We're just six months into 2013 and already it's been a good year for musc.
Nationally, we've had new releases from indie powerhouses like Iron & Wine, The National, and even Vampire Weekend. Locally, Colorado icons Gregory Alan Isakov, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Paper Bird have each put out a new albums as well. We've also seen releases from music legends Iggy and the Stooges, and David Bowie!
Below are the top 100 albums of the year so far as chosen by you, the listener.
Also, you can check out OpenAir's staff picks.
Best of 2013 listener choices:
1 Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City - XL
2 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - Columbia
3 Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic- Jagjaguwar
4 The National - Trouble Will Find Me - 4AD
5 Paper Bird - Rooms - Self-Release
6 Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze - Matador
7 Yo La Tengo - Fade - Matador
8 Gregory Alan Isakov - The Weatherman - Suitcase Town Music
9 The Paper Stars - Under the Sun - Self-release
10 A. Tom Collins - Stick & Poke - Greater Than Collective
11 Phosphorescent - Muchachos - Dead Oceans
12 Local Natives - Hummingbird - French Kiss
13 Poet's Row - Poet's Row - Self-Release
14 Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork - Matador
15 The Strokes - Comedown Machine - RCA
16 Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II - Jagjaguwar
17 Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite - Get Up! - Stax
18 David Bowie - The Next Day - Columbia
19 My Bloody Valentine - M B V - Self-Release
20 Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends - Atlantic
21 She and Him - Volume 3 - Merge
22 Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - We the Commons - Ribbon Music
23 Youth Lagoon - Wonderous Bughouse - Fat Possum
24 Devendra Banhart - Mala - Nonesuch
25 Iron and Wine - Ghost on Ghost - Nonesuch
26 Phoenix - Bankrupt! - Glassnote
27 Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside - Untamed Beast - Partisan
28 Deerhunter - Monomania - 4AD
29 Faceman - TalkTalkTalk - Concerted Effort
30 Cold War Kids - Dear Miss Lonelyhearts - Downtown Music
31 Foals - Holy Fire - Warner Bros.
32 Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse - Canvasback
33 James Blake - Overgrown - Republic
34 Mika Cronin - MCII - Merge
35 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away - Bad Seeds Ltd.
36 Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob - Vapor/Warner Bros.
37 Wavves - Afraid of Heights - Warner Bros.
38 Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest - Warp
39 Disclosure - Settle - PMR
40 Fitz and The Tantrums - More Than Just A Dream - Elektra
41 Har Mar Superstar - Bye Bye 17 - Cult
42 Surfer Blood - Pythons - Kanine
43 Atlas Genius - When It Was Now - Warner Bros.
44 Atoms For Peace - Amok - XL Recordings
45 Billy Bragg - Tooth and Nail - Cooking Vinyl
46 Camera Obscura - Desire Lines - 4AD
47 Colfax Speed Queen - Satisfaction Intended - Hot Congress
48 Eels - Wonderful, Glorious - Vagrant
49 Low - The Invisible Way - Sub Pop
50 Shannon and the Clams - Dreams in the Rat House - Hardly Art
51 STRFKR - Miracle Mile - Polyvinyl
52 Wampire - Curiosity - Polyvinyl
53 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito - Interscope
54 Akron/Family - Sub Verses - Dead Oceans
55 Beach Fossils - Clash the Truth - Captured Tracks
56 Big Harp - Chain Letters - Saddle Creek
57 Charles Bradley - Victim of Love - Daptone
58 Eye and the Arrow - If By Fire - Self-Release
59 Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle - Virgin
60 Pillowfight - Pillowfight - Bulk
61 Rilo Kiley - Rkives - Little Record Company
62 The Centennial - Nervous System - Self-Release
63 The Delfonics - Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics - Wax Poetics
64 The Flaming Lips - The Terror - Warner Bros.
65 The Growlers - Hung at Heart - Everloving
66 Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin - Castle Face
67 The Black Angels - Indigo Meadow - Blue Horizon
68 Alice Russell - To Dust - Tru Thoughts
69 Shady Elders - No Favors - Hot Congress
70 Cayucas - Bigfoot - Secretly Canadian
71 Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell - Old Yellow Moon - Nonesuch
72 Guided By Voices - English Little League - GBV
73 Iggy and The Stooges - Ready To Die - Fat Possum
74 Jesse Manley - A Path Through the Dark - Self-Release
75 King Tuff - Was Dead - Burger
76 Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Ripely Pine - Ba Da Bing
77 Major Lazer - Free The Universe - Secretly Canadian
78 Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth - Warp
79 MS MR - Secondhand Rapture - Columbia
80 Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love - Barsuk
81 Smith Westerns - Soft Will - Mom & Pop
82 Steve Earle & The Dukes(& Duchesses) - The Low Highway - New West
83 The Cave Singers - Naomi - Jagjaguwar
84 The Replacements - Songs for Slim - New West
85 Y La Bamba - Oh February - Tender Loving Empire
86 John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts - Partisan
87 Adam Green & Binki Shapiro - Adam Green & Binki Shapiro - Rounder
88 Air Dubai - Warning - Hopeless
89 Austra - Olympia - Domino
90 Junip - Junip - Mute
91 Born Ruffians - Birthmarks - Yep Roc
92 Cloud Cult - Love - Earthology
93 Confluence - I Haven't Really Been Living - Self-Release
94 CSS - Planta - SQE
95 Eisley - Currents - Equal Vision
96 Eric Burdon - 'Til Your River Runs Dry - ABKCO
97 Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities - Trouble In Mind
98 Josh Dillard - The Bright Light of Shipwreck - Self
99 Pickwick - Can't Talk Medicine - Small Press
