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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-15 08:44:19
February 15 2016 07:40 GMT
#1
Well I finally finished relistening to everything I listened to in 2015. Around 300 albums, probably. Around the same amount as last year, but this year I felt was slightly stronger in terms of overall output, though I had some trouble deciding on the best album of the year until the last minute. In the end I think I picked a deserving #1, but really, the top 10 albums were all pretty close for me in terms of enjoyment.

  1. Lubomyr Melnyk - “Rivers and Streams”


  2. port- royal - “Where Are You Now”


  3. Julia Kent - “Asperities”


  4. Stefano Guzzetti - “Ensemble”


  5. Gunship - “Gunship”


  6. Elder - “Lore”


  7. Julien Baker - “Sprained Ankle”


  8. Slow Meadow - “Slow Meadow”


  9. Haruka Nakamura - “Ongaku no Aru Fuukei”


  10. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - “Never Were the Way She Was”


  11. Viet Cong - “Viet Cong”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdMz7BUtOvk

  12. Rayons - “The World Left Behind”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW_NK0e4JwQ

  13. Stara Rzeka - “Zamknęły się oczy ziemi”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76zOryTNxx8

  14. 36 - “Void Dance”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxvTddIzVFE

  15. Sarah Kirkland Snider - “Unremembered”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hISqm7Sju8

  16. Hior Chronik - “Taking the Veil”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqc8anzlgyA

  17. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - “Ba Power”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAOSC1IQ0EI

