Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2013

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2013

Listing for 204 records from 2013 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Vampire Weekend: *Modern Vampires of the City* [XL]
A	Burial: *Rival Dealer* [Hyperdub EP] Ornette Coleman: *Friends and Neighbors: Ornette Live at Prince Street* [BGP/Flying Dutchman] Deerhunter: *Monomania* [4AD] Eminem: *The Marshall Mathers LP 2* [Aftermath/Shady/Interscope] Gogol Bordello: *Pura Vida Conspiracy* [ATO] Blind Lemon Jefferson: *The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Blind Lemon Jefferson: Reborn and Remastered* [World Music Network] Blind Willie Johnson: *The Rough Guide to Blind Willie Johnson* [World Music Network] The Julie Ruin: *Run Fast* [TJR] The Knife: *Shaking the Habitual* [Mute] Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: *Jama Ko* [Out Here] Lady Gaga: *Artpop* [Streamline/Interscope] Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel: *Hey Hey It's . . . the Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band* [self-released] Rilo Kiley: *RKives* [Little Record Company] Shaver: *Shaver's Jewels, The Best of Shaver* [New West] Rachid Taha: *Zoom* [Wrasse] The Uncluded: *Hokey Fright* [Rhymesayers Entertainment]
A-	Terry Allen: *Bottom of the World* [self-released] Sam Baker: *Say Grace* [self-released] Bombino: *Nomad* [Nonesuch] Danny Brown: *Old* [Fool's Gold] Neko Case: *The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You* [Anti-] Ceramic Dog: *Your Turn* [Northern Spy] Chance the Rapper: *Acid Rap* [free download] Chicha Libre: *Cuatro Tigres* [Barbès EP] Brandy Clark: *12 Stories* [Slate Creek] J Cole: *Truly Yours* [free download EP] The Dismemberment Plan: *Uncanney Valley* [Partisan] Fat Tony: *Smart Ass Black Boy* [Young One] Jonny Fritz: *Dad Country* [ATO] The Front Bottoms: *Talon of the Hawk* [Bar/None] Robbie Fulks: *Gone Away Backward* [Bloodshot] Ezra Furman: *The Year of No Returning* [Bar/None] David Greenberger/Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound: *They Like Me Around Here* [Pel Pel] Handsome Family: *Wilderness* [Carrot Top] Clay Harper: *Old Airport Road* [Terminus] Jon Hopkins: *Immunity* [Domino] Le Grand Kallé: *His Life, His Music* [Sterns Africa] Kitty: *D.A.I.S.Y. Rage* [free download] Kool & Kass: *Peaceful Solutions* [Bandcamp download] Kool A.D.: 63 [Bandcamp download] Fela Anikulapo Kuti: *The Best of the Black President 2* [Knitting Factory Works] Lil Wayne: *I Am Not a Human Being II* [Cash Money/Republic] Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: *Shemonmuanay* [Awesome Tapes From Africa] The Meridian Brothers: *Devoción (Works 2005-2011)* [Staubgold] Ashley Monroe: *Like a Rose* [Warner Bros.] Kacey Musgraves: *Same Trailer Different Park* [Mercury] Kate Nash: *Girl Talk* [Have 10P] No Age: *An Object* [Sub Pop] Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: *Take Me to the Land of Hell* [Chimera Music] The Paranoid Style: *The Power of Our Proven System* [Misra] Parkay Quarts: *Tally All the Things That You Broke* [What's Your Rupture? EP] Parquet Courts: *Light Up Gold* [What's Your Rupture?] Pistol Annies: *Annie Up* [RCA] Lee Ranaldo and the Dust: *Last Night on Earth* [Matador] Serengeti: *The Kenny Dennis LP* [Anticon] Skrillex: *Leaving* [Owsla download EP] Sleigh Bells: *Bitter Rivals* [Mom + Pop] Superchunk: *I Hate Music* [Merge] Pusha T: *My Name Is My Name* [Def Jam] Tal National: *Kaani* [Fat Cat] Tamikrest: *Chatma* [Glitterbeat] Dave Van Ronk: *Down in Washington Square* [Smithsonian/Folkways] Waxahatchee: *Cerulean Salt* [Don Giovanni] White Mandingos: *The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me* [Fat