Tyson Wray
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Easy Listening KETTENKARUSSELL
2. Auftakt MURA OKA
3. Moodymann MOODYMANN
4. American Intelligence THEO PARRISH
5. Torus VRIL
6. Drop The Vowels MILLIE & ANDREA
7. Odd Movements ACHTERBAHN D’AMOUR
8. The Periodic Table REAGENZ
9. Music for the Uninvited LEON VYNEHALL
10. Faith In Strangers ANDY STOTT
Honourable Mentions: Vermont VERMONT, Decay EFDEMIN, Punish, Honey VESSEL, After Forever JOEY ANDERSON, Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time TORN HAWK, Atomos A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN, Black Metal DEAN BLUNT
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Torus XXXII VRIL
2. Of Course KETTENKARUSSELL
3. 1 Year AUSTIN CESEAR
4. Nuits Sonores FLOATING POINTS
5. Ganzfeld OBJEKT
Honourable Mentions: 50 Cent DEAN BLUNT, Lyk You Use 2 MOODYMANN, Love Songs DJ DODGER STADIUM, Butterflies LEON VYNEHALL
Lachlan Kanoniuk
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Rock Or Bust AC/DC
2. Country Pantry GUY & MARCUS BLACKMAN EXPERIMENTATION PROJECT
3. Aldous Harding ALDOUS HARDING
4. St Vincent ST VINCENT
5. A U R O R A BEN FROST
6. The Sleeper CAITLIN PARK
7. LP1 FKA TWIGS
8. Laura Jean LAURA JEAN
9. Typical System TOTAL CONTROL
10. 1989 TAYLOR SWIFT
Honourable Mentions: The Worry SEEKAE, Ex Nihilo GUERRE, Rich Gang: The Tour Part 1 RICH GANG, Dogging LOW LIFE, The End Of Puppies VARIOUS ARTISTS, Mullum Mullum EASTLINK, Black Messiah D’ANGELO, The Dream Is Over TOTEMS
Top Five Gigs Of The Year:
1. The Clean @ Camp A Low Hum
2. Drake, Usher, 50 Cent, Lauryn Hill @ OVO Fest
3. Yeezus @ Rod Laver Arena
4 Royal Headache @ The Tote
5. Total Control @ Hugs & Kisses
Honourable Mentions: St Vincent @ Sydney Opera House, Tim Hecker @ Metro, FKA Twigs @ Webster Hall, Alex Cameron @ NSC, Avicii @ Melbourne Showgrounds
David James Young
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Divide and Exit SLEAFORD MODS
2. Keep You PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH
3. I Forget Where We Were BEN HOWARD
4. Benji SUN KIL MOON
5. The Physical World DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
6. When Friends Die in Accidents PINCH HITTER
7. Rooms of the House LA DISPUTE
8. S W I M DIE! DIE! DIE!
9. 1000 Forms of Fear SIA
10. Get Hurt THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM
Honourable Mentions: This is Cave Music MOON HOOCH, Dead YOUNG FATHERS, Here and Nowhere Else CLOUD NOTHINGS, Jersey Flegg YOU BEAUTY
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Seasons (Waiting on You) FUTURE ISLANDS
2. Tied Up in Nottz SLEAFORD MODS
3. I Need a Woman HOCKEY DAD
4. Water Fountain TUNE-YARDS
5. Happy Idiot TV ON THE RADIO
Honourable Mentions: I’m Not Part of Me CLOUD NOTHINGS, Blue on Blue OSLOW, Brill Bruisers THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Burden YOKE
Bronius Zumeris
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Augustines AUGUSTINES
2. Games of the XXI Olympiad BLACK CAB
3. Popular Problems LEONARD COHEN
4. Meteorites ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
5. High Life ENO + HYDE
6. The Man Upstairs ROBYN HITCHCOCK
7. Six Strings That Drew Blood ROLAND S. HOWARD
8. The Return Of The Mailorder Bridegroom ED KUEPPER
9. After The End MERCHANDISE
10. Too Bright PERFUME GENIUS
Honourable Mentions: Bluegrass Files BLUEGRASS FILES, Flesh And Machine DANIEL LANOIS, Seek Warmer Climes LOWER, Fade YO LA TENGO
