Best Albums of 2015

[jed123]

Frank Turner - Positive Songs For Negative People
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Blossom
CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
Slaves - Are You Satisfied?

[Brave Sir Robin]

On 01/12/2015, 17:11:11, Woffy said:

That new Bill Ryder-Jones song is really rather surprisingly spiffing.

If you like melancholia (and I know that you do), the album's a cracker. Think Stephen Malkmus covering the Velvets' third (with a Scouse accent).

[Woffy]

49 minutes ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

If you like melancholia (and I know that you do), the album's a cracker. Think Stephen Malkmus covering the Velvets' third (with a Scouse accent).

Nice quick capsule review!

Cheers BSR.

I'll have a listen this evening and report back.

[Mardy]

5 hours ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

If you like melancholia (and I know that you do), the album's a cracker. Think Stephen Malkmus covering the Velvets' third (with a Scouse accent).

Giving it a spin now, really good so far, and something I'd never heard of before. Thanks BSR and Woffy. Magic darts.

[The Nal]

+1 on Bill RJ. Very post Cale Velvets. Really liking it.

[scrippit]

On 11/30/2015, 3:20:25, mungo57 said:

If you're into Steven Wilson give Riverside's new album a listen - another that would definitely be in my top 10 for the year. It's called 'Love, Fear and the Time Machine'. Prog rock from Poland. They used to be a lot heavier but have reverted over the years. Good stuff.

I've made a start on Riverside. Getting myself dragged deep in to prog for the first time in many, many years is turning out to be an unexpected pleasure! Thank you.

[Sam08]

Catfish & The Bottlemen's 'The Balcony' for me, think they're a promising looking band with a good album behind them!

[SwedgeAntilles]

Finally whittled it down to ten and in no particular order:

Blur - Magic Whip

Tame Impala - Currents 

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit... 

Foals - What Went Down 

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell 

Circa Waves - Young Chasers 

Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

New Order - Music Complete 

Jamie xx - In Colour 

Chvrches - Every Open Eye 

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

I will put my full listing up in a week or so. Standout albums so far from memory (don't have access to my lists at the mo) ;

Belle & Sebastian      - Girls in Peacetime want to Dance
The Charlatans         - Modern Nature    
The Cribs                  - For All My sisters
Drenge                      - Undertow
Ghost Culture            - Ghost Culture    
Jape                          - The Chemical Sea
King Gizzard              - Paper mache dream balloon
Miley Cyrus                - Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz
Modest Mouse           - Stranger to Ourselves
Ought                         - Sun Coming Down
Paul Weller                 - Saturns Pattern
Siskiyou                      - Nervous
Tame Impala              - Currents
Wolf Alice                    - My Love is Cool

[Mash011]

Since it's not getting the love it deserves in here, there's just one that takes it easily for me...

[CaledonianGonzo]

Let me show you

my FATAL FLAW

[justanothername]

47 minutes ago, Sam08 said:

Catfish & The Bottlemen's 'The Balcony' for me, think they're a promising looking band with a good album behind them!

It came out last year mate

[CaledonianGonzo]

Loved Biffy Clyro's album release this year.

[mungo57]

1 hour ago, scrippit said:

I've made a start on Riverside. Getting myself dragged deep in to prog for the first time in many, many years is turning out to be an unexpected pleasure! Thank you.

No problems sir.

I would also recommend Tesseracts album Polaris

[Glastoboy]

Akala - Knowledge is Power II.

Complete fucking masterpiece. So was his last album 'Banquet of Thieves'.

Consistently intelligent, powerful, political UK hip hop. I can't recommend him highly enough.

[Mardy]

In no particular order, the albums I've fallen in love with this year (and I know that's very different from the 'best'):

 

Laura Marling: Short Movie

Young Fathers: White Men are Black Men too

Sweet Baboo: Boombox Ballads

George Fitzgerald: Fading Love

Yo la Tengo: Stuff Like That

Destroyer: Poison Season

HECTA: The Diet

Adam Gibson and the Ark Ark Birds: Australia Reckless

Mac DeMarco: Another One

Courtney Barnett: Sometimes etc etc

Ryley Walker: Primrose Green

 

 

There's loads of others that are really good, possibly even better (Father John Misty, Surfjan, Kendrick) but they haven't got under my skin in the same way as those I mention. Late entry also for that Bill Ryder Jones. Fucking love that.

 

[RossTC]

Maccabees - Marks to prove it

[Avalon_Fields]

Best of genres for me:

Rock/Pop - Gaz Coombes - Matador

Covers - Ryan Adams - 1989

Country - Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free

Americana - Calexico - Edge Of The Sun

World - Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile

Reggae - Bunny Lee - Next Cut

Live - Neil Young - Bluenote Cafe

Reissue - Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Box Set - Bruce Springsteen - The Ties That Bind

 

 

[tjamest]

2 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Best of genres for me:Reissue - Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Loved this, especially the live stuff. Must have been amazing to be there and be one of the first people on earth to hear 'new songs' from Sticky Fingers like Brown Sugar.

 

[wilem]

1) To Pimp a Butterfly

2) In Colour

3)  Why Make Sense

4) Magic Whip

5) The Pale Emperor

[wilem]

On 12/6/2015, 1:05:39, Glastoboy said:

Akala - Knowledge is Power II.

Complete fucking masterpiece. So was his last album 'Banquet of Thieves'.

Consistently intelligent, powerful, political UK hip hop. I can't recommend him highly enough.

Shit yeah, forgot about this gem. Good shout

[Rose-Colored Boy]

On 4 December 2015 at 16:39:01, justanothername said:

It came out last year mate

That was the least incorrect part of that post

[Rose-Colored Boy]

TPAB with 11 Grammy nominations. That's good enough for me like.

[ace56blaa]

On 12/4/2015, 4:00:32, Mash011 said:

Since it's not getting the love it deserves in here, there's just one that takes it easily for me...

really great, would love to see them at glasto, but doubt they would, they barely play fests here i swear

[Keithy]

Oooh, I love a good list!

Royal Headache - High (Great aussie rockers)
Best Coast - California Nights (Traveled to Berlin to see them, worth every penny)
Grimes - Art Angels (Album of the Year. Astonishingly good, even better than Visions)
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think... (Shambolic/Awesome at Williams Green)
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (Saw at Pitchfork Paris, had the crowd in his hand)
Girlpool - Before The Word Was Big
Hinds - Very Best of Hinds so far (Utterly love these girls. They are going places)
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - The Third (Glasto tip-off and fell in love with their sound)
Waxahatchee - Ivy Trip
Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool