Wax Volcanic - CA contributor and all-round nice guy

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Archer - Old Time Singsong Man
Total Control - Typical System
Ratking - So It Goes
Luluc - Passerby
Chromeo - White Women
St Vincent - St. Vincent
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Lana Del Ray - Ultraviolence
NUN - NUN
Wild Beasts - Present Tense 

TOP 10 SONGS

Peter Bibby- Hates My Boozin’
Cam'ron and A-Trak - Dipsh*ts
Hopium - Dreamers
Scotdrakula - O'clock
Bloods - Penelope
Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
The War on Drugs - Burning
Little Dragon - Klapp Klapp
Conor Oberst - Zigzagging Towards the Light

GUILTY LIST (Didn’t Listen To And Probably Should Have)

Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Caribou - Our Love
HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club
Jungle - Jungle
How To Dress Well - What Is This Heart?

Stan Raymonde - CA contributor and vinyl pusher @ Rough Trade

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Dean Blunt - Black Metal
Kiasmos - Kiasmos
Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (reissued this year but I only discovered it after the reissue so new for me!?)
Kimyan Law - Coeur Calme
Various - Music From Planet Earth (A Soundway Collection)
Lowtide - Lowtide
Various - 10 Years of Shogun
Warpaint - Warpaint

TOP 10 TRACKS

Holy Holy - House of Cards
Dean Blunt - 50 CENT
Dub Phizix - Buffalo Charge
Leandro Fresco - Nada Es Para Siempre
Movement - Ivory
Fracture - Loving Touch
The Knife - Pass It On (Shaken up version)
Warpaint - Love Is To Die
Edwin Starr - Get Up Whirlpool (Eric Duncan edit)
Future Islands - Fall From Grace

Tommy Faith - CA contributor and Sound Doctrine

TOP 10 ALBUMS/EPS

Sisyphus - Sisyphus
#1 Dads - About Face
Lower Spectrum - Traces EP
tUnEyArDs - Nikki Nack
Oscar Key Sung - Holograms EP
Seekae - The Worry
Yon Yonson - It’s Natural
Anatole - Westbrook EP
Peter Bibby - Butcher/Hairstylist/Beautician
Sd Laika - That’s Harakiri

TOP 10 SINGLES

Dick Diver - New Name Blues
Sisyphus - Calm It Down
Peter Bibby - Hates My Boozin’
Sophie - Lemonade
Spirit Faces - Hold It Down (ft. Zebra Zap)
Lucianblomkamp - Saudade
Taylor Swift - Gone
#1 Dads - So Soldier (ft. Ainslie Wills)
Thelma Plum - How Much Does Your Love Cost (Yosi Horikawa Remix)
Babaganouj - Bluff

Ashlea O’Loughlin - Reppin’ The Corner Presents/The Venue Collective

TOP 10 TRACKS

Pearls - Big Shot
BADBADNOTGOOD - Can’t Leave The Night
SBTRKT - New Dorp, New York
The Harpoons - Unforgettable
Sia - Chandelier
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Hot Wax
The Peep Tempel - Carol
Caribou - Can’t Do Without You
Saskwatch - Born To Break Your Heart
Iggy Azalea (Feat. Charli Xcx) - Fancy

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Caribou - Our Love
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I’m In Your Mind Fuss
#1 Dads - About Face
FKA Twigs - LP1
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Blank Realm - Grassed Inn
Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
The Harpoons - Falling For You
The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Tiny Ruins - Brightly Painted One

Dave Jiannis - Epitaph/Anti/Hellcat Australia boss dawg

TOP 10 ALBUMS

The Smith Street Band - Throw Me In The River
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
Off! - Wasted Years
The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Knife Party - Abandon Ship
Courtney Barnett - Double EP – A Sea Of Split Peas
Plague Vendor - Free To Eat
RL Grime - Void
Code Orange Kids - I Am King

Louis Papantos - Zero Through Nine

TOP 10 JAMS

Silk Rhodes - Pains
Jamie XX - Sleep Sound
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Real
Caribou - Mars
Flying Lotus - Coronus, The Terminator
Collarbones - Turning
Nehruviandoom - Mean The Most
Martyn & Four Tet - Glassbeadgames
Cloud Nothings - I’m Not a Part Of Me
Caribou - Our Love (Daphni remix)

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
Caribou - Our Love
Silk Rhodes - Silk Rhodes
Clark - Clark
Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
FKA Twigs - LP1
Cloud Boat - Model of You
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Andras & Oscar - Cafe Romantica

Tony Harlow - CA contributor and Warner Music Australia MD

MUSICAL MOMENTS OF THE YEAR

1. In the studio with Kasey Chambers and Bernard Fanning as they worked Bittersweet into something amazing.
2. The Real Madrid team song at the Bernebau.
3. The FKA Twigs project finally becoming album sized. It gets live sized in 2015

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe
Cooly G - Wait ‘Til Night
Nick Mulvey - First Mind
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
The Rails - Fair Warning

FAVE SONGS OF THE YEAR (Regardless of when they were released)

ASAP Ferg - Shabba
Billy Swan - Don’t Be Cruel
Thelma Plum  - How Much Does Your Love Cost?
CW Stoneking - We Gonna Boogaloo
Ballboy - I Lost You, But I Found Country Music

Maccy - CA Editor

TOP 10 TUNES

Run The Jewels feat. Zach De La Rocha - Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)
Redinho - Jacuzzi
How To Dress Well - Repeat Pleasure
Hopium feat. Phoebe Lou - Dreamers
Chance The Rapper & The Social Experiment - Wonderful Everyday: Arthur
Chromeo - Old 45s
Saint Pepsi - Fiona Coyne
Raury - God’s Whisper
Rustie feat. Danny Brown - Attak
Fishing feat. Jonas Nicholls - Your Mouth

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Perfume Genius - Too Bright
The 1978ers - People Of Today
Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
FKA twigs - LP1
Silk Rhodes - Silk Rhodes
Tinashe - Aquarius
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Betty Ford Boys - Retox
Todd Terje - It’s Album Time
The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream

BEST RAP VERSE

Black Thought on Statik Selektah’s The Imperial.