The Best Albums of 2013
1. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
2. Carcass – Surgical Steel
3. Gorguts – Colored Sands
4. David Bowie – The Next Day
5. Stomach Earth – Stomach Earth
6. Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze
7. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
8. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
9. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels
10. Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
11. Scale the Summit – The Migration
12. Amorphis – Circle
13. Cass McCombs – Big Wheel and Others
14. Pryapisme – Hyperblast Super-Collider
15. Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die
16. Fallujah – Nomadic
17. Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady
18. Tim Hecker – Virgins
19. Kanye West – Yeezus
20. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
21. Melt-Banana – Fetch
22. The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
23. Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
24. Portal – Vexovoid
25. Tedeschi Trucks Band – Made Up Mind
Guest List: The Best Albums of 2013 – John Macintosh
1. Deafheaven – Sunbather
2. Tim Hecker – Virgins
3. Burial – Rival Dealer
4. Kanye West – Yeezus
5. Jai Paul – Jai Paul
6. Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
7. Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
8. Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety
9. The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
10. Julia Holter – Loud City Song
11. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
12. Forest Swords – Engravings
13. Yellow Eyes – Hammer of Night
14. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
15. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
16. Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
17. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
18. Danny Brown – Old
19. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
20. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
21. Pusha T – My Name Is My Name
22. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
23. The Range – Nonfiction
24. Ty Segall – Sleeper
25. Phosphorescent – Muchacho
The Best Albums of 1967
1. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
2. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?
5. The Doors – The Doors
6. The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
7. Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim – Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim
8. Captain Beefheart – Safe as Milk
9. Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
10. John Fahey – Days Have Gone By
11. Love – Forever Changes
12. Nico – Chelsea Girl
13. Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
14. Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
15. The Left Banke – Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina
16. The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed
17. Nina Simone – Nina Simone Sings the Blues
18. Thelonious Monk – Straight, No Chaser
19. Albert King – Born Under a Bad Sign
20. The Mothers of Invention – Absolutely Free
21. Cream – Disraeli Gears
22. Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding
23. Miles Davis – Miles Smiles
24. Scott Walker – Scott
25. The Who – The Who Sell Out
The Best Albums of 2012
1. Swans – The Seer
2. Pig Destroyer – Book Burner
3. Aesop Rock – Skelethon
4. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
5. Susanne Sundfør – The Silicone Veil
6. Devin Townsend – Epicloud
7. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
8. Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion
9. High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
10. Gojira – L’enfant sauvage
11. Death Grips – The Money Store
12. Deathspell Omega – Drought
13. Orbital – Wonky
14. Napalm Death – Utilitarian
15. Killing Joke – MMXII
16. Meshuggah – Koloss
17. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
18. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
19. Natural Snow Buildings – Beyond the Veil
20. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
21. Baroness – Yellow & Green
22. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
23. Liars – WIXIW
24. The Darkness – Hot Cakes
25. Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t
Guest List: The Best Albums of 2012 – John Macintosh
1. Swans – The Seer
2. Beach House – Bloom
3. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Grizzly Bear – Shields
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
6. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
7. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
8. Burial – Kindred
9. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw…
10. Purity Ring – Shrines
11. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
12. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
13. Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t
14. Twin Shadow – Confess
15. Grimes – Visions
16. Tame Impala – Lonerism
17. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
18. Liars – WIXIW
19. Death Grips – The Money Store
20. Chromatics – Kill for Love
21. Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse
22. Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
23. Crystal Castles – (III)
24. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
25. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
26. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
27. DIIV – Oshin
28. Ash Borer – Cold of Ages
29. Jason Urick – I Love You
30. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
Honorable Mentions: Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine, El-P – Cancer 4 Cure, Marissa Nadler – The Sister, Polica – Give You the Ghost, Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man, Animal Collective – Centipede Hz, Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance, Angel Olsen – Half Way Home