The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Dylan van der Riet

album of the year

1. Grimes — Art Angels
2. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
3. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
4. Deafheaven — New Bermuda
5. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die — Harmlessness
6. Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
7. Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Multi-Love
8. Slaves — Are You Satisfied?
9. Jamie xx — In Color
10. Run The Jewels — Meow The Jewels

song of the year

1. Courtney Barnett — Pedestrian At Best
2. Skepta — Shutdown
3. Animal Collective — FloriDada
4. Father John Misty — Bored In The USA
5. Drake — Hotline Bling

artist of the year

1. Grimes
2. Father John Misty
3. Courtney Barnett
4. Run The Jewels
5. Tame Impala

international artist performance

1. St Vincent
2. Future Islands
3. Run The Jewels
4. Blur
5. Florence + The Machine

australian artist performance

1. Courtney Barnett
2. Tame Impala
3. The Smith Street Band
4. Violent Soho
5. Gold Class

top tv show

1. BoJack Horseman
2. Mr Robot
3. Better Call Saul
4. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
5. Orange Is The New Black

top movie

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Inside Out
3. Straight Outta Compton
4. Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck
5. The Martian

top website 

1. The Music
2. Netflix
3. Twitter
4. Spotify
5. YouTube

2015 highlight of the year

The success and reception of Australian releases internationally.

prediction for 2016

The continued revival/increase of disco influences within many genres.