The Music 2019 Writers' Poll: Jake Sun

23 December 2019 | 9:10 am | Jake Sun

Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2019…

Album Of The Year

  1. Tool - Fear Inoculum
  2. Jesse Paris Smith, Laurie Anderson & Tenzin Choegyal - Songs From The Bardo
  3. Underworld - Drift Series 1
  4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
  5. Swans - Leaving Meaning
  6. Marvin Gaye - You're The Man
  7. Saul Williams - Encrypted & Vulnerable 
  8. BCUC - The Healing
  9. Cult Of Luna - A Dawn Of Fear
  10. Sunn O))) - Life Metal



Song Of The Year

  1. Sharon Van Etten - Memorial Day
  2. Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith - Eternity
  3. Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith - Song Of The Highest Tower
  4. Angel Olsen - Lark 
  5. Sampa The Great - Final Form


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Artist Of The Year

  1. Underworld
  2. Tool
  3. Sharon Van Etten
  4. Laurie Anderson
  5. The Necks


International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. The Prodigy
  2. The Cure
  3. Jon Hopkins
  4. Underworld
  5. Sharon Van Etten


Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. The Necks
  2. Andrew Kettle & Lloyd Barrett
  3. RÜFÜS DU SOL
  4. The Presets
  5. The Middle East


TV Show Of The Year

  1. Green Frontier
  2. Black Mirror
  3. The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance



Movie Of The Year

  1. Parasite


Highlight Of The Decade

A few that come to mind of the many, many - Kendrick Lamar, Swans, Autechre and Laurie Anderson at Dark Mofo, Amon Tobin's ISAM Live, Radiohead's and Paul McCartney's Aus tours (finally!), Paul Stamets, David Attenborough's Planet Earth II, the return of Twin Peaks, and Bowie's mystical farewell Blackstar. Surely there were a few great sunrises etc in there somewhere too!

Prediction For Next Decade

Mycology, wombats and awakenings! (Or in the words of Beyoncé, "to the left, to the left".)