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KEXP Adds music charts for 2013
Week: 5/03/2013 - 5/09/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
 Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | XL | |
| The Baptist Generals | Jackleg Devotional to the Heart | Sub Pop | |
| MS MR | Secondhand Rapture | Columbia | |
| (Various) | Garage Swim | Adult Swim | |
| Kastle | Kastle | Symbols | |
| Fitz and the Tantrums | More Than Just A Dream | Elektra | |
| Laura Mvula | Sing To The Moon | Columbia | |
| Bibio | Silver Wilkinson | Warp | |
| Jason Isbell | Southeastern | Southeastern/Thirty Tigers | |
| (Various) | Kitsune America 2 | Kitsune | |
| Big Black Delta | Big Black Delta | Maters of Bates | |
| Charli XCX | True Romance | IAMSOUND | |
| Dungeonesse | Dungeonesse | Secretly Canadian | |
| Kisses | Kids in L.A. | Cascine | |
| Natalia Clavier | Lumen | Nacional | |
| High Highs | Open Season | self-released | |
| Marques Toliver | Land of CanAan | Bella Union | |
| Learning Team | Aporia Coda | self-released | |
| Tunng | Turbines | Full Time Hobby | |
| (Various) | Atlantics, Vol. 3 | Astro Nautico | |
| RP Boo | Legacy! | Planet Mu | |
| Friends and Family | Happy, Good-Looking, And In Love | self-released | |
| Alan Braxe | Moments In Time EP | Scion A/V | |
| Braxton/Palmer | Creeper EP | Ceremony | |
| Lil Texas | Talkin 2 U EP | Donky Pitch | |
| Shovels and Rope | O' Be Joyful (Deluxe Edition) | Shrimp/Dualtone |
Week: 4/19/2013 - 4/25/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| The So So Glos | Blowout | Shea Stadium | |
| Daughter | If You Leave | Glassnote | |
| Hanni El Khatib | Head In The Dirt | Innovative Leisure | |
| Femi Kuti | No Place For My Dreams | Knitting Factory | |
| Still Corners | Strange Pleasures | Sub Pop | |
| Alice Russell | To Dust | Tru Thoughts | |
| !!! | Thr!!!er | Warp | |
| Vondelpark | Seabed | R&S | |
| Wolf People | Fain | Jagjaguwar | |
| No Joy | Wait To Pleasure | Mexican Summer | |
| Letherette | Letherette | Ninja Tune | |
| Tijuana Panthers | Semi-Sweet | Innovative Leisure | |
| SZA | S | self-released | |
| Dandy Teru | Adventures | Ubiquity | |
| Neon Neon | Praxis Makes Perfect | Lex | |
| Beacon | The Ways We Separate | Ghostly | |
| (Various) | Live from Festival Au Desert 2012 | Clermont | |
| Guided By Voices | English Little League | Guided By Voices Inc. | |
| Iggy and The Stooges | Ready To Die | Fat Possum | |
| Rhian Sheehan | Stories From Elsewhere | Darla | |
| The Lonely H | The Lonely H | self-released | |
| Pomrad | This Day EP | Earnest Endeavors | |
| youryoungbody | Kurokabi | self-released |
Week: 4/12/2013 - 4/18/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote | |
| John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | Partisan | |
| Junip | Junip | Mute | |
| AM & Shawn Lee | La Musique Numerique | Park The Van | |
| Shuggie Otis | Inspiration Information + Wings of Love | Epic/Legacy | |
| Laura Stevenson | Wheel | Don Giovanni | |
| Major Lazer | Free the Universe | Secretly Canadian/Mad Decent | |
| Sam Amidon | Bright Sunny South | Nonesuch | |
| Don't Talk To The Cops! | Champions Of Breakfast | self-released | |
| Tom Jones | Spirit In The Room | Rounder | |
| Hands | Synesthesia | Kill Rock Stars | |
| Brass Bed | The Secret Will Keep You | Crossbill/Off The Air | |
