NME Staff Pick Their Top 10 Albums Of 2013

You might’ve already seen our 50 Best Albums & Tracks Of 2013 special in this week’s NME. You can check out NME’s 50 top tracks of 2013 here and find NME’s 50 top albums of 2013 here. Over 30 NME freelance writers voted for the greatest albums and tracks of 2013 and here’s some of the Top 10 albums that’ve been played incessantly on the office stereo this year by NME staffers. Let us know your top 10s in the comments below.


Greg Cochrane

1. Foals – Holy Fire
2. Everything Everything – Arc
3. Arctic Monkeys – AM
4. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
5. Kanye West – Yeezus
6. The Strokes – Comedown Machine
7. Wood Kid – The Golden Age
8. Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
9. Bill Ryder Jones – A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart
10. Pond – Hobo Rocket

Kevin EG Perry
1. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
3. MIA – Matangi
4. Arctic Monkeys – AM
5. Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
6. Hookworms – Pearl Mystic
7. Omar Souleyman – Wenu Wenu
8. Primal Scream – More Light
9. Jagwar Ma – Howlin
10. Palma Violets – 180

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Rhian Daly
1. Swim Deep – Where The Heaven Are We
2. Peace – In Love
3. Splashh – Comfort
4. Jagwar Ma – Howlin’
5. Gabriel Bruce – Love In Arms
6. Arctic Monkeys – AM
7. Jackson Scott – Melbourne
8. Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
9. Deerhunter – Monomania
10. Drenge – Drenge

Tom Howard
1. Kanye West – Yeezus
2. MIA – Matangi
3. Arctic Monkeys – AM
4. Savages – Savages
5. Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
6. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
7. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
8. Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back
9. Jagwar Ma – Howlin
10. Danny Brown – Old

Laura Snapes
1. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
2. Bill Callahan – Dream River
3. Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana
4. Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record
5. Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
6. Fat History Month – Bad History Month
7. Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
8. Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle – Perils From The Sea
9. Julia Holter – Loud City Song
10. Radiator Hospital – Something Wild

Eve Barlow
1. Haim – Days Are Gone
2. Kanye West – Yeezus
3. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires Of The City
4. MIA – Matangi
5. Chvrches – The Bones Of What You Believe
6. Arctic Monkeys – AM
7. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
8. Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
9. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
10. Peace – In Love

Dan Stubbs
1. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
2. Kanye West – Yeezus
3. Jagwar Ma – Howlin’
4. Arctic Monkeys – AM
5. Dutch Uncles – Out Of Touch In The Wild
6. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
7. The Strokes – Comedown Machine
8. Merchandise – Totale Night
9. Major Lazer – Free The Universe
10. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle

Mark Beaumont
1. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires Of The City
2. Future Bible Heroes – Partygoing
3. Mikal Cronin – MCII
4. Jagwar Ma – Howlin’
5. Stornoway – Tales from Terra Firma
6. Suede – Bloodsports
7. Primal Scream – More Light
8. Chvrches – The Bones Of What You Believe
9. Woodpigeon – Thumbtacks + Glue
10. Arctic Monkeys – AM

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Lucy Jones
1. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
3. Bill Callahan – Dream River
4. Pete Rock & Camp Lo – 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s Vol. 2
5. Connan Mockasin – Caramel
6. Machinedrum – Vapor City
7. Deerhunter – Monomania
8. Pusha T – My Name Is My Name
9. Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
10. EL-P & Killer Mike – Run The Jewels

Jenny Stevens
1. Nick Cave – ‘Push The Sky Away’
2. Savages – ‘Silence Yourself’
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Mosquito’
4. The Julie Ruin – ‘Run Fast’
5. The Knife – ‘Shaking The Habitual’
6. Daft Punk – ‘Random Access Memories’
7. The National – ‘Trouble Will Find Me’
8. Speedy Ortiz ‘Major Arcana’
9. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
10. Deerhunter – ‘Monomania’

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