Top 40 Tracks of 2013 (Writers' Picks)
By No Ripcord Staff
Are you wondering what each of our writers picked for their end of year lists? The full breakdown is here.
Andrew Baer
1. Run the Jewels - Banana Clipper (feat. Big Boi)
2. Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
3. Action Bronson - Contemporary Man
4. Speedy Ortiz - No Below
5. Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt
6. Mikal Cronin - Am I Wrong?
7. James Blake - Retrograde
8. Kanye West - Blood on the Leaves
9. Darkside - Golden Arrow
10. Blue Hawaii - Try To Be
11. California X - Lemmy's World
12. Danny Brown - Kush Coma (feat. A$AP Rocky & Zelooperz)
13. A$AP Rocky - 1 Train (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson & Big K.R.I.T.)
14. Deerhunter - Monomania
15. DJ Koze - Homesick
16. The National - This is the Last Time
17. My Bloody Valentine - Is This and Yes
18. Bibio - The First Daffodils
19. Chance the Rapper - Cocoa Butter Kisses (feat. Vic Mensa & Twista)
20. Mikal Cronin – Weight
Andrew Ciraulo
1. Daft Punk - Touch (feat. Paul Williams)
2. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
3. Boards Of Canada - White Cyclosa
4. Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie (feat. Jay Z)
5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - Chrome Country
7. Flaming Lips - Try to Explain
8. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
9. David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
10. Bill Callahan - The Sing
11. Mikal Cronin - Shout It Out
12. Boards of Canada - Jacquard Causeway
13. Ghost BC - Year Zero
14. Dan Deacon - Why Am I On This Cloud?
15. Arcade Fire - Afterlife
16. Kanye West - I Am A God (feat. God)
17. Daft Punk - Giorgio By Moroder
18. Jackson and his Computerband - Dead Living Things
19. David Lynch & Lykke Li - I'm Waiting Here
20. California X - Pond Rot
Angel Aguilar
1. Vampire Weekend - Step
2. Mavis Staples - Far Celestial Shore
3. Paul McCartney - New
4. Deerhunter - Monomania
5. Laura Mvula - Green Garden
6. Franz Ferdinand - Right Action
7. Valerie June - You Can't Be Told
8. Kings of Leon - Temple
9. Jake Bugg - What Doesn't Kill You
10. Janelle Monáe - Dance Apocalyptic
11. Phoenix - Entertainment
12. Lorde - Royals
13. Arctic Monkeys - Arabella
14. Camera Obscura - Break It to You Gently
15. Travis - Moving
16. The Flaming Lips - Sun Blows Up Today
17. Arcade Fire - You Already Know
18. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)
19. Goldfrapp - Clay
20. Neko Case – Man
Ben Jones
1. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
2. Vampire Weekend - Step
3. Arcade Fire - It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
4. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
5. Phosphorescent - Song For Zula
6. Lorde - Royals
7. CHVRCHES - Recover
8. Neko Case - Night Still Comes
9. Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie (feat. Jay Z)
10. The National - Sea of Love
11. Julia Holter - In the Green Wild
12. Jason Isbell - Different Days
13. Blood Orange - Chamakay
14. Son Lux - Easy
15. Smith Westerns - Varsity
16. Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving
17. Atoms for Peace - Dropped
18. Yo La Tengo - Ohm
19. Disclosure - White Noise (feat. AlunaGeorge)
Carl Purvis
1. Queens of the Stone Age - I Appear Missing
2. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
3. Alice in Chains - Stone
4. Arctic Monkeys - Arabella
5. Polterghost - Beast
6. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
7. Fur Blend - Valley Girl
8. Nine Black Alps - Novokaine
9. Deap Vally - Baby I Call Hell
10. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
11. Drenge - People In Love Make Me Feel Yuck
12. Atoms for Peace - Ingenue
13. Suuns - 2020
14. Laura Marling - Master Hunter
15. Savages - Shut Up
16. The Spills - Frakkin' A
17. James Blake - Retrograde
18. Atoms for Peace - Default
19. Vista Chino - Adara
20. Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu)
