Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2015

Might as well start it early this year.

TRACKS (they've been released 2014 online but are from TBA 2015 albums)
Tame Impala - Sitting Up On Our Crane
LION BABE - Jump Hi
JUCE - Call you out
Shura - Touch

(Are capitalized band names the stupid hip trend for 2015?)

Welcomed and Unwelcomed returns that we can expect this year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2015_albums

"Touch" already feels a million years old to me, but will be glad to hear a Shura album this year if it materializes.

She also has a couple other songs on her soundcloud if you're tired of Touch.

Yeah, those are okay, but there's a definite dropoff from "Touch".

Rae Morris's "Under the Shadows" is doing it for me. I love songs with that galloping "Running Up That Hill" beat.

https://soundcloud.com/raemorris/under-the-shadows

i don't think just because a band spells their name in ALL CAPS on social media that we do too

Yeah, I refuse to perpetuate this silliness. I only indulge tUnE-yArDs's bullshit because I like some of her songs.

who was the first band to do the dumb caps thing? fIREHOSE?

Been playing this one all morning but I can't seem to find any release for this one so I'm assuming it will be released this year:

Max Frost - Let Me Down Easy

https://soundcloud.com/maxfrostmusic/let-me-down-easy

Wasn't "Call You Out" last year? I heard it months ago.

Read, son.

(they've been released 2014 online but are from TBA 2015 albums)

Currently enjoying the Dan Mangan album Club Meds

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/first-listen-dan-mangan-blacksmith-club-meds/

Kinda weirded out by the 'Eddie Vedder goes indie' vibe on some tracks though.

Prints_ - Ghosts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZeJeAnN5Mo

I'll be working on updating this today:

http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/4f9B75qvJHYvZGVEnrQ07g

Here's my own

http://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/26wpFwLvIBM69SpJ5cWGhy

Stealing some of those!

ha my 2015 traxlist is still empty!

For the lazy:

BC Camplight – Just Because I Love You
Belle & Sebastian – Perfect Couples
Blänk – Tears Run Dry
Django Django – First Light
Ibeyi – Ghosts
Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders – Come on Back This Way (feat. Sharon Van Etten)
Jose Gonzalez – Leaf Off / The Cave
JUCE! – Call You Out
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Sundry
Michna – Solid Gold (feat. MNDR)
Neu Balance – Restate - Dance Edit
Nite Fields – Prescription
Panda Bear – Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker
Prints_ - Ghosts
Purity Ring – begin again
Round – Glass
Shura – Touch
SOAK – Sea Creatures
Viet Cong – Bunker Buster

One playlist I follow already has 330 songs in it.

One playlist I follow already has 330 songs in it.

― Johnny Fever

lol, I don't even have that many songs in my 2014 one. Full albums in there or what?

Nope, individual tracks. It's hardly all to my taste, but it's a good way to spend a few minutes each night sampling the new additions.

http://open.spotify.com/user/baskrud/playlist/1e6dqkAfmZzRBrQj7hg915

His 2014 playlist (which is still being added to) has almost 7,300 songs in it:

http://open.spotify.com/user/baskrud/playlist/7illM5x9yBIUTRNTYnr34l

Wow. What? that's 20 days of music!

Nice find, there's many stuff I miss every year but this guy seems to pick everything thrown his way. Must be unemployed.

Call You Out is 2014 for me. I listened to that Neu Balance album(/EP?) once but nothing registered. I like the Panda Bear album. Not sure about B+S yet. That's probably all the 2015 I've heard so far!

Yeah im keeping juce and shura on that list to remind me to check out their 2015 release. I'm afraid I'll forget if I don't have them around. I had shamir and lion babe in there but it seems like they are pretty popular already so if they release anything worthwhile this year I think the world will let me know.

i actually can't recall such a good january for new albums, like, ever

dawn richard - blackheart
jazmine sullivan - reality show
rae sremmurd - sremmlife
björk - vulnicura
romare - projections
sleater-kinney - no cities to love

^^this is like an EOY top 6 and we're only 22 days into 2015

romare - projections

^ what is this lex?

oh shit it's not out yet. so unused to getting promos this far in advance. out 23 feb, the single "roots" is one of the highlights http://ninjatune.net/release/romare/projections

http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/2buwnyMrk3egIjsJ0uSU0S

Also for LJ: here is the Bill Orcutt song I tried to vote for in the 2011 tracks poll (except I fucked up and got the name of the song wrong):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6kUXj72qE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

^this is it right here. I called it The Visible Stain though (& also referred to him 'Phil' Orcutt Iin the nom thread)

lol, yeah I will listen later! ty, exciting

heard the s-k album, yeah it's good

oh Phil oh Phil needs proper screaming - give Hoyos a call and patch things up!

zip it jools

er no.

Its not about you Louie, just thought what sounded like a bunch of Cecil Taylorisms were a bit weak.

Lol I totally posted that on the wrong thread my bad!

It should def be reiterated: that track was from 2011, & those posts were meant for the tracks poll thread

My expansive list as it exists right now: https://play.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/7Gum6U8lkekMYW26bVENxM

https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-what-i-do-volume-five-2

The Romare is amazing. The first single Prison Blues is available on Spotify if you're curious. Also the Africa album from a couple of years back is worth anyone's time.

Spanish pop act Hidrogenesse album "Roma" out in 2 days

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

this new William Ryan Fritch is beautiful

http://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/album/revisionist
or
https://play.spotify.com/album/4g5X9zE4COGi8CFEqLx7RS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdDTz8wL30

Video from an Irish band called Girl Band. After watching the video I can say that they hid the bodies there because NOBODY is gonna fuck with them to look. Not safe for work, not safe for pretty much anything else either, so be warned.

NYCNative - have you heard the original by Blawan?

Some albums I rate in 2015:

Belle & Sebastien - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
Panda Bear - Meets The Grim Reaper
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Twerps - Range Anxiety
Jasmine Guffond - Yellow Bell
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter 3: River Run Thee
Kath Bloom - Pass Through Here
Peter Gordon/Love of Life Orchestra - Symphony 5
William Ryan Fritch - Revisionist

Favorite albums of the year so far, all of six or seven weeks into 2015:

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Euclid (her album Tides is also very good)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: A Year with 13 Moons
Andrew Bird: Echolocations
Jose Gonzalez: Vestiges & Claws

I like the Bjork album too but haven't spent a lot of time with it. Her intensity does not exactly sync up with where I'm at mentally at the moment.

Well if we're making lists...

Ryley Walker: Primrose Green
Jessica Pratt: On Your Own Love Again
William Ryan Fritch: Revisionist
Misþyrming: Söngvar elds og óreiðu
LabField: Bucket of Songs
Noveller: Fantastic Planet
*AR: Diagrams for the Summoning of Wolves
Eric Chenaux: Skullsplitter

Swedish rapper Joy M'batha's new single "Ingen hejd" ("No Bounds") is just … BONKERS.

http://open.spotify.com/track/5CefubjHGVp6vOIkR3yAGK

Here's a short mix of my favorite tracks from February--Sam Prekop, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Mind over Mirrors, etc: http://open.spotify.com/user/scottpgwp/playlist/3eAlgWsk2dkDgiU8wJ3dwR

In case anyone is looking for another "2015 favourites" Spotify playlist to follow here are mine:

Tracks
Albums

Dick Diver's "Melbourne, Florida" is niiiice

Oh shit! That's where I lived when I lived in Florida. Guess I'll have to hear this.

Things I want to remember for EOY, Spring solstice edn.:

Singles:
Jennie Abrahamson - Wolf (Hounds of Love, lick me)
Petite Meller - Baby Love (exhuberant gospel rave, uncomfortable loli image)
Beldina – Ocean (Scando Alt R&B, with mesh inserts)
Makthaverskan – Witness (surf Siouxsie)
Iris - I'll Wait for You ('til Haim return)
Susanne Sundfør - Delirious (Abba met F242)
Clean Bandit - Stronger (I'm a sucker)

Albums:
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (state o' art scandopop)
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters (Rusgaze)
Indiana - No Romeo (mixed return betrayal electropop)
Tuxedo - Tuxedo (straight up boogie)

Next season promises better returns, with Braids, Roisin Murphy, and Holly Herndon outings.

This is a quick, quarterly reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a few album selections) are being posted as updated to a thread-specific Spotify playlist that I'm maintaining. I just did a quick sweep prior to posting this message and updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.

That playlist is currently four hours of music and is clickable below. Give it a spin and subscribe if you want to listen along through the year.

Rolling Favorite Tracks of 2015 Thread

My fave tracks at the three month mark:

Bjork - "Stonemilker"
The Mountain Goats - "Heel Turn 2"
Jazmine Sullivan - "Mascara"
Dead Sara - "Something Good"
Camp Claude - "Blow"
Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best"
Sleater Kinney - "A New Wave"
Brandi Carlile - "Murder in the City"
Jeremih ft. J. Cole - "Planes"
Laura Marling - "Short Movie"
Belle and Sebastian - "Nobody's Empire"

It's still so early in the year, but I will legit be surprised if Susanne Sundfør's Delirious isn't still my favorite 2015 single by December. I've probably listened to it a couple hundred times at this point.

Q1 done

ALBUMS

1. Dawn Richard, Blackheart
2. Jazmine Sullivan, Reality Show
3. Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife
4. Levon Vincent, Levon Vincent
5. Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love
6. Björk, Vulnicura
7. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly
8. Estelle, True Romance
9. Jam City, Dream A Garden
10. Laura Marling, Short Movie
11. Vakula, A Voyage To Arcturus
12. Nidia Minaj, Danger
13. Father, Who’s Gonna Get Fucked First?
14. Romare, Projections
15. Madonna, Rebel Heart

TRAX

1. Fetty Wap, "Trap Queen"
2. Ashley Monroe, "On To Something Good"
3. Higher Self ft. Lauren Mason, "Ghosts"
4. Sevyn Streeter ft. Chris Brown, "Don’t Kill The Fun"
5. Busiswa ft. DJ Buckz & Uhuru, "Lahla"
6. Nicki Minaj ft. Drake & Lil Wayne, "Truffle Butter"
7. Skepta, "Shutdown"
8. Maliibu N Helene, "Figure 8"
9. Presh ft. Davido, "Say Dem Say"
10. Róisín Murphy, "Jealousy"
11. Rihanna, "Bitch Better Have My Money"
12. Natalie La Rose ft. Jeremih, "Somebody"
13. Heavy-K ft. Tresor, "#GiveMeLuv"
14. DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell, "Fresh"
15. Jidenna ft. Roman GianArthur, "Classic Man"
16. Luke James, "Bad News"
17. Bobby Brackins ft. Zendaya & Jeremih, "My Jam"
18. Mutya Keisha Siobhan, "Back In The Day"
19. Stormzy, "Know Me From"
20. Honey Cocaine, "Sundae"
21. Krystal Klear ft. Yasmin, "One Night Only"
22. Maya Vik, "Y.M.D. (Young Michael Douglas)"
23. V. Bozeman, "Race Jones"
24. Braiden, "Apex Of The Sun’s Way"
25. Kassem Mosse & Simone White, "Flowers In May"
26. Lindstrøm & Grace Hall, "Home Tonight"
27. Shift K3Y, "Name And Number"
28. Tamia, "Sandwich And A Soda"
29. Brookes Brothers ft. Camille, "Anthem (Scales Remix)"
30. Davido, "Owo Ni Koko"

maybe half the tracks and some of the albums aren't on spotify because it's useless

Binh - Visio
Volkan Akin - atest
Melchior - Liquid Moves
Ewan Jansen - Sunset
MP - Th body
VincentIulian - Nemeta

kinda h8 the natalie la rose song now, it has zero personality

which is probably why it is doing great on pop radio lol

Good albums:

Anna Caragnano and Donato Dozzy - Sintetizzatrice
DJ Khalab - Eunoto EP
James Place - Living on Superstition
Various - Ultra High Frequencies: The Chicago Party
Laura Groves - Committed Language EP

Also +1 for Jazmine Sullivan, Romare, Courtney Barnett, Kendrick Lamar

Probably Sufjan Stevens but I haven't spent enough time with it yet.

My favourite song so far is Shura - 2 Shy

my Q1 faves: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/115117412252/q1-faves

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Aine O'Dwyer - Music for Church Cleaners Vol I & II
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Chimurenga Renaissance - Kudada Nekuva Munhu Mutema
Hama - Torodi
Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
David Borden - Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud - Isswat
The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ

Fave track: Insanlar - "Kime Ne"

Alright Mordy, just thought I'd mention Eric Friedlander releases his Illuminations album this month, it sounds really beautiful from some of the snippets I have heard of it and his Nighthawks alb from last year was pretty sick.

http://www.erikfriedlander.com/calendar/2015/4/26/erik-friedlanders-illuminations-at-dixon-place

and I like the sound of this: Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile

I love the Songhoy Blues album

loving that Aine O'Dwyer - it seems to be 2012 though? or is that just Vol I?

this collection of the 2 volumes is this year, but yeah some of it has been released before (tho i never heard any of it before this year)

gonna check out that friedlander, xelab. i was listening to Zorn's new Simulacrum recently + thought of u. it's good stuff.

