Before QRO publishes our list of the top albums of the year, we let everyone here have their say with their own Top Albums lists:
Jessica Amaya
1.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
2.Youth Lagoon, The Year of Hibernation
3.Widowspeak, Widowspeak
4.Feist, Metals
5.Caveman, CoCo Beware
6.Real Estate, Days
7.Wilco, The Whole Love
8.Wild Flag, Wild Flag
9.Eleanor Friedberger, Last Summer
10.Twin Sister, In Heaven
Autumn Andel
1.Fredrik, Flora
2.Apparat, Devil’s Walk
3.Girls, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
4.Neon Indian, Era Extrana
5.Yuck, Yuck
6.Korallreven, An Album by Korallreven
7.Destroyer, Kaputt
8.Jonas Bjerre, Songs and Music from the Movie Skyscraper
9.Cut Copy, Zonoscope
10.Iceage, New Brigade
Jayson Berray
1.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2.Radiohead, The King of Limbs
3.Red Hot Chili Peppers, I’m With You
4.Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto
5.Mastodon, The Hunter
6.Foo Fighters, Wasting Light
7.Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi, Rome
8. The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar
9.Adele, 21
10.Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
Samuel Behrens
1.Shabazz Palaces, Black Up
2.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
3.Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne
4.Kendrick Lamar, Section.80
5.Drake, Take Care
6.SBTRKT, SBTRKT
7.Radiohead, The King of Limbs
8.Clams Casino, Instrumentals
9.A$AP Rocky, Live. Love. A$AP.
10.Danny Brown, XXX
James Burgmann
1.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2.Tom Waits, Bad As Me
3.Elbow, Build a Rocket Boys!
4.Thurston Moore, Demolished Thoughts
5.Gotye, Making Mirrors
6.Black Keys, El Camino
7.Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Mirror Traffic
8.St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
9.Feist, Metals
10.The Drums, Portamento
Michael Caldwell
1. Rubblebucket, Omega La La
2. Break Science, Further Than Our Eyes Can See
3. Wye Oak, Civilian
4. Feist, Metals
5. Radiohead, The King of Limbs
6. Motörhead, The World Is Yours
Ryan Carroll
1.Ringo Deathstarr, Colour Trip
2.The Kills, Blood Pressures
3.The Horrors, Skying
4.The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar
5.Cults, Cults
6.Holy Children, Where God Has His Church, The Devil Has His Chapel
7.Washed Out, Within and Without
8.Dum Dum Girls, Only In Dreams
9.The Raveonettes, Raven in the Grave
10.The Cars, Move Like This
Stephanie Cafarella
1.Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring For My Halo
2.Ducktails, III: Arcade Dynamics
3.Real Estate, Days
4.BOBBY, BOBBY
5.Thee Oh Sees, Castlemania
6.Woods, Sun and Shade
7.Born Gold, Bodysongs
8.Girls, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
9.Smith Westerns, Dye It Blonde
10.Sleep ∞ Over, Forever
Ted Chase
1.Hooray For Earth, True Loves
2.The Dears, Degeneration Street
3.The Rosebuds, Loud Planes Fly Low
4.TV On the Radio, Nine Types of Light
5.The Decemberists, The King Is Dead
6.Death Cab for Cutie, The King Is Dead
7.Feist, Metals
8.Robin Bacior, Rest Our Wings
9.The Dodos, No Color
10.British Sea Power, Valhalla Dancehall
11.Courtesy Tier, The Resolution
12.The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar
13.Elbow, Build a Rocket Boys!
