The Music 2018 Writers' Poll: Chris Familton

Album Of The Year

1. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
2. Halfway - Rain Lover
3. Nils Frahm - All Melody
4. Suicide Swans - La Jungla
5. Low - Double Negative
6. Marlon Williams - Make Way For Love
7. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
8. Cash Savage & The Last Drinks - Good Citizens
9. Stuart A Staples - Arrhythmia
10. Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie

Song Of The Year

1. Tropical Fuck Storm - You Let My Tyres Down
2. Roadhouses - Black Lights
3. Darren Cross - 90s High
4. The Messthetics - Serpent Tongue
5. Kyle Craft - The Rager

Artist Of The Year

1. Cash Savage & The Last Drinks
2. Marlon Williams
3. Parquet Courts
4. Tropical Fuck Storm
5. Nils Frahm

International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

1. Aldous Harding
2. Bob Dylan
3. Protomartyr
4. Hurray For The Riff Raff
5. The War On Drugs

Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

1. Cash Savage & The Last Drinks
2. Augie March
3. Halfway
4. The Heartache State
5. Jen Cloher

TV Show Of The Year

1. The End Of The Fucking World
2. Atlanta
3. Last Chance U

Movie Of The Year

1. Blaze
2. Quincy
3. Paddington 2

Highlight Of The Year

Getting to travel to New Zealand to play with my old band from the '90s, for the first time in 23 years.

Prediction For Next Year

Hopefully a revitalisation of the Sydney live scene, with a few new venues opening.