| The David Mayfield Parade | Good Man Down | Beautywood | |
| Crime & The City Solution | American Twilight | Mute | |
| Neighbors | I Love Neighbors | self-released | |
| Rainbow Arabia | F.M. Sushi | Time No Place | |
| Dead Confederate | In The Marrow | Spiderbomb | |
| Cali Giraffes | All My Life | Fin |
Week: 4/05/2013 - 4/11/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope | |
| The Thermals | Desperate Ground | Saddle Creek | |
| James Blake | Overgrown | Republic | |
| The Knife | Shaking the Habitual | Mute | |
| Akron/Family | Sub Verses | Dead Oceans | |
| Tullycraft | Lost In Light Rotation | Magic Marker | |
| The Flaming Lips | The Terror | Warner Bros. | |
| (Various) | Sub Pop 1000 | Sub Pop | |
| Steve Mason | Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time | Double Six | |
| Young Fathers | Tape Two | Anticon | |
| Iron and Wine | Ghost on Ghost | Nonesuch | |
| Jake Bugg | Jake Bugg | Mercury | |
| Deptford Goth | Life After Defo | Co-Op/Merck | |
| IG88 | Breathing Suit | Nueva Forma | |
| Shannon McNally | Small Town Talk | Sacred Sumac Music | |
| La Yegros | Viene de Mi | ZZK | |
| The Shouting Matches | Grownass Man | Middle West | |
| Romare | Love Songs, Pt. 1 EP | Black Acre | |
| The Shivas | Whiteout | K | |
| Lilacs & Champagne | Danish & Blue | Mexican Summer | |
| Solar Bears | Supermigration | Planet Mu | |
| Tuesday Born | Singing in the Dark EP | Audio Doughnuts | |
| Luke Winslow-King | The Coming Tide | Bloodshot | |
| Bored Nothing | Bored Nothing | Spunk | |
| Great Dane | Alpha Dog | Alpha Pup | |
| Nude Pop | Splintered Selves | Fake Record Label | |
| Cross My Heart Hope To Die | EP | Alpha Pup |
Week: 3/29/2013 - 4/04/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador | |
| Thee Oh Sees | Floating Coffin | Castle Face | |
| Bombino | Nomad | Nonesuch | |
| Pressed And | Stone Candles | Mush | |
| IO Echo | Ministry Of Love | IAMSOUND | |
| The Besnard Lakes | Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO | Jagjaguwar | |
| Futurebirds | Baba Yaga | Fat Possum | |
| Heterotic | Love & Devotion | Planet Mu | |
| Massy Ferguson | Victory & Ruins | Spark & Shine | |
| Os Mutantes | Fool Metal Jack | Krian | |
| The Computers | Love Triangles, Hate Squares | One Little Indian | |
| Dutch Uncles | Out of Touch in the Wild | Memphis Industries | |
| Radiation City | Animals In The Median | Tender Loving Empire | |
| Mikey and Matty | Harbor Island | self-released | |
| Alek Fin | Mull EP | self-released | |
| Matt Shadetek | The Empire Never Ended | Dutty Artz | |
| Chico Mann | Magical Thinking | Soundway | |
| The Reflections | Limerance | self-released | |
| The Ocean Blue | Ultramarine | Korda | |
| The Palisades | Mr. S.'s Memory | self-released | |
| Outboxx | Outboxx | Idle Hands | |
| Cascadia '10 | Cascadia '10 | self-released | |
| Anenon | Sunset and Clocks EP | Non Projects | |
| Cold Cave | Oceans With No End | Deathwish | |
| Seacats | The 7" Burger | Fin |
Week: 3/22/2012 - 3/28/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wavves | Afraid of Heights | Rodeo/Mom+Pop/Warner Bros. | |
| Bonobo | The North Borders | Ninja Tune | |
| Caveman | Caveman | Fat Possum | |
| DJ Koze | Amygdala | Pampa | |
| Milk Music | Cruise Your Illusion | Fat Possum | |
| Lapalux | Nostalchic | Brainfeeder | |
| Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba | Jama Ko | Outhere | |
