Want a one-stop, at-a-glance guide to what everyone picked? No? Oh. Well, here it is anyway.
Ali Mason
1. Tiny Ruins – Some Were Meant For Sea (WooMe)
2. Wild Beasts – Smother (Domino)
3. Left With Pictures – In Time (Organ Grinder)
4. Jenny and Johnny – I’m Having Fun Now (Warner)
5. Sea of Bees – Songs For The Ravens (V2)
6. Grey Reverend – Of The Days (Motion Audio)
7. Zoey van Goey – Propeller Versus Wings (Chemikal Underground)
8. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Bella Union)
9. Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go (Supply & Demand)
10. Shimmering Stars – Violent Hearts (Almost Musique)
11. Emmy the Great – Virtue (Close Harbour)
12. Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell – Kite (Rabble Rouser)
13. Hannah Peel – Broken Wave (Static Caravan)
14. Jesca Hoop – Snowglobe (Republic of Music)
15. The Decemberists – The King Is Dead (Rough Trade)
16. Sparrow and the Workshop – Spitting Daggers (Republic of Music)
17. Peggy Sue – Acrobats (Wichita)
18. Alex Turner – Submarine (EP) (Domino)
19. Mechanical Bride – Living With Ants (V2)
20. Metronomy – The English Riviera (Because)
21. Fountains of Wayne – Sky Full Of Holes (Lojinx)
22. Cashier No. 9 – To The Death Of Fun (Bella Union)
23. Florence + the Machine – Ceremonials (Island)
24. Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know (Virgin)
Guy Atkinson
1. The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing (ADA Global)
2. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life (Matador)
3. Balance and Composure - Separation (No Sleep Records)
4. Thursday - No Devolucion (Epitaph)
5. Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me (Deathwish Inc.)
6. Small Brown Bike - Fell & Found (No Idea)
7. Defeater - Empty Days and Sleepless Night (Bridge Nine)
8. Spraynard - Funtitled (Asian Man)
9. Dave Hause - Resolutions (Paper + Plastick)
10. Into It. Over It - Proper (No Sleep Records)
11. Thrice - Major/Minor (Vagrant)
12. Title Fight - Shed (SideOneDummy)
13. Red City Radio - The Dangers of Standing Still (Ginner)
14. La Dispute - Wildlife (No Sleep Records)
15. Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor (6131 Records)
16. Transit - Listen & Forgive (ADA Global)
17. Pianos Become The Teeth – The Lack Long After (Topshelf)
18. Letlive. - Fake History (Epitaph)
19. Rise Against - Endgame (Polydor)
20. New Found Glory - Radiosurgery (Epitaph)
21. City and Colour - Little Hell (Cooking Vinyl)
22. Mastodon - The Hunter (Roadrunner)
23. Rival Schools - Pedals (Atlantic)
24. Death Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys (Atlantic)
Ian Parker
1. Middle Brother - Middle Brother (Partisan)
2. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen (Mute)
3. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l (4AD)
4. Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go (Supply and Demand)
5. Slow Club - Paradise (Moshi Moshi)
6. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (4AD)
7. St Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)
8. Other Lives – Tamer Animals (Play It Again Sam)
9. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
10. Yuck - Yuck (Mercury)
11. BOBBY - Bobby (Partisan)
12. Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know (Virgin)
13. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest (Warner)
14. WATERS - Out In The Light (City Slang)
15. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Bella Union)
16. Wilco – The Whole Love (Anti)
17. The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water (Full Time Hobby)
18. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Universal)
19. Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots (Play It Again Sam)
20. The Secret Sisters - The Secret Sisters (Decca)
21. Sarabeth Tucek - Get Well Soon (Sonic Cathedral)
22. Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain’t Over (Third Man Records)
23. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome (Parlaphone)
24. Dark Captain - Dead Legs & Alibis (Loaf)
Matt Collins
1. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (Atlantic)
2. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues (Bella Union)
3. Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys (Fiction)
4. Noah & The Whale - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)
5. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto (Parlaphone)
6. The Lesiure Society - Into the Murky Water (Full Time Hobby)
7. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (Sour Mash)
8. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (4AD)
9. This is the Kit - Where It Lives (Dreamboat)
10. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead (Rough Trade)
11. The Uglysuit - Aww Shucks (Quarterstick)
12. Beirut - The Rip Tide (Pompei)
13. Good Lovelies - Let the Rain Fall (ADA Global)
14. The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh (Bella Union)
15. The Spokes - The Spokes (Ninja Tune)
16. Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go (Supply And Demand)
17. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don’t Know (Virgin)
18. Wilco - The Whole Love (Anti)
