Hi All,

Starting this thread to link to from our year-end coverage. Feel free to gripe and go 'oooh, thanks for the introduction to Kathryn Joseph' and stuff like that, if you feel like it.

Last week, we revealed our favourite UK & Irish albums of the year http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4149636-our-50-favourite-uk-albums-of-2015

And Dom Gourlay picked his favourite 10 gigs of the year, from the over 1500 acts he saw live this year (the guy is an amazing force of nature, I've met him at 1pm at festivals and he's already seen 5 or 6 acts, and by 1am he's telling me about after hours gigs. And it feels like almost every day on Facebook he posts about a post-work instore at Rough Trade in Nottingham, followed by shots of all 3 acts at Rock City or somewhere like that...) http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4149633-10-shows-that-shook-2015

Coming tomorrow we will have our tracks of the year with a special Spotify playlist (any requests of where else I should export it to?).

Then on Thursday morning, our albums of the year list will be with you (I'm coding it right now, and it's going to take me about 5 hours....). Any predictions of what might do well? I'm taking into account our staff top 10s and votes on the forum poll as well as discussion throughout the year. It's not totally democratic, as I allow specialist knowledge and those more involved in the site to sway the approximate trends of what should be high up.

Don't forget, you can vote in the year end user poll here: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4470243

As a bit of a reminder, here's what you all voted album of the month this year:

THE YEAR'S TOP FIVES OF THE MONTH AS VOTED BY YOU GUYS:
January:
1. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
2. Bjork - Vulnicura
3. Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love
4. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
5. Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

February:
1) Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
2) Title Fight - Hyperview
3) Mount Eerie - Sauna
=4) Enablers - The Rightful Pivot
=4) Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space

March:
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think...
4. Errors - Lease Of Life
5. Laura Marling - Short Movie

April:
=1) Mew + -
=1)Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
=3) Nadine Shah - Fast Food
=3) Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
=5) Braids - Deep In The Iris
=5) Blur - The Magic Whip

May:
1. Holly Herndon - Platform
2. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
3. Petrels - Flailing Tomb
4. Hot Chip - Why Make Sense
= 5. Albums by: Django Django, Kamasi Washington, Mbongawana Star, Torres and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

June:
1. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
2. Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
3. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
4. Sauna Youth - Distractions
=5. Albums by Andrew Weathers Ensemble, Nicolas Jaar and Petrels

July:
=1. Tame Impala - Currents
Wilco - Star Wars
=3. Flying Saucer Attack - Instrumentals
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
=5. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
Titus Andronicus- The Most Lamentable Tragedy

August:
1. Royal Headache - High
2. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
3. Destroyer - Poison Season
4. Christian Fitness - Love Letters In The Age Of Steam
5. 2 8 1 4 – 新しい日の誕生 (Atarashi Ni~Tsu No Tanjō)

September:
1. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
= 2. Low - Ones and Sixes
Ought - Sun Coming Down
4. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
5. Max Richter - From Sleep

October:
1. Joanna Newsom - Divers
2. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
3. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
4. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
=5. Albums by: Cheatahs, The Icarus Line, Neon Indian and Stara Rzeke

November
1. Grimes - Art Angels
2. Floating Points - Elaenia
3. Ringo Deathstarr - Pure Mood
=4. Ian William Craig - Cradle For The Wanting
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete