For Izzy Tolhurst, 2012 was the year of Twerps and Alt-J.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. An Awesome Wave ALT-J
2. Fear Fun FATHER JOHN MISTY
3. Visions GRIMES
4. Flume FLUME
5. A Is For Alpine ALPINE
6. Django Django DJANGO DJANGO
7. Like A Thief ART OF SLEEPING
8. A Different Ship HERE WE GO MAGIC
9. Carry On WILLY MASON
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. The Dark Knight Rises Soundtrack HANS ZIMMER
2. Seven Psychopaths (soundtrack) VARIOUS
3. Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations…VARIOUS
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SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Breezeblocks ALT-J
2. Oblivion GRIMES
3. Sleepless feat Jezzabell Doran FLUME
4. The Keepers SANTIGOLD
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. Twerps
2. Ainslie Wills
3. Michael Kiwanuka
4. No Zu (Nicholaas Oogjes)
5. Courtney Barnett
BEST WEBSITE
1. stereogum.com
2. mmf.com.au
3. thevine.com.au
4. pedestrian.tv
5. facebook.com
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE
1. Chic
2. Alt-J
3. Electric Guest
BEST AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE
1. Twerps
2. Alpine
3. Chet Faker
4. Ainslie Wills
5. Vance Joy
BEST TV SHOW
1. Breaking Bad
2. Boardwalk Empire
3. Girls
4. The Killing (Danish)
5. Go Back to Where You Came From
BEST MOVIE
1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. The Descendants
3. We Need To Talk About Kevin
4. The Dark Knight Rises
5. Shame
2012 HIGHLIGHT
Emergence of a truly, but understated sound of Melbourne.
2013 PREDICTION
The valiant and overdue return of soul!