The Best Non-Jazz Albums of 2013

Year after year I present my year-end lists as just that: long, mind-numbing lists like I use every day to keep track of the current year (e.g., 2013, 2012, etc.). Other people's lists generally have cover scans and brief write-ups, and it occurred to me that I have all that. Why not just table it up? I did this for the jazz albums part of my list back when I filed my ballot for the Jazz Critics Poll (the file has subsequently been updated as of January 3, 2014). So this is the other side of the coin: the non-jazz list.

[*] indicates that I reviewed this on the basis of an advance, often a CDR copy (a good thing, I might add, for vinyl-only releases). [**] identifies a record that I've only heard via download or through a streaming service like Rhapsody.

New Music: Non-Jazz

1. MIA: Matangi (Interscope):
2. The Uncluded: Hokey Fright (Rhymesayers Entertainment):
3. Rachid Taha: Zoom (Wrasse): [**]
4. The White Mandingos: The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me (Fat Beats): [**]
5. Deerhunter: Monomania (4AD):
6. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (XL):
7. Parquet Courts: Light Up Gold (What's Your Rupture?):
8. Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchesses): The Low Highway (New West):
9. Deltron 3030: Event 2 (Bulk): [**]
10. The Julie Ruin: Run Fast (Dischord): [**]
11. Wayne Hancock: Ride (Bloodshot): [**]
12. Ashley Monroe: Like a Rose (Warner Brothers):
13. Arcade Fire: Reflektor (Merge, 2CD):
14. Pusha T: My Name Is My Name (Def Jam): [**]
15. Primal Scream: More Light (First International) [**]
16. Chance the Rapper: Acid Rap (self-released): [**]
17. Janelle Monáe: The Electric Lady (Bad Boy) [**]
18. Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury Nashville):
19. The Pozniaks: Pozniak Street (Jamrag) [**]
20. Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt (Don Giovanni): [**]
21. Lady Gaga: Artpop (Interscope/Streamline): [**]
22. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Jama Ko (Out Here):
23. Congo Natty: Jungle Revolution (Big Dada): [**]
24. Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Stranger in My Land (Bloodshot): [**]
25. Bomba Estéreo: Elegancia Tropical (Soundway): [**]
26. Maxmillion Dunbar: House of Woo (RVNG Intl.): [**]
27. Daniel Wohl: Corps Exquis (New Amsterdam): [**]
28. Tricky: False Idols (!K7): [**]
29. Guy Clark: My Favorite Picture of You (Dualtone):
30. King DJ: Let Me See You Feel (Bear Funk): [**]
31. Oblivians: Desperation (In the Red): [**]
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito (Interscope): [**]
33. Hookworms: Pearl Mystic (Weird World): [**]
34. Pistol Annies: Annie Up (RCA): [**]
35. Ezra Furman: Day of the Dog (Bar/None): [**]
36. The Knife: Shaking the Habitual (Mute):
37. Latyrx: The Second Album (Latyramid): [**]
38. Saâda Bonaire (1982-85, Captured Tracks): [**]
39. The Fall: Re-Mit (Cherry Red): [**]
40. Aceyalone: Leanin' on Slick (Decon): [**]
41. Omar Souleyman: Wenu Wenu (Ribbon Music): [**]
42. Adult: The Way Things Fall (Ghostly International): [**]
43. Rilo Kiley: Rkives (2004-07, Little Record Company):
44. Brandy Clark: 12 Stories (Smith Music Group): [**]
45. Sam Baker: Say Grace (self-released): [**]
46. Peter Stampfel & the Ether Frolic Mob: The Sound of America (Frederick Productions/Red Newt): [**]
47. Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer: Child Ballads (Wilderland): [**]
