The Gummy Awards: Your Top 50 Albums Of 2013
Starting today we’re rolling out the winners of the Gummy Awards, Stereogum & Videogum’s annual readers’ poll. Earlier this month we asked you to vote for 2013’s best album, song, music video, new act, TV show, movie, and viral video. And you did! Thank you for listening! Best Album is the first category we’re revealing the results for. The top ten LPs here also appeared throughout our own 50 Best Albums countdown. But if you felt our list was light on QOTSA, James Blake, and Death Grips, among others, you may like this list better. As promised, one lucky entrant has been randomly selected to win the top ten albums on this list on vinyl, courtesy of Insound — Will E., check your email. Now, without further ado, here are Your 50 Best Albums Of 2013…
50 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd.)
49 Foals – Holy Fire (Warner Bros/Transgressive)
48 Tegan And Sara – Heartthrob (Warner Bros)
47 Milk Music – Cruise Your Illusion (Fat Possum)
46 Iceage – You’re Nothing (Matador)
45 Majical Cloudz – Impersonator (Matador)
44 Julia Holter – Loud City Song (Domino)
43 Death Grips – Government Plates (Self-released)
42 Local Natives – Hummingbird (Frenchkiss/Infectious)
41 Los Campesinos! – No Blues (Wichita/Turnstile)
40 Lorde – Pure Heroine (Lava/Republic)
39 Phosphorescent – Muchacho (Dead Oceans)
38 Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum)
37 David Bowie – The Next Day (ISO)
36 Volcano Choir – Repave (Jagjaguwar)
35 The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Bella Union/Warner Bros)
34 Jon Hopkins – Immunity (Domino)
33 Bill Callahan – Dream River (Drag City)
32 Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp)
31 Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana (Carpark)
30 James Blake – Overgrown (Republic)
29 Foxygen – We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)
28 Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
27 Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
26 Savages – Silence Yourself (Matador/Pop Noire)
25 Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt (Don Giovanni)
24 Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus 7 (Warp)
23 Mikal Cronin – MCII (Merge)
22 Neko Case – The Worse Things Get The Harder I Fight The Harder I Fight The More I Love You (Anti-)
21 Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels (Fool’s Gold)
20 Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady (Bad Boy)
19 Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety (Mexican Summer/Software)
18 Deerhunter – Monomania (4AD)
17 The Knife – Shaking The Habitual (Mute)
16 Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap (Self-released)
15 Danny Brown – Old (Fool’s Gold)
14 Darkside – Psychic (Matador/Other People)
13 Chvrches – The Bones Of What You Believe (Glassnote)
12 Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork (Matador)
11 Arctic Monkeys – AM (Domino)
10 Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
09 Haim – Days Are Gone (Columbia/Polydor)
08 Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (Columbia)
07 Disclosure – Settle (PMR)
06 Deafheaven – Sunbather (Deathwish)
05 My Bloody Valentine – m b v (Self-released)
04 The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
03 Arcade Fire – Reflektor (Merge)
02 Kanye West – Yeezus (Def Jam)
01 Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires Of The City (XL)
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