Grapefruits, saunas and Restorations made 2013 a great year for Dave Drayton.
Top Ten Albums
1. Grim Fandango - Flicker Noise
2. Fourteen Nights At Sea - Great North
3. Restorations - LP2
4. Into It Over It - Intersections
5. Lemuria - The Distance Is So Big
6. Owen - L'Ami du Peuple
7. Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt - Dys/Closure
8. Signals Midwest - Light On The Lake
9. Deafheaven - Sunbather
10. Eleventh He Reaches London - Banhus
Top Three Miscellaneous Albums
1. Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name 2LP
2. Charge Group - Escaping Mankind 12"
3. The Nation Blue - A Blueprint For Modern Noise
Top Five Songs
1. Lemuria - Brilliant Dancer
2. Restorations - New Old
3. Jen Buxton - Get Drunk, Text Linc
4. The Smith Street Band - Don't Fuck With Our Dreams
5. Oslow - Desert Dog Rd
Artist Of The Year
1. Restorations
2. The Smith Street Band
3. Iggy Azalea
4. Corpus
5. Lemuria
Best Five International Artist Performances
1. La Dispute
2. Pianos Become The Teeth
3. Enabler
4. Joyce Manor
5. Cory Branan
Best Five Australian Artist Performances
1. Australian Chamber Orchestra
2. Lincoln Le Fevre
3. Stockades
4. Ted Danson With Wolves
5. Oslow
Top Five TV Shows
1. The Simpsons
2. Futurama
3. Keating
4. Breaking Bad
5. At The Movies
Top Five Films
1. Don Jon
2. The Purge
3. Gravity
4. The World's End
5. Mud
Top Five Websites
1. Reddit
2. Twitter
3. Mom's Spaghetti
4. Wikipedia
5. Abebooks
The Highlight Of 2013
Discovering the refridgerated grapefruit/sauna combination.
Prediction For 2014
Gonski reforms dropped completely in pursuit of new education headed by Mrs Gan.