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Nothing To Lose But Your Head AUGUSTINES
2. Come On Back This Way JACK LADDER
3. Queen PERFUME GENIUS
4. Had To Hear REAL ESTATE
5. Fuckers SAVAGES
Honourable Mentions: Slow Train STREETS OF LAREDO, Rollercoaster BLEACHERS, Who Needs You THE ORWELLS
Alexander Crowden
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Sea of Approval ANDY BULL
2. Hold My Home COLD WAR KIDS
3. The Balcony CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN
4. Built on Glass CHET FAKER
5. Be Impressive THE GRISWOLDS
6. Ghost Stories COLDPLAY
7. 48:13 KASABIAN
8. Sonic Highways FOO FIGHTERS
9. LuminousTHE HORRORS
10. Himalayan BAND OF SKULLS
Honourable Mentions: Education, Education, Education & War KAISER CHIEFS, Lost In The Dream THE WAR ON DRUGS, Supermodel FOSTER THE PEOPLE, Too Much Information MAXIMO PARK
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Seasons (Waiting On You) FUTURE ISLANDS
2. Wear Purple at My Funeral PLUTO JONZE
3. Wrong Direction BRITISH INDIA
4. To Me CHET FAKER
5. Beware the Dog THE GRISWOLDS
Honourable Mentions: Gotta Get Away THE BLACK KEYS, Mother & Father BROODS, Yellow Flicker Beat LORDE, Talk Too Much ANDY BULL
Ali Birnie
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Shine On SARAH MCLACHLAN
2. Stay Gold FIRST AID KIT
3. Blackbird DAN SULTAN
4. Southeastern JASON ISBELL
5. Nobody Ever Leaves TRACY MCNEIL
6. Blind Bet COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS
7. Katie Noonan’s Songs That Made Me VARIOUS ARTISTS
8. Bittersweet KASEY CHAMBERS
9. Remedy OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW
10. Angus & Julia Stone ANGUS & JULIA STONE
Honourable Mentions: I Hope You’ll Be Very Unhappy Without Me CHELSEA WILSON, Havens Dumb AUGIE MARCH
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Chandelier SIA
2. My Silver Lining FIRST AID KIT
3. In Her Shoes SARAH MCLACHLAN
4. Definitive History AUGIE MARCH
5. Begin Again MEGAN WASHINGTON
Honourable Mentions: Sweet Amarillo OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, Grabbed Me By The Heart THE ACFIELDS
Augustus Welby
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Burn Your Fire For No Witness ANGEL OLSEN
2. Too Bright PERFUME GENIUS
3. Lost in the Dream THE WAR ON DRUGS
4. Say Yes To Love PERFECT PUSSY
5. Playmates JACK LADDER AND THE DREAMLANDERS
6. Grassed Inn BLANK REALM
7. Everyday Robots DAMON ALBARN
8. Typical System TOTAL CONTROL
9. Ryan Adams RYAN ADAMS
10. The Best of Times MY SAD CAPTAINS
Honourable Mentions: Slo Light DAVIDGE, Oddments KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD, So It Goes RATKING
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Carol THE PEEP TEMPEL
2. Instant Disassembly PARQUET COURTS
3. Red Eyes THE WAR ON DRUGS
4. Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone LYKKE LI
5. Definitive History AUGIE MARCH
Honourable Mentions: Do You SPOON, Come On Back This Way JACK LADDER, First Love Song LAURA JEAN
Patrick Emery
Top 10 Albums Of The Year:
1. Hikkimori HITS
2. I’m in Your Mind Fuzz KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
3. Games of the XXI Olympiad BLACK CAB
4. This Machine Kills Artists BUZZ OSBORNE
5. Legalise Everything FROWNING CLOUDS
6. Takes One to Know One GRAVEYARD TRAIN
7. Welcome to Parrott Eyes KIDS OF ZOO
8. True West KIM AND LEANNE
9. The Redeemer THURSTON MOORE
