Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Writer's Poll - Mark Neilsen

DZ Deathrays, Of Monsters And Men and Band Of Horses led the way for Mark Neilsen this year.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. My Head Is An Animal OF MONSTERS & MEN
2. Strange Dreams GOOD HEAVENS
3. Plains THE LAURELS
4. The Temper Trap THE TEMPER TRAP
5. Bloodstreams DZ DEATHRAYS
6. Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
7. Leave Your Soul To Science SOMETHING FOR KATE
8. Valtari SIGUR ROS
9. In A Million Years LAST DINOSAURS
10. Toward The Low Sun DIRTY THREE

MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. Essential Oils MIDNIGHT OIL
2. Souvenir: The Singles 2004 – 2012 KAISER CHIEFS
3. We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11–08.11) THE DECEMBERISTS

SONG OF THE YEAR

1. Knock Knock BAND OF HORSES
2. Mountain Sound OF MONSTERS & MEN
3. Comeback Kid SLEIGH BELLS
4. Cops Capacity DZ DEATHRAYS
5. Samsara HIGH ON FIRE

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

1. DZ Deathrays
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. The Rubens
4. Tame Impala
5. 360

BEST WEBSITE

1. themusic.com.au
2. bom.gov.au
3. espn.cricinfo.com
4. 131500.com.au
5. gmail.com

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Mariachi El Bronx
2. Sigur Ros
3. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
4. Soundgarden
5. The Bronx

BEST AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Dirty Three
2. Something For Kate
3. Regurgitator
4. The Jezabels
5. Royal Headache

BEST TV SHOW

1. The Walking Dead
2. Game Of Thrones
3. The Amazing Race – Australia
4. The Amazing Race
5. Dexter

BEST MOVIE

1. The Avengers
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
4. The Amazing Spider-Man
5. Prometheus

2012 HIGHLIGHT

Gus.

2013 PREDICTION

The Mayans will still be wrong.