Originally written by Sean Adams · 2 December 2013
Happy Listmas everybody! Before we reveal our favourite albums of the year as a big ol' list later this week (you'll find those and more compiled here), here are all of our team's number one albums of the year.
Senior Editorial Team
Sean Adams (Editor): Paramore - Paramore Cate Blanche (Features Editor): John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts Andrzej Lukowski (Reviews Editor): Arcade Fire - Reflektor Dom Gourlay (Senior Contributor): Hookworms - Pearl Mystic Robert Leedham (Singles Columnist): Local Natives - Hummingbird Si Truss (Electronic Columnist): The Knife - Shaking The Habitual Kyle Ellison (Hip-Hop/Rap Columnist): Ka - The Night's Gambit Ben Bland (Ambient Columnist): Ensemble Pearl - Ensemble Pearl Milton Savage (Video Games Columnist): Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels
Freelance Contributors
(In no particular order)
George Bass: Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Jon Clark: Yo La Tengo - Fade Neil Ashman: Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety Jazz Monroe: These New Puritans - Field of Reeds Marc Burrows: Manic Street Preachers - Rewind The Film Marie Wood: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away Dan Lucas: Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe Russell Warfield: Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe J.R. Moores: Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues Sean Thomas: Future of the Left - How to lose your brain in an accident Ben Philpott: Ed Harcourt - Back Into The Woods Hayley Scott: Girls Names - The New Life Elliot Mcveigh: Arcade Fire - Reflektor Alexander Tudor: The National - Trouble Will Find Me Paul Faller: The National - Trouble Will Find Me Amanda Farah: My Bloody Valentine - mbv Kat Rolle: Foals - Holy Fire Alex Thompson: Bastille - Bad Blood Jamies Skinner: Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium Noel Gardner: Endless Boogie - Long Island Derek Robertson: Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold Sammy Maine: Oliver Wilde - A Brief Introduction to Unnatural Lightyears Finbarr Bermingham: Eamonn Coyne & Kris Drever - Storymap David Pott-Negrine: Hoax - Hoax Phillip Bloomfield: Young Echo - Nexus Hayden Woolley: DJ Koze - Amygdala Matthew Slaughter: Superchunk - I Hate Music Mike McDonald: Jon Hopkins - Immunity Aidan Reynolds: YouYourself&i - The Treacle Well, Parts I and II Jonathan Falcone: Laura Cantrell - No Way There From Here Gemma Hampson: Midlake - Antiphon Woodrow Whyte: King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath The Moon Robert Cooke: MONEY - The Shadow Of Heavan Andrew Wallace Chamings: Nick Cave - Push The Sky Away Didz Hammond: Camera Obscura - Desire Lines Joe Goggins: The National - Trouble Will Find Me Christopher McBride: Public Service Broadcasting - Inform-Educate-Entertain Billy Hamilton: Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City Guiseppe Zevolli: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away Adam Follett: Jon Hopkins - Immunity Adam Bychawski: Dean Blunt - The Redeemer Keiran Goddard: Kanye West - Yeezus Tom Fenwick: Jagwar Ma - Howlin David Edwards: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Christian Cottingham: Daughter - If You Leave Dave Hanratty: 65daysofstatic - Wild Light Dan Cooper-Gavin: Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Vol. 3: To See More Light Paul Casey: The Weeknd - Kiss Land Jack Doherty: These New Puritans - Field of Reeds Will Metcalfe: Yo La Tengo - Fade Aaron Lavery: Barbarossa - Blood Lines Matt Langham: Lanterns on the Lake - Until the Colours Run Paul Stephen Gettings: These New Puritans - Field of Reeds Pieter J Macmillan: Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions: Volume I Sam Cleeve: Local Natives - Hummingbird Simon Jay Catling: Exhaustion - Future Eaters
DiScuss this over on our music forum: Based on the above, what do you predict DiS' album of the year will be?
Related
1) A collaborative Spotify playlist featuring tracks from our staff members album of the year long lists 2) Previous DiS album of the year lists 3) Vote now in our annual reader poll (also features many of our staff members sharing their top 5s) 4) DiS' year-end best of 2013 coverage compiled on one handy page