Top Ten Albums of 2015

[Birds in Hell]

There's a bunch of things I've heard a handful of times that I need to return to (David Torn's Only Sky, Chelsea Wolfe's Abyss, The Necks' Vertigo) but nothing has really stuck with me so far this year.

[zeb]

I'll roll with him over Demi fucking Lovato

I rarely agree with Verb but he's got you there, LV. Lovato has basically no artistic merit whatsoever.

[BurtReynolds]

Psychobain is gonna have to come up with a top 100 to make up for all the people who couldn't find ten measly albums they like.

[LoathedVermin72]

Yeah, your middle-aged-white-hipster-dude-with-an-acoustic-guitar music is so thrilling and inherently superior. I bow before his almighty artistic merit. One aesthetic for all. Everything else is indefensible, worthless, and contains no artistic expression whatsoever. NEVER STOP JAMMING!!!!!!

[zeb]

I just want you to like good music, LV. That's all I've ever wanted.

[verb_to_trust]

Yeah, your middle-aged-white-hipster-dude-with-an-acoustic-guitar music is so thrilling and inherently superior. I bow before his almighty artistic merit. One aesthetic for all. Everything else is indefensible, worthless, and contains no artistic expression whatsoever. NEVER STOP JAMMING!!!!!!

Actually there are a ton of different artistic forms of musical expression with merit....its just that none of them include Demi Lovato.

[Birds in Hell]

I had to Google to find out who Demi Lovato is.

[verb_to_trust]

Well? Whattya think?

[BurtReynolds]

I had to Google to find out who Demi Lovato is.

She recently posed nude for "female empowerment" purposes, which just happened to coincide with a new album release.

[verb_to_trust]

She was a child actress on Barney. Even Barney cant give her the street cred required to make any of my best of 2015 lists however.

[BurtReynolds]

A Misty/Lovato spat is something I shouldn't participate in. I'm out of my depth. I'm going to talk about Terminator some more.

[BurtReynolds]

ah I forgot about that new El Vy album. I'll have to see if that makes the list brb lol.

[verb_to_trust]

Its not a matter of Misty vs. Lovato. Its okay to think I Love You Honeybear sucks. The point I'm trying to make is that Lovato is a non entity. She may as well not even exist.

[BurtReynolds]

Its not a matter of Misty vs. Lovato. Its okay to think I Love You Honeybear sucks. The point I'm trying to make is that Lovato is a non entity. She may as well not even exist.

yeah but you kinda had to expect something like that would show up in LV's list. Its just what he does. Resistance is futile.

[Birds in Hell]

Well? Whattya think?

The first page of Google results didn't leave me with any strong impression, verb.

[Mike]

Great:
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Joanna Newsom - Divers

Very Good:
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
Björk - Vulnicura
Courtney Barnett - Sometime I Sit...
Hop Along - Painted Shut
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Natalie Lafourcade - Hasta la Raíz
The Decemberists - What A Terrible World
Waxahatchee - Ivy Trip
Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

Good:
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Built To Spill - Untethered Moon
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Marina & The Diamonds - Froot
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
The Tallest Man On Earth - Dark Bird Is Home
Torres - Sprinter
CHVRCHES - Every Eye Open

I'll wait till the end of the year to make a definite list. There are some things that are already out that I still need to listen to.

I love this year so much.

[PHATJ]

El Vy X 1,000,000

[bada]

Stuff I enjoyed
The Darkness - Last of Our Kind

Thought you'd like that.

[4/5]

El Vy X 1,000,000

[Brett]

I'm not ready to make a top ten just yet, but here's a bunch of stuff I've liked this year.

Jerusalem in My Heart - If He Dies, If If If If If If
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Eric Chenaux - Skullsplitter
Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart - Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart
The Cluttertones - Ordinary Joy
Vennart - The Demon Joke
Wilco - Star Wars
Esmerine - Lost Voices
Zs - Xe
El Ten Eleven - Fast Forward
Siskiyou - Nervous
Pat Jordache - Steps
Zu - Cortar Todo
K.A.N.T.N.A.G.A.N.O. - Acro
Inventions - Maze of Woods
Drub - Glitch Heart
Myk Freedman - Myk Freedman Plays Saint Dirt
Jessica Moss - Under Plastic Island