The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Andrew McDonald

 Top Ten Albums
 1.  My Bloody Valentine  -  m b v
 2.  Savages  -  Silence Yourself
 3.  The Drones  -  I See Seaweed
 4.  Chelsea Wolfe  -  Pain Is Beauty
 5.  Fuck Buttons  -  Slow Focus
 6.  Future Of The Left  -  How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident
 7.  Forest Swords  -  Engravings
 8.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  -  Push The Sky Away
 9.  Pharmakon  -  Abandon
 10.  Dawn Of Midi  -  Dysnomia
 
 Top Three Miscellaneous Albums
 1.  Four Tet  -  Pause
 2.  Thelonious Monk  -  Paris 1969
 3.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  -  Live From KCRW
 
 Top Five Songs
 1.  The Drones  -  Why Write A Letter That You'll Never Send
 2.  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard  -  Head On/Pill
 3.  Savages  -  Shut Up
 4.  My Bloody Valentine  -  In Another Way
 5.  Phoenix  -  Bankrupt!

 
 Artist Of The Year
 1.  My Bloody Valentine
 2.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
 3.  Savages
 4.  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
 5.  Pharmakon
 
 Best Five International Artist Performances 
 1.  Godspeed You! Black Emperor
 2.  My Bloody Valentine
 3.  Kraftwerk
 4.  Swans
 5.  Boris
 
 Best Five Australian Artist Performances 
 1.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
 2.  The Drones
 3.  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
 4.  Dead China Doll
 5.  The Laurels
 
 Top Five TV Shows  
 1.  Mad Men
 2.  Black Mirror
 3.  Adventure Time
 4.  Game Of Thrones
 5.  Archer
 
 Top Five Films
 1.  Upstream Color
 2.  The Hunt
 3.  Gravity
 4.  The World's End
 5.  The Act Of Killing
 
  Top Five Websites
 1.  PopMatters
 2.  Dinosaur Comics
 3.  MUBI
 4.  The Conversation
 5.  The Talkhouse
 
 The Highlight Of 2013
 Swans/Godspeed/MBV playing back to back at All Tomorrow's Parties.
 
 Prediction For 2014
 Dr Dre and Kevin Shields promise new album releases in "the near future" A Silver Mt Zion release the album of the year.