As a historical exercise it might have some value. As a work of the intellect, it's just a waste of time.

1. Dean McPhee - Power of Nines
2. Mogwai - The Lord is Out of Control
3. Chihei Hatakeyama - Alone by the Sea
4. Bvdub & Loscil - Hespiredes
5. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Rains Thru The Roof At The Grande Ballroom (For Capital Steez)
6. Giant Sons - Coniferous
7. Max Richter - Flowers for Yulia

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

1. Kyle Bobby Dunn - Canyon Meadows
2. Woodworkings - A Candy Coated October
3. Kiln - Acre
4. Nils Frahm - For – Peter – Toilet Brushes – More
5. Esmerine - Yavri Yavri
6. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
7. Guitaro - Plastic Bags

Three people are waiting at an intercom. A weird moment.

1. Natural Snow Buildings - Wisconsin
2. Teen Daze - Walk
3. Noveller - No Dreams
4. Lussuria - Coiled Serpent Sheddings
5. Fly Pan Am - Nice Est En Feu!
6. Jonsi & Alex - Happiness
7. Two Bicycles - Quiet Danger
8. Redsayno - Ballad for the Mining Towns

Best of 2013

Saltland - I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us
Tim Hecker - Virgins

Pan•American - Cloud Room, Glass Room

Koen Holtkamp - Liquid Light Forms
Loscil - City Hospital
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Pausal - Sky Margin
Phosphorescent - Muchacho
Sean McCann - Prelusion (this isn't the guy from Great Big Sea)
Raum - Event of Your Leaving
Aquarelle - August Undone

These would be honourable mentions.
Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
*AR - Succession
Mountains - Centralia
Eluvium - Nightmare Ending
Greenhouse - Cold Wires
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
Bvdub & Loscil - Erebus
Justin Walter - Lullabies & Nightmares
Forest Swords - Engravings
Slow Walkers - Slow Walkers
Glenn Jones - Garden State

Some other things.
Charlemagne Palestine @ Crescent Fort Rouge United Church
Lee Fields @ the Pyramid
99% Invisible
Bookfight
Sam Lipsyte - The Fun Parts
The World's End
Inside Llewyn Davis (I haven't seen it yet, but, come on)
Film Crit Hulk Smash

I submit that astrophysics run on the model of American Idol is a recipe for civilizational disaster.

1. Jon Porras - Beyond the Veil
2. Gareth Dickson - Technology
3. Woodworkings - Rust Flakes and Thinks Snow
4. Secret Pyramid - Escape (Fade Out)
5. Bvdub & Loscil - Thanatos
6. Petrels - On the Dark Great Sea
7. Tim Hoover - Part 4: Words