The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Andrew Mast

album of the year

1. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
2. Shamir — Ratchet
3. Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
4. Pearls — Pretend You're Mine
5. Gwenno — Y Dydd Olaf 
6. Slaves — Are You Satisfied? 
7. Sarah Cracknell — Red Kite
8. The Apartments — No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal 
9. Oh Mercy — When We Talk About Love
10. Roisin Murphy — Hairless Toy

song of the year

1. Big White —  You Know I Love You
2. My Own Pet Radio — No Great Mystery To Me
3. Ezra Furman — Restless Year
4. Ouch My Face — Creep Heart
5. No Zu — Medusa Magic

artist of the year

1. Courtney Barnett
2. Carrie Brownstein
3. The Apartments
4. Pearls
5. Shamir

international artist performance

1. Sal P (+ No Zu)
2. John Cale
3. La Femme
4. Shocking Pinks
5. Suzi Quatro

australian artist performance

1. The Goon Sax
2. Gold Class
3. Courtney Barnett
4. Pearls
5. Methyl Ethel

top tv show

1. Hannibal
2. Mad Men 
3. The Leftovers
4. The Knick
5. Inside No 9
6. Broad City
7. Justified
8. Inside Amy Schumer
9. Utopia (Aus)
10. Wolf Hall
11. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
12. Game Of Thrones
13. Hunderby
14. Orphan Black
15. The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
16. Looking
17. Show Me A Hero
18. The Americans
19. Togetherness
20. The Flash

top movie

1. Mad Max: Fury Road 
2. Trainwreck
3. In The Basement
4. Hungry Hearts
5. Pasolini

top website 

1. The Music
2. ABC iview
3. TV Club
4. Dangerous Minds
5. First Dog On The Moon

2015 highlight of the year

Reading Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed.

prediction for 2016

That I will join social media pile-on of Daryl Somers after he makes his set-to-be-doomed comeback — forgetting everything learnt in So You've Been Publicly Shamed.