Nialler9’s Readers’ Poll & top Irish albums, songs & EPs of 2013

Artwork by Fatti Burke.

2013 was the year that music really maxed out on time. There was so much music about that it was hard to keep up, even just in Ireland.  Below you’ll find a list of my favourite Irish songs, albums and EPs of 2013. Keeping my choices to 30 was hard but necessary. These were my favourites, my most-played, the ones I loved the most, the releases and tunes that I feel helped define what this country does in musical terms this year, as well as being the ones that I’d recommend to international friends and visitors.

As is customary, I’m also asking you guys to give me your top Irish albums, songs, EPs, gigs, clubs and more. I’ve also got some sweet prizes up for grabs for those who enter. Once, the voting closes on December 18th, I’ll collate the lists and post them here for all to see as with the last seven years.

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THE NIALLER9 READERS POLL–>

Nialler9’s top 30 Irish albums of 2013

1. I Am The Cosmos – Monochrome
2. Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
3. Girls Names – The New Life
4. Villagers – {awayland}
5. Come On Live Long – Everything Fall
6. Lasertom – Drift
7. Lisa O’Neill – Same Cloth Or Not
8. Solar Bears – Supermigration
9. Space Dimension Controller – Welcome to Mikrosector-50
10. Dancing Suns – Goldmine
11. And So I Watch You From Afar – All Hail Bright Futures
12. Little Green Cars – Absolute Zero
13. Tieranniesaur – DIYSCO
14. Ensemble Eriu – Ensemble Eriu
15. Somadrone – The First Wave
16. Cian Nugent & The Cosmos – Born With the Caul
17. Squarehead – Respect
18. Pearse McGloughlin and Justin Grounds – Idiot Songs
19. Enemies – Embark, Embrace
20. Biggles Flys Again – Remember Saturday
21. Chequerboard – The Unfolding
22. Sounds Of System Breakdown – Nomad
23. Halves – Boa Howl
24. Cat Dowling – The Believer
25. Sunken Foal – Friday Syndrone Vol 2
26. Bouts – Nothing Good Gets Away
27. Kill Krinkle Club – Oxen Of The Sun
28. Ghost Maps – The Ocean From The River
29. Emakousma – Island
30. The Late David Turpin – We Belong Dead

Spotify album playlist

Nialler9’s top 30 Irish songs of 2013

1. New Jackson – ‘Sat Around Here Waiting’
2. James Vincent McMorrow – ‘Cavalier’
3. Daithí – ‘Chamelon Life’
4. Come On Live Long – ‘Little Ones’
5. Not Squares – ‘Simpler Vibe’
6. Hozier – ‘Take Me To Church’
7. Bande Apartment  – ‘Lubricating Rita’
8. MMOTHS – ‘All These Things’ (feat. Holly Miranda)
9. Shit Robot  featuring Luke Jenner of The Rapture – ‘Feels Real’ 
10. Young Wonder featuring Sacred Animals – ‘Time’
11. Liza Flume – ‘What We Called Love’
12. Bicep – ‘Stash’
13. I Am The Cosmos – ‘Leaving/The Shift’
14. Lethal Dialect – ’13 Til Infinity’
15. Little Green Cars – ‘Kitchen Floor’
16. Spies – ‘Distant Shorelines’
17. Dancing Suns – ‘The World’
18. Mano Le Tough – ‘Please’
19. Le Galaxie – ‘Lucy Is Here’
20. Clu – ‘Moonrunner’
21. little xs for eyes – ‘Summer Stay’
22. Villagers – ‘Nothing Arrived’
23. Solar Bears – ‘A Sky Darkly’
24. White Collar Boy – ‘SUUU’ Frank B remix
25. Chrystyne – ‘Time Is An Arrow’
26. We Cut Corners – ‘YKK’
27. The Mighty Stef – ‘The Hardship’
28. Tvvins – ‘Two Worlds’
29. Slow Skies – ‘On The Shore’
30. Somadrone – ‘Reckoning’

Spotify songs playlist.

Nialler9’s top 10 EPs of 2013

1. MMOTHS – Diaries 
2. Young Wonder – Show Your Teeth
3. Katharine Philippa – Broken to be Rebuilt
4. R.S.A.G. – Rotate
5. White Collar Boy – Suuu/Tide
6. Ghosts – WLVS
7. Forrests – Wilder
8. Colm K – The Love EP
9. The Mighty Stef – Iveagh Flats EP
10. EeOOo – Angel EP

Spotify EPs playlist.

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Niall Byrne

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.

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