Red Mosquito

Or whatever number. I don't care.

I was going to name a few, then I realised they're all from 2015. Guess I'll be using this thread to find some new music.

I need to relisten to a few.

My top 5

1) Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool
2) RNDM - Ghost Riding
3) Car Seats Headrest - Teens of Denial
4) Savages - Adore Life
5) Bowie - Blackstar

Still need to listen to those Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave records..

Honourable mentions:

Wilco - Schmilco
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled
Ray Lamontagne - Ouroboros
PJ Harvey - the hope six demolition project
Jim James - Eternally Even

Most disappointing records:

Anohni - Hopelessness
Bon Iver - 22 million
The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything you've come to expect
Red Hot Chili Peppers - the Getaway
Kanye - Life of Pablo

Albums of the Year
1. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter.
2. Rival Sons - Hollow Bones
3. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By
4. Westerbur & Rowe - 2015 Album
5. David Bowie - Blackstar

Honorable Mentions - Albums Better Than Expected
1. Metallica - Hardwired To Self-Destruct
2. Sum 41 - 13 Voices
3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool. I keep waiting for the Backspacer album and am happy every time the deliver something new.
4. Explosions In The Sky - Wilderness
5. Sam The Astronaut - Girls of Summer
6. Bastille - Wild World

Disappointments of the Year
Opeth - Scorceress
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Neither is bad but both were let downs.

A Moon-Shaped Pool. That is all.

1. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
2. Yung Lean - Warlord
3. Rihanna - ANTI
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
5. Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason

Okkervil River - Away
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
The Heavy - Hurt and the Merciless
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
Rndm - Ghost Riding

Started to listen the new Alicia Keys' new album this week, that'll probably knock off something after I give it a few more spins.

1. Hiss Golden Messenger -- Heart Like a Levee
2. Drive-By Truckers -- American Band
3. Wilco -- Schmilco
4. Jayhawks -- Paging Mr. Proust
5. Bon Iver -- 22, A Million

Best Comp/Tribute:
Day of the Dead

h/m's
David Bazan -- Blanco
Richmond Fontaine -- You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing to Go Back To
Nada Surf -- You Know Who You Are
Black Mountain -- IV
case/lang/veirs
Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band -- The Rarity of Experience Vol. I & II

Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression is the only one I can think of. I like 4 or 5 songs on the new Metallica which I took as a win. I'm pretty out of the loop on new music. Nothing new sounds good to me anymore.

1. Rihanna - Anti
2. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
3. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
4. Brad Mehldau Trio - Blues and Ballads
5. Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau - Nearness

PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Pixies and the Sword are among my disappointments of the year.

This was a great year for music, I think

Crappy year for almost everything else

theplatypus wrote:This was a great year for music, I think

Crappy year for almost everything else

Agreed, though I think I'm in the minority on thinking it was a very strong year for movies as well.

What were some good, fresh-sounding rock albums that came out this year? Great year for jazz, hip-hop, singer-songwritery stuff, etc., but most of the critically lauded "indie rock" records left me pretty cold (Parquet Courts, Car Seat Headrest, etc. -- blech).

Kevin Davis wrote:What were some good, fresh-sounding rock albums that came out this year? Great year for jazz, hip-hop, singer-songwritery stuff, etc., but most of the critically lauded "indie rock" records left me pretty cold (Parquet Courts, Car Seat Headrest, etc. -- blech).

Check out:

Bent Knee - Say So
The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free
White Lung - Paradise

Thanks LV!

Kevin Davis wrote:What were some good, fresh-sounding rock albums that came out this year? Great year for jazz, hip-hop, singer-songwritery stuff, etc., but most of the critically lauded "indie rock" records left me pretty cold (Parquet Courts, Car Seat Headrest, etc. -- blech).

The new one from Mitski is fantastic