The Music 2015 Writers Poll: James Hunt

23 December 2015 | 12:59 pm | James Hunt

album of the year

  1. Tame Impala — Currents
  2. John Tejada — Signs Under Test
  3. Falls — We Lift It From Us
  4. Synkro — Changes
  5. Floating Points — Elaenia
  6. ​George Fitzgerald — Fading Love
  7. Nmesh/​t e l e p a t h — テレパシー能力者 — ロストエデンへのパス
  8. Grimes — Art Angels
  9. Sophie — Product
  10. Rustie — EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE

song of the year

  1. Falls — Inverse Sky
  2. Synkro — Midnight Sun
  3. Dark0 — The Past
  4. Visionist — Tired Tears, Awake Fears
  5. Grimes — Realiti

artist of the year

  1. Falls
  2. Tame Impala
  3. John Tejada
  4. Synkro
  5. Grimes

international artist performance

  1. Drake
  2. The Field
  3. Shlohmo

australian artist performance

  1. Kucka
  2. Leon Osborne
  3. Mike Midnight
  4. Strict Face
  5. Surface Tension

top tv show

  1. Game Of Thrones
  2. Rick And Morty
  3. Adventure Time
  4. Rectify
  5. Louie

top movie

  1. Inside Out
  2. Mad Max
  3. Ex Machina
  4. The Gift
  5. Straight Outta Compton

top website 

  1. The Music
  2. Soundcloud
  3. Last.fm
  4. Facebook
  5. Goodreads

2015 highlight of the year

Oodles of experimentation and beautiful melodies.

prediction for 2016

A surge in the poppy and playful (a la Grimes and SOPHIE).