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Best of 2013: The album is dead, long live the album - critics name their favourites

Phosphorescent, Elvis Costello and The Roots, Justin Timberlake, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Fela Kuti top critics' lists this year
Phosphorescent
Phosphorescent: Muchacho (Dead Oceans)

Erin McPhee
Top 10 Albums
1. Phosphorescent — Muchacho (Dead Oceans)
2. Charles Bradley  — Victim of Love (Daptone Records)
3. King Khan and the Shrines  —
Idle No More (Merge Records)
4. Arcade Fire — Reflektor (Merge Records)
5. Basia Bulat — Tall Tall Shadow (Secret City Records)
6. Hayden — Us Alone (Arts & Crafts)
7. She & Him — Volume 3 (Merge Records)
8. The National — Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
9. Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires of the City
(XL Recordings)
10. Lightning Dust — Fantasy (Jagjaguwar Records)

Terry Peters
Top 10 Albums
1. Elvis Costello and Roots — Wise Up Ghost (Blue Note)
2. Omar — The Man (Freestyle Records)
3. Jason Isbell — Southeastern (Southeastern)
4. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
(Columbia/Sony)
5. Billie Joe & Norah — Foreverly (Reprise)
6. Rhye — Woman (Polydor)
7. David Bowie — The Next Day (Sony)
8. The National — Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
9. Autre Ne Veut — Anxiety (Mexican Summer)
10. Laura Marling — Once I Was an Eagle (Ribbon Music)

Nicholas M. Pescod
Top 10 Albums
1. Justin Timberlake — 20/20 Experience Part 1 (RCA)
2. Carmen and Camille — Neon (Independent)    
3. Madchild — Lawn Mower Man (Battle Axe Records)
4. Colby Dee — Missed The Exit (Independent)
5. Jessica Speziale/One Fire Movement —
Songs From the Heart (Independent)
6. Lissie — Back To Forever (Sony Music)    
7. Lily Kershaw — Midnight in the Garden (Nettwerk)    
8. Krewella — Get Wet (Sony Music)    
9. Clara Venice — Love Riddle (Independent)
10. Robbie G — Adamantine Heart (Ripple Effect)

John Goodman
Top 10 Albums
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds —
Push the Sky Away (Bad Seeds Ltd.)
2. Arctic Monkeys — AM (Domino)
3. Earl Sweatshirt — Doris (Tan Cressida)
4. Bettie Serveert — Oh Mayhem!
(Second Motion Records)
5. Sarah Jarosz — Build Me Up from Bones (Sugar Hill)
6. The Roseville Band — Temper (Pipe & Hat)
7. Die Enttäuschung — Vier Halbe (Intakt Records)
8. The Knife — Shaking the Habitual (Rabid)
9. Tim Hecker — Virgins (Kranky)
10. Quadron — Avalanche (Epic)

John Goodman
Favourite Reissues/remixes/archival releases
1. Fela Kuti — The Best of the Black President Vol. 2
(Knitting Factory/Kalakuta Sunrise)
2. Sly & the Family Stone — Higher (Epic)
3. Denise LaSalle — Making A Good Thing Better:
The Complete Westbound Singles 1970-76 (Ace)
4. Nirvana — In Utero (DGC/Interscope/Universal)
5. Otis Redding
— The Complete Stax/Volt Singles Collection (Shout! Factory)
6. Public Image Ltd. — First Issue (Light in the Attic)
7. Neil Young — Live at the Cellar Door (Reprise)
8. Marianne Faithfull — Broken English (Island)
9. Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Recordings by Babineaux & Guidry, Angelas Le Jeune and Blind Uncle Gaspard, 1929-1930 (Tompkins Square)
10. Four Tet — Rounds (Domino)