[Music] Album of the Year 2015

[Longview]

hello friends

what a fantastic year for music! what records did you enjoy in 2015? here is my list:

AFX - Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Alina Baraz & Galimatias - Urban Flora
Alpine - Yuck
Amason - Sky City
Archy Marshall - A New Place 2 Drown
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul
Balam Acab - Child Death
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Best Friends - Hot. Reckless. Totally Insane.
Black Wing - ...Is Doomed
bob hund - Dödliga Klassiker 3
Bully - Feels Like
Braille - Mute Swan
Brand New - Leaked Demos 2006
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
Chance the Rapper & Lil B - Free (Based Freestyle Mixtape)
CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
Cloakroom - Further Out
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Czarface - Every Hero Needs A Villain
D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
Death Grips - The Powers That B
Destroyer - Poison Season
Dilly Dally - Sore
DJ Paypal - Sold Out
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experience - Surf
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
easyFun - Deep Trouble
Empress Of - Me
Fatima Yamaha - What's a Girl to Do?
FKA twigs - M3LL155X
Floating Points - Elaenia
Four Tet - Morning/Evening
Freddie Gibbs - Shadow of a Doubt
Funktionslust - A Different Street
Georgia - s/t
Ghost - Meliora
Girlpool - Before the World Was Big
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
Grooms - Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair
Halsey - Badlands
HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC
Helen - The Original Faces
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
Hemlock Ernst & Madlib - Trouble Knows Me
Holly Herndon - Platform
Hop Along - Painted Shut
Hot Sugar - God's Hand
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
Jamie xx - In Colour
jennylee - Right On!
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Jlin - Dark Energy
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
Joey Anderson - Invisible Switch
Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Knxwledge - Hud Dreems
Kool A.D. - O.K.
La Luz - Weirdo Shrine
Lapalux - Lustmore
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
Lxury - Into the Everywhere
Matt Skiba & The Sekrets - KUTS
Mikal Cronin - MCIII
Milo - So the Flies Don't Come
Natalie Prass - s/t
Nicholas Jaar - Nymphs II
Omar Souleyman - Bahdeni Nami
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Peaceful Solutions - Barter 7
Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again
Priest - s/t
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
Quarterbacks - Quarterbacks
Royal Crown of Sweden - R.E.G.A.L.I.E.R. 2nd Edition
Royal Headache - High
Run the Jewels - Meow the Jewels
SOPHIE - PRODUCT
Stealing Sheep - Not Real
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tame Impala - Currents
The Honeydrips - In the City
The Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Title Fight - Hyperview
Toro y Moi - Samantha
Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
Twerps - Range Anxiety
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-love
VA - Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Original Soundtrack
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Westkust - Last Forever
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again
Wild Ones - Heatwave
Wildhoney - Sleep Through It
Wildhoney - Your Face Sideways
Wiki - Lil Me
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too

Link to AOTY 2014 thread
Link to AOTY 2013 thread

[Fencers]

This was my final top 50 albums last week:



50. Krallice - Ygg Huur
49. Satan - Atom by Atom
48. Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning
47. Khemmis - Absolution
46. Baroness - Purple
45. Deathhammer- Evil Power
44. Sumac - The Deal
43. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
42. Nile - What Should Not be Unearthed
41. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
40. Macabre Omen - Gods of War, At War
39. Napalm Death - Apex Predator, Easy Meat
38. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
37. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
36. Pile - You're Better Than This
35. Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
34. The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie
33. Sannhet - Revisionist
32. Enforcer - From Beyond
31. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
30. Botanist - Hammer of Botany
29. Dr. Dre - Compton
28. Devouring Star - Through Lung and Heart
27. Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin
26. Mispyrming - Songvar elds og oreiou
25. Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
24. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
23. Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours
22. Ghost - Meliora
21. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
20. Leviathan - Scar Sighted
19. Joanna Newsom - Divers
18. Death Grips - The Powers that B Part II: Jenny Death
17. Billy Woods - Today I Wrote Nothing
16. Swallow The Sun - Songs from the North I, II & III
15. Enslaved - In Times
14. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
13. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
12. Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
11. Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment
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10. Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
09. Ghostface Killa & Badbadnotgood - Sour Soul
08. Ghostbath - Moonlover
07. Mgla – Exercises in Futility
06. Steve Coleman - Synovial Joints
05. Xibalba - Tierra Y Libertad
04. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
03. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
02. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
01. Tribulation - Children of the Night

[Feali]

Just going through my iTunes and Spotify (no particular order and definitely incomplete):

Ellie Goulding - Delirium (probably my personal #1)
Ice Nine Kills - Every Trick In The Book
Adele - 25
Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
blessthefall - To Those Left Behind
Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit
Bullet For My Valentine - Venom
Phinehas - Till The End
Mans Zelmerlöw - Perfectly Damaged
The Wombats - Glitterbug
While She Sleeps - Brainwashed
We Are Harlot - We Are Harlot
Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz
Of Monsters And Men - Beneath The Skin
Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Lena - Crystal Sky
Halestorm - Into The Wild Life
Falling In Reverse - Just Like You
Hillary Duff - Breath In. Breath Out.
Courage My Love - Becoming (Re-Issue)
Selena Gomez - Revival
The Sam Willows - Take Heart
Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind
Louane - Chambre 12
Kodaline - Coming Up For Air
Fifth Harmony - Reflection
CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon

(bolded ones are contenders for album of the year)

[hellhamster]

A couple late additions since the metal thread.

1. Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est (avant-garde/technical death metal)
2. Satan - Atom By Atom (NWOBHM)
3. Max Richter - Sleep (ambient/minimalism)
4. Horrendous - Anareta (death metal)
5. Timbre - Sun & Moon (chamber folk)
6. Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers (melodic/brutal death metal)
7. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (singer/songwriter)
8. Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu (black metal)
9. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (art pop)
10. Black Fast - Terms of Surrender (thrash metal)
11. Midnight Odyssey - Shards of Silver Fade (atmospheric black metal/ambient)
12. Abyssal - Antikatastaseis (death metal)
13. Tempel - The Moon Lit Our Path (atmospheric sludge/progressive metal)
14. Akhlys - The Dreaming I (black metal)
15. Clarence Clarity - No Now (glitchy R&B)
16. Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi (psychedelic folk)
17. Leviathan - Scar Sighted (black metal)
18. Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine (progressive rock)
19. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal (atmospheric black metal)
20. 2814 - 新しい日の誕生 (ambient)
21. Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr (avant-garde metal)
22. Everything Everything - Get To Heaven (art pop)
23. Mesarthim - Isolate (atmospheric black metal/ambient)
24. VI - De Praestigiis Angelorum (black metal)
25. Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters (shoegaze)
26. Der Weg einer Freiheit - Stellar (black metal)
27. Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment (funeral doom metal)
28. Mgla - Exercises in futility (black metal)
29. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was (minimalism)
30. Macabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War (melodic black metal)
31. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (gothic rock)
32. Kamasi Washington - Epic (spiritual jazz)
33. Earthside – A Dream In Static (progressive metal)
34. Enshine - Singularity (melodic death/doom metal)
35. Leprous - The Congregation (progressive metal)
36. Tribulation - Children of the Night (heavy/gothic metal)
37. Batushka - Litourgiya (black metal)
38. Swallow the Sun - Songs From the North I, II & III (doom metal)
39. Napalm Death - Apex Predator – Easy Meat (grindcore)
40. Alessandro Cortini - Risveglio (progressive electronic)
41. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within (doom metal)
42. Uncle Acid - The Night Creeper (heavy psyche)
43. Shape of Despair - Monotony Fields (funeral doom metal)
44. Adversarial - Death, Endless Nothing and Black Knife of Nihilism (death metal)
45. Amestigon - Thier (atmospheric black metal)
46. Low - Ones and Sixes (indie rock)
47. Xibalba - Tierra Y Libertad (metalcore)
48. Glaciation - Sur les Falaises de Marbre (atmospheric black metal)
49. Arcturus - Arcturian (avant-garde metal)
50. Elder - Lore (stoner rock)

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Want to say 1989 this year again

If not then Of Monsters And Men

[Stormcall]

Slow year for me, this is all I got this year:

Ouroboros-Emanations
Rebellion-Wyrd Bith Ful Araed
Symphony X-Underworld
Nightwish-Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Gorod-A Maze of Recycled Creeds
Satan-Atom by Atom
Visigoth-Revenant King
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Letters From the Labyrinth
Queensryche-Condition Human
Judicator-At the Expense of Humanity
Grave Digger-Exhumation
Hatchet-Fear Beyond Lunacy
Powerwolf-Blessed and Possessed
Stratovarius-Eternal
Guardians of Time-Rage and Fire
Orden Ogan-Ravenhead
Blind Guardian-Beyond the Red Mirror
Denner/Shermann-Satan’s Tomb
Helloween-My God Given Right
Iron Maiden-The Book of Souls

Ouroboros is probably my top album of the year, but beyond that I haven't decided

[Orby]

Bloody hell are they all lists of albums of the year or just albums you got all year lol. I don't buy that many albums, wish I could though

Well my top albums, this year out of the 25 albums I got this year are, in no order;

Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
Meg Myers - Sorry
Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
Twin Shadow - Eclipse
The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven
Europe - War of Kings
Def Leppard - Def Leppard
Halestorm - Into the Wildlife
Clutch - Psychic Warfare
Shinedown - Threat to Survival
Matt Skiba & the Sekrets - Kuts
Iron Maiden - Book of Souls
Faith No More - Soul Invictus
Scorpions - Return to Forever
Michael Monroe - Blackout States
Toto - XIV
Motorhead - Bad Magic
Seasick Steve - Sonic Soul Surfer

[TonyMonktana]

Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Baroness - Purple
Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

I feel that listing more than a few completely diminishes the real importance of mentioning just the few very best

[Cairhiin]

Moonspell - Extinct
Heidevolk - Velua
Korpiklaani - Noita
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Marduk - Frontschwein

Must admit though this year went mostly past where music is concerned as I have had a really busy year. Hopefully, 2016 will be better. There were probably a bunch of others I am forgetting right now as well.

[TonyMonktana]

+1 on Ellie Goulding & Marduk

Both great albums

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Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud, I adore what they did with that album, and the addition of Chrigel Glanzmann on a couple of songs is utterly sublime.