As another year comes to an end, we find ourselves reminiscing what has passed. So we’ve compiled lists of our favourite releases, along with our artists’ picks and honourable mentions to the tracks we just can’t stop listening too. Here’s what we’ve loved throughout the year….

TROY BARROTT – Managing Director
* In no particular order, apart from PJ Harvey who is definitely #1
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
James Blake – James Blake
Kanye and Jay Z – Watch The Throne
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Foster The People – Torches
Young The Giant – Young The Giant
The Grates – Secret Rituals
TV On The Radio – Nine Types Of Light
M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
Washington – Insomnia – Mini LP

JACLYN HURST – Senior Manager
1. Memory Tapes – Player Piano (Favourite Track: “Today Is Our Life” and “Worries”)
2. Braids – Native Speaker (Favourite Track: “Lemonade”)
3. Young Man – Boy (Favourite Track: “Home Alone”)
4. M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming (Favourite Track: “Reunion”)
5. Austra – Feel It Break (Favourite Track: “Lose It”)
6. Freelance Whales – (Favourite Track: “Broken Horse”)
7. Youth Lagoon – The Year Of Hibernation (Favourite Track: “Montana”)
8. Active Child – You Are All I See (Favourite Track: “Hangin On”)
9. Florence & The Machine – Ceremonials (Favourite Track: “No Light, No Light”)
10. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Favourite Track: “Youth Knows No Pain”)

HANNAH KIRKPATRICK – Artist Coordinator
1. Gotye – Making Mirrors (Favourite Track: “Easy Wide Out”)
2. Adele – 21 (Favourite Track: “Set Fire to The Rain”)
3. Cosmo Jarvis – Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange? (Favourite Track: “Sure Of Hell Ain’t Jesus”)
4. JAY Z & Kayne – Watch The Throne – (Favourite Track: “Lift Off”)
5. Phrase – Babylon (Favourite Track: “Babylon”)
6. Boy & Bear – Feeding Line (Favourite Track: “My Only One”)
7. Fitz & the Tantrums – Pickin’ Up The Pieces (Favourite Track: “L.O.V”)
8. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming – (Favourite Track: “Reunion”)
9. The Wombats – This Modern Glitch (Favourite Track: “Our Perfect Disease”)
10. Grouplove – Never Trust A Happy Song (Favourite Track: “Tongue Tied”)

DAPPLED CITIES
* In no particular order.
Jack Ladder – Hurtsville
Joakim – Something Gold
Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves
JAY Z & Kayne – Watch The Throne
Tony Bennet – Duets
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Kurt vile – Smoke Rings For My Halo
St Vincent – Strange Mercy
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Donny Benet – Don’t Hold Back.

GLASS TOWERS
1. Memory Tapes – Player Piano (Favourite Track: “Today Is Our Life”)
2. Yuck – Yuck (Favourite Track: “Get Away”)
3. Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (Favourite Track: “Imagine Pt. 3″)
4. Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind Of Fix (Favourite Track: “Leave It”)
5. Braids – Native Speaker (Favourite Track: “Lammicken”)
6. Real Estate – Days (Favourite Track: “Easy”)
7. M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming (Favourite Track: “New Map”)
8. Oliver Tank – Dreams (Favourite Track: “Embrace”)
9. Youth Lagoon – The Year Of Hibernation (Favourite Track: “Montana”)
10. Everything Everything – Man Alive (Favourite Track: “My Kz, Ur Bf”)

JORDAN LESER
1. Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Favourite Track: “Holocene”)
2. Florence And The Machine – Ceremonials (Favourite Track: “What The Water Gave Me”)
3. Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow (Favourite Track: “Wild Man”)
4. Lana del Rey – Blue Jeans EP ((Favourite Track: “Blue Jeans”)
5. Feist – Metals (Favourite Track: “Caught In A Long Wind”)
6. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Favourite Track: “Youth Knows No Pain”)
7. Radiohead – King Of Limbs (Favourite Track: “Codex”)
8. Jay Z and Kanye – Watch The Throne (Favourite Track: “New Day”)
9. The Jezabels – Prisoner (Favourite Track: “Long Highway”)
10. Husky – Forever So (Favourite Track: “Don’t Tell Your Mother”)
Bonus Album: Active Child – You Are All I See (Favourite Track: “Hangin On”)

OLD MAN RIVER
1. Radiohead – King Of Limbs ((Favourite Track: “Lotus Flower”)
2. Panda Bear – Tomboy (Favourite Track: “Slow Motion”)
3. Feist – Metals (Favourite Track: “How Come You Never Go There”)
4. Wilco – The Whole Love (Favourite Track: “Art Of Almost”)
5. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Favourite Track: “Make Some Noise”)

WASHINGTON
* In no particular order.
The Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Album
Metronomy – The English Riviera
The Black Keys – El Camino
Oh Mercy – Great Barrier Grief

WINTER PEOPLE
* In no particular order.
Ben Salter – The Cat (Favourite Track: “Opportunities”)
Dereb The Ambassador – Dereb The Ambassador (Favourite Track: “Etu Gela”)
Gillian Welch – The Harrow and The Harvest (Favourite Track: “Scarlet Town”)
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (Favourite Track: “Cheerleader”)
TV on The Radio – Nine Types Of Light (Favourite Track: “Second Song”)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – In The Pit Of The Stomach (Picture Of Health)
Real Estate – Days (Favourite Track: “Green Aisles”)
Dengue Fever – Cannibal Courtship (Favourite Track: “Cement Slippers”)
Wim – Wim (Favourite Track: “John”)
Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire (Favourite Track: “Ashes & Fire”)