Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Albums of 2013

Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Albums of 2013

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9.

May 14, 2013
Critic Score
81
45 reviews

Modern Vampires is the perfect album for the coming Atlantic summer. Think of it like saltwater taffy: bright and sweet, with plenty to chew on.

7.

January 29, 2013
Critic Score
76
31 reviews

The follow-up sometimes feels like it’s coasting down a long but not-so-steep hill, with warm synth melodies and soaring choruses stretching out forever. Still, it’s a lovely ride.

6.

April 5, 2013
Critic Score
70
22 reviews

At 17 tracks, Paramore’s self-titled release seems like it should also be a textbook victim of its creators’ self-indulgence — but in fact it comes off like the great Blondie-indebted 21st-century new-wave album that No Doubt were trying to make with 2012’s Push and Shove.

5.

September 10, 2013
Critic Score
64
30 reviews
”This ain’t nothing to relate to,” Tesfaye insists on the dense, two-part title track. No, it’s alienation that verges on transcendence.

4.

March 19, 2013
Critic Score
84
10 reviews

On her confident, melodic major-label debut, Musgraves’ vocals are pleasingly agile, but what Same Trailer Different Park continually showcases is her writing prowess.

3.

October 8, 2013
Critic Score
57
24 reviews
Wherever her passions alighted in the past, she’s obviously infatuated right now with hip-hop and its perpetual drive for new and exotic sounds.

2.

September 24, 2013
Critic Score
77
29 reviews

Nothing Was the Same bristles with epiphanies, absurdities, and plenty of bluster, but it’s all fodder for a hyperrealistic portrait of Aubrey Drake Graham, not some coronation ceremony.

1.

June 18, 2013
Critic Score
83
46 reviews

As much as he pushes the envelope aesthetically, Yeezus isn’t quite the hardcore manifesto that early signs indicated.

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