| The London Suede | Bloodsports | Suede Limited/Fontana | |
| Bleached | Ride Your Heart | Dead Oceans | |
| Wire | Change Becomes Us | Pink Flag | |
| Gerald Collier | Help is on the Way | Hail The Sound | |
| Kobo Town | Jumbie in the Jukebox | Stonetree/Cumbancha | |
| Blank Realm | Go Easy | Fire | |
| Merchandise | Totale Nite | Night-People | |
| (Various) | Feathers | Pelican Fly | |
| Deadstring Brothers | Cannery Row | Bloodshot | |
| Atu | Pictures on Silence | Soulelection | |
| Generationals | Heza | Polyvinyl | |
| White Fence | Cyclops Reap | Castle Face | |
| Shinyribs | Gulf Coast Museum | Nine Mile | |
| Brown Bird | Fits of Reason | Supply & Demand | |
| CSC Funk Band | Funkincense | Electric Cowbell | |
| Hiss Golden Messenger | Haw | Paradise of Bachelors | |
| Sister Crayon | Cynic EP | Fake Four Inc. | |
| Gacha | Collected Older Works | R&S/Apollo | |
| Michael Tarbox | Works and Days | Soul Panther | |
| Empress Of | Systems | Terrible | |
| (Various) | Gem Drops Three | Dropping Gems | |
| Freedom Fry | Friends + Enemies EP | self-released | |
| English Gardens | English Gardens | self-released | |
| Flarelight | I Believe EP | Think 2wice | |
| Dengue Fever | In The Ley Lines | Tuk Tuk | |
| Shovels & Rope | Johnny 99/Bad As Me | Third Man |
Week: 3/15/2012 - 3/21/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Veils | Time Stays, We Go | Pitched Beast | |
| Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge | |
| Footprintz | Escape Yourself | Visionquest | |
| Wax Idols | Discipline + Desire | Slumberland | |
| Sweatson Klank | You, Me, Temporary | Project Mooncircle | |
| Purling Hiss | Water on Mars | Drag City | |
| Cayucas | Bigfoot | Secretly Canadian | |
| Born Ruffians | Birthmarks | Yep Roc | |
| Colleen Green | Sock It To Me | Hardly Art | |
| The Replacements | Songs For Slim EP | New West | |
| Little Green Cars | Absolute Zero | Glassnote | |
| Jetman Jet Team | We Will Live the Space Age | Saint Marie | |
| Stornoway | Tales From Terra Firma | 4AD | |
| Rilo Kiley | Rkives | Little Record Company | |
| Palenke Soultribe | Mar | Soultribe | |
| Sally Shapiro | Somewhere Else | Paper Bag | |
| Kavinsky | Outrun | Casablanca/Republic | |
| sayknowledge | Vibe Called Quest | Heavy Keys | |
| The Postal Service | Give Up (10th Anniversary Edition) | Sub Pop | |
| Sax G | Tu Me Manques | Cloud Nice | |
| Grynch & Budo | Treadin' | Fin | |
| snacs | Meaning Of | self-released |
Week: 3/08/2012 - 3/14/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOAT | Pretend To Be Brave | Magic Marker | |
| Mudhoney | Vanishing Point | Sub Pop | |
| The Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon | |
| Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade | |
| The Kingsbury Manx | Bronze Age | Odess | |
| La Big Vic | Cold War | Underwater Peoples | |
| Kinski | Cosy Moments | Kill Rock Stars | |
| Billy Bragg | Tooth & Nail | Cooking Vinyl | |
| Raz Simone | Solomon Samuel Simone | self-released | |
| The Virginmarys | King of Conflict | Wind-up | |
| Devandra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch | |
| Marnie Stern | The Chronicles of Marnia | Kill Rock Stars | |
| Nightmare Air | High In The Lasers | Saint Marie | |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle club | Specter At The Feast | Abstract Dragon/Vagrant | |
