Tuesday, December 24, 2013

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. Steve Mason – Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time (Domino2. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin)3. Summer Camp – Summer Camp (Moshi Moshi)4. Anna Calvi - One Breath (Domino)5. Goldheart Assembly – Long Distance Song Effects (New Music Club)

6. Arctic Monkeys - AM (Domino)7. Night Beds – Country Sleep (Dead Oceans)
8. Foals – Holy Fire (Warner Bros)9. Younghusband – Dromes (Sonic Cathedral)10. Gambles – Trust (Gmbls)11. Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs – Clarietta (Heavenly)12. Hookworms – Pear Mystic (Gringo)
13. Johnny Marr – The Messenger (Warner Bros)
14. Local Natives – Hummingbirds (Infectious)
15. Half Moon Run – Dark Eyes (Communion)16. HAIM – Days Are Gone (Polydor)17. I Am Kloot – Let It All In (Shepherd Moon)18. Disclosure - Settle (Island)
19. Ed Harcourt - Back Into The Woods (CCCLX)20. Charles Bradley – Victim Of Love (Daptone)

21. Camera Obsucra – Desire Lines (4AD)
22. John Murry – Graceless Age (Rubyworks)23. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd)
24. CHRVCHES – The Bones Of What You Believe (Virgin)

Matt Collins

1. Daughter - If You Leave (4AD)
2. Sigur Ros - Kveikur (XL)
3. The National - Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
4. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (XL)
5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Sonovox)
6. Pet Shop Boys - Electric (X2)
7. Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium (ATO)
8. Everything Everything - Arc (RCA)
9. Los Campesinos - No Blues (Turnstile)
10. Sky Larkin - Motto (Wichita)
11. Foals - Holy Fire (Warner Bros)
12. Besnard Lakes - Until in Excess (Jagjaguwar)
13. Treetop Flyers - The Mountain Moves (Loose)
14. Beady Eye - BE (Columbia)
15. Bored Nothing - Bored Nothing (Spunk Records)
16. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin)
17. Sweet Baboo - Ships (Republic of Music)
18. The Leisure Society - Alone Aboard the Ark (Full Time Hobby)
19. Arctic Monkeys - AM (Domino)
20. Atoms for Peace - Amok (XL)
21. Camera Obscura - Desire Lines (4AD)
22. Villagers - {Awayland} (Domino)
23. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus (ATP)
24. Bell X1 - Chop Chop (Bellyup)

Pranam Mavahalli

1. Jai Paul - Demos (Unofficial release)
2. My Bloody Valentine - MBV (Pickpocket Records)
3. Clark – Feast/Beast (Warp)
4. Holden – The Inheritors (Border Community)
5. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (Columbia)
6. Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind (Text)
7. Moderat – II (Monkeytown) 
8. Jon Hopkins - Immunity (Domino)
9. Disclosure - Settle (Island)
10. Jessica Pratt - Jessica Pratt (Birth Records)
11. Autechre - Exai (Warp)
12. Anna Calvi - One Breath (Domino)
13. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp)
14. Machinedrum – Vapor City (Ninja Tune)
15. Mount Kimbie - Sold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp)
16. Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain (Hyperdub) 
17. DJ Rashad - Double Cup (Hyperdub)
18. Kanye West - Yeezus (Def Jam)
19. Forest Swords - Engravings (Tri Angle)
20. James Blake - Overgrown (Polydor)
21. Jimi Hendrix - People Hell and Angels (Sony)
22. Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia (Thirsty Ear)
23. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris (Columbia)
24. Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu (Ribbon Music)

