The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Andrew McDonald

album of the year

1. Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden Of Delete
2. Viet Cong — Viet Cong
3. Death Grips — Jenny Death
4. death's dynamic shroud.wmv — I'll Try Living Like This
5. James Ferraro — Skid Row
6. Holly Herndon — Platform
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
8. Matana Roberts — Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
9. Zs — Xe
10. Giant Claw — Deep Thoughts

song of the year

1. Oneohtrix Point Never — Sticky Drama
2. Davey Harms — Heavy Water
3. Container — Eject
4. Death Grips — I Break Mirrors With My Face In The United States
5. Aphex Twin — Diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13

artist of the year

1. Death Grips
2. Matana Roberts
3. Lotic
4. Swans
5. Vijay Iyer

international artist performance

1. Swans
2. Body/Head
3. Automat
4. Mono
5. Boris

australian artist performance

1. The Drones
2. Frenzal Rhomb
3. Nancy Vandal
4. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
5. Damian Cowell's Disco Machine

top tv show

1. Mad Men
2. Nathan For You
3. Adventure Time
4. South Park
5. Louie

top movie

1. Birdman 
2. The Martian
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Inside Out
5. Ex Machina

top website 

1. This American Life
2. Space And NASA News
3. Post-Punk.com
4. 4chan
5. /Film

2015 highlight of the year

Mad Men's finale somehow managing to be a worthwhile pay-off, and this finale syncing up with my own finishing of my Master's dissertation, which was written on the show.

prediction for 2016

Swans' final album will be a two-plus-hour long magnum opus that defines their career, Kanye will finally drop his new album and it'll be a soft 7/10, and vaporwave will finally go mainstream and be adopted by Katy Perry.