The Music 2019 Writers' Poll: Mick Radojkovic

24 December 2019 | 5:13 pm | Mick Radojkovic

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

Album Of The Year

  1. WAAX - Big Grief
  2. Sampa The Great - The Return
  3. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
  4. Big Thief - Two Hands
  5. BATTS - The Grand Tour
  6. Hermitude - Pollyanarchy
  7. Horrorshow - New Normal
  8. Angie McMahon - Salt
  9. Press Club - Wasted Energy
  10. Tiny Ruins - Olympic Girls



Song Of The Year

  1. WAAX - FU
  2. DIIV - Blankenship
  3. Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird - Love Is Heartbreak
  4. Julia Jacklin - Don't Know How To Keep Loving You
  5. Sampa The Great - Final Form


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Artist Of The Year

  1. Julia Jacklin
  2. Sampa The Great
  3. Genesis Owusu
  4. Dominic Breen
  5. BATTS


International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Phoebe Bridgers
  2. Foals
  3. Childish Gambino
  4. The Beths
  5. Kamasi Washington


Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Montaigne
  2. Press Club
  3. WAAX
  4. Hermitude
  5. Dirty Three


TV Show Of The Year

  1. Stranger Things
  2. Derry Girls
  3. Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell



Movie Of The Year

  1. Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood
  2. Parasite
  3. Plus One


Highlight Of The Decade

The online streaming of music has been the biggest change to the industry since the invention of physical media and it has opened us up to a world of music accessible with the touch of a button. Some would say that there's too much music, but it has broadened the listenership of music across all genres and that can only be a good thing.

Prediction For Next Decade

When our ears are implanted with a direct connection to the Cloud and we can simply imagine what we want to hear and it happens, we will forget that we ever need to hold a phone up to our ear.