| (Various) | Khat Thaleth | Stronghold Sound | |
| Baltic Cousins | The Broken Horn | self-released | |
| Thalia Zedek Band | Via | Thrill Jockey | |
| Jimi Hendrix | People, Hell and Angels | Experience Hendrix/Legacy | |
| Dead Ship Sailing | Dead Ship Sailing | self-released | |
| Van Stee | We Are | self-released | |
| Guards | In Guards We Trust | Black Bell | |
| Making Movies | A La Deriva | self-released | |
| Half Light | Things To Figure Out | Knick Knack | |
| Fox and The Law | Sleep With The Lights On EP | self-released | |
| Lee Hazlewood | Trouble Is A Lonesome Town | Light in the Attic | |
| Mikhael Paskalev | Jive Babe/I Spy | Mom + Pop/Boombox | |
| Brittany Howard and Ruby Amanfu | I Wonder/When My Man Comes Home | Third Man |
Week: 3/01/2012 - 3/07/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Bradley | Victim of Love | Daptone | |
| David Bowie | The Next Day | Columbia | |
| Waxahatchee | Cerulean Salt | Don Giovanni | |
| Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans | |
| Low | The Invisible Way | Sub Pop | |
| Hookworms | Pearl Mystic | Gringo | |
| The Mary Onettes | Hit the Waves | Labrador | |
| Steve Earle & The Dukes (and Duchesses) | The Low Highway | New West | |
| Beat Mark | Howls of Joy | Ample Pay | |
| Fol Chen | The False Alarms | Asthmatic Kitty | |
| The Cash Box Kings | Black Toppin' | Blind Pig | |
| Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics | Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics | Wax Poetics | |
| Chvrches | Recover | Glassnote | |
| Mogwai | Les Revenants | Rock Action | |
| They Might Be Giants | Nanobots | Idlewild | |
| William Tyler | Impossible Truth | Merge | |
| Fjord Morrison | Old Tendency EP | Hush Hush | |
| Week of Wonders | Failures EP | self-released | |
| Pharoahs | Pharoahs | 100% Silk | |
| Caitlin Rose | The Stand-In | ATO | |
| (Various) | Talking House Vol. 1 | Local Talk | |
| JusMoni x WD4D | Queen Feel (Deluxe Edition) | Care Package | |
| (Various) | House Slippers | Young Adults | |
| Stubborn Heart | Stubborn Heart | One Little Indian | |
| Bearhug | Over Easy | self-released | |
| Water Liars | Wyoming | Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum | |
| Evenings | Yore | Friends of Friends | |
| Los Amigos Invisibles | Repeat After Me | Nacional | |
| Chrome Sparks | Sparks EP | self-released | |
| (Various) | Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran | Sham Palace | |
| Locked Groove | Heritage EP | Hotflush | |
| Mmoths | Diaries | SQE | |
| Hanssen | Programme EP | Pleasure Boat |
Week: 2/22/2012 - 2/28/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Men | New Moon | Sacred Bones | |
| Bilal | A Love Surreal | eOne | |
| Youth Lagoon | Wondrous Bughouse | Fat Possum | |
| Chelsea Light Moving | Chelsea Light Moving | Matador | |
| Boogat | El Dorato Sunset | Maisonnette | |
| Girls Names | The New Life | Slumberland | |
| Golden Grrrls | Golden Grrrls | Slumberland | |
| Villagers | {Awayland} | Domino | |
| Popstrangers | Antipodes | Carpark | |
| Mister Lies | Mowgli | Lefse | |
| Son Volt | Honky Tonk | Rounder | |
| Olof Arnalds | Sudden Elevation | One Little Indian | |
| Cloud Cult | Love | Earthology | |
| Parenthetical Girls | Privilege | Marriage/Slender Means Society | |
| Suuns | Images du Futur | Secretly Canadian | |
| Giraffage | Needs | Alpha Pup | |
