Best and worst albums of 2013 A clip from Beyonce's new video with cameos from her mother Tina Knowles and former Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland has leaked online. Ruling the music world .... New Zealand singer Lorde. IN another big year for music, teenager Lorde emerged to rule the world and Beyonce changed everything - but who made the best and worst music? Here are the best albums of 2013: LORDE <b>Pure Heroine</b> Lorde's Royals was one of those songs you'll always remember where you heard it first. It sounds like nothing else - the reason it was either going to disappear or dominate. Thankfully, sanity prevailed. Now Ella Yelich-O'Connor is in the position of writing an outsider anthem about a lifestyle she is now on the tip of affording ... once she turns 18 - still 11 months away. Pure Heroine captures a new voice with a clever way with words and the fact the mainstream has come to her means this album's defiantly uncommercial sound wasn't compromised at all. Lorde also gave a welcome yardstick to young girls: You can still succeed on your talent not your exposed skin. And this is literally just the beginning ... Overlooked gem: the deceptive mantra Ribs Hot on the music charts ... Lorde. DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories The French duo made an album release an event again. It helps when you have an instant classic like Get Lucky up your robotic sleeve. And just when the beat-hungry world thought they'd deliver an EDM record they serve up tweaked disco funk, living musical legends Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder, '80s soft rock and a Sherbet sample. Overlooked gem: Doin' it Right with Panda Bear. Tune! Daft Punk electronic duo ... Thomas Bangalter, right, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, left. The British guitar band is in this for the long haul. Its fifth album (in just seven years) switches from growling riffery (Do I Wanna Know?, Arabella, RU Mine) to nocturnal groove-based stompers soaked in harmonies (One For the Road, Knee Socks), to elegant vintage balladry in misleadingly titled No.1 Party Anthem. Overlooked gem: Snap Out of It - meet the Funky Monkeys. British rockers Arctic Monkeys will tour Australia in 2014. After the guttural rock of Grinderman the old dogs learnt new tricks with loops and soundscapes. Still comical and carnal, Cave name-checked Miley Cyrus before she made the world her gynaecologist. Overlooked gem: The epic Jubilee Street is staggering. Australian musician Nick Cave ... performs on stage with his band The Bad Seeds in Berlin, Germany, where they presented their new album "Push the Sky Away." CHVRCHESThe Bones Of What You Believe The Scottish trio Chvrches heart the '80s, and '80s pop albums where every song belongs. With a taste for fine electro as well as early Whitney and Janet, this is dark but warm electro-pop. Overlooked gem: Gothic rave anthem Science/Visions Electropop act ... Chvrches, whose band members include Martin Doherty, Lauren Mayberry and Iain Cook. It's like Matt Berninger is singing into your ear, addressing a fall-out with his brother (I Should Live In Salt) and making indie music special and literate again. It wasn't a hitfest, but no one expects their Sex On Fire. Overlooked gem: The woozy Pink Rabbits is the most beautiful rock song of 2013. Trouble will find me ... from The National. The album no one expected proved Bowie could keep a secret in 2013, and remained vital and relevant. Never has a non-retirement been more welcome. Overlooked gem: Dancing Out In Space could slip on to any of his finest albums easily. David Bowie ... showed he is not ready to retire just yet. Picture: AFP Source: Supplied While many electronic dance acts reheated the cheese Sash! left in the '90s, these UK brothers updated that decade's house and drum 'n' bass. Smart vocalists (Jessie Ware, Sam Smith, London Grammar) and storming singles Latch and White Noise were the antidote dance needed in 2013. Overlooked gem: F For You rebuilds Deep Dish's deep house. Disclosure ... was produced by brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence. This twisted, sprawling, square peg of a rock record made No.1 in Australia. From the mammoth, speaker-troubling Inhaler to lost hit My Number, the UK band really stepped it up. Overlooked gem: They still give great mood on Late Night. UK band ... Foals who produced the album, Holy Fire. This surprise release changed not just the game but the old Beyonce. Gone are radio hits, replaced by experimental alt-R&B and minimal electro. Now a "grown woman," she's finally being personal in lyrics. Uber-personal. She's never been more sexually charged. Disco-tinged single Blow, is a how-to guide to pleasuring a woman. And the stunning videos justify more Kanye West stage invasions. Overlooked gem: Drunk In Love is 2013's Sexual Healing. A real game-changer ... Beyonce's new album dropped on iTunes. This reminds you how healthy the British dance scene is when they don't try to be American. John Newman launched his career off Feel the Love and Not Giving In, serial guest Emeli Sande