Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2013

We took many, many trips to the record store this year.

Published: December 13, 2013 05:01 Source

# 1

Yeezus by Kanye West

Album • Jun 18 / 2013 Experimental Hip Hop Industrial Hip Hop

# 2

Modern Vampires of the City by Vampire Weekend

Album • May 13 / 2013 Indie Pop

# 3

m b v by my bloody valentine

Album • Feb 02 / 2013 Shoegaze Dream Pop

# 4

The Bones of What You Believe by CHVRCHES

Album • Sep 20 / 2013 Synthpop Electropop

# 5

Wakin On A Pretty Daze by Kurt Vile

Album • Apr 08 / 2013 Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 6

Shaking The Habitual by The Knife

Album • Apr 05 / 2013 Electronic Post-Industrial Experimental

# 7

Reflektor by Arcade Fire

Album • Jan 01 / 2013 Alternative Dance Indie Rock

# 8

Settle by Disclosure

Album • Jun 03 / 2013 UK Garage Deep House Deep Tech

# 9

Trouble Will Find Me by The National

Album • May 17 / 2013 Indie Rock

# 10

Acid Rap by Chance the Rapper

Album • Apr 30 / 2013 Pop Rap Hip Hop

# 11

Days Are Gone by HAIM

Album • Sep 30 / 2013 Pop Rock

# 12

Loud City Song by Julia Holter

Album • Aug 19 / 2013 Art Pop Ambient Pop

# 13

Push the Sky Away by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Album • Feb 18 / 2013 Art Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 14

Old by Danny Brown

Album • Oct 08 / 2013 Hardcore Hip Hop

# 15

Hummingbird by Local Natives

Album • Jan 29 / 2013 Indie Rock Indie Pop

# 16

R Plus Seven by Oneohtrix Point Never

Album • Sep 30 / 2013 Progressive Electronic

# 17

MCII by Mikal Cronin

Album • May 07 / 2013 Power Pop

# 18

Ripely Pine by Lady Lamb

Album • Feb 19 / 2013 Singer-Songwriter

# 19

Nothing Was The Same by Drake

Album • Jan 01 / 2013 Pop Rap Contemporary R&B

# 20

Sunbather by Deafheaven

Album • May 28 / 2013 Blackgaze Post-Metal

# 21

Psychic by DARKSIDE

Album • Oct 07 / 2013 Electronic

# 22

The Man Who Died in His Boat by Grouper

Album • Feb 04 / 2013 Psychedelic Folk Ambient

# 23

The Terror by The Flaming Lips

Album • Apr 12 / 2013 Neo-Psychedelia Experimental Rock

# 24

Muchacho by Phosphorescent

Album • Mar 19 / 2013 Americana

# 25

Run The Jewels by Run The Jewels

Album • Jun 26 / 2013 Hardcore Hip Hop

# 26

The Silver Gymnasium by Okkervil River

Album • Sep 03 / 2013 Indie Rock Indie Folk

# 27

Major Arcana by Speedy Ortiz

Album • Jul 09 / 2013 Indie Rock

# 29

Silence Yourself by Savages

Album • May 07 / 2013 Post-Punk

# 30

...Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age

Album • Jun 03 / 2013 Alternative Rock

# 31

New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light by Colin Stetson

Album • Apr 30 / 2013 Post-Minimalism Experimental

# 32

Honeys by Pissed Jeans

Album • Feb 12 / 2013 Noise Rock

# 33

Impersonator by Majical Cloudz

Album • May 20 / 2013 Ambient Pop

# 34

New Moon by The Men

Album • Mar 05 / 2013 Garage Rock Country Rock

# 35

The Electric Lady by Janelle Monáe

Album • Sep 10 / 2013 Contemporary R&B Funk

# 36

Cerulean Salt by Waxahatchee

Album • Mar 05 / 2013 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock

# 37

Overgrown by James Blake

Album • Apr 08 / 2013 Art Pop Alternative R&B

# 38

Random Access Memories by Daft Punk

Album • May 17 / 2013 Disco Electronic

# 39

Doris by Earl Sweatshirt

Album • Aug 16 / 2013 West Coast Hip Hop

# 40

The Next Day by David Bowie

Album • Mar 08 / 2013 Art Rock Alternative Rock

# 41

Centralia by Mountains

Album • Jan 22 / 2013 Ambient Drone

# 42

Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You by Mark Mulcahy

Album • Jun 18 / 2013 Singer-Songwriter Alternative Rock

# 43

Pain Is Beauty by Chelsea Wolfe

Album • Sep 03 / 2013 Darkwave Ethereal Wave

# 44

My Name Is My Name by Pusha T

Album • Jan 01 / 2014 Gangsta Rap Southern Hip Hop

# 45

AM by Arctic Monkeys

Album • Sep 09 / 2013 Indie Rock Pop Rock

# 46

Excavation by The Haxan Cloak

Album • Jan 01 / 2013 Dark Ambient Ambient Dub

# 47

Pure Heroine by Lorde

Album • Sep 27 / 2013 Alt-Pop

# 48

Love's Crushing Diamond by Mutual Benefit

Album • Jan 01 / 2014 Chamber Folk Indie Folk

# 49

Night Time, My Time by Sky Ferreira

Album • Jan 01 / 2013 Synthpop Noise Pop

# 50

Blowout by The So So Glos

Album • Aug 06 / 2013 Pop Punk Indie Rock