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KTC Presents: The Best Albums & Songs of 2013


by Matthew Downes, Charissa Lock and Aurora Cowen

Matt’s Album picks! (in order)

1. PhoenixBankrupt!
(Tie) 2. Tegan and SaraHeartthrob
(Tie) 2. The Naked and FamousIn Rolling Waves
4. Twenty One PilotsVessel
5. White LiesBig TV
6. The StrokesComedown Machine
7. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.The Speed of Things
8. GrouploveSpreading Rumours
9. Empire of the SunIce On The Dune
10. French FilmsWild Orchid

Honorable Mention
Arcade FireReflektor

Matt’s Top Songs! (not in any order)

1. Warm Soda – “Tell Me In A Whisper”
2. Fevers – “The Veil”
3. The Killers – “Just Another Girl”
4. Twenty One Pilots – “Holding On To You”
5. Little Green Cars – “Harper Lee”
6. Gold Fields – “You’re Still Gone”
7. Haim – “The Wire”
8. White Lies – “Change”
9. FMLYBND – “ELectricity”
10. Chvrches – “Recover”
11. Charli XCX – “Lock You Up”
12. Phoenix – “Bankrupt!”
13. Autre Ne Veut – “Gonna Die”
14. Tegan and Sara – “Now I’m All Messed Up”
15. The Strokes – “Chances”
16. CEO – “WHOREHOUSE”
17. The Naked and Famous – “Grow Old”
18. The Pixies – “Indie Cindy”
19. The 1975 – “City”
20. Matt Wertz – “Get To You”
21. Queens of the Stone Age – “I Appear Missing”
22. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – “If You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t On The Dancefloor)”
23. The Joy Formidable – “The Turnaround”
24. Phoenix – “Bourgeois”
25. Empire of the Sun – “Celebrate”

Matt’s Honorable Mentions (not in any order)
1. Sky Ferreira – “Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Ok)”
2. Katy Perry –  “It Takes Two”
3. Celine Dion – “Breakaway”
4. Arcade Fire – “Super Symmetry”
5. Drake – “Hold On We’re Coming Home”
6. Hammock – “Tres Dominé”
7. Foxygen – “Oh No”
8. Mikal Cronin – “Don’t Let Me Go”
9. San Cisco – “Fred Astaire (Joywave Remix)”
10. Banks – “Waiting Game”

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Charissa’s Album Picks (In Order)

1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – The Speed of Things
2. Twenty One Pilots – Vessel
3. The Octopus ProjectFever Forms
4. The Joy FormidableWolf’s Law
5. Grouplove – Spreading Rumours
6. The Naked and Famous – In Rolling Waves
7. The Little Ones The Dawn Sang Along
8. The Strokes – Comedown Machine
9. Vampire WeekendModern Vampires of the City
10. Young DreamsBetween Places

Charissa’s Top Songs (not in any order)!

1. Phoenix – “Chloroform”
2. Twenty One Pilots – “Trees”
3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – “Run”
4. Tame Impala – “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”
5. The Octopus Project – “Sharp Teeth”
6. Lorde – “Royals”
7. Bastille – “Pompeii”
8. Kevin Morby – “Slow Train”(featuring Cate Le Bon)
9. Tree. – “Karma Police”
10. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – “Warzone”
11. Vinyl Thief – “Rebel Hill”
12. Vampire Weekend – “Hannah Hunt”
13. The Naked and Famous – “Rolling Waves”
14. Grouplove – “Bitin the Bullet”
15. Arcade Fire – “Here Comes The Night”
16. The 1975 – “Chocolate”
17. Smallpools – “Dreaming”
18. Ex Cops – “Jazz & Information”
19. The Mowgli’s – “Waiting for The Dawn”
20. Jake Bugg – “Storm Passes Away”
21. Mother Mother – “Infinitesimal”
22. Empire of the Sun – “Alive”
23. Cold War Kids – “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts”
24. The Neighbourhood – “Sweater Weather”
25. Typhoon – “Common Sentiments”

Honorable Mentions
1. Perma – “Two of a Crime”
2. Celine Dion – “Breakaway”
3. Robin Thicke feat. TI and Pharrell – “Blurred Lines”
4. MSMR – “Fantasy”

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Aurora’s Album Picks (In Order)!

1. Phoenix – Bankrupt!
2. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
3. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
4. The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law
5. Puscifer – Donkey Punch The Night
6. Atoms For Peace – Amok
7. James Blake – Overgrown
8. The 1975 – The 1975
9. Drake – Nothing Was the Same
10. The Naked and Famous – In Rolling Waves

Honorable Mentions

Kanye West – Yeezus
How to Destroy Angels – Welcome Oblivion
Queens of the Stoneage – …Like Clockwork
Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
Beyoncé – Beyoncé 

Aurora’s Top Songs (not in any order)!

1. A Perfect Circle – “By and Down”
2. Banks – “Waiting Game”
3. Beat Club  – “Something Better”
4. Empire of the Sun –  “Alive”
5. Nine Inch Nails – “Find My Way”
6. Drake –  “From Time”
7. Kanye West – “New Slaves”
8. Phoenix – “Chloroform”
9. The 1975 – “The City”
10. The Neighborhood – “Sweater Weather”
11. Twenty One Pilots – “Trees”
12. Drake – “Too Much”
13. The Naked and Famous – “I Kill Giants”
15. Christina Aguilera and A Great Big World – “Say Something”
16. The Naked and Famous – “I Kill Giants”
17.  – “XXX88”
18. Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera – “Just A Fool”
19. Mø – “Pilgrim”
20. MSMR – “Hurricane”
21. Lorde – “Royals”
22. James Blake with Chance the Rapper – “Life Round Here”
23. The Naked and Famous – “Rolling Waves”
24. Beyoncé – “Heaven”
25. Nine Inch Nails  – “All Time Low”

Honorable Mentions
Beyoncé – “Drunk In Love”
Lorde – “Tennis Courts”
Tegan and Sara – “Now I’m All Messed Up”

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