The Music 2019 Writers' Poll: Sam Wall

24 December 2019 | 5:04 pm | Sam Wall

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

Album Of The Year

  1. Dry Cleaning - Sweet Princess
  2. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury
  3. Elizabeth - The Wonderful World Of Nature
  4. Aldous Harding - Designer
  5. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
  6. Fat White Family - Serfs Up!
  7. Good Morning - Basketball Breakups
  8. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
  9. The Murlocs - Manic Candid Episode
  10. Purple Pilgrims - Perfumed Earth



Song Of The Year

  1. Jess Cornelius - No Difference
  2. Alex Cameron - Divorce
  3. Spike Fuck - Body By Crystal
  4. Sacred Paws - The Conversation
  5. Sarah Mary Chadwick - Please Daddy


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Artist Of The Year

  1. Lizzo
  2. Tones & I
  3. Sampa The Great
  4. Amyl & The Sniffers
  5. Nick Cave


International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Parquet Courts
  2. Khruangbin
  3. Cat Power
  4. Beach House
  5. Marlon Williams


Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. U-Bahn
  2. FERLA
  3. Raw Humps
  4. The Tropes
  5. Bad Bangs


TV Show Of The Year

  1. Perpetual Grace, LTD
  2. BoJack Horseman
  3. Russian Doll



Movie Of The Year

  1. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
  2. Long Shot
  3. Dolemite Is My Name


Highlight Of The Decade

I think I started the decade a little lost and lonely (aka being 19). I don't really have one big highlight, but there were a lot of small things that have built up to that no longer being the case at the arse-end of the 2010s.

Prediction For Next Decade

Singlet weather.