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

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

better than flaming GC

The 405's Alternative Mercury Prize awarded to Little Simz's A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons
http://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/the-405-alternative-mercury-prize-goes-to-little-simz-144

40 records on that Decibel list and no VHOL?

hardly heard any of those Decibel albums and the only one I thought was an unqualified tick.jpg was #40, Cruciamentum

I wouldn't mind but I already keep scolding myself for how much cool shit I bypass because I'm catching up on (predominantly) metal promos

I take it the Mercury Rev album is boring?

I take it the Mercury Rev album is boring?

― djh

It's Secret Migration levels of boring.

it's like being waterboarded but with sap instead of water

no pissgrave no credibility

Listened to the first tracks of Decibel's top five albums to "see what I'm missing" this year, then the first track of Lightning Bolt's new album, and how the former has been dubbed "Extremely Extreme" (Decibel's tagline) over the latter continues to elude me... feels like listening to a random selection of MOR (ie hard bop, here comes the bass solo!) contemporary jazz albums... but then again hasn't everything been done in Japanoise/noise rock/jazz rock as well since the 80s? Maybe viscerally I just respond more to the latter's driving rhythm, and blind myself to what makes metal lyrics "hit hard" for some.

Resident Music's list is the best of this lot. Not perfect, but I'll be surprised to see a better top 5 this year.

There are few current graves I would happily stripe, but I wouldn't want to make a scene of it.

Top 20 from that Resident Music list:

20. Jamie xx - In Colour
19. Wand - Golem
18. Gaz Coombes - Matador
17. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats - s/t
16. Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
15. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
14. Lonelady - Hinterland
13. Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe - I Declare Nothing
12. Ghostpoet - Shredding Skin
11. The Maccabees - Marks to Prove it
10. Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia
9. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
8. Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last
7. Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile
6. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
5. Mbogwana Star - From Kinshasa
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Courtney Barnett - Everybody Poops
2. Low - Ones & Sixes
1. Algiers - s/t

oh god, are we really comparing five-album best of lists against each other now

when will the madness end

Nice to see Songhoy Blues rate so highly on a list; I was worried they'd be overlooked. First track from new album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY

Rate Your Music has fluid charts so things will change but here's the Top 100 of 2015 according to the utilitarian website as of right now, including archival and live releases:

1 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3 Joanna Newsom - Divers
4 Swans - The Gate
5 Kamasi Washington - The Epic
6 Miles Davis - At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4
7 Bob Dylan - The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12
8 Toby Fox - Undertale Soundtrack
9 Yes - Progeny: Highlights From Seventy-Two
10 Mgła - Exercises in Futility
11 Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
12 Lil Ugly Mane - Third Side of Tape
13 Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
14 Ryan Adams - Live at Carnegie hall
15 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
16 Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
17 The Rolling Stones - The Marquee Club Live in 1971
18 Leprous - The Congregation
19 Zierler - ESC
20 Max Richter - Sleep
21 Horrendous - Anareta
22 Elza - A mulher do fim do mundo
23 Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
24 Deafheaven - New Bermuda
25 Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
26 Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud
27 Satan - Atom by Atom
28 Deep Purple - Long Beach 1971
29 Avatarium - The Girl With the Raven Mask
30 Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
31 Gov't Mule - Sco-Mule
32 Viet Cong - Viet Cong
33 Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi
34 Björk - Vulnicura
35 Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
36 Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
37 Enslaved - In Times
38 Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
39 Milo - So the Flies Don't Come
40 Jamie xx - In Colour
41 Autechre - AE_LIVE_KRAKOW_200914
42 Nickelus F - Trick Dice
43 Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
44 Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
45 Yes - Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two
46 Blues Pills - Blues Pills Live
47 Coil - Backwards
48 Mark Lanegan - Houston: Publishing Demos 2002
49 Caligula's Horse - Bloom
50 Vince Staples - Summertime '06
51 Enshine - Singularity
52 Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth
53 The Chills - Silver Bullets
54 Timbre - Sun & Moon
55 Elder - Lore
56 Beach House - Depression Cherry
57 Gorod - A Maze of Recycled Creeds
58 Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
59 Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards
60 Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
61 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
62 Symphony X - Underworld
63 Gazpacho - Molok
64 Shape of Despair - Monotony Fields
65 Ghost - Meliora
66 Katatonia - Sanctitude
67 Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
68 Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
69 Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment
70 Ricercar Consort - Musikalisches Opfer
71 Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School
72 Uncle Acid - The Night Creeper
73 Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
74 Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone
75 Tribulation - The Children of the Night
76 Melechesh - Enki
77 Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat
78 Leviathan - Scar Sighted
79 Soilwork - The Ride Majestic
80 Van der Graaf Generator - After the Flood: Van der Graaf Generator at the BBC 1968-1977
81 Disasterpeace - It Follows
82 Floating Points - Elaenia
83 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Tower Theater, Philadelphia 1975
84 Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
85 The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
86 ２８１４ - 新しい日の誕生
87 Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
88 Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
89 Tame Impala - Currents
90 Gazpacho - Molok
91 Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere
92 Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu
93 Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
94 My Dying Bride - Feel the Misery
95 Clutch - Psychic Warfare
96 Tempel - The Moon Lit Our Path
97 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
98 Royal Headache - High
99 Czarface - Every Hero Needs a Villain
100 Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free

Gimme a TION

TION!

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