[pearljammer13]

Did I miss this thread already? If so, disregard. If not, what are your choices for top albums of 2015? Here's my top 10:

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Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney Barnett

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Divers by Joanna Newsom

3.

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Thank Your Lucky Stars by Beach House

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The Most Lamentable Tragedy by Titus Andronicus

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Foil Deer by Speedy Ortiz

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Feels Like by Bully

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Beat The Champ by The Mountain Goats

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Fading Frontier by Deerhunter

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Escape From Evil by Lower Dens

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Star Wars by Wilco

and my top 15 songs:

1. Anecdotes- Joanna Newsom
2. Pedestrian At Best- Courtney Barnett
3. Dimed Out- Titus Andronicus
4. All Your Yeahs- Beach House
5. I Remember- Bully
6. Return To The Moon- El Vy
7. Strange Hellos- Torres
8. Pretty Pimpin'- Kurt Vile
9. The Legend Of Chavo Guererro- Mountain Goats
10. Biscuits- Kacey Musgraves
11. California Nights- Best Coast
12. Raising The Skate- Speedy Ortiz
13. Should Have Known Better- Sufjan Stevens
14. Nobody's Empire- Belle And Sebastian
15. Sucker's Shangri-La- Lower Dens

[craola]

lots and lots of good stuff, and it would be silly to post all of the albums i've gotten kicks out of, but some of the more notable ones include:

36: pulse dive
ah yeah no maybe: cafe
and the golden choir: another half life
the astral planes: ocean of light
bjork: vulnicura
borejko: slepkava
brand new: leaked demos 2006
chelsea wolfe: abyss
generator: spirit songs
holydrug couple: moonlust
jenny hval: apocalypse, girl
joanna newsom: divers
lotic: agitations
low voltage: mask
petite noir: life is beautiful
pinkshinyultrablast: everything else matters
pure bathing culture: pray for rain
robin bacior: water dreams
roisin murphy: hairless toys
sufjan stevens: carrie & lowell
susanne sundfor: ten love songs
tyondai braxton: hive1
young galaxy: falsework

tl;dr: it's been a good year for synthesizers.
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2015 was bangin'

Albums:

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Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee by Matana Roberts

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AE_LIVE by Autechre

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Thumbs by Busdriver

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Agitations by Lotic

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Apocalypse, Girl by Jenny Hval

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To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

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Dark Energy by Jlin

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I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside by Earl Sweatshirt

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Break Stuff by Vijay Iyer Trio

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So The Flies Don't Come by Milo


Songs (not counting those Autechre live shows since each one of those is basically it's own album, same for Basinski's "Cascade"):

1. Matana Roberts - All is Written
2. Earl Sweatshirt - Solace
3. Dälek - Masked Laughter (Nothing's Left)
4. Jenny Hval - That Battle is Over
5. Grimes - Kill V. Maim
6. FKA Twigs - Glass & Patron
7. Urfaust - The River
8. Busdriver - Ministry of the Torture Couch (feat. Hemlock Ernst)
9. Milo - Song About a Raygunn (an Ode to Driver)
10. Lubomyr Melnyk - The Amazon: The Highlands
11. Future Brown - Room 302 (feat. Tink)
12. Sufjan Stevens - Death With Dignity
13. Kendrick Lamar - These Walls (Feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat)
14. Cannibal Ox - The Power Cosmiq (feat. Kenyattah Black)
15. Vakula - 19 Hours Prior to Arcturus

[Anti]

Here's mine. Don't get it confused with Pitchfork's.

1. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
2. Summertime '06 by Vince Staples
3. In Colour by Jamie xx
4. New Bermuda by Deafheaven
5. Rodeo by Travi$ Scott
6. DS2 by Future
7. Currents by Tame Impala
8. Garden Of Delete by Oneohtrix Point Never
9. I Love You, Honeybear by Father John Misty
10. I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside by Earl Sweatshirt

I only listened to 32 2015 albums. Pretty much were the ones that caused enough buzz within my limited research on upcoming music to catch my attention.

[Tap]

Still too early, this hasn't dropped yet and maybe its good http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=32415

[Kool Keith Sweat]

I'm still discovering albums from this year that I enjoy and could be swapped into this list, and this will likely look different at the end of the decade, but this is what I submitted to the Pitchfork readers' poll:

1. Eric Chenaux - Skullsplitter
2. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl
3. Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
4. Joanna Newsom - Divers
5. Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra - Galactic Parables, Volume 1
6. Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Three: River Run Thee
7. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufield - Never Were the Way She Was
8. Low - Ones and Sixes
9. Colleen - Master of None
10. Kode9 - Nothing

[RockyRaccoon]

For more check out the two charts in my sig, but here's my top 10

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Ten Love Songs by Susanne Sundfør

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Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens

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If I've Only One Time Askin' by Daniel Romano

Dark Bird Is Home by The Tallest Man On Earth

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To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

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Currents by Tame Impala

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Depression Cherry by Beach House

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On Lonely Towers by Barren Earth

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The Epic by Kamasi Washington

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At the Expense of Humanity by Judicator
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[meccalecca]

it'll surely change tomorrow but...

1. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
2. Julia Holter – Have You in My Wilderness
3. Low – Ones and Sixes
4. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
5. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
6. U.S. Girls – Half Free
7. Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa
8. Rice Cultivation Society – Mystical Shitheads
9. Shilpa Ray – Last Year’s Savage
10. Joanna Newsom – Divers
11. Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
12. Colleen – Captain of None
13. Twerps – Range Anxiety
14. Destroyer – Poison Season
15. Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, girl
16. Family Dynamics – Service
17. Stara Rzeka – Zamknęły się oczy ziemi
18. Christopher Paul Stelling – Labor Against Waste
19. Owiny Sigoma Band – Nyanza
20. Jesse R. Berlin – Glitter Lung
21. The Great Void – Shift Age
22. Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?
23. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
24. Björk – Vulnicura
25. Eartheater – RIP Chrysalis
26. Wilco – Star Wars
27. Busdriver – Thumbs
28. Howth – Trashy Milky Nothing Town
29. CocoRosie – Heartache City
30. Natalie Prass – Natalie Prass
31. Marika Hackman – We Slept at Last
32. Petite Noir – La vie est belle / Life Is Beautiful
33. Daniel Romano – If I’ve Only One Time Askin’
34. The Sidekicks – Runners in the Nerved World
35. Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes
36. Blur – The Magic Whip
37. Mount Eerie – Sauna
38. Death and Vanilla – To Where the Wild Things Are
39. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – Ba Power
40. Faith No More – Sol Invictus
41. Deerhunter – Fading Frontier
42. Beauty Pill – Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are
43. Mishka Shubaly – Coward’s Path
44. Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated at Last
45. JOBS – Killer BOB Sings
46. Daniel Knox – Daniel Knox
47. Damaged Bug – Cold Hot Plumbs
48. North Collins – North Collins
49. Sarah Bethe Nelson – Fast-Moving Clouds
50. Nozinja – Nozinja Lodge
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[Satie]

such extensive discussion itt

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