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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. Phoenix – Bankrupt!
(Tie) 2. Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
(Tie) 2. The Naked and Famous – In Rolling Waves
4. Twenty One Pilots – Vessel
5. White Lies – Big TV
6. The Strokes – Comedown Machine
7. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – The Speed of Things
8. Grouplove – Spreading Rumours
9. Empire of the Sun – Ice On The Dune
10. French Films – Wild Orchid
Honorable Mention
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
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 Project – Fever Forms
4. The Joy Formidable – Wolf’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 Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
10. Young Dreams – Between 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. Mø – “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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