The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Bryget Chrisfield

album of the year

1. Gorillaz — Humanz 
2. Jen Cloher — Jen Cloher
3. Northlane — Mesmer
4. The Horrors — V
5. Aldous Harding — Party  
6. Joe Goddard — Electric Lines
7. Paul Kelly — Life Is Fine
8. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Flying Microtonal Banana
9. Cameron Avery — Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams 
10. Darcy Baylis — Intimacy & Isolation 

song of the year

1. AB Original — January 26
2. Freya Josephine Hollick — Tough As A Sundried Dead Man's Skin 
3. Methyl Ethel — L'Heure des Sorcieres
4. Queens Of The Stone Age — The Way You Used To Do
5. Gang Of Youths — Let Me Down Easy

artist of the year

1. AB Original 
2. Gorillaz 
3. Sampa The Great 
4. Gold Class 
5. REMI

international artist performance

1. Guns N' Roses 
2. Underworld 
3. PJ Harvey
4. KD Lang
5. Refused

australian artist performance

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Midnight Oil 
3. CW Stoneking
4. Marlon Williams 
5. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

top tv shows

1. The Get Down 
2. Stranger Things
3. Home & Away

top movies

1. Lion
2. Manchester By The Sea
3. Trainspotting 2

2017 highlight of the year

My amazing long service leave vacay, which incorporated Coachella, catching Depeche Mode live for the first time ever at Stockholm's Friends Arena, The Great Escape (Brighton, UK), Primavera Sound (Barcelona), Gorillaz twice (their warm-up show at Brixton Academy, plus Demon Dayz festival, Margate), Glastonbury and then winding up at a dear Scottish friend's wedding (we met in Ibiza about 15 years ago!) in Lake Como. Talk about lifestyles of the rich and famous! Still broke, but so worth it!

prediction for 2018

Ladies to the front, please! Music industry dude bros will think twice before behaving unacceptably.