delivers soul. Overlooked gem: Right Here's brittle British beats. British dance hit ... Rudimenta. Picture: UMA Source: Supplied Rebooting with super producer Stuart Price, only the Pet Shop Boys could call a song Love Is a Bourgeois Construct and make Bruce Springsteen go electro. Overlooked gem: Vocal would have been No.1 if it wasn't by two middle-aged pasty Brits. UK duo ... The Pet Shop Boys. Too long but the title track is brilliant and while indulgent you can hear them enjoying themselves. Overlooked gem: Afterlife eases LCD Soundsystem withdrawals. On fire with their music this year ... Arcade Fire. This Irish lot made folk interesting. They can do the rollicking thing, but also some uneasy listening electronica. Overlooked gem: Judgement Call - the Pogues meets Talking Heads. Awayland ... was produced by the Villagers. Grown-up pop is difficult. You fall between the mystifying, ageist cracks at radio and without the benefit of "cool" or "cred," you just be yourself and hope people hear. This is the sound of a woman sharing her stories via a voice that causes instant goosebumps. Only Lonely proves a piano and raw emotion are all you need. Overlooked gem: Still Beating will touch anyone who owns an Adele album. Back with another albumn ... Australian singer Tina Arena. BLISS N ESO Circus in the Sky The local hip-hop crew didn't settle for coasting. Producer M Phazes supplies genre-pushing beats and the roll call of guests (Nas, 360, Seth Sentry, Daniel Merriweather) speaks volumes. Overlooked gem: Can't Get Rid Of This Feeling's soul. Hip-hop stars Bliss N Eso released a new labum titled Circus In The Sky this year. The album no record label wanted but the public did. Sharkmouth became Russ's first Top 10 album through hard work and word of mouth. It's a warm, engaging blues record where Morris sings about vintage Australian characters. Newsflash: Australians still want to hear about themselves. Overlooked gem: The Drifter, with Renee Geyer. Russell Morris's album ... Sharkmouth. Forging her own path, Monae dragged Prince and Miguel along for the joyful ride and got astonishingly funky on We Were Like Rock &amp; Roll. Overlooked gem: The title track, with Solange, reeks of vintage Prince. Janelle Monae ... released TheElectric Lady. Picture: Warner Source: Supplied It is missing a new Bad Romance, but you can't deny the bonkers charm of Sexx Dreams or Do What U Want. Not afraid to alienate, she could be the world's most high-profile cult act. Overlooked gem: Piano ballad Dope removes the bells, whistles and inflatable masks. Applause for Lady Gaga ... who has had another hit album. PEARL JAM Lightning Bolt Still wanting to be the Ramones on Mind Your Manners and still seducing rock radio on Sirens. Overlooked gem: Future Days shows Eddie Vedder can still hit your sweet spot. Still cranking out the hits ... Pearl Jam released Lightning Bolt this year. Listen to some of the tracks from the best albums in our Spotify list below: And here are the worst albums of 2013: KATY PERRY Prism The woman who once asked, "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag," wants to get personal with a generic, over-calculated collection of just-OK pop songs that miss the watermark she set for herself. And female empowerment should reach deeper than the five people credited with writing Roar who approved the line, "I went from zero from my own hero." Profound stuff. Katy Perry's new album ... Prism was not a hit. ANDRE RIEU Celebrates Abba Sometimes you can judge an album by the cover. Luckily ABBA's songs are so bulletproof they can stand getting the cheesy orchestration from the be-mulleted master of cheese. Andre Rieu ... usually produces a classic hit, but not with this album. BRITNEY SPEARS Britney Jean She hasn't cared for a long time, but now nobody in her team does either. Their job is to find her undeniable world-beating pop hits she can mime on stage. Rather gruesome twosome David Guetta and Will.i.am served up forgettable dross that reeks of "that'll do." And she's already gone to Vegas 20 years before she was destined to. She's back ... but was it any better than before? Britney Spears released her new album "Britney Jean." JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE The 20/20 Experience What happened? He used to set the pace in pop, but this is just self-indulgent jams in search of a decent tune. Then he dropped a second set, which confirmed he no longer has an edit button. There were some OK moments buried in there, like Mirrors, but nothing to rival Like I Love You, SexyBack or Rock Your Body. We blame Hollywood. The 20/20 Experience ... was released by Justin Timberlake. WILL I AM #willpower Who would have thought that an album with a hashtag in the title could get worse. Yet somehow Captain Autotune continues to be the Emperor's new clothes of modern pop. Let us hope that 2014 brings an end to dumbed-down dance-pop and 40-something men finally drag themselves out of the club. Will.i.am also released another album on his own, titled #willpower. Listen to some tracks from the worst albums of 2013 in our Spotify list below: