The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Melissa Borg

album of the year

1. Banks - The Altar
2. Camp Cope - Camp Cope
3. Ball Park Music - Every Night The Same Dream
4. Ngaiire - Blastoma
5. Hockey Dad - Boronia
6. Beyonce - Lemonade
7. Montaigne - Glorious Heights
8. Violent Soho - WACO
9. DMA'S - Hills End
10. ZHU - Generationwhy

song of the year

1. Banks - Gemini Feed
2. Camp Cope - Done
3. Alex Lahey - You Don't Think You Like People Like Me
4. Ali Barter - Girlie Bits
5. Kingswood - Creepin

artist of the year

1. Banks
2. Alex Lahey
3. Ali Barter
4. Ngaiire
5. Tired Lion

international artist performance

1. City & Colour
2. Glass Animals
3. Bloc Party
4. Motion City Soundtrack
5. Lapsley

australian artist performance

1. Alex Lahey
2. The Jezabels
3. Ngaiire
4. Ecca Vandal
5. Gideon Bensen

top tv show

1. Stranger Things
2. Please Like Me
3. Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2016 highlight of the year

Seeing Bloc Party in their prime (and before they released the horrendous Hymns) on New Years Day at Byron Bay Falls Festival 2016.

prediction for 2017

Aussie female artists are going to continue to kill it here and overseas - particularly Camp Cope, Montaigne and Alex Lahey.