10. Waiting on the Last Minute LIVINGSTONE DAISES
Honourable Mentions: Tales THE PEEP TEMPEL, YaYa Brouhaha MESA COSA, Psychotropic LOS TONES
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Ordinary Man LOS TONES
2. Supermadchen BLACK CAB
3. Cellophane KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
4. Big Fish THE PEEP TEMPEL
5. Flesh War TOTAL CONTROL
Chris Bright
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Jungle JUNGLE
2. Royal Blood ROYAL BLOOD
3. My Krazy Life YG
4. …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin THE ROOTS
5. Ultraviolence LANA DEL REY
6. Oxymoron SCHOOLBOY Q
7. Run the Jewels 2 RUN THE JEWELS
8. Piñata FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB
9. Walking Under Stars HILLTOP HOODS
10. Alvvays ALVVAYS
Honourable Mentions: Wonder Where We Land SBTRKT, Blue Planet Eyes THE PREATURES, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Busy Earnin’ JUNGLE
2. Figure It Out ROYAL BLOOD
3. Left Hand Free ALT-J
4. West Coast LANA DEL REY
5. Won’t Let You Down HILLTOP HOODS
Honourable Mentions: Uptown Funk MARK RONSON FT. BRUNO MARS, I Just Wanna Party YG, Break The Bank SCHOOLBOY Q, Never THE ROOTS, Where You Been THE PERCH STREET FAMILY JUGBAND
Emily Kelly
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Transgender Dysphoria Blues AGAINST ME!
2. M.I. MASKED INTRUDER
3. Tales THE PEEP TEMPEL
4. You’re Gonna Miss It All MODERN BASEBALL
5. No Coast BRAID
6. I Don’t Wanna Be Anywhere But Here CERES
7. Rooms Of The House LA DISPUTE
8. The Physical World DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
9. By A Thread LUCA BRASI
10. Pup PUP
Honourable Mentions: Here And Nowhere Else CLOUD NOTHINGS, Avalanche OUTRIGHT
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. White Flag ECCA VANDAL
2. Anaconda NICKI MINAJ
3. Shake It Off TAYLOR SWIFT
4. Uptown Funk MARK RONSON
5. Turn Down For What DJ SNAKE AND LIL JON
Honourable Mentions: Chandelier SIA, Flawless BEYONCE, Close Your Eyes and Count To Fuck RUN THE JEWELS,
Chris Girdler
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Burn Your Fire For No Witness ANGEL OLSEN
2. Angel PURE X
3. Stay Gold FIRST AID KIT
4. Are We There SHARON VAN ETTEN
5. St Vincent ST VINCENT
6. Run The Jewels 2 RUN THE JEWELS
7. Lost In The Dream THE WAR ON DRUGS
8. Present Tense WILD BEASTS
9. Our Love CARIBOU
10. Too Bright PERFUME GENIUS
Honourable Mentions: Atlas REAL ESTATE, Luminous THE HORRORS, Singles FUTURE ISLANDS, From Scotland With Love KING CREOSOTE
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Do It Again ROYKSOPP & ROBYN
2. Queen PERFUME GENIUS
3. Digital Witness ST VINCENT
4. My Spirit Is Broken CHAMPS
5. Wanderlust WILD BEASTS
Honourable Mentions: Leaving No Traces HIGHASAKITE, The Party Is You TEETH & TONGUE, Seasons (Waiting On You) FUTURE ISLANDS, Sweet Marie TWIN BEASTS
Gloria Brancatisano
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Lost Forever//Lost Together ARCHITECTS
2. Die Knowing COMEBACK KID
3. Rooms Of The House LA DISPUTE
4. Let The Ocean Take Me THE AMITY AFFLICTION
5. Maybe This Place Is The Same and We’re Just Changing REAL FRIENDS
6. Dear Youth THE GHOST INSIDE
7. Keep You PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH
8. You’re Gonna Miss It All MODERN BASEBALL
9. Wishful Thinking NECK DEEP
10. Engulfed In Flames SUCH GOLD
