The Musical Advent Calendar - A Quick Recap

In order that you might more easily be able to mock panel members for the more glaring omissions from their lists, here's an easy at-a-glance look at their complete top 24s.


Andy Welch

1. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (Parlaphone)
2. Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky’s Edge (Parlaphone)

3. The Maccabees - Given To The Wild (Fiction)

4. The Black Keys - El Camino (Nonesuch)

5. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Domino)

6. Jessie Ware - Devotion (Island)

7. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season (Anti-)

8. Colorama - Good Music (AED Records)

9. Diiv - Oshin (Captured Tracks)

10. Wild Nothing - Nocturne (Bella Union)

11. Graham Coxon - A+E (Parlaphone)

12. Cat Power - Sun (Matador)

13. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)

14. Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough? (Warner) 

15. Bobby Womack - Bravest Man In The Universe (XL)

16. Tame Impala - Lonerism (Modular)

17. Father John Misty - Fear Fun (Bella Union)

18. Jack White - Blunderbuss (XL)

19. The 2 Bears - Be Strong (Mercury)

20. Gaz Coombes Presents - Here Come The Bombs (Hot Fruit Records)

21. Tamara Schlesinger - The Procession (Tantrum)

22. The Pond – The Pond (One Little Indian)

23. Stealing Sheep - Into The Diamond Sun (Heavenly)

24. The Beach Boys - That’s Why God Made The Radio (EMI) 

Matt Collins

1. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)

2. Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game (Decca)

3. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Infectious)

4. Pet Shop Boys - Elysium (Parlaphone)

5. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)

6. Sigur Ros - Valtari (Parlaphone)

7. Django Django - Django Django (Because)

8. Evans The Death - Evans The Death (Self-released)

9. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season (Anti-)

10. The Shins - Port of Morrow (Columbia)

11. Beach House - Bloom (Bella Union)

12. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Domino)

13. Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who (Melodic)

14. Rosie Taylor Project - Twin Beds (Odd Box)

15. Lucy Rose - Like I Used To (Columbia)

16. Father John Misty - Fear Fun (Bella Union)

17. Islands - A Sleep And A Forgetting (Anti-)

18. Dry The River - Shallow Bed (RCA)

19. Fanfarlo - Rooms Filled With Light (Warner)

20. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (Domino)

21. Band of Horses - Mirage Rock (Columbia)

22. It Hugs Back - Laughing Party (Safe and Sound)

23. Shrag - Canines (Fortuna Pop)

24. Efterklang - Piramida (4AD)

Pranam Mavahalli

1. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)

2. Four Tet – Pink (Text)

3. Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes (Warp)

4. Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp)

5. Peaking Lights – Lucifer (Weird World)

6. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (Def Jam)

7. Liars – WIXIW (Mute)

8. The Weeknd – Trilogy (XO, Universal Republic)

9. Neil Young – Psychedelic pill (Reprise)

10. Micachu – Never (Rough Trade)

11. Actress – R.I.P. (Honest Jons)

12. Kendrick Lamaar – good kid, m.A.A.d. City (Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope)

13. Django Django – Django Django (Because)

14. Easter – Innocence Man (White Box)

15. Plank! - Animalism (Akoustik Anarkhy)

16. Chromatics – Kill for Love (Italians do it better)

17. Minotaur Shock – Orchard (Melodic)

18. Mark van Hoen – The Revenant Diary (Editions Mego)

19. Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular)

20. Jonny Greenwood – The Master OST (Nonesuch Records)

21. Crystal Castles – (III) (Fictrion)

22. Kindness – World you Need a Change of Mind (Female Energy/Polydor)

23. Beth Orton – Sugaring Season (ANTI-)

24. Alt J – An Awesome Wave (Infectious)

Ali Mason

1. Anais Mitchell – Young Man In America (Wilderland Records)

2. The Staves – Dead & Born & Grown (Atlantic)

3. Rachel Sermanni – Under Mountains (Townsend Music)

4. The Maccabees – Given To The Wild (Fiction)

5. Carolina Chocolate Drops – Leaving Eden (Nonesuch)

6. Ellen & the Escapades – All The Crooked Scenes (Branch Out Records)

7. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave (Infectious)

