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The Music 2021 Writers' Poll: Andy Hazel

Staff Writer

Here's what The Music's team rated in 2021…

Album Of The Year

  1. Quivers - Golden Doubt          
  2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee   
  3. Mike Noga - Open Fire            
  4. Julian Teakle - New Hobart     
  5. Peggy Gou - I Go         
  6. It Thing - Syrup            
  7. FUR - The Fine Line Of A Quiet Life
  8. American Culture - For My Animals   
  9. FRITZ - Pastel  
  10. Plaster Of Paris - Lost Familiar            

Song Of The Year

  1. Parquet Courts - Walking At A Downtown Pace
  2. Hannah Jadagu - Think Too Much      
  3. SAULT - London Gangs            
  4. Indigo De Souza - Hold U        
  5. Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings        

TV Show Of The Year

  1. The Underground Railroad     
  2. Media Watch  
  3. Only Murders In The Building

Film Of The Year

  1. The Green Knight        
  2. In The Heights 
  3. Licorice Pizza  

Highlight Of The Year

A tie between the music video for Parquet Courts' Walking At A Downtown Pace, Biden's first few months as president and discovering Aleppo peppers.

Prediction For Next Year

General awesomeness throughout the city, a Berlin-after-the-war kind of urban renewal, gigs, festivals, a new generation of artists unleashed, just great things from New Year’s Day to New Year’s Eve.