Thanks Moka for that Jack Ladder track. Australia seriously killing it lately.

The Jack Ladder album is thoroughly great.

Favorite albums at the 3-month mark (no order):

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Euclid
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: A Year with 13 Moons
Jose Gonzalez: Vestiges & Claws
Sam Prekop: The Republic
Jonas Munk: Absorb/Fabric/Cascade
Jane Weaver: The Amber Light

Obligatory link to my regularly updated Spotify playlist of favorite albums.

some great picks, pgwp. checked out the gonzalez and really loved it.

one more that i forgot:

Hong Kong Express - HK

Okay, why not, here's my longish rolling Spotify playlists for…
Favorite Tracks -- currently numbering 56
Favorite Albums/EPs

Incest alert: some of my choices plucked from this very thread

albums:
dawn richard - blackheart
jazmine sullivan - reality show
fall out boy - american beauty/american psycho
rae sremmurd - sremmlife
susanne sundfor - ten love songs
laura marling - short movie
badbadnotgood & ghostface killah - sour soul
indiana - no romeo
the staves - if i was
fifth harmony - reflection
kendrick lamar - to pimp a butterfly
jam city - dream a garden
madonna - rebel heart

songs:
tori kelly "nobody love"
lady leshurr "lukatar"
ashley monroe "on to something good"
stormzy "know me from"
becky g "lovin' so hard"
billie marten "heavy weather"
zedd feat. selena gomez "i want you to know"
mickey guyton "better than you left me"
years and years "king"
natalie la rose feat. jeremih "somebody"
honey cocaine "sundae"
flo rida "once in a lifetime"
ty dolla $ign feat. charli xcx & tinashe "drop that kitty"
skepta "shutdown"
nieah "tell me why"
carly rae jepsen "i really like you"
pep & rash "rumors"
bobby brackins feat. jeremih & zendaya "my jam"

http://www.discogs.com/lists/Favorites-of-2015/222933"">Here's my running list for this year. Though I need to update it with short reviews and and favorite tracks.

Marching Church (guy from Iceage) - "King of Song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsR0g76_tAo

Im really enjoying the lo-fi bouncy house of Project Pablo's album "I want to believe".

^ yes! project pab is my fav release of the year so far

Tuxedo - Tuxedo (straight up boogie)

This is, after Vulnicura, my favorite thing of 2015 so far.

albums:
róisín murphy: hairless toys
swahili: amovrevx
young thug: barter 6
levon vincent: s/t
dawn richard: blackheart
fall out boy: american beauty/american psycho
jam city: dream a garden
jazmine sullivan: reality show
kendrick lamar: to pimp a butterfly
speedy ortiz: foil deer
pile: you're better than this

Tuxedo - Tuxedo (straight up boogie)

btw this record is so fuckin nice

just albums :

dawn richard - blackheart
rae sremmurd - sremmlife
young thug - barter 6
baba - odd potion
roger tellier craig - visites possibles and sightings
jazmine sullivan - reality show
that new beauty pill record streaming on noisey

Tuxedo record thirded. lovely stuff.

dawn richard - blackheart
young thug - barter 6
jazmine sullivan - reality show
rae sremmurd - sremmlife
sabre - morning worship 
nídia minaj - danger
c.d.m. - malucos de raíz
fall out boy - american beauty/american psycho
rj & choice - rich off mackin 
kendrick lamar - to pimp a butterfly
makeshift shelters - something só personal

Liking to various degrees:

Elder - Lore
Zu - Cortar Todo
Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu
Death Grips - The Powers that B
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Nellie McKay - My Weekly Reader

http://www.wandelweiser.de/_e-w-records/_ewr-catalogue/ewr1501.html

Eva-Maria Houben "Air – works for flutes and organ"

beautiful. check the audio sample

Albums of now:

Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Gabi - Sympathy
alva noto - Xerrox Vol 3
Tal National - Zoy Zoy
JLin - Dark Energy

Didn't get my act together for end of first quarter so here's a first third re-cap. Albums are mostly the same as everyone else's (Kendrick and Dawn way out in front, then Kaitlyn, Dan Deacon, Aphex Twin, Jazmine, JLin, Bjork, etc), so here's a top 32 tracks so far, very roughly in order:

Jazmine Sullivan - Mascara
Dawn Richard - The Deep / Blackheart (outro)
Lianne La Havas - Unstoppable
Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker the Berry
The Pattern Forms - The Sacrifice
Nicki Minaj feat. Drake & Lil Wayne - Truffle Butter
Scritti Politti - untitled
Laetitia Sadier - Lost and Found
Red Velvet - Ice Cream Cake
Tink - Ratchet Commandments
Maya Vik - Y.M.D. (Young Michael Douglas)
Grimes & Bleachers - Entropy
Grimes - REALiTi
Cabane with Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Sangokaku
Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away
Lindstrøm feat. Grace Hall - Home Tonight
Laura Groves - Dream Story
Dan Lissvik - Shuvit!
DJ Fresh feat. Ella Eyre - Gravity
Ibeyi - River
Giorgio Tuma with Laetitia Sadier - Through Your Hands Love Can Shine
Kendrick Lamar feat. James Fauntleroy & Ronald Isley - How Much A Dollar Cost?
Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You
Robot Koch feat. Born In Flamez & Curtain Blue - Let Me
Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah - Gunshowers (feat. Elzhi) / Stark’s Reality
JLin - Abnormal Restriction
Margaret Cho & Princess Superstar - My Booty Is Efficient!
Tinashe feat. Travi$ Scott - Vulnerable
Ellen Allien - Butterfly (Aux88’s Electric Butterfly Remix)
Maya Vik - Young As This Night
Natalie Prass - Why Don’t You Believe In Me?
M. Geddes Gengras - III (from “3 Impressions” EP)

http://www.anothertimbre.com/extinguishment.html

this Fraufraulein cd blew me away last nite. very painting-like

Whoops, just now realized my link above is erroneous — and will cause the clicker of said link to get stuck in a loop!

Instead of trying to be fancy, here's the plain URL for my running list: http://www.discogs.com/lists/Favorites-of-2015/222933

I gotta say, Lil Wayne's verse to Truffle Butter pretty much ruins the track for me.

Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too

my album of the last couple of years. they are getting better and better,
and I dare say have already entered the realm of "classic"

I'm still digging into both Sundfør and Tribulation but those are my favourites at the moment.

The Tribulation is great - like a gothier Ghost.

have been stuck between 1858 and 1958 a lot recently but have still heard some good new stuff as well.

Susan Alcorn - Soledad (steel pedal guitar player who makes music to look at the stars to)
Orchestra Omar - S/t (multinational middle eastern psyche/noise band)

the orchestra omar sounds great - doesn't look like anyone has issued it in the US yet tho :(

I want to buy it myself because the scratchy, jumpy vinyl rip I got off slsk does detract from it's qualities somewhat, so throw up a link if you do manage to buy it.

"I gotta say, Lil Wayne's verse to Truffle Butter pretty much ruins the track for me.

― MikoMcha, Sunday, 3 May 2015 10:25 (1 week ago) Permalink"

he has the best one! The part at the end where he speeds up his flow is great. Always think the beat's missing something though.

As for the topic, lately I like about half of the new Tyler, the Creator album, mainly cuz it's his best Neptunes/N.E.R.D imitation production to date

I want to buy an album on vinyl full of great summer jams.

I think I said it upthread, but ... Tuxedo, s/t

OK

https://eskimeaux.bandcamp.com/album/o-k

Wolf Alice - Giant Peach, though the vocals sound better on this studio live version is better. Her voice is good for the material they play, so I don't see the point in altering it so much.

Also enjoying Flava D's More Love album.

i like wolf alice a lot

I am SO SEETHING MAD at Wolf Alice, not that they re-recorded their best song "Bros" and diminished its quality by half, but that they've scrubbed the internet of the original 7" version so that the new one is the only one people can hear.

the difference between "bros" is not that deep imo but i get you

I forget what the other version of Bros sounded like, but I don't like the new one as much. I'm also nervous that they keep stressing how pop the new album is going to be, because I think I like their more rocking songs the best. But maybe things will fall into place once the album is released next month. I hope so.

Alessandro Cortini - Forse 3

love cortini

American Wrestlers - American Wrestlers
https://open.spotify.com/album/2XBPv3gHWXDkmMOfSzLC6x

Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
https://open.spotify.com/album/5XWTi7aJnVcihhmN3vGqwD

Tashi Dorji - Appa
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XeO6lG5QbQiYRgUJk5afD

Villages - Procession Acts
https://open.spotify.com/album/1aC0v4t3xA1h8PCAQdGepQ

Envy - Atheist's Cornea

Elian - Harrowgate
http://open.spotify.com/album/5Aa9es0BzNyvSafqNufIqz

Gateway Drugs - Dare Tonight
https://open.spotify.com/album/2wHqFtWeyAaFk1u19im05m

Viet Cong are actually a good band. Who knew??

http://open.spotify.com/album/63GwqLuSzZnAQpd1JBQKLT

this Sister Crayon record is really great. production is super on-point.
https://soundcloud.com/rodriguezlopezproductions/sets/sister-crayon-devoted

White Saucer - 1974 is fantastic onna experimental/electronic/psychedelic/drone tip:
http://open.spotify.com/album/1Vm1jlab4i1gYXa32V6RP7

Róisín Murphy (already mentioned upthread) has never been on my radar, aside from times when she has turned up in ILM polls, but I think "Exploitation" is fantastic (in either the single or album version).

that white saucer album is lovely, thanks

"Exploitation" is fantastic (in either the single or album version).

Yeah, cosign. Both album and track are so, so good.

the envy album is fucking nuts

Dallas Campbell - Oases
http://open.spotify.com/album/5z6g9NHOfbXF2qbZvXnTG7

Maethelvin - CS005
http://open.spotify.com/album/4Gw2UCIaV5EYZF4qu5s8Ht

Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
http://open.spotify.com/album/5Pm2WvqxlDttK4hTx1vKe3

Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points - Marhaba
http://open.spotify.com/album/4Ui5FMje2UiaVPf6XmveUN

Dele Sosimi ‎- You No Fit Touch Am
http://open.spotify.com/album/6Vtz6LOM6FKcxNW7vMkKeK

first listen for all these is great crut!

really digging this dele sosimi, has it been discussed elsewhere? don't remember seeing him in the afrofunk thread.

yes we just discussed it recently in the world thread

^ I cribbed it from Mordy's world music playlist on Spotify tbh

Favorite albums so far:

Kendrick Lamar
Dawn Richard
Marriages
Novella
Venera 4
Marilyn Manson
Purity Ring
Lena Willikens <--- don't sleep on this, it rules (thanks crut!)
Shamir
The Mountain Goats

love that Prurient - didn't realize he had a new one out so thx for heads up crut

FNF is phenomenal & makes me excited for the future

Is the Lena Willikens record this one Phantom Delia?

"FNF"?

frozen niagara falls

EIN
ZWI
DRI
FIA
FNF

Miko: yes

Really really into the new Kid Wave album Wonderlust. They're the band I'd hoped Wolf Alice would continue to be after the original "Bros" single.

Lena Willikens <--- don't sleep on this, it rules (thanks crut!)

This is pretty good

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71oO7bDSa9L._SX425_.jpg

this is some tasty psychedelic tech-house

And from a 64 and 62 year old couple, too. Honestly I thought it was curtains for that project 20 years ago.

the holly herndon "platform" album is like whoa

"Chorus" at the moment especially
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHujh3yA3BE

Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home

Albums:

Dawn Richard
Swervedriver
Bjork
Kendrick Lamar

Nothing you don't already know. I guess I need to hear one more in that league by the end of the month to stay on track for a top ten.

Songs:

History of Touches
King Kunta
Chromatics - Just Like You
Young Guv - Kelly, I'm Not a Creep

Speaking of Chromatics, wasn't that album supposed to be out in February or March? It's June now. I suppose that's par for IDIB, but so frustrating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvR7yVwUOS8

xp

"It'll be out "in time for Valentine's Day"

http://pitchfork.com/news/57714-chromatics-announce-new-album-dear-tommy/

Baby Dee's "I Am A Stick" is amazing. Recommended starting point is "Big Love"
https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-a-stick

https://soundcloud.com/wirekid

"A Little Longer (Twitching in the Basket)" has a crazy blastbeat under the xyolophone from "Everyday" by Buddy Holly with psychedelic rapping.