48. Tamikrest: Chatma (Glitterhouse): [**]
49. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (Aftermath):
50. Lurrie Bell: Blues in My Soul (Delmark): [**]
51. Kate Nash: Girl Talk (INgrooves): [**]
52. Kim Lenz and the Jaguars: Follow Me (Riley): [**]
53. ZZK Sound Vol. 3 (ZZK/Waxploitation): [**]
54. Gypsyphonic Disko: Mardi Gras Mix Tape 2013 (self-released): [**]
55. Within Reason: Transient Broadcasts (Anodize): [**]
56. Tal National: Kaani (Fat Cat): [**]
57. Thomas Anderson: On Becoming Human: Four-Track Love Songs (Out There):
58. Dobie: We Will Not Harm You (Big Dada): [**]

Reissued Music

1. The Velvet Underground: White Light, White Heat [45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (1968, Verve, 2CD): [**]
2. Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings From the 1970s & '80s (Soundway, 2CD):
3. Le Grand Kallé: His Life, His Music (1953-83, Sterns Music, 2CD): [**]
4. Lobi Traoré: Bamako Nights: Live at Bar Bozo, 1995 (1995, Glitterbeat): [**]
5. Fela Kuti: The Best of Black President 2 (1971-92, Knitting Factory, 2CD): [**]
6. Lee Fields: Let's Talk It Over (1979, Truth & Soul): [**]
7. Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès: Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1 (Teranga Beat):
8. Sylvester: Mighty Real: Greatest Dance Hits (1977-81, Fantasy): [**]
9. Orchestra Super Mazembe: Mazembe @ 45RPM Vol. 1 (1975-84, Sterns Africa): [**]:
10. Rodan: Fifteen Quiet Years (1992-94, Quarterstick): [**]
11. Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye (1985, Awesome Tapes From Africa): [**]
12. Tommy McCook: Reggae in Jazz (1976, Pressure Sounds): [**]

Additional Consumer News

New Releases: ? total.

  1. AFI: Burials (Republic) [B-]
  2. Jhené Aiko: Sail Out (Def Jam, EP) [**]
  3. Gary Allan: Set You Free (MCA Nashville) [*]
  4. Terry Allen: Bottom of the World (Tia) [**]
  5. Ellen Allien: LISm (Bpitch Control) [***]
  6. Alsarah Débruit: Aljawal (Sounday) [B]
  7. AlunaGeorge: Body Music (Island) [*]
  8. Arctic Monkeys: AM (Domino) [B-]
  9. ASAP Rocky: Long.Live.ASAP (Polo Grounds/RCA) [**]
  10. Atom[TM]: HD (Raster-Noton) [**]
  11. Austra: Olympia (Domino) [B-]
  12. Autechre: Exai (Warp, 2CD) [***]
  13. Autre Ne Veut: Anxiety (Software) [***]
  14. Babyshambles: Sequel to the Prequel (Parlophone) [***]
  15. Bad Religion: True North (Epitaph) [*]
  16. Balqees: Majnoun (Rotana) [***]
  17. Baths: Obsidian (Anticon) [**]
  18. Beach Fossils: Clash the Truth (Captured Tracks) [B]
  19. Willis Earl Beal: Nobody Knows (Hot Charity/XL) [B]
  20. Bell X1: Chop Chop (Belly Up) [*]
  21. Best Coast: Fade Away (Mexican Summer, EP) [***]
  22. Bettie Serveert: Oh, Mayhem! (Second Motion) [***]
  23. Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine: White People and the Damage Done (Alternative Tentacles) [*]
  24. Eric Bibb: Jericho Road (Stony Plain) [*]
  25. Bibio: Silver Wilkinson (Warp) [*]
  26. Big Baby Gandhi: Unreleased Freestyles + Other Bad Song Ideas (self-released, EP) [B]
  27. Big Sean: Hall of Fame (Def Jam) [*]
  28. Bilal: A Love Surreal (E1) [**]
  29. James Blake: Overgrown (Polydor) [B]
  30. Bleeding Rainbow: Yeah Right (Kanine) [*]
  31. Blind Boys of Alabama: I'll Find a Way (Masterworks) [B]
  32. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp) [B]
  33. Body/Head: Coming Apart (Matador) [B-]
