damn good year

in no particular order:

Jamie xx- In Colour
Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp a Butterfly
Mac Demarco- Another One
Sleater-Kinney- No Cities to Love
Beach House- Depression Cherry & Thank Your Lucky Stars
Tame Impala- Currents
Waxahatchee- Ivy Tripp
Shopping- Why Choose
Ryan Adams- 1989
Big Grams- Big Grams
Eternal Summers- Gold and Stone
Natalie Prass- Natalie Prass
Warehouse- Tesseract
Dan Deacon- Glass Riffer
Bully- Feels Like

there are plenty more. also feels weird to not have more rap on my list. good year for singles, though.

[Edited on December 2, 2015 at 11:37 AM. Reason : .]

12/2/2015 11:35:54 AM

I haven't listened to a lot, but what I've liked so far:

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tame Impala - Currents
Jamie xx - In Colour
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kamasi Washington - The Epic

12/2/2015 5:01:58 PM

ridiculously good year. I could probably go 50 deep on albums that I enjoyed a lot before getting into also-rans.

Some of my tops:

Deafheaven
Sufjan Stevens
George Clanton
Father John Misty
Kamasi Washington
The World is a Beautiful Place...
Grimes
Snarky Puppy
Turnover
Kendrick Lamar
Horrendous
Tame Impala
Between the Buried and Me
Beach House (x2)
Hop Along

12/2/2015 7:14:07 PM

Also, I guess I need to give that Jamie XX record some more time. I like it but didn't love it. I did love some individual songs though.

12/3/2015 11:32:53 AM

beach house - depression cherry/thank your lucky stars
tame impala - currents
father john misty - i love you, honeybear
sufjan stevens - carrie & lowell
deerhunter - fading frontier
deafheaven - new bermuda
panda bear - panda bear meets the grim reaper
grimes - art angels
ratatat - magnifique
chvrches - every open eye

12/9/2015 7:17:47 PM

good list. wish more people still posted here I always am curious to see what the most repeated albums are on these kind of lists on the sites I read.

12/10/2015 10:42:59 AM

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned. I think Sufjan had the best but it's hard to listen to especially after recently losing a parent. I didn't like Titus Andronicus' Local Business but I think The Most Lamentable Tragedy is pretty great.

Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy

12/10/2015 11:15:40 AM

>no Mgla

12/11/2015 3:21:48 PM

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9764-the-50-best-albums-of-2015/

12/28/2015 1:22:53 PM

I like the AOTY aggregate list:

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2015/

Not that I necessarily agree with everything, but I always like the attempt at filtering the general consensus among the large list of included blogs and websites.

12/28/2015 1:55:57 PM

Divers
To Pimp a Butterfly
No Cities to Love

That's about it for me.

12/29/2015 5:43:43 AM

^^Remember turntable.fm? Man that was a cool concept for a while. Anyway, I spent a couple of hours one morning virtually hanging out, chatting and trading favorite music with the guy who started the aoty.org website on turntable.fm.

[Edited on December 29, 2015 at 1:09 PM. Reason : been a fan of the site ever since]

12/29/2015 1:08:55 PM

As far as my top list, what comes to mind is:
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
Houndstooth - No News from Home
Gun Outfit - Dream All Over (I just got this one a few weeks ago, but I'm loving it)

And Divers will probably be on there, but I just got it for Christmas and it's on vinyl (and Drag City still doesn't do free downloads of their vinyl!?!?!) so I haven't listened to more than a few songs yet.

12/29/2015 1:33:38 PM

stupidly late on finally listening, but this Vince Staples album is so damn good

12/30/2015 2:19:01 PM

BTBAM - Coma Ecliptic
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Baroness - Purple

I haven't listened to many of the ones listed here though

12/31/2015 10:50:57 AM

^ Check out albums by:

Horrendous
Batushka
Vola


^^^man! I forgot about Turntable already. How quickly things change. That's awesome.

12/31/2015 1:02:13 PM

^^Is that album anything remotely like Blackfield I / II?

[Edited on December 31, 2015 at 3:52 PM. Reason : ]

12/31/2015 3:51:58 PM

^ I've never listened to Blackfield so I don't know.

This is my favorite song on the album, specifically the last 5 minutes. Awesome solo by Guthrie Govan.

1/1/2016 7:13:42 PM

Grimes just keeps growing and growing.

1/23/2016 10:29:17 PM