If I just listen to the three available tracks and then drift in and out of sleep / strange, quiet dreams for another hour, I pretty much already have the best version of "Dear Tommy" I can imagine.

Swahili - Bardo (the whole album seems great but I need to listen more)
http://open.spotify.com/track/5MDNys1gIl3LDDIO8yVW5f

those are my friends from college, the album is fucking amazing

This Jenny Hval album, Apocalypse, girl, is wild.

Some of my more recent fave TRACKS that I haven't seen mentioned (or included on the Spotify playlist) yet:

Sevyn Streeter - "4th Street"
https://play.spotify.com/track/2DHs7vbW7x1Y5Wsh74S080

Miguel - "Coffee"
https://play.spotify.com/track/421Jo4hROuO4LiJWv8KErv

St. Vincent - "Teenage Talk"
https://play.spotify.com/track/0iKsBFbuFNA9eSGvhuncCJ

For Esme - "Just Yet"
https://play.spotify.com/track/7yjrCH2yQPHHw7i1M6UZAp

of Verona - "Stay Gold"
https://play.spotify.com/track/2Xy0QS8e0a04Z6YKEU61dy

https://youtu.be/lZ_lsRkijQo
https://pedracontida.bandcamp.com/releases

like a year old but only recently became aware of it.. really well-recorded, roughly AMM-like composition/improv.. has a tendency towards tonality and pulse, but not too much.

Princess Chelsea - The Great Cybernetic Depression

https://open.spotify.com/album/4jKTjgugcMGuqO0WZIUyN7

Really enjoying it.

Following up from my my Spring equinox selections, as the Summer solstice nears I also liked:

Links all to fairly representative YouTube vids:

Singles:
The Bird and the Bee - Will You Dance?
Soko - Who Wears the Pants ??
Soap&Skin - Mawal Jamar
Jenny Hval - That Battle Is Over
George FitzGerald - Full Circle (feat. Boxed In)
Disciples - They Don't Know

EPs:
Funktionslust -A Different Street
Laura Groves -Committed Language
Allie X -CollXtion I
Metá Metá -Metá Metá
KALEIDA -Think
Kate Boy -Kate Boy

Albums:
Holly Herndon - Platform
John Tejada - Signs Under Test
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
No Joy - More Faithful

I really need to hear the new Herbert and Braids albums.

Possibly my favourite pop album of the year so far.

Tove Styrke - Kiddo
https://open.spotify.com/album/6yW54Oa0uzUdcjw18YiPsh

Oh, I didn't realize it had come out! Listening now.

"Ego" definitely contending for single of the year for me.

She's the superior Tove for sure.

Necessary addendum:

Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa (more premeditated Congotronics)

Styrke album is fantastic and yeah "ego" knocks it out of the park

http://i.imgur.com/28jEWdP.jpg

THEESatisfaction - EarthEE: More (better) wobbly leftfield hip hop from this NW duo. Don't listen often, but it makes a real impact when I do.
Warm Brew - Ghetto Beach Boyz: Throwback rap. Good times.
Maya Vik - Beyond the Basics: Part compilation, part new material. She can keep re-releasing "Oslo Knows" from now through the end of time and I'd be all good with that.
Marina and The Diamonds - FROOT: Marina's 3rd is her most consistent, and there are enough high points here to rival her intital run of singles in 2008/09/10.
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly: This has been out now for 3 months and it'll probably take me another 6 to fuily process everything about it (if I ever can).
Andy Gabbard - Fluff: Throwback guitar rock with a particular focus on scruffy-but-smart 90s styles. Particularly The Posies and early Fanclub.
Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment - Surf: I still think of this as a Chance the Rapper album even if it's not. Even when he's not on a track, though, it's thick with joy.
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs: Super-ambitious Scandipop. Too much or too little is made of the ABBA influence, but I think she got it right. "Delirious" is my most-played song of the year.
Venera 4 - Eidôlon: This is the best shoegaze record since SVIIB's Disconnect From Desire five years ago, and it's the realest sounding shoegaze record since 1990.
Soko - My Dreams Dictate My Reality: Soko has been bouncing around since the late 00s, but she's finally got an album that was worth the wait. Fun post-punk pop with a French touch.
KenJaNai - Faceless Heroes: This is largely a beat tape, but it also features a couple fleshed out songs with guest vocals. Perfect for turning on and dropping out.
Tove Styrke - Kiddo: While it's true I only heard this today for the first time, much of it had already been teased out as singles. The songs that weren't are equally strong. It's too good.
Methyl Ethel - Oh Inhuman Spectacle: Australian trio making sometimes meditative, sometimes jangly guitar rock with an androgynous voice on the mic.
Kid Wave - Wonderlust: Perfect guitar pop with a few 90s ghosts. Wolf Alice could've turned into this band, but they decided not too. Glad Kid Wave picked up the baton.
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil: Nootropics was cool, but a little opaque for me. The grooves and melodies here are right up front and they're wonderful.

Checking out this Kid Wave album and it seems vastly more common and unexciting than Wolf Alice, but perfect guitar pop is not my thing. There's nothing in the contours of these songs to draw me in. Are there any tracks you recommend as particular standouts?

If anything, Wolf Alice seems to be becoming more of a (zzzzz) "perfect guitar pop" band with things like their remake of Bros! Bros is kind of snoozy and "You're a Germ" sounds a little too demo-ish for me. Giant Peach and Moaning Lisa Smile, on the other hand, seem exceptional to me.

(I wish someone would start a Wolf Alice thread. If I start one, it will be the kiss of death. Someone else needs to start it.)

in no particular order but the project pablo is probably my favourite album of the year so far. def the most listened to for sure.

project pablo - i want to believe
dick diver - melbourne, florida
belle and sebastian - girls in peacetime want to dance
maya vik - beyond the basics
songhoy blues - blues in exile
roisin murphy - hairless toys
Warm Brew - Ghetto Beach Boys
tuxedo
tricot
courtney barnett
kendrick lamar
father john misty
holly herndon - platform
honey cocaine
lena willikens
action bronson
dawn richard - blackheart
the fall - sub lingual tablet

Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Désarroi (Skronky free-ambience/dub with accordions, it might have been enhanced by the chianti but it sounded awesome this aft)
Container - LP (doesn't fuck about)
Dr. Yen Lo - Days With Dr. Yen Lo (Yay! - a new KA album)

(I wish someone would start a Wolf Alice thread. If I start one, it will be the kiss of death. Someone else needs to start it.)

when i hear the record/if i like it enough i totally will. i've only heard good things though, and i really don't think "bros" was ruined, i like the rerecording a lot

Checking out this Kid Wave album and it seems vastly more common and unexciting than Wolf Alice, but perfect guitar pop is not my thing. There's nothing in the contours of these songs to draw me in. Are there any tracks you recommend as particular standouts?

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, June 14, 2015 10:05 AM (3 hours ago)

"Honey" is my favorite one, but really I just listen to the whole album almost every time instead of cherrypicking tracks. I dunno, ymmv. I just think her voice is great and the songs develop in ways that feel like comfort food to me.

Glad to know about the Kammerflimmer Kollektief record - had no idea whether KK was still going.

This thread is a goldmine!

I'm a fan of Kurt Feldman's production. A few humble choice cuts:

Roman a clef - bye gone
https://youtu.be/Wn5-e-jGR7c

Evan ønly - from the stone
https://soundcloud.com/evanonly/from-the-stone

The album 'All Possible Futures' by Miami Horror is seriously, seriously good if you like dreamy dance-pop in the style of Mungolian Jetset, MGMT etc, and I'm neither here nor there on those bands. But yeah, listen to that, it's ace.

This album came out at the end of 2014, but is being reissued by Heavenly Recordings for release in May because it's phenomenal and likely didn't get a wide release by its very small Welsh label. I think many of you will love it. I was personally blown away by it and didn't expect much considering who's behind it.

Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf

In a period of governmental and cultural revolution, former Pipettes front-woman, GWENNO, releases a political concept album inspired by an obscure 1970s Welsh language sci-fi novel, subtly disguised as a blissful kraut-pop record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CldPv3-VHmM

the wolf alice record is indeed very good

I just happened across that Gwenno album at the end of last year. Welsh makes no sense to me, but those songs are dope.

I wandered into a late-night set by The Do at Bonnaroo -- had never heard of them (even though they apparently have three albums). They were really good. "Trustful Hands" in particular.

https://youtu.be/T8RO_nDq1NU

Gwenno is so great. Seeing Jenny Hval last week has made me borderline obsessed with her record. A great half year, really.

I meant reissued in July, of course.

It seems everyone who hears it falls in love.

not sure which rolling thread Brazilian music goes in so I'm putting this here

Fabiano Do Nascimento - Dança do Tempo http://open.spotify.com/album/6PWdY8VAio3JPra3NJ3qq2

probably this one?
Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2015 and onward: Salsa, Bomba, Merengue,Reggaeton, Bachata, Latin-Jazz and more

Two more, one I just discovered, and the other a song I've loved since January that finally made it to Spotify:

Justine Skye - "A Train"
https://play.spotify.com/track/1naEInCLEe8entuQDVDNH6

Bjork - "Stonemilker"
https://play.spotify.com/track/1Q9PT8sgU7q9IH7kb5dSwv

This is a quick, quarterly reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being posted as updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist. I just did a second, top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.... now with extra Björk!
It's 385 tracks and over 24 hours of continuous ILX approved music.
Halfway into the year, here are the memorable frontrunners.

ILX's Rolling Favorite Tracks of 2015 Thread

Love these 6 months into the year, no particular order:

Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Helm - Olympic Mess
Jlin - Dark Energy
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Mathieu Serruys – On Germaine Dulac
M.E.S.H. - Piteous Gate
Omar Khorshid and his Group - Live in Australia 1981 (2014...)
Oren Ambarchi - Live Knots
Peder Mannerfelt - The Swedish Congo Record
Sightings - Amusers And Puzzlers
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Taman Shud - Viper Smoke
Young Thug - Barter 6

my q2 faves: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/122851874217/q2

My favorite albums of the year so far, in no order:

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Euclid
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: A Year with 13 Moons
Jose Gonzalez: Vestiges & Claws
Sam Prekop: The Republic
Jane Weaver: The Amber Light
James Place: Living on Superstition
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld: Never Were the Way She Was
William Basinski: Cascade

All of these albums are great though I've yet to hit an album this year that I've become truly obsessed with - the kind that squeezes everything else out.

Spotify playlist of all these albums right here (updated throughout the year): http://open.spotify.com/user/scottpgwp/playlist/1QNcjbFx1fqrZrxLgoqa2Z

And here's my rolling favorite tracks playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/scottpgwp/playlist/7ilAqzxqmsAQ8xGcozIWce

My favourite albums of the year would be too boring to list--I'm having a disappointingly consensus-y year thus far--but my vaguely ordered Top 20 fave tracks list would look something like this:

Miguel, “Coffee”
Sevyn Streeter, “4th Street”
Bjork, “Stonemilker”
St. Vincent, “Teenage Talk”
Kendrick Lamar, “King Kunta”
Sleater-Kinney, “A New Wave”
Dead Sara, “Something Good”
Prince, “Baltimore”
Brandi Carlile, “Murder in the City”
Courtney Barnett, “Pedestrian at Best”
Jasmine Sullivan, “Mascara”
The Mountain Goats, “Animal Mask″
Belle and Sebastian, “Nobody’s Empire”
For Esme, “Just Yet”
Camp Claude, “Blow”
Justine Skye, “A Train”
Of Verona, “Stay Gold”
Rap Monster, “Do You”
Jeremih ft. J. Cole, “Planes”
Sunrise Device, “Tonight”

The Firewatcher's Daughter is the first Brandi Carlile album I've ever really gotten into, and "Murder in the City" is a great song. It's really all about "The Eye" for me, though.

I liked "The Eye" as well, but the album as a whole (the first I've heard from her) still hasn't clicked with me. I find most of it just kind of men, but "Mainstream Kid" is as cringeworthy as "Murder in the City" is moving.

*meh

"Murder in the City" was originally an Avett Brothers tune but it's much more bracing (for an obvious reason) to hear a female voice sing it, nice arrangement too

Some of the albums that haven't been mentioned so far:

Below The Sun - Envoy
ABRA - Rose
Ariane Moffatt - 22h22
Rangleklods - Straightjacket
Alina Orlova - 88
Jupiter - Bandana Republic

Rangleklods - Straightjacket

This is so good. I wish it was on US Spotify so I could listen to it more than I do.

Norwegian power pop/indie/lite psych band The Switch just dropped their third release in little over a year, an EP by the name of We're Fooling No One, the title track of which I can't stop listening to:

Live: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YIcEGOro9NY

EP version: http://open.spotify.com/track/7ss8xeFNs0hTQDUajQPaDw

New beach house is awesome of course

https://miscellaneousfrankums.bandcamp.com/album/loose-forms

dude's killin it.. prickly, twinkly, bucolic meditations on pure feedback.

