The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Ben Preece

 Top Ten Albums
 1.  Big Scary  -  Not Art
 2.  Arctic Monkeys  -  Am
 3.  Arcade Fire  -  Reflektor
 4.  Kanye West  -  Yeezus
 5.  Unknown Mortal Orchestra  -  II
 6.  Local Natives  -  Hummingbird
 7.  Vampire Weekend  -  Modern Vampires Of The City
 8.  David Bowie  -  The Next Day
 9.  The National  -  Trouble Will Find Me
 10.  Haim  -  Days Are Gone
 
 Top Three Miscellaneous Albums
 1.  Nirvana  -  In Utero (20th Anniversary)
 2.  The Beatles  -  On Air: Live At The Bbc Volume 2
 3.  Various  -  The Great Gatsby Soundtrack
 
 Top Five Songs
 1.  Arcade Fire  -  Reflektor
 2.  Arctic Monkeys  -  Do I Wanna Know
 3.  Courtney Barnett  -  Avant Gardener
 4.  Lorde  -  Royals
 5.  Disclosure  -  When A Fire Starts To Burn

 
 Artist Of The Year
 1.  Lorde
 2.  Kanye West
 3.  Haim
 4.  Arctic Monkeys
 5.  Prince
 
 Best Five International Artist Performances 
 1.  David Byrne & St Vincent
 2.  Dirty Projectors
 3.  Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
 4.  Hot Chip
 5.  Weezer/Tegan & Sara
 
 Best Five Australian Artist Performances 
 1.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
 2.  Big Scary
 3.  Urthboy
 4.  Paul Kelly
 5.  Jagwar Ma
 
 Top Five Tv Shows  
 1.  Breaking Bad
 2.  The Walking Dead
 3.  Dexter
 4.  House Of Cards
 5.  Homeland
 
 Top Five Films
 1.  Gravity
 2.  Django Unchained
 3.  Prisoners
 4.  Man Of Steel
 5.  About Time
 
  Top Five Websites
 1.  Goole
 2.  Twitter
 3.  Facebook
 4.  YouTube
 5.  triple j
 
 The Highlight Of 2013
 An incredibly amazing year spent with the Hungry Kids of Hungary - 2nd album, tours (locally and abroad). Gonna miss the shit outta those dudes.
 
 Prediction For 2014
 2014 is going to be BIG! Watch this space. ;-)