The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Matt O'Neill

album of the year

1. White Lung - Paradise
2. Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
3. The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
5. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Cast - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Original Television Soundtrack (Season 1 - Commentary Album)
6. Noisia - Outer Edges
7. Garbage - Strange Little Birds
8. Olga Bell - Tempo
9. Dawn Richard - Redemption
10. Metallica - Hardwired… To Self-Destruct

song of the year

1. The Drones - When They Came For Me
2. White Lung - Kiss Me When I Bleed
3. Olga Bell - Power User
4. Noisia - Collider
5. Radiohead - Daydreaming

artist of the year

1. White Lung
2. Kate Tempest
3. All Our Exes Live In Texas
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. The Drones

international artist performance

1. Fennesz & Lillevan
2. Vince Staples
3. Garbage

australian artist performance

1. All Our Exes Live In Texas
2. Ceres
3. Ainslie Wills
4. The Wilson Pickers
5. Phone

top tv show

1. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2. Arrow
3. Agents of SHIELD

top movie

1. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice
2. The Nice Guys
3. Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising

top website

1. comicbook
2. Birth.Movies.Death.
3. The AV Club

2016 highlight of the year

Honestly? For the first time, I've lived and worked entirely independently throughout 2017. Living with a mental illness, I often feared I would never be able to have a full-time job or be able to live by myself.

prediction for 2017

The world will continue to swing towards fear and people will suffer. But, hope and compassion will win out eventually. I will also become a much better dancer.