Ahead of revealing our favourite albums of the year (and our annual staff mixtape), here are the albums each of our team were loving this year. Google their names to read some of their reviews if you like their choices for more recommendations.

Our album of the year will be revealed on DiS' monthly radio show on Soho Radio from 2pm tomorrow (Monday 12th December) tune in online here.

DiS STAFF TOP 3s

Sean Adams (Editor in Chief)
1) THE 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
2) DAVID BOWIE - ★
3) SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - SVIIB
Click here to see my top 20.

Andrzej Lukowski (Reviews Editor)
1) DAVID BOWIE - ★
2) ANOHNI - Hopelessness
3) PREOCCUPATIONS - Preoccupations

Derek Robertson (Associate Editor)
1) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Skeleton Tree
2) RADIOHEAD - A Moon Shaped Pool
3) DAVID BOWIE - ★

Dom Gourlay
1) AMBER ARCADES - Fading Lines
2) MONEY - Suicide Songs
3) HOOTON TENNIS CLUB - Big Box Of Chocolates

Danielle Perry (DiS Podcast co-host)
1) DAVID BOWIE - ★
2) THE KILLS - Ash and Ice
3) NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - Skeleton Tree

Gavin Miller
1) PYE CORNER AUDIO - Stasis
2) CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS - Chaleur Humaine
3) THE DRONES - Feelin' Kinda Free

Dave Hanratty
1) FRANK OCEAN - Blonde
2) BON IVER - 22, A Million
3) KANYE WEST - The Life of Pablo

Joe Goggins
1) THE 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
2) ANGEL OLSEN - My Woman
3) AMERICAN FOOTBALL - American Football

J.R. Moores
1) DAVID BOWIE - ★
2) CCR HEADCLEANER - Tear Down The Wall
3) JENNY HVAL - Blood Bitch

Marc Burrows
1) DAVID BOWIE - ★
2) BLOOD ORANGE - FREETOWN SOUND
3) MARTHA - BLISTERS IN THE PIT OF MY HEART

Russell Warfield
1) WEEZER - The White Album
2) HOW TO DRESS WELL - Care
3) ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Painting With

Benjamin Bland
1) TIM HECKER - Love Streams
2) ROLY PORTER - Third Law
3) ULVER - "ATGCLVSSCAP"

Eugenie Johnson
1) C DUNCAN - The Midnight Sun
2. ROISIN MURPHY - Take Her Up To Monto
3. ANOHNI - Hopelessness

Tom Lambert
1) THE 1975 - I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
2) BON IVER - 22, A Million
3) SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - SVIIB

Luke Beardsworth
1) KATE TEMPEST - Let Them Eat Chaos
2) BON IVER - 22, A Million
3) RADIOHEAD - Moon Shaped Pool

Lee Alexandra Adcock
1) JENNY HVAL – Blood Bitch
2) TEEN – Love Yes
3) THE GOTOBEDS – Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic

Bekki Bemrose
1) ANNA MEREDITH - Varmints
2) COLIN STETSON - Sorrow
3) ANGEL OLSEN - My Woman

Ben Philpott
1) SUEDE - Night Thoughts
2) ANOHNI - Hopelessness
3) AIDAN MOFFAT - Where You're Meant To Be

Nina Keen
1) NONAME - Telefone
2) BEYONCE - Lemonade
3) THE JULIE RUIN - Hit Reset

Tom Fenwick
1) FRANK OCEAN - Blonde
2) DANNY BROWN - Atrocity Exhibition
3) BADBADNOTGOOD - IV

Ellen Peirson-Hagger
1) BON IVER - 22, A Million
2) JAMES BLAKE - The Colour in Anything
3) ANOHNI - Hopelessness

Christopher McBride
1) SUEDE - Night Thoughts
2) TEENAGE FANCLUB - Here
3) MEILYR JONES - 2013

Jack Doherty
1) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - SKELETON TREE
2) DAVID BOWIE - ★
3) ULRIKA SPACEK - The Album Paranoia

Sammy Maine
1) PINGEGROVE – Cardinal
2) MITSKI – Puberty 2
3) PWR BTTM – Ugly Cherries.

Max Pilley
1) DAVID BOWIE - Blackstar
2) ESPERANZA SPALDING - D+Evolution
3) BON IVER - 22, A Million

Elizabeth Aubrey
1) NICK CAVE AND BAD SEEDS - Skeleton Tree
2) JENNY HVAL - Blood Bitch
3) RADIOHEAD - A Moon Shaped Pool

Jamie Otsa 1) BLACK FOXXES - I'm Not Well
2) THE FALL OF TROY - Okay
3) RUSSIAN CIRCLES - Guidance

Giuseppe Zevolli
1) HUERCO S. - For Those of You Who Have Never...
2) DANNY BROWN - Atrocity Exhibition
3) ANGEL OLSEN - My Woman

Paul Brown
1) MARTHA - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
2) BARRY HYDE - Malody
3) DOE - Some Things Last Longer than You

Nick Roseblade
1) KATE TEMPEST - Let Them Eat Cake
2) YANN TIERSEN - EUSA
3) LAS AVES - Die in Shanghai

David Hillier
1) WHITNEY - Light Upon The Lake
2) NICK CAVE & THE BADSEEDS - Skeleton Key
3) KEATON HENSON - Alright Now

Adam Turner-Heffer
1) TOUCHE AMORE - Stage Four
2) PARQUET COURTS - Human Performance
3) PREOCCUPATIONS - Preoccupations

Andrew Schagen
1) IAN WILLIAM CRAIG - Centres
2) COBALT - Slow Forever
3) LAURA GIBSON - Empire Builder

Ed Ledsham
1) KANYE WEST - Life Of Pablo
2) FRANK OCEAN - Blonde
3) BON IVER - 22 a million

Dan Lucas
1) RADIOHEAD - A Moon Shaped Pool
2) DAVID BOWIE - ★
3) ESBEN AND THE WITCH - Older Terrors

Jasper Willems
1) WILLIAM TYLER – Modern Country
2) THE SWEET RELEASE OF DEATH – The Sweet Release Of Death
3) MOOR MOTHER – Fetish Bones

Matt Langham
1) DAUGHTER - Not to Disappear
2) FRANKIE COSMOS - Next Thing
3) MARTHA - Blisters in the Pit of my Heart

James Skinner
1) CONOR OBERST - Ruminations
2) HAMILTON LEITHAUSER & ROSTAM - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
3) BEYONCÉ - Lemonade

Chris Shipman
1) FRANK OCEAN - Blonde
2) MONEY - Suicide Songs
3) AMERICAN FOOTBALL - LP2

Paul Faller
1) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Skeleton Tree
2) DAUGHTER - Not To Disappear
3) SAMARIS - Black Lights

Haydon Spenceley
1) NEIL COWLEY TRIO - Spacebound Apes
2) LOSERS - How To Ruin Other People's Futures
3) BRIAN MCSWEENEY - As The Bluebird

Jonathan Falcone
1) AMERICAN MUSTARD - American Mustard
2) SCANDINAVIA - World Power
3) WEEZER - White Album

Woody Whyte
1) NAO - For All We Know
2) THE 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep...
3) RIHANNA - ANTI

Browse our previous album of the year lists here.

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Lead photo: Angel Olsen press shot.