It’s officially “Best of” season with Rolling Stone, Spin and Paste releasing their lists for 50 best albums of 2013 this week.
Spoiler Alert: Vampire Weekend received the biggest nod, earning a spot on each list (including No. 1 from Rolling Stone), while Kanye West and Kurt Vile both made it onto two lists. San Francisco indie pop breakout Mikal Cronin received major props with the No. 2 spot from Paste and Spin made the surprise pick with Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap named second only to Yeezus. View the Top 10 from each list below:
Spin’s Best Albums of 2013
1.Kanye West, Yeezus
2. Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap
3. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires in the City
4. Haim, Days Are Gone
5. Disclosure, Settle
6. Tim Hecker, Virgins
7. Boards of Canada, Tomorrow’s Harvest
8. Ka, The Night’s Gambit
9. The Knife, Shaking the Habitual
10. Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Paste’s Best Albums of 2013
1. Phosphorescent, Muchacho
2. Mikal Cronin, MCII
3. Foxygen, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
4. Janelle Monae, The Electric Lady
5. Deerhunter, Monomania
6. Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze
7. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
8. CHVRCHES, The Bones of What You Believe
9. El-P and Killer Mike, Run the Jewels
10. Haim, Days Are Gone
Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2013
1. Vampire Weekend, ‘Modern Vampires of the City’
2. Kanye West, Yeezuz
3. Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
4. Paul McCartney, New
5. Arcade Fire, Reflektor
6. Queens of the Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
7. Lorde, Pure Heroine
8. The National, Trouble Will Find Me
9. Arctic Monkeys
10. John Fogerty