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• English “Best albums of 2013″ lists (Uncut, MOJO & Q Magazine)

Here are 3 American end-year lists.. in the next post I’ll pull it all together and create a “Critics list of 2013″.

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Rolling Stone Magazine

 

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• Rolling Stone Mag – 50 Best Albums of 2013

1. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
2. Kanye West – Yeezus
3. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
4. Paul McCartney – New
5. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
6. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
7. Lorde – Pure Heroine
8. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
9. Arctic Monkeys – AM
10. John Fogerty – Wrote a Song for Everyone
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11. Parquet Courts – Tally All the Things That You Broke
12. Jake Bugg – S/T
13. Disclosure – Settle
14. Drake – Nothing Was The Same
15. Atoms for Peace – AMOK
16. David Bowie – The Next Day
17. Danny Brown – Old
18. Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose
19. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
20. Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle
21. Sky Ferreira – Night Time My Time
22. Phoenix – Entertainment
23. My Bloody Valentine – MBV
24. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
25. Elton John – The Diving Board
26. Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap
27. Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
28. Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park
29. Bombino – Nomad
30. Tegan & Sara – Heartthrob
31. Haim – Days Are Gone
32. CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
33. Pusha T – My Name is My Name
34. Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
35. Best Coast – Fade Away EP
36. Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt
37. The So-So Glos – Blowout
38. Kurt Vile – Walkin on a Pretty Daze
39. Keith Urban – Fuse
40. Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt
41. J Cole – Born Sinner
42. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
43. Savages – Silence Yourself
44. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against a Stone
45. Avicii – True
46. Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
47. MIA – Matangi
48. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
49. The Flaming Lips – The Terror
50. Beck – Song Reader

American Songwriter

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• American Songwriter’s Top 50 Albums Of 2013

01. Jason Isbell: Southeastern
02. Patty Griffin: American Kid
03. Phosphorescent: Muchacho
04. Guy Clark: My Favorite Picture of You
05. John Murry: The Graceless Age
06. The National: Trouble Will Find Me
07. Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer, Different Park
08. Paul McCartney: New
09. Elvis Costello and The Roots: Wise Up Ghost
10. Sarah Jarosz: Build Me Up From Bones

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11. Bill Callahan: Dream River
12. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires Of The City
13. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell: Old Yellow Moon
14. Ashley Monroe: Like A Rose
15. The Avett Brothers: Magpie and the Dandelion
16. Dawes: Stories Don’t End
17. The Milk Carton Kids: The Ash & Clay
18. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away
19. The Civil Wars: The Civil Wars
20. Laura Marling: Once I Was An Eagle
21.Valerie June: Pushin’ Against A Stone
22. Slaid Cleaves: Still Fighting The War
23. Arcade Fire: Reflektor
24. Johnny Flynn: Country Mile
25. Haim: Days Are Gone
26. Lorde: Pure Heroine
27. Brandy Clark: Twelve Stories
28. Josh Ritter: The Beast In Its Tracks
29. Willy Mason: Carry On
30. Aoife O’Donovan: Fossils
31. Steve Earle & The Dukes And Duchesses: The Low Highway
32. Son Volt: Honky Tonk
33. Mark Knopfler: Privateering
34. Caitlin Rose: The Stand-In
35. Tristen: CAVES
36. Frank Turner: Tape Deck Heart
37. Billy Bragg: Tooth & Nail
38.Night Beds: Country Sleep
39. Elton John: The Diving Board
40. Deer Tick: Negativity
41. Charlie Worhsam: Rubberband
42. Matt Costa: Matt Costa
43. Kris Kristofferson: Feeling Mortal
44. The Head and the Heart: Let’s Be Still
45. Tim Easton: Not Cool
46. Amanda Shires: Down Fell The Doves
47. Steve Martin & Edie Brickell, Love Has Come For You
48. Jonny Fritz: Dad Country
49. Courtney Jaye: Love and Forgiveness
50. The Black Lillies: Runaway Freeway Blues

Paste Magazine

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• Paste – 50 Best Albums of 2013

01. Phosphorescent – Muchacho
02. Mikal Cronin – MCII
03. Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
04. Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady
05. Deerhunter – Monomania
06. Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze
07. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
08. CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
09. El-P and Killer Mike – Run the Jewels
10. Haim – Days Are Gone
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11. Jason Isbell – Southeastern
12. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
13. Lucius – Wildewoman
14. Savages – Silence Yourself
15. Daft Punk – Random Acces Memories
16. Kanye West – Yeezus
17. Volcano Choir – Repave
18. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
19. Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt
20. Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park
21. The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
22. Okkervil River – The Silver Gymnasium
23. Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
24. M.I.A. – Matangi
25. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II
26. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
27. Bill Callahan – Dream River
28. Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
29. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
30. Local Natives – Hummingbird
31. King Khan & the Shrines – Idle No More
32. Rhye – Woman
33. Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety
34. Pusha T – My Name Is My Name
35. Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse
36. Lorde – Pure Heroine
37. Typhoon – White Lighter
38. Danny Brown – Old
39. of Montreal – lousy with sylvianbriar
40. The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
41. Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
42. Cass McCombs – Big Wheel & Others
43. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
44. Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
45. Cayucas – Big Foot
46. Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record
47. The Lone Bellow – The Lone Bellow
48. Frank Turner – Tape Deck Heart
49. Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana
50. Dr. Dog – B-Room

-Egil