The Wire Top 50 Albums of 2013

Wonderful Loud City Song by wonderful Julia Holter is #1 album of 2013 for British magazine The Wire. As usual, this is a rather different than average chart, with a lot of underground, avant garde and obscure albums (many of them, unfortunately, not available on Spotify). Few artists are frequent flyers of the other end-of-year lists (along with Holter, Tim Hecker, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Knife, Kanye West, These New Puritans, Boards of Canada).

Enjoy.

Complete series of Spotirama end-of-2013 playlists (with charts by Amazon, BuzzFeed, Indiewire, Jazzwise, Mojo, NPR, Paste, PopMatters, Pretty Much Amazing, Q, Renowned for Sound, Revolver, Rolling Stone, Rough Trade, Stereogum, Uncut, Zane Lowe)

THE WIRE TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #50)

(3 charts, from #1 to #50)

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Full list

Strikethrough albums (16/50) are not available on Spotify. Some albums (like Forest Swords' Engravings) may not be available everywhere.

1. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
2. Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
3. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notational Species vol 1
4. Richard Dawson - The Glass Trunk
5. Tim Hecker - Virgins
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
7. RP Boo - Legacy
8. Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors
9. Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Photographs
10. The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
11. Kanye West - Yeezus
12. DJ Rashad - Double Cup
13. Autechre - Exai
14. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
15. Dennis Johnson - November
16. Pharmakon - Abandon
17. Okkyung Lee - Ghil
18. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
19. eMMplekz - Your Crate Has Changed
20. Main - Ablation
21. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
22. Fire! Orchestra - Exit
23. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
24. Alasdair Roberts and Friends - A Wonder Working Stone
25. Young Echo - Nexus
26. Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
27. James Holden - The Inheritors
28. Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs
29. Eliane Radigue - Psi 847
30. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
31. Else Marie Pade and Jacob Kirkegaard - Svaevninger
32. The Dead C - Armed Courage
33. Various Artists -The Outer Church
34. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
35. Forest Swords - Engravings
36. Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
37. AtomTM - HD
38. Ashley Paul - Line The Clouds
39. The Necks - Open
40. Endless Boogie - Long Island
41. G*Park - Sub
42. Juana Molina - Wed 21
43. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
44. Special Request - Soul Music
45. Stellar OM Source - Joy One Mile
46. John Wizards - John Wizards
47. James Ferraro - NYC, Hell 3:00am
48. Call Back The Giants - The Marianne
49. Grumbling Fur - Glynnaestra
50. Jem Finer and Andrew Kotting - Visionary Seascapes