14.The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Belong
15.Paley & Francis, Paley & Francis
16.The Boxer Rebellion, The Cold Still
17.Pursesnatchers, A Pattern Language
18.We Are Augustines, Rise Ye Sunken Ships
19.A.A. Bondy, Believers
20.The Kills, Blood Pressures
Katie Chow
1.Yuksek, Living On the Edge of Time
2.Metronomy, The English Riviera
3.Peter Bjorn and John, Gimme Some
4.Friendly Fires, Pala
5.Beirut, The Rip Tide
6.The Rapture, In the Grace of Your Love
7.The Weeknd, House of Balloons
8.Los Campesinos!, Hello Sadness
9.James Blake, James Blake
10.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
Lukas Clark-Memler
1.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2.James Blake, James Blake
3.Cults, Cults
4.Tyler, the Creator, Goblin
5.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
6.Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX, We’re New Here
7.Washed Out, Within and Without
8.Youth Lagoon, The Year of Hibernation
9.Panda Bear, Tomboy
10.Real Estate, Days
Girls, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
Tennis, Cape Dory
Drake, Take Care
Summer Camp, Welcome to Condale
Eleonora Collini
1.Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Mirror Traffic
2.Wild Flag, Wild Flag
3.Girls, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
4.Thurston Moore, Demolished Thoughts
5.Thee Oh Sees, Carrion Crawler/The Dream
6.Ty Segall, Goodbye Bread
7.Wye Oak, Civilian
8.Smith Westerns, Dye It Blonde
9.Yuck, Yuck
10.PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
11.Night Beats, Night Beats
12.Dum Dum Girls, Only In Dreams
13.Still Corners, Creatures of an hour
14.Jacuzzi Boys, Glazin’
15.Ringo Deathstarr, Colour Trip
16.Veronica Falls, Veronica Falls
17.Real Estate, Days
18.EMA, Past Life Martyred Saints
19.Battles, Glass Drop
20.Okkervil River, I Am Very Far
Mike Condon
1.Foster the People, Torches
2.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
3.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
4.Frank Turner, England Keep My Bones
5.Portugal. The Man, In the Mountain. In the Cloud
6.Chadwick Stokes, Simmerkane II
7.Noel Gallagher, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
8.The Sounds, Something To Die For
9.The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar
10.Adele, 21
Lauren Ding
1.Wild Flag, Wild Flag
2.Battles, Gloss Drop
3.Cults, Cults
4.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
5.The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Belong
Frank Donnelly
1.Kate Bush, 50 Words For Snow
2.Kilbey Kennedy, White Magic
3.Anna Calvi, Anna Calvi
4.Gavin Friday, Catholic
5.Keith Moss, What Moves You, Eludes You
6.Lisa Hannigan, Passenger
7.Tiare Helberg, The Black Unicorn
8.Peter Gabriel, New Blood
9.St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
10.Elbow, Build a Rocket Boys!
11.Tonbruket, Dig It Til the End
12.Bell X1, Bloodless Coup
13.Radiohead, The King of Limbs
14.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
15.Wilco, The Whole Love
16.Liam Finn, FOMO
17.Pugwash, The Olympus Sound
18.David Sylvian, Died In the Wool
19.Pajama Club, Pajama Club
20.The Waterboys, An Appointment with Mr Yeats
Lloyd Epperly
1.Friendly Fires, Pala
2.Holy Ghost!, Holy Ghost!
3.The New Division, Shadows
4.The Chain Gang of 1974, Wayward Fire
5.Memory Tapes, Player Piano
6.Duran Duran, All You Need Is Now
7.Monarchy, Around the Sun
8.The Cars, Move Like This
9.Cut Copy, Zonoscope
10.Hammock, Asleep In the Downlights
Genesis Florentino
1.Wavves, Life Sux EP
2.Tyler, the Creator, Goblin
3.Cage the Elephant, Thank You Happy Birthday
4.Sebastian, Total
5.Mr. Oizo, Stade 2
6.The Drums, Portamento
7.Straight Line Stitch, The Fight of Our Lives
8.Arctic Monkeys, Suck it and See
9.Trash Talk, Awake EP
Chris Fore
1.Napoleon, Napoleon
2.Florence & The Machine, Ceremonials
3. Austra, Feel It Break
4.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
5.Toro y Moi, Underneath the Pine
6.The Donkeys, Born With Stripes
7.Foster the People, Torches
8.Sin Fang, Summer Echoes
9.Sondre Lerche, Sondre Lerche
10.Washed Out, Within and Without
11.The Horrors, Skying
Paula Goodale
1.Yuck, Yuck
2.Cashier No9, To the Death of Fun
3.Noel Gallagher, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
4.Smith Westerns, Dye It Blonde
5.Miles Kane, Colour of the Trap
6.Mazes, A Thousand Heys
7.The Horrors, Skying
8.I Break Horses, Hearts
9.The Vaccines, What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?
