Top 43 Music Albums of 2015
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SquishypuffDave 
- Chart updated: 01/09/2016 22:45
- (Created: 02/01/2015 11:17).
- Chart size: 43 albums.
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Man, this album makes me FEEL THINGS. Hval is so self-revealing she makes everyone else look like a coward. Kingsize summons the most horrible feelings of dread (NOT THE BANANAS), Take Care Of Yourself aches with the weight of a million vaginas, and on Heaven after she says "I want to sing religiously", does she literally turn into a bird and start flying into the night sky? Good grief, what a beautiful voice. It's a raw confronting experience somewhere in the vicinity of an ego death, attacking parts of my psyche that were laying dormant. There's so much gravity here that it demands complete attention and doesn't work any other way. She's one of those rare artists that seems to have the ability to connect a transmitter directly from her brain into yours. Her lyrics are like those weird fuzzy early morning thoughts you have as you're waking up, where it feels like you're solving some really important internal puzzle and everything is equal and nothing is taboo and your conscious identity hasn't fully uploaded yet so the real fundamental essence of what you are has a chance to- damn, it's gone. It's not so much that her music is otherworldly and escapist, it's more like she draws your attention to the strange ambiguous elements of what it means to be a human being in waking life. The kind of thing your brain likes to shift its awareness away from whenever it can in favour of the mundane. Apocalypse, Girl is a temporary escape into reality.
[First added to this chart: 11/09/2015]
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I'm unoriginal.
[First added to this chart: 03/25/2015]
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I wasn't totally sold on R Plus Seven, but this one is like a combination of all my favourite aspects of his previous work. Loving the weird vocal manipulation. So alien. Every now and then it slithers up to the TV screen to watch some impossibly happy pop diva dancing to a catchy tune, and the creature tries to rearrange its tentacles to imitate her beauty; glimmers of humanity emerge and recede in its undulating dance - for a split second we see a beautiful face, but the jawbones twist and the muscles spasm, the nose sinks back into the swirling mass. The shape cannot be held for long. This album is Scarlett Johansson in Under The Skin just before being doused with gasoline.
[First added to this chart: 12/27/2015]
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I've listened to Sea Calls Me Home far too many times than can possibly be healthy, but those crazy swarming saxophones are too great.
[First added to this chart: 10/11/2015]
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It's like finding a giant angelic machine on a mountaintop surrounded by mist, and you pull a lever and it whirs to life. It's very old and bits of it are broken but it's still the most beautiful thing. You walk around adjusting different pieces trying to get it back to how it originally looked, and each time you do, something new and beautiful springs out of it and you just sit and watch this new piece do a jerky little dance, and it's simultaneously joyous and mournful. You take notes and rest your head against it as it hums. You camp there for a few days and slowly your food supply diminishes. You watch the sparrows nesting in mountains. There are prickly bushes growing from the cracks between the rocks. You wonder if you could grow crops here.
[First added to this chart: 12/21/2015]
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I can't think of many people this wouldn't appeal to in some way. This album is achingly beautiful, like a more ambient Grizzly Bear or a slightly more accessible version of late-era Talk Talk. He has a really great voice, and the arrangements are sparse and imaginative and totally captivating.
[First added to this chart: 11/30/2015]
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This is outrageously good. It keeps hovering near all these different genres but refusing to be sucked into them, instead drawing everything into its folky/droney/raga/psychedelic belly. The sound palette is gorgeous. It just goes all over the place. I linked this to a friend who described the opening track as "black metal meets The Bends", so make of that what you will.
