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The Music 2020 Writers' Poll: Rod Whitfield

Rod Whitfield

Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2020…

Album Of The Year

  1. Plini - Impulse Voices
  2. Alpha Wolf - A Quiet Place To Die
  3. Ebonivory - The Long Dream I
  4. Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
  5. The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic
  6. Absent Hearts - The Peak & The Valley
  7. Make Them Suffer - How To Survive A Funeral
  8. Krosis - A Memoir Of Free Will
  9. Haken - Virus
  10. Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything



Song Of The Year

  1. Plini -  I'll Tell You Someday
  2. Our Oceans - Unravel
  3. Bring Me The Horizon - Parasite Eve 
  4. Alpha Wolf - Akudama
  5. Caligula's Horse - Slow Violence



Artist Of The Year

  1. Plini
  2. Alpha Wolf
  3. Caligula's Horse


International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Geoff Tate
  2. Jinjer
  3. Devin Townsend


Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Mammal
  2. Cirrus Crown
  3. Tin McMillan


TV Show Of The Year

  1. Hannah
  2. Normal People
  3. Marcella


Movie Of The Year

  1. The Old Guard
  2. Extraction
  3. The Invisible Man




Highlight Of The Year

The dumping of Trump.

Prediction For Next Year

Live music roars back to life.