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. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Virgin/EMI)
2. Tame Impala – Currents (Fiction)
3. Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool (Dirty Hit)
4. The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It (Fiction)
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar)
6. New Order – Music Complete (Mute)
7. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (Bella Union)
8. Half Moon Run – Sun Leads Me On (Caroline)
9. The Staves – If I Was (Atlantic)
10. Tobias Jesso Jr – Goon (True Panther)
11. Pond – Man It Feels Like Space Again (Universal)
12. Belle And Sebastian – Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance (Matador)
13. Leon Bridges – Coming Home (Columbia)
14. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit (Marathon)
15. Blur – The Magic Whip (Parlophone)
16. Natalie Prass – Natalie Prass (Spacebomb)
17. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green (Dead Oceans)
18. My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall (ATO)
19. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (Rough Trade)
20. The Charlatans – Modern Nature (BMG)
21. Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys (Play It Again Sam)
22. Will Butler – Policy (Merge)
23. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash)
24. Ryan Adams – 1989 (Pax-Am)

Rory Dollard

1. Joanna Newsom - Divers (Drag City)
2. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit (Marathon)
3. Bjork - Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
4. Girlpool - Before the World Was Big (Wichita)
5. Guy Garvey - Courting the Squall (Polydor)
6. Ibeyi - Ibeyi (XL)
7. Public Service Broadcasting - Race for Space (Test Card Recordings)
8. Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
9. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
10. Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ (Merge)
11. Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird is Home (Dead Oceans)
12. Ryan Adams - 1989 (Pax-Am)
13. Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows (Parlophone)
14. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse Girl (Sacred Bones)
15. Holly Herndon - Platform (4AD)
16. Ghostface Killah and BBNG - Sour Soul (Lex)
17. Nadine Shah - Fast Food (Apollo)
18. Laura Marling - Short Movie (Virgin/EMI)

19. Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes (Rough Trade)
20. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own, Love Again (Drag City)
21. Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile (Transgressive)
22. The Unthanks - Mount The Air (Cadiz)
23. Eskimeaux - OK (Carrot Top)
24. Wilco - Star Wars (Epitaph)

Matt Collins

1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash)
3. This is the Kit - Bashed Out (Brassland)
4. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars (Bella Union)
5. Adem - Seconds are Acorns (Caroline)
6. Everything Everything - Get to Heaven (RCA)
7. EL VY - Return to the Moon (4AD)
8. Dutch Uncles - O Shudder (Memphis Industries)
9. Guy Garvey - Courting the Squall (Polydor)
10. Django Django - Born Under Saturn (Because)
11. Gaz Coombes - Matador (Hot Fruit)
12. Admiral Fallow - Tiny Rewards (Nettwerk)
13. Beirut - No No No (4AD)
14. Black Rivers - Black Rivers (Ignition)
15. The Charlatans - Modern Nature (BMG)
16. Diagrams - Chromatics (Full Time Hobby)
17. Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool (Dirty Hit)
18. Jose Gonzalez - Vestiges and Claws (Peacefrog Records)
19. Blur - The Magic Whip (Parlophone)
20. SOAK - Before We Forgot How to Dream (Rough Trade)
21. Sweet Baboo - The Boombox Ballads (Moshi Moshi)
22. FFS - FFS (Domino)
23. The Unthanks - Mount the Air (Cadiz)
24. Waxahatchee - Ivy Trip (Wichita)

