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Mojo Magazine's Top 50 LPs of 2013

by Bill Pearis

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Bill Calahan‘s album Dream River has topped MOJO magazine’s Best Albums of 2013 list which is in the new year-end issue. Seems about right for a magazine that had both Paul McCartney on the cover of one issue this year and The Beatles on another (also the Stones, Dylan, Pink Floyd, Johnny Marr). Their #2 was a bit of a surprise, at least to me. The Arcade Fire’s Reflektor only came in at #18 but they can just be happy with being the issue’s cover stars. Check out that cover — and the entire Top 50 list – below…


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Mojo Magazine – Top 50 LPs of 2013
1. Bill Callahan – Dream River
2. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
3. David Bowie – The Next Day
4. Arctic Monkeys – AM
5. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
6. Deerhunter – Monomania
7. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
8. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle – Perils from the Sea
9. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
10. John Murry – The Graceless Age
11. Phosphorescent – Muchacho
12. Prefab Sprout – Crimson Red
13. My Bloody Valentine – MBV
14. Holden – Inheritors
15. Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork
16. Factory Floor – Factory Floor
17. Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
18. Arcade Fire – Reflector
19. Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon
20. Pet Shop Boys – Electric
21. Mavis Staples – One True Vine
22. Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle
23. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
24. Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record
25. James Blake – Overgrown
26. Villagers {Awayland}
27. Disclosure – Settle
28. Manic Street Preachers – Rewind the Film
29. John Hopkins – Immunity
30. Primal Scream – More Light
31. Elvis Costello and The Roots – Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs
32. Glenn Jones – My Garden State
33. Bill Bragg – Tooth & Nail
34. Karen Gwyer – Needs Continuum
35. Midlake – Antiphon
36. Low – The Invisible Way
37. Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum
38. Kanye West – Yeezus
39. Roy Harper – Man & Myth
40. Black Sabbath – 13
41. Goldfrapp – Tales of Us
42. Paul McCartney – New
43. Haim – Days Are Gone
44. Johnny Marr – The Messenger
45. These New Puritans – Fields of Reeds
46. Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
47. Julia Holter – Loud City Song
48. The Flaming Lips – The Terror
49. Tim Hecker – Virgins
50. Time is a Mountain – S/T