^this is pretty good btw

Rangleklods - Straightjacket

I'm very hooked on "Lost U" at this point. I haven't yet made it through the whole album though. There's something about the type of spoken sample and the way it's used that reminds me very much of 88-91. The music does that as well, but it's striking to me how much the use of that sample sounds retro in itself, to me anyway.

found the rangleklods record gets better with every listen imo

Here are my albums. I've got the singles here.

Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show
Dawn Richard – Blackheart
Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Young Thug – Barter 6
The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ
Heems – Eat Pray Thug
Dwight Yoakam – Second Hand Heart
Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think
The Mavericks – Mono
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba - Ba Power
Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Jason Derulo - Everything is 4
A$AP Rocky – At Long Last ASAP
Dead Sara – Pleased to Meet You Over
Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
Miguel - Wildheart
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Alan Jackson - Angels and Alcohol

the A$AP album, really?

There are a couple instances on the Rangleklods record where the synth choices rub me the wrong way, but overall it's one of most-unlike-anything-else albums I've heard all year. A lot of artists and bands I can constantly say "ok, I see what you did there." Rangleklods just kind of erupt from their own id.

Rangleklods album = if The XX decided not to go even more mopey on that 2nd album but added some sex and danger instead

the A$AP album, really?

― Number None

Yeah. I've been listening to "Excuse Me" and the back half a lot.

Gabi - Sympathy
Colleen - Captain of Nothing
Lakker - Tundra
Paper Dollhouse - Aeonflower
Circuit Des Yeux - In Plain Speech
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Jeff Bridges - Sleeping Tapes
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Dasha Rush - Sleepstep
Abra - Rose
Nozinga - Nozinja Lodge
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Ba Power
Ata Kak - Obaa Sima
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
Helm - Olympic Mess

Some sort of halfway selection box:

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Belle & Sebastien - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
Various - Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party
James Place - Living on Superstition
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show
Anna Caragnano and Donato Dozzy - Sintetizzatrice
Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
GABI - Sympathy
Tal National - Zoy Zoy
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
alva noto - Xerrox vol 3
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
High Wolf - Growing Wild
Trembling Bells - The Sovereign Self
Grimm Grimm - Hazy Eyes Maybe
Miguel - Wildheart
Hunee - Hunch Music
Amara Touré - 1973-1980

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Miguel - Wildheart
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Marina & The Diamonds - Froot
Say Lou Lou - Lucid Dreaming
Dawn Richard – Blackheart
Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
Bjork - Vulnicura
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
Sarah Cracknell - Red Kite
Allie X - CollXtion I
Tove Styrke - Kiddo
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
Girlpool - Before The World Was Big
Lonelady - Hinterland
Soak - Before We Forgot How To Dream
Bilal - In Another Life
Fifth Harmony - Reflection

Props to forks for putting that Swahili song at the front of the Spotify playlist. Wouldn't have bothered with it otherwise, but it's a monster of a track! Listening to the rest of the album now.

A selection of tracks from or discovered in May or June to add to my earlier list i.t.t.

Lil Mama - Sausage
Tove Lo - Talking Body (Shift K3Y remix)
Ellen Allien - Lou
Omi - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)
Adrian Younge feat. Laetitia Sadier - Memories of War
Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad feat. Karolina & Loren Oden - Feel Alive
Miguel - Coffee
Miguel feat. Kurupt - NWA
Miguel - Damned
Arling & Cameron feat. Princess Superstar - 80s
Margaret Cho & Princess Superstar - My Booty Is Efficient!
GFOTY - Don’t Wanna/Let’s Do It
MS MR - Painted (Lindstrøm Remix)
Torres - Cowboy Guilt
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Can’t Keep Checking My Phone
Holly Herndon - Lonely At The Top
The Bird and The Bee - Recreational Love
The Bird and The Bee - Los Angeles
The Orb - Lunar Caves
Kacey Musgraves - Late to the Party
Kacey Musgraves - This Town
Black Devil Disco Club - ‘H’ Friend (French 79 Remix)
Herbert - Smart
Herbert - Stop
Herbert - Silence
Kelsea Ballerini - Dibs
Algiers - Black Eunuch
Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam - Chronophonie
Asteroide - Eterno
Pye Corner Audio - Stars Shine Like Eyes
YMCK - Time Bomb
Vince Staples feat. Desi Mo - Get Paid
Lianne La Havas - What You Don’t Do
Nicolas Jaar - Swim
Low - No Comprende
Sharon Van Etten - Pay My Debts
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
Rundgren/Nikolaisen/Lindstrøm - Runddans (Erol Alkan Rework)
Rundgren/Nikolaisen/Lindstrøm - Put Your Arms Around Me (Stereolab/High Llamas Remix)

Top 20 albums at half way point looking something like:

Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Miguel - Wildheart
Dan Deacon - Glass Riffer
Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Holly Herndon - Platform
Phil Collins/Various - my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced…
Tove Styrke - Kiddo
Herbert - The Shakes
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - SURF
Ciara - Jackie
Hudson Mohawke - Lantern
Listening Center - Cycles / Other Phenomena
Four Tet - Morning / Evening
Ata Kak - Obaa Sima
JLin - Dark Energy
N.E.E. - N.E.E.
Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul

Everybody else is ranking their year:

Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Holly Herndon - Platform
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Sintetizzatrice
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Eilen Jewell - Sundown Over Ghost Town
Hama - Torodi
Beach House - Depression Cherry
John Tejada - Signs Under Test
Herbert - The Shakes
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
LoneLady - Hinterland
Lakker - Tundra
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys

really liking the new Wilco

Albums I'm liking this year so far

Future - DS2
Future - 56 Nights
Young Thug - Barter 6
Maxo Kream - #Maxo187
Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Dom Kennedy - By Dom Kennedy
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Destroyer - Poison Season
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Peewee Longway - The Blue M&M 2 (King Size)
JME - Integrity>

oh I didn't know Dom Kennedy had a new one out. Cool

My list for this year will probably end up being too much lolindie for ILM. Here's 10 albums I've loved so far:

Romare
Travis Bretzer
Sufjan Stevens
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Tame Impala
All We Care
Bob Moses
Hot Chip
Ibeyi
Natalie Prass

my top 5

amara toure – amara toure 1973-1980
kendrick lamar – to pimp a butterfly
project pablo - i want to believe
dick diver - melbourne, florida
belle and sebastian - girls in peacetime want to dance

i gotta find that dom kennedy
also hey rollie! been a minute!

Bob Moses

Is this the singles comp from this past spring or the album that's coming out in the next couple months?

Algiers - Algiers
Post-punk with soul vocals and field chants, reminds me a bit of Little Axe (On-U Sound): "Irony. Utility. Pretext.", "Black Eunuch", "But She Was Not Flying"

Bob Moses

Is this the singles comp from this past spring or the album that's coming out in the next couple months?

― Johnny Fever

Yeah it's a compilation of the previous EP's and singles. Unfortunately, vinyl version doesn't include 'I ain't gonna be the first to cry' which is my favorite song so far of him.

Domino is releasing a non-compilation debut album later this year though:

http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/22-06-15/days-gone-by/

Right, that's what I was curious about. I'd wondered if you had heard it already.

Also they're a duo not a single artist, my bad.

No haven't heard it yet. Only two tracks which sound good actually. Looking forward to that one.

Likewise.

I'm kind of loving the Ciara album

Chihei Hatekeyama releases a new album every two months or so, but amidst that prolificacy, the newest is pretty good, Void VII.

I'm digging this album by Lakker, Tundra

loving this Domenique Dumont album

http://testpressing.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/domenique-dumont-cover-copy.jpg

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=17218

That is one lovely album, short and very sweet.

http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/124918259544/my-favourite-music-of-q2-and-a-bit-2015

I did a Q2 round-up (I don't do punctuality)

I see that Young Thug finally makes the list lex :)

so far:
Vorum - Current Mouth EP
Submerse - Stay Home EP
Magma - Slag Tanz EP
Laksa - Draw For The... EP
DJ Rashad - 6613 EP
DJ Nigga Fox - Noite e Dia EP
DJ Khalab - Eunoto EP

Napalm Death - Apex Predator Easy Meat
Knxwledge - Hud Dreems
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
JLIN - Dark Energy
Gouge - Beyond Death
Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
DJ Orange Julius - Mall Music Presents Juice II

Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Kuniko Kato - Xenakis: IX
Omer Klein - Fearless Friday
Citizenn - Human Interface
Monsieur Doumani - Sikoses (fao Imago; this is a Cypriot band that play a type of psychey trad-folk with tzouras, guitar and trombone, you'll probably hate them but I just thought it was worth mentioning)

Loving the Domenique Dumont.

Yeah, that's really nice.

very!

DD album is kinda slight imo but there are some nice tracks for sure - "L'esprit de l'escalier" was the one I picked out.

first three tracks on the DD are the good ones, imo

do not sleep on the Algiers album, peopow!

Yep, Algiers is straight great

ha I am just now learning about the Algiers album, holy shit

thread: Algiers (the band)

although I see the pull quote they use from the Stereogum review is "gospel spook" which I mean come the fuck on, everyone involved

huh

Född Död - Studie i närhet, längtan & besvikelse: http://open.spotify.com/album/1Kp2vOEozG48fjlzEQAaOQ
Barnett + Coloccia - Weld: http://open.spotify.com/album/115Hzp7vZ30rKnpqtIYZLy
Benoît Pioulard - Sonnet: http://open.spotify.com/album/7EisbIi4ur2hnhnvZND9pz
Voices from The Lake - Live at MAXXI: http://open.spotify.com/album/0SnY2qIBjo5ZZ3UwXJHUr8
Gnod - Infinity Machines: http://open.spotify.com/album/4d8WDhOk3DBzxZEQaCiKYK
Nick Forté - Primoridial Forms: http://open.spotify.com/album/0ahRAHm9GFNVpfYO28WIQ5
Mind Over Mirrors - The Voice Calling: http://open.spotify.com/album/08quHVxheoP6V8sB0hLDJa
Golden Retriever - 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/5jcc5FYIkj42ohy0ya52wv
Ducktails - St. Catherine: http://open.spotify.com/album/7rS52jd4PTCo7F3bHjQdEX
Moon Ate The Dark - Moon Ate The Dark II: http://open.spotify.com/album/6AgIMHmrwjzc3DDY1DL71E
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Mörkret, kylan, tystnaden & ensamheten: http://open.spotify.com/album/5qGCmAWBjAOto1Bx9yUkre
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - In The Wake Of The Dark Earth: http://open.spotify.com/album/5eamY3bH6IHDiSE5n3RjjT
Zomes - Near Unison: http://open.spotify.com/album/6qviAx6jQrWC8ANMfXDFmQ
Wand - Golem: http://open.spotify.com/album/5ZTqzCCjEF5pwSnr6o7Jga
Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries: http://open.spotify.com/album/1iOqKAqp1IYKkFsVw0B7U8
Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag: http://open.spotify.com/album/2I0KmDkTZmXAt3dpk3RNZd
Zs - Xe: http://open.spotify.com/album/2rmp4MZJ1UmpkqaZ57EsL8
Jac Berrocal / David Fenech / Vincent Epplay - Antigravity: http://open.spotify.com/album/4awGseBHmuRdLdFoz178SA

Bob Moses

Is this the singles comp from this past spring or the album that's coming out in the next couple months?

― Johnny Fever

Yeah it's a compilation of the previous EP's and singles. Unfortunately, vinyl version doesn't include 'I ain't gonna be the first to cry' which is my favorite song so far of him.

what are you guys talking about, is this a different Bob Moses than the one true tree branch-wielding jazz drummer Bob Moses?

if so, i don't approve of that at all.

I have only had a quick listen to the new VFTL one and am not really feeling it, as much as I loved their last album I don't think the live alb format plays to their strengths at all. the Seraphim Rytm album hits the same spots as first VFTL one in places and can be quite mesmerising or equally tedious, depending on what kind of mood or state you are in.

Golden Retriever - 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/5jcc5FYIkj42ohy0ya52wv

I don't have Spotify, is this something new or just a reissue of the 2010 thing by the same name?

(didn't know about a new Zomes either, will have to find it)

ahh you're right, my bad - it's an LP reissue of the CD-R from 2010.

golden retrievers, always bringing things back

i like how you roll crut

:-)

Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble - Gospel According to Matthew & Michael

Only listened to this once, but it's got that current Matthew Shipp sound I like every time.

Actually this is a bit less accessible than his last few releases. He sounds like himself, but the overall ensemble ends up being even closer to the modern classical end of the spectrum than Elastic Aspects (which is the recent release closest to this one, at least among the ones I've heard). It ends up being darker.

