Every year we ask our staff to nominate their favourite albums and tunes of the year along with their reasons why. 2011′s list ranges from SBTRKT to Skream via Marius Neset, Nicki Minaj, Justice and Josh T.Pearson. We’re nothing but varied here, eh?

You can check out the full list here and you can also listen to a Spotify playlist of of selected tunes here. Happy holiday listening…