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The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Jake Sun

album of the year

  1. David Bowie - Blackstar
  2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
  3. Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
  4. Swans - The Glowing Man
  5. M83 - Junk
  6. Beyonce - Lemonade
  7. Frank Ocean - Blond
  8. Rihanna - ANTI
  9. Cult Of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
  10. Hexa - Factory Photographs

song of the year

  1. Massive Attack feat Azekel - Ritual Spirit
  2. Massive Attack feat Roots Manuva - Dead Editors
  3. Beck - Wow
  4. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - To Kill A Chi Chi
  5. The Weeknd feat Daft Punk - Starboy

artist of the year

  1. David Bowie
  2. Radiohead
  3. Neurosis
  4. Swans
  5. Beyonce

international artist performance

  1. Sigur Ros
  2. D'Angelo
  3. Kendrick Lamar
  4. Battles
  5. M83

australian artist performance

  1. The Necks
  2. Boo Seeker
  3. Monster Zoku Onsomb!
  4. Vaudeville Smash
  5. Flume

top tv show

  1. Planet Earth II
  2. Black Mirror
  3. Stranger Things

top movie

  1. Arrival
  2. HyperNormalisation
  3. The Revenant

top website

  1. Wikipedia
  2. The Music
  3. Wikileaks

2016 highlight of the year

D'Angelo and Kendrick back-to-back at Bluesfest!

prediction for 2017

The owls are not what they seem...