Now that we’ve unveiled our top five albums of the year, here’s a look at each of our contributors’ top five albums from this year.
Now that we’ve unveiled our top five albums of the year, here’s a look at each of our contributors’ top five albums from this year.
Laura Bittner
1. Caves – Betterment
2. Close Talker – So Am I
3. Touche Amore – Is Survived By
4. RVIVR – The Beauty Between
5. Vermin – Demo Tape
Black Liquid
1. Kanye West – Yeezus
2. Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP 2
3. Prodigy & Alchemist – Albert Einstein 2
4. Gucci Mane – Trap God 2
5. Canary Oh Canary – Sleep
Shannon Cleary
1. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
2. Superchunk – I Hate Music
3. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of The City
4. CHVRCHES – The Bones Of What You Believe
5. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – We The Common
Andrew Cothern
1. Joseph Arthur – The Ballad Of Boogie Christ
2. Fitz And the Tantrums – More Than Just A Dream
3. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
4. Kopecky Family Band – Kids Raising Kids
5. Surfer Blood – Pythons
Alex Criqui
1. Guerilla Toss – Gay Disco
2. Pissed Jeans – Honeys
3. Ahnnu – World Music
4. My Bloody Valentine – mbv
5. Windhand – Soma
Joseph Genest
1. Kanye West – Yeezus
2. ASAP Ferg – Trap Lord
3. Black Milk – No Poison No Paradise
4. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
5. Nickelus F – Vices
Kristina Headrick
1. Phosphorescent – Muchacho
2. White Denim – Corsicana Lemonade
3. Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze
4. The Mother Hips – Behind Beyond
5. Washed Out – Paracosm
Davy Jones
1. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
2. Beyonce – Beyonce
3. Jason Isbell – Southeastern
4. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
5. J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Essential Tremors
Matt Klimas
1. Yo La Tengo – Fade
2. Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana
3. Lorde – Pure Heronie
4. True Widow – Circumambulation
5. Black Hearted Brother – Stars Are Our Home
Rebecca Maguire
1. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
2. Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
3. Arctic Monkeys – AM
4. My Bloody Valentine – mbv
5. Twenty One Pilots – Vessel
Samuel McClelland
1. My Bloody Valentine – mbv
2. Lotus – Build
3. Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
4. Jack Johnson – From Here To Now To You
5. Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
Sarah Moore
1. J Roddy Walston And The Business – Essential Tremors
2. Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
3. Local Natives – Hummingbird
4. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against A Stone
5. Foxygen – We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
Andrew Necci
1. Deafheaven – Sunbather
2. Kitty – D.A.I.S.Y. Rage
3. Default Genders – Stop Pretending
4. The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation
5. Kvelertak – Meir
Doug Nunnally
1. The Last Royals – Twistification
2. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires Of The City
3. The 1975 – The 1975
4. The Mowgli’s – Waiting For The Dawn
5. Kopecky Family Band – Kids Raising Kids
John Reinhold
1. James Blake – Overgrown
2. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
3. Disclosure – Settle
4. Machinedrum – Vapor City
5. Flume – Flume
Graham Scala
1. Beastmilk – Climax
2. Slow Machete – Mango Tree
3. Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood – Black Pudding
4. Carcass – Surgical Steel
5. Lux Interna – There Is Light In The Body, There Is Blood In The Sun
Chris Suarez
1. My Bloody Valentine – mbv
2. Deafheaven – Sunbather
3. Whirr – Around
4. Pity Sex – Feast Of Love
5. Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana
