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The Music 2019 Writers' Poll: Mary Varvaris

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

Album Of The Year

  1. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
  2. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
  3. Great Grandpa - Four Of Arrows
  4. Holy Holy - My Own Pool Of Light
  5. Charly Bliss - Young Enough
  6. Lana Del Ray - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
  7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
  8. DIIV - Deceiver 
  9. Thom Yorke - Anima
  10. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind


Song Of The Year

  1. Great Grandpa - Digger
  2. The 1975 - People
  3. Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
  4. Stella Donnelly - Old Man
  5. Big Thief - Not


Artist Of The Year

  1. Big Thief 
  2. Ali Barter
  3. Lana Del Ray
  4. City Calm Down
  5. Clairo


International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Denzel Curry
  2. Cradle Of Filth
  3. Slayer
  4. Mitski
  5. The 1975


Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. BATTS
  2. Holy Holy
  3. Carla Geneve
  4. Ali Barter
  5. City Calm Down


TV Show Of The Year

  1. When They See Us
  2. Unbelievable 
  3. Surviving R Kelly


Movie Of The Year

  1. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
  2. Booksmart
  3. I Am Mother


Highlight Of The Decade

Going to Download Festival with my dad – he's someone I never thought would enjoy a music festival, and he ended up loving it! Slayer blew our minds and we feel immensely privileged to have seen one of their final shows.

Prediction For Next Decade 

More Aussie stars making it huge overseas!