Time to weigh in with my top 5 of 2013:

1. Arcade Fire - Reflecktor
2. Savages - Silence Yourself
3. Disclosure - Settle
4. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
5. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Arcade Fire - Reflektor. The album may have it's critics, but its my favorite Arcade Fire album so far.

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#1, and it isn't even that close is Jason Isbell's Southeastern.

MW, I am a GIANT truckers fan and this isn't really anything like that anything they've done. The way I have described this album is that its the Americana album that Ryan Adams has been trying to write since he left Whiskeytown. Its just haunting how good it is.

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Wow. I just listened to this album and it is awesome. Bummed I missed it till now. Absolutely recommend checking it out.

Volbeat- Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Add that to my list. I am having a moment with this band. They are one of those bands I've heard of all the time and every now and then I see them on tv or somewhere doing one song and I never really paid much attention. Then with all the buzz on this thread I checked out this album and LOVE it. And now I'm going back and listening to all three of their albums. I've pretty much just had those three on repeat all week on Spotify.

Also listening to the Lorde album and it is really good as well.

Updated to this post. We'll close voting Thursday.

1. Daft Punk - RAM
2. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
3. Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends
4. Drake - Nothing was The Same
5. Local Natives - Hummingbird

1. Alter Bridge - Fortress
2. Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones part 2
Tie for 3rd for me.
3. Sevendust - Black Out the Sun
3. Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

finally remembered to tabulate the final results.