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"FacebookPinterest\n\n1. Disclosure, \"Latch\"\n\nDaft Punk's \"Get Lucky\" and Robin Thicke's \"Blurred Lines\" ruled pop radio this year, but these British guys (barely into their Twenties) made an electro anthem that should've gotten way more airplay than it did. It's a heartbreaking tune about the crazy shit people do for the ones they love\u2014set to the most booty-shaking beat of 2013.\n\n\n\n2. Disclosure, \"When a Fire Starts to Burn\"\n\nThis other standout from the U.K. duo takes a page from the Moby sample-something-really-old-or-totally-obscure playbook and turn it on its head. \"Fire\" features a killer sample from motivational speaker Eric Thomas, who sets the stage for these brilliant blokes to ignite four minutes of tightly ecuted disco awesomeness.\n\n\n\n3. Parquet Courts, \"Stoned and Starving\"\n\nBeavis and Butthead, Harold and Kumar, the Dude: every generation needs its own Great Slacker Romantic. Add these guys to the list. The centerpiece of their excellent debut is a rip-roaring anthem about getting blitzed and going on the prowl for shitty gas-station munchies in Queens. Inspirational lyric of this instant garage-rock classic: \"I was debating Swedish fish, roasted peanuts or licorice. I was so\u2026so stoned and starving.\"\n\n\n\n4. War on Drugs, \"Red Eyes\"\n\nIt shouldn't come as a surprise that War on Drugs' frontman Adam Granduciel is a longtime pal of Kurt Vile, GQ's pick for Rocker of the Year.  The dude's a modern day Neil Young, a guitar virtuoso who mis his keening croon with classic-rock guitar moves, heaps of fuzz and other studio mind-trickery. \"Red Eyes\" is the lead track from his breathtaking new record Lost in the Dream (out next year)\u2014and it's not even close to being the best track on the album.\n\n\n\n5. Jake Bugg, \"Lightning Bolt\"\n\nThis British 19-year-old songwriting savant looks like Keef, sings like early Dylan and gets backed by a band who swings as tightly as Buddy Holly's Crickets.\n\n\n\n6. No Age, \"C'mon, Stimmung\"\n\nThe spirit of the late, great Lou Reed lives on with these Southern California punks, whose latest album strikes the perfect balance between brutal guitar noise and beautiful ambience. This jam, however, is a straight-up steamroller.\n\n\n\n7. Juan Maclean, \"Feel Like Movin'\"\n\nLCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy may have ended his run as leader of the best dance-rock band of the past two decades, but his pal Juan Maclean has stepped up to help nurse the hangover. On this sprawling epic, the Brooklyn producer recruits Murphy's partner Nancy Whang for an epic throwback to the golden days of '90s house music, all delivered with an icy croon that cements her status as coolest girl in the room.\n\n\n\n8. Angel Haze, \"A Tribe Called Red\"\n\nForget her trolling of Azealia Banks or leaking her album without her label's approval. This blast of hip-hop swagger is the only proof you need for why this 22-year-old is the rookie female MC of the year. Your move, Minaj.\n\n\n\n9. My Bloody Valentine, \"Only Tomorrow\"\n\nThe third album from these '90s alt-rock heroes was 17 years in the making\u2014three years longer than the 14 it took Axl Rose to put out Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy. \"Who Sees You\" captures MBV's beautifully deranged spirit perfectly: whisper-quiet vocals, warbly guitars, topped with one skull-crushing, atomic-bomb-sized riff.\n\n\n\n10. Lorde, \"No Better\"\n\nPoor Lorde: the year's breakout pop star released a new single the same day a little-known artist called Beyonce dropped a new album. \"No Better\" picks up where her album Pure Heroine left off: icy synths, glitchy beats, and her irresistible croon that suggests she's got a world view way bigger than your average 17-year-old (her age). Imagine the kind of stuff she'll make in a decade.