8. Me and My Friends – Beneath A Level Head (Split Shift)

9. Laura J Martin – The Hangman Tree (Static Caravan) 

10. Of Monsters and Men – My Head Is An Animal (Island)

11. The Magnetic North – Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North (Full Time Hobby)

12. Julia Stone – By The Horns (Picture Show Records)

13. James Yorkston – I Was A Cat From A Book (Domino Records)

14. Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny – Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (Mute) 

15. Jesca Hoop – The House That Jack Built (Curuja) 

16. Dark Dark Dark – Who Needs Who (Melodic) 

17. Friend of All the World – The Wild (Friend Of All The World) 

18. Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again (Polydor)

19. Bard – The Springtime Fool (Woodburner Records) 

20. Big Eyes Family Players – Folk Songs II (Static Caravan)

21. Correatown – Pleiades (Highline Records)

22. Liz Green – O, Devotion! (Play It Again Sam)

23. Joyce The Librarian – They May Put Land Between Us (Folkwit Records)

24. Best Coast – The Only Place (Wichita Recordings)

Guy Atkinson

1. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past (Epitaph) 

2. Title Fight - Floral Green (Side One Dummy) 

3. White Lung - Sorry (Deranged) 

4. Deftones - Koi No Yokan (Reprise) 

5. Dikembe - Broad Shoulders (Tiny Engines) 

6. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl Record Co.) 

7. Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired (Asian Man) 

8. Daytrader - Twelve Years (Rise Records) 

9. Basement - colourmeinkindness (Run For Cover Records)

10. Ceremony - Zoo (Matador Records) 

11. You Blew It! - Grow Up, Dude (Topshelf Records)

12. Xerxes - Our Home is a Deathbed (No Sleep Records) 

13. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky (Jagjaguwar)

14. The Twilight Sad - No Oner Can Ever Know (Fat Cat)

15. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph) 

16. Trash Talk - 119 (Trash Talk Collective) 

17. Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere (Self Released) 

18. Classics of Love - Classics of Love (Asian Man) 

19. Circa Survive - Violent Waves (Self released)

20. Mixtapes - Even on the Worst Nights (No Sleep Records) 

21. Apart - Gray Light (Mayfly Records)

22. Pulled Apart by Horses - Tough Love (Transgressive)

23. Such Gold - Misadventures (Razor & Tie) 

24. No Trigger - Tycoon (No Sleep Records) 

Dominic Farrell

1. Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp)

2. The Shins – Port of Morrow (Columbia)
3. Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls (Rough Trade)
4. Beach House – Bloom (Bella Union)
5. Peaking Lights – Lucifer (Mexican Summer)
6. The Black Keys – El Camino (Nonesuch)
7. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball (Columbia)
8. Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Parlophone)
9. Tallest Man On Earth – There’s No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
10. Cold Specks – I Predict a Graceful Expulsion (Mute)
11. School of Seven Bells – Ghostory (Full Time Hobby)
12. Lambchop – Mr M (Merge)
13. The xx –  Coexist (Young Turks)
14. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Double Six)
15. Jack White – Blunderbuss (XL)
16. Field Music – Plumb (Memphis Industries)
17. Smoke Fairies – The Three of Us (V2)
18. Django Django  – Django Django (Because Music)
19. Chromatics – Kill for Love (Italians Do It Better)
20. Tim Burgess – Oh No I Love You (OGenisis)
21. First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar (Redeye)
22. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe (XL)
23. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill (Reprise)
24. Team Me – To the Treetops! (Propeller Recordings)

Ian Parker

1. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill (Reprise)

2. Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge (Parlophone)

3. Jack White - Blunderbuss (XL)

4. Admiral Fallow - Tree Bursts In Snow (Nettwerk)

5. Ellen & The Escapades - All The Crooked Scenes (Branch Out Records)

6. Grizzly Bear - Shields (Warp)

7. Black Keys - El Camino (Nonesuch)

8. Smoke Fairies - Blood Speaks (V2)

9. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls (Rough Trade)

10. First Aid Kit - Lion's Roar (Wichita)

11. Bhi Bhiman - Bhiman (Tummy Touch)

12. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season (Anti-)

13. Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Explosion (Mute)

14. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again (Polydor)

15. Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who (Melodic)

16. Mynabirds - Generals (Saddle Creek)

17. Dr John - Locked Down (Nonesuch)

18. Beach House - Bloom (Bella Union)

19. Ray Stinnett - A Fire Somewhere (Light In The Attic)

20. The Hot 8 Brass Band - The Life and Times of (Tru Thoughts)

21. The Staves - Dead & Born & Grown (Atlantic)

22. Gabriel & The Hounds - Kiss Full of Teeth (Communion)

23. Jo Mango - Murmuration (Olive Grove Records)

24. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana (Reprise)

Rory Dollard

1. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (Domino) 

2. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (Columbia)

3. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Columbia)

4. Jack White - Blunderbuss (XL) 

5. Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe (XL) 

6. Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America (Wilderland Records)

7. Mynabirds - Generals (Saddle Creek) 

8. Richard Hawley - Standing at Sky's Edge (Parlophone)

9. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (Domino) 

10. Cody ChesnuTT - Landing on a Hundred (One Little Indian)

11. Easy Star All-Stars - Thrillah (Easy Star)

12. Larkin Poe - Thick as Thieves (DefPig Records) 

13. Tennis - Young and Old (Fat Possum) 

14. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl Records) 

15. Cold Specks -I Predict a Graceful Expulsion (Mute) 

16. Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker & Jim James - New Multitudes (Decca)

17. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (Organs) 

18. Polica - Give You the Ghost (Memphis Industries)

19. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season (Epitaph) 

20. Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls (Rough Trade)

21. Dan Deacon - America (Domino)

22. The xx - Coexist (Young Turks)

23. Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough (Warner)

24. The 2 Bears - Be Strong (Southern Fried)

Steve Pill

1. Christian Scott – Christian aTunde Adjuah (Concord Music)

2. Beat Connection – The Palace Garden (Tender Age)   

3. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave (Infectious)   

4. Young Magic – Melt (Carpark)

5. Nite Jewel – One Second of Love (Secretly Canadian)   

6. Tanlines – Mixed Emotions (True Panther Sounds)

7. Dan Deacon – America (Domino)

8. Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Expulsion (Mute)

9. Lower Dens – Nootropics (Ribbon Music)

10. Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian)

11. Efterklang – Piramida (4AD)

12. Chromatics – Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)

13. How to Dress Well – Total Loss (Acephale/Weird World)

14. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe

15. Wild Nothing – Nocturne (Bella Union)

16. Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes (Warp)

17. Errors – Have Some Faith In Magic (Rock Action)

18. Dr John – Locked Down (Nonesuch)

19. Daphni – JIAOLONG (Dan Snaith)

20. John Talabot – Fin (Permanent Vacation)

21. Toy – Toy (Heavenly)

22. Calexico – Algiers (Anti)

23. Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery (XL)

24. Jack White – Blunderbuss (XL)

John Skilbeck

1. Frida Hyvonen - To The Soul (RMV Grammofon)

2. Escort - Escort (Tirk)

3. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)

4. Jessie Ware - Devotion (Island)

5. The Men - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)

6. Purity Ring - Shrines (4AD)

7. The Cribs - In The Belly of the Brazen Bull (Wichita)

8. Twin Shadow - Confess (4AD)

9. Divorce - Divorce (Night School)

10. Agent Ribbons - Let Them Talk (Antenna Farm)

11. Laura Gibson - La Grande (City Slang)

12. Shrag - Canines (Fortuna Pop!)

13. Green Thrift Grocery - Buy It Back! (Gumball Machine Records)

14. Corin Tucker Band - Kill My Blues (Kill Rock Stars)

15. Lightning Love - Blonde Album (Quite Scientific)

16. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)

17. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory (Wichita)

18. Tame Impala - Lonerism (Modular)

19. Ital - Hive Mind (Planet Mu)

20. Metz - Metz (Sub Pop)

21. Screaming Females - Ugly (Don Giovanni)

22. Cornershop - Urban Turban (Ample Play)

23. Death Grips - The Money Store (Columbia)

24. Julia Holter - Ekstasis (Domino)