The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Tom Hawking

Top Ten Albums
1.  The Drones  -  I See Seaweed
2.  Majical Cloudz  -  Impersonator
3.  Julia Holter  -  Loud City Song
4.  Standish/Carlyon  -  Deleted Scenes
5.  Kirin J Callinan  -  Embracism
6.  Kanye West  -  Yeezus
7.  Dirty Beaches  -  Drifters/Love Is The Devil
8.  Pharmakon  -  Abandon
9.  Tim Hecker  -  Virgins
10.  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds  -  Push The Sky Away

Top Three Miscellaneous Albums
1.  Various Artists  -  SMM: Opiate
2.  Oneohtrix Point Never  -  Rifts
3.  Molly Drake  -  Molly Drake

Top Five Songs
1.  Kirin J Callinan  -  Embracism
2.  Kanye West  -  New Slaves
3.  The Drones  -  They'll Kill You
4.  Majical Cloudz  -  This Is Magic
5.  Scott & Charlene's Wedding  -  Two Weeks

Artist Of The Year
1.  Kanye West
2.  Kirin J Callinan
3.  Majical Cloudz
4.  Savages
5.  Le1f

Best Five International Artist Performances  
1.  Leonard Cohen
2.  Kirin J Callinan
3.  Perfect Pussy
4.  Scott & Charlene's Wedding
5.  Majical Cloudz 

Top Five TV Shows   
1.  Breaking Bad
2.  Sons Of Anarchy
3.  The NBA
4.  The cricket
5.  The internet  

 Top Five Websites
1.  Flavorwire
2.  The Guardian
3.  Grantland
4.  The Verge
5.  Last.fm

The Highlight Of 2013
A US visa. A real job. A whole lot of weird shit going down. Everything turning out OK in the end.

Prediction For 2014
Sigh.