I still like it, but I think my description was misleading. It's probably a little too dark for me to listen to as often as I have Elastic Aspects, Piano Sutras, or I've Been to Many Places.

Top 5:
Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
Dick Diver - Melbourne, Florida
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Tribulation - The Children of the Night
Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek

Looking forward to a lot of stuff coming out in the next couple of months (Christian Mistress, Ghost, Royal Headache, Kadavar, Baio...)

Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points - Marhaba

^^ RIP Mahmoud Guinia, who passed away August 2

Some new songs I've been digging since my last update (a few prob already on the Spotify playlist):

Dar Williams - "FM Radio"
Kerbivore - "Opportunity Costs"
Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - "Sunday Candy"
Richard Thompson - "She Never Could Resist a Winding Road"
Hello Seahorse! - "Animal"
Carly Rae Jepsen - "Run Away With Me"
Chvrches - "Leave a Trace"

Vito Ricci - I Was Crossing A Bridge: http://open.spotify.com/album/04FmOuqSk3CFP2xOvO8heJ

^ recorded in the '80s but almost all the tracks have never been released before I believe

Crut ur dling great work here itt

*doing, doing, freudian slip there

Favourite albums since I last posted:

Laura Cannell - Beneath Swooping Talons (early music x folk x drone)
CFCF - The Colors of Life
Kamasi Washington - The Epic (coltrane x the jazz goes pop thread x 3)
Ami Shavit - In Alpha Mood
Death and Vanilla - To Where The Wild Things Are (ghost box-y)
Sly and the Family Stone - Live at the Fillmore East October 4th and 5th 1968
Acronym - June
Barbara Morgenstern - Beide EP
Pega Monstro - Alfarroba (garage rock x latin american hipster shit)

seandalai, join us on the Algiers & Mbongwana Star train.

All 3(?) of us now. Still think they're both top 10 EOY.

I don't know what either of those are, will check them out

several high quality releases from Another Timbre over the last few years..

a couple favorites (2015) so far:

at88 James Saunders (Apartment House) ‘assigned #15’
at83 ‘Extinguishment’ by Fraufraulein
(Billy Gomberg & Anne Guthrie) -- excellent sound art

Graham Lambkin/Michael Pisaro Schwarze Riesenfalter (Erstwhile 075)
https://cylob.bandcamp.com/album/the-quantum-loonyverse (fucking excellent braindance)
Eva-Maria Houben Air – works for flutes and organ EWR 1501, sample: http://www.wandelweiser.de/new_releases/schlummer.mp3
Greg Stuart & Ryoko Akama - e.a.c.d. (track 1 from kotoba koukan) Crisis002/Lava005CD

been playing the new AFX bonus track, "umil 25-01", nonstop

I was never a mega-fan in the past, but the Veruca Salt album is just a really solid almost power-pop album. It's not my favorite release of 2015, but it is the most played.

I want to check that out.

was delighted to see 'Kelly I'm Not A Creep' in the Spotify playlist.
Johnny Fever you'd love the Young Guv record if you're not already onboard.

Johnny Fever you'd love the Young Guv record if you're not already onboard.

One listen down. It's pleasant. Might grow to love it with more spins.

Tamaryn - Cranekiss: http://open.spotify.com/album/6FV7cgs03HyWCk97cXgd7k
DâM-FunK - Invite the Light: http://open.spotify.com/album/4ChWt4lH6QTPOcCVvIxKud
Marie Davidson - Un Autre Voyage: http://open.spotify.com/album/2tmaVipk4Yn0KYTUxYSmZJ
Class Actress - Movies: http://open.spotify.com/album/0C3lUVqp5w7RZxcqplO3Tm
Nochexxx - Plot Defender: http://open.spotify.com/album/2eeJ8fYrMvoi7owQa3FK1A
Jimi Tenor - Mysterium Magnum: http://open.spotify.com/album/0DQqNhzyhYL0w6ffmyBMBG

Ooh new Jimi Tenor? I'm on it.

been playing the new AFX bonus track, "umil 25-01", nonstop

seeing as how the track was only released today, glad i only just found this thread :p

what are you guys talking about, is this a different Bob Moses than the one true tree branch-wielding jazz drummer Bob Moses?

― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, July 27, 2015 10:31 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if so, i don't approve of that at all.

― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, July 27, 2015 10:31 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/bob-moses

been playing the new AFX bonus track, "umil 25-01", nonstop

seeing as how the track was only released today, glad i only just found this thread :p

i purchased it from Bleep like two weeks ago.

Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception
Matthew Shipp Trio - To Duke
The Spanish Donkey - Raoul
Caterina Palazzi Sudoku Killer - Infanticide
Post Scriptum - Post Scriptum 01
Vox Arcana - Caro's Song
Niyaz - The Fourth Light
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas - Automaginary

I wanted to check out that Marie Davidson album...

crut, have you seen this Quttinirpaaq album? Its p rad noise psych. You might like it...?
http://quttinirpaaq.bandcamp.com/album/dead-september

http://rest30records.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-jaguars-twilite -- local (salt lake city) act, been around for a couple decades (in a dozen forms) David Payne is the one constant/songwriter, he's an excellent player. a number of covers here, well relaxed, recorded in a bar setting. it's worth searching out the older Red Bennies ablums, as they rocked powerfully/formidable.

https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-you-like-the-universe -- two tracks, thirty minutes. an affecting blend of sounds, comprised of "Korg PS3200 and MS20, Field Recordings, Harmonium, Electromagnetic Feedback"

A few new ones i've been digging:

Beach Slang - "Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas"
https://play.spotify.com/track/08MolG9aqMU765vdBPQ500

Justin Bieber - "What Do You Mean?"
https://play.spotify.com/track/6nRwc5GgNvBMkKaynhQzrm

FIDLAR - "40oz. on Repeat"
https://play.spotify.com/track/1BBXvRZTsaEqOFb2VsKcW2

Dar Williams - "FM Radio" (I already mentioned this one above, but Spotify just got the album)
https://play.spotify.com/track/197NgDI9EWn8KuPfQYvbGj

Ami Shavit - In Alpha Mood

^^^ THIS

Beach Slang is bonkers good. Been waiting on their upcoming LP since I first heard them about a year ago.

Things that have caught my ear since Spring, Summer (addenda (1, 2).

Albums/EPs:
Mutamassik - Symbols Follow (spotify)
EEK - Kahraba (youtube)
Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot (spotify)
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (spotify)
Chvrches - Every Open Eye (spotify)
FKA twigs - M3LL155X (spotify)
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire (spotify)
Tamaryn - Cranekiss (spotify)
The Necks - Vertigo (youtube)
Empress Of - Me (spotify)

Tracks:
Nicole Sabouné - "Lifetime" (youtube, spotify)
Absofacto - "Dissolve" (youtube, spotify)
Hayden James - "Something About You" (youtube, spotify)
LA Priest - "Party Zute / Learning to Love" (youtube, spotify)
GEoRGiA - "Move Systems" (youtube, spotify)
Cosmo Sheldrake - "Rich" (youtube, spotify)

Looking forward to !!!, Kate Boy, Nicole Saboune, Grimes releases.

what are you guys talking about, is this a different Bob Moses than the one true tree branch-wielding jazz drummer Bob Moses?

― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, July 27, 2015 10:31 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if so, i don't approve of that at all.

― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, July 27, 2015 10:31 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/bob-moses

― Johnny Fever, Friday, September 4, 2015 12:42 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't approve at all.

Seu Jorge – Músicas Para Churrasco II: http://open.spotify.com/album/12yiaZ3AAVe5ya5L5f6m1d
Pridjevi – Pridjevi: http://open.spotify.com/album/6VQkl9eU4coTFQJN6VVEah
Part Time – Virgo's Maze: http://open.spotify.com/album/2oc468vmeCfjey1EMET89s
Herbcraft – Wot Oz: http://open.spotify.com/album/0wQIRqpnyTRqtrfeEsMIN9
CFCF – Radiance & Submission: http://open.spotify.com/album/4pyYb5Mh4EB9j17yr9NJ6I
Princess Century – Lossy: http://open.spotify.com/album/7uYPCnLyDjfc9BNRzkAHYo
The Internet – Ego Death: http://open.spotify.com/album/69g3CtOVg98TPOwqmI2K7Q

my fav tracks of the year are

grimes -realiti
future - real sisters
miguel - leaves
angel haze - moonrise kingdom

Oh god, I just realized it's probably only about 6 weeks before official lists start getting published. EFF UUUUUUU HURDLING PROGRESSION OF TIME!

Q3 Albums/EPs

Angel Haze - Back to the Woods
Jimi Tenor & U.M.O. - Mysterium Magnum
Lianne La Havas - Blood
Tyler, The Creator - Cherry Bomb
concretism - EP06: Magnox
Deradoorian - The Expanding Flower Planet
The Bird and The Bee - Recreational Love
Low - Ones and Sixes
Barbara Morgenstern - Beide
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique - Love Is Free

tracks tomorrow

Those are going to end up near the top of the list for sure:

American Wrestlers - American Wrestlers
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
Envy - Atheistʼs Cornea
Matana Roberts - Always
Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
Akhlys - The Dreaming I
Benoît Pioulard - Sonnet
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre
Low - Ones and Sixes
Tashi Dorji - Appa
Moon Ate the Dark - Moon Ate the Dark II
Villages - Procession Acts
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was

Allison Weiss - New Love
SK Kakraba - Songs of Paapieye
Mycale - Gomory: Book of Angels Vol 25
Iron & Wine, Ben Bridwell - Sing Into My Mouth
Domenique Dumont - Comme ça
The Very Best - Makes a King
Bitchin Bajas and Natural Information Society - Automaginary
Nazinja - Nazinja Lodge
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete

great year for music imo

Q3 tracks, no particular order.

Selena Gomez feat. A$AP Rocky - Good For You
Disclosure - Bang That
Zombi - Mission Creep
Thundercat feat. Flying Lotus & Kamasi Washington - Them Changes
Julia Holter - Feel You
Ashley Monroe - Bombshell
Tove Styrke - …Baby One More Time
FKA twigs - in time
Disclosure feat. Sam Smith - Omen (radio edit)
Dungen - Franks Katus
Chvrches - Leave A Trace
Bleachers feat. Tinashe - I Wanna Get Better
JoJo - Save My Soul
Willow - F Q-C #7
Demi Lovato - Cool For The Summer
Sevyn Streeter feat. Hit-Boy - Boomerang
Tunde Olaniran - Transgressor
Hiatus Kaiyote - Atari / By Fire
Teedra Moses feat. 3D Na’tee - Only U
YACHT - Ringtone
Barbara Morgenstern & Robert Lippok - Scrambler
Beach House - Days of Candy
Angel Haze - The Wolves
Angel Haze - Bruises
Tinashe feat. Young Thug - Party Favors
Tinashe - Player
Laetitia Sadier - Dry Fruit
Beck-Fields - De Anima (Giant Claw remix)
Dawn Richard - Dance
Only Girl - Remains

Oh and those Rundgren/Nikolaisen/Lindstrøm remixes I listed upthread are now on Spotify, together with an equally good EYE remix, here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6acriv300eVOmq3T8wmlOK - put all 3 on collective playlist, please ;-)

IAMX - Metanoia
Chvrches - Every Open Eye
Curxes - Verxes
Dancing With Ruby - In The Interest of Beasts
Marsheaux - A Broken Frame
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Machinista - Garmonbozia

sorry i've fallen behind here in spotify playlist updates on this thread; I've been working from the top down and it's a mess to read and search that way on a playlist that ended up being organized by artist... should be back up to snuff in a few days.

but here's a late shout for Maxo's 2015 album Chordslayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8tNGmqTqtI

also, cannot get enough of this Brian Blade track. I'm embedding because i love, please forgive me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YT74nAiLSM

This is a quick, third-quarter reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and/or an album selection from each listed) are being updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist as posted. I just did another (painfully meticulous, three day) top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have revised as of today with everything that's been added since first mentioned. Subscribe if you're into it and let me know if I've missed a track that's available in the US.

This is the one-stop-shopping playlist to queue up: It's about 860 tracks and over two and a half days long.

