The Music Writers' Poll 2014: Madeleine Laing

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. FKA Twigs - LP1
2. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
3. Total Control - Typical System
4. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
5. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
6. Spoon - They Want My Soul
7. Tiny Ruins - Brightly Painted One
8. Blank Realm - Grassed Inn
9. Roku Music - Collider
10. Bearhug - So Gone

SONG OF THE YEAR

1. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
2. Nicki Minaj - Anaconda
3. Total Control - Flesh War
4. Multiple Man - Persuasion
5. Azealia Banks - Soda

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

1. FKA Twigs
2. Al Montfort
3. Banoffee
4. Nick Allbrook
5. Nicky Minaj

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Savages
2. Drenge
3. Gareth Liddiard
4. Parquet Courts
5. Scotdrakula

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. DZ Deathrays
2. Bad//Dreems
3. Velociraptor
4. POND
5. Woodboot

TOP TV SHOW

1. Broad City
2. Comedy Bang Bang
3. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
4. Game Of Thrones
5. Orange Is The New Black

TOP MOVIE

1. Guardians Of The Galaxy
2. X-Men: Days Of Future Past
3. This Is Where I Leave You
4. Two Days, One Night
5. Gone Girl

TOP WEBSITE

1. Junkee
2. Munchies
3. Four Thousand
4. Tumblr
5. The Lifted Brow: Digital

HIGHLIGHT OF 2014

Seeing the rise of boutique festivals continue. Shedstock, Blurst Of Times, Paradise, PANAMA and MATES in 2015 have made festivals fun again, with killer line-ups and minimal pinger-fuelled dickheads.

PREDICTION FOR 2015

Hopefully the end of the American food trend. Surely there's no more pork left to pull, no more jalapeños left to pop, no meat that isn't smoked with something left anywhere on earth. And, fingers crossed, another record from Frank Ocean.