Ali Mason

1. Nancy Elizabeth - Dancing (The Leaf Label)
2. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against A Stone (Sunday Best)
3. Volcano Choir – Repave (Jagjaguwar)
4. Veronica Falls - Waiting For Something To Happen (Bella Union)
5. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin)
6. Johnny Flynn – Country Mile (Transgressive)
7. Klak Tik – The Servants (Safety First)
8. The Leisure Society – Alone Aboard The Ark (Full Time Hobby)
9. Alessi’s Ark – The Still Life (Bella Union)
10. Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer – Child Ballads (Wilderland Records)
11. Daughter – If You Leave (4AD)
12. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Sonovox)
13. Sparrow and the Workshop - Murderopolis (Song)
14. Deptford Goth – Life After Defo (Merok)
15. Laish - Obituaries (Folkwit Records)
16. Silver Seas - Alaska (EMI)
17. Christopher Owens - Lysandre (Turnstile)
18. Heidi Talbot – Angel Without Wings (Navigator Records)
19. Lily and Madeleine – Lily and Madeleine (Asthmatic Kitty)
20. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II (Jagjaguwar)
21. Dodos - Carrier (Polyvinyl)
22. Just Handshakes – Say It (Bleeding Gold)
23. Les Miserables Cast - Les Miserables OST (Polydor)
24. She and Him – Volume 3 (Domino)

Guy Atkinson

1. Iron Chic - The Constant One (Bridge Nine Records)
2. The Appleseed Cast - Illumination Ritual (Graveface Records)
3. Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We’re Missing (No Sleep Records)
4. Touche Amore - Is Survived By… (Deathwish Inc.)
5. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (Hopeless)
6. Paramore - Paramore (Fueled by Ramen)
7. Drug Church - Paul Walker (No Sleep Records)
8. The Flatliners - Dead Language (Fat Wreck)
9. Transit - Young New England (Rise Records)
10. Lights and Motion - Reanimation (Deep Elm Records)
11. HAIM - Days Are Gone (Polydor)
12. Turnover - Magnolia (Run for Cover Records)
13. PRO ERA - P.E.E.P: The aPROcalypse (Self released)
14. Modern Life is War - Fever Hunting (Deathwish Inc.)
15. The National - Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
16. Defeater - Letters Home (Bridge Nine Records)
17. State Faults - Resonate/Desperate (No Sleep Records)
18. RVIVR - The Beauty Between (YoYo Records)
19. Power Trip - Manifest Decimation (Southern Lord)
20. Captain, We’re Sinking - The Future is Cancelled (Run for Cover Records)
21. Dave Hause - Devour (Rise Records)
22. Citizen - Youth (Run for Cover Records)
23. Kurt Vile - Wakin' on a Pretty Daze (Matador)
24. Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness (Relapse Records)


Dom Farrell

1. Phospherescent – Muchacho (Dean Oceans)
2. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin)
3. Arctic Monkeys – AM (Domino)
4. Elvis Costello and The Roots – Wise Up Ghost (Blue Note)
5. Kurt Vile – Wakin' On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
6. The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
7. I Am Kloot – Let It All In (Shepherd Moon)
8. Matthew E. White – Big Inner (Domino)
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd)
10. Manic Street Preachers – Rewind the Film (Columbia)
11. Black Joe Lewis – Electric Slave (Vagrant)

12. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II (Jagjaguwar)
13. David Bowie – The Next Day (Columbia)
14. Primal Scream – More Light (Ignition)
15. Janelle Monae – Electric Lady (Atlantic)
16. Black Angels – Indigo Meadow (Blue Horizon)
17. Deerhunter – Monomania (4AD)
18. Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell and Angels (Sony)
19. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against a Stone (Sunday Best)
20. Disclosure – Settle (Island)
21. Eels – Wonderful, Glorious (Vagrant)
22. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (Columbia)
23. British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy (Rough Trade)
24. Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum)

Ian Parker

1. Arctic Monkeys - AM (Domino)
2. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin)
3. Jimi Hendrix - People, Hell and Angels (Sony)
4. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd)
5. Anna Calvi – One Breath (Domino)
6. John Murry - Graceless Age (Rubyworks)
7. Valerie June - Pushin Against A Stone (Sunday Best)
8. Matthew E White - Big Inner (Domino)
9. Of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (Polyvinyl)
10. Charles Bradley - Victim of Love (Daptone)
11. Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare (Bella Union)
12. The National - Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
13. Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay (Epitaph)
14. Willis Earl Beal - Nobody Knows (XL)
15. David Bowie - The Next Day (ISO)
16. Kurt Vile - Walkin' on a Pretty Daze (Matador)
17. Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound (V2)
18. Phosphorescent - Muchacado (Dead Oceans)
19. Jason Isbell - Southeastern (Relativity)
20. Wooden Shjips - Back To Land (Thrill Jockey)
21. Portugal The Man - Evil Friends (Atlantic)
22. Luke Winslow-King - The Coming Tide (Bloodshot)
23. Alessi’s Ark - The Still Life (Bella Union)
24. Devon Sproule and Mike O’Neill - Colours (Tin Angel)

