Writer's Polls - Robert Townsend

24 December 2012 | 7:00 am | Robert Townsend

Here's what Robert Townsend thought nailed in this past year.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. Visions GRIMES
2. The Haunted Man BAT FOR LASHES
3. I Awake SARAH BLASKO
4. Two Seas SUI ZHEN
5. Release STEVE SMYTH
6. Something CHAIRLIFT
7. Bloom BEACH HOUSE
8. Language ZULU WINTER
9. The Money Store DEATH GRIPS
10. Give Up The Ghost POLIÇA

MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. 30 Something CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE
2. 1992: The Love Album CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE
3. A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material JOHN MAUS

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SONG OF THE YEAR

1. I Belong In Your Arms CHAIRLIFT
2. Barbiturate Cowboy And His Dark Horses STEVE SMYTH
3. Breaking SYRON
4. Skyfall ADELE
5. Take A Card THE PREATURES

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

1. Grimes
2. Lana Del Ray
3. Steve Smyth
4. Sui Zhen
5. Syron

BEST WEBSITE

1. browncardigan.com
2. twitter.com
3. guardian.co.uk
4. rdio.com
5. bbc.co.uk

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Laura Marling
2. Chairlift
3. Mystery Jets
4. Nick Zinner
5. Karen O

BEST AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Steve Smyth
2. Sui Zhen
3. New Brutalists
4. Fanny Lumsden & The Thrillseekers
5. Jack Colwell & The Owls

BEST TV SHOW

1. Breaking Bad
2. 24 Hours In A&E
3. Girls
4. Peep Show
5. The Walking Dead

BEST MOVIE

1. The Dark Knight Rises
2. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
3. Argo
4. Where Do We Go Now?
5. Martha Marcy May Marlene

2012 HIGHLIGHT

I flew 10,000 miles to England to surprise my friend at his buck's party and, while back in the UK, I had a drunken night out with Kitty, Daisy & Lewis.

2013 PREDICTION

Even more of those incredibly irritating and entirely non-legally-binding cut-and-paste Facebook status updates about privacy settings.