The Music 2018 Writers' Poll: Steve Bell

Album Of The Year

1. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
2. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
3. TV Haze - Circle The Sun
4. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Sparkle Hard
5. Dumb - Seeing Green
6. The Goon Sax -  We're Not Talking
7. Hinds - I Don't Run
8. Tropical Fuck Storm - Laughing Death In Meatspace
9. Harmony - Double Negative
10. Terry - I'm Terry

Song Of The Year

1. Josh T Pearson - Give It To Me Straight
2. The Hold Steady - Eureka
3. Courtney Barnett - Charity
4. Straight Arrows - Out And Down
5. The Aints! - Red Aces

Artist Of The Year

1. Car Seat Headrest
2. TV Haze
3. Parquet Courts
4. Paul Kelly
5. The Aints!

International Artist Live Performance Of The Year

1. Car Seat Headrest
2. Twin Peaks
3. Future Of The Left
4. Aldous Harding
5. Jason Isbell

Australian Artist Live Performance Of The Year

1.  Paul Kelly
2. The Aints!
3. Bed Wettin' Bad Boys
4. Tropical Fuck Storm
5. Screamfeeder

TV Show Of The Year

1. South Park
2. Disenchantment
3. High Maintenance

Movie Of The Year

1. Lean On Pete
2. Bohemian Rhapsody 
3. Game Night

Highlight Of The Year

Working on amazing albums by Bris-bands I adore in Tape/Off and The Gametes, being enlisted to write the liner notes for the most excellent Screamfeeder compilation 'Patterns Form', production starting on the Deadwood movie, another great year of fun times and adventures with friends and loved ones (the charmed run continues)...

Prediction For Next Year

St Kilda by the laws of statistics will rebound in 2019, performing strongly in the pre-season comp before running out of steam and falling away by Rd 1 of season proper. Smith and Warner to act like prefects on their return to the Australian cricket team, nicest cricketers ever and no sandpaper in sight. Apu to return in new feel-good Simpsons spin-off, following the disparate and virtuous lives of the octuplets as they experience the travails of childhood in a foreign land.