\n\n\n\n11. Perfect Pussy, \"I\"\n\nOnce you stop snickering over their band name, you'll realize these Syracuse kids can rock louder, harder and faster than hardcore legends like Fugazi and Black Flag combined. If newbies can withstand their calling card \"I\"\u2014a two-minute blast of shrieking vocals and amplifier death\u2014this twelve minute demo is where it's at.\n\n\n\n12. San Fermin, \"Sonsick\"\n\nOne of the most ambitious records of the year came from the brain of a songwriter named Ellis Ludwig-Leone. Like Sufjan Stevens, he relishes in weaving art-rock weirdness with big orchestral sounds (no one rocked a French Horn better in 2013). \"Sonsick\" is a twisted highlight from this majestic album.\n\n\n\n13. John Medeski, \"A Different Time\"\n\nBoundary-pushing piano jazz lives on in the hands of this New York virtuoso, who's best known as one-third of the jam band Medeski, Martin and Wood. The highlight from his solo LP A Different Time is the title track, which fuses avant-garde chords with effortless lyrical melodies. The perfect soundtrack for a nightcap.\n\n\n\n14. St. Lucia, \"Elevate\"\n\nA big, fat bliss-out courtesy of South African-born artist Jean-Phillip Grobler, who, after earning a rep remixing tracks by Foster the People and Passion Pit, released his gorgeous debut album When the Night this year.\n\n\n\n15. Omar Souleyman, \"Ya Yumma\"\n\nYes, Syrians can make killer dance music that translates beyond their borders. This one-time wedding singer teamed up with revered electro producer Kieran Hebden (of Four Tet) to mix old-world sounds (hand drums) with modern ones (chintzy synths). The results are awesomely weird and radical.\n\n\n\n16. David Bowie, \"Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy)\"\n\nNo disrespect to the Thin White Duke\u2014who returned with his first album in a decade\u2014but LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy takes Bowie's organ-powered dirge and punctuates it with jittery handclaps and glitchy synths.\n\n\n\n17. Yo La Tengo, \"Well You Better\"\n\nThe indie-rock icons from Hoboken, New Jersey continued their terrific late-period streak with their 13th album Fade. On this track, the trio cut loose with a funky organ groove that comes on like a long-lost Partridge Family tune or something.\n\n\n\n18. Savages, She Will\n\nThe stylish, gritty sound of '80s post-punk bands like The Raincoats and Killing Joke gets an update courtesy of this tough-as-leather band of British women. \"Can you hurt a little bit?\" singer Jehnny Beth warns on \"She Will.\" And then her crew unfurls a blast of aggression that's a bit scary and totally thrilling.\n\n\n\n19. Thumpers, \"Unkinder\"\n\nThese British rookies went for big uplift in the vein of Arcade Fire. It's hard to discern Marcus Pepperell's cryptic lyrics, delivered rapid-fire like a rapper, but there's no denying that chorus, which packs the emotional wallop of a Gospel choir.\n\n\n\n20. Washed Out, \"All I Know\"\n\nFrontman Ernest Greene got saddled with the tag of \"chillwave posterboy\"\u2014a style of indie-rock characterized by cheap synthesizers and cassette-hiss production\u2014but on this standout from his third album, he brightens his sound (and adds acoustic guitar) for his most gorgeous tune to date.\n\n\n\n21. Phoenix, \"Trying to Be Cool\"\n\nC'est dommage that these Francophiles' anticipated album Bankrupt! tanked. This laid-back slab of psychedelic funk is worth salvaging from the ashes.\n\n\n\n22. The Knife, Full of Fire \n\nThis Swedish duo have earned a rep for donning masks in concert and crafting awesomely weird electronic music. And just when you thought they couldn't get even weirder, they went ahead and dropped a nine-minute epic composed of squawks and yelps and hiccups and vox-tweaking and blips and bloops and all sorts of sonic madness. Exhilarating.\n\n\n\n23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, \"Mosquito\"\n\nMosquito didn't get as much love as the New York trio's excellent 2009 LP It's Blitz!, but this standout proves they're still as dangerous-sounding as ever. As singer Karen O shrieks, \"I'll suck your blood! I'll suck your blood!