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This is the yearly "Grands crus" list from Telerama, ie the best of 2013

NB : it's an unranked list

Rock pop

Nick cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the sky away
David Bowie - The Next day
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Alela Diane - About Farewell
Valerie June - Pushin' against a stone
Agnes Obel - Aventine
Bill Callahan - Dream River
Pierre Faccini - Between dogs and wolves
Ana Calvi - One Breath
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Girls in Hawaii - Everest
James Blake - Overgrown
Elvis Costello and The Roots - Wise up ghost
Matthew E. White - Big Inner
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Parquet Courts - Light up gold

Chanson

Brigitte Fontaine - J'ai l'honneur d'être
Claire Diterzi - Le salon des refusées
Lisa Leblanc - Lisa Leblanc
Alex Beaupain - Après moi le déluge
Daniel Darc - Chapelle Sixteen
Albin de la Simone - Un homme
Babx - Drones personnels
Etienne Daho - Chansons de l'innocence retrouvée
Bertrand Belin - Parcs
Stromae - Racine carrée

Jazz
Daniel Humair - Sweet & Sour
Nick Brätsch - Ronon Live
Youn Sun Nah - Lento
Susanne Abbuehl - The Gift
Tigran - Shadow Hunter

World
Sœur Marie Keyroux - Méditations d'Orient
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Jama Ko
Kamilya Jubran & Sarah Murcia - Nhaoul'
The Heliocentrics - 13 degrees of reality
Dhafer Youssef - Birds Requiem
Rachid Taha - Zoom
Maraca & His Latin Jazz Allstars - Reencuentros