2015 End-of-Year Music Polls & Critics' Lists

I should coco

He released an album in 2012 that was completely ignored. Matador is a better record than that one but I don't know why it's had such a bigger reaction from the UK music press. I'm happy for him as I absolutely adored Supergrass.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, November 16, 2015 4:01 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup! Totally agree.

I really like "Matador." I wanted to stand up for it on the Mercury Prize thread but didn't want to be laughed at.

Gaz Coombes

I have to confess that I scanned the Rough Trade list in a vague "what should I get my brother-in-law for Christmas?" sort of way.

that is quite the thing to confess on a public message board

I know.

Normally something would suggest itself.

I used to know where I stood when he subscribed to the Fabric series.

Now I have a suspicion that he likes Coldplay.

guys there are plenty of good records on that Rough Trade list tbh

Colleen and Julia Holter both present and correct so it gets a pass from me.

There's another record store top 100 here:

Drift 2015 Records of the Year
http://thedriftrecordshop.net/blogs/deluxe/78358916-2015-records-of-the-year

won't post it all but here's the top 13:

1 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2 Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
3 Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
4 Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
5 Kamasi Washington - The Epic
6 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
7 Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul
8 Tobias Jesso Jnr. - Goon
9 Kurt Vile - b’lieve i’m goin down
10 Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
11 Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
12 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
13 Gaz Coombes - Matador

so many clunky album titles in there

Dj Mag

BEST OF BRITISH 2015: VOTE NOW
http://djmag.com/news/best-british-nominees-announced

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3E9cQL28ME

6 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Horrible 2010s album title.

agree, it's trying to hard, reminds me of that terrible scene in Limits of Control where Tilda Swinton tells Isaach De Bankole: "Sometimes my favorite films are the ones where people sit there and don't say anything" and then they JUST SIT THERE

why the fuck would you do your list in the middle of november

― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago),

Because they're a record shop and actively want to sell copies over the run-up to Christmas? Come on this isn't rocket science and this exact point comes up every single year.

The title of the album was taken from a poster that hung in her grandma's bathroom.[7]

^thought it would be something like this

so you're saying it's about pooping then

Basically

looking forward to the follow up, Free Media Studies Degrees, Please Take One

My sister has an embroidered sign in hers that says Be good to your bowels and they will be good to you

Resident Music (Brighton record shop)
http://www.resident-music.com/annual

1 Algiers - Algiers
2 Low - Ones & Sixes
3 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit & Think
4 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
5 Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
6 Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
7 Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile
8 Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last
9 Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
10 Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia

Courtney Barnett - If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle, Be A Sweet And Wipe The Seat

Courtney Barnett - If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down

Might be an idea to lock this awful thread and go with Whiney's version.

courtney barnett - bathroom reader

sorry matt

Gaz's downstairs toilet is quite good. There's a pink plastic tiara on the cistern, evidence of his four-and-a-half-year-old daughter, whose Velcro star chart in the kitchen shows she's had an excellent week.

Feel like Matt is trying to rob Gaz Coombes of his well-earned recognition here

Matt does not adore Matador

Support different regional versions of this thread, all with roughly the same level of Gaz content.

I guess it'll take one well-placed NO SURRENDER for the deed to be done

Gaz Coombes

that flaming Gaz Coombes again..

details of the new Mojo magazine

Mojo
http://www.mojo4music.com/22312/mojo-266-january-2016/

Sealing the deal, it’s our annual round-up of the year’s finest music, with a Best Of 2015 CD featuring top acts including New Order, Julia Holter, Sufjan Stevens and Bill Ryder-Jones, plus an in-mag rundown of all the essential albums, reissues, films, books etc. ....

FREE CD! THE BEST OF 2015 With MOJO revealing its albums of the year – see below – this month’s 15 track, free CD features essential tracks from 2015’s essential records, including New Order, Songhoy Blues, Father John Misty, Sleater-Kinney, Julia Holter, Gaz Coombes and many more....

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR Our top 50 countdown of the greatest records of 2015, with input from their creators. Plus: the best in reissues, film and books while some of our favourite artists share the best things they’ve heard all year.

Decibel Magazine's Top 40 Albums of 2015

1. Horrendous - Anareta
2. Tribulation - The Children of the Night
3. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
4. High on Fire - Luminiferous
5. Lucifer - Lucifer I
6. Baroness - Purple
7. Skepticism - Ordeal
8. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
9. Khemmis - Absolution
10. Killing Joke - Pylon
11. Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers..
12. Satan - Atom by Atom
13. False - Untitled
14. Mgla - Exercises in Futility
15. Refused - Freedom
16. Leviathan - Scar Sighted
17. My Dying Bride - Feel the Misery
18. Noisem - Blossoming Decay
19. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
20. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
21. Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours
22. Failure - The Heart Is A Monster
23. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
24. Intronaut - The DIrection of Last Things
25. Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat
26. Hate Eternal - Infernus
27. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - The Nigh Creepr
28. Myrkur - M
29. With the Dead - With the Dead
30. Dead to a Dying World - Litany
31. Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden
32. Swallow the Sun - Songs from the North I, II & III
33. Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
34. Ghost - Meliora
35. Spectral Voice - Necrotic Doom
36. Cult Leader - Lightless Walk
37. Enslaved - In Times
38. Shape of Despair - Monotony Fields
39. Author & Punisher - Melk En Honing
40. Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages

goddamn it i followed the whiney spite-thread instead of the real one and i missed my chance to make up funny courtney barnett album names. FUCK

YOU KNOW WHAT? FUCK IT
Courtney Barnett - Red Touch Yellow You're a Dead Fellow, Red Touch Black You're OK Jack

*unbookmarks both threads, stops paying attention to music*

No Liturgy

Okay unilateral mod decision, Gaz Coombes can fuck off.

