Excavation is the second studio album by The Haxan Cloak, released originally on Tri Angle Records on April 16, 2013.

[1]Re-released on Archaic Devices in 2023.

Excavation received acclaim from music critics.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 84 based on 16 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

[3] Pitchfork named Excavation the 29th best album of 2013,[13] and Rolling Stone called it the 16th best dance album of 2013.