The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Mitch Knox

album of the year

1. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die — Harmlessness
2. Foxing — Dealer
3. So Many Dynamos — Safe With Sound
4. Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
5. The Cardboard Swords — The Cardboard Swords
6. MewithoutYou — Pale Horses
7. Pet Symmetry — Pets Hounds
8. Makeshift Shelters — Something So Personal
9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Asunder, Sweet & Other Distress
10. Twenty One Pilots — Blurryface

song of the year

1. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die — January 10th, 2014
2. Foxing — The Magdalene
3. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die — I Can Be Afraid Of Anything
4. Luca Brasi — Aeroplane
5. Modern Baseball — Alpha Kappa Fall Of Troy The Movie Part Deux (2 Disc Director's Cut)

artist of the year

1. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
2. Foxing
3. Mineral
4. American Football
5. Modern Baseball

international artist performance

1. American Football
2. Mineral
3. Twenty One Pilots
4. Birthmark
5. Death Cab For Cutie

australian artist performance

1. Arrows
2. Luca Brasi
3. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
4. Grenadiers
5. Gold Class

top tv show

1. Marvel's Daredevil
2. Rick & Morty
3. Marvel's Jessica Jones
4. Fargo
5. The Flash

top movie

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Jurassic World
3. Ant-Man
4. Avengers: Age Of Ultron
5. Inside Out

top website 

1. Reddit
2. Imgur
3. Tumblr
4. Bandcamp
5. Drew Curtis' FARK.com

2015 highlight of the year

Tie between going to Bonnaroo (and the US) and having one of the most amazing (festival) experiences of my life, and proposing to my now fiancee.

prediction for 2016

After leading a successful nationwide campaign to return delicious, delicious shaker fries to McDonald's on a permanent basis, I will eat myself to death, having lived a full life, free of shame and regret.