We Aim to Please, You Aim Too, Please

No Aklhys
No Abyssal
No Glaciation
No Krallice
No Locrian
No Misþyrming

I figured there'd be more Relapse, they had a crazy great year in 2015 imo

RIP Gaz Coombes

^new board description

Gaz Coombes

Gaz Coombes is the new Hen Fap

Thread's had a gaztric bypass

gaz not for coombes the bell tolls

It took a few days but I finally LOLed at 'Gaz Coombes'.

I've listened to bits of the Swallow The Sun, but not sure I'll ever get through all two and a half hours plus. Guess they got to hear the Baroness somehow -- I haven't heard that promos were even out yet. No Christian Mistress, Magic Circle, Ufomammut, Elder, Avatarium. I'm not feeling bad about letting my subscription lapse.

― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:20 PM

I have a stream of the Baroness album. It's good, but I don't feel like I've had enough time with it to put it on my year-end list. I've heard 14 of those 40 albums in all.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:24 PM

34. Ghost - Meliora
23. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
12. Satan - Atom by Atom
5. Lucifer - Lucifer I
2. Tribulation - The Children of the Night

These would be on my list.

― jmm, Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:32 PM

Yeah there's some good stuff on the list.

And here's this for reference:

Rough Trade's Top 100 Albums of 2015
1. Bjork - Vulnicura
2. Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
3. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
4. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
5. Max Richter - From Sleep
6. Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
7. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
8. Royal Headache - High
9. Romare - Projections
10. Jamie XX - In Colour
11. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
12. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
13. Tame Impala - Currents
14. Nadine Shah - Fast Food
15. Wand - Golem
16. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
17. Django Django - Born Under Saturn
18. Tobias Jesso Jr - Goon
19. Georgia - S/T
20. Palma Violets - Danger in the Club
21. Calexico - Edge of the Sun
22. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
23. FFS (Franz Ferdinand + Sparks) - FFS
24. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space
25. Floating Points - Elaenia
26. Bop English - Constant Bop
27. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
28. Beach House - Depression Cherry
29. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
30. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
31. Alabama Shakes - Sound and COlor
32. Trevor Jackson - Format
33. Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
34. Shopping - Why Choose
35. Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile
36. Mac DeMarco - Another One
37. Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows
38. Foals - What Went Down
39. New Order - Music Complete
40. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
41. Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
42. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
43. Ibeyi - Ibeyi
44. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood
45. Fuzz - II
46. Liam Hayes - Slurrup
47. Death and Vanilla - To Where the Wild Things Are
48. Colleen - Captain of None
49. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
50. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
51. The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD
52. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
53. Lianne La Havas - Blood
54. Public Enemy - Man Plans God Laughs
55. Mercury Rev - The Light In You
56. Adele - 25
57. Joanna Newsom - Divers
58. Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture
59. Leftfield - Alternative Light Source
60. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
61. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special
62. Sarah Cracknell - Red Kite
63. Fraser A Gorman - Slow Hum
64. C Duncan - Architect
65. The Districts - A Flourish And A Spoil
66. The Unthanks - Mount The Air
67. Damaged Bug - Cold Hot Plumbs
68. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin' down...
69. Stealing Sheep - Not Real
70. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
71. Public Image Ltd - What The World Needs Now
72. Drenge - Undertow
73. Holly Herndon - Platform
74. Follakzoid - III
75. Death Grips - The Powers That B
76. METZ - II
77. Spit and Shine - Everybody's A Fuckin Expert
78. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
79. Destroyer - Poison Season
80. Andrew Combs - All These Dreams
81. Hills - Frid
82. Grimes - Art Angels
83. Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
84. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
85. Shamir - Ratchet
86. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
87. Ought - Sun Coming Down
88. Sauna Youth - Distractions
89. Nils Frahm - Solo
90. The Fireworks - Switch Me On
91. Leon Bridges - Coming Home
92. Bully - Feels Like
93. Low - Ones and Sixes
94. Arca - Mutant
95. Girlpool - Before the World Was Big
96. Laura Marling - Short Movie
97. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
98. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
99. Ryan Adams - 1989
100. Protomartyr - The Agen

I was surprised to see Bop English at #26. It's pretty good -- White Denim frontman James Petralli's solo project.
https://bopenglish.bandcamp.com/album/constant-bop

― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:37 PM

results are in

Triple J Hottest 100 2015
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/15/countdown/

wikipedia with more data / analysis
Triple J Hottest 100, 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_J_Hottest_100,_2015

The Wombats!

