"Pure Heroine" was named the best album of 2013 by "FasterLouder", "The Herald Sun", "The Mercury News", and "The New York Times". It featured highly in other end-of-year best album lists: at number two by "Entertainment Weekly", at number four by "Billboard", at number four by "Slant", at number seven by "Rolling Stone", and at number ten by "The A.V. Club". The record featured at number 25 in "The Village Voice"s 2013 Pazz &amp; Jop critics' poll, with 317 points. Metacritic ranked it the fifth best-reviewed album of 2013, with 34 points. In 2014, "Pure Heroine" was named Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the New Zealand Music Awards, and was awarded the Taite Music Prize. It was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 56th Grammy Awards.