Before QRO lists our own top album of 2013, we give all of our contributors a chance to make their voices heard:
Jayson Berray
1 Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
2 Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience 1 of 2
3 Queens of the Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
4 Volcano Choir, Repave
5 The Civil Wars, The Civil Wars
6 How To Destroy Angels, Welcome Oblivion
7 Sigur Rós, Kveikur
8 Kodaline, In a Perfect World
9 Voivod, Target Earth
10 Atoms For Peace, AMOK
Ted Chase
1 Local Natives, Hummingbird
2 Camper Van Beethoven, La Costa Perdida
3 Noah & The Whale, Heart of Nowhere
4 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
5 Washed Out, Paracosm
6 Los Campesinos!, No Blues
7 Okkervil River, The Silver Gymnasium
8 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mosquito
9 Moby, Innocents
10 David Bowie, The Next Day
11 The National, Trouble Will Find Me
12 Phoenix, Bankrupt!
13 Yo La Tengo, Fade
14 The Joy Formidable, Wolf’s Law
15 Shout Out Louds, Optica
16 Half Moon Run, Dark Eyes
17 Hayden, Us Alone
18 Sebadoh, Defend Yourself
19 Snowden, No One In Control
20 MiniBoone, MiniBoone
Eleonora Collini
1 Sebadoh, Defend Yourself
2 The Black Angels, Indigo Meadow
3 Polvo, Siberia
4 Speedy Ortiz, Major Arcana
5 Chelsea Light Moving, Chelsea Light Moving
6 Bottomless Pit, Shade Perennial
7 Lee Ranaldo & The Dust, Last Night on Earth
8 Dumb Numbers, Dumb Numbers
9 Grim Tower, Anarchic Breezes
10 Thee Oh Sees, Floating Coffin
11 White Fence, Cyclops Reap
12 Queens of the Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
13 Deerhunter, Monomania
14 David Bowie, The Next Day
15 Hookworms, Pearl Mystic
16 Fuzz, Fuzz
17 Night Beats, Sonic Bloom
18 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Specter at the Feast
19 White Denim, Corsicana Lemonade
20 Wooden Shjips, Back to Land
Mike Condon
1 Paramore, Paramore
2 Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
3 Portugal. The Man, Evil Friends
4 Arcade Fire, Reflektor
5 Deer Tick, Negativity
Evan Daniels
1 Autre Ne Veut, Anxiety
2 Disclosure, Settle
3 Drake, Nothing Was the Same
4 Blood Orange, Cupid Deluxe
5 Jon Hopkins, Immunity
6 Kanye West, Yeezus
7 James Blake, Overgrown
8 Arca, &&&&&
9 Laura Marling, Once I Was an Eagle
Aaron Fath
And So I Watch You from Afar, All Hail Bright Futures
Arcade Fire, Reflektor
The Black Angels, Indigo Meadow
FIDLAR, FIDLAR
The Icarus Line, Slave Vows
The Knife, Shaking the Habitual
Kylesa, Ultraviolet
Man Man, On Oni Pond
Mazzy Star, Seasons of Your Day
MGMT, MGMT
plök, Infolympics
Queens of the Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels
J Roddy Watson & The Business, Essential Tremors
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mosquito
Carla Ferraz
1 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
2 The National, Trouble Will Find Me
3 Bill Callahan, Dream River
4 John Grant, Pale Green Ghosts
5 Queens of the Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
6 Daughter, If You Leave
7 Nine Inch Nails, Hesitation Marks
8 Arctic Monkeys, AM
9 Mark Lanegan, Imitations
10 Fat Freddy’s Drop, Blackbird
Rachel Fox
1 Dawes, Stories Don’t End
2 The National, Trouble Will Find Me
3 Matt Nathanson, Last of the Great Pretenders
4 Jason Isbell, Southeastern
5 Deer Tick, Negativity
6 The Head and the Heart, Let’s Be Still
7 Josh Ritter, The Beast in Its Tracks
8 Phosphorescent, Muchacho
9 PAPA, Tender Madness
10 Jim James, Regions of Light and Sound of God
11 Cold War Kids, Dear Miss Lonelyhearts
12 The Civil Wars, The Civil Wars
13 Jonny Fritz, Dad Country
