The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Mitch Knox

Top Ten Albums
1.  Portugal. The Man  -  Evil Friends
2.  Vasudeva  -  Life In Cycles
3.  The Appleseed Cast  -  Illumination Ritual
4.  Tera Melos  -  X'ed Out
5.  Enemies  -  Embark, Embrace
6.  PVT  -  Homosapien
7.  Sigur Ros  -  Kveikur
8.  Scale the Summit  -  The Migration
9.  Boards of Canada  -  Tomorrow's Harvest
10.  of Montreal  -  Lousy with Sylvianbriar

Top Three Miscellaneous Albums
1.  El Ten Eleven  -  Transitions Remixed
2.  The Postal Service  -  Give Up: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition
3.  Minus the Bear  -  Acoustics II

Top Five Songs
1.  Portugal. The Man  -  Creep in a T-Shirt
2.  The Postal Service  -  A Tattered Line of String
3.  Arcade Fire  -  Reflektor
4.  Boards of Canada  -  Reach for the Dead
5.  Dream Theater  -  The Enemy Inside

Artist Of The Year
1.  Portugal. The Man
2.  The Appleseed Cast
3.  Vasudeva
4.  Enemies
5.  Mindless Self Indulgence

Best Five International Artist Performances  
1.  Neutral Milk Hotel
2.  Portugal. The Man
3.  TV on the Radio
4.  The Polyphonic Spree
5.  Of Monsters and Men

Best Five Australian Artist Performances  
1.  PVT
2.  Architecture in Helsinki
3.  World's End Press
4.  Hazards of Swimming Naked
5.  sleepmakeswaves

Top Five TV Shows   
1.  Breaking Bad
2.  The Walking Dead
3.  Hannibal
4.  Arrow
5.  Doctor Who

Top Five Films
1.  Pacific Rim
2.  Thor: The Dark World
3.  Iron Man 3
4.  Star Trek Into Darkness
5.  Man Of Steel

 Top Five Websites
1.  Tumblr
2.  Imgur
3.  Reddit
4.  Cracked
5.  Drew Curtis' FARK.com

The Highlight Of 2013
Being granted a fortnightly gig writing a blog for this very magazine's website.

Prediction For 2014
No one is going to help Will Graham. No one ever helps Will Graham.