\"\n\n\n\n24. Major Lazer, \"Bubble Butt\"\n\nProducer Diplo roped in Bruno Mars, Tyga and Mystic for what should've been the official anthem for the (admittedly) tired twerking thing. Still, Dip's spare production and hilarious come-ons from Mystic\u2014\"The booty's so smooth, can't believe it's not butter\"\u2014make this a keeper.\n\n\n\n25. Charles Bradley, \"Victim of Love\"\n\nNo words will do justice to the bonkers voice of this soul master, who's finally getting some dap after years of toiling in near-obscurity as a James Brown impersonator.\n\n\n\n26. Pusha T, \"Numbers on the Boards\"\n\nOne-half of the Virginia hip-hop duo Clipse, Pusha stepped out on his own (thanks to a little help from Kanye West) with a solo debut this year. It's stacked with all-stars (Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar), but it's this guest-free track, with its ominous, austere production, that really rattles.\n\n\n\n27. Burial, \"Rival Dealer\"\n\nWilliam Bevan is like the Banksy of electronic music\u2014he's barely given interviews and only one clear photo of his face exists to the public\u2014but he's been massively influential on dubstep music, the most exciting subgenre of electronic music to bubble up this decade. The highlight of his latest three-track EP is this ten-minute piece, powered by twitchy drums, faceless female vocals and industrial scrapes. It's like the soundtrack to a late-night ride back to your hotel on a drizzly London night.\n\n\n\n28. Kacey Musgraves, \"Follow Your Arrow\"\n\nSay what you will about contemporary country\u2014this newcomer broke Nashville's rules with a tune about getting high whenever you want and making out with whomever you damn well please, even if it's with folks of your own gender. It was country's answer to Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis's played-out \"Same Love\"\u2014and a more convincing one, too.\n\n\n\n29. Young Galaxy, Pretty Boy\n\nOn this soaring anthem from the Canadian group, singer Catherine McCandless channels the restless spirit of Sinead O'Conner pre-Pope-picture-shredding days.\n\n\n\n30. James Blake, \"Retrograde\"\n\nThis unassuming Brit was a victim of the hype machine in 2011\u2014an obscure artist adorned with Greatest Thing Ever status before he'd really found his voice. He finally lived up to the buzz on his second album\u2014and this seductive blend of electronic glitch and piano balladry (not to mention that haunting, aching tenor) proves why.\n\n\n\n31. Deafheaven, \"Dream House\"\n\nA San Francisco group of metal fans adds a romantic spin to their assault and the results are both disorienting and dreamy. Deafheaven? Deafinitely.\n\n\n\n32. Mapei, \"Don't Wait\n\nThis African-American was born in Sweden and raised in the States and she makes gorgeous R&amp;amp;B for a wired world: this breakout single fuses of-the-moment production techniques (vocoder, electro beats) with her sexy croon.\n\n\n\n33. Hunters, \"Narcissist\"\n\nGrunge: it's alive (again).\n\n\n\n34. Autre ne Veut, \"Play by Play\"\n\nIn which Connecticut-born Hampshire College alum Adley Akin tempers his art-school affectations with glorious '80s pop excess.\n\n\n\n35. Empire of the Sun, \"Alive\n\nThis Aussie synth-pop group had a global smash with \"We Are the People,\" which peaked in 2011. This follow-up anthem is just as good: a euphoric day-glo trip for a new generation of raver kids. \"Goodbye to last night,\" singer Luke Steele croons. \"Lost my eyesight.\"\n\n\n\n36. Blood Orange, \"Chamakay\"\n\nBrooklyn songwriter Dev Hynes was born with synesthesia: he sees sounds as colors. And it seems like he's indulging his natural born gift more than ever on a track that fuses thumb pianos with chilly synths.\n\n\n\n37. Death Grips, \"Birds\"\n\nIs it rap? Is it punk? Is it art? One of the most controversial acts of the year\u2014this California trio's 2012 album cover was adorned with a phallus and they were dropped by their label, Epic, soon thereafter\u2014continued to push boundaries in 2013. Here's one reason why.