| Dead Confederate | Peyote People | Spiderbomb | |
| Greater Davis | Lost Soul | Luv N'Haight | |
| Mazes | Ores & Minerals | Fatcat | |
| Solvents | Ghetto Moon | Bee Resin | |
| (Various) | The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver | ATO | |
| Stallie Ford & The Sound Outside | Untamed Beast | Partisan | |
| Lotte Kestner | The Bluebird of Happiness | Saint Marie | |
| David Starfire | Ascend | Six Degrees | |
| Shlohmo | Laid Out | Friends of Friends |
Week: 2/15/2012 - 2/21/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atoms for Peace | Amok | XL | |
| Mitzi | Truly Alive | Future Classic | |
| Shake Some Action! | Full Fathom Five | Satellite 451 | |
| RA Scion & Todd Sykes | Adding to the Extra | self-released | |
| Shout Out Louds | Optica | Merge | |
| Frikstailers | En Son de Paz | ZZK | |
| Grave Babies | Crusher | Hardly Art | |
| El Sportivo & The Blooz | Nights & Weekends | White Iris | |
| Robyn Hitchcock | Love From London | Yep Roc | |
| Savages | I Am Here | Pop Noire | |
| Young Dreams | Between Places | Modular | |
| The Quiet Ones | Molt in Moments | In Advance | |
| Johnny Marr | The Messengers | Sire | |
| Highasakite | In and Out of Weeks | Propeller | |
| Roge | Brenguele | Coqueiro Verde | |
| Hannalee | Brassica | self-released |
Week: 2/08/2012 - 2/14/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Push The Sky Away | Bad Seed Ltd. | |
| Autre Ne Veut | Anxiety | Software | |
| Foals | Holy Fire | Warner Bros. | |
| The Cave Singers | Naomi | Jagjaguwar | |
| Jamie Lidell | Jamie Lidell | Warp | |
| Iceage | You're Nothing | Matador | |
| Warm Soda | Warm Soda | Castle Face | |
| inc. | no world | 4AD | |
| Bettie Serveert | Oh, Mayhem! | Second Motion | |
| The James Hunter Six | Minute By Minute | Fantasy | |
| Psychic Friend | My Rocks Are Dreams | Dangerbird | |
| Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | What The Brothers Sang | Palace/Drag City | |
| (Various) | Son of Rogues Gallery | ANTI- | |
| Jesse Dee | On My Mind / In My Heart | Alligator | |
| Mount Moriah | Miracle Temple | Merge | |
| The Relatives | The Electric Word | Yep Roc | |
| Majical Cloudz | Turns Turns Turns | Arbutus | |
| STRFKR | Miracle Mile | Polyvinyl | |
| Matmos | The Marriage of True Minds | Thrill Jockey | |
| BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet | From Bamako to Carencro | Compass | |
| The West | In Low Light | self-released | |
| Astronautica | Replay Last Night | Alpha Pup | |
| The Crying Shame | New Rock | self-released | |
| Lockah | Only Built 4 Neon Nites | Donky Pitch | |
| Foreign Friends | Maps EP2 | self-released | |
| Everything Everything | Cough Cough EP | RCA | |
| Madeaux | EP | LessThan3 | |
| A.M. Architect | Pattern Language | URBNET | |
| Friends and Family | Green and Yellow Basket/Ugly Tooth | self-released |
Week: 2/01/2012 - 2/07/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Bloody Valentine | mbv | self-released | |
| Beach Fossils | Clash The Truth | Captured Tracks | |
| Lusine | The Waiting Room | Ghostly International | |
| Lady Lamb the Beekeeper | Ripely Pine | Ba Da Bing | |
| Gold Fields | Black Sun | Astralwerks | |
| The Little Ones | The Dawn Sang Along | Branches Recording Collective | |
| Wild Cub | Youth | Big Light | |
| Pissed Jeans | Honeys | Sub Pop | |