Okay I'm not very good at describing the mechanics of music so I'll give you this: it's the soundtrack to a De Goya painting of an ancient river serpent devouring a stray villager and the villager's blood is all black and everything is really hazy and there's something weirdly human about the way the serpent's face is painted which makes you wonder if the serpent is supposed to represent the brutality of the human condition or maybe you're just overthinking things but there's something about the style and beauty of the piece that makes you feel like it probably means something really profound, then your cynical overly-ironic self-effacing superego kicks in and says that anything this transcendent must be made fun of mercilessly so you're like "lol, looks like De Goya was a fan of vore, amirite fellas?" and then you high-five the guy next to you and walk over to the next exhibit, a single tear running down your face. [First added to this chart: 11/10/2015]
Okay I'm not very good at describing the mechanics of music so I'll give you this: it's the soundtrack to a De Goya painting of an ancient river serpent devouring a stray villager and the villager's blood is all black and everything is really hazy and there's something weirdly human about the way the serpent's face is painted which makes you wonder if the serpent is supposed to represent the brutality of the human condition or maybe you're just overthinking things but there's something about the style and beauty of the piece that makes you feel like it probably means something really profound, then your cynical overly-ironic self-effacing superego kicks in and says that anything this transcendent must be made fun of mercilessly so you're like "lol, looks like De Goya was a fan of vore, amirite fellas?" and then you high-five the guy next to you and walk over to the next exhibit, a single tear running down your face. [First added to this chart: 11/10/2015]
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If I had to summarize it in the most crass reductionist terms possible, I might describe it as Broadcast meets David Lynch meets Cyndi Lauper. But I'm not going to do that because this album just surprises me with something new and unexpected at every turn.
"Oh cool, a cute upbeat surf-rock song whoa this guitar tone is filthy and I'm drowning in distortion! Now this beat keeps skipping and I'm creeped out, but the bassline is so catchy... what the hell is that moaning in the background? Oh, a little intermission with two girls joking on the phone... about some fairly heavy Oedipal stuff and it just ended with creepy echoey 50s sitcom laughter. Okay hang on, since when was this a synthpop album, and how does this seem to fit the overall aesthetic so perfectly?"
Nothing about this album fits neatly in any time period. It's like I'm listening to music from an alternate timeline after America suffered a natural disaster in the 50s and is now mostly covered in desert, but there's a quirky little town centered around a desalination plant that simultaneously functions as a saloon, and the punk movement was spearheaded by people that only listened to surf rock and boogie-woogie piano music, and people have to go out shooting muskrats for dinner, and everyone builds their own electronics and people drive around on rickety little scooters painted with bright colours, and the bubblegum and lipstick industries are still inexplicably booming. There's also probably a lot of sex trafficking. It's a dark timeline. [First added to this chart: 11/12/2015]
"Oh cool, a cute upbeat surf-rock song whoa this guitar tone is filthy and I'm drowning in distortion! Now this beat keeps skipping and I'm creeped out, but the bassline is so catchy... what the hell is that moaning in the background? Oh, a little intermission with two girls joking on the phone... about some fairly heavy Oedipal stuff and it just ended with creepy echoey 50s sitcom laughter. Okay hang on, since when was this a synthpop album, and how does this seem to fit the overall aesthetic so perfectly?"
Nothing about this album fits neatly in any time period. It's like I'm listening to music from an alternate timeline after America suffered a natural disaster in the 50s and is now mostly covered in desert, but there's a quirky little town centered around a desalination plant that simultaneously functions as a saloon, and the punk movement was spearheaded by people that only listened to surf rock and boogie-woogie piano music, and people have to go out shooting muskrats for dinner, and everyone builds their own electronics and people drive around on rickety little scooters painted with bright colours, and the bubblegum and lipstick industries are still inexplicably booming. There's also probably a lot of sex trafficking. It's a dark timeline. [First added to this chart: 11/12/2015]
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Two thumbs up. (I apologize for this joke.)
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Top 43 Music Albums of 2015 composition
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| Infinity Frequencies | 1 | 2% | |
| Oneohtrix Point Never | 1 | 2% | |
| Joshua Abrams | 1 | 2% | |
| Hey Colossus | 1 | 2% | |
| Joanna Newsom | 1 | 2% | |
| Julia Holter | 1 | 2% | |
| Hot Sugar | 1 | 2% | |
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23 | 53% | |
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4 | 9% | |
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4 | 9% | |
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3 | 7% | |
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2 | 5% | |
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1 | 2% | |
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Top 43 Music Albums of 2015 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 11th to 10th Platform by Holly Herndon |
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| Down 1 from 10th to 11th Bleaksploitation by Katie Von Schleicher |
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cestuneblague 12/10/2015 12:04 | #154268
I will check out 'splotation but your grammer needs better aim.
Anyways I want to have a violent, tantric orgy with your top three, heavenly
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