Albums Of The Year 2015

What's been in your ears this year?

My top picks are (in no order):

1. Sunn O))) - Kannon
   
2. Liturgy - The Ark Work
   
3. Rival Consoles - Howl
   
4. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
   
5. King Midas Sound - Edition 1
   
6. Blank Realm - Illegals In Heaven
   
7. Drape - Relax/Relapse
   
8. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think
   
9. High Tides - High Tides
   
10. Africa Express - In C Mali
    
    

Joint number 11: Zackey Force Funk, Golden Teacher, Post War Glamour Girls, Death Grips, Kendrick Lamar, C. Duncan, Ghostpoet, Blanck Mass, Oneohtrix Point Never, Viet Cong, Gentleman's Pistols, Floating Points, East India Youth, Sleaford Mods, Bad Bad Not Good/Ghostface Killah and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Chvrches- Every Open Eye
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott- Wisdom, Laughter and Lines
Tenement- Predatory Headlights
Hop Along- Painted Shut
Ryan Adams - 1989

There's probably one more in there, but I've forgotten right now...

1. Top Practitioners - Levels of Choice
   
2. The Belief - Dark Sparks
   
3. Twist and Grout - London Clay
   
4. VH$ - Down Lo
   
5. Harold Arnette - Blue Verses
   
6. Discovery Channel - Sounds of the Savannah
   
7. Crucial Release - What's Wrong With Me?
   
8. Prime Rhymes - Vocal Standoff
   
9. Aerial Refuelling - 10% Chance
   
10. Hunter McLoughlin - Mulligan
    
    

1. Turnover - Peripheral Vision
   
2. Petal - Shame
   
3. Camera Shy - Camera Shy
   
4. Adventures - Supersonic Home
   
5. Superheaven - Ours Is Chrome
   

Turbowolf - Two Hands

Floating Points

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@Iceflame - interesting top 10.

I thought I was the only one into VH$. But I recon their cassette only release of Hi Wire on the Betamax label was the best thing they did this year.

Is this thread about stamp collecting?

Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
Guy Garvey - Courting the Squall
Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun
Gaz Coombs - Matador
Low - Ones and Sixes

Always been a fan of Paul Heatons various work but i really didnt enjoy that album, made me cringe a little bit. One or two great tracks but some were a bit cheesy for me.

Just had a listen to Sun O)) as thats the first time i'd heard of them, him, her. That's dark.

Nah it's great, essentially just sounds like an even more bitter continuation of The Beautiful South. Don't like the opening song but The Austerity of Love, I Don't See Them and Sundial in the Shade are fantastic. Would say the LP before it is better, mind.

I'll give it another listen.

The new album is quite lighthearted for them...

Its quite genuinely nightmarish, i've never heard anything like it. It's really piqued my curiosity and fascination, i just can't imagine the cicumstance where i think i really want to listen to a bit of industrial white noise. Maybe on the turbo before a time trial, though a bit of Sleaford Mods' anger will do the trick there.

Edit, i just watched Sunn's Brando video with Scott Walker (that's an incongruous collab). I'm a bit disturbed. Still, better to be disturbing than mundane. I'm pleased with this discovery, ta very much.

https://youtu.be/G_NIop72vis

Top 10 records of the year, in no particular order:

Turnstile - Non Stop Feeling
Title Fight - Hyperview
Superheaven - Ours Is Chrome
Ceremony - The L Shaped Man
Code Orange Kids - I Am King
Spraynard - Mable
Drug Church - Hit Your Head
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Blossom
Great Cynics - I Feel Weird
Chvrches - Every open Eye.

Runners up:

Grimes - Art Angels, Creeper - The Honeymoon Suite, John Carpenter - Lost Themes

I feel like there is something I've forgotten/missed.

Top 10 records of the year, in no particular order:

Turnstile - Non Stop Feeling
Title Fight - Hyperview
Superheaven - Ours Is Chrome
Ceremony - The L Shaped Man
Creeper - The Honeymoon Suite
Spraynard - Mable
Drug Church - Hit Your Head
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Blossom
Great Cynics - I Feel Weird
Chvrches - Every open Eye.

Runners up:

Grimes - Art Angels, John Carpenter - Lost Themes

I feel like there is something I've forgotten/missed.

Adele - '25'

I feel sad, I've never heard of any of these people apart from Adele, Ghostface Killah and Ryan Adams.

Only a few for me this year I got into LP wise

Wolf Alice - My love is cool
New Order - Music Complete
Gaz Coombes - Matador
Deepchord - Ultraviolet Music
Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
Roots Manuva - Bleeds

Love that new Roots Manuva album, should have put that on my list.

Here's my short list:

Cult Leader: Lightless Walk
Loma Prieta: Self Portrait
Sumac: The Deal
Noisem: Blossoming Decay
Fight Amp: Constantly Off

Looking forward to Seven Sisters of Sleep and Magrudergrind next year

Bit of an underwhelming year TBH...

Kamasi Washington - The Epic
This record takes it by a LONG SHOT.

Others:

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Floating Points - Elaenia (a little disappointing but worth a mention)
Roisin Murphey - Hairless Toys

Haven't listened to anything like it for years, but that Sunn O))) album is doing things for me.

I've had a terrible year for new music. Doing all the playing and none of the listening. Must try harder next year.
I'm going to start by checking out everything listed here.

Oh, the new Battles record is great. The new Bjork is Bjork.