Increasingly electronic music is reasserting itself as a viable album length genre. Sure it still thrives on the single and the remix but more and more there are albums, primarily from the UK scene, that manage to straddle the headphone and dancefloor worlds or in some cases they work most effectively as immersive home listening experiences. Here are the albums that we found ourselves returning to most often in 2013.

Special mention to Burial’s Rival Trader EP which dropped late in the year and on first listens it sounds excellent. I decided to keep this list focused on albums but Rival Trader is no doubt one of the finest releases of the year and a great way to round out 2013.

1. The Haxan Cloak – Extinction

2. DJ Koze – Amygdala

3.  Zomby – With Love

4. Forest Swords – Engravings

5. Fat Freddy’s Drop – Blackbird

6. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle – Perils From The Sea

7. Depeche Mode – Delta Machine

8. Special Request – Soul Music

9. Machinedrum – Vapor City

10. Atoms For Peace – Amok

11. Disclosure – Settle

12. Darkside – Psychic

13. The Field – Cupid’s Head

14. Holden – The Inheritors

15. Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind

16. Jon Hopkins – Immunity

17. Tim Hecker – Virgins

18. Daniel Avery – Drone Logic

19. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest

20. Logos – Cold Mission