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The Music 2019 Writers' Poll: Adam Wilding

Adam Wilding

Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2019…

Album Of The Year

  1. Fontaines DC - Dogrel
  2. Tool - Fear Inoculum 
  3. Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles
  4. The Growlers - Natural Affair
  5. Aldous Harding - Designer
  6. Winston Surfshirt - Apple Crumble
  7. Flat Worms - Into The Iris 
  8. Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile
  9. Sarah Mary Chadwick - The Queen Who Stole The Sky 
  10. Danger Mouse & Karen O - Lux Prima 



Song Of The Year

  1. Tool - Fear Inoculum 
  2. Fontaines DC - Big
  3. Tool - Pneuma 
  4. Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles



Artist Of The Year

  1. Fontaines DC
  2. Tool
  3. The Chemical Brothers
  4. Wagons 
  5. Sam Fender


International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. The Chemical Brothers
  2. The Dandy Warhols


Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. You Am I
  2. The Melodrones 
  3. Wagons 
  4. The Avalanches
  5. Even 


TV Show Of The Year

  1. The Mandalorian
  2. Disenchantment 
  3. The Great British Bake Off 


Movie Of The Year

  1. Always Be My Maybe
  2. Avengers: Endgame
  3. Spider-Man: Far From Home



Highlight Of The Decade

Putting a Tool album on my best-of list I consider the sale of the century.


Prediction For Next Decade 

'Pumping Iron 2', 'Iron Man 4', 'Man On Fire 2', 'Backdraft 2'.