2013 was a HUGE year for the album. Coming back in ways I've never dreamed, I must have heard hundreds songs this year and hardly fell in love with most of them. Some fell flat, as the trend of having one massive single and then ten filler tracks is still fairly common in music, but the albums that I played on repeat in 2013 definitely made ​​up for the so-so releases. Btw this is just random ranked, I like all of their albums. And this is my top 5 albums of 2013 :

1. James Blake - Overgrown

Welcome to the world of James Blake, where soul, jazz, R & B and even gospel fused with dubstep and electronics. World where a little moody and dark will color when listening. World where eclecticism of his music will be performed by full vocal mysterious aura. With Overgrown, James Blake proves once again when he was a young musician who has a vision that gifted and have a compelling concept album. An album "alternative" very decent for listening to.

2. Lorde - Pure Heroin

Who is that Lorde? Suddenly she steal the show through the Royals , a single sticking out everywhere and topped the charts. She specializes in bare-bones grooves stripped down to their minimalist essence and her voice is always front and center. Lorde's success may also be because people are fed up with teen singer who appeared almost similar with cheesy songs but disappeared shortly afterwards . It offers something that is "heavy" in the lyrics and the music , but do not lose the spirit of bubble-gum pop tad.

3. London Grammar - If You Wait 

A remarkable debut of delicate beauty from the London trio. It's been tagged as "trip-hop", but this is something deeper and darker. Forget comparisons with the XX or Florence, think about this instead – when did you last hear such a confident debut album? They may split opinion on whether they are the coolest new kids on the block, but one of their charms is that they don’t seem to care what people think and after all, why should they? Everything’s in place – beautiful tunes, wonderful lyrics and their strongest weapon of all, Hannah Reid’s amazing voice. This is deservedly the highest placed debut album on the list, so if you follow that logic, are London Grammar the best new band to emerge in 2013? Of course they are.

4. Disclosure - Settle

The instant-classic hype around brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence‘s full-length debut Settle places it next to Chemical Brothers’ Surrender, Basement Jaxx’s Rooty, and Daft Punk’s Discovery in the pantheon of that rarest of birds, the electronic crossover hit. But where those albums and their canonized kin were confrontations in a rockist world, Settle is cool and calm with no underarm wetness, a cocksure amalgam of 2-step textures, micro-house thrift, and furtively foolproof hooks. 


5.The Great Gatsby : Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film

The best movie soundtracks out on 2013, by a mile, even with two duds on the album. This album is what the movie should have been, self-indulgent, fun, yet laced with plenty of emotion. The album's high points come from unexpected places. Lana Del Rey, Emeli Sande, The xx and Fergie contribute very different yet very effective tracks. Many of the songs incorporate jazz into them to help place them in the era the movie is set in. For a soundtrack, they help show the epic variety and spread the musical ground covered without anything really feeling out of place.