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The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Guido Farnell

Guido Farnell

Album Of The Year

  1. St Vincent — Masseduction
  2. LCD Soundsystem — American Dream
  3. Slowdive — Slowdive
  4. Moses Sumney — Aromanticism
  5. Perfume Genius — No Shape
  6. Lil Peep — Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1
  7. William Basinski — A Shadow in Time
  8. The Moonlandingz — Interplanetary Class Classics
  9. John Maus — Screen Memories
  10. Susanne Sundfor — Music For People In Trouble 

Song Of The Year

  1. LCD Soundsystem — Call The Police
  2. Bjork — Blissing Me
  3. Perfume Genius — Die 4 You
  4. Young Fathers — Only God Knows
  5. The XX — Say Something Loving

Artist Of The Year

  1. St Vincent
  2. Moses Sumney
  3. Lil Peep
  4. Perfume Genius
  5. Cigarettes After Sex

International Performance Of The Year

  1. Patti Smith
  2. Sigur Ros 
  3. The Donny McCaslin Group
  4. Weyes Blood
  5. Julianna Barwick

Australian Performance Of The Year

  1. Noire
  2. Lazertits
  3. Gold Class
  4. Amyl & The Sniffers
  5. Kirkis

Top TV Show

  1. Twin Peaks
  2. The Handmaid's Tale
  3. Stranger Things

Top Movie

  1. The Ornithologist
  2. Mother!
  3. BPM

Highlight Of The Year

Completing this poll is about as good as 2017 gets!

Prediction For 2018

In 2018 some of us will be eating more wedding cake and drinking champagne!