  34. Jason Boland and the Stragglers: Dark & Dirty Mile (Proud Souls Entertainment) [**]
  35. Bombino: Nomad (Nonesuch) [***]
  36. David Bowie: The Next Day (Columbia) [*]
  37. Brandt Brauer Frick: Miami (!K7) [**]
  38. Danny Brown: Old (Fool's Gold) [***]
  39. VV Brown: Samson & Delilah (YOY) [*]
  40. Luke Bryan: Crash My Party (Capitol Nashville) [C]
  41. Jake Bugg (Mercury) [B]
  42. Burial: Rival Dealer (Hyperdub, EP) [**]
  43. Cakes Da Killa: The Eulogy (Mishka) [**]
  44. Cornell Campbell Meets Soothsayers: Nothing Can Stop Us (Strut) [**]
  45. The Cannanes: Howling at All Hours (Chapter Music) [**]
  46. The Cannanes: Small Batch (Exro FM, EP) [**]
  47. Neko Case: The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You (Anti-) [**]
  48. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky (Bad Seeds) [B]
  49. Marshall Chapman: Blaze of Glory (Tall Girl) [***]
  50. Charli XCX: True Romance (Iamsound) [**]
  51. Chelsea Light Moving (Matador) [***]
  52. Chicha Libre: Cuatro Tigres (Barbès, EP) [*]
  53. The Child of Lov (Double Six) [*]
  54. The Chills: Something Beautiful (Fire) [**]
  55. Alex Chilton: Electricity by Candlelight: NYC 2/3/97 (1997, Bar/None) [**]
  56. Chvrches: The Bones of What You Believe (Glass Note) [B]
  57. Chvrches: Recover (Glassnote, EP) [*]
  58. Ciara (Epic) [**]
  59. J Cole: Yours Truly (self-released, EP) [***]
  60. J Cole: Born Sinner (Roc Nation/Columbia) [***]
  61. Dana Coppafeel & Speak Easy (Uni-Fi) [***]
  62. Court Yard Hounds: Amelita (Columbia) [B]
  63. The Creole Choir of Cuba: Santiman (Real World) [*]
  64. Cults: Static (Columbia) [B-]
  65. Billy Currington: We Are Tonight (Mercury Nashville) [*]
  66. The Cyclist: Bones in Motion (Stones Throw) [**]
  67. Miley Cyrus: Bangerz (RCA) [***]
  68. Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (Daft Life/Columbia) [**]
  69. Darkstar: News From Nowhere (Warp) [C+]
  70. Daughter: If You Leave (Glassnote) [B]
  71. Deafheaven: Sunbather (Deathwish) [***]
  72. Deap Vally: Sistrionix (Island) [*]
  73. Death Grips: No Love Deep Web (Third Worlds/Harvest) [B]
  74. Deer Tick: Relativity (Partisan) [**]
  75. The Del-Lords: Elvis Club (MRI) [*]
  76. Dessa: Parts of Speech (Doomtree) [*]
  77. The Devil Makes Three: I'm a Stranger Here (New West) [*]
  78. Dirty Beaches: Drifters/Love Is the Devil (Zoo Music) [*]
  79. Disappears: Era (Kranky) [**]
  80. Disappears: Kone (Kranky, EP) [*]
  81. Disclosure: Settle (Cherrytree/Interscope) [*]
  82. The Dismemberment Plan: Uncanney Valley (Partisan) [**]
  83. DJ Khaled: Suffering From Success (Cash Money) [*]
  84. DJ Rashad: Double Cup (Hyperdub) [B-]
  85. Dott: Swoon (Graveface) [*]
  86. Drake: Nothing Was the Same (Cash Money/Republic) [B]
  87. Dub Colossus: Dub Me Tender, Vols. 1 & 2 (Real World) [**]
  88. Hanni El Khatib: Head in the Dirt (Innovative Leisure) [**]
  89. Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri: 800% Ndagga (Ndagga) [**]
  90. Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri: Ndagga Versions (Ndagga) [**]
  91. Ethernet: Opus 2 (Kranky) [*]
  92. Ex Cops: True Hallucinations (Other) [*]
  93. Factor: Woke Up Alone (Fake Four) [*]
  94. Factory Floor (DFA) [***]
  95. Fantasia: Side Effects of You (RCA) [**]
  96. Fat Tony: Smart Ass Black Boy (Young One) [***]
  97. Heidi Feek: The Only (Western Pin-Up) [***]
  98. Sky Ferreira: Night Time, My Time (Capitol) [**]
