The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Xavier Fennell

album of the year

1. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Quarters!
2. Sampa The Great — The Great Mixtape
3. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
4. Tame Impala — Currents
5. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Paper Mache Dream Balloon
6. Thee Oh Sees — Mutilator Defeated At Last
7. Fraser A. Gorman — Slow Gum
8. Pipe-eye — Cosmic Blip
9. Dick Diver — Melbourne, Florida
10. Power — Electric Glitter Boogie

song of the year

1. Thee Oh Sees — Web
2. Dick Diver — Year In Pictures
3. Tame Impala — Let It Happen
4. Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Multi-Love
5. Pipe-eye — People Move Along

artist of the year

1. Courtney Barnett
2. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
3. Sampa The Great
4. Power
5. The Seven Ups

international artist performance

1. Earthless 
2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre 
3. Goat
4. Elder
5. Knxwledge

australian artist performance

1. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
2. Sampa The Great
3. The Scrimshaw Four
4. Orb
5. The Frowning Clouds

Top tv show

1. Parks & Recreation
2. Transparent
3. Clarence
4. Utopia
5. Upper Middle Bogan

top movie

1. Ex Machina
2. Inside Out
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Jurassic World
5. Chappie

top website 

1. Monster Children
2. Vice
3. The Music
4. Netflix
5. Dropbox

2015 highlight of the year

The Brian Jonestown Massacre incorporating the Melbourne Town Hall's grand organ into their Melbourne Music Week show.

prediction for 2016

King Gizzard release 17 new albums.