| 2013 |
| Lil B 05 Fuck Em | 4.0 |
| Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip The Abstract & The Dragon | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Ideas+Drafts+Loops | 4.0 |
| Yo Gotti I Am | 3.0 |
| FatKidsBrotha Eastside Paradise II | 4.5 |
| Raum The Event of Your Leaving | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 1.5 |
| Less Than Jake See the Light | 3.0 |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe | 3.5 |
| Alexander Spit Dillinger | 4.0 |
| Da Mafia 6ix 6ix Commandments | 5.0 |
| This is a 4 now but this might even bump up now that I have the iTunes version, which cuts out the annoying DJ interruptions and adds two solid bonus tracks. Excellent return to form from a band I had basically given up on completely. |
| Cut Copy Free Your Mind | 4.0 |
| Swearin' Surfing Strange | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller DELUSIONAL THOMAS | 3.5 |
| Raider Klan Tales From The Underground | 3.5 |
| Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! No Blues | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.5 |
| Armand Hammer Race Music | 4.0 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Kill the Architect | 4.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley | 4.0 |
| Black Milk No Poison No Paradise | 4.0 |
| Matt Kivel Double Exposure | 4.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots High Rise | 1.5 |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name | 3.5 |
| Ta-Ku Songs to Break Up To | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.5 |
| Mutual Benefit Love's Crushing Diamond | 4.5 |
| Astroid Boys Bacon Dream | 2.5 |
| CJ Fly Thee Way Eye See It | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Event II | 4.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.5 |
| Maxo Kream Quiccstrikes | 4.0 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 4.5 |
| Elton John The Diving Board | 3.0 |
| Into It. Over It. Intersections | 4.0 |
| Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day | 4.5 |
| 17 years is a lifetime when it comes to time between albums, but this is just so, so good. |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 4.0 |
| MGMT MGMT | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Saves the Day | 3.0 |
| Campfire OK When You Have Arrived | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.0 |
| Kemba GNK | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.0 |
| Willis Earl Beal Nobody Knows | 4.5 |
| Juicy J Stay Trippy | 4.0 |
| Goodie Mob Age Against The Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dodos Carrier | 4.5 |
| Forest Swords Engravings | 4.5 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter | 3.5 |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord | 4.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 4.5 |
| Fat Trel SDMG | 3.5 |
| Washed Out Paracosm | 4.0 |
| Lil Ugly Mane THREE SIDED TAPE VOLUME TWO | 4.0 |
| Key Nyata The Shadowed Diamond | 4.0 |
| Lil Ugly Mane THREE SIDED TAPE VOLUME ONE | 4.0 |
| Spark Master Tape The #SWOUP Serengeti | 4.5 |
| Moderat II | 4.0 |
| Jonwayne Cassette 3: Marion Morrison Mixtape | 4.0 |
| Camp Lo & Pete Rock 80 Blocks From Tiffanys Part 2 | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Museum of Consciousness | 4.0 |
| Jeremiah Jae Bad Jokes Mixtape | 4.0 |
| AlunaGeorge Body Music | 4.0 |
| All There All There | 4.0 |
| Warm Brew The Ride | 4.0 |
| Cliff Martinez Only God Forgives | 4.5 |
| Metro Zu Z Unit | 3.5 |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Owen L'Ami du Peuple | 3.5 |
| Editors The Weight of Your Love | 2.5 |
| Boy Froot Looters | 3.0 |
| Technicolor Teeth Blood Pool | 4.0 |
| Xavier Wulf and Bones ダサい | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 5.0 |
| What could have easily been a "victory lap" album (following the 2012 El-P and Killer Mike had) instead turns out to be the best release of 2013. It actually managed to exceed my already high expectations. |
| Candy Claws Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs ESGN | 3.5 |
| Mac Miller Watching Movies With The Sound Off | 3.5 |
| Statik Selektah Extended Play | 3.5 |
| Deniro Farrar The Patriarch II | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.0 |
| Tripwires Spacehopper | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 5.0 |
| Azizi Gibson Ghost In The Shell | 4.0 |
| ILLFIGHTYOU ILLFIGHTYOU | 4.0 |
| Nacho Picasso and Avatar Darko Vampsterdam | 4.0 |
| The White Mandingos The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me | 3.0 |
