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Best of 2015 - Post Your Favorite Albums (previously a mid-year review)


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Best albums of first half of 2015:

 

1. Cloud Rat "Qliphoth"

2. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld "Never Were The Way She Was"

3. Spirits "Discontent"

4. Gay Kiss "Preservation Measures"

5. Fight Amp "Constantly Off"

6. Metz "II"

7. Burning Love "Down So Long_Medicine Man"

8. The Body and Vampillia "xoroAHbin"

9. Chelsea Wolfe "Abyss"

10. Death Injection "Hate For Myself And Everyone Else"

 

Just outside Top10:

 

11. Blur "The Magic Whip"

12. Various Artists "Whatever Nevermind"

13. The Feral Trees "S/T"

14. Will Haven "Open The Mind To Discomfort"

15. Self Defense Family "Heaven Is Earth"

16. Mutoid Man "Bleeder"

 

Edit. Just recalled the Death Injection LP. This needs to be in Top10.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Since I was just thinking about this today:

Bosse-de-nage - All Fours

Strung Out - Transmission Alpha Delta

Monolord - Vænir

High On Fire - Luminiferous

Elder - Lore

Torche - Restarter

Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ

King Dude - Songs of Heaven & Light...

Envy - Atheist Cornea

On the bubble:

White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again

Horse Hunter - Caged In Flesh

Noisem - Blossoming Decay

Harm's Way - Rust

Superchief - Trophy Room

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In order of release:

 

Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth

Bjork - Vulnicura

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

Zs - Xe

Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters

Mastery - VALIS

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Death Grips - The Powers That B

Jackson Scott - Sunshine Redux

Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs

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1. We Lost The Sea - Departure Songs

2. Phantom Winter - CVLT

3. Vattnet Viskar - Settler

4. Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs

5. Locrian - Infinite Dissolution

6. Tempel   The Moon Lit Our Path
7. Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere
8. Colaris - Nexus
9. Rosetta - Quintessential Ephemera

10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'

 

Honorable mentions:

 

SUMAC - The Deal

Archivist - Archivist

Sistere - IZAH
Toundra - IV
Mode - Ø L T E N
toe - Hear You

God Is An Astronaut - Helios/Erebus

 

New material I'm looking forward to this year:

 

BATS

Deftones

Scale The Summit

Deafheaven

Amia Venera Landscape

Cloudkicker?

 

It looks like it's going to be a good metal year for me. Hooray!

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Finally getting around to posting mine. In no order whatsoever:

  • I the Mighty - Connector
  • Hidden Hospitals - Surface Tension
  • Silverstein - I Am Alive in Everything I Touch
  • Dance Gavin Dance - Instant Gratification
  • Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
  • Periphery - Juggernaut Alpha & Omega
  • Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear - Skeleton Crew
  • All Get Out - Movement
  • Eidola - Degeneraterra
  • Idlehands - Dena Mora
  • Attalus - Into the Sea
  • Ghostface Killah & Badbadnotgood - Sour Soul
  • Knxwledge - Hud Dreams
  • The Story So Far - S/T
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year so far:

 

Marilyn Manson- The Pale Emperor

2814- (Japanese goes here)

Bjork- Vulnicura

Lightning Bolt- Fantasy Empire

Death Grips- Jenny Death

Marriages- Salome

Royal Thunder- Crooked Doors

Faith No More- Sol Invictus

Mutoid Man- Bleeder

Team Sleep- Woodstock Sessions

Chelsea Wolfe- Abyss

 

wanted to like the new Modest Mouse, heartbroken by the sick joke of a Muse album, and generally bored of most up and coming bands like Viet Cong. Kendrick Lamar's album has 3 good songs which lose a ton of steam because of the album's "social" baggage. In my circles of friends at least.

 

Really excited for some potentially upcoming winter records from Red Fang, Baroness, Indian Handcrafts, and a few more.

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i admittedly haven't been listening to a ton of new music lately, i felt like i was neglecting so much of my "older" library, but of the stuff i have listened to:

 

Rosetta - Quintessential Ephemera

Phantom Winter - CVLT

Deathrite - Revelation of Chaos

 

looking forward to new Cobalt, Traitor Crucifix, and maybe Deafheaven

 

and friggin' Motorhead has a new record coming out, so there's obviously that.

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  • 3 months later...

Unless Kanye and/or Frank Ocean drop something, this should be my Top 10:

1. Disclosure - Caracal (my most played album this year, so it gets the top spot)

2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (although this is the best record of the year)

3. Tame Impala - Currents

4. Jamie xx - In Colour

5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

6. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness

7. New Order - Music Complete

8. Miguel - Wildheart

9. Grimes - Art Angels

10. Kamasi Washington - The Epic

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Drug Church has been a favorite as of late. Beach Slang is moving up. Not to sound cool, but I really do love the new Deafheaven. SKM, to me, released a good one. I also love Out West by the Coal Creek Boys. Oh, El Vey is super!

 

Coal Creek Boys FTW!  I can't wait to get the "fan edition" in the mail soon!

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No real order

 

Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars

BtS - Untethered Moon

Goya/Wounded Giant - Split

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell

Purity Ring - Another Eternity

Czarface - Every Hero Needs a Villain

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

Drake - If You're Reading This...

Spelljammer - Ancient of Days

Maritime - Magnetic Bodies/Maps of Bones

 

Fully expect Grimes to work her way in there and probably knock out Maritime or Beach House

Monolord's new album is really good too, but I haven't spent enough time with it.

Still somehow haven't listened to the new GYBE...

Windhand's new album should probably be in there too, but I haven't listened to it enough either.

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