Dom Farrell

1. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Marathon)
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (Bella Union)
4. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space (Test Card Recordings)
5. Guy Garvey - Courting the Squall (Polydor)
6. Laura Marling - Short Movie (Virgin/EMI)
7. Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin (Play It Again Sam)
8. Tallest Man On Earth - Dark Bird Is Home (Dead Oceans)
9. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall (ATO)
10. The Charlatans - Modern Nature (BMG)
11. Django Django - Born Under Saturn (Because)
12. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar)
13. Drenge - Undertow (Infectious)
14. Destroyer - Poison Season (Dead Oceans)
15. Bop English - Constant Bop (Blood and Biscuits)
16. The Arcs - Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch)
17. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again (Drag City)
18. Matthew E White - Fresh Blood (Spacebomb)
19. Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters (Club AC30)
20. Leon Bridges - Coming Home (Columbia)
21. Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows (Parlophone)
22. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass (Spacebomb)
23. New Order - Music Complete (Mute)
24. Paul Smith & The Intimations - Contradictions (Billingham Records)

Andrew Gwilym

1. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm going down (Matador)
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
3. Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds (Proper)
4. Laura Marling - Short Movie (Virgin/EMI)
5. Wilco - Star Wars (Epitaph)
6. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love (Sub Pop)
7. Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
8. Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart (Virgin EMI)
9. Heartless Bastards - Restless Ones (Partisan)
10. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (Bella Union)
11. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall (ATO)
12. Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night (Columbia)
13. Jesse Malin - New York Before the War (One Little Indian)
14. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free (Southeastern Records)
15. AC/DC - Rock or Bust (Columbia)
16. Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern (Parlophone)
17. Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird is Home (Dead Oceans)
18. Buddy Guy - Born to Play Guitar (Sony)
19. Idlewild - Everything Ever Written (Empty Words)
20. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves (Columbia)
21. Craig Finn - Faith in the Future (Partisan)
22. Ryan Adam - 1989 (Pax-Am)
23. Neil Young & The Promise of the Real - The Monsanto Years (Reprise)
24. Frank Turner - Positive Songs for Negative People (Polydor)

John Skilbeck

1. Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home (Hardly Art)
2. Hop Along - Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
3. Screaming Females - Rose Mountain (Don Giovanni Records)
4. Marina and the Diamonds - FROOT (Neon Gold/Atlantic)
5. Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter (Fortuna Pop)
6. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Most Important Place In The World (Chemikal Underground)
7. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)
8. Downtown Boys - Full Communism (Don Giovanni Records)
9. Kodiak Deathbeds - Kodiak Deathbeds (self-released)
10. Tove Lo - Queen Of The Clouds (Island)
11. Shopping - Why Choose (FatCat)
12. Girlpool - Before The World Was Big (Wichita)
13. Ought - Sun Coming Down (Constellation)
14. Hurry Up - Hurry Up (Army Of Bad Luck)
15. Chvrches - Every Open Eye (Universal)
16. Trust Fund - No One’s Coming For Us (Turnstile)
17. The Cribs - For All My Sisters (Sony RED)
18. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (Interscope)
19. The Apartments - No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal (Microcultures)
20. Desperate Journalist - Desperate Journalist (Fierce Panda)
21. Escort - Animal Nature (Escort)
22. Prinzhorn Dance School - Home Economics (DFA)
23. Childbirth - Women’s Rights (Suicide Squeeze)
24. Dilly Dally - Sore (Partisan)

Pranam Mavahalli

1. Africa Express - Presents Terry Riley's In C (The Orchard)
2. Bjork – Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
3. Julia Holter – Have you in My Wilderness (Domino)
4. Floating Points – Elaenia (Pluto)
5. Andy Stott – Faith in Strangers (Modern Love)
6. Alabama Shakes – Sound and Color (Rough Trade)
7. Four Tet – Morning/Evening (Text)
8. Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
9. Percussions – 2011 until 2014 (Text)
10. Jamie xx – In Colour (Young Turks)
11. Kendrick Lamaar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Polydor)
12. Owiny Sigoma Band – Nyanza (Brownswood)
13. Seven Davis Jr – Universes (Ninja Tune)
14. Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
15. R Seiliog – In Hz (Caroline)
16. Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (Domino)
17. Boxed In – Boxed In (Nettwerk)
18. Aphex Twin -  user18081971 (Self-released)
19. Glenn Astro – Throwback (Republic of Music)
20. Kamasi Washington – The Epic (Brainfeeder)
21. George Fitzgerald – Fading Love (Double Six)
22. Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band – 21st Century Molam (Studio Lam)
23. Holly Herndon – Platform (4AD)
24. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)

