Billboard's 15 Best Albums of 2013

Billboard's 15 Best Albums of 2013

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14.

November 11, 2013
Critic Score
63
32 reviews

12.

May 14, 2013
Critic Score
81
45 reviews

On "Modern Vampires," there's no reaching for the elusive crossover hit, no beating listeners over the head with overdone choruses -- just quality music, which, so far, has worked out just fine.

11.

March 19, 2013
Critic Score
75
38 reviews
One of the year’s most anticipated pop releases is also one of the genre’s weirdest — and most fully realized — efforts in ages. There will be many people longing for the immediacy of songs like “My Love” and “Rock Your Body,” but Timberlake has offered us something more complicated, although no less accessible.

9.

October 29, 2013
Critic Score
77
49 reviews

Clocking in at an hour and twenty-five minutes, "Reflektor" drags in parts, though it contains plenty of moments that sound ready to breathe life into the middling state of commercial rock in 2013.

8.

March 5, 2013
Critic Score
77
23 reviews

7.

May 21, 2013
Critic Score
83
50 reviews

"Random Access Memories" is a messy album, filled with passages that can be trimmed and one or two too many plodding songs. But it's also fantastic to hear these masterminds trying again.

6.

September 27, 2013
Critic Score
76
36 reviews

5.

September 24, 2013
Critic Score
77
29 reviews
He makes up for the lack of addictive anthems and playfulness with his impressionable stream of sentiments -- our kryptonite, his superpower.

4.

September 27, 2013
Critic Score
77
37 reviews
Built around producer Joel Little's deep bass rumbles, lilting loops and programmed beats, the album evokes the shadowy sonics of Massive Attack and the XX. In the center of the heaviness, however, is a 16-year-old with a dynamic voice and an even better pop sensibility.

3.

June 3, 2013
Critic Score
76
36 reviews

They're still more interested in presenting exhilarating dance music than trying to analyze its power.

2.

June 18, 2013
Critic Score
83
46 reviews

Those looking for vintage soul sounds or even full-on raps from start to finish will be thrown several curves here. It’s an album with numerous emotional layers as well.

1.

December 13, 2013
Critic Score
82
32 reviews
It's as impressive an accomplishment creatively as it is for shifting the industry towards a more nontraditional take on the "single-album-tour" strategy.
Original Source: http://www.billboard.com/articles/list/5840321/15-best-albums-of-2013-critics-picks
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