| Prodigy and The Alchemist Albert Einstein | 4.0 |
| Surfer Blood Pythons | 4.5 |
| While their first album was 1/2 good songs padded by 1/2 mediocre songs, there isn't a single weak track on this album. I'm actually shocked by just how good the whole thing is. |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Jagwar Ma Howlin | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 4.0 |
| Rogue Wave Nightingale Floors | 4.0 |
| Pretty decent return to form for the band after the admirable-but-misguided Permalight. |
| Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire Kismet | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.0 |
| Disclosure Settle | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes | 3.5 |
| JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound Howl | 4.0 |
| Sir Michael Rocks While You Wait | 3.5 |
| The-Dream IV Play | 2.5 |
| Baths Obsidian | 4.5 |
| Tricky False Idols | 4.0 |
| The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk | 4.0 |
| Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love Is The Devil | 4.0 |
| Pet Symmetry Two Songs About Cars. Two Songs With Long Titles. | 4.0 |
| Saturday Looks Good To Me One Kiss Ends It All | 4.5 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.5 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 4.5 |
| While Bibio's first few albums stuck pretty much within the same comfort zone, the leaps taken between those albums, Ambivalance Avenue and Mind Bokeh made it difficult to suggest to someone a good starting point if they were trying to get into his music. While this album isn't as huge a stylistic jump, "Silver Wilkinson" is still the next logical progression in his career, since it's a perfect distillation of everything that came before, and it's also the album I would tell someone to listen to if they wanted to get to know what Bibio is all about. Great stuff. |
| Mikal Cronin MCII | 4.5 |
| Cannibal Ox Gotham | 4.0 |
| Dean Blunt The Redeemer | 3.5 |
| Suicideyear Japan | 4.0 |
| R.A. The Rugged Man Legends Never Die | 4.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 4.0 |
| I'd probably give this a 4.2. It's essentially a sequel to "Wolfgang", and like most sequels it's not as good as the original. Luckily this is more "Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade" than it is "Jaws: The Revenge". Which is to say, while it isn't as good at "Wolfgang", it's still a worthy follow-up. |
| Ghostface Killah 12 Reasons To Die: The Brown Tape | 4.5 |
| Iron And Wine Ghost on Ghost | 2.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 3.5 |
| Elvis Depressedly Holo Pleasures | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 5.0 |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 4.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| Telekinesis (USA-WA, Indie Rock) Dormarion | 2.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 4.0 |
| Charles Bradley Victim of Love | 4.0 |
| Deez Nuts Bout It | 1.0 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 3.5 |
| Wavves Afraid of Heights | 4.0 |
| Alice Smith She | 4.0 |
| Loading Data Double Disco Animal Style | 4.0 |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho | 4.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 5.0 |
| Deniro Farrar The Patriarch | 3.5 |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 4.5 |
| Xavier Wulf Damare Shizukani | 4.0 |
| Autre Ne Veut Anxiety | 4.0 |
| Keaton Henson Birthdays | 4.0 |
| Rome Fortune Beautiful Pimp | 4.0 |
| STRFKR Miracle Mile | 3.0 |
| Beach Fossils Clash the Truth | 4.0 |
| Jamie Lidell Jamie Lidell | 4.0 |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 4.5 |
| Inc. No World | 3.5 |
| Julia Brown to be close to you | 4.5 |
| Jim James Regions of Light and Sound of God | 4.0 |
| Shone Heat Thing | 4.0 |
| Funeral Advantage Demo | 3.5 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.5 |
| Kevin Gates The Luca Brasi Story | 4.0 |
| Alexander Spit A Breathtaking Trip to That Otherside | 4.0 |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 4.5 |
| Air Review Low Wishes | 4.5 |
| Slim Guerilla & DJ Smokey Guerilla Warfare | 4.0 |
| Ta-Ku 25 Nights for Nujabes | 4.0 |
| Bell Gardens Full Sundown Assembly | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 4.0 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 4.5 |
| The Last Royals Twistification | 4.0 |
| Lofty Haunted Clothes | 3.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane PRELUDE TO PANOPTICON: "ON DOING AN EVIL DEED... | 5.0 |
