Jude's top albums of 2013

Last year was an amazing year for music from across the spectrum, and I was lucky to get to listen to as much as I got to in my old record store clerk days.  A couple weeks late, but here are my favorite studio albums of last year listed in relative order.  Links are added where you can hear most of the indy label stuff: support the artists and listen and buy!  Enjoy  8 ) 

1.   Arcade Fire  "Reflektor" 
2.   Mark McGuire  "Tidings III" 
3.   Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk "Think Tone"
4.   No Joy  "Wait to Pleasure"
5.   The Warlocks  "Skull Worship"
6.   White Poppy  "White Poppy" 
7.   Darkside  "Psychic"
8.   My Bloody Valentine  "MBV"
9.   Magik Markers  "Surrender to the Fantasy"
10.   Agarttha  "A Water which Does not Wet Hands"
11.  Not Waving  "Umwelt"
12.  Pure X  "Crawling up the Stairs"
13.  Thee Oh Sees  "Floating Coffin"
14.  Broadcast  "Berberian Sound Studio"
15.  High Wolf  "Kairos/Chronos"
16.  Deerhunter  "Monomania"
17.  Daft Punk  "Random Access Memories"
18.  L. Pierre  "The Island Come True"
19.  Lumerians  "The High Frontier"
20.  Flaming Lips  "The Terror"
21.  Paul McCartney  "New"
22.  Mark McGuire  "Get Me Out of Here"
23.  Mark McGuire  "Misunderstandings"
24.  Boards of Canada  "Tomorrow's Harvest"
25.  Bitchin Bajas  "Bitchtronics"
26.  Lucretia Dalt  "Syzygy"
27.  Tim Hecker  "Virgins"
28.  The Finks "At the Royal Witherspoon"
29.  Indians  "Somewhere Else"
30.  Danny Paul Grody  "Between Two Worlds"
31.  Chelsea Wolfe  "Pain is Beauty"
32.  Mike Donovan  "Wot"
33.  Light Rail Coyote  "Sketches"
34.  Emily Reo  "Olive Juice"
35.  Yo La Tengo  "Fade"
36.  Tei Shi  "Saudade"
37.  3 Leafs  "More Tomorrow"
38.  TV Ghost  "Disconnect"
39.  Filthy Huns  "Filthy Huns"
40.  Dirty Beaches  "Drifters / Love is the Devil"
41.  Matmos  "The Marriage of True Minds"
42.  Noveller  "No Dreams"
43.  Fluorescent Heights  "Vendetta in Paradise"
44.  The Necks  "Open"
45.  Kurt Vile  "Walkin on a Pretty Daze"
46.  Implodes  "Recurring Dream"
47.  Plankton Wat  "Drifter's Temple"

and of course... :  48.  Shores "Open-Ended"  8 )

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