The Music 2015 Writers Poll: Matthew Tomich

album of the year

1. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld — Never Were The Way She Was
2. King Woman — Doubt
3. Failure — The Heart Is A Monster
4. Heat Dust — Heat Dust
5. Gold Class — It's You
6. Marriages — Salome
7. My Disco — Severe
8. Black Wing —  ...Is Doomed
9. Sumac — The Deal
10. Chelsea Wolfe — Abyss

song of the year

1. Failure — Counterfeit Sky
2. King Woman — King Of Swords
3. We Lost The Sea — A Gallant Gentleman
4. Doubting Thomas Cruise Control — Soft Focus
5. King Woman — Burn

artist of the year

1. Failure
2. Gold Class
3. My Disco
4. King Woman
5. Fourteen Nights At Sea

international artist performance

1. 65daysofstatic
2. YOB
3. Elder
4. A Place To Bury Strangers
5. This Will Destroy You

australian artist performance

1. The Wednesday Society
2. Gold Class
3. Doctopus
4. Fourteen Nights At Sea
5. High Tension

top tv show

1. Fargo
2. Broad City
3. Better Call Saul
4. Halt And Catch Fire
5. Louie

top movie

1. Birdman
2. It Follows
3. A Most Violent Year
4. Ex Machina
5. Those Who Feel The Fire Burning

top website 

1. Bandcamp
2. SoundCloud
3. NPR
4. The Awl
5. Old Man Gloom on Facebook

2015 highlight of the year

The endless political shit shows at home and abroad.

prediction for 2016

Trump wins the nomination but hopefully not the election. Fuck, imagine that.