10.Beady Eye, Different Gear, Still Speeding
11.Arctic Monkeys, Suck It and See
12.The Drums, Portamento
13.The War on Drugs, Slave Ambient
14.Young the Giant, Young the Giant
15.The Kills, Blood Pressures
16.Cloud Control, Bliss Release
17.Beirut, The Rip Tide
18.Cults, Cults
19.The Raveonettes, Raven in the Grave
20.Bombay Bicycle Club, A Different Kind of Fix
Michael Gonzalez
1.Twin Sister, In Heaven
2.Little Dragon, Ritual Union
3.Mister Heavenly, Out of Love
4.Cults, Cults
5.St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
6.Toro y Moi, Freaking Out EP
7.Vivian Girls, Share the Joy
8.Yuck, Yuck
9.Foster the People, Foster the People EP
10.Architecture in Helsinki, Moment Bends
Mike Gutierrez
1.Girls, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
2.Heavy Times, Jacker
3.Dum Dum Girls, Only In Dreams
4.Thurston Moore, Demolished Thoughts
5.New Animal, New Animal
6.Liturgy, Aesthetica
7.Class Actress, Rapprocher
8.Com Truise, Galactic Melt
9.Hooray For Earth, True Loves
10.FORMA, FORMA
11.X Ray Eyeballs, Not Nothing
12.Born Gold, Bodysongs
13.The Seedy Seeds, Verb Noun
14.Arches, Wide Awake
15.Total Slacker, Thrashin’
16.Daniel Knox, Evryman For Himself
17.Peter Bjorn and John, Gimme Some
18.Tayisha Busay, FOCUS/VIRUS
19.Mickey, Rock N Roll Dreamer
20.Le Days, Dead People On Tape
Adam Hawes (alphabetical order)
The Chemical Brothers, Hanna Soundtrack
deadmau5, 4×4=12
Dropkick Murphys, Going Out In Style
Gareth Emery, Northern Lights
Holy Ghost!, Holy Ghost!
Justice, Audio Video Disco
Mastodon, Live At The Aragon
Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
NERO, Welcome Reality
Radiohead, The King of Limbs
Talib Kweli, Gutter Rainbows
Peter Henckel
1.And So I Watch You From Afar, Gangs
2.The Vitrolum Republic, For Highbrow Sideshows and Rowboat Serenades
3.Radiohead, The King of Limbs
4.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
5.Blind Pilot, We Are The Tide
6.Jack Conte, VS4
7.Maritime, Human Hearts
8.Iron & Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean
9.Jeremiah Nelson, Drugs To Make You Sober
10.Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne
Christopher Hinojosa
1.Real Estate, Days
2.Shabazz Palaces, Black Up
3.Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
4.John Maus, We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
5.Rangers, Pan Am Stories
6.Dirty Beaches, Badlands
7.Nicolas Jaar, Space is Only Noise
8.Death Grips, Exmilitary
9.James Ferraro, Far Side Virtual
10.Joan of Arc, Life Like
Veronica Hoever
1. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
2. Real Estate, Days
3. Papercuts, Fading Parade
4. Cults, Cults
5. Feist, Metals
Adam Kearney
1.Radiohead, The King of Limbs
2.Thurston Moore, Demolished Thoughts
3.Tom Waits, Bad As Me
4.Deerhoof, Deerhoof vs. Evil
5.Woods, Sun and Shade
6.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
7.Panda Bear, Tomboy
8.The Strokes, Angles
9.The Men, Leave Home
10.Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
11.CAKE, Showroom of Compassion
12.Highway Gimps, She
13.Black Lips, Arabia Mountain
14.Washed Out, Within and Without
15.Wild Flag, Wild Flag
Rick Kern
1.The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar
2.St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
3.Florence & The Machine, Ceremonials
4.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
5.Black Keys, El Camino
6.Cults, Cults
7.Lykke Li, Wounded Rhymes
8.Oh Land, Oh Land
9.Death Cab for Cutie, Codes and Keys
10.My Brightest Diamond, All Things Will Unwind
Amanda Krieg
1.Laura Marling, Creature I Don’t Know
2.Other Lives, Tamer Animals
3.Florence & The Machine, Ceremonials
4.The Kills, Blood Pressures
5.TV On the Radio, Nine Types of Light
6.Black Keys, El Camino
7.Thao & Mirah, Thao & Mirah
8.Givers, In Light
9.The Belle Brigade, The Belle Brigade
10.Motopony, Motopony
William Krueger
1.The Weeknd, House of Balloons
2.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
3.Sungrazer, Mirador
4.Zola Jesus, Conatus
5.Blood Ceremony, Living With the Ancients
6.Adele, 21
7.Jesu, Ascension
8.Krang, Choke Hits
9.Das Racist, Relax