  99. FIDLAR (Mom + Pop Music) [***]
  100. Fist City: It's 1983, Grow Up (Black Tent Press) [**]
  101. The Flaming Lips: The Terror (Warner Brothers) [**]
  102. Foals: Holy Fire (Warner Brothers) [*]
  103. John Fogerty: Wrote a Song for Everyone (Vanguard) [*]
  104. Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside: Untamed Beast (Partisan) [B-]
  105. The Foreign Exchange: Love in Flying Colors (Foreign Exchange Music) [*]
  106. Forest Swords: Engravings (Tri Angle) [*]
  107. Josephine Foster: I'm a Dreamer (Fire) [*]
  108. Foxygen: We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar) [B-]
  109. Frikstailers: En Son de Paz (ZZK) [***]
  110. Ezra Furman: The Year of No Returning (Bar/None) [*]
  111. Future of the Left: How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident (Prescriptions) [**]
  112. Frightened Rabbit: Pedestrian View (Atlantic) [B]
  113. Jonny Fritz: Dad Country (ATO) [**]
  114. Robbie Fulks: Gone Away Backward (Bloodshot) [**]
  115. Future Bible Heroes: Partygoing (Merge) [**]
  116. Kevin Gates: The Luca Brasi Story (Atlantic) [**]
  117. Kevin Gates: Stranger Than Fiction (Bread Winners Association) [**]
  118. Ghostface Killah/Adrian Younge: Twelve Reasons to Die (Relativity/Soul Temple) [***]
  119. Ghostpoet: Some Say I So I Say Light (PIAS) [**]
  120. Vince Gill & Paul Franklin: Bakersfield (MCA Nashville) [***]
  121. Glasser: Interiors (True Panther Sounds) [*]
  122. Gogol Bordello: Pura Vida Conspiracy (ATO) [***]
  123. Gold Panda: Half of Where You Live (Ghostly International) [**]
  124. Max Gomez: Rule the World (New West) [B]
  125. Goodie Mob: Age Against the Machine (The Right/Warner Brothers) [*]
  126. Ariana Grande: Yours Truly (Island/Republi) [***]
  127. Greenhouse [Blueprint/Illogic]: Bend but Don't Break (Weightless) [***]
  128. Greyboy Allstars: Inland Emperor (Knowledge Room) [B]
  129. Patty Griffin: American Kid (New West) [***]
  130. Haim: Days Are Gone (Columbia) [**]
  131. The Handsome Family: Wilderness (Carrot Top) [***]
  132. Emmylou Harris/Rodney Crowell: Old Yellow Moon (Nonesuch) [**]
  133. Mayer Hawthorne: Where Does This Door Go (Republic) [**]
  134. The Haxan Cloak: Excavation (Tri Angle) [*]
  135. Tim Hecker: Virgins (Kranky) [B]
  136. Hermitofthewoods: Land of the Lotus Eaters (Endemik Music) [***]
  137. Richard X. Heyman: X (Turn-Up) [*]
  138. James Holden: The Inheritors (Border Community) [**]
  139. Julia Holter: Loud City Song (Domino) [B]
  140. Homeboy Sandman: All That I Hold Dear (Stones Throw, EP) [**]
  141. Homeboy Sandman: Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent (Stones Throw, EP) [*]
  142. Honey Island Swamp Band: Cane Sugar (Louisiana Red Hot) [B]
  143. Jon Hopkins: Immunity (Domino) [***]
  144. Hurray for the Riff Raff: My Dearest Darkest Neighbor (Mod Mobillian/This Is American Music) [**]
  145. Iceage: You're Nothing (Matador) [B]
  146. Icona Pop: This Is . . . Icona Pop (Big Beat/Atlantic) [*]
  147. Iggy & the Stooges: Ready to Die (Fat Possum) [*]
  148. Inspectah Deck & 7L & Esoteric: Czarface (Brick) [*]
  149. Joanna Gruesome: Weird Sister (Slumberland) [***]
  150. Koby Israelite: Blues From Elsewhere (Asphalt Tango) [B]
  151. Jaipur Kawa Brass Band: Dance of the Cobra (Riverboat) [*]
  152. Jamaican Queens: Wormfood (Notown) [B]
  153. Jay-Z: Magna Carta Holy Grail (Roc Nation) [B]
  154. Juicy J: Stay Trippy (Taylor Gang/Kemosabe/Columbia) [*]
