The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Dave Drayton

18 December 2013 | 8:47 am | Dave Drayton

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.