FasterLouder's Top 50 Albums of 2013

FasterLouder's Top 50 Albums of 2013

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50.

July 2, 2013
Critic Score
79
11 reviews

47.

Adalita - All Day Venus
November 5, 2013
Critic Score
75
2 reviews

46.

Hungry Kids of Hungary - You're A Shadow
February 22, 2013
Critic Score
70
1 review

43.

August 19, 2013
Critic Score
83
32 reviews
No matter how abstract the arrangements Holter finds a way to make them inclusive rather than isolating.

42.

February 3, 2013
Critic Score
87
42 reviews

My Bloody Valentine still sound like no other band, but they’re stretching out to a large degree on this album, making their sound even more texturally dense.

41.

September 24, 2013
Critic Score
79
42 reviews
Managing to exhibit emotional torment within ready-to-dance anthems is a tense balancing act, but Chvrches’ pain is coated in a glossy, candy armour.

40.

February 11, 2013
Critic Score
76
33 reviews

39.

World's End Press - World's End Press
October 4, 2013
Critic Score
60
2 reviews

38.

May 6, 2013
Critic Score
80
41 reviews

36.

Pikelet - Calluses
September 3, 2013
Critic Score
80
2 reviews

34.

Big Scary - Not Art
June 28, 2013
Critic Score
73
3 reviews

32.

Wolf & Cub - Heavy Weight
September 13, 2013
Critic Score
80
1 review

30.

August 24, 2013
Critic Score
77
30 reviews
At 14 tracks, it’s just a bit more time than we needed to spend with someone who’s spilling his guts this way. But taking each track on its own, this is a marvellous debut and a perfect fit for those desolate late nights.

29.

October 8, 2013
Critic Score
84
29 reviews
In short, it’s an entire universe in an album: Brown’s past and present in the lyrics, the past and present of hip-hop in the music.

28.

February 5, 2013
Critic Score
78
29 reviews

From soul to psychedelia may seem like a stylistic jump, but Ruban Nielson has absorbed his influences so completely, and has attained such control of his sound, that he makes such eclecticism seems completely natural.

27.

Ngaiire - Lamentations
June 12, 2013
Critic Score
80
1 review

26.

May 21, 2013
Critic Score
84
47 reviews

If you think you’ve outgrown them, you haven’t. Matt Berninger’s quandaries are not the sort that can be outgrown, they’re the sort that stalk you to the grave. That The National can wring beauty from these bleak inevitabilities is the reason that they matter.

25.

February 26, 2013
Critic Score
74
46 reviews

24.

August 20, 2013
Critic Score
80
33 reviews

Earl’s debut studio album Doris is many things. It’s messy, emotional, awkward and sinister, but it’s also a fascinating release that finds one of Odd Future’s brattiest MCs in a contemplative mood.

23.

June 3, 2013
Critic Score
84
33 reviews

22.

February 18, 2013
Critic Score
84
47 reviews

Straight to your heart and to your gut, Push The Sky Away hits like a gentle kiss: life, love, loss. It’s a masterwork by an artist whose horizon feels a long, long way off.

20.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Float Along – Fill Your Lungs
September 27, 2013
Critic Score
80
5 reviews
If it sounds like they’ve jumped the shark, they haven’t. The shark is playing tambourine.

18.

March 12, 2013
Critic Score
81
46 reviews

Though not ideal, the slightly colourless production is far from a fatal flaw. David Bowie’s careful stage-managing of The Next Day’s release ingenious, it’s also wholly unnecessary. The Next Day is an excellent album, even by his stratospheric standards.

17.

November 5, 2013
Critic Score
69
30 reviews

16.

September 10, 2013
Critic Score
83
41 reviews

The Electric Lady is rich with musical sustenance both classic and futurist.

14.

April 8, 2013
Critic Score
82
44 reviews

Overgrown holds together beautifully, managing to cohere without wilting into monotony. Given how eclectic the album is, it’s a hell of a trick.

12.

September 27, 2013
Critic Score
76
36 reviews

11.

October 29, 2013
Critic Score
77
49 reviews

Reflektor is the sound of a few goofballs throwing themselves a well-deserved party, present are the requisite anxieties that go hand in hand with playing host.

10.

Dick Diver - Calendar Days
March 15, 2013
Critic Score
80
1 review

8.

May 14, 2013
Critic Score
81
45 reviews

The record’s better executed moments (‘Unbelievers’, ‘Ya Hey’) are widescreen and epic; adjectives one would never have associated with Vampire Weekend’s first two albums

7.

September 9, 2013
Critic Score
81
43 reviews

If not a total revelation, it’s another periodic reminder of just how arresting a playful songwriter and a well-schooled rock band can sound together.

5.

May 21, 2013
Critic Score
83
50 reviews

Random Access Memories is too intimate to be the late night dancefloor banger some might’ve expected. Instead it’s the sensual conversation on the velvet sofa in a dimly-lit room.

4.

Violent Soho - Hungry Ghost
September 6, 2013
Critic Score
62
5 reviews

In all, Hungry Ghost is an impressive effort in terms of retaining the band’s character and edge that made their previous work worthy of attention, whilst also polishing their sound just enough to garner wider acceptance.

3.

June 18, 2013
Critic Score
83
46 reviews

It’s dark as anything but able to turn uplifting at any moment, synths and drum machines giving way to choral samples as if it’s the most natural thing in the world.

2.

June 4, 2013
Critic Score
83
49 reviews

I called them solid and dependable previously and that sense of solidness is the first thing that comes across on ...Like Clockwork. They are a Volvo of a band, reliable, they will not let you down.

1.

September 27, 2013
Critic Score
77
37 reviews

Overwhelming nostalgia defines Pure Heroine, a wistful dissection of a youth still in progress.

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