Writer's Poll - Ross Clelland

1. Blunderbuss JACK WHITE
2. The Carpenter THE AVETT BROTHERS
3. Silver Age BOB MOULD
4. Love Your Crooked Neighbour With Your Crooked Heart CHARLES JENKINS & THE ZHIVAGOS
5. Mirage Rock BAND OF HORSES
6. Spring And Fall PAUL KELLY
7. Channel ORANGE FRANK OCEAN
8. Algiers CALEXICO
9. I Awake SARAH BLASKO
10. Burning Boy JOE MCKEE

1. Quiet Heart THE GO-BETWEENS
2. Document Reissue R.E.M.
3. So (25th Anniversary Reissue) PETER GABRIEL

1. Jack White
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. Gotye
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Bob Mould

1. globalmail.org
2. facebook.com
3. themusic.com.au
4. snopes.com
5. google.com.au

1. PJ Harvey
2. Jack White
3. Dexys

1. Tim Rogers
2. The Jezabels
3. The Church
4. Mike Noga
5. Henry Wagons

1. Sherlock
2. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
3. Rake
4. Southland
5. Doctor Who

1. Lawless
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Shut Up And Play The Hits
4. Skyfall
5. Lincoln

Not sure if it's a highlight, but both sides of politics hacking at one another, while running the country seemed secondary, seemed a recurring theme.

Hopefully, a decline of hipsters wearing woollen flat caps: It's Newtown. It's 30 degrees. You do not work at mill in Edwardian Lancashire.