10.Heavy Times, Jacker
11.Drake, Take Care
12.Student Teacher, Student Teacher
13.Lady GaGa, Born This Way
14.Killer Mike, Pl3dge
15.Fucked Up, David Comes To Life
Kristin Lockhart
1.Foo Fighters, Wasting Light
2.St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
3.Florence & The Machine, Ceremonials
4.Radiohead, The King of Limbs
5.Kasabian, Velociraptor!
6.R.E.M., Collapse Into Now
7.Wild Flag, Wild Flag
8.PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
9.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
10.The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar
Max Lockie
1.Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne
2.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
3.Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring For My Halo
4.Iceage, Iceage
5.Zomby, Dedication
6.Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX, We’re New Here
7.Panda Bear, Tomboy
8. John Maus, We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
9.Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
10.Yuck, Yuck
Dee Madden
1.PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
2.The Kills, Blood Pressures
3.TV On The Radio, Nine Types Of Light
4.James Blake, Enough Thunder
5.Richmond Fontaine, High Country
6.Soft Metals, Soft Metals
7.Spank Rock, Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a F**king Liar
8.The Naked and Famous, No Light/This Machine
9.The Vaccines, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
10.Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi, Rome
Brendan MaGee
1.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2.The Rural Alberta Advantage, Departing
3.Fucked Up, David Comes To Life
4.Destroyer, Kaputt
5.The Antlers, Burst Apart
6.Charles Bradley, No Time For Dreaming
7.Austra, Feel It Break
8.Tim Hecker, Ravadeth, 1972
9.Tom Waits, Bad As Me
10.Beirut, The Rip Tide
Alexis Maindrault
1.Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
2.Black Keys, El Camino
3.Moby, Destroyed
4.Gorillaz, The Fall
5.Radiohead, The King of Limbs
6.Thievery Corporation, Culture of Fear
7.Amy Winehouse, Lioness: Hidden Treasures
8.Daft Punk, Tron Legacy Soundtrack
9.PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
10. Adele, 21
Tammi Myers
1.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
2.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
3.The Head and the Heart, The Head and the Heart
4.The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar
5.Black Keys, El Camino
6.Wye Oak, Civilian
7.My Morning Jacket, Circuital
8.Wild Flag, Wild Flag
9.Charles Bradley, No Time for Dreaming
10.James Blake, James Blake
Peter Noble
1.British Sea Power, Valhalla Dancehall
2.Ringo Deathstarr, Colour Trip
3.Grinderman, Grinderman 2
4.Singapore Sling, Never Forever
5.The Raveonettes, Raven in the Grave
6.Chapel Club, Palace
7.The War on Drugs, Slave Ambient
8.Cold Cave, Cherish the Light Years
9.Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
10.Pop Will Eat Itself, New Noise Designed By a Sadist
11.PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
12.Thievery Corporation, Culture of Fear
13.Craft Spells, Idle Labor
14.The Horrors, Skying
15.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
16.Citizen Fish, Goods
17.Flashguns, Passions of a Different Kind
18.Beach Fossils, What a Pleasure
19.Yuck, Yuck
20.Crystal Stilts, In Love with Oblivion
Nicholas Palumbo
1.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
2.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
3.Adele, 21
4.Araabmuzik, Electronic Dream
5.Drake, Take Care
6.James Blake, James Blake
7.Beirut, The Rip Tide
8.Cut Copy, Zonoscope
9.The War on Drugs, Slave Ambient
10.Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne
11.Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring For My Halo
12.Black Keys, El Camino
13.Fucked Up, David Comes To Life
14.SBTRKT, SBTRKT
15.Kate Bush, 50 Words For Snow
16.Clams Casino, Instrumentals
17.Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
18.Washed Out, Within and Without
19.Neon Indian, Era Extrana
20.Holy Ghost!, Holy Ghost!
