As another incredible year in Canadian music winds to a close, it’s time for Radio 3 to count down the 103 best songs of the year! We’ve crunched the numbers, made countless calculations, pulled many hairs out over tough decisions and finally come up with the definitive list of the best Canadian songs played on air on Radio 3 in 2013.
1. Shad, "Stylin' (feat. Saukrates)"
2. Arcade Fire, "Reflektor"
3. PUP, "Reservoir"
4. Born Ruffians, "Dancing on the Edge of Our Graves"
5. The Pack A.D., "Big Shot"
6. The Darcys, "Pretty Girls"
7. Said the Whale, "I Love You"
8. The Strumbellas, "Sailing"
9. Reuben and the Dark, "Rolling Stone"
10. Gold and Youth, "Jewel"
Sorry they are presented as a gallery. I hate that style of presenting things, Oh well.
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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
While Kanye West's Yeezus 84 has been dominating critics' year-end top 10 lists, a slightly more under the radar release has quietly maintained its lead as 2013's highest-scoring album, where it has stood since midyear. And with that stellar 92 score, Sunbather—the second LP from San Francisco's Deafheaven—is now officially our best-reviewed album of the year.
It's the first time a metal album has occupied the #1 slot in our year-end rankings. In fact, out of albums with 15 more more reviews (excluding EPs and reissues), Sunbather is now the 7th-highest scoring album in our database, which includes releases dating back to 1999.
Maybe the wrong place to put this, but looking forward to the coming year:
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At XFM we like to go one further. Starting on Monday 6 January, we’ll be presenting you with a new band or artist every day AND giving you a free track to download from the XFM website.
In 2013, we tipped the likes of CHVRCHES, Bastille, Kodaline, Haim, Deap Vally, Theme Park and The 1975 as some of the biggest artists you'd be hearing about… and we were right!
So if you want some free music to kick off the New year tune in to the XFM Breakfast Show Monday from 6am and point your internet-enabled device towards XFM.co.uk.
I have no idea if the downloads will work outside of the UK, but if so free music is good right?
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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
Gasoline 3:24 Alpine
Here Comes The Night Time 6:31 Arcade Fire
This Lonely Morning 2:39 Best Coast
Let Down 4:13 Bored Nothing
(You Will) Set The World On Fire 3:32 Bowie, David
Troublemaker 4:27 Camera Obscura
Night Still Comes 3:48 Case, Neko
Sleeping Where I Fall 5:49 Chelsea Light Moving
Sugar Won't Work 3:31 Costello, Elvis & The Roots
Doin' It Right 4:11 Daft Punk
Back To The Middle 2:37 Deerhunter
Destroyer 3:29 Dodos
Look... The Sun Is Rising 5:12 Flaming Lips
Vapors 4:05 Fury Things
A Second Skin 4:05 Girls Names
It Is The Way You Name Your Ship 3:38 Gogol Bordello
GMF (Greatest Living Creature) 3:40 Grant, John
Don't Save Me 3:51 Haim
Lady, You Shot Me 2:59 Har Mar Superstar
Is The Sky the Limit 3:40 Hart, Grant
Burn 3:37 Iggy And The Stooges
Stockholm 2:50 Isbell, Jason
Live On 4:02 Israel, Dan
Kids Get Away 3:42 Jamaican Queens
This Ladder Is Ours 5:12 Joy Formidable
Born To Die 3:09 King Khan and The Shrines
Everything You Need 4:36 Lonely Wild
Burn 3:36 Magneta Lane
Head On 4:06 Man Man
Upstarts 3:39 Marr, Johnny
Half Angel Half Light 3:19 Men
I Like It Small 3:40 Mudhoney
In Another Way 5:31 My Bloody Valentine
Best Of Friends 3:31 Palma Violets
Sirens 5:41 Pearl Jam
Don't 3:16 Phoenix
Is This How You Feel? 3:36 The Preatures
College 3:22 Rogue Wave
She Will 3:24 Savages
FOH 3:27 Superchunk
Weird Shapes 3:30 Surfer Blood
Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster 3:33 Thee Oh Sees
The Sunset 2:52 Thermals
Long Black Train 4:29 Thriftstore Masterpiece
Mercy 3:18 TV On the Radio
Unbelievers 3:23 Vampire Weekend
Acetate 4:54 Volcano Choir
It All Feels Right 4:06 Washed Out
Demon To Lean On 4:12 Wavves
Area 52 2:54 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Listeners’ Fave Albums Misery Signals -Absent Light Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City Sigur Ros - Kveikur Jay Z - Magna Carta Meir – Kvelertak Sombear – Love You In The Dark Flaming Lips – The Terror Sgt. Sunshine – III
Fave Songs Trace The Sky – “In Time” Rebecca Black and Dave Days – “Saturday” July Talk – “Guns + Ammunition” The Sound – “Total Recall” The Preatures – “Is This How You Feel?” Dave Alvin – “Johnny Ace is Dead” Divine Fits - “Like Ice Cream” Sam Roberts – “We’re all in this together Protest The Hero – “Mist” The Knife – “Full of Fire” Moistboyz – Paperboy
Fave Local Albums Chron Goblin - Life For the Living Bitter Fictions – Bitter Fictions Lab Coast – Walking On Ayr The Pygmies – Inside Your Mind Miesha and the Spanks – Girls, Like Wolves Mayland – Morgan Sanctums – Tongue, Teeth, Lips EP Dhalism – Born Again Alien Jung People – Gold Bristle Black Opus – Glass Key Primrods/Wagbeard Freak Motif – La Casa Blanca Hello Moth – Infinitely Repeated
We did it! We, the music writers and critics of the world, have confirmed for Kanye what he's been telling us all along. He is a god. His album, Yeezus, dominated our 2013 Pazz & Jop critic's poll, taking the top spot for Albums and several in the Singles category (though Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" won the latter). For anyone who's paid attention to the music press over the previous year, the results of the poll aren't quite that shocking.
About that poll: Each year we send ballots out to music writers across the globe, seeking consensus from the minds of the men and women who live and breathe this stuff, about what the best musical works of the previous year were. In this year's Pazz & Jop poll, 457 critics voted, 160 of whom voted for Yeezus. In the Albums category, the critics are also asked to dish out points, weighting the poll. Each voter is given 100 points to spread around in their top ten, with the strict instruction that no one album can receive more than 30 points or less than five. Singles are not awarded points, only votes.
