The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Matt MacMaster

Album of the year

1. Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up
2. The War On Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
3. Thundercat — Drunk
4. Mogwai — Every Country's Sun
5. Jen Cloher — Jen Cloher
6. Kendrik Lamar — DAMN.
7. Slowdive — Slowdive
8. LCD Soundsystem — American Dream
9. Mac DeMarco — This Old Dog
10. Emma Russack — Permanent Vacation

Song Of the year

1. Fleet Foxes — I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar
2. Fleet Foxes — Third of May / Odaigahara
3. Thundercat — Them Changes
4. Kendrick Lamar — Humble
5. The War On Drugs — Thinking Of A Place

Artist Of The Year

1. Fleet Foxes
2. Kendrick Lamar
3. Jen Cloher
4. James Murphy
5. Thundercat

International Performance Of The Year

1. Explosions In The Sky
2. Fleet Foxes
3. Pallbearer
4. DJ Shadow

Australian Performance Of The Year

1. Gareth Liddiard
2. Emma Russack
3. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Top TV Show

1. Mindhunter
2. American Vandal
3. The Handmaid's Tale

Top Movie

1. Alien: Covenant
2. Free Fire
3. Bladerunner 2049

Highlight Of The Year 

I got a doggo!