The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Chris Familton

album of the year

1. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015
2. James McMurtry — Complicated Game
3. Marlon Williams — Marlon Williams
4. James Thomson — Cold Moon
5. Lost Ragas — Trans Atlantic Highway
6. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
7. Bad Dreems — Dogs At Bay
8. Gold Class — It's You
9. Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect
10. Infinity Broke — Before Before

song of the year

1. Protomartyr — Why Does It Shake?
2. Kendrick Lamar — King Kunta
3. Lost Ragas — Marijuana Mornings
4. Marlon Williams — Dark Child
5. Royal Headache — High

artist of the year

1. Marlon Williams
2. Courtney Barnett
3. Bad Dreems
4. Kurt Vile
5. Neil Young

international artist performance

1. Ryan Adams
2. Lucinda Williams
3. Marlon Williams

australian artist performance

1. Infinity Broke
2. Perry Keyes
3. Cosmic Psychos
4. CW Stoneking
5. Gold Class

top tv show

1. Rectify
2. Bloodline
3. Fargo
4. The Walking Dead
5. True Detective

top movie

1. What Happened, Miss Simone?
2. Foxcatcher
3. Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck
4. Inherent Vice

top website

1. Facebook
2. Instagram
3. YouTube
4. The Music
5. Pitchfork

2015 highlight of the year

Interviewing some of the leading progenitors of alt-country in Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams and Dave Rawlings.

prediction for 2016

More boutique, smaller scale music festivals and the increase in popularity of darker, post-punk music.