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. The Horrors – Luminous (XL)

2. Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)

3. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)

4. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Parlophone)

5. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams (Pax Am)

6. Beck – Morning Phase (EMI)

7. Slow Club – Complete Surrender (Caroline)

8. Warpaint – Warpaint (Rough Trade)

9. Gruff Rhys – American Interior (Turnstile)

10. Childhood – Lacuna (House Anxiety)

11. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There? (Jagjaguwar)

12. St Vincent – St Vincent (Loma Vista)

13. Johnny Marr – Playland (New Voodoo)

14. Jack White – Lazaretto (Third Man Records)

15. Ben Watt – Hendra (Unmade Road)

16. The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Nonesuch)

17. Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow (Island)

18. Metronomy – Love Letters (Because)

19. Manic Street Preachers – Futurology (Sony)

20. Temples - Sun Structures (Heavenly)

21. Spoon – They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)

22. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire With No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

23. The Lost Brothers – New Songs Of Dawn And Dust (Lojinx)

24. Real Estate – Atlas (Domino)

Rory Dollard

This is actually how Rory submitted his list this year (Memo to rest of the panel - this is NOT encouraged). A more legible version is below.

1. Adult Jazz - Gist Is (Spare Thought)

2. St Vincent - St Vincent (Loma Vista)
3. Glass Animals - Zaba (Wolf Tone)
4. Jack White - Lazaretto (Third Man Records)
5. Elbow - The Taking Off And Landing of Everything (Fiction)
6. Beck - Morning Phase (EMI)
7. The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
8. Nothing - Guilty of Everything (Relapse)
9. Larkin Poe - Kin (RH Music)
10. Alice Boman - EP II (Happy Death)
11. Stephen Malkmus &The Jicks - Wigout At Jagbags (Domino)
12. Ambrose Akinmusire - The Imagined Saviour (Decca)
13. The Wytches - Annabiel Dream Reader (Wichita)
14. Tuneyards - Nikki Nack (4AD)
15. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
16. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
17. Tony Allen - Film of Life (Jazz Village)
18. The Antlers - Familiars (Transgressive)
19. St Paul &The Broken Bones - Half The City (Single Lock)
20. Ryan Adams - 1984 (Pax Am)
21. Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes (Columbia)
22. King Creosote - From Scotland With Love (Domino)
23. Curtis Harding - Soul Power (Burger Records)

24. Tim Wheeler - Lost Domain (Atomic Heart)

Matt Collins

1. Alvvays - Alvvays (Transgressive)
2. Horse Thief - Fear in Bliss (Bella Union)
3. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
4. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Columbia)
5. Teleman - Breakfast (Moshi Moshi)
6. Embrace - Embrace (Cooking Vinyl)
7. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Fiction)
8. Baxter Drury - It’s a Pleasure (PIAS)
9. Beck - Morning Phase (EMI)
10. Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)
11. Jesca Hoop - Undress (Last Laugh)
12. Cherry Ghost - Herd Runners (Heavenly)
13. alt-J - This Is All Yours (Infectious)

14. Honeyblood - Honeyblood (Fat Cat)

15. Lily &Madeleine - Fumes (Asthmatic Kitty)

16. Martin Carr - The Breaks (Tapete)
17. Mo - No Mythologies to Follow (RCA)
18. Ought - More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
19. Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Domino)
20. Olof Arnalds - Palme (One Little Indian)
21. The Antlers - Familiars (Transgressive)
22. St Vincent - St Vincent (Loma Vista)
23. Let’s Wrestle - Let’s Wrestle (Fortuna Pop)

24. Mutual Benefit - Love's Crushing Diamond (Other Music)

Dom Farrell

1. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)

2. St Vincent - St Vincent (Loma Vista)

3. Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (Fiction)

4. Spoon - They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)

5. Beck - Morning Phase (EMI)

6. Wild Beasts - Present Tense (Domino)

7. Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)

8. The Antlers - Familiars (Transgressive)

9. Amazing Snakeheads - Amphetamine Ballads (Domino)

10. Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy (Warner Bros)

11. The Black Keys - Turn Blue (Nonesuch)

12. Childhood - Lacuna (Marathon Artists)

13. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (Rough Trade)

14. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Columbia)

15. Jack White - Lazaretto (Third Man)

16. Eels - The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett (Vagrant)

17. Slow Club - Complete Surrender (Caroline)

18. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (PAX AM)

19. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology (Columbia)

20. New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (Matador)

21. Jimi Goodwin - Odludek (Heavenly)

22. Wye Oak - Shriek (City Slang)

23. Neil Young - Storytone (Reprise)

24. Broken Bells - After The Disco (Columbia)

Andrew Gwilym

1. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)

2. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (Jagjaguwar)

3. Jack White – Lazaretto (Third Man Records)

4. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

5. Manic Street Preachers – Futurology (Columbia)

6. Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems (Columbia)

7. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde)

8. The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Nonesuch)

9. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey – Going Back Home (Chess)

10. Spoon – They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)

11. Lucinda Williams – Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20 Records)

12. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams (Pax AM)

13. Mary Gauthier – Trouble and Love (Proper Records)

14. Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans (ATO)

15. Tweedy – Sukierae (DPBM)

16. Neil Young – A Letter Home (Third Man Records)

17. The Hold Steady – Teeth Dreams (Razor & Tie)

18. Beck – Morning Phase (EMI)

19. Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes (Columbia)

20. Interpol – El Pintor (Matador)

21. St Vincent – St Vincent (Loma Vista)

22. The Antlers – Familiars (Transgressive)

23. Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Fiction)

