The Music 2019 Writers' Poll: Jessica Higgins

24 December 2019 | 5:13 pm | Jessica Higgins

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

Album Of The Year

  1. Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1
  2. Sampa The Great - The Return
  3. Angie McMahon - Salt
  4. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishies
  5. Tool - Fear Inoculum
  6. The Black Keys - "Let's Rock"
  7. The Saboteurs - Help Us Stranger
  8. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - And Now For The Whatchamacallit
  9. LEISURE - Twister
  10. City & Colour - A Pill For Loneliness



Song Of The Year

  1. Sampa The Great - Final Form
  2. Tool - Pneuma
  3. Tame Impala - Patience
  4. Billie Eilish - Bad Guy


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Artist Of The Year

  1. Sampa The Great
  2. Foals
  3. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  4. The Saboteurs
  5. Tool


International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Gary Clark Jr
  2. Mumford & Sons
  3. Foals
  4. The Saboteurs
  5. The Growlers


Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

  1. Sampa The Great
  2. Hamish Anderson
  3. The Chats
  4. Gretta Ray


TV Show Of The Year

  1. This Time With Alan Partridge
  2. Chernobyl
  3. Barry



Movie Of The Year

  1. Joker
  2. The Nightingale
  3. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum


Highlight Of The Decade

Learning what pastizzi is.

Prediction For Next Decade

Twitter will wither and fold after Trump goes, The Fast And The Furious will reach double digits, David Attenborough will pass away and discretely be replaced with Anthony Hopkins for five to seven years to avoid mass panic worldwide, and cheap platform foam slides will come back (and I, for one, cannot wait).