Beats] Wussy: *Duo* [Shake It] Yo La Tengo: *Fade* [Matador] Young Fathers: *Tape Two* [Anticon] *Hata Unacheza: Sub-Saharan Acoustic Guitar & String Music, ca. 1960s* [Canary] *Kenya Special* [Soundway] *Khat Thaleth: Third Line: Initiative for the Elevation of Public Awareness* [Stronghold Sound] *Live From Festival Au Desert Timbuktu* [Clermont Music] *The Road to Jajouka: A Benefit Album* [Howe] *The Rough Guide to Acoustic Africa* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to African Disco* [World Music Network] *Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle* [Nonesuch] *ZZK Sound Vol. 3* [ZZK/Waxploitation]
B+	A$AP Rocky: *Long.Live.A$AP* [Polo Grounds/RCA] Blood Orange: *Cupid Deluxe* [Domino] Chelsea Light Moving: *Chelsea Light Moving* [Matador] J Cole: *Born Sinner* [Roc Nation/Columbia] Jay-Z: *Magna Carta Holy Grail* [Roc-A-Fella] Kool A.D.: *Not O.K.* [Bandcamp download] The Lonely Island: *The Wack Album* [Republic] Spoek Mathambo: *Escape From '85* [free download] Lori McKenna: *Massachusetts* [Liz Rose Music] Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer: *Child Ballads* [Wilderland] Orchestra Super Mazembe: *Mazembe @ 45RPM Vol. 1* [Sterns Africa] Brad Paisley: *Wheelhouse* [Arista Nashville] Daniel Romano: *Come Cry With Me* [Normaltown] Homeboy Sandman: *Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent* [Stones Throw] They Might Be Giants: *Nanobots* [Idlewild/Megaforce] Sidi Touré: *Alafia* [Thrill Jockey] Rokia Traoré: *Beautiful Africa* [Nonesuch] Wussy: *Berneice Huff and Son, Bill, Sings . . . Popular Favorites* [Shake It download] Young Thug: *1017 Thug* [self-released download] *The Devil & God Meet in Church* [Blues Images] *Dues Paid: The BluesTime Story* [Ace] *Ethnic Minority Music of Southern Asia* [Sublime Frequencies] *The Rough Guide to the Music of Senegal* [World Music Network]
*******	Bettie Serveert: *Oh, Mayhem!* [Second Motion] The Channels Featuring Earl Lewis: *Golden Oldies* [Essential Music Group] The Child of Lov: *The Child of Lov* [Domino] Miles Davis Quintet: *Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2* [Columbia/Legacy] DJ Koze: *Amygdala* [Pampa] Dobie: *We Will Not Harm You* [Ninja Tune] Frikstailers: *En Son De Paz* [ZZK/Waxploitation] Lonnie Holley: *Keeping a Record of It* [Dust-to-Digital] Jason Isbell: *Southeastern* [Southeastern] Jaipur Kawa Brass Band: *Dance of the Cobra* [Riverboat] Femi Kuti: *No Place for My Dream* [Knitting Factory] Lady Leshurr: *Mona Leshurr* [Gutter Strut] Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar: *Gipsy Manifesto* [Piranha] Vic Mensa: *Innanetape* [self-released] Migos: *Young Rich Niggas* [self-released download] Janelle Monáe: *The Electric Lady* [Bad Boy/Wondaland] Monoswezi: *The Village* [Riverboat] The National: *Trouble Will Find Me* [4AD] Aaron Neville: *My True Story* [Blue Note] Oneohtrix Point Never: *R Plus Seven* [Warp] The Pozniaks: *Pozniak Street* [Jamrag] Homeboy Sandman: *All That I Hold Dear* [Stones Throw EP] Todd Snider: *Happy New Year Vol. 1* [Aimless] Tricky: *False Idols* [!K7] Kanye West: *Yeezus* [Def Jam] Wire: *Change Becomes Us* [Pinkflag] Yeah Yeah Yeahs: *Mosquito* [Interscope] Tom Zé: *Tribunal do Feicebuqui* [Irara] *Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979* [Analog Africa] *Island Records Presents Rock Steady: 40 Soulful Classics* [Island] *The Rough Guide to Cumbia* [World Music Network]
**	Thomas Anderson: *On Becoming Human* [Out Here] Arcade Fire: *Reflektor* [Merge] Courtney Barnett: *The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas* [Mom + Pop/Milk!] Big Boi/Killer Mile: *Trackstar the DJ Presents the Shoes for Running Tour