Annual Ratdragon Music Awards

Every year in January the previous year's music gets voted on (by Rat and Dragon) for a 'Ratdragon Music Award'. Categories include Best Single and Best Album.

2019 awards

2019 Best Single:
       Sisyphus Andrew Bird
       Harmony Hall Vampire Weekend
       New House Rex Orange County
       Johnny Run Away Tones and I
       Frankenstein Editors
       My Cheating Heart Love Fame Tragedy
       Home To You Sigrid
       You're Somebody Else Flora Cash
       Hallelujah Haim
       To Noise Making (Sing) Hozier
       Jerusalem New York Berlin Vampire Weekend
       Saw Lightning Beck
       Rororo Of Monsters and Men
       Heavy Hearted The Jungle Giants

2019 Best Album:
       Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
       Hozier - Wasteland, Baby!
       K.Flay - Solutions
       Flora Cash - Press
       Missio - The Darker the Weather // The Better the Man
       Mumford & Sons - Delta
       half•alive - now, not yet
       Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet
       Tones and I - The Kids Are Coming
       Cayucas - Real Life
       Of Monsters and Men - Fever Dream
       Broods - Don't Feed the Pop Monster
       Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
       Love Fame Tragedy - I Don't Want To Play The Victim, But I'm Really Good At It

2018 awards

2018 Best Single:
       Break-Thru Dirty Projectors
       The End of Love Florence + The Machine
       still feel. half•alive
       Goodbye Porches
       Long Live the Billionaire Shungudzo
       In My View Young Fathers
       Miracle Chvrches
       Mystery of Love Sufjan Stevens
       Cheetah Tongue The Wombats
       If I Say Mumford & Sons
       Counting Spooks Editors
       Nina Cried Power ft. Mavis Staples Hozier
       I Said Hi Amy Shark
       High Five Sigrid

2018 Best Album:
       Editors - Violence
       Chvrches - Love is Dead
       Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
       Vance Joy - Nation of Two
       The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life
       Florence + The Machine - High As Hope
       Amy Shark - Love Monster
       The Kooks - Let's Go Sunshine
       Rubblebucket - Sun Machine
       Superorganism - Superorganism

2017 awards

2017 Best Single:
       The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness The National
       Waves Dean Lewis
       Queen Flint Eastwood
       Lay It On Me Vance Joy
       We Could Run Beth Ditto
       Love Is Mystical Cold War Kids
       Feel It Still Portugal. The Man
       Issues Julia Michaels
       Green Light Lorde
       Glitches Flint Eastwood
       Watch Billie Eilish
       Feel The Way I Do The Jungle Giants
       Moonlight Grace VanderWaal
       Liability Lorde

2017 Best Album:
       Flint Eastwood - Broke Royalty
       Foster The People - Sacred Hearts Club
       Cold War Kids - LA Divine
       Portugal. The Man - Woodstock
       Milky Chance - Blossom
       Lorde - Melodrama
       Dean Lewis - Same Kind of Different
       Future Islands - The Far Field
       The Jungle Giants - Quiet Ferocity
       Spoon - Hot Thoughts
       The xx - I See You
       Sylvan Esso - What Now
       Beth Ditto - Fake Sugar
       Amy Shark - Night Thinker

2016 awards

2016 Best Single:
       Drone Bomb Me Anohni *Dragon's pick
       I'm Not the Man Ben Folds *Rat's pick
       You Don't Get Me High Anymore Phantogram
       14 Faces Lewis Del Mar
​       Odyssey of the Streets Gypsy & The Cat
       Brighter Rüfüs
       Wow Beck
       Doing It To Death The Kills
       Playing Dead Chvrches
       For Kicks Metric
       Freak of Nature ft. Tove Lo Broods
       Heathens Twenty One Pilots
       A 1000 Times Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
       Cruel World Phantogram

2016 Best Album:
       Anohni - Hopelessness
       Phantogram - Three
       Ra Ra Riot - Need Your Light
       Broods - Conscious
       Ben Folds - So There
       Ladyhawke - Wild Things
       Miike Snow - iii
       The Neighbourhood - Wiped Out!
       Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye
       Cub Sport - This Is Our Vice
       Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being
       Lemaitre - 1749
       Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow
       Har Mar Superstar - Best Summer Ever

2015 awards

2015 Best Single:
       Mountain At My Gates  Foals
       Dirty World  Emile Haynie
       Fire and the Flood  Vance Joy
       Delilah  Florence + the Machine
       Rabbit Run  City Calm Down
       Cold Arms  Mumford & Sons
       Give Me A Try  The Wombats
       Flood On The Floor  Purity Ring
       Hoops  The Rubens
       Mistakes  San Cisco
       3AM ft. Katie Herzig  RAC
       Lean On w/ DJ Snake ft. MØ  Major Lazer
       Dreams  Beck
       Can’t Feel My Face  The Weeknd
       Do You Remember  Jarryd James
       TV  Eves The Behavior 

