10x10: Best Albums 2013
For those of you just getting back to school, we feel your pain of the slow and painful boredom that is syllabus week. We also know that 2013 was a pretty intense year for music and that you probably didn't get around to listening to everything you've been hearing about. So, to relieve you of your boredom and make the vast and swirling abyss of new music somewhat more manageable, ten of our DJs and staff members to compiled of a list of what they though were the 10 best albums released in 2013.
Lil' Begs
- Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus 7
- Burial - Rival Dealer
- Young Thug - 1017 Thug
- DJ Rashad - Double Cup
- Visionist - I'm Fine
- Thundercat - Apocalypse
- Kanye West - Yeezus
- Various Artists - Yellow Loveless
- RP Boo - Legacy
- Cassie - Rockabye Baby
- Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
- Yuck - Glow and Behold
- Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
- King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
- Baths - Obsidian
- GRMLN - Empire
- Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
- Best Coast - Fade Away
- Beyoncé - Beyoncé
- Rhye - Woman
DJ Liv of Fat N' Happy
Mikayla of Steve Buschemi's Prom Night
- The Pizza Underground - The Pizza Underground (I Will Combust If I Have to Select a 'Number One' Album So in Memorium of Lou Reed I Shall Cite This)
- My Bloody Valentine - mbv
- Darkside - Psychic
- Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love Is The Devil
- Deerhunter - Monomania
- Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
- James Blake - Overgrown
- Kirin J Callinan - Embracism
- The Flaming Lips - The Terror
- Savages - Silence Yourself
- Kanye West - Yeezus
- Darkside - Psychic
- Deerhunter- Monomania
- Arcade Fire - Reflektor
- Rhye - Woman
- The Field - Cupid's Head
- Flying Lotus - ideas+drafts+loops
- Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
- James Blake - Overgrown
- Disclosure - Settle
Sam of This Isn't Happening
DJ Gumport of Self-Conscious Earnestness
- DJ Koze - Amygdala
- Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
- Arcade Fire- Reflektor
- My Bloody Valentine - m b v
- Bill Callahan - Dream River
- Dessa - Parts of Speech
- Rhye - Woman
- The Range - Nonfiction
- Atoms for Peace - Amok
- Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
- Kanye West - Yeezus
- James Holden - The Inheritors
- Burial - Rival Dealer
- My Bloody Valentine - m b v
- DJ Rashad - Double Cup
- Darkside - Psychic
- Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
- The National - Trouble Will Find Me
- These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
- Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Zach of Negative Fun
Gypsy Wolfe of Cluster Funk
- La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin
- Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends
- FIDLAR - FIDLAR
- Alexander Von Mehren - Aeropop
- Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
- The Melodic - Effra Parade
- Cactus Channel - Wooden Boy
- Cate le Bon - Mug Museum
- Junip - Junip
- Emiliana Torrini - Tookah
- EP of the year: FKJ - Time For Change
- Bonobo - The North Borders
- CocoRosie - Tales of a Grasswidow
- Vieux Farka Touré - Mon Pays
- Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
- Porter Ray - RSE GLD / WHT GLD / BLK GLD
- Rhye - Woman
- Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
- Devendra Banhart - Mala
- James Blake - Overgrown
- Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Isabel of Cat Nap
A.Non of Apocalyptic Adolescence
- Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind
- Atoms For Peave - AMOK
- My Bloody Valentine - m b v
- Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
- Deerhunter - Monomania
- James Blake - Overgrown
- Darkside - Psychic
- Ultraísta - Ultraísta
- Arcade Fire - Reflektor
- KT Tunstall - Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon
Paige of Rich Kats & Witch Kats
- Atoms for Peace - Amok
- My Bloody Valentine - m b v
- Beyoncé - Beyoncé
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
- Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
- King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
- The Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio 2
- FIDLAR - FIDLAR
- Kanye West - Yeezus
- James Blake - Overgrown
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