  155. Justice: Access All Arenas (Because) [C+]
  156. Ka: The Night's Gambit (Iron Works) [**]
  157. John Paul Keith: Memphis Circa 3AM (Big Legal Mess) [***]
  158. Toby Keith: Drinks After Work (Show Dog Nashville) [B]
  159. Kelela: Cut 4 Me (Fade to Mind) [*]
  160. Kitty: D.A.I.S.Y. Rage (self-released, EP) [B]
  161. Kool A.D.: 19 (self-released) [*]
  162. Kool A.D.: 63 (self-released) [**]
  163. Kwes.: Ilp. (Warp) [B-]
  164. La Femme: Psycho Tropical Berlin (Disque Pointu) [***]
  165. Jessy Lanza: Pull My Hair Back (Hyperdub) [**]
  166. Lapalux: Nostalchic (Brainfeeder) [*]
  167. Le1f: Tree House (Greedhead) [*]
  168. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip: Repent, Replenish, Repeat (Sunday Best) [***]
  169. Jeffrey Lewis/Peter Stampfel: Hey Hey It's the Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band (self-released) [***]
  170. Lil Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being II (Cash Money) [**]
  171. Local Natives: Hummingbird (Frenchkiss) [B-]
  172. London Grammar: If You Wait (Warner/Chappell) [*]
  173. The Lone Bellow (Descendant) [B-]
  174. Low: The Invisible Way (Sub Pop) [B-]
  175. Ryan Maffei: Country Town (Jamrag, EP) [***]
  176. MaG: Freedom (self-released) [**]
  177. Natalie Maines: Mother (Columbia) [B-]
  178. Major Lazer: Free the Universe (Secretly Canadian) [***]
  179. Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra: Gipsy Manifesto (Piranha) [***]
  180. Laura Marling: Once I Was an Eagle (Ribbon Music) [**]
  181. The Mavericks: In Time (Valory) [B]
  182. ¡Mayday!: Believers (Strange Music) [***]
  183. Melt Yourself Down (The Leaf Label) [**]
  184. The Men: New Moon (Sacred Bones) [B]
  185. Mac Miller: Watching Movies With the Sound Off (Island) [B-]
  186. Moby: Innocents (Little Idiot) [**]
  187. Juana Molina: Wed 21 (Crammed Discs) [**]
  188. Monoswezi: The Village (Riverboat) [**]
  189. Gurf Morlix: Finds the Present Tense (Rootball) [***]
  190. Elizabeth Morris: Optimism (self-released, EP) [***]
  191. Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp) [*]
  192. The National: Trouble Will Find Me (4AD) [**]
  193. Nelly: M.O. (Republic) [B]
  194. Willie Nelson: To All the Girls . . . (Legacy) [*]
  195. Willie Nelson and Family: Let's Face the Music and Dance (Legacy) [**]
  196. Neon Neon: Praxis Makes Perfect (Lex) [C+]
  197. Aaron Neville: My True Story (Blue Note) [**] [***]
  198. Cyril Neville: Magic Honey (Ruf) [***]
  199. New Order: Lost Sirens (2003-04, Rhino) [**]
  200. Willie Nile: American Ride (Loud & Proud) [B]
  201. Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks (Halo) [*]
  202. No Age: An Object (Sub Pop) [***]
  203. No Joy: Wait to Pleasure (Mexican Summer) [*]
  204. Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven (Warp) [**]
  205. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: English Electric (Relativity)
  206. Lindi Ortega: Tin Star (Last Gang) [**]
  207. Brad Paisley: Wheelhouse (Arista Nashville) [B]
  208. Palma Violets: 180 (Rough Trade) [**]
  209. Pantha du Prince & the Bell Laboratory: Elements of Light (Rough Trade) [**]
  210. Paramore (Fueled by Ramen) [B]
  211. Van Dyke Parks: Songs Cycled (Bella Union) [B-]
  212. Pennybirdrabbit: Safer (Big Beat, EP) [**]
  213. Pere Ubu: Lady From Shanghai (Fire) [**]
  214. Katy Perry: Prism (Capitol) [*]
  215. Pet Shop Boys: Electric (X2) [***]
