The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Roshan Clerke

Album Of The Year

1. Kirin J Callinan — Bravado
2. Alex Cameron — Forced Witness
3. Big Thief — Capacity
4. The War On Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
5. Ariel Pink — Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
6. The Magnetic Fields — 50 Song Memoir
7. Mac DeMarco — This Old Dog
8. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Lotta Sea Lice
9. Jens Lekman — Life Will See You Now
10. Real Estate — In My Mind

Song Of The Year

1. Kirin J Callinan — Bravado
2. Big Thief — Shark Smile
3. Paul Kelly — Letter In The Rain
4. Feist — A Man Is Not His Song
5. Stella Donnelly — Boys Will Be Boys

Artist Of The Year

1. Kirin J Callinan
2. Alex Cameron
3. Aldous Harding
4. LCD Soundsystem
5. Lorde

International Performance Of The Year

1. Patti Smith
2. Parquet Courts
3. Toro Y Moi
4. Real Estate 
5. The Mountain Goats

Australian Performance Of The Year

1. Nick Cave
2. Paul Kelly
3. Kirin J Callinan
4. Donny Benet
5. NO ZU

Top TV Show

1. Fargo
2. Broad City
3. Master Of None

Top Movie

1. Final Portrait
2. Things To Come
3. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Highlight Of The Year 

Patti Smith's acoustic set on Easter Friday, when she read from Ginsberg's Footnote To Howl and the Sermon On The Mount between songs.

Prediction For 2018

The ghost of Harold Holt will return to avenge the Great Barrier Reef.