Rolling Favorite Tracks of 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

Pulse Emitter – Digital Rainforest: http://open.spotify.com/album/6zajoWA66tFc7LZ8iAfSQ1
Ssleeping Desiress – Ssleeping Desiress: http://open.spotify.com/album/157P582dPYLDWK3tbHBe8f
Steve Hauschildt – Where All Is Fled: http://open.spotify.com/album/0DSX1JfPpFz03OmBHJBRsG
John Carpenter – Lost Themes: http://open.spotify.com/album/5cm51rdS0RSbMAmI8TbQu9
Ken Camden – Dream Memory: http://open.spotify.com/album/4qPB5EZS3fmGh7s3QcIZVh
Brian Ellis & Brian Grainger – At Dusk: http://open.spotify.com/album/6VzJ4Q3NIQ718JWuDh33Hd
Makaya McCraven – In The Moment: http://open.spotify.com/album/3IyNCwYVh39bTn2f9yHo8z
Horsebeach – II: http://open.spotify.com/album/4WTlczZIqRBjMTc6yRRRXn
Arthur Russell – Corn: http://open.spotify.com/album/5kFfUmxBL6eXcyABd45CDB
Holydrug Couple – Moonlust: http://open.spotify.com/album/3IUQi8pLKTcXiEViyuyKKd
Brian Ellis – In the Dark: http://open.spotify.com/album/0zyZKTHoeDif1NIMLzxEBV
Midday Veil – This Wilderness: http://open.spotify.com/album/63MMf66TcCy0Z3Nx30Ehdx
D.K. – Love On Delivery: http://open.spotify.com/album/2RP10hzbFeDqFjxEmCUvtW
Marco Shuttle – Visione: http://open.spotify.com/album/2EvFWPIIKQ0jdjfciPyYjH
Sally Dige – Hard To Please: http://open.spotify.com/album/2DjsaXK6x5iCdCvA0hYd8S
Laurel Halo – In Situ: http://open.spotify.com/album/2n6gIMQKyacV5zPrhE9XCm

The Internet record sounds good based on the tracks forks has playlisted. Is that being talked about on ILM anywhere? Board search function futile in this case for obvious reasons.

Expect more of these anti-piracy measures.

an ungoogleable mix tape featuring the the, the internet, mister mister

I love The Internet's record. It's on my longlist for favorites of the year.

Big favourites, as yet unlisted:

LSD - A$AP Rocky
Leave A Trace (Four Tet Remix) - CHVRCHES
Camo - Clap! Clap!
Depreston - Courtney Barnett
Glyde 2Nite - Dam Funk
Times Square - Destroyer
Restless Year - Ezra Furman
The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment - Father John Misty
Collaborations Don't Work - FFS
First Ya Gotta Shake The Gate - Funkadelic & Soul Clap
Exhibit Diaz - Ibeyi
I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) - Jamie xx ft Young Thug & Popcaan
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure - John Grant
Holding On - Julio Bashmore ft Sam Dew
Re Run Home - Kamasi Washington
No Other Heart - Mac DeMarco
Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind - Rhiannon Giddens
IMF (Robert Glasper Remix) - Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 ft Christian Scott & Robert Glasper
Good Vibes - Seven Davis Jr ft Julio Bashmore
Heart Of Grass - Silk Rhodes
Rupert Trousers - Sleaford Mods
Shut Out Of Paradise - Slo
Peaches N Cream - Snoop Dogg ft Charlie Wilson
Real Blues - St Germain

glasper's new live album "covered" is, unsurprisingly, a joy
dude is the future.

David Burrell/Garrison Fewell - New Earth
Marcelo dos Reis/Valentin Ceccaldi/Luis Vicente/Theo Ceccaldi - Chamber 4
The Necks - Vertigo
Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect
White Out with Nels Cline - Accidental Sky
Gonno - Remember The Life Is Beautiful
Kris Davis - Save Your Breath

Coral Cross - Vulturous Pelecanus

@forkslovetofu - many thanks for keeping the playlist going. A wonderfully lazy way to keep on top of this list

yer welcome

Mbongwana Star - http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/10/28/round-85-nicks-choice-mbongwana-star-from-kinshasa/

Grimes – "Flesh Without Blood": http://open.spotify.com/album/2fsDt7nVNKN47KT23Bki49
Teen Commandments – "Ruby": http://open.spotify.com/album/7eCNZ7r0jm6OpltBouNKdg

Here are mine:

Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show
Dawn Richard – Blackheart
Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer
Sleater Kinney – No Cities to Love
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Young Thug – Barter 6
The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ
Heems – Eat Pray Thug
Dwight Yoakam – Second Hand Heart
Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think
The Mavericks – Mono
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba – Ba Power
Florence + the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Jason Derulo – Everything is 4
A$AP Rocky – At Long Last ASAP
Dead Sara – Pleased to Meet You Over
Alan Jackson – Angels and Alcohol
Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect
Miguel – Wildheart
Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
Ashley Monroe – The Blade

kendrick lamar – to pimp a butterfly
amara toure – 1973-1980
julia holter - have you in my wilderness
project pablo - i want to believe
dick diver - melbourne, florida
sleaford mods - key markets
maya vik- beyond the basics
jim o'rourke - simple songs
courtney barnett - sometimes i sit
honey cocaine - the gift rap e.p.
Owiny sigoma band - nyanza
warm brew - ghetto beach boys
wilco - star wars
destroyer - poison season
PC Music Vol. 1
ultimate painting - green lanes
john tejada - signs under test
belle and sebastian - girls in peacetime want to dance
happyness - weird little birthday

Some of the stuff I was anticipating in my last post turned out to be pretty great, especially these two:

Royal Headache - High
Ghost - Meliora

Some other things I've been enjoying:

Mare Infinitum - Alien Monolith God
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think...
Mr Fried Burger - Mr Fried Burger, I Resume?
Christian Mistress - To Your Death
Kadavar - Berlin
Fuzz - II

A Spotify playlist covering most of those:
https://open.spotify.com/user/129608543/playlist/1yJaAGV752z0DHPb6n1GxD

at this juncture my albums list is kinda in this order

Dawn Richard, Blackheart
Jazmine Sullivan, Reality Show
Angel Haze, Back To The Woods
Susanne Sundfør, Ten Love Songs
Years & Years, Communion
Levon Vincent, Levon Vincent
Ashley Monroe, The Blade
Miguel, Wildheart
Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife
Abra, Rose
Vince Staples, Summertime '06
Helena Hauff, Discreet Desires
Kehlani, You Should Be Here
Future, DS2
Lana Del Rey, Honeymoon
Holly Herndon, Platform
Sasha Go Hard, Nutty World 2
Teedra Moses, Cognac & Conversation
Björk, Vulnicura
Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly
Jam City, Dream A Garden
Laura Marling, Short Movie
Logan Sama, FabricLive 83
Flava D, More Love
Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love
DJ Richard, Grind
Jlin, Dark Energy
Torres, Sprinter
Vakula, A Voyage To Arcturus
Migos, Yung Rich Nation
Carly Rae Jepsen, Emotion

Kind of obsessed with this Boss Selection track that features Rashida Jones on vocals. There's something very "Thriller"=ish at the heart of it, but much more laid back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tXaZP2PPw

As of right now. TOP 15 ALBUMS 2015

All We Are - All We Are
Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
Death and Vanilla - To Where the Wild Things Are
Grimes - Art Angels
HNNY - Sunday
Ibeyi - Ibeyi
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Main Attrakionz - 808s and dark grapes III
Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
Romare - Projections
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tame Impala - Currents
Travis Bretzer - Waxing Romantic
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi Love
Vince Staples - Summertime 06

There's hundreds of albums I need to hear still so this is probably going to change.

This is still my favourite song qua song of 2015.

Might add these two (p4k approved TM) into the mix:

Mt. Eerie - Sauna
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier

And in the obligatory drone/experimental albums I add each year this is my favorite one so faR:

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

Matana Roberts sounds like Throbbing Gristle feat. Nico so if that sounds like something that could be interesting to hear I recommend it.

Some friends keep wanting me to hear the Carly Rae Jepsen album. Not sure if I should. What say you ILM?

And I forgot Colin Stetson I'm a sucker for everything he puts out each year.

so yes let's say those are my top 19/20 albums so far.

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

How does it compare to Chapter Two?

Gabi, Colleen and Julia Holter are all still way out there in front for me. I do feel like I've taken my eye off the ball a bit over the last few months though.

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
How does it compare to Chapter Two?

― EveningStar (Sund4r),

To be honest this is the first Matana Roberts album I hear. A friend sent it to me a month ago on spotify and I loved it.

Gabi, Colleen and Julia Holter are all still way out there in front for me. I do feel like I've taken my eye off the ball a bit over the last few months though.

― gabba cadaver (NickB)

I need to listen to these. I'm a fan of previous things they've done.

My ranked picks are:
1. Carla Morrison - Amor Supremo
2. VVhile - More
3. La Luz - Weirdo Shrine
4. Lightning In A Twilight Hour - Slow Changes
5. Lightning In A Twilight Hour - Fragments Of A Former Moon
6. Grimes - Art Angels
7. Mall Walk - Criminal Code
8. Jamie xx - In Colour
9. Laurel Halo - In Situ
10. Tiaras - Tiaras
11. Sam Prekop - The Republic
12. Ghostplay - 33
13. Wilco - Star Wars
14. Björk - Vulnicura
15. Belle And Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
16. Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi

Full list and write ups are here: http://www.discogs.com/lists/Favorites-of-2015/222933

Funny old year for me. As ever, I suspect I'll spend much of 2016 discovering and digesting lots of great stuff I didn't get round to in 2015.
Last year my listening was largely taken up by modern jazz, Joni Mitchell and a style I can only describe as 'body-horror ambient' centring around people like Gazelle Twin and Holly Herndon.
This year among other things, it's been about afrobeats, trap and 80s boogie.
But what with my computer dying at almost the same time I decided to move across the country and start a new job, I haven't had as much of a chance to listen to new things these last couple of months. It's been a fairly welcome break. I've had time to concentrate on other things.

So for my own reference more than anything else, here's a breakdown of stuff I heard this year in vague categories:

BONA FIDE GREAT ALBUMS I'LL VOTE FOR IN EOY:
Domenique Dumont - Comme ça
Algiers - Algiers
Miami Horror - All Possible Futures
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion

THINGS I LIKE A LOT
Future - Beast Mode
John Tejada - Signs Under Test
Mumdance - Fabriclive 80
Ciara - Jackie
Follakzoid - III
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
Jlin - Dark Energy

STUFF THAT IS INTERESTING OR HAS A FEW STANDOUT MOMENTS WORTH GOING BACK TO
Young Thug - Barter 6
Hama - Torodi
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Ata Kak - Obaa Sima
Future - DS2 & 56 Nights
courtney barnett - sometimes i sit and think
Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf
Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge
High Wolf - Growing Wild
Squarepusher - Damogen Furies

THINGS I NEED TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH
Ace Hood- Starvation 4
Young Thug - Slime Season 1 & 2
Lonelady - Hinterland
Ought - Sun Coming Down
M.E.S.H. - Piteous Gate
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Snoop Dogg & LBC Movement - Beach City
Diddy - MMM
Emily King - The Switch
Susanne Sundfør, Ten Love Songs
Destroyer - Poison Season
Bizz-E BlazE - Bizz-arre
Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
Tame Impala - Currents
Napalm Death - Apex Predator Easy Meat
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
Holly Herndon - Platform
Other Lives - Reconfiguration

STUFF I NEED TO CHECK OUT BEFORE EOY
Bjork - Vulnicura
Laurel Halo - In Situ
HNNY - Sunday
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi Love
Fuzz - II
Rabit - Communion
Dam Funk - Invite The Light

This is still my favourite song qua song of 2015.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Max Tundra versus The Go Team! (copyright, my gf) (I came up with the Max Tundra part independently) :D

dog latin, what is your list of stuff you absolutely loathed, just curious

I've started working for a commercial radio station and have to endure that 'Let's Marvin Gaye And Get It On' song approximately 34 times a week. Everyone involved in that song deserves to be run over.

In other news, I checked out an album by this hipster-rap act called Dead Language this morning and while the production was good, the guy rapping was pretty cackers. I dunno, I don't bother listening to music I don't like. There's stuff I wish was better - bit underwhelmed by the Ought album cos I loved their debut, but maybe I need ot give it more time?

For a moment there I thought you were dissing on Marvin Gaye and I was liike what!?

Have no idea what song that is but I assume I'm better off without it.

count yourself lucky.

ps the carly rae album is spectacular

Matchess - Somnaphoria
U.S. Girls - Half Free
Tamaryn - Cranekiss
Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
Thundercat - The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
Sonnymoon - The Courage of Present Times
Black Zone Myth Chant - Mane Thecel Phares
Low Jack - Sewing Machine
Nick Klein - Failed Devotee
El Mahdy Jr - Ghost Tapes
Marie Davidson - Un Autre Voyage
Haco - Secret Garden
Barbara Morgenstern - Doppelstern
Them Are Us Too - Remain
Dawn of Humans - Slurping at the Cosmos Spine
Damaged Bug - Cold Hot Plumbs
Uniform - Perfect World
Spray Paint - Dopers

Matana Roberts sounds like Throbbing Gristle feat. Nico so if that sounds like something that could be interesting to hear I recommend it.

