Best Albums of the Years: 2013

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Original Top 40

  1. Philippe Petit – Needles in Pain
  2. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Roadburn
  3. Main – Ablation
  4. Xopher Davidson + Zbigniew Karkowski – Processor
  5. Jakob Ullmann – fremde zeit addendum 4
  6. Stephan Mathieu – The Falling Rocket
  7. irr. app. (ext.) – Tuberpendicular
  8. Paul Jebanasam – Rites
  9. iamamiwhoami – bounty
  10. Aidan Baker & Troum – Nihtes Niht
  11. Black Swan – Redemption
  12. Bloodgroup – Tracing Echoes
  13. Igor Stravinsky – Le Sacre du Printemps [Simon Rattle/Berlin Philharmoniker]
  14. These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
  15. Michael Finnissy – The History of Photography in Sound
  16. Liza Lim – Tongue of the Invisible
  17. Secret Chiefs 3 – Book Of Souls Folio A
  18. How To Destroy Angels – Welcome oblivion
  19. Autechre – Exai
  20. Ryoji Ikeda – supercodex
  21. CocoRosie – Tales of a Grass Widow
  22. Flat Earth Society – 13
  23. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks (Audiophile Mastered Version)
  24. Rashad Becker – Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I
  25. Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Eclipse Studies
  26. Cliff Martinez – Only God Forgives (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition]
  27. The Knife – Shaking The Habitual
  28. Emmy Rossum – Sentimental Journey
  29. Ben Lukas Boysen – Mother Nature
  30. Marsheaux – Inhale
  31. James Newton Howard – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Original Motion Picture Score)
  32. Tomas Phillips/Kenneth Kirschner – Five Transpositions
  33. Roly Porter – Life Cycle of a Massive Star
  34. Ulver – Messe I.X-VI.X
  35. Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe
  36. Chiyoko Szlavnics – Gradients of Detail
  37. Shane Carruth – Upstream Color (Original Motion Picture Score)
  38. Chubby Wolf – The Last Voices
  39. Andrew Liles – INCOMMENSURABLE MAGNITUDES (СУМЕРЕЧНОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ СОЗНАНИЯ)
  40. Blue Hawaii – Untogether

Revised Top 30​

  1. Philippe Petit – Needles in Pain
  2. Stephan Mathieu – The Falling Rocket
  3. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Roadburn
  4. Main – Ablation
  5. Xopher Davidson & Zbigniew Karkowski – Processor
  6. Jakob Ullmann – fremde zeit addendum 4
  7. irr. app. (ext.) – Tuberpendicular
  8. Justė Janulytė – Sandglasses
  9. Coppice – Compound Form
  10. Kenneth Kirschner – April 16, 2013
  11. Paul Jebanasam – Rites
  12. iamamiwhoami – bounty
  13. Aidan Baker & Troum – Nihtes Niht
  14. Aufgang – Istiklaliya
  15. These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
  16. Michael Finnissy – The History of Photography in Sound
  17. Liza Lim – Tongue of the Invisible
  18. Secret Chiefs 3 – Book Of Souls Folio A
  19. Autechre – Exai
  20. Ryoji Ikeda – supercodex
  21. CocoRosie – Tales of a Grass Widow
  22. Flat Earth Society – 13
  23. James Newton Howard – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Original Motion Picture Score)
  24. The Noisettes – Live at Haluduvo Malinska Hotel, 1972
  25. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks (Audiophile Mastered Version)
  26. Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
  27. Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Eclipse Studies
  28. A-Sun Amissa – You Stood Up For Victory, We Stood Up For Less
  29. Rashad Becker – Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I
  30. Christopher McFall – Quivering into your blood night radio