Monday, December 24, 2012

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)


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