2015 Best Album:
       Purity Ring - Another Eternity
       Emile Haynie - We Fall
       San Cisco - Gracetown
       The Wombats - Glitterbug
       Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
       Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind
       Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin
       Chvrches - Every Open Eye
       Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves
       Matt & Kim - New Glow
       The Rubens - Hoops
       Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
       Foals - What Went Down
       Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi
       Cayucas - Dancing at the Blue Lagoon

2014 awards

2014 Best Single:
       Murakami Made In Heights
       Careful You TV On The Radio
       Stolen Dance Milky Chance
       First Cold War Kids
       Chandeleir Sia
       Happy Idiot TV On The Radio
       Trippin' the Light Fantastic Ball Park Music
       The Writing's On The Wall OK Go
       Mother & Father Broods
       Dangerous (ft. Joywave) Big Data
       Doubt Kele
       Busy Earnin' Jungle
       Eez-Eh Kasabian
       Leave This Island Maximo Park

2014 Best Album:
       Ball Park Music - Puddinghead
       Broods - Evergreen
       Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
       Milky Chance - Sadnecessary
       OK Go - Hungry Ghosts
       Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear
       Coldplay - Ghost Stories
       Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
       Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away
       The Kooks - Listen
       Hozier - Hozier
       Kasabian - 48:13
       Ásgeir - In The Silence

2013 awards

2013 Best Single:
       Do I Wanna Know? Arctic Monkeys *Dragon's pick
       Hopeless Wanderer Mumford & Sons *Rat's pick
       Ya Hey Vampire Weekend
       Royals Lorde
       Team Lorde
       Evil Friends Portugal. The Man
       Happy Ending The Strokes
       Pompeii Bastille
       Riptide Vance Joy
       Scar Cloud Control
       Side of the Road Big Black Delta
       Duet Everything Everything
       Strong London Grammar
       Say Something ft. Christina Aguilera A Great Big World


2013 Best Album:
       Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
       Lorde - Pure Heroine
       Arctic Monkeys - AM
       Mumford & Sons - Babel
       Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
       London Grammar - If You Wait
       The Neighbourhood - I Love You.
       Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love
       Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends
       Hungry Kids of Hungary - You're a Shadow
       Atlas Genius - When It Was Now

2012 awards

2012 Best Single:
        Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men *Dragon's pick
        All This And Heaven Too - Florence and the Machine *Rat's pick
        I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons
        Move In The Right Direction - Gossip
        Ho Hey - The Lumineers
        Trembling Hands - The Temper Trap
        Laura - Bat For Lashes
        Titanium ft. Sia - David Guetta
        Love This - Cosmo Jarvis
        All the Rowboats - Regina Spektor
        Under the Westway - Blur
        Spiritus - Lisa Mitchell
        Seen No Right - Deep Sea Arcade
        Cough Cough - Everything Everything
        The Keepers - Santigold
        Next Year - Two Door Cinema Club
        We Are Young - Fun.

2012 Best Album:
        The Temper Trap - The Temper Trap 
        Deep Sea Arcade - Outlaws
        Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
        Black Keys - El Camino
        Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
        Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
        Fun. Some Nights
        Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe
        Miike Snow - Happy To You
        Garbage – Not Your Kind of People
        Babel - Mumford & Sons

2011 Awards

2011 Best Single:
            Somebody That I Used To Know ft. Kimbra - Gotye
            Someone Like You (Live Acoustic) - Adele
            All is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye) - Radical Face
            Ready 2 Go ft. Kele - Martin Solveig
            Video Games - Lana Del Rey
            Contact High - Architecture In Helsinki
            Youth Knows No Pain - Lykke Li
            Lippy Kids - Elbow
            Two Cousins - Slow Club
            Credit Card Babies - MEN
            Eskimo Boy - Strange Talk
            Techno Fan - The Wombats    

2011 Best Album:
            Making Mirrors - Gotye
            Vows - Kimbra
            Ceremonials – Florence and The Machine
            Talk About Body – MEN
            Torches – Foster The People
            Moment Bends – Architecture In Helsinki
            This Modern Glitch – The Wombats
            Wounded Rhymes – Lykke Li
            Build A Rocket Boys – Elbow
            Smash – Marin Solveig

2010 awards

2010 Best Single:
          Royal T Ft. Roisin Murphy - Crookers *Rat's pick 
          Jackson's Last Stand - Ou Est Le Swimming Pool  *Dragon's pick       
          Sans Soleil - Miike Snow           
          Whirlwind - Death In Plains           
          Windowsill 1 - Heartbeat Hotel           
          Catapult - Operator Please           
          Diplomat’s Son - Vampire Weekend            
          Hurricane Drunk - Florence & The Machine           
          Keep Slipping Away - A Place To Bury Strangers            
          I Walked - Sufjan Stevens           
          Clap Your Hands - Sia
          

