![]() ![]() Sure, you think you’re better than Bangerz, but in a year where few albums from pop music’s big names lived up to potential (step forward Gaga, Britney and Jay-Z), Miley Cyrus undoubtedly ruled the roost. Use your keyboard’s arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 1/52) ![]() OVERSTEPS AUTECHRE ZIP CRACKGrab your cans, crack open a tin, still your sense of outrage, and enjoy. We’ll be counting down the albums of 2013 in blocks of ten over the next five days, finishing up with the Top Ten on Friday. For the first time, we’ve also elected to include our favourite EPs too – rather than agonising over the cut-off point between long-form and short-form, we’ve decided simply to prioritise those collections that moved us the most. More so than any previous FACT list, this year’s Top 50 is a patchwork – a mix of official LP releases, Bandcamp freebies, cassettes, DatPiff drops and bootlegs. It doesn’t matter if it’s lengthy or snappy, physical or invisible – if it’s a great record, it’s in it. We’ve elected to take the other road, allowing different formats to sit happily alongside one other. Mindful of not being Cnuts, we’ve no intention of holding back the tide.įaced with navigating this increasingly complicated landscape, plenty of blogs have gone down the Grammys route of hyper-specification – Best Hip-Hop Albums That Aren’t Mixtapes Best Albums Under 15 Minutes That Aren’t Singles Best Albums With A 16×16 Floor Tom Best Albums That Didn’t Feature Nile Rodgers. To quarantine mixtape releases, say, away from our albums list might have made sense a few years ago now, it seems blockheaded and perverse. OVERSTEPS AUTECHRE ZIP FULLIs a mini-album a full-length or an extended single? Should a clutch of Soundcloud demos be judged alongside a 3xLP pack? Are leaks off-limits – and, if so, why? In a year full of marketing campaign razzmatazz and big bruisers dropping surprise albums, it’s telling – and heartening – that much of the best music arrived through rogue channels. In 2013, album lists aren’t just best-to-worst rundowns – they’re ways of demarcating what an “album” is (or isn’t) in the first place. Skip to: #50 / #40 / #30 / #20 / #10 or view the selection as a single page text list – without audio, images, or write-ups – here. ![]()
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