The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Joe Dolan

album of the year

1. St Vincent — Masseduction
2. Future Islands — The Far Field
3. RVG — A Quality Of Mercy
4. Jen Cloher — Jen Cloher
5. Sampa The Great — Birds And The BEE9
6. Harry Styles — Harry Styles
7. Father John Misty — Pure Comedy
8. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
9. Valerie June — The Order Of Time
10. SZA — Ctrl

song of the year

1. St Vincent — Los Ageless
2. Future Islands — Cave
3. Jen Cloher — Regional Echo
4. Father John Misty — Total Entertainment Forever
5. Kendrick Lamar — DNA.

artist of the year

1. Patti Smith
2. St Vincent
3. Sampa The Great
4. SZA
5. Camp Cope

international artist performance

1. Patti Smith Performs Horses
2. Sad13
3. Patti Smith Farewell Show
4. Teenage Fanclub
5. Dinosaur Jr

australian artist performance

1. Cameron Avery
2. Olympia
3. Lubulwa
4. Courtney Barnett
5. Cash Savage & The Last Drinks

top tv show

1. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2. Stranger Things
3. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

top movie

1. Baby Driver
2. The Big Sick
3. Brigsby Bear

2017 highlight of the year

Seeing Patti Smith perform TWICE! The Horses show was not only gig of the year, it was the best gig of my entire life.

prediction for 2018

The only male actors older than 55 left in Hollywood will be Tom Hanks, James Earl Jones, and the ghost of Leslie Nielsen.