  216. Pharmakon: Abandon (Sacred Bones, EP) [*]
  217. Sam Phillips: Push Any Button (Littlebox) [*]
  218. Phoenix: Bankrupt! (Glassnote) [B]
  219. Phosphorescent: Mucacho (Dead Oceans) [**]
  220. Pissed Jeans: Honeys (Sub Pop) [B-]
  221. Polvo: Siberia (Merge) [**]
  222. Quadron: Avalanche (Vested in Culture) [**]
  223. Queens of the Stone Age: . . . Like Clockwork (Matador) [B]
  224. Rapsody: She Got Game (Jamla) [*]
  225. Red Hot + Fela (Knitting Factory) [**]
  226. The Replacements: Songs for Slim (New West, EP) [*]
  227. Rhye: Woman (Polydor) [B]
  228. Dawn Richard: Goldenheart (AltaVoz) [*]
  229. Kim Richey: Thorn in My Heart (Yep Roc) [**]
  230. Carrie Rodriguez: Give Me All You Got (Ninth Street Opus) [**]
  231. Daniel Romano: Come Cry With Me (Normaltown) [*]
  232. Caitlin Rose: The Stand-In (ATO) [*]
  233. Kelly Rowland: Talk a Good Game (Universal Republic) [**]
  234. RP Boo: Legacy (Planet Mu) [**]
  235. Huerco S.: Colonial Patterns (Software) [***]
  236. The Sadies: Internal Sounds (Yep Roc) [**]
  237. Salva: Odd Furniture (Friends of Friends, EP) [B]
  238. Angelica Sanchez/Wadada Leo Smith: Twine Forest (Clean Feed) [***]
  239. Boz Scaggs: Memphis (429) [**]
  240. Secret Circuit: Tactile Galactics (Beats in Space) [***]
  241. Serengeti: The Kenny Dennis LP (Anticon) [***]
  242. Serengeti: Saal (Graveface, EP) [B]
  243. Shad: Flying Colours (Black Box) [**]
  244. Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants: All Hat and No Cattle (Side One Dummy, EP) [**]
  245. Shlohmo: Laid Out (Friends of Friends, EP) [**]
  246. Sigur Rós: Kveikur (XL) [B]
  247. Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch, 2CD) [**]
  248. Skrillex: Leaving (Owsla, EP) [B]
  249. Sleigh Bells: Bitter Rivals (Lucky Number) [**]
  250. The Slide Brothers: Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers (Concord) [B]
  251. Son Volt: Honky Tonk (Rounder) [*]
  252. Eddie Spaghetti: The Value of Nothing (Bloodshot) [***]
  253. Special Request: Soul Music (Houdstooth) [**]
  254. Speedy Ortiz: Major Arcana (Carpark) [**]
  255. Alexander Spit: A Breathtaking Trip to That Otherside (Decon) [**]
  256. Jyotsna Srikanth: Call of Bangalore (Riverboat) [*]
  257. Mavis Staples: One True Vine (Anti-) [**]
  258. Still Corners: Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop) [*]
  259. Superchunk: I Hate Music (Merge) [**]
  260. Swearin': Surfing Strange (Wichita) [**]
  261. Earl Sweatshirt: Doris (Odd Future) [**]
  262. SZA: S (self-released, EP) [B]
  263. Tegan and Sara: Heartthrob (Vapor/Sire) [**]
  264. Telekinesis: Dormarion (Merge) [**]
  265. The-Dream: IV Play (Def Jam) [B]
  266. The Thermals: Desperate Ground (Saddle Creek) [*]
  267. These New Puritans: Field of Reeds (Infectious) [C+]
  268. They Might Be Giants: Nanonbots (Idlewild) [***]
  269. Linda Thompson: Won't Be Long Now (Pettifer Sounds) [***]
  270. Richard Thompson: Electric (New West) [**]
  271. Those Darlins: Blur the Line (Ow Wow Dang) [*]
  272. Thundercat: Apocalypse (Brainfeeder) [C+]
  273. Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience (RCA) [*]
  274. Torres (self-released) [**]
  275. Samba Touré: Albala (Glitterbeat) [**]
  276. Transplants: In a Warzone (Epitaph) [***]
  277. Rokia Traoré: Beautiful Africa (Nonesuch) [***]
  278. William Tyler: Impossible Truth (Merge) [**]
  279. Tyler, the Creator: Wolf (Odd Future) [B]
