Q Magazine’s 50 Albums of 2013

1. Arctic Monkeys – AM
2. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
3. David Bowie – The Next Day
4. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
5. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
6. Manic Street Preachers – Rewind the Film
7. Cass McCombs – Big Wheel and Others
8. Bill Ryder Jones – A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart
9. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
10. Haim – Days Are Gone
11. Jagwar Ma – Howlin’
12. My Bloody Valentine – MBV
13. Steve Mason – Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time
14. Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork
15. Foals – Holy Fire
16. Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon
17. Matthew E White – Big Inner
18. Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle
19. Factory Floor – S/T
20. Biffy Clyro – Opposites
21. Palma Violets – 180
22. Suede – Bloodsports
23. Disclosure – Settle
24. Empire of the Sun – Ice on the Dune
25. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
26. Kanye West – Yeezus
27. Bill Callahan – Dream River
28. Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
29. Daniel Avery – Drone Logic
30. Pet Shop Boys – Electric
31. Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady
32. Savages – Silence Yourself
33. Parquet Courts – LIght Up Gold
34. Prefab Sprout – Crimson Red
35. Devendra Banhart – Mala
36. Kurt Vile – Walkin on a Pretty Daze
37. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
38. Goldfrapp – Tales of Us
39. Alunageorge – Body Music
40. Run the Jewels – S/T
41. Neon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect
42. These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
43. The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
44. Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt
45. Sigur Ros Kveikur
46. James Blake – Overgrown
47. The Strokes – Comedown Machine
48. Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum
49. Primal Scream – More Light
50. Mazzy Star – Seasons of Your Day

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