  18. Heather Woods Broderick - “Glider”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T87RDEsGSXM

  19. Hop Along - “Painted Shut”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gTRzFmwy-8

  20. Wolf Alice - “My Love is Cool”
    + Show Spoiler +
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vEE3Plk48

  21. Widek - “Journey to the Stars”
  22. Atomic Bitchwax - “Gravitron”
  23. Dungen - “Allas Sak”
  24. Tame Impala - “Currents”
  25. Iskra String Quartet - “ISKRA”
  26. Elintseeker - “Geography of the Heart”
  27. Tenement - “Predatory Headlights”
  28. Songhoy Blues - “Music in Exile”
  29. Titus Andronicus - “The Most Lamentable Tragedy”
  30. Highly Suspect - “Mister Asylum”
  31. Algiers - “Algiers”
  32. Low - “Ones and Sixes”
  33. Haiku Salut - “Etch and Etch Deep”
  34. Timber - “Sun & Moon”
  35. Lymbyc Systym - “Split Stones”
  36. Bruno Bavota - “Mediterraneo”
  37. Death Alley - “Black Magic Boogieland”
  38. Eskimeaux - “O.K.”
  39. Beach House - “Depression Cherry”
  40. Leon Bridges - “Coming Home”
  41. Mondo Drag - “Mondo Drag”
  42. Gengahr - “A Dream Outside”
  43. Kurt Vile - “B'lieve I'm Goin Down”
  44. Chvrches - “Every Open Eye”
  45. Pure Bathing Culture - “Pray For Rain”
  46. Jerusalem In My Heart - “If He Dies, If If If If If If”
  47. Built to Spill - “Untethered Moon”
  48. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Multi-Love”
  49. Chastity Belt - “Time To Go Home”
  50. Lianne La Havas - “Blood”
  51. Ryley Walker - “Primrose Green”
  52. James Blackshaw - “Summoning Suns”
  53. Ibeyi - “Ibeyi”
  54. Lower Dens - “Escape From Evil”
  55. Dengue Fever - “The Deepest Lake”
  56. Vessels - “Dilate”
  57. Helios - “Yume”
  58. The Go! Team - “The Scene Between”
  59. Petrels - “Flailing Tomb”
  60. Son Lux - “Bones”
  61. Braids - “Deep in the Iris”
  62. Kamasi Washington - “The Epic”
  63. Susanne Sundfør - “Ten Love Songs”
  64. Ducktails - “St. Catherine”
  65. Courtney Barnett - “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit”
  66. Carly Rae Jepsen - “Emotion”
  67. Tobias Jesso Jr - “Goon”
  68. EEK - “Kahraba”
  69. Chantal Acda - “The Sparkle in our Flaws”
  70. Colleen Green - “I Want to Grow Up”
  71. Everything Everything - “Get to Heaven”
  72. Rachel Grimes - “The Clearing”
  73. Eyeliner - “Buy Now”
  74. Nils Frahm - “Solo”
  75. Thee Oh Sees - “Mutliator Defeated at Last”
  76. Long Beard - “Sleepwalker”
  77. Toundra - “IV”
  78. Ruhe - “Patriarchs”
  79. Akisai - “Images”
  80. Dynatron - “Aeternus”
  81. We Lost the Sea - “Departure Songs”
  82. Teeth of the Sea - “Highly Deadly Black Tarantula”
  83. Pong - “Man It Feels Like Space Again”
  84. Zun Zun Egui - “Shackles' Gift”
  85. Iron Maiden - “The Book of Souls”
  86. All Dogs - “Kicking Every Day”
  87. Maia Vidal - “You're the Waves”
  88. Joan Shelley - “Over and Even”
  89. Bully - “Feels Like”
  90. Maserati - “Rehumanizer”
  91. Jason Isbell - “Something More than Free”
  92. Colleen - “Captain of None”
  93. Ladylamb and the Beekeeper - “After”
  94. East India Youth - “Culture of Volume”
  95. Wilco - “Star Wars”
  96. Obsequiae - “Aria of Vernal Tombs”
  97. Fantasma - “Free Love”
  98. God is an Astronaut - “Helios | Erebus”
  99. Fuzz - “II”
  100. Beach Slang - “The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us”
  101. Goldmund - “Sometimes”
  102. mewithoutYou - “Falsework”
  103. Health - “Death Magic”
  104. Father John Misty - “I Love You, Honeybear”
  105. Jenny Hval - “Apocalypse, Girl”
  106. Shamir - “Ratchet”
  107. Marika Hackman - “We Slept At Last”
  108. David John Sheppard - “Vertical Land”
  109. Julia Holter - “Have You In My Wilderness”
  110. Saintseneca - “Such Things”
  111. Foals - “What Went Down”
  112. San Fermin - “Jackrabbit”
  113. Kuan - “Sorni Nai”
  114. Jamie xx - “In Colour”
  115. Swervedriver - “I Wasn't Born to Lose You”
  116. Jaga Jazzist - “Starfire”
  117. Bop English - “Constant Bop”
  118. Mbongwana Star - “From Kinshasa”
  119. A City Built on Sorrow - “Ai”
  120. Hiatus Kaiyote - “ Choose Your Weapon”
  121. Inventions - “Maze of Woods”
  122. Girlpool - “Before the World Was Big”
  123. Helen - “The Original Faces”
  124. The Lickets - “Dolls in Color”
  125. Offthesky & Pleq - “A Thousand Fields”
  126. CHON - “Grow”
  127. Steak Number 8 - “Kosmokoma”
  128. Ceremony - “The L-Shaped Man”
  129. Windhand - “Grief's Infernal Flower”
  130. Caspian - “Dust and Disquiet”
  131. Membranes - “Dark Matter/Dark Energy”
  132. 2 8 1 4 - “新しい日の誕生”
  133. Esmerine - “Lost Voices”
  134. Ghostface Killah & BADBADNOTGOOD - “Sour Soul”
  135. Circuit Des Yeux - “In Plain Speech”
  136. Toe - “Hear You”
  137. Empress Of - “Me”
  138. Say Lou Lou - “Lucid Dreaming”
  139. El Ten Eleven - “Fast Forward”
  140. Mary Halvorson - “Meltframe”
  141. La Luz - “Weirdo Shrine”
  142. The Staves - “If I Was”
  143. Mouse on the Keys - “The Flowers of Romance”
  144. Alabama Shakes - “Sound & Color”
  145. PINS - “Wild Nights”
  146. Neon Indian - “VEGA INTL. Night School”
  147. Oneohtrix Point Never - “Garden of Delete”
  148. Laura Marling - “Short Movie”
  149. Francesco Cataldo - “Spaces”
  150. Deerhunter - “Fading Frontier”

Honorable Mentions
  • Rolo Tomassi - “Grievances”
  • Marriages - “Salome”
  • Gnod - “Infinity Machines”
  • Anne Garner - “Be Life”
  • Arca - “Mutant”


And there you have it. Have fun listening, hopefully you discovered a new favorite album somewhere in there. If you want specific recs, just ask.

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zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-15 08:28:07
February 15 2016 08:24 GMT
#2
nice taste! Really comprehensive, free of the usual blogosphere top 10s.

can you recommend me a few based on my last.fm?

http://www.last.fm/user/bly08
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
February 15 2016 08:39 GMT
#3
2, 8, 13, 26, 46, 56, 57, 59, 68, 74, 82, 94, 103, 108, 121, 124, 125, 132, 140, 143, 147.
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Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts
February 15 2016 08:40 GMT
#4
1/5 lack of bieber is disturbing.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33432 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-15 08:56:32
February 15 2016 08:56 GMT
#5
hey I don't hate this list -- good job
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Moosegills
Profile Joined March 2011
United States558 Posts
February 15 2016 10:04 GMT
#6
You forgot SremmLife
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Wintex
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Norway16838 Posts
February 15 2016 10:48 GMT
#7
there's no kpop whateufkc
The Bomber boy
holzofenbrot
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany52 Posts
February 15 2016 13:03 GMT
#8
oh wow 150 albums :O

I have only listened to a few of this. The Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld album is amazing! Don't know anyone from the top 5, not even the names. This will be good. Thanks

Do you only listen to new albums? I still discover treasures of the past constantly, started a few years ago to make top 10 album lists for every year since 1959 to keep track of the goodies.