19. The Middle East - I Want that You Are Always Happy (Play It Again Sam)
20. Tinariwen - Tassili (V2)
21. I Break Horses - Hearts (Bella Union)
22. Baxter Drury - Happy Soup (EMI)
23. Driver Drive Faster - Open House (Akoustic Anarky)
24. Treefight for Sunlight - Treefight for Sunlight (V2)
John Skilbeck
1. Wild Flag - Wild Flag (Wichita)
2. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (Domino)
3. The Lovely Eggs - Cob Dominos (Cherryade)
4. Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes (Polydor)
5. Comet Gain - Howl Of The Lonely Crowd (Fortuna Pop)
6. David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding (Brainlove)
7. Las Kellies - Kellies (Fire Records)
8. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older (Chemikal Underground)
9. Hunx & His Punx - Too Young To Be In Love (Hardly Art)
10. Ponytail - Do Whatever You Want All The Time (We Are Three)
11. St Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)
12. Vivian Girls - Share The Joy (Polyvinyl)
13. Dum Dum Girls - Always In Dreams (Sub Pop)
14. Laura Cantrell - Kitty Wells Dresses (Diesel Only)
15. The Dirtbombs - Party Store (In The Red)
16. The Field - Looping State Of Mind (Kompakt)
17. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls (Bella Union)
18. Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps (Sub Pop)
19. Sbtrkt - Sbtrkt (Young Turks)
20. Runaround Kids - Linked Arms (Philophobia)
21. Roll The Dice - In Dust (The Leaf Label)
22. Iceage - New Brigade (What's Your Rapture)
23. Widowspeak - Widowspeak (Captured Tracks)
24. Alex Turner - Submarine OST (Domino)
Andy Welch
1. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Bella Union)
2. Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know (Virgin)
3. Wild Beasts – Smother (Domino)
4. Katy B – On A Mission (Columbia)
5. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Universal)
6. Noah & The Whale – Last Night On Earth (Mercury)
7. Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi – Rome (EMI)
8. Washed Out – Within And Without (Weird World)
9. Yuck – Yuck (Mercury)
10. Real Estate – Days (Domino)
11. Sarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon (Sonic Cathedral)
12. Emmy The Great – Virtue (Close Harbour)
13. The Horrors – Skying (XL)
14. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
15. Slow Club – Paradise (Moshi Moshi)
16. Wilco – The Whole Love (Anti)
17. Big Deal – Lights Out (Mute)
18. Feist – Metals (Polydor)
19. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Fat Possum)
20. Radiohead – King Of Limbs (XL)
21. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys! (Fiction)
22. Fionn Regan – 100 Acres Of Sycamore (Heavenly)
23. Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi (Domino)
24. The Joy Formidable – Big Roar (Atlantic)
Steve Pill
1. Radiohead – The King of Limbs (XL)
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart (V2)
3. Gardens & Villa - Gardens & Villa (Secretly Canadian)
4. Washed Out - Within and Without (Weird World)
5. Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder (Tri Angle)
6. Walls - Coracle (Kompakt)
7. Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! (Polydor)
8. Wye Oak - Civilian (City Slang)
9. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
10. Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire on the Mountain (LYF Recordings)
11. Tom Waits – Bad As Me (Anti)
12. Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine (Carpark)
13. War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
14. Neon Indian - Era Extraña (Co-Operative Music)
15. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Sub Pop)
16. I Break Horses – Hearts (Bella Union)
17. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (4AD)
18. The Horrors – Skying (XL)
19. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Belong (Play It Again Sam)
20. James Blake - James Blake (Polydor)
21. SBTRKT - SBTRKT (Young Turks)
22. Foster The People - Torches (Columbia)
23. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin)
24. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (4AD)
Pranam Mavahalli
1. Bjork – Biophilia (One Little Indian)
2. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l (4AD)
3. Radiohead – King of Limbs (XL)
4. James Blake – James Blake (Atlas)
5. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica (Software)
6. Martyn – Ghost People (Brainfeeder)
7. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Universal)
8. St Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)
9. The Horrors – Skying (XL)
10. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest (Warner)
11. Feist – Metals (Polydor)
12. Justice – Audio, Video, Disco (Because)
13. Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs Evil (ATP Recordings)
14. Beirut – The Rip Tide (Pompei)
15. Nicolas Jaar – Space is Only Noise (Circus Company)
16. Jali Nyonkding Kwyateh - Jali (Self-released)
17. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra (True Panther Sounds)
18. WU LYF – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (Lyf Recordings)
19. Bon Iver – Bon Iver (4AD)
