The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Brendan Hitchens

album of the year

1. Hop Along — Painted Shut
2. High Dive — New Teeth 
3. Royal Headache — High
4. Worriers — Imaginary Life
5. Petal — Shame
6. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die — Harmlessness
7. The Front Bottoms — Back On Top
8. Spraynard — Mable 
9. Elvis Depressedly — New Alhambra
10. The Sidekicks — Runners In The Nerved World

song of the year

1. Worriers — They/Them/Theirs
2. Shit Present — Anxious Type
3. Ezra Furman — Restless Year
4. The Smith Street Band — I Scare Myself Sometimes

artist of the year

1. Laura Jane Grace
2. Titus Andronicus
3. Ezra Furman
4. Jeff Rosenstock
5. G.L.O.S.S

international artist performance

1. Against Me!
2. The Hotelier
3. Iron Chic
4. The Sidekicks
5. Title Fight

australian artist performance

1. Camp Cope
2. Joelistics
3. The Bennies
4. The Smith Street Band
5. H-Block 101

top tv show

1. Utopia
2. Have You Been Paying Attention
3. Rage
4. I Love Green Guide Letters
5. Footy Classified 

top movie

1. Amy
2. Straight Outta Compton
3. Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck
4. Trainwreck
5. The Martian

top website 

1. Bombshellzine
2. Noisey
3. Punk News
4. Triple R FM
5. Twitter

2015 highlight of the year

Against Me!, Worriers, High Dive, G.L.O.S.S, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, The World Is A Beautiful Place, Ezra Furman et al, pushing the boundaries of punk rock in new, exciting, and most importantly, challenging, territories. 

prediction for 2016

The Bennies to lead a Ska revival.