The Matchess album sounds a bit like Suicide feat. Nico btw, so i guess we could swap recommendations.

Clear leaders: Kamasi Washington, Ashley Monroe
Close contenders: Holly Herndon, Father John Misty, Kendrick Lamar
Top Ten candidates: Knxwledge, Rhiannon Giddens, Songhoy Blues, Roisin Murphy, Africa Express (Terry Riley's In C Mali)

Matchess - Somnaphoria

this is great, thanks!

that White Out/Nels Cline record has jumped to the top of my own list

Already put the Matchess on my weekly listens thanks chirea

not enough people have been praising this Chic song from this year: "Back In The Old School," the B-side to "I'll Be There"
http://open.spotify.com/track/7Mwbm3FkOYQXSUO6SVuglR

Clear leaders: Kamasi Washington, Ashley Monroe
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:47 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What are these like?

Matchess - Somnaphoria

I've been listening to this and it's amazing! Great recommendation chirea, this is just my kind of album! I'll keep listening to it since it's too early to tell but at first spin it sounds like one of the best things I've heard this year. Record is like a long surreal trip I was listening while working and had to stop working because I couldn't focus.

Yes, my priorities are in place.

also I didn't have high hopes for it but the Carly Rae Jepsen actually has some incredible production. Kind of a weird album to listen after Matchess but this is also oddly engrossing. The production is first level, whichever producer(s) is/are behind this you can tell they are worth the buck.

Clear leaders: Kamasi Washington, Ashley Monroe
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:47 AM (9 hours ago)

What are these like?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:07 PM (Yesterday)

One's jazz, the other's country. Which is odd, because I'm not a big listener of either. Then again, several more committed jazz listeners posting on the Kamasi Washington thread haven't been much impressed, and Ashley Monroe hasn't made much headway in more mainstream country circles.

Kamasi's album is sprawling, maximalist and very long. Ashley's album is concise and measured. I've watched concerts from both on YouTube. Kamasi's was an explosion of joy which brought me further into his music; Ashley's was disappointingly short on emotion, and it put me off her album for a bit, although I've since recovered.

There are faults with Kamasi's album, but they don't stop me loving it; I don't necessarily require perfection. Meanwhile, what I like best about Ashley's is the classic songcraft; ideas clearly expressed, with indelible melodies.

Kamasi is a sprawling banquet, Ashley is more a down-home meal.

ha, you used sprawling already. it's an appropriate and not derogatory description!

I'm seeing Kamasi's debut UK show on Saturday. He can sprawl as much as he likes!

many xps dope list dog latin, i need to check out a lot of that

marcos I was gonna say I often read your posts and think 'we seem to be listening to the same things right now'

haha totally

I'm loving the Tamaryn album. Great voice, great songs, great vibe.

Jeffrey Lewis' Manhattan, which seems to have been completely ignored by a lot of press, is pretty great.

As we move into December, I'd like to drop a quick note to encourage any readers / lurkers / ilxors to post their favorite tracks from this year to the thread so that I can hoover them into the ongoing spotify playlist. Last chance for any accessible stragglers that may not already be in the lexicon.

well if you say so

Thore Pfeiffer – Im Blickfeld: http://open.spotify.com/album/6hwfuS0FG5HpRwekFiWlLk
Evan Caminiti – Meridian: http://open.spotify.com/album/1Vgu6lY5kCfCoYF40UzUa2
Oren Ambarchi & Johan Berthling – Tongue Tied: http://open.spotify.com/album/45ft54cUHwMegsci2cdb3L
Tom Carter & Pat Murano – Kawnyarna: http://open.spotify.com/album/53Lufd6QjH25FuKO1hOJtB
Panabrite – Disintegrating Landscape: http://open.spotify.com/album/2VYVQ7rnbph2vrR51Fl78Z
Majeure – Union of Worlds: http://open.spotify.com/album/7bYlvSXyUWdOyY0FXymmaD
Xeno & Oaklander – Movements: http://open.spotify.com/album/3xcaA79hK8pZeEk0YmAx0B
Ricardo Donoso – Machine to Machine: http://open.spotify.com/album/4LMdQ9SyC5vFxRh8p6VImo
John Wiese – Deviate From Balance: http://open.spotify.com/album/3X7NyBX1rtVbymFamGKAUk
Jute Gyte – Dialectics: http://open.spotify.com/album/1ptRF1TM4MERi5oiuZRz4q
Ron Morelli – A Gathering Together: http://open.spotify.com/album/1wPfyESEag7lf2T8KS2gRm
Loke Rahbek & Puce Mary – The Female Form: http://open.spotify.com/album/00Ixdq9bygtltMGymqnWlX
Loke Rahbek & Puce Mary – Lucia: http://open.spotify.com/album/3sMQrs4qfpKr7Jjd6l6g4h
Wolf Eyes – I Am A Problem: Mind in Pieces: http://open.spotify.com/album/4NwpHxWpTasEZm2ymR8Q4r
Hills – Frid: http://open.spotify.com/album/6TtZE6VFAvHEOklSoDZDaQ
Valet – Nature: http://open.spotify.com/album/1wePFghRroazrTXzsMR3Q2
Weyes Blood – Cardamom Times: http://open.spotify.com/album/42QmIW2Nl7siqrzRrrXmPH
David John Sheppard – Vertical Land: http://open.spotify.com/album/00rk6hD7MJ1zHeJ3XrH73q
Ryuichi Sakamoto / Illuha / Taylor Deupree – Perpetual: http://open.spotify.com/album/0C3a1I9P0ieSXtIF55Emax
Rin Larping – Stratum: http://open.spotify.com/album/3hKIjPVwabGO6QfLnccTXn
Ian William Craig – Cradle for the Wanting: http://open.spotify.com/album/1fHGVN43S8gz7oxk5i1QeO
18 Carat Affair – Pleasure Control: http://open.spotify.com/album/39Nd7JtGzGV8tz0iIPPV1l
Ssaliva – Thought Has Wings: http://open.spotify.com/album/7tZ1tiDdbubWDQIwClwCnU
Cara Stricker & John Kirby – Drool: http://open.spotify.com/album/1qF44TmtFWVhZv9vRIGXiC
Giant Claw – Deep Thoughts: http://open.spotify.com/album/7rb8NLl9lWCXazllkLA4ap
XL Middleton – Tap Water: http://open.spotify.com/album/4KafK7GxtpldzVxiY0vEMy
Floating Points – Elaenia: http://open.spotify.com/album/51QBkcL7S3KYdXSSA0zM9R
Heathered Pearls – Body Complex: http://open.spotify.com/album/53osMDo0ENFXbXnJUy3FBz
Leandro Fresco – El Reino Invisible: http://open.spotify.com/album/28FPGB4d8QvSE3zv90R2Bf
Mark McGuire – Beyond Belief: http://open.spotify.com/album/3kH12orsBKtVcTlYfgDJm3
Martin Courtney – Many Moons: http://open.spotify.com/album/352442roRXn6sQxBZULd71
Matthew Shipp Trio – The Conduct of Jazz: http://open.spotify.com/album/1yI6n2VOn9WetDMBgiDAzS
Laure Briard – Rélévation: http://open.spotify.com/album/64pcENUF4lynIGRWEzcsSF
U/V Light – Cenotaph: http://open.spotify.com/album/7CDhqwci2RCYnFvW2Nlnqw
The Soft Moon – Deeper: http://open.spotify.com/album/7ewlDAUdwJlfgEzz5rj9xl
Tarana – A Fire of Flowers Grows Around Us: http://open.spotify.com/album/1thicNzYGSxnMzd7KCXGDL
Sons of Kemet – Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do: http://open.spotify.com/album/6o23NB26aULo86KN7Hug8y

Rin Larping – Stratum

^ homer pick ;)

Fatima Yamaha – Imaginary Lines: http://open.spotify.com/album/5jJiMVMiUB1oJpRRSWKV0Q

hoover them

ALBUMS:

Irfan - The Eternal Return (spotify)
Auscultation - L'étreinte imaginaire (spotify)
Kate Boy - One (spotify)
Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds (spotify)
Mister and Mississippi - We Only Part to Meet Again (spotify)
Escort - Animal Nature (spotify)

TRACKS:

Susanne Sundfør - Accelerate (youtube, spotify)
Algiers - Irony. Utility. Pretext. (youtube, spotify)
Shura - White Light (youtube, spotify)
Emilie Nicolas - Fail (youtube)
LA Priest - Learning to Love (youtube, spotify)
Dead Sara - Mona Lisa (youtube, spotify)
Pr0files - Get It Up (youtube, spotify)
Saad Lamjarred - Lamaallem (youtube)
Rangleklods - Lost U (youtube, spotify)
School of Seven Bells - Open Your Eyes (youtube, spotify)
Psychemagik - Mink & Shoes (youtube, spotify)
Ekkah - Last Chance to Dance (youtube, spotify)

Video's fun, but the song itself is one of my favorite's this year. Recorded with the Hi Rhythm Section, but without being fake-Al-Green.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXRrySTujn8

*favorites

My spring / summer was dominated by afrobeats this year and I have to thank the afrobeats thread dudes, especially longneck, breastcrawl and tsrobodo, for doing such an incredible job over there. Enjoyed so much on there, but if I took one thing away that I especially loved from this year, it was 'Godwin by Korede Bello. Great to see a proper video for it is now online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w14zUTXOhYE

crut, i'm glad 1) our tastes align so well, 2) you're such a prolific listener, 3) you take the time to post all this stuff
gonna be a busy ear in 2015

Thanks forks!! I'm very grateful for what you've done with the Spotify playlists.

Godwin is such a jam.

just discovered this one, fun krautrock pastiche w/a goofy fabricated backstory:

Kosmischer Läufer – The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program, 1972–83, Vol. 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4ZAtlPjTyeQeptFlp38oez

yeah, i'm down with that too!

Lol Vol. 2 from last year wasnt half bad either

Scotty ATL – The Cooligan: http://open.spotify.com/album/74pegKaUWVkTkAfBIQ086Q

already posted this in the hip-hop thread, but this is my fav rap album from this year

In a parallel universe, I've posted these a few at a time with enticing descriptions. Meanwhile, back in this one...

TRACKS
Paradis - Le Bal Des Oubliés
Louis The Child (feat. K.Flay) - It's Strange
Love Cult - Wonderland
Mickey Pearce - Wam Barzz

ALBUMS
Outfit - Slowness
Sam Binga - Wasted Days
Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
Johan Baeckström - Like Before
Frank Bretschneider - Sinn + Form
Karen Gwyer - Bouloman EP (https://youtu.be/k4rvSqRUyE4?list=PLDgd3W__NHCa5bV6MIBp_d51jD3C2uQC1)

https://open.spotify.com/user/paulsantacruz/playlist/4z4ux9com83ialHYlWxGOK

Guess it's not surprising the Prurient album already has fans upthread. It's so great!

aaah I'm sorry to post so much but the new Meridian Brothers album is awesome

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sounds-in-context-meridian-brothers/

It's a project dedicated to the organ. I was inspired by the ambient Hammond organists in Latin America, a style that developed in parallel to easy listening music genres in 60’s & 70’s. Organists from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panamá and Brazil developed a remarkable style performing with backing bands that played traditional instruments, with the organ as the central instrument – in some cases achieving really beautiful results. A sub-genre of organ cumbia was created also. This music is still played at some of the "sonideros" parties in Mexico and is very popular in Ecuador.

Starting from some of these records, I decided to investigate this style, using the timbre of the organ, but developing the style further and turning it into a kind of "impossible organ" music – a kind of un-easy listening. I used the same background instrumentation as was used in some of the tunes I was inspired by: double bass pizzicato, jazz-like drums and the organ (using software and hardware synthesizers). Occasionally, I also used drum machines and other electronic sounds. Because it's very difficult to play it on the organ alone, I used the sequencing capabilities of Ableton Live and Max for Live in order to achieve this "impossible" sound I wanted.