Alexandra Richardson
1.Gang Gang Dance, Eye Contact
2.Tori Amos, Night of Hunters
3.Bjork, Biophilia
4.Hooray For Earth, True Loves
5.Foster the People, Torches
6.Lady GaGa, Born This Way
7.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
8.PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
9.Beyonce, 4
10.Braids, Native Speaker
11.Nurses, Dracula
12.The Strokes, Angles
13.Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
14.Eisley, The Valley
15.Wild Flag, Wild Flag
Matthew Ismael Ruiz (alphabetical order)
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Curren$y, Covert Coup
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX, We’re New Here
Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring For My Halo
Little Dragon, Ritual Union
M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Nacho Picasso, For the Glory
Radiohead, The King of Limbs
The Rapture, In the Grace of Your Love
Shabazz Palaces, Black Up
Tom Waits, Bad As Me
Wilco, The Whole Love
We Barbarians, Headspace EP
The Weeknd, House of Balloons
Sarah Sahim
1.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
2.Deer Tick, Divine Providence
3.Cass McCombs, WITS END
4.Middle Brother, Middle Brother
5.Slow Club, Paradise
6.Fair Ohs, Everything Is Dancing
7.Jonny Corndawg, Down On the Bikini Line
8.Dawes, Nothing Is Wrong
9.Royal Bangs, Flux Outside
10.Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, Mysterious Power
11.COOLRUNNINGS, Dracula Is the Only Beginning
12.Those Darlins, Screws Get Loose
13.Summer Camp, Welcome To Condale
14.Dad Rocks!, Mount Modern
15.Craft Spells, Idle Labor
Adam White
1.Girls, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
2.Real Estate, Days
3.Cut Copy, Zonoscope
4.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
5.Neon Indian, Era Extrana
6.Smith Westerns, Dye It Blonde
7.Cults, Cults
8.Minks, By the Hedge
9.Com Truise, Galactic Melt
10.CSS, La Liberación
Terri Wise
1.Wye Oak, Civilian
2.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
3.Veronica Falls, Veronica Falls
4.Street Chant, Means
5.Wild Flag, Wild Flag
6.Times New Viking, Dancer Equired
7.The Peelies/Jesuslesfilles, Volume 1
8.Still Corners, Creatures of an Hour
9.Kids on a Crime Spree, We Love You So Bad
10.Mr. Gnome, Madness in Miniature
11.Razika, Program 91
12.Night Manager, Pizza Pasta EP
13.Memoryhouse, The Years EP
14.Austra, Feel It Break
15.The Luyas, Too Beautiful To Work
16.Crystal Stilts, In Love with Oblivion
17.Gospel Music, Duettes
18.Iceage, New Brigade
19.Shimmering Stars, Violent Hearts
20. Coasting, You’re Never Going Back
Jayne Yong
1.Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2.Wye Oak, Civilian
3.The Antlers, Burst Apart
4.tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
5.Rival Schools, Pedals
6.Beirut, The Rip Tide
7.The Mountain Goats, All Eternals Deck
8.Radiohead, The King of Limbs
9.The Twilight Singers, Dynamite Steps
10.St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
11.Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
12.M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
