The Music 2015 Writers Poll: Hannah Story

album of the year

Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
El Vy — Return To The Moon
Foals — What Went Down
Tame Impala — Currents
Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
Mark Ronson — Uptown Special
Dick Diver — Melbourne, Florida
Kurt Vile — b'lieve i'm goin down...
Blur — The Magic Whip

song of the year

El Vy — I'm The Man To Be
Florence + The Machine — Ship To Wreck
Courtney Barnett — Pedestrian At Best
Deerhunter — Breaker
Kendrick Lamar — King Kunta

artist of the year

Courtney Barnett
Florence + The Machine
Taylor Swift
Tame Impala
Kendrick Lamar

international artist performance

Florence + The Machine
Taylor Swift
Death Cab For Cutie
Drake
FKA twigs

australian artist performance

Courtney Barnett
Something For Kate
Tame Impala
Megan Washington
POND

top tv show

Please Like Me
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Inside Amy Schumer
Girls
Master Of None

top movie

The Daughter
Inside Out
Holding The Man
Birdman
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl

top website

The Music
The Lifted Brow Online
Netflix
Junkee
Daily Life

2015 highlight of the year

Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, Kim Gordon's Girl In A Band and Lion Attack! by Oliver Mol. Musicals Les Misérables and Matilda The Musical. Steen Raskopoulos: Character Assassin, Sam Campbell: Cambo's On Top and An Evening With Noel Fielding. The Present and Ivanov. Australian Ballet's 20:21. Marina Abramović: In Residence. Helen Garner at Sydney Writers' Festival. Chats with Noel Fielding, Courtney Barnett, John Safran, Diablo Cody, Lally Katz, Ellie Kemper. Repping The Music at the APSAs. #hottest100. Moving to the beach with my best mates. Arts event afterparties. Hong Kong Disneyland (and Hong Kong food). A free Hunter Valley wine tour.

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prediction for 2016

El Vy tour small clubs on the back of The National's Bluesfest appearance. Women in the music industry finally begin being treated with the respect they deserve. Thanks Jessica Hopper.