Mixtape* [Trackstar download] Big Sean: *Hall of Fame* [Def Jam] Alpha Blondy: *Mystic Power* [VP] The Cannanes: *Small Batch EP* [Exro.FM EP] Ry Cooder and Corridos Famosos: *Live in San Francisco* [Nonesuch/Perro Verde] Crazy & the Brains: *Let Me Go* [Baldy Longhair] Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès: *Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1* [Teranga Beat] Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchesses): *The Low Highway* [New West] Haim: *Days Are Gone* [Columbia] Jimi Hendrix: *People, Hell and Angels* [Legacy] Iggy and the Stooges: *Ready to Die* [Fat Possum] Kobo Town: *Jumble in the Jukebox* [Cumbancha] L.L. Cool J: *Authentic* [429] L'Orange & Stik Figa: *The City Under the City* [Mello Music Group] Lorde: *Pure Heroine* [Lava/Republic] Major Lazer: *Free the Universe* [Secretly Canadian] Gurf Morlix: *Finds the Present Tense* [Rootball] David Murray Infinity Quartet: *Be My Monster Love* [Motema] My Bloody Valentine: *mbv* [mybloodyvalentine.org] Lala Njava: *Malagasy Blues Song* [Riverboat] Oblivians: *Desperation* [In the Red] Orchestre National de Mauritanie: *Orchestre National de Mauritanie* [Sahel Sounds] Pere Ubu: *Lady From Shanghai* [Fire] Pet Shop Boys: *Electric* [X2] The Postal Service: *Give Up: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition* [Sub Pop] Serengeti: *Saal* [Graveface] Sturgill Simpson: *High Top Mountain* [High Top Mountain] Sons of Kemet: *Burn* [Naim] Peter Stampfel & the Ether Frolic Mob: *The Sound of America* [Red Newt] Mavis Staples: *One True Vine* [Anti-] Sunwolf: *Angel Eyes* [El Rey] Otis Taylor: *My World Is Gone* [Telarc] Thao & the Get Down Stay Down: *We the Common* [Ribbon] Samba Touré: *Albala* [Glitterbeat] Lobi Traoré: *Bamako Nights--Live at Bar Bozo 1995* [Glitterbeat] Valerie June: *Pushin' Against a Stone* [Concord] will.i.am: *#Willpower* [Interscope] *Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-1983* [Analog Africa]
*	Daft Punk: *Random Access Memories* [Columbia] Guy Davis: *Juba Dance Featuring Fabrizio Poggi* [M.C.] The Defibulators: *Debt'll Get 'Em* [PigCow] Disclosure: *Settle* [Cherrytree/Interscope] Mike Doughty: *Circles Super Bon Bon* [Snack Bar/Megaforce] Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri: *800% Ndagga* [Ndagga] Fatboy Slim: *Big Beach Bootique Volume V* [The End] Fleetwood Mac: *Rumours: 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition* [Warner Bros.] John Fogerty: *Wrote a Song for Everyone* [Vanguard] Margaret Glaspy: *If & When* [Storysound] Billy Hough & the X-Loves: *Venice* [Garagedog] Inspectah Deck/7L & Esoteric: *Czarface* [Brick/Fly Casual] Stephen Kellogg: *Blunderstone Rookery* [Fat Sam/Elm City] Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts: *Stranger in My Land* [Bloodshot] Kool A.D.: 19 [Bandcamp download] Land of Pines: *The Long Defeat 12" EP* [Fin EP] Nick Lowe: *Quality Street* [Yep Roc] John Murry: *The Graceless Age* [Evangeline] Willie Nelson: *Let's Face the Music and Dance* [Legacy] William Onyeabor: *Who Is William Onyeabor?* [Luaka Bop] Potty Mouth: *Hell Bent* [Old Flame/Marshall Teller] Scott Ramminger: *Advice From a Father to a Son* [Arbor Lane] Run the Jewels: *Run the Jewels* [Fool's Gold] Speedy Ortiz: *Major Arcana* [Carpark] Swearin': *Surfing Strange* [Salinas] Earl Sweatshirt: *Doris* [Columbia] Tegan and Sara: *Heartthrob* [Warner Bros.] Justin Timberlake: *The 20/20 Experience* [RCA] Frank Turner: *England Keep My Bones* [Xtra Mile/Epitaph] Wavves: *Afraid of Heights* [Mom + Pop] Wayo: *Trance Percussion Masters of South Sudan* [Riverboat] *121212: The Concert for Sandy Relief* [Columbia]

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