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The Music Writers' Poll 2014: Anthony Carew

Anthony Carew

Freelancer

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

  1. How To Dress Well - What Is This Heart?
  2. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
  3. Mitski - Bury Me At Makeout Creek
  4. Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls & Windows
  5. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
  6. Pure X - Angel
  7. Sean Nicholas Savage - Bermuda Waterfall
  8. Tops - Picture You Staring
  9. B Fachada - III
  10. Kindness - Otherness

SONG OF THE YEAR

  1. Sean Nicholas Savage - Empire
  2. Collarbones - Turning
  3. Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear?
  4. Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Little Fang
  5. Tacocat - Crimson Wave

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

  1. How To Dress Well
  2. Ramona Lisa
  3. Banoffee
  4. Mitski
  5. Radiator Hospital

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE

  1. Juana Molina
  2. Julia Holter
  3. Colin Stetson
  4. Lauryn Hill
  5. Autre Ne Veut

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE

  1. Grand Salvo
  2. Laura Jean
  3. Banoffee
  4. Oscar Key Sung
  5. Andras & Oscar

TOP TV SHOW

  1. The Knick
  2. Mad Men
  3. Looking
  4. Girls
  5. Doll & Em

TOP MOVIE

  1. Under The Skin
  2. Her
  3. Force Majeure
  4. Stray Dogs
  5. Manakamana

HIGHLIGHT OF 2014

Not dying.

PREDICTION FOR 2015

Idiocracy reigns.