Craig Stevens
1. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
2. James Blake - Retrograde
3. Arctic Monkeys - Why D'You Only Call Me When You're High?
4. Breach - Jack
5. The 1975 - Girls
6. Cyril Hahn - Perfect Form
7. Paramore - Still Into You
8. Local Natives - Heavy Feet
9. Banks - This Is What It Feels Like
10. CHVRCHES - Lies
11. Le Youth - C O O L
12. Little Mix - Move
13. THUMPERS - Unkinder (A Tougher Love)
14. Eminem - Rap God
15. Queens of the Stone Age - My God is the Sun
16. PAPA - Put Me to Work
17. Foals - My Number
18. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
19. Deap Vally - Lies
20. Azealia Banks - ATM Jam (feat. Pharrell)
David Coleman
1. Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu)
2. My Bloody Valentine - Wonder 2
3. Vampire Weekend - Step
4. Boards Of Canada - Jacquard Causeway
5. Torres - Honey
6. Janelle Monáe - Dance Apocalyptic
7. Savages - She Will
8. Lady Gaga - Applause
9. Daft Punk - Giorgio By Moroder
10. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
12. Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love
13. John Grant - GMF
14. Foxygen - San Francisco
15. Haim - Falling
16. Hookworms - Away/Towards
17. Lorde - Tennis Court
18. The Dodos - Substance
19. Sebadoh - I Will
20. James Blake – Retrograde
David Wood
1. Arcade Fire - Afterlife
2. Vampire Weekend - Step
3. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
4. Sigur Rós - Brennisteinn
5. Deerhunter - The Missing
6. My Bloody Valentine - New You
7. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
8. Atoms for Peace - Before Your Very Eyes…
9. David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
10. Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
11. Yo La Tengo - Ohm
12. The Knife - A Tooth for an Eye
13. The Flaming Lips - Look… The Sun is Rising
14. Tyler, the Creator - Colossus
15. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues
16. Depeche Mode - Heaven
17. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
18. Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers
19. Daft Punk - Contact
20. My Bloody Valentine - Only Tomorrow
Dominic Stevenson
1. Man Man - Head On
2. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
3. Sigur Rós - Brennisteinn
4. Agnes Obel - Fuel To Fire
5. Julia Holter - Hello Stranger
6. Josephine Foster - My Wandering Heart
7. David Bowie - Where Are We Now?
8. Matthew E White - Brazos
9. Laura Marling - Master Hunter
10. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
12. Nick Cave - Jubilee Street
13. Savages - Marshal Dear
14. Beck - I Won't Be Long
15. Parquet Courts - The More It Works
16. Teeth of the Sea - Responder
17. Volcano Choir - Byegone
18. Torres - Honey
19. Foals - Late Night
20. The Strokes - Welcome To Japan
Forrest Cardamenis
1. Kanye West - Blood on the Leaves
2. Arcade Fire - Here Comes the Night Time
3. James Blake - Digital Lion
4. Jenny Hval - Amphibious, Androgynous
5. Janelle Monáe - What an Experience
6. Torres - Honey
7. Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt
8. Haim - My Song 5
9. Arcade Fire - It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
10. Lorde - Royals
11. My Bloody Valentine - Wonder 2
12. The Men - I Saw Her Face
13. The Knife - Stay Out Here
14. Neko Case - Night Still Comes
15. Savages - She Will
16. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
17. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues
18. MGMT - Introspection
19. Laura Marling - Once
20. Disclosure - Defeated No More
Gabbie Nirenburg
1. CHVRCHES - Recover
2. Annie - Mixed Emotions
3. Lorde - Royals
4. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
5. Earl Sweatshirt - Hive
6. Torres - Honey
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
8. Neko Case - City Swan
9. The Knife - A Tooth for an Eye
10. AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies
11. Laura Marling - Master Hunter
12. Haim - The Wire
13. Polly Scattergood - Wanderlust
14. A$AP Rocky – Hell (feat. Santigold)
15. Bibio - A Tout a L'Heure
16. Janelle Monáe - Dance Apocalyptic
17. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)
18. Yancey Boys - Jeep Volume (feat. T3 & C-Minus)
19. The Blow - From the Future
20. Waxahatchee - Lips and Limbs
Graeme Marsh
1. Six By Seven - Sympathy
2. Wooden Shjips - Back To Land
3. The Boxer Rebellion - Diamonds
4. Six By Seven - The Rise and Fall and Decline of Everything
5. Arctic Monkeys - Fireside
6. Johnny Marr - New Town Velocity
7. Editors - A Ton of Love
8. Stereophonics - Graffiti on a Train
9. Glasvegas - Secret Truth
10. The House of Love - Purple Killer Rose
11. Johnny Marr - The Messenger
12. Parlour Flames - I'm in a Band
13. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
14. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
15. Gary Numan - Love Hurt Bleed
16. White Lies - Big TV
17. Primal Scream - 2013
18. Suede - Hit Me
19. Depeche Mode - Heaven
20. Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
James McKenna
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
2. Kanye West - New Slaves
3. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
4. Queens of the Stone Age - I Sat By the Ocean
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
6. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)