Honourable Mentions: From Parts Unknown EVERY TIME I DIE, Mend, Move On TROPHY EYES, Disgusting BEARTOOTH, Restoring Force OF MICE & MEN
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Naysayer ARCHITECTS
2. Young and Bright BREAK EVEN
3. I Miss You PERSPECTIVES
4. I Don’t Love You Anymore REAL FRIENDS
5. Drown BRING ME THE HORIZON
Honourable Mentions: Pittsburgh THE AMITY AFFLICTION, Tread Lightly FOUR YEAR STRONG, Leave You In The Dark STATE CHAMPS
Joe Hansen
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. They Don’t Have To Believe PUNCH
2. Deep Fantasy WHITE LUNG
3. Rips EX HEX
4. Never Hungover Again JOYCE MANOR
5. Mental Hygiene INTERNAL ROT
6. Manslaughter BODY COUNT
7. Vendetta NIGHT FEVER
8. If Anything GREYS
9. Peel Me Like A Egg HARD-ONS
10. Split Tape MICHAEL CRAFTER/UNCLE GEEZER
Honourable Mentions: Edifice TANNED CHRIST, War Psalms MORNING GLORY, Work It Out BLOODS, Boss Lady BAD COP BAD COP
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Bury Our Friends SLEATER-KINNEY
2. Carol THE PEEP TEMPEL
3. Talk Shit, Get Shot BODY COUNT
4. Darth Vader Presents HARD-ONS
5. Killer Bangs HONEYBLOOD
Honourable Mentions: Lipton Witch SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Unconditional Love AGAINST ME!, People Forget ANTEMASQUE, Knights Forever THE BENNIES
Krystal Maynard
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Typical System TOTAL CONTROL
2. Manipulator TY SEGALL
3. Some Songs BORED NOTHING
4. Ploughing Into the Field of Love ICEAGE
5. Sunbathing Animal PARQUET COURTS
6. ScotDrakula SCOTDRAKULA
7. We Are Nots NOTS
8. Carpetbombing HARMONY
9. Content Nausea PARKAY QUARTS
10.Your Town MERE WOMEN
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Flesh War TOTAL CONTROL
2. Carol PEEP TEMPEL
3. Evoke The Sleep NUN
4. Sunbathing Animal PARQUET COURTS
5. Gina EASTLINK
Kelsey Berry
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Lost In The Dream THE WAR ON DRUGS
2. They Want My Soul SPOON
3. Royal Blood ROYAL BLOOD
4. Chinese Fountain THE GROWLERS
5. Zaba GLASS ANIMALS
6. I’m In Your Mind Fuzz KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
7. Land Of Pleasure STICKY FINGERS
8. This Is All Yours ALT-J
9. Client Liaison EP CLIENT LIAISON
10. Sonic Highways FOO FIGHTERS
Honourable Mentions: LP1 FKA TWIGS, Silence/Win KIM CHURCHILL, Seeds TV ON THE RADIO, Here And Nowhere Else CLOUD NOTHINGS
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Seasons (Waiting On You) FUTURE ISLANDS
2. Gina Works At Hearts DZ DEATHRAYS
3. Lazaretto JACK WHITE
4. Two Weeks FKA TWIGS
5. The Singer TY SEGALL
Honourable Mentions: After The Crack Up AUGIE MARCH, Sweatpants CHILDISH GAMBINO, Pickles From The Jar COURTNEY BARNETT, Feed The Rhythm CLIENT LIAISON
Peter Hodgson
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. .5 The Grey Chapter SLIPKNOT
2. Z2 Devin Townsend Project
3. The Satanist BEHEMOTH
4. Citadel NE OBLIVISCARIS
5. Killer Be Killed KILLER BE KILLED
6. The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart SEPULTURA
7. Inferno MARTY FRIEDMAN
8. War Eternal ARCH ENEMY
9. FVEY SHIHAD
10. Catacombs of the Black Vatican ZAKK WYLDE’S BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
Honourable Mentions: Everything Will Be Alright In The End WEEZER, Clear PERIPHERY, Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar ROBERT PLANT
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
If you’re listening to singles in this genre, you’re metalling wrong.