Tame Impala's Lonerism, Grouper's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill and Memory Tapes' Seek Magic really clicked with me this year
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
February 15 2016 14:19 GMT
#9
On February 15 2016 22:03 holzofenbrot wrote:
oh wow 150 albums :O

I have only listened to a few of this. The Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld album is amazing! Don't know anyone from the top 5, not even the names. This will be good. Thanks

Do you only listen to new albums? I still discover treasures of the past constantly, started a few years ago to make top 10 album lists for every year since 1959 to keep track of the goodies.

Tame Impala's Lonerism, Grouper's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill and Memory Tapes' Seek Magic really clicked with me this year


If you liked Stetson and Neufeld, then you'd like 1, 3, 4, 9, 12, 15, 16, 25, 34, 36, 57, 72, 74, 78, 101, 133. Especially #1, Lubomyr Melnyk is a genius of piano. I would describe it as classical piano music played like shoegaze.

I mostly listen to new stuff, but if I stumble upon some good old album I listen to that too but don't list it. I only started making lists recently, though. I could only do that for years when I've listened to 200+ albums otherwise I wouldn't feel knowledgeable enough about that year in order to make one.
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Luolis
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Finland7118 Posts
February 15 2016 16:09 GMT
#10
Well now im sad that Muse - Drones isnt in there Atleast iron maiden got in tho ^^
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zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
February 15 2016 16:51 GMT
#11
hi wax
imJealous
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1382 Posts
February 15 2016 18:27 GMT
#12
Windhand - “Grief's Infernal Flower”

^^^ haven't been able to put this one down
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Wintex
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Norway16838 Posts
February 15 2016 18:35 GMT
#13
On February 16 2016 01:09 Luolis wrote:
Well now im sad that Muse - Drones isnt in there Atleast iron maiden got in tho ^^

I feel like Drones is a weak album compared to their other stuff.
And I am saying this as a huge fan. reapers and a few songs were good but not as good as stuff they have made before resistance
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vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
February 15 2016 19:03 GMT
#14
no To Pimp A Butterfly? aww.

good list tho
I used to play random, but for you I play very specifically.
Thaniri
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
1264 Posts
February 15 2016 19:28 GMT
#15
Been waiting a year for this. Have you grown in tht year?
Luolis
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Finland7118 Posts
February 15 2016 20:14 GMT
#16
On February 16 2016 03:35 Wintex wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 16 2016 01:09 Luolis wrote:
Well now im sad that Muse - Drones isnt in there Atleast iron maiden got in tho ^^

I feel like Drones is a weak album compared to their other stuff.
And I am saying this as a huge fan. reapers and a few songs were good but not as good as stuff they have made before resistance

Yeah for sure Drones isnt their best or anything, but i think itd still deserve to be on this list Its imo good enough atleast (though wtf was Revolt :D)
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Sjokola
Profile Joined November 2010
Netherlands800 Posts
February 15 2016 20:15 GMT
#17
On February 16 2016 03:35 Wintex wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 16 2016 01:09 Luolis wrote:
Well now im sad that Muse - Drones isnt in there Atleast iron maiden got in tho ^^

I feel like Drones is a weak album compared to their other stuff.
And I am saying this as a huge fan. reapers and a few songs were good but not as good as stuff they have made before resistance

I really like the album since I decided to listen with a open mind and not as muse album.
Mercy gives me shivers. And I really like handler and revolt.
You have to listen to it loudly though

@ lichter. My band released an album this year and I'm not trying to plug my band here but after reading through your list I'm really interested to know what you would think of it. If you'd like I could pm you my bands name.
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21243 Posts
February 16 2016 00:26 GMT
#18
#1 just sounds extremely derivative of glass/reich/part and the minimalism of the 60s - 80s?
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
February 16 2016 02:13 GMT
#19
On February 16 2016 09:26 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
#1 just sounds extremely derivative of glass/reich/part and the minimalism of the 60s - 80s?


on the surface it appears similar but it isn't. what takes glass/reich several musicians to perform, melnyk does alone. his technique of "continuous music" has a really rich and complex sound because he always has his foot on the sustain pedal, and that creates very interesting overtones. if you really listen you can hear an entirely different world echoing in the background. he creates such pleasant and melodic music with what is essentially a wall of sound and an approach similar to shoegaze.
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Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32075 Posts
February 16 2016 03:27 GMT
#20
On February 15 2016 17:56 Waxangel wrote:
hey I don't hate this list -- good job

i cant think of greater praise than this
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