Meridian Brothers – Los Suicidas: https://open.spotify.com/album/5w7BQmCWZpkAvcTdLNEbPU

Sarah Davachi – Qualities of Bodies Permanent: http://open.spotify.com/album/3jTzO5EkvKGsFTa1Dkdxi8

this is GREAT

also great:

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma – FRKWYS Vol. 12 – We Know Each Other Somehow: http://open.spotify.com/album/0tZpgVVwThPf0LlU4tT6Jo

Just listening to that now after I spotted it on the Quietus list - not bad!

albums:

CFCF - Radiance & Submission
DJ Richard - Grind
DJ Sotofett - Drippin' for a Tripp (Tripp-A-Dubb-Mix)
Horsebeach - II
Ishinohana ‎– La Flor De Piedra
Jonny Nash - Exit Strategies
Journeymann Trax - Smoke Tape
Keita Sano - Holding New Cards
Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
Project Pablo - I Want to Believe
Psychemagik - Psychemagik Presents Magik Sunset Part One
Ptaki - Przelot
Steve Hauschildt - Where All Is Fled
Suzanne Kraft - Talk From Home
Sven Atterton - The Cove
Syracuse - Liquid Silver Dream
Vakula - A Voyage to Arcturus
Various Artists - Collezione
Various Artists - Disco Dildar
Young Galaxy - Falsework

tracks:

Аllа Pugacheva - Cafe Dancing Lights (Krjuk Edit)
András & Oscar - (I Know) What You Want
Dan Lissvik - Shuvit!
DJ Slyngshot - High Times
Dude Energy - Renee Running
Eddie C - Cut, Chop, Roll, Skate
Ess O Ess - Cantillate (Suzanne Kraft Remix)
Foster - AEIOU
Golden Ivy - Vända Blad
Isolée - Favouride
Junktion - Pale Blue Dot
Laguna Ladies - Egyptian Bag
Local Artist - Feelings
Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face (Kon's Duet Mix)
NO ZU - Greek Key (Heat Beat Mix)
Omar-S - I Wanna Know
Paraíso - Teu Sorriso (56 Mix)
Pender Street Steppers - The Glass City
Private Agenda - Deja Vu
Rébeval - Chantage
Samo DJ - Flyer Edit
Willow - Feel Me

More tracks:

Autolux - Soft Scene (youtube, spotify)
Alex Adair - Make Me Feel Better (youtube, spotify)
Computer Magic - Secret (youtube, spotify)
Crying - Patriot (soundcloud, bandcamp)
Femme - S.O.S (youtube, spotify)
Miami Horror - Love Like Mine (youtube, spotify
Paradise Walk - Summer Heat (youtube, spotify)
Tamaryn - Hands All Over Me (youtube, spotify)
The Knocks - Collect My Love (youtube, spotify)
U.S. Girls - Damn That Valley (youtube, spotify)
Young Galaxy - Body (youtube, spotify)

Jonny Nash - Exit Strategies

100% yes cosign on this from me

xp I love the Miami Horror album. Great summer soundtrack for me this year.

just discovered this one, fun krautrock pastiche w/a goofy fabricated backstory:

Kosmischer Läufer – The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program, 1972–83, Vol. 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4ZAtlPjTyeQeptFlp38oez

― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, December 2, 2015 1:01 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oops I thought this was real :/

lol I didn't do any extensive research on it but it sounds super made-up & there is no evidence of it existing outside these releases

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/you-can-never-be-too-convincing-kosmische-laufers-top-10-krautrock-records-to-run-to/

my excuse for my credulousness is the album came up as a spotify recommendation and I just took the title at face value without really thinking about it. I wouldn't even have seen the full album title as spotify only shows you the first 10 characters or something rubbish like that.

I hacked my longlist down to 30 albums. Some may fall out and others may creep in before it's all over, but these are what I spent the most time listening to this year...

Algiers - s/t
All We Are - s/t
Andy Gabbard - Fluff
Angel Haze - Back to the Woods
Baba Sissoko - Three Gees
Beach Slang - The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
Bernard & Edith - Jem
Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
Golden Rules - Golden Ticket
Grimes - Art Angels

Have You Ever Seen the Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? - Teenage Sweetheart
Jay Rock - 90059
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Loaf Muzik - Live From the Dungeon
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
Lusts - Illuminations
Madjo - Invisible World
Marina & The Diamonds - Froot
Methyl Ethel - Oh Inhuman Spectacle
Monika - Secret in the Dark

Oshun - Asase Yaa
Phony Ppl - Yesterday's Tomorrow
Soko - My Dreams Dictate My Reality
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
The Internet - Ego Death
Tove Styrke - Kiddo
Tunde Olaniran - Transgressor
Venera 4 - Eidôlon
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Wet & Reckless - s/t

TRACKS

Róisín Murphy - "House of Glass (Maurice Fulton remix)" HOLY BABY JESUS IN THE MANGER THIS IS AMAZING

Speaking of Maurice Fulton, his 2015 album The Hydrangeas Whisper (spotify) under the alias Boof was worth a listen, though it doesn't cohere. Separate EPs of the minimal/stern odd-numbered tracks and of the more funky even-numbered ones would have worked better.

Have You Ever Seen the Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? - Teenage Sweetheart

Saved on Spotify on strength of band name alone.

21 albums

Polar Bear - Same As You
Four Tet - Morning/Evening
Destroyer - Poison Season
Susanne Sondfor - 10 Love Songs
Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love
East India Youth - Culture of Volume
D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah
Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Floating Points - Elaenia
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Battles - La Di Da Di
House of Blondes - Stranger Still
Bjork - Vulnicura
Algiers - Algiers
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Shamir - Ratchet
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
FFS - FFS
Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too

40x Q4 Tracks

Janet Jackson feat. Missy Elliott - BURNITUP!
Elle King - America’s Sweetheart / Kocaine Karlina
Selena Gomez - Hands To Myself / Rise
Beach House - Majorette
The Internet - Get Away
I Am Robot And Proud - Kira Kira Zig Zag
Iko Chérie feat. Laetitia Sadier - Go Now!
Iko Chérie - Good To You Again
Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama / No Good
Floating Points - Silhouettes (I, II & III)
Carla Morrison - Un Beso
Psychemagik feat. Navid Izadi - Mink & Shoes (Original Mix)
Grimes - Flesh without Blood / Easily / Butterfly
Micachu & The Shapes - Hazes
Jean-Michel Jarre feat. Lang Lang - The Train & The River
Anna Von Hausswolff - The Miraculous / An Oath
Ariana Grande - Focus
Cooly G & Marc Perrineau - WayBay
DJ Paypal - Slim Trak
DJ Paypal feat. Nangdo & DJ Taye - On a Cloud
Vérité - Wasteland
KDA feat. Tinie Tempah & Katy B - Turn The Music Louder (Rumble) (Radio edit)
M.I.A. - Borders
Missy Elliott feat. Pharrell Williams - WTF (Where They From)
JLin - Nandi
Barbara Morgenstern & Coppe’ - Aglow
Margaret Cho - (I Want To) Kill my Rapist
Margaret Cho - DICKtator
Stara Rzeka - Nie zblizaj sie do ognia
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Pulsing River Velvet Phase
Cavern of Anti-Matter - melody in high feedback tones
Toitoitoi - Golden Green
Giorgio Tuma with Malik Moore - My Lively Youth (Sean O’Hagan Remix)
David Bowie - Blackstar

Can I start campaigning to count Nicolas Jaar's Nymphs I-IV as an Album? Because, as such, it's sitting comfortably in my 2015 top 10.

some stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet:

albums
Astrobrite - Deluxer
Kali Uchis - Por Vida EP
Mary Halvorson - Meltframe
The Amazing - Picture You
Celer & Nicholas Szczepanik - Here, for now

tracks:
GEoRGiA - "Heart Wrecking Animals"

are The Amazing discussed anywhere on ilm? i really like their last record ('gentle stream') and it feels like it could have been a ILM Thing in some parallel universe but they're kind of hard to search for

i'll have to listen to the new one now too i guess

they've been mentioned here a few times, but mellow reverbed-out indie dreampop is (understandably) not going to make much of a splash on ilm in 2015

idk if i'd characterize what i've heard as indie dreampop, it's more like jackson browne crossed with some of the stuff on the post-fahey thread

hmm, interesting reference points. the best comparisons I can come up with are the second Telescopes album (which is itself a blend of shoegaze and Fairportsy folk-rock) and Midlake, and I don't hear as much of a direct classic rock/folk influence as some people seem to. Picture You has a few more loud feedbacky guitar passages than Gentle Stream (expecially on 'Safe Island') but overall it's not drastically different from every other Amazing album. I still feel like this sort of thing is anathema to ilm's current sensibilities, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Listening to "Picture You" now, it sounds a lot like Real Estate.

I like Picture You a lot

David Borden - Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments

just found out this is a reissue of an album from 1981. oh well!!

it's really excellent tho. have u heard the Ami Shavit - In Alpha Mood album? 1977 release; for some reason the two feel like a pair for me this year

Both of those are great!

The only albums from this year that I've really enjoyed are

Colleen - Captain Of None
Jlin - Dark Energy
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Rabit - Communion
Visionist - Safe

I'm surprised the Visionist album hasn't been on more EOY lists, because it's brilliant

Picture You album is definitely one my favorites this year.

Hmmm, late discovery. The Kickback (Spoon's Jim Eno=producer) - "Headhunter" (from album Sorry All Over The Place). Hadn't heard a thing about these angular pop guys, though apparently they've been kicking around for years before recording their debut.

Here's a link to a playlist of my favorite tracks of the year: http://open.spotify.com/user/scottpgwp/playlist/7ilAqzxqmsAQ8xGcozIWce

Not ranked, but rather ordered as a pleasurable listening experience. Some obvious stuff (Tame Impala, Kurt Vile, Bjork), and perhaps some less obvious stuff (Jonas Munk, C. Duncan, Roedelius)--also people don't seem to have noticed that Radio Dept released some great singles this year, and the Walkmen essentially reformed without calling themselves the Walkmen.

Selected 25 albums of the year for my radio show last week:

75 Dollar Bill – Wooden Bag / Southeaster b/w Like Like Laundry
Apprentice Destroyer - Glass Ceiling Universe
The Black Heart Rebellion - People, when you see the smoke, do not think it is fields they’re burning
Chuck Johnson – Blood Moon Boulder
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was
Helm - Olympic Mess
Jlin - Dark Energy
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Kara-Lis Coverdale – Aftertouches
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Kurt Vile - b’lieve i’m goin down
Lieven Martens Moana - Songs Of Gold, Incandescent
Lil Noid – Paranoid Funk
Mariem Hassan & Vadiya Mint El Hanevi - Baila Sahara Baila
Nidia Minaj - Danger
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Obnox - Know America
Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete
Oren Ambarchi - Live Knots
Stara Rzeka - Zamknely Sie Oczy Ziemi
Peder Mannerfelt - The Swedish Congo Record
Sightings - Amusers And Puzzlers
V/A - Exo (Ekster)
Young Thug - Barter 6

Now trying to cut down my favorite tracks to 20 for a fb post on the station's page:

Call Super - Fluenka Self
Chuck Johnson - Silver Teeth In The Sun
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - he Sun Roars Into View
Dektro - Langhors
Dj Taye & Dj PayPal - Go Away
Drake - Hotline Bling
Good Willsmith - Real Wet Feet Get Real Wet
Helm - I Exist In A Fog
Hey Colossus - Hey, Dead Eyes, Up!
Jamie xx, Popcaan, Young Thug - Good Times
Jlin - Nandi
Jonas Meersmans - Agamemnon
Julia Holter - Vasquez
Kendrick Lamar - How Much A Dollar Cost
Kurt Vile - Lost My Head There
Mbongwana Star - Nganshé
Nidia Minaj - Pra Fechar
Oneohtrix Point Never - No Good
Ossia - Red X
Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky
Peder Mannerfelt - Circumcision Dance
Razen - Reaper
RB Boo - Bang'n On King Dr.
Savant - Using Words
Sheer Mag - Button Up
Sightings - Counterfeited
Young Thug - Constantly Hating

Can i just say how much i love music's diversity... both the artistic field and the ILX collective's groupmind? We're a few days away from the end of the year and here's a list of new music that mostly hasn't been mentioned prior... not just on this thread but ANY of the genre threads! It is, to relocate the old proverb about chess, a river from which a flea may sip or an elephant may quench its thirst.

hey maarten, you should nominate a bunch of those for the ILM EOY poll (and then vote for them!)

my EOY summation: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/136311733572/2015

Eazy - thanks for posting the Frazey Ford track upthread. The album is lovely.

https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/deining

I genuinely don't have it in me to comb through this thread to clean it up so I'm wrapping it up for the year. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

Rolling Favorite Tracks of 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

A once-off reminder that voting for your favourite tracks + albums 2015 is currently open and there are ~7 days left to submit your ballot.

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

http://ukmidcopts.org/images/diocese_youth/get_involved.jpg

also people don't seem to have noticed that Radio Dept released some great singles this year, and the Walkmen essentially reformed without calling themselves the Walkmen.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, December 17, 2015 11:16 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

Ha, I had no clue on either front, so appreciate the news. I was thinking about Radio Dept recently, seems like ages ago since their last album.

A bit late, but here's 10 tracks I dug from 2015: http://2012yearinmusic.blogspot.com/2016/01/10-songs-2015.html

My albums, tracks and EPs are here (in blocks of five because I find Tumblr struggles with any more embeds at a time).

duane pitre - organized pitches occurring in time

whoops, wrong thread