Meg Crawford
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Band of Brothers WILLY NELSON
2. Out Among The Stars JOHNNY CASH
3. Get The Hell SUPERSUCKERS
4. Takes One To Know One GRAVEYARD TRAIN
5. Tribal IMELDA MAY
6. Acid Rain and Sugar Cain WAGONS
7. Rockabilly Riot All Original BRIAN SETZER
8. Live At The Olympia VINCE TAYLOR AND THE PLAYBOYS
9. Blue Smoke DOLLY PARTON
10. Old Time Sing Song Man ARCHER
Honourable Mention: Rev REVEREND HORTON HEAT
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. The Wall WILLIE NELSON
2. Bossy J.D. MCPHERSON
3. Shake ‘Em On Down EDDIE CLENDENING
4. My Dark Past A MAN CALLED STU
5. White Mariachi PUTA MADRE BROTHERS
Honourable Mentions: The Forgotten THE OUTFIT, Every Other Birthday CHERRYWOOD
Rod Whitfield
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Z2 DEVIN TOWNSEND
2. V VOYAGER
3. The Joy of Motion ANIMALS AS LEADERS
4. Reality Kicks SYDONIA
5. The Amanuensis MONUMENTS
6. No Sleep VOLUMES
7. Love of Cartography SLEEPMAKESWAVES
8. Guiding Lights SKYHARBOR
9. Casualties of Cool DEVIN TOWNSEND
10. Simulacra OPUS OF A MACHINE
Honourable Mentions: Citadel NE OBLIVISCARIS,Telescapes FULL CODE, Titan SEPTICFLESH, Clear PERIPHERY, Hindsight THE OCCUPANTS, Summit SECRET TSUNAMI
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Hyperventilating VOYAGER
2. Erased VOLUMES
3. Deathray DEVIN TOWNSEND
4. I, The Creator MONUMENTS
5. Something Like Avalanches SLEEPMAKESWAVES
Tamara Vogl
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Black Messiah D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD
2. 2014 Forest Hills Drive J. COLE
3. LP1 FKA TWIGS
4. Lese Majesty SHABAZZ PALACES
5. 1989 TAYLOR SWIFT
6. Oxymoron SCHOOLBOY Q
7. You’re Dead! FLYING LOTUS
8. Lost In The Dream THE WAR ON DRUGS
9. In The Orbit of Ra SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA
10. My Krazy Life YG
Honourable Mentions: Testimony AUGUST ALSINA, The Pinkprint NICKI MINAJ, Souled Out JHENE AIKO
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Ain’t That Easy D’ANGELO
2. Be Free J. COLE
3. Two Weeks FKA TWIGS
4. Studio SCHOOLBOY Q
5. Chandelier SIA
Honourable Mentions: Flawless (Remix) BEYONCE ft. NICKI MINAJ, Blank Space TAYLOR SWIFT, Never Catch Me FLYING LOTUS ft. KENDRICK LAMAR, Man of The Year SCHOOLBOY Q, Benz Friendz FUTURE ft. ANDRE 3000
Soph Goulopoulos
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
Whatever Pitchfork says.
Honourable Mentions: A Heavy Metal Christmas SARUMAN, Atomos A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Match 185 JAMES MURPHY
2. Feed the Rhythm CLIENT LIAISON
3. Red Eyes THE WAR ON DRUGS
4. The Thing I Done CW STONEKING
5. Two Weeks FKA TWIGS
Honourable Mentions: Cellophane KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD, Takin’ Over SEX ON TOAST
The Sideman
Top Ten Albums Of The Year:
1. Xen ARCA
2. It’s Album Time TODD TERJE
3. Moon SNOWBIRD
4. Commune GOAT
5. I’m In Your Mind Fuzz KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
6. Ibibio Sound Machine IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE
7. Too Bright PERFUME GENIUS
8. Tomorrow Was The Golden Age BING & RUTH
9. Manipulator TY SEGALL
10. Meshes Of Voice JENNY HVAL & SUSANNA
Honourable Mentions: Atomos A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN, All Love’s Legal PLANNINGTOROCK, Toujours SABINA, Angels & Devils THE BUG
Top Five Singles Of The Year:
1. Missing Reward MT ROYAL
2. Way Out Weather STEVE GUNN
3. Queen PERFUME GENIUS
4. Anything You Want THEE SILVER MT ZION
5. On the Regular SHAMIR STEVE GUNN
Honourable Mentions: Flying Golem WAND, Aurora Northern Quartet LONE, Keep In The Dark TEMPLES, Out Of The Dark MR TWIN SISTER
