The Music Writers' Poll 2014: Brendan Telford

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. Total Control - Typical System
2. Roku Music - Collider
3. Harmony - Carpetbombing
4. Exhaustion - Biker
5. Tape/Off - Chipper
6. Ghost Notes - Moonlight State
7. Cobwebbs - World Wide Webbs
8. Amen Dunes - Love
9. John Chantler - Even Clean Hands Damage The Work
10. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important

SONG OF THE YEAR

1. Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
2. Curlew - Animal Urges
3. Tape/Off - Another Year
4. Roku Music - You
5. Trust Punks - Gordian Knot

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

1. Slint
2. Courtney Barnett
3. Roku Music
4. Yes I'm Leaving
5. Tape/Off

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Turnpike
2. Ausmuteants
3. Yes I'm Leaving
4. Roku Music
5. Scul Hazzards

TOP TV SHOW

1. True Detective
2. The Fall
3. Bob's Burgers
4. Utopia (UK)
5. Detectorists

TOP MOVIE

1. Calvary
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Under The Skin
4. The Babadook
5. The Rover

TOP WEBSITE

1. Sonic Masala
2. The Quietus
3. WFMU

HIGHLIGHT OF 2014

Starting my own label, Sonic Masala Records, and starting my own festival, Sonic Masala Fest - ah, the theme becomes apparent; seeing Slint; seeing Wolf Eyes; seeing Part Chimp; starting my new "career" as a film interviewer by making Sir Ian McKellen laugh ‘til he wheezed; friends, drink, music, food, sex - all the spices of life.

PREDICTION FOR 2015

More Sonic Masala Records releases, which will become a more national and international concern; the revitalisation of humanity as no one misses Big Day Out; Tony Abbott self-destructs yet the wider public consensus inexplicably condones it - and Jacqui Palin; Angus Sampson to become a sex symbol; Dollar Bar to play Glastonbury.