Music Banter - Top 10 Albums of 2015 !!!

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In no particular order :

Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Paul Weller - Saturn Patterns
Poison Idea - Confuse & Conquer
Braids - Deep In The Iris
BC Camplight - How To Die In The North
Violent Arrest - Life Inside The Western Bloc (the cd version with bonus tracks)
Blur - The Magic Whip
Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People

Well it's a Top 9 but I've been busy listening to older music I guess.

Alright, a tentative list, not in any specific order like many others.

Billy Woods - Today, I Wrote Nothing
Six Organs of Admittance - Hexadic
Kronos Quartet - Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
The Residents - Shadowland
Zu - Cortar Todo
John Coltrane - Offering: Live at Temple University
Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke - Behold
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
Peter Brotzmann, Keiji Haino, & Jim O'Rourke - Two City Blues 2
Ramleh - Circular Time

I think it's been a really fecking great year for music.

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Originally Posted by The Identity Matrix (Post 1657012)

I have already got all of the albums listed so far that I have not given a listen to. KEN mode will be one of them. I wasn't talking about your list. I was just getting the point across that a lot of the lists so far have been very similar, mine included. All of the critically acclaimed hip hop records this year were pretty meh to me at least, and they seem to make up the bulk of this years. I thought Death Grips and Tyler the Creator did nice jobs in handing down some excellent alternative hip hop. A lot of the albums though on your list however seem to avoid the general trap of being pressured into liking what is popular. You could make a case of that with my list, but I do not see a lot of the albums on my list hitting others.

Yeah most of the lists near the beginning share a lot of albums, after that mpt so much though.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1657069)

The Residents released an album?! I had no idea. I'll have to check the Brotzmann one out too. That Coltrane album is brill, was contemplating putting it on but decided against live albums in the end.

I'll throw out ten honorable mentions in no order for top ten of 2015. Just thought I would do this to expand my list a bit.

10. Beach Slang - The Things We Do To Find People Like Us

9. Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect

8. The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie

7. Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before the Sun

6. Grimes - Art Angels

5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete

4. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down

3. New Order - Music Complete

2. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls

1. The Vaccines - English Graffiti

c'mon man, the Beach Slang record was a massive disappointment.

Two great EP's last year but the most monotonous uninspired pile of repetitive mediocrity this year. It made me sad.

^^^

I am sorry you feel that way. I hope you gave it more than one listen.

2015 was a quiet year, but my top 10 would be as follows...

1. St Germain - St Germain 2LP 180g

This is a strong #1. The record is a refreshing and expert blend of electronic, downtempo, deep house, folk, and African rhythms and has a creative marketing concept to match.

2. Max Richter - From Sleep 2LP clear vinyl - Richter's 8-hour ambient sleep concert distilled to work on an LP for us stubborn materialists.

3. Sigur Rós - ( ) 2LP+CD reissue

Finally an affordable copy of this outstanding milestone of post-rock.

4. Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom 2LP 180g (first-ever vinyl issue) - released against M Doughty's wishes, but it's okay because he's kind of an ******* since he went clean. Any SC fan will tell you Ruby Vroom captures the band at their very best.

5. Soul Coughing - Irresistible Bliss 180g
6. Soul Coughing - El Oso Ltd, 180g

because why not have it all?

7. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space Ltd, Clear vinyl - Another delightful album of J. Willgoose, Esq. and Wrigglesworth's krautrock-inspired theme music for found recordings of the British Film Institute.

8. John Carpenter - Lost Themes

The soundtrack to an awesome late-80s sci-fi horror that never was. This record is pure time travel.

9. The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD Ltd. 3LP + CD ed.

Not their best, but hell - it's the ****ing Orb. We'll take anything from Dr Alex Paterson!

10 ?????? We've got just under a month... someone release something already.

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Originally Posted by The Identity Matrix (Post 1657399)

^^^

I am sorry you feel that way. I hope you gave it more than one listen.

several.

believe me, I wanted to like it. But there's only so much you can hear about them being 'just kids' and enjoying a drink without worrying about tomorrow.

Maybe I enjoyed it so much because I have been avoiding there kind of music for a while now. It all came down to the fact that I need to here about people just being kids every now and then to keep me going through the genre.

Maybe it will grow on you, or maybe not, or maybe it wont matter at all.