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