glorious - Eels
56. Overgrown - James Blake
57. In Guards We Trust - Guards
58. Head In The Dirt - Hanni El Khatib
59. The Bomb Shelter Sessions - Vintage Trouble
60. Settle - Disclosure
61. Jake Bugg
62. Old - Danny Brown
63. The Blowout - The So So Glos
64. Mosquito - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
65. Wise Up Ghost - Elvis Costello & The Rootsr
66. Anxiety - Autre Ne Veut
67. Nepenthe - Julianna Barwick
68. I Hate Music - Superchunk
69. Loud City Song - Julia Holte
70. Tomorrow's Harvest - Boards Of Canada
71. Run The Jewels
72. Wondrous Bughouse - Youth Lagoon
73. Twelve Reasons To Die - Ghostface Killah
74. Grownass Man - The Shouting Matches
75. MBV - My Bloody Valentine
76. Nomad - Bombino
77. Every Kingdom - Ben Howard
78. 6 Feet Beneath The Moon - King Krule
79. Repave - Volcano Choir
80. You're Nothing - Iceage
81. 180 - Palma Violets
82. Major Arcana - Speedy Ortiz
Last Updated 09.04.2014
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