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The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Emily Blackburn

Emily Blackburn

Album Of The Year

  1. The Maine — Lovely Little Lonely
  2. LANY — LANY
  3. PVRIS — All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell
  4. Royal Blood — How Did We Get so Dark
  5. Neck Deep — The Peace And The Panic
  6. Clove — Grey 
  7. Dean Lewis — Same Kind Of Different
  8. Amy Shark — Night Thinker
  9. Ed Sheeran — Divide
  10. Lorde — Melodrama

Song Of The Year

  1. The Maine — Taxi
  2. LANY — Super Far
  3. PVRIS — What's Wrong
  4. Gretta Ray — Towers
  5. Allday — In Motion

Artist Of The Year

  1. LANY
  2. The Maine
  3. Dean Lewis
  4. Hands Like Houses
  5. PVRIS

International Performance Of the Year

  1. LANY
  2. Dean Lewis
  3. You Me At Six
  4. Catfish & The Bottlemen

Australian Performance Of The Year

  1. Gretta Ray
  2. Hands Like Houses
  3. Clove
  4. The Smith Street Band
  5. Tonight Alive
  6. Trophy Eyes

Top TV Show

  1. Stranger Things
  2. Riverdale

Top Movie

  1. Wonder Woman
  2. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 
  3. It

Highlight Of The Year

Watching local alt-punk band Clove go from having no released songs to headlining an east coast tour, and supporting local legends WAAX. Those boys are something you should keep your eyes closely locked onto! 

Also, LOVE WINS, Australia votes 'Yes'!