20. Panda Bear – Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
21. Moon Duo – Mazes (Souterrain Transmissions)
22. Tom Vek – Leisure Seizure (Island)
23. Atlas Sound – Parallax (4AD)
24. The Field – Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
Rory Dollard
1. Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen (Mute)
2. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l (4AD)
3. St Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)
4. Bjork - Biophilia (One Little Indian)
5. Emmy the Great - Virtue (Close Harbour)
6. James Blake - James Blake (Atlas)
7. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin)
8. Lanterns On the Lake - Gracious Tide Take Me Home (Bella Union)
9. Tom Waits - Bad As Me (ANTI)
10. CANT - Dreams Come True (Warp)
11. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (Drag City)
12. Beirut - The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
13. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (Domino)
14. Typhoon - A New Kind of House (Tender Loving Empire)
15. Wilco - The Whole Love (Dbpm)
16. Bright Eyes - The People's Key (Polydor)
17. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
18. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine (Domino)
19. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
20. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (4AD)
21. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Bella Union)
22. Starfucker - Reptilians (Polyvinyl)
23. Bombino - Agadez (Cumbancha)
24. Summer Camp - Welcome to Condale (Apricot Recording Company)
Dom Farrell
1. War on Drugs - Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (4AD)
3. Wilco - The Whole Love (Anti)
4. Radiohead - The King of Limbs (XL)
5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Universal)
6. Wild Beasts - Smother (Domino)
7. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo (Turnstile)
8. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin)
9. Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen (Mute)
10. I Break Horses - Hearts (Bella Union)
11. Starfucker - Reptilians (Polyvinyl)
12. The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh (Bella Union)
13. Wye Oak - Civilian (City Slang)
14. Wild Flag - Wild Flag (Wichita)
15. Jamie XX Gil Scott Heron - We're New Here (XL)
16. The Horrors - Skying (XL)
17. Bright Eyes - The People's Key (Polydor)
18. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)
19. Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! (Fiction)
20. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See (Domino)
21. Felice Brothers - Celebration, Florida (Loose)
22. Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong (Play It Again Sam)
23. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (Turnstile)
24. Dangermouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome (EMI)
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Great stuff. More varied than ever. Something new to love on everyone's list.
ReplyDeleteIf I was to do my list again, The Stepkids, Vivian Girls, Cashier No 9 and The Antlers would be in there I'm sure. I've no idea where, mind.
I misread Guy's No 1 choice for a second and thought 'I didn't know The Wonder Stuff had even got back together'
Thanks Ian. It's a lot of work, but perfectly executed as ever.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've enjoyed this year more than any other.
Happy Christmas everyone.
Andy
The Stepkids were likewise one of the last five cuts from my longlist, along with the Dex Romweber Duo, Tennis and the Kills. I don't want to think about what might happen if I did the list again, though. It was hard enough the first time.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite list that wasn't my list would be either Dollard's or Dom's, but I found something good from everyone's this year - and more than enough to keep me poor until at least February.
Thanks to all for taking part - and remember, the deadline for your 2012 list is, as ever, November 15...
Oh yeah, and Anna Calvi. How did I forget Anna Calvi, the omission of which was the one I grappled with for longest? One of those ones the head loves but, Blackout aside, the heart struggled with.
ReplyDeleteGoes without saying that you've done a sterling job again Ian, so cheers for all your hard work. Thoroughly enjoyed it this year - there's going to be a massive advent calendar sized hole in my life now, which I'll just have to fill with mince pies.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff from everyone's lists, but Sea of Bees, Dark Dark Dark, Tim Hecker and Other Lives were just some of the picks that were new to me and I shall definitely be investigating further.
Merry Christmas!
Another year of great picks, and that paired with the usually educating and entertaining reviews is what makes this chart so enjoyable to take part in.
ReplyDeleteSo thanks very much for putting this together again Ian, it looks certain that Jumbo Records will be thanking you in the next few days.
Everyone's suggested something I'll explore - even Guy. Think I'll be having that Fucked Up album.
Same time next year then?