14 Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
15 The Milk Carton Kids, The Ash & Clay
16 Rogue Wave, Nightingale Floors
17 Johnathan Rice, Good Graces
18 Kings of Leon, Mechanical Bull
19 The Avett Brothers, Magpie and the Dandelion
20 Atlas Genius, When It Was Now
Michaela Fulton
1 Airbourne, Black Dog Barking
2 Noah & The Whale, Heart From Nowhere
3 Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
4 Nine Inch Nails, Hesitation Marks
5 Motörhead, Aftershock
Mike Gutierrez
1 Arcade Fire, Reflektor
2 Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
3 Bent Shapes, Feels Weird
4 Jacco Gardner, Cabinet of Curiosities
5 Wilder Maker, Year of Endless Light
6 Heavy Times, Fix it Alone
7 Panda Riot, Northern Automatic Music
8 Mutual Benefit, Love’s Crushing Diamond
9 Shark?, Savior
10 Hank., Pinched.
Alex Harrison
1 Gov’t Mule, Shout!
2 Gary Clark Jr., Blak and Blu
3 Trampled Under Foot, Badlands
4 Samantha Fish, Black Wind Howlin’
5 Beth Hart, Bang Bang Boom Boom
Courtnie Hayes
1 Janelle Monae, The Electric Lady
2 Tegan & Sara, Heartthrob
3 Wooden Shjips, Back to Land
4 Miles Kane, Don’t Forget Who You Are
5 Jay-Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail
6 Kanye West, Yeezus
Darren Hodgkinson
1 The Icarus Line, Slave Vows
2 Hookworms, Pearl Mystic
3 MONEY, Shadow of Heaven
4 Drenge, Drenge
5 Primal Scream, More Light
6 Exit Calm, The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
7 The Fall, Re-Mit
8 My Bloody Valentine, mbv
9 The House of Love, She Paints Words In Red
10 Foals, Holy Fire
Rick Kern
1 HAIM, Days Are Gone
2 CHVRCHES, The Bones of What You Believe
3 A$AP Rocky, LONG.LIVE.A$AP
4 The National, Trouble Will Find Me
5 Lorde, Pure Heroine
6 MS MR, Secondhand Rapture
7 Grouplove, Spreading Rumors
8 Chelsea Wolfe, Pain Is Beauty
9 Serena Ryder, Harmony
10 Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
11 BOY, Mutual Friends
12 Janelle Monáe, The Electric Lady
13 Paul McCartney, NEW
14 Gin Wigmore, Gravel & Wine
15 Jessie Ware, Devotion
Peter Noble
1 British Sea Power, Machineries of Joy
2 Poltergeist, Your Mind Is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder)
3 Sulk, Graceless
4 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Specter at the Feast
5 Middle Class Rut, Pick Up Your Head
6 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
7 Placebo, Loud Like Love
8 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mosquito
9 British Sea Power, From the Sea To the Land Beyond
10 Savages, Silence Yourself
11 Wire, Change Becomes Us
12 The Black Angels, Indigo Meadow
13 Sigur Rós, Kveikur
14 Ian McCulloch, Pro Patria Mori
15 Pearl Jam, Lightning Bolt
16 Yuck, Glow and Behold
17 David Bowie, The Next Day
18 The National, Trouble Will Find Me
19 The Airborne Toxic Event, Such Hot Blood
20 Transplants, In a War Zone
Hilda Pellerano
1 Washed Out, Paracosm
2 Sigur Rós, Kveikur
3 Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
4 Phoenix, Bankrupt!
5 The National, Trouble Will Find Me
Ester Segretto
Bastille, Bad Blood
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
CHVRCHES, The Bones of What You Believe
Daughter, If You Leave
Foals, Holy Fire
HAIM, Days Are Gone
My Bloody Valentine, mbv
The National, Trouble Will Find Me
Savages, Silence Yourself
Winkie, One Day We Pretended To Be Ghosts
Jayne Yong
1 Local Natives, Hummingbird
2 The National, Trouble Will Find Me
3 Sigur Rós, Kveikur
4 Fuck Buttons, Slow Focus
5 Volcano Choir, Repave
6 Daughter, If You Leave
7 Iceage, You’re Nothing
8 My Bloody Valentine, mbv
9 A$AP Rocky, Long Live A$AP
10 The Knife, Shaking the Habitual