\n\n\n\n38. Mikal Cronin, \"Shout It Out\"\n\n\"I'm only getting older\u2026I'm not ready for the second wave,\" laments rocker Mikal Cronin on this track. You'd never know it: \"Shout It Out\" is a sugar-shot rush of guitar pop that tips its hat to every pop genius from T. Rex's Marc Bolan to the Shins' James Mercer.\n\n\n\n39. Factory Floor, \"Two Different Ways\"\n\nDaft Punk for the too-cool kids in the room.\n\n\n\n40. CHVRCHES, \"The Mother We Share\"\n\nThis threesome hail from gloomy Glasgow, but they made some of the cheeriest synth-pop of the year.\n\n\n\n41. The Besnard Lakes, \"The Specter\"\n\nCan any band capture the madcap genius of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson? No. And plenty have tried. These Canadians came closest.\n\n\n\n42. A$AP Ferg, \"Shabba\"\n\nThe Harlem rapper gets an assist from his pal A$AP Rocky on this killer tribute to the notorious Jamaican dancehall artist.\n\n\n\n43. Neko Case, \"Man\"\n\nThe red-haired siren's storytelling gifts only got sharper on The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You\u2014her follow-up to her breakout 2009 album Middle Cyclone. Here, she screws around with gender roles to hilarious and weirdly poignant effect.\n\n\n\n44. King Krule, \"Easy Easy\"\n\nThis 19-year-old British rocker has the same academic bonafides as Leona Lewis and Adele (they went to the BRIT School). But you'd never know it based on this fiery anthem that would've made the Clash's Joe Strummer proud.\n\n\n\n45. Thee Oh Sees, \"Toe Cutter-Thumb Buster\"\n\nThis San Francisco band announced an indefinite hiatus this month. And what a way to go out than with a gloriously deranged piece of '60s-style stoner-rock.\n\n\n\n46. Foals, \"My Number\"\n\nThe buzz has quieted for these brainy Oord rockers since they released their 2008 debut. Their knack for crafting jittery, danceable jams hasn't.\n\n\n\n47. Lee Ranaldo and the Dust, \"Lecce, Leaving\"\n\nAs guitarist for indie-rock icons Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo was always the one who brought a classic-rock vibe to their searing avant-rock noise. Now that the band has broken up\u2014his married bandmates Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore ended their marriage\u2014he's indulging his jones for the Grateful Dead and Creedence Clearwater Revival to awesome effect\u2014with just enough noise to please Sonic Youth diehards.\n\n\n\n48. Run the Jewels, \"Get It\"\n\nAfter releasing their first collaboration, 2012's R.A.P Music, rappers Killer Mike and El-P dropped this free download in 2013. The highlight finds them trading rapid-fire rhymes that are surprisingly down-to-earth for two revered MCs. As El-P proclaims, \"All I got is this rap shit\u2026All I want is a castle.\" Hardest working men in hip-hop? Maybe.\n\n\n\n49. Jason Isbell, \"Elephant\"\n\nThe leader of Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers struck out on his own this year with a terrific roots-rock album, on which he opened up about his struggles with alcoholism, getting married, and continuing life as a touring musician. \"Elephant\" is the album's most devastating track, a quiet rumination on what happens when you lose a loved one to cancer.\n\n\n\n50. Jai Paul, \"Str8 Outta Mumbai\"\n\nThe story goes that notoriously shy British artist Jai Paul supposedly uploaded his music online, only to claim later that his unfinished demos were leaked by another party after his laptop was stolen. Who knows whether the dude was telling the truth or became the pawn of PR (he's under a label contract), but what is clear is that Paul's got an incredible gift for mixing Bollywood samples with Prince-style grooves and 8-bit Nintendo-inspired hooks. Here's hoping he gets his act together in 2014.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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