| Jacco Gardner | Cabinet of Curiosities | Trouble In Mind | |
| Boats | A Fairway Full of Miners | Kill Rock Stars | |
| (Various) | Night Slugs Allstars Volume 2 | Night Slugs | |
| Darkstar | News From Nowhere | Warp | |
| Pocket Panda | Find Yourself A Stranger | self-released | |
| Blooper | Long Distance | Manic Pop! | |
| The Slide Brothers | Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers | Concord | |
| Maria Minerva | Bless EP | 100% Silk | |
| Julia Massey & the Five Finger Discount | Five Letters From Far Away | self-released | |
| Kris Menace | Features | Compuphonic | |
| Synkro | Acceptance EP | Apollo | |
| VUURWERK | ONE EP | Dandelion Lotus | |
| (Various) | dirtybird Players Sampler | dirtybird | |
| Fan Fiction | Fan Fiction | self-released | |
| The Transmissionary Six | Songs 2002-2012 | self-released |
Week: 1/25/2013 - 1/31/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Natives | Hummingbird | Frenchkiss | |
| Pickwick | Can't Talk Medicine | self-released | |
| Doldrums | Lesser Evil | Arbutus | |
| Blue Hawaii | Untogether | Arbutus | |
| The Night Marchers | Allez! Allez! | Swami | |
| Sin Fang | Flowers | Morr Music | |
| (Various) | Give 2013 | Caffe Vita | |
| Pony Time | Go Find Your Own | Per Se | |
| Richard Thompson | Electric | New West | |
| Dead Leaf Echo | Thought & Language | Neon Sigh | |
| Cheatahs | Extended Plays | Wichita | |
| Tegan & Sara | Heartthrob | Vapor/Warner Bros. | |
| 813 | Recolor | Activia Benz | |
| Frank Bango | Touchy Feely | Sincere | |
| The Deer Tracks | The Archer Triology Pt. 3 | The Control Group | |
| Amor de Dias | The House at Sea | Merge | |
| Expensive Looks | Hacienda | Altitude | |
| (Various) | Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970 | Sublime Frequencies | |
| Bad Indians | Bad Indians Are On The Other Side | CQ | |
| Endless Boogie | Long Island | No Quarter | |
| The Soft Hills | Chromatisms | Tapete | |
| Aaron Neville | My True Story | Blue Note | |
| Ballake Sissoko | At Peace | Six Degrees | |
| Mo Kolours | EP3: Tusk Dance | One-Handed Music |
Week: 1/18/2013 - 1/24/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hey Marseilles | Lines We Trace | Onto/Thirty Tigers | |
| Vox Mod | SYN-AESTHETIC | self-released | |
| FIDLAR | FIDLAR | Mom + Pop | |
| The Joy Formidable | Wolf's Law | Atlantic | |
| Ex Cops | True Hallucinations | Other Music | |
| Frightened Rabbit | Pedestrian Verse | Canvasback | |
| Lost Animal | Ex Tropical | Hardly Art | |
| FaltyDL | Hardcourage | Ninja Tune | |
| Night Beds | Country Sleep | Dead Oceans | |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra | II | Jagjaguwar | |
| Ponyhomie | Remable | self-released | |
| Keith Canisius | Beautiful Sharks | Saint Marie | |
| Young Fathers | Tape One | Anticon | |
| Jim James | Regions of Light and Sound of God | ATO | |
| Ducktails | The Flower Lane | Domino | |
| Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts | Stranger In My Land | Bloodshot | |
| Indians | Somewhere Else | 4AD | |
| Red Baraat | Shruggy Ji | Sinj | |
| Wimps | Repeat | End of Time | |
| Natasha Kmeto | Dirty Mind Melt EP | Dropping Gems | |
| Brokeback | Brokeback and the Black Rock | Thrill Jockey | |
| Peace | Delicious EP | Columbia | |
| Ticktockman | Calling Out The Hounds | self-released | |
| Okadada | When The Night Falls | self-released | |