Ian Parker

1. Laura Marling - Short Movie (Virgin/EMI)
2. Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now (Barclay)
3. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green (Dead Oceans)
4. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (Bella Union)
5. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass (Spacebomb)
6. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Marathon)
7. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood (Spacebomb)
8. Barna Howard - Quite A Feelin' (Loose)
9. Bjork - Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
10. Blur - The Magic Whip (Parlophone)
11. Admiral Fallow  - Tiny Rewards (Nettwerk)
12. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free (Southeastern Records)
13. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall (ATO)
14. Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows (Parlophone)
15. Leon Bridges - Coming Home (Columbia)
16. Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear - Skeleton Crew (Glassnote)
17. Smoke Fairies - Winter Wild (Full Time Hobby)
18. Kristin McClement - The Wild Grips (Willkommen)
19. Neil Young & The Promise of the Real - The Monsanto Years (Parlophone)
20. The Arcs - Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch)
21. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down (Matador)
22. Saun & Starr - Look Closer (Daptone)
23. Paul Weller - Saturn's Pattern (Parlophone)
24. Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes (Rough Trade)

Guy Atkinson

1. The Wonder Years – No Closer to Heaven (Hopeless Records)
2. Desaparecidos – Payola (Epitaph)
3. Turnover – Peripheral Vision (Run For Cover Records)
4. Defeater – Abandoned (Epitaph)
5. Deafheaven – New Bermuda (ANTI-)
6. Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter (Fortuna POP!)
7. The World is a Beautiful Place and I am no Longer Afraid to Die – Harmlessness (Epitaph)
8. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness (Republic Records)
9. Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle (6131 Records)
10. Beach Slang – The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us (Big Scary Monsters)
11. Lights & Motion – Chronicle (Deep Elm)
12. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love (Sub Pop)
13. Gallows – Desolation Sounds (Venn Records)
14. Wavves/Cloud Nothings – No Life for Me (Ghost Ramp)
15. Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling (Reaper Records)
16. Blacklisted – When People Grow, People Go (Deathwish)
17. Title Fight – Hyperview (ANTI-)
18. Chain of Flowers – Chain of Flowers (Alter)
19. Caspian – Dust and Disquiet (Big Scary Monsters)
20. Toundra – IV (Superball Music)
21. Westkust – Last Forever (Luxury)
22. Menace Beach – Ratworld (Memphis Industries)
23. Annabel – Having it All (Tiny Engines)
24. Joey Bada$ - B4.DA.$ (Cinematic Music Group)

Steve Pill

1. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. Four Tet – Morning/Evening (Text)
3. Jamie XX – In Colour (Young Turks)
4. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (Bella Union)
5. D'Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah (RCA)
6. Jim O'Rourke – Simple Songs (Drag City)
7. Tame Impala – Currents (Fiction)
8. Beach Slang – The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us (Big Scary Monsters)
9. Guy Garvey – Courting the Squall (Polydor)
10. Floating Points – Elaenia (Pluto)
11. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Marathon)
12. Rival Consoles – Howl (Erased Tapes)
13. Julia Holter – Have You in My Wilderness (Domino)
14. Bill Ryder-Jones – West Kirby County Primary (Domino)
15. Destroyer – Poison Season (Dead Oceans)
16. LoneLady – Hinterland (Warp)
17. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment – Surf (Self-released)
18. Nils Frahm – Solo (Erased Tapes)
19. Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (4AD)
20. Songhoy Blues – Music in Exile (Transgressive)
21. Sleater Kinney – No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)
22. Blur – The Magic Whip (Parlophone)
23. Ryan Adams – 1989 (Pax-Am)
24. C Duncan – Architect (Fatcat)