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

has he had that much acclaim? i know he got nommed for a mercury but i think he's just keeping damon albarn's seat warm

father john misty is going to be all over these lists isn't he? cannot see the appeal at all

father john misty is currently ilxbet's favourite to be my figure of greatest invective during the EOYs pending Tame Impala's eventual placement

has he had that much acclaim? i know he got nommed for a mercury but i think he's just keeping damon albarn's seat warm

― NickB

Mojo and The Guardian both game him five stars. 82 on Metacritic.

I haven't really paid attention to Father John Misty, so most of my ire is aimed towards Tobias Jesso Jr.

Things are changing just as slowly in the realm of indie rock. It's more than two decade since the weekly inkie music press went nuts for Supergrass and welcomed Caught By The Fuzz and particularly Alright as the new-born new wave of new wave, revelled in the old school Beatles-meets-Pistols http://blog.eatmove.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/wpid-dog-dance-o.giftunesmithery http://blog.eatmove.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/wpid-dog-dance-o.gifand patted them on the head as Oasis went about becoming the biggest band in the world.

Nice to see J-Gru and Shopping nestling next to each other on that RT list, but otherwise... eh. Like, I don't hate the list. It's not the worst list we'll see. It's got some okay-to-good-to-things-I-genuinely-like on it. But... eh.

Supergrass >>>>> Oasis
I mean come on.

Rough Trade is like "we have to be first because everyone reads the first list."

or maybe, just maybe, they use the list to sell some CDs and LPs for Xmas?

that also works. maybe both.

can't believe people are clowning Gaz Coombes

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

Raymond Cummings' noise best-of great as usual

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/here-are-the-36-best-noise-tracks-of-2015-8054338

Amazing work, Mike; thank you.

6 female artists in the top 11 is pretty cool to see, too.

A once-off reminder that voting for ILM's own end-of-year music poll is currently open and you have <7 days left to cast your vote for Gaz Coombes:

ILM's 2015 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

http://www.ims-awwa.org/resource/resmgr/images/get_involved_web.jpg

the Car Seat Headrest album that showed up on several lists is goooood ... saw the name over and over again near the end of 2015 but didn't get around to listening till now

My best crit list find: DJ Sotofett. Vinyl duly ordered from Honest Jon's.

Bringing in a heap of musicians and friends, DJ Sotofett has engineered a melting pot of sounds that brings in all sorts of rhythms and flavours, be it the balearic guitars for the intro track (named Ibiza Dub, of course), the super-fluid and euphoric drum jam on the D-Side alongside Parisian peer Gilb’R, or the authentic african vocal (Shouts to the Kambo Super Sound fam!) on what is probably the hottest riddim of them all: ‘Nondo’

hmmmm, maybe

See what you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyiR9b2um2I

the largest poll of 2015 tracks, starts January 26th on Triple J midday (less than 5 Hours time)

triple j's Hottest 100 2015 teasers
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s4393239.htm

After six weeks of steady voting, and a massive swell of traffic to the triple j website on the final day of voting on Friday, it's time to say: Happy Hottest 100 Eve!

With only one sleep to go until the world's biggest music poll kicks off for 2015, excitement levels are off the hook.

After spending the weekend crunching numbers and making sure every last one of your votes was counted, we can tell you that there were over 2 million votes cast this year.

2,094,350 votes, to be precise, pouring in from 172 countries around the world, from locations as far flung as Suriname, Zimbabwe, Bahrain, Serbia, and of course, in our own backyard.

There's already been plenty of debate over which of your favourite songs of 2015 are going to make it into the countdown. And to keep you guessing, we've put together some teaser stats. Can you pick the results from these lil' tidbits?

• More than 16,000 songs were voted for.
• 54 songs are Australian (which is 54%, slightly down from last year's record of 59).
• There's 26 Hottest 100 debutantes this year.
• It's an upbeat year! The average BPM of the Hottest 100 is 123 (compared to 121 last year and 116 in 2013)

correction, that will be on tuesday not monday.

Tuesday our time so probably monday yours.

Don't expect much from the list but there is talk that a black artist (i.e. kendrick) might be in with a shot of winning this year which is...progress for the notoriously whitebread list

Headphone Commute's Readers Poll
http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/01/24/best-of-2015-readers-poll/

Great list, and thanks for the pointer to that site. I hope other ILM voters took note the Max Richter, which does what it says on the tin. Will be investigating the Irisarri.

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.)