  280. Ben UFO: Fabriclive 67 (Fabric) [**]
  281. The Underachievers: Indigoism (Brainfeeder) [*]
  282. Valerie June: Pushin' Against a Stone (Sunday Best) [***]
  283. Kurt Vile: Wakin on a Pretty Daze (Matador) [*]
  284. Carmen Villain: Sleeper (Smalltown Supersound) [*]
  285. Charles Walker & the Dynamites: Love Is Only Everything (Gemco) [B-]
  286. Wavves: Afraid of Heights (Mom + Pop Music) [B]
  287. The Weeknd: Kiss Land (Universal Republic) [*]
  288. Kanye West: Yeezus (Def Jam) [*]
  289. Barrence Whitfield and the Savages: Dig Thy Savage Soul (Bloodshot) [B]
  290. Will.i.am: #Willpower (Interscope) [*]
  291. Kelly Willis/Bruce Robison: Cheater's Game (Premium/Thirty Tigers) [***]
  292. Gretchen Wilson: Right on Time (Redneck) [B-]
  293. Gretchen Wilson: Under the Covers (Redneck) [B]
  294. Luke Winslow-King: The Coming Tide (Bloodshot) [*]
  295. Betty Who: The Movement (self-released, EP) [**]
  296. Wire: Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag) [**]
  297. Chelsea Wolfe: Pain Is Beauty (Sargent House) [**]
  298. The Wonder Years: The Greatest Generation (Hopeless) [**]
  299. Wussy: Berneice Huff and Son, Bill Sings . . . Popular Favorites (Shake It) [***]
  300. Yo La Tengo: Fade (Matador) [**]
  301. Young Fathers: Tape One (Anticon, EP) [*]
  302. Youth Lagoon: Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum) [B-]
  303. Zansa: Djansa (self-released) [***]
  304. Zomby: With Love (2013, 4AD, 2CD) [**]

Reissues, Compilations, Etc.: 11 total.

  1. Belle and Sebastian: The Third Eye Centre (2002-10, Matador) [B]
  2. Len Bright Combo: Wreckless Eric Presents the Len Bright Combo (1986, Fire, EP) [**]
  3. Colomach (1974, Soundway) [*]
  4. The Dentists: Some People Are on the Pitch They Think It's All Over It Is Now (1985, Trouble in Mind) [*]
  5. Dur-Dur Band: Volume 5 (1987, Awesome Tapes From Africa) [***]
  6. Roky Erickson and the Aliens: The Evil One (1981, Light in the Attic) [B]
  7. Harafin So: Bollywood Inspired Film Music From Hausa Nigeria (Sahel Sounds) [**]
  8. Joe Higgs: Unity Is Power (1979, Pressure Sounds) [**]
  9. Lena Hughes: Queen of the Flat Top Guitar (1960s, Tompkins Square, EP) [**]
  10. Maloko: Soul on Fire (1980s, Introducing) [*]
  11. The Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas (2002, Merge) [***]
  12. Mutazione: Italian Electronic and New Wave Underground 1980-1988 (Strut, 2CD) [*]
  13. William Onyeabor: World Psychedelic Classics, Vol. 5: Who Is William Onyeabor? (1977-85, Luaka Bop) [**]
  14. The Rough Guide to Acoustic Africa (2000-12, World Music Network) [**]
  15. The Rough Guide to African Disco (1976-2010, World Music Network) [*]
  16. Sedayeh Del: Funk, Psychedelia and Pop From the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation (Pharaway Sounds) [***]
  17. Songs: Ohia: Magnolia Electric Co. (2003, Secretly Canadian, 2CD) [***]
  18. Irma Thomas: In Between Tears (1973, Alive Naturalsound) [***]
  19. The Velvet Underground: White Light, White Heat [45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition] (1968, Verve, 3CD) [**]
  20. Robert Wyatt: '68 (1968, Cuneiform) [***]
  21. Neil Young: Live at the Cellar Door (1970, Reprise) [***]

Let's also list 2013 non-jazz records I haven't heard for one reason or another -- didn't get them, didn't find them online -- that I'd give a 2% or better chance of cracking the A-list: