The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Sarah Petchell

Album of the year

1. Converge — The Dusk In Us
2. Algiers — The Underside Of Power
3. Run The Jewels — Run The Jewels 3
4. Pallbearer — Heartless
5. Incendiary — Thousand Mile Stare
6. YLVA — META
7. Sampha — Process
8. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
9. Mindsnare — Unholy Rush
10. Chelsea Wolfe — Hiss Spun

Song of the year

1. Converge — A Single Tear
2. Tyler, The Creator — Who Dat Boy
3. The Fever 333 — We're Coming In
4. The National — Day I Die
5. Kendrick Lamar — DNA

Artist of the year

1. Converge
2. Mindsnare
3. Chelsea Wolfe
4. Action Bronson
5. Camp Cope

Top TV Show 

1. Master Of None
2. Mindhunter
3. The Chef's Table

Top Movie

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Thor: Ragnarok
3. Moonlight

Highlight Of The Year

Look, it's really predictable, but for the ridiculous fan that I am, getting a new Converge album for the first time in over five years made me stupidly happy. Especially when it lived up to every expectation that I had of it.

Prediction For 2018

Converge tour? I'm a "live in the now" kind of person. I'm not real good at planning for the future, but I am pretty keen to see how the Australian incarnation of Download Festival goes. Hopefully well!