Rory Dolland
1. San Fermin - San Fermin (Downtown)
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd)
3. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle (Virgin)
4. Son Lux - Lanterns (Joyful Noise)
5. Atoms For Peace - Amok (XL)
6. James Blake - Overgrown (Polydor)
7. Primal Scream - More Light (Ignition)
8. The National - Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
9. Camera Obscura - Desire Lines (4AD)
10. Jenny Hval - Innocence Is Kinky (Rune Grammofon)
11. Bill Callahan - Dream River (Drag City)
12. Anna Calvi - One Breath (Domino)
13. NO CEREMONY/// - NO CEREMONY/// (NO CEREMONY///)
14. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap (Self-released)
15. She and Him - Volume 3 (Domino)
16. Typhoon - White Lighter (Rollcall Records)
17. My Bloody Valentine - MBV (Pickpocket Records)
18. Bombino - Nomad (Nonesuch)
19. Daughter - If You Leave (4AD)
20. Phosphorescent - Muchaco (Dead Oceans)
21. Neon Neon - Praxis Makes Perfect (Republic of Music)
22. Night Beds - Country Sleep (Dead Oceans)
23. Tricky - False Idols (!K7/False Idols)
24. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (XL)

Steve Pill

1. Darkside – Psychic (Matador)
2. Thundercat – Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)
3. Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp)
4. Tim Hecker - Virgins (Kranky)
5. The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
6. Forest Swords - Engravings (Tri Angle)
7. Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia (Thirsty Ear)
8. Bill Callahan – Dream River (Drag City)
9. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin)
10. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)
11. Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
12. Josephine Foster - I'm A Dreamer (Fire)
13. The Men – New Moon (Sacred Bones)
14. Willis Earl Beal - Nobody Knows (XL)
15. Atoms for Peace - Amok (XL)
16. Foals – Holy Fire (Warner Bros)
17. Phosphorescent - Muchacho (Dead Oceans)
18. Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven (Warp)
19. Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork (Matador)
20. Yo La Tengo - Fade (Matador)
21. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd)
22. Matthew E White – Big Inner (Domino)
23. Deerhunter - Monomania (4AD)
24. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Sonovox)

John Skilbeck

1. The Pastels - Slow Summit (Domino)
2. California X - California X (Don Giovanni)
3. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana (Carpark Records)
4. Foret - Foret (Simone Records)
5. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (What's Your Rupture)
6. Torres - Torres (Torres)
7. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob (Warner Bros)
8. Hookworms - Pearl Mystic (Gringo)
9. Deafheaven - Sunbather (Deathwish Inc)
10. Las Kellies - Total Exposure (Fire)
11. Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In (Names Records) 
12. Throwing Muses - Purgatory/Paradise (The Friday Project)
13. Lightning Dust - Fantasy (Jagjaguwar)
14. Scott and Charlene's Wedding - Any Port In A Storm (Fire)
15. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt (Wichita Recordings)
16. Chastity Belt - No Regerts (Help Yourself Records)
17. Tanya Donelly - Swansong Series (Self-released)
18. Quasi - Mole City (Domino)
19. Boogarins - As Plantas Que Caram (Fat Possum)
20. Empty Pools - Saturn Reruns (Battle Music)
21. Laura Cantrell - No Way There From Here (Spit and Polish)
22. Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back (Hyperdub)
23. Mazes - Ores and Minerals (Fatcat)
24. Janet Weiss, Matt Cameron and Zach Hill - Drumgasm (Jackpot Records)


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