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The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Rod Whitfield

Rod Whitfield

album of the year

  1. sleepmakeswaves — Made Of Breath Only
  2. Caligula's Horse — In Contact
  3. Uneven Structure — La Partition
  4. The Contortionist — Clairvoyant
  5. Voyager — Ghost Mile
  6. Make Them Suffer — Worlds Apart
  7. Novelists — Noir
  8. Branch Arterial — Beyond The Border
  9. Ne Obliviscaris — Urn
  10. Phoenix — Ti Amo

song of the year

  1. Caligula's Horse — Graves
  2. sleepmakeswaves — The Edge Of Everything
  3. Make Them Suffer — Uncharted
  4. Phoenix — Goodbye Soleil
  5. Voyager — Ascension

artist of the year

  1. sleepmakeswaves
  2. Caligula's Horse
  3. Uneven Structure
  4. Ne Obliviscaris
  5. Voyager

international artist performance

  1. Opeth
  2. Devin Townsend
  3. The Tea Party with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
  4. Starset
  5. Periphery

australian artist performance

  1. sleepmakeswaves
  2. Mammal
  3. Superheist
  4. Caligula's Horse
  5. Branch Arterial

top tv show

  1. Stranger Things
  2. Mindhunter
  3. Bloodline

top movie

  1. Blade Runner 2049
  2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  3. Atomic Blonde

2017 highlight of the year

'Yes' to marriage equality.

prediction for 2018

Donald Trump's impeachment.