The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Hannah Story

album of the year

Beyonce - Lemonade
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Angel Olsen - My Woman
Frank Ocean - Blond
Mitski - Puberty 2
Paul Dempsey - Strange Loop
Tkay Maidza - TKAY
Bat For Lashes - The Bride

song of the year

Beyonce - Hold Up
Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
The Drones - To Think That I Once Loved You
Car Seat Headrest - Destroyed By Hippie Powers
Radiohead - Burn The Witch

artist of the year

Beyonce
Car Seat Headrest
Frank Ocean
Radiohead
Tkay Maidza

international artist performance

Mac DeMarco
Sleater-Kinney
The Cure
Sufjan Stevens
Thee Oh Sees

australian artist performance

Spiderbait
The Drones
Something For Kate
Nicholas Allbrook
Courtney Barnett

live comedy act

Zoe Coombs Marr
Jen Kirkman
Alice Fraser

top tv show

Please Like Me
Girls
BoJack Horseman

top movie

One More Time With Feeling
Demolition
Bridget Jones's Baby

top website

The Music
Netflix
Junkee

2016 highlight of the year

Ahh! There is always so much I want to include in the poll as The Music's former Arts Guy, and then I try to cram it in here. The top theatre: The Blind Giant Is Dancing, Golem, Jasper Jones. The top podcasts: The Berlin Patient, This American Life, Wilosophy. The top talks: Miranda July, Jonathan Franzen, David Sedaris, with a special mention to Ira Glass in Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host. The top books: The Sick Bag Song, The Bed Moved, So Sad Today. My top personal thing: moving to London with one of my best friends and starting to build a life here. Just imagine what weird shit I could've put in this poll if I was allowed to include gigs over here. The answer is Radiohead. But all in all it's been a glorious year of huge arse challenges and lots of support from my friends, family and my beloved The Music. Before I left in August I went to a gig, stand-up set, play, film, etc etc into infinity, almost every night for The Music - my mates who got to go along and sip free champagne are as grateful as I am for the opportunity.