7. Arcade Fire - Normal Person
8. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
9. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
10. Daft Punk - Giorgio By Moroder
11. Run the Jewels - Sea Legs
12. My Bloody Valentine - She Found Now
13. David Bowie - Where Are We Now?
14. Phosphorescent - Song For Zula
15. John Grant - GMF
16. Big Sean – Control (feat. Kendrick Lamar & Jay Electronica)
17. Foxygen - No Destruction
18. Tyler, The Creator - Answer
19. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rain
20. Chance the Rapper - Cocoa Butter Kisses (feat. Vic Mensa & Twista)
Joe Marvilli
1. Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing
2. David Bowie - The Next Day
3. Dave Grohl, Josh Homme & Trent Reznor - Mantra
4. The National - Sea of Love
5. Arcade Fire - It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
6. Nine Inch Nails - Copy of A
7. Savages - She Will
8. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
10. Queens of the Stone Age - My God is the Sun
11. Depeche Mode - Angel
12. Los Campesinos! - What Death Leaves Behind
13. The Joy Formidable - Little Blimp
14. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - You Are the Apple
15. Rachel Zeffira - The Deserters
16. Pearl Jam - Mind Your Manners
17. Paul McCartney - Queenie Eye
18. Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals
19. Gary Numan - Love Hurt Bleed
20. Atoms for Peace - Judge, Jury and Executioner
Joe Rivers
1. Daft Punk - Giorgio By Moroder
2. Snakehips - On & On (feat. George Maple)
3. Summer Camp - Fresh
4. James Blake - Take a Fall for Me (feat. RZA)
5. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
6. Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N (feat. Erykah Badu)
7. Charli XCX - So Far Away
8. Lorde - Royals
9. Jeffrey Lewis & the Rain - WWPRD
10. Foals - My Number
11. Janelle Monáe - Primetime (feat. Miguel)
12. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)
13. Duke Dumont - Need U (100%) (feat. A*M*E)
14. Miguel - Beautiful (feat. Mariah Carey)
15. Le Youth - C O O L
16. AlunaGeorge - Lost And Found
17. James Blake - Retrograde
18. CHVRCHES - Recover
19. John Grant - GMF
20. AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies
Juan Edgardo Rodriguez
1. Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
2. These New Puritans - Fragment Two
3. Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey
4. Deerhunter - Monomania
5. Sonny & the Sunsets - Green Blood
6. Youth Lagoon - Dropla
7. Phosphorescent - Song For Zula
8. Pusha T - Numbers on the Boards
9. John Grant - GMF
10. Mountains - Propeller
11. Sky Ferreira - You're Not the One
12. The Dodos - The Ocean
13. Janelle Monáe - Dance Apocalyptic
14. Nick Cave - Jubilee Street
15. Torres - Honey
16. Savages - Husbands
17. Ty Segall - The Keepers
18. Annie - Invisible
19. Drake - Started from the Bottom
20. Eleanor Friedberger - Singing Time
Luiza Lodder
1. The National - Don’t Swallow the Cap
2. Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu)
3. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
4. The Knife - Full of Fire
5. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell)
6. The Used - Ashley Monroe
7. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
8. Kacey Musgraves - Blowin' Smoke
9. David Bowie - Boss of Me
10. Lorde - Royals
11. Queens of the Stone Age - Keep Your Eyes Peeled
12. Savages - Shut Up
13. J. Cole - Power Trip (feat. Miguel)
14. Chance the Rapper - Chain Smoker
15. Lily Allen - Hard Out Here
16. Laura Marling - Undine
17. Haim - Falling
18. Yo La Tengo - Cornelia & Jane
19. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
20. Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey
Mark Davison
1. Lorde - Tennis Court
2. John Grant - GMF
3. Lady Gaga - Applause
4. Banks - This Is What It Feels Like
5. SOHN - Lessons
6. Katy Perry - Roar
7. Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love
8. Agnes Obel - The Curse
9. MØ - Waste of Time
10. Annie - Invisible
11. Tegan and Sara - I Was a Fool
12. Haim - Falling
13. Disclosure - White Noise (feat. AlunaGeorge)
14. Pantha du Prince and the Bell Laboratory - Spectral Spirit
15. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
16. FKA Twigs - Water Me
17. Local Natives - Heavy Feet
18. Factory Floor - Fall Back
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
20. Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life
Peter Quinton
1. Deafheaven - Dreamhouse
2. These New Puritans - Organ Eternal
3. My Bloody Valentine - Who Sees You
4. Kanye West - New Slaves
5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Zebra
6. My Bloody Valentine - She Found Now
7. Drake - From Time (feat. Jhené Aiko)
8. Perfect Pussy - I
9. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
10. Death Grips - Whatever I Want (Fuck Who's Watching)
11. Iceage - Morals
12. Majical Cloudz - Childhood's End
13. Disclosure - White Noise (feat. AlunaGeorge)
14. Grouper - Living Room
15. Foxygen - On Blue Mountain
16. No Age - C'mon, Stimmung
17. Arcade Fire - Here Comes the Night Time
18. Pissed Jeans - Bedroom Laughter
19. Daft Punk – Doin’ It Right (feat. Panda Bear)
20. Yo La Tengo – Ohm
Randi Dietiker
1. The Belle Game - River
2. Devendra Banhart - Für Hildegard Von Bingen
3. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
4. Four Tet - Parallel Jalebi
5. Poliça - Tiff (feat. Justin Vernon)
6. Black Atlass - Castles
7. Phantogram - Black Out Days
8. Lorde - White Teeth Teens
9. Chance the Rapper - Smoke Again (feat. Ab-Soul)
10. Pusha T - Nostalgia (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
11. Jungle - Lucky I Got What I Want
12. CHVRCHES - Recover
13. Yumi and the Weather - All We Can
14. Shovels and Rope - Birmingham
15. Autre Ne Veut - Counting
16. Daughter - Youth
17. Danny Brown - Kush Coma (feat. A$AP Rocky & Zelooperz)
18. Torres - Honey
19. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
20. Edward Sharpe and the Magentic Zeroes - Better Days
Richard Petty
1. Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home (feat. Majid Jordan)
2. Inc. - Careful
3. A$AP Rocky - Fashion Killa
4. James Blake - Retrograde
5. DJ Rashad - Let It Go
6. Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal
7. The Weeknd - Kiss Land
8. SpaceGhostPurrp - Petro
9. A$AP Ferg - Hood Pope
10. Cassie - Numb (feat. Rick Ross)
11. Kanye West - I Am A God (feat. God)
12. Boards of Canada - Nothing is Real
13. Lone - Airglow Fires
14. Ciara - Body Party
15. CHVRCHES - Recover
16. Miguel - Beautiful (feat. Mariah Carey)
17. Girl Like Me - Slava
18. Zomby - Overdose
19. R Kelly - Sex Dolphin (Ango Remix)
20. Friendzone – Poly
Sean Caldwell
1. Thee Oh Sees - Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster
2. Queens of the Stone Age - My God is the Sun
3. Run the Jewels - Get It
4. Girls Names - Pittura Infamante
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street
6. No Joy - Hare Tarot Lies
7. Tera Melos - Bite
8. The Knife - Full of Fire
9. Odonis Odonis - Are We Friends
10. Ensemble Pearl - Painting on a Corpse
11. Russian Circles - 1777
12. Baptists - Bushcraft
13. Jesu - Homesick
14. David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
15. Foot Village - This Song is a Drug Deal
16. Joanna Gruesome - Sugarcrush
17. Vex Ruffin - Prime of My Life
18. Pharmakon - Crawling on Bruised Knees
19. Snapped Ankles - True Ecology (Shit Everywhere)
20. The Child of Lov - Owl (feat. DOOM)
Stephen Wragg
1. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
2. Torres - Honey
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Chrome Country
4. Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
5. Savages - She Will
6. Laura Marling - Where Can I Go?
7. Angel Haze - Same Love
8. Kanye West - New Slaves
9. Serafina Steer - Disco Compilation
10. Mount Kimbie - Made to Stray
11. Chance the Rapper - Good Ass Intro (So Good)
12. Mapei - Don't Wait
13. Bill Callahan - Small Plane
14. Perfect Pussy - I
15. Deafheaven - Dreamhouse
16. Courtney Barnett - Avant-Gardener
17. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
18. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - You are the Apple
19. Julia Holter - In the Green Wild
20. Danny Brown - Kush Coma (feat. A$AP Rocky & Zelooperz)
13 December, 2013 - 23:00 — No Ripcord Staff