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The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Dylan Stewart

18 December 2013 | 8:47 am | Dylan Stewart

Dylan Stewart dubs King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard as best artist for 2013.

 Top Ten Albums
 1.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  -  Push The Sky Away
 2.  Foals  -  Holy Fire
 3.  Kurt Vile  -  Wakin On A Pretty Daze
 4.  Disclosure  -  Settle
 5.  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard  -  Float Along - Fill Your Lungs
 6.  Vampire Weekend  -  Modern Vampires Of The City
 7.  Northlane  -  Singularity
 8.  James Blake  -  Overgrown
 9.  PINS  -  Girls Like Us
 10.  FIDLAR  -  FIDLAR
 
 Top Three Miscellaneous Albums
 1.  You Am I  -  Hourly, Daily (Superunreal Edition)
 2.  Various -  Django Unchained: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
 3.  Various -  Sons Of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
 
 Top Five Songs
 1.  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard  -  Head On/Pill
 2.  Kurt Vile  -  Wakin On A Pretty Day
 3.  The Shouting Matches  -  Gallup, NM
 4.  Thao & The Get Down Stay Down  -  We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)
 5.  Laura Marling  -  Master Hunter

 
 Artist Of The Year
 1.  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
 2.  Nick Cave
 3.  Bruce Springsteen
 4.  Lorde
 5.  The National
 
 Best Five International Artist Performances 
 1.  Bruce Sringsteen
 2.  FIDLAR
 3.  Cloud Nothings
 4.  The Lumineers
 5.  The Tallest Man On Earth
 
 Best Five Australian Artist Performances 
 1.  Violent Soho
 2.  Something For Kate
 3.  The Delta Riggs
 4.  Major Tom & The Atoms
 5.  Vance Joy
 
 Top Five TV Shows  
 1.  Breaking Bad
 2.  Top Of The Lake
 3.  The Walking Dead
 4.  Homeland
 5.  Masters Of Sex
 
 Top Five Films
 1.  A World Not Ours
 2.  Django Unchained
 3.  Mystery Road
 4.  The Act Of Killing
 5.  The Place Beyond The Pines
 
  Top Five Websites
 1.  YouTube
 2.  Twitter
 3.  The Age
 4.  Bureau of Meteorology
 5.  Facebook
 
 The Highlight Of 2013
 Spending a year without travel proved that discovering your own city is as rewarding as any international exploration.
 
 Prediction For 2014
 Minimal sleep, nappy changes and sharing my music with my new-born son.