24. Billy Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones – Foreverly (Reprise)

John Skilbeck

1. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down (Big Dada)

2. Ought - More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)

3. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)

4. Marissa Nadler - July (Bella Union)

5. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)

6. Katy B - Little Red (Columbia)

7. Childbirth - It's A Girl (Self-released)

8. Protomartyr - Under Color Of Official Right (Hardly Art)

9. Remember Remember - Forgetting The Present (Rock Action)

10. Alvvays - Alvvays (Transgressive)

11. Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (ATO)

12. Ex Hex - Rips (Merge)

13. Virginia Wing - Measures Of Joy (Fire)

14. Hookworms - The Hum (Weird World)

15. Snowbird - Moon (Bella Union)

16. La Roux - Trouble In Paradise (Polydor)

17. Nun - Nun (Avant!)

18. Blank Realm - Grassed Inn (Fire)

19. The Delines - Colfax (Decor)

20. EMA - The Future’s Void (City Slang)

21. Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts (Fortuna Pop)

22. Jessie Ware - Tough Love (PMR)

23. Jennifer Castle - Pink City (No Quarter)

24. White Lung - Deep Fantasy (Domino)

Pranam Mavahalli

1. Beck - Morning Phase (EMI)
2. Caribou - Our Love (City Slang)
3. Flying Lotus - You're Dead (Warp)
4. Clark - Clark (Warp)
5. Lone - Reality Testing (R&S)
6. Todd Terje - It's Album Time (Olsen)
7. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum (Turnstile)
8. Deerhoof - La Isla Bonita (Upset The Rhythm)
9. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
10. Ought – More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
11. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors)
12. Thurston Moore - The Best Day (Matador)
13. Aphex Twin - Syro (Warp)
14. Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19 (Workshop)
15. Leon Vynehall - Music For The Uninvited (3024)
16. Martyn - The Air Between Words (Ninja Tune)
17. Young Fathers – Dead (Big Dada)
18. Chassol - Indiamore (Tricatel)
19. Arca - Xen (Mute)
20. FKA Twigs - LP1 (Young Turks)
21. Melanie De Biasio - No Deal (PIAS)
22. Rustie - Green Language (Warp)
23. Plank - Hivemind (Akoustik Anarkhy)
24. Douga – The Silent Well (Do Make Merge)

Ian Parker

1. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (Rough Trade)

2. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There? (Jagjaguwar)

3. Temples - Sun Structures (Heavenly)

4. Beck - Morning Phase (EMI)

5. Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)

6. Frazey Ford - Indian Oceans (Nettwerk)

7. Melanie De Biasio - No Deal (PIAS)

8. Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - Dereconstruction (Sub Pop)

9. The Black Keys - Turn Blue (Nonesuch)

10. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music (Loose)

11. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)

12. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

13. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors)

14. Delfines - Colfax (Decor)

15. Jack White - Lazaretto (Third Man Records)

16. Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (Highway 20)

17. Merchandise - After The End (4AD)

18. Spoon - They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)

19. Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave (Fat Cat)

20. St Vincent - St Vincent (Loma Vista)

21. GoGo Penguin - v2.0 (Gondwana Records)

22. Felice Brothers - Favourite Waitress (Dualtone)

23. Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (Fiction)

24. St Paul & The Broken Bones - Half The City (Single Lock)

Guy Atkinson

1.Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (Wichita)

2. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Xtra Mile)

3. White Lung - Deep Fantasy (Domino)

4. The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave (Fat Cat Records)

5. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again (Epitaph)

6. Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You (Epitaph)

7. Gates - Bloom and Breathe (Pure Noise Records)

8. Makthaverskan - Makthaverskan II (Run for Cover Records)

9. Prawn - Kingfisher (Topshelf Records)

10. Banner Pilot - Souvenir (Fat Wreck Chords)

11. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There (Tiny Engines)

12. The Menzingers - Rented World (Epitaph Records)

13. You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing (Topshelf Records)

14. Eagulls - Eagulls (Partisan)

15. Cheatahs - Cheatahs (Wichita)

16. Somos - Temple of Plenty (Tiny Engines)

17. Crosses - Crosses (Sumerian)

18. Alcest - Shelter (Prophecy Productions)

19. Nothing - Guilty of Everything (Relapse)

20. Brave Bird - T-Minus Grand Gesture (Count Your Lucky Stars)

21. Modern Baseball - You're Gonna Miss It All (Run for Cover Records)

22. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)

23. Whirr - Sway (Graveface)

24. The Lawrence Arms - Metropole (Epitaph Records)

Steve Pill

1. Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Fiction)

2. Caribou – Our Love (City Slang)

3. Jolie Holland – Wine Dark Sea (Anti-)

4. Lone – Reality Testing (R&S)

5. Frazey Ford – Indian Ocean (Nettwerk)

6. Plaid – Reachy Prints (Warp)

7. Brian Reitzell – Auto Music (Smalltown Supersound)

8. Paul White – Shaker Notes (R&S)

9. Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like a Bell (OWSLA)

10. Real Estate – Atlas (Domino)

11. Ian William Craig – A Turn of Breath (Recital)

12. James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical (Vagrant)

13. Melanie de Biasio – No Deal (PIAS)

14. Gogo Penguin – v2.0 (Gondwana Records)

15. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

16. Taylor McFerrin – Early Riser (Brainfeeder)

17. Spoon – They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)

18. Nick Mulvey – First Mind (Fiction)

19. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (Warp)

20 Adrian Crowley – Some Blue Morning (Chemikal Underground)

21. Amen Dunes – Love (Sacred Bones)

22. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)

23. Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes (self-released)

24. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)