| Mountains | Centralia | Thrill Jockey | |
| (Various) | TeamSupreme: Collection 1 | Alpha Pup | |
| Ra Ra Riot | Beta Love | Barsuk | |
| The Phantom | Piano Moods EP | Your Mama's Friend | |
| Salva | Odd Furniture | Friends of Friends | |
| Fela | The Best Of The Black President 2 | Kalakuta Sunrise/Knitting Factory |
Week: 1/11/2013 - 1/17/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Jacket Mine | Someone Else's Cake | Fin | |
| Veronica Falls | Waiting For Something To Happen | Slumberland | |
| Parquet Courts | Light Up Gold | What's Your Rupture? | |
| Foxygen | We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic | Jagjaguwar | |
| Jose James | No Beginning No End | Blue Note | |
| Arbouretum | Coming Out of the Fog | Thrill Jockey | |
| Widowspeak | Almanac | Captured Tracks | |
| The Ruby Suns | Christopher | Sub Pop | |
| Nosaj Thing | Home | Innovative Leisure/Timetable | |
| Gliss | Langsom Dans | Modern Outsider | |
| Pillowfight | Pillowfight | Bulk | |
| Christopher Owens | Lysandre | Fat Possum | |
| Eels | Wonderful Glorious | e works/Vagrant | |
| BELLAMAINE | An Anxious Mind | self-released | |
| Katy B | Danger EP | self-released | |
| A$AP Rocky | LiveLoveA$AP | Polo Grounds/RCA | |
| Lukid | Lonely at the Top | Werk Discs | |
| (Various) | Show Me the Future | Friends of Friends | |
| Ghosts I've Met | The Leveling Storm | self-released | |
| Pickwick | Covers EP | self-released | |
| Mano le Tough | Changing Days | Permanent Vacation | |
| Big Harp | Chain Letters | Saddle Creek | |
| Isaac Delusion | Early Morning EP | Cracki | |
| Dreams | Lost Kingdom | Astro Nautico | |
| ViLLAGE | Takeover | Origami Sound | |
| Us On Roofs | Us On Roofs | self-released | |
| (Various) | Cambio | Percussion Lab | |
| Dreamscape | La-Di-Da Recordings | Kranky | |
| (Various) | Lost at Sea | The Soul Electronic | |
| Guelewar | Touki Ba Banjul: Acid Trip From Banjul to Dakar | Kindred Spirits | |
| The Wonderful Sound of Induce! | Halfway Between Me and You | WonderSound | |
| Strategy | Strategy | Peak Oil | |
| Jacques Greene | Ready EP | 3024 |
Week: 1/04/2013 - 1/10/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yo La Tengo | Fade | Matador | |
| Toro Y Moi | Anything In Return | Carpark | |
| Free Energy | Love Sign | Free Energy | |
| Adam Green & Binki Shapiro | Adam Greene & Binki Shapiro | Rounder | |
| Widower | Fool Moon | self-released | |
| The Comettes | The Comettes | self-released | |
| Takka Takka | A.M. Landscapes | Ernest Jenning Record Co. | |
| Jenn Grant | The Beautiful Wild | Ba Da Bing | |
| Nightlands | Oak Island | Secretly Canadian | |
| Fred Thomas | Kuma | Ernest Jenning Record Co. | |
| Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite | Get Up! | Stax | |
| (Various) | Surinam! Boogie & Disco Funk from the Surinamese Dance Floor | Kindred Spirits |
Week: 12/28/2012 - 1/03/2013
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bleeding Rainbow | Yeah Right | Kanine | |
| The Redwood Plan | Green Light Go | self-released | |
| BRONCHO | Can't Get Past the Lips | Fairfax | |
| Wooden Wand | Blood Oaths of the New Blues | Fire | |
| The Grizzled Mighty | Thick Hand Grip | self-released | |
| Fey Moth | White Blind | self-released | |
| The Lions | This Generation | Stones Throw | |
| The Cannanes | Small Batch | exro.fm | |
| Broadcast | Berberian Sound Studio | Warp |