Lol fuck them!

http://m.nashvillescene.com/nashville/results-of-the-2015-nashville-scene-country-music-critics-poll/Content?oid=6325160

For the Scene's 16th Annual Country Music Critics' Poll, we surveyed more than 80 music writers across the country to determine 2015's top country albums, singles, performers and more. See the results of our poll below.

Albums:

1. Chris Stapleton, Traveller (Mercury Nashville)

2. Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free (Southeastern/Thirty Tigers)

3. Ashley Monroe, The Blade (Warner Nashville)

4. Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville)

5. Eric Church, Mr. Misunderstood (EMI Nashville)

6. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, Django and Jimmie (Legacy)

7. Rhiannon Giddens, Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch)

8. James McMurtry, Complicated Game (Complicated Game)

9. The Mavericks, Mono (Valory)

10. Maddie & Tae, Start Here (Dot)

11. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, The Traveling Kind (Nonesuch)

12. Dwight Yoakam, Second Hand Heart (Warner Bros.)

13. Cam, Untamed (Arista Nashville)

14. Don Henley, Cass County (Capitol)

15. Turnpike Troubadours, The Turnpike Troubadours (Bossier City)

16. John Moreland, High on Tulsa Heat (Old Omens)

17. Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen, Hold My Beer Vol. 1 (Lil' Buddy Toons)

18. Corb Lund, Things That Can't Be Undone (New West)

19. Alan Jackson, Angels and Alcohol (Alan's Country/EMI Nashville)

20. Joe Ely, Panhandle Rambler (Rack 'Em)

21. Asleep at the Wheel, Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (Proper)

22. Dave Rawlings Machine, Nashville Obsolete (Acony)

23. Sam Outlaw, Angeleno (Six Shooter/Thirty Tigers)

24. Andrew Combs, All These Dreams (Coin)

25. Allison Moorer, Down to Believing (eOne Nashville)

26. George Strait, Cold Beer Conversation (MCA Nashville)

27. Lindi Ortega, Faded Gloryville (Grand Tour)

28. Steve Earle, Terraplane (New West)

29. The Bottle Rockets, South Broadway Athletic Club (Bloodshot)

30. Brandi Carlile, The Firewatcher's Daughter (ATO)

Singles:

1. Little Big Town, "Girl Crush" (Capitol Nashville)

2. Jason Isbell, "24 Frames" (Southeastern/Thirty Tigers)

3. Cam, "Burning House" (Arista Nashville)

4. Ashley Monroe, "The Blade" (Warner Nashville)

5. Chris Stapleton, "Tennessee Whiskey" (Mercury Nashville)

6. Eric Church, "Mr. Misunderstood" (EMI Nashville)

7. Miranda Lambert, "Little Red Wagon" (RCA)

8. Chris Stapleton, "Traveller" (Mercury Nashville)

9. Thomas Rhett, "Crash and Burn" (Valory)

10. Eric Church, "Like a Wrecking Ball" (EMI Nashville)

11. Dierks Bentley, "Riser" (Capitol Nashville)

12. Keith Urban, "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" (Capitol Nashville)

13. Kacey Musgraves, "Dime Store Cowgirl" (Mercury Nashville)

14. Carrie Underwood, "Smoke Break" (Arista Nashville)

15. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard with Jamey Johnson, "It's All Going to Pot" (Legacy)

16. Maddie & Tae, "Shut Up and Fish" (Dot)

17. Brothers Osborne, "Stay a Little Longer" (EMI Nashville)

18. Lee Ann Womack, "Send It On Down" (Sugar Hill)

19. Lee Ann Womack, "Chances Are" (Sugar Hill)

20. Cam, "My Mistake" (Arista Nashville)

21. Chris Janson, "Buy Me a Boat" (Warner Nashville)

22. Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley and Eric Paslay, "The Driver" (Capitol Nashville)

23. Kacey Musgraves, "Biscuits" (Mercury Nashville)

24. Ashley Monroe, "On to Something Good" (Warner Music Nashville)

25. The Mavericks, "All Night Long" (Valory)

Miranda Lambert's "Little Red Wagon" is an aural war crime

Not into it, either. Bathroom Sink would have been such a better single. (Her only solo writing credit on the album, incidentally.)

http://www.toneglow.net/features/2016/1/31/2015-in-review

For some reason I only like every other Isbell album. Better luck next time I guess.

http://beehy.pe/best-of-2015/brazil-3/

A best of Brazilian album list with rock, artsy samba and some funky stuff (tho I don't think any carioca favela funk)

In retrospect this is probably my favorite year of albums of the past decade or so.

It's up there. Mine is probably 2018, but yeah this one has a lot of stone cold classics across so many genres.

Most years I would struggle to name 15 albums that I consistently enjoy, but this year has at least 25.

Gimme an E

E!

Gimme a MO

MO!

Gimme a TION

TION!

(I realized it looked like I might be cheering for an emo album.)