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NME names its Top 50 LPs & tracks of 2013 (guess who's #1?)

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UK music weekly NME has just published its end-of-year issue, with their Top 50 LPs and Tracks of 2013. As for the albums list, we’ll let you read on to find out what their #1 pick is, but it might just be the one NME called “absolutely and unarguably the most incredible album of [said band’s] career” and “the greatest record of the last decade.” It’s not Palma Violets, who were last year’s Track of the Year, as their debut LP came in at #32 on the list.

As for tracks, their single of the year is a pretty obvious (certainly ubiquitous) choice. Check out the full lists of NME‘s Top 50 LPs and Tracks below…

NME – Top 50 LPs of 2013
1. Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
2. Kanye West – ‘Yeezus’
3. Queens of the Stone Age – ‘…Like Clockwork’
4. Foals – ‘Holy Fire’
5. Savages – ‘Silence Yourself’
6. Daft Punk – ‘Random Access Memories’
7. Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Push The Sky Away’
9. Laura Marling – ‘Once I Was An Eagle’
10. David Bowie – ‘The Next Day’
11. Jon Hopkins – ‘Immunity’
12. MIA – ‘Matangi’
13. Drenge – ‘Drenge’
14. Vampire Weekend – ‘Modern Vampires Of The City’
15. Peace – ‘In Love’
16. Jagwar Ma – ‘Howlin”
17. Waxahatchee – ‘Cerulean Salt’
18. Hookworms – ‘Pearl Mystic’
19. Disclosure – ‘Settle’
20. The National – ‘Trouble Will Find Me’
21. Iceage – ‘You’re Nothing’
22. Deerhunter – ‘Monomania’
23. Chvrches – ‘The Bones Of What You Believe’
24. Parquet Courts – ‘Light Up Gold’
25. Haim – ‘Days Are Gone’
26. Factory Floor – ‘Factory Floor’
27. Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Doris’
28. These New Puritans – ‘Field Of Reeds’
29. My Bloody Valentine – ‘m b v’
30. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Mosquito’
31. Merchandise – ‘Totale Nite’
32. Palma Violets – ‘180’
33. Tegan And Sara – ‘Heartthrob’
34. Janelle Monae – ‘The Electric Lady’
35. Bill Callahan – ‘Dream River’
36. Deap Vally – ‘Sistrionix’
37. Kurt Vile – ‘Wakin On A Pretty Daze’
38. Courtney Barnett – ‘The Double EP: A Sea Of Split Peas’
39. The Julie Ruin – ‘Run Fast’
40. Fuck Buttons – ‘Slow Focus’
41. The Strokes – ‘Comedown Machine’
42. Cate Le Bon – ‘Mug Museum’
43. The Knife – ‘Shaking The Habitual’
44. Speedy Ortiz – ‘Major Arcana’
45. Future Of The Left – ‘How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident’
46. Primal Scream – ‘More Light’
47. King Krule – ‘6 Feet Beneath The Moon’
48. Pusha T – ‘My Name Is My Name’
49. Daughter – ‘If You Leave’
50. James Blake – ‘Overgrown’

NME – Top 50 Tracks of 2013
1. Daft Punk – ‘Get Lucky’
2. Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
3. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Do I Wanna Know?’
4. Disclosure feat AlunaGeorge – ‘White Noise’
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Sacrilege’
6. Courtney Barnett – ‘Avant Gardener’
7. Pond – ‘Xanman’
8. Foals – ‘My Number’
9. Lorde – ‘Royals’
10. Kanye West – ‘Black Skinhead’
11. Merchandise – ‘Anxiety’s Door’
12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Jubilee Street’
13. Haim – ‘Falling’
14. David Bowie – ‘Where Are We Now?’
15. Drenge -‘Bloodsports’
16. Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘Smooth Sailin”
17. Pulp Vs Soulwax – ‘After You’
18. Kanye West – ‘I Am A God’
19. Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘If I Had A Tail’
20. A$AP Rocky – ‘Wild For The Night’
21. Savages – ‘She Will’
22. Kanye West – ‘Bound 2’
23. Jagwar Ma – ‘The Throw’
24. Vampire Weekend – ‘Ya Hey’
25. Laura Marling – ‘Master Hunter’
26. Primal Scream – ‘2013’
27. Childhood – ‘Solemn Skies’
28. Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’
29. Arctic Monkeys – ‘I Wanna Be Yours’
30. Chvrches – ‘Recover’
31. Vampire Weekend – ‘Diane Young’
32. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?’
33. Factory Floor – ‘Fall Back’
34. Phoenix – ‘Entertainment’
35. Wolf Alice – ‘Fluffy’
36. Kanye West – New Slaves
37. Foals – ‘Bad Habit’
38. MIA – ‘Bring The Noize’
39. Katy B – ‘5AM’
40. Kelis – ‘Jerk Ribs’
41. Big Sean – ‘Control’
42. King Krule – ‘Easy Easy’
43. Temples – ‘Colours To Life’
44. Parquet Courts – ‘Stoned And Starving’
45. Chance The Rapper – ‘Juice’
46. James Blake – ‘Retrograde’
47. The Cribs – ‘Leather Jacket Love Song’
48. Telegram – ‘Follow’
49. Pixies – ‘Indie Cindy’
50. Fat White Family’s ‘Is It Raining In Your Mouth?