2010 Best Album:
          Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - The Golden Years *Dragon's pick
          Miike Snow - Miike Snow *Rat's pick
          Sia - We Are Born                                   
          Operator Please - Gloves        
          Robyn- Body Talk            
          Arcade Fire - The Suburbs                       
          Vampire Weekend - Contra                       
          Kele - The Boxer                                   
          Imogen Heap- Ellipse                                                
          The Bravery - Stir The Blood           
          Crookers - Tons Of Friends           
          OK Go - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky       

2009 awards

2009 Best Single:
          Help I'm Alive - Metric *Dragon's pick
          Heavy Cross - Gossip *Rat's pick
          Death - White Lies
          Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
          Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
          Sunlight - Harlem Shakes
          No One Sleeps When I'm Awake - The Sounds
          Sick Muse - Metric
          Girlfriend - Phoenix
          Magic - Ladyhawke
          Dominos - The Big Pink
          Eet - Regina Spektor

2009 Best Album:
          White Lies - White Lies *Rat's pick
          It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs *Dragon's pick
          Fantasies - Metric
          Music For Men - Gossip
          Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
          Lungs - Florence & The Machine
          Far - Regina Spektor
          It's Not Me, It's You - Lily Allen
          All Balloons - One eskimO
          A Brief History of Love - The Big Pink
          West Ryder Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian

2008 awards

2008 Best Single:
           In Our Bedroom After the War - Stars 
           Hometown Glory - Adele
           Viva la Vida - Coldplay
           Being Bad Feels Pretty Good - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
           Never Miss a Beat - Kaiser Chiefs
           Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon
           My Delirium - Ladyhawke
           Everyone's At It - Lily Allen
           Kids - MGMT
           No Sex For Ben - The Rapture
           Great DJ - The Ting Tings
           Don't Hold Back - The Potbelleez

2008 Best Album:
           Viva la Vida - Coldplay *Rat's pick
           Dear Science - TV on the Radio *Dragon's pick
           Modern Guilt - Beck
           You Cross My Path - The Charlatans
           In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
           You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
           Red - Guillemots
           Apocalypso - The Presets
           We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings
           Brain Thrust Mastery - We Are Scientists

2007 awards

2007 Best Single:
            Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - Editors *Dragon's pick
            Time to Pretend – MGMT *Rat's pick
            Shooting Star – Air Traffic
            Hold Music - Architecture in Helsinki
            Relief – Chris Garneau
            Little Angel - Hard-Fi
            The Heinrich Maneuver - Interpol
            Dashboard - Modest Mouse
            My People - The Presets
            You Are the One – Shiny Toy Guns
            The Book I Write - Spoon
            Dumb Animal - TV On The Radio
            Let's Dance To Joy Division - The Wombats

2007 Best Album:
            An End Has a Start - Editors *Rat & Dragon's pick
            Fractured Life – Air Traffic
            Favourite Worst Nightmare – Arctic Monkeys
            A Weekend in the City – Bloc Party
            Once Upon a Time in the West – Hard-Fi
            Drastic Fantastic – KT Tunstall
            Yours Truly, Angry Mob – Kaiser Chiefs
            We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank – Modest Mouse
            Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga – Spoon
            In Our Bedroom After the War - Stars

2006 awards

2006 Best Single:
            Wolf Like Me - TV On The Radio *Dragon’s pick
            You Only Live Once - The Strokes *Rat’s pick
            Valentine – Delays
            Blood - Editors
            Kettle's On - The Feeling
            Sewn – The Feeling
            Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is - Jet
            Naive - The Kooks
            Quiet as a Mouse – Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So's
            Supermassive Black Hole – Muse
            Samson - Regina Spektor
            Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

2006 Best Album:
            Twelve Stops & Home – The Feeling *Rat's pick
            Black Holes & Revelations – Muse *Dragon's pick
            Decemberunderground – AFI
            You See Colours - Delays
            Shine On - Jet
            Iron Sea – Keane
            Inside In Inside Out – The Kooks
            Razorlight – Razorlight
            Begin To Hope – Regina Spektor
            Eyes Open – Snow Patrol

2005 awards

2005

2005 Best Single:
            Feeling a Moment – Feeder *Rat’s pick
            Living for the Weekend – Hard-Fi *Dragon’s pick
            Landed – Ben Folds
            An Honest Mistake – The Bravery
            Destroy Everything You Touch – Ladytron

2005 Best Album:
            Songs For Silverman – Ben Folds *Rat’s pick
            Stars of CCTV – Hard-Fi *Dragon’s pick
            Guero - Beck
            The Bravery – The Bravery
            X&Y – Coldplay
            Plans – Death Cab For Cutie
            Demon Days – Gorillaz
            Elevator – Hot Hot Heat
            Waiting for the Sirens’ Call – New Order
            Don’t Believe the Truth – Oasis