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prob500 [Edit] [Delete] 228 replies 16:00, 1 December '15

Here is where you vote for your favourite albums of 2015. Deadline of Sunday 3rd January and I'll post the results in the following week.

The rules:

Vote for your top 5 albums. In this format:

1. The artist who released your favourite album of 2015 - Name of album
2. The artist who released your 2nd favourite album of 2015 - Name of album
3. You get the idea
4. etc
5. The artist who released your 5th favourite album of 2015 - Name of album

If you post in this format it will really help me put the results together more quickly, 75% of the work last year was needing to re-format lists. I will also start another thread to put discussion of end of year lists it would be great if all jibber jabber goes in there. If you want to put your top 10/50/100 here that's fine, although it will probably twist the melons of people with greater OCD than me (and I'll only be counting the first 5 anyways).

Here's last year's results where Sun Kil Moon spanked all-comers:

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4458309

Now get voting.

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are we doing 5 points for 1st, 4 points for 2nd etc?

Jordan_229_2 | 1 Dec '15, 16:03 | X
- We are. I'll do same methodology and the same dicing and slicing of the data as last year. If anyone wants something different we can discuss in the discussion thread.
  
  prob500 @Jordan_229_2 | 1 Dec '15, 16:07 | X
My answer is:

1. FJM - Honeybear
2. Earl Sweatshirt - I don't like shit etc
3. Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
4. Kendrick - Pimp Butterfly
5. Bjork - Vulnicura

RFWare | 1 Dec '15, 16:14 | X
1. Low - Ones and Sixes

2. Joanna Newsom - Divers
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
5. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

My first four are easy - all proper classics in my view. Fifth place could equally well have gone to Sleaford Mods, Julia Holter, Bjork, Royal Headache, Floating Points, Colin Stetson, Vince Staples, Freddie Gibbs or a few others. Great year.

bornin69 | 1 Dec '15, 16:20 | X
- Actually, make Grimes - Art Angels my no4 and bump Sufjan to 5
  
  I love Courtney, and 'Depreston' is song of the year, but that Grimes record just gets better and better the more I listen to it.
  
  bornin69 @bornin69 | 18 Dec '15, 17:44 | X
My answer is:

1) Drape - Relax/Release
2) Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
3) Low - Ones & Sixes
4) Haiku Salut - Etch & Etch Deep
5) Petrels - Flailing Tomb

Jordan_229_2 | 1 Dec '15, 16:23 | X
presuming nothing big comes along:

1. Viet Cong
2. Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
3. Low - Ones and Sixes
4. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
5. Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi

feedthecollapse | 1 Dec '15, 16:24 | X
1. Bjork - Vulnicura

2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
3. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
4. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
5. Holly Herndon - Platform

Amazing year for music, could easily have swapped 20 or so albums in and out of that top 5. Top 2 though are for me both something very special.

zanimos | 1 Dec '15, 16:30 | X
been a damn fine year, and there are still loads that i've not checked out but so far:

1) Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
2) Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
3) Father John Misty - I love you Honeybear
4) The Cribs - For all My Sisters
5) Kendrick Lamaar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Honourable mentions to the following who on another day would have made top 5:
Courtney Barnett, Holly Herndon, Viet Cong, Sleater Kinney, Hot Chip, Wolf Alice......

Lo-Pan | 1 Dec '15, 16:58 | X
- totally forgot the sauna youth record and i fucking love it (not sure why i forgot it then)
  
  that would have maybe pushed kendrick out the top 5. oh well, kendricks record is great too.
  
  Lo-Pan @Lo-Pan | 2 Dec '15, 10:50 | X
  - nah Sauna Youth needs the point(s) more
    
    give it to them!
    
    Severed799 @Lo-Pan | 3 Dec '15, 17:19 | X
    
    andyvine and jwjp this'd this
This year has been absolutely 'triffic

1. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Joanna Newsom - Divers
4. Bjork - Vulnicura
5. Ghostface Killah and BadBadNotGood - Sour Soul

Could've stuck Grimes, Girl Band, Braids, Kendrick Lamar, FKA twigs, Father John Misty, Godspeed, Panda Bear et al in there somewhere.

Jeremys_Iron | 1 Dec '15, 16:58 | X
Almost sure of my top five...

...but want to give the new Oneohtrix Point Never one a few more spins to see if it will sneak in. Overall, a good year.

Pentago | 1 Dec '15, 17:02 | X
- then why not post in the discussion thread until you have your top 5?
  
  Jordan_229_2 @Pentago | 1 Dec '15, 17:09 | X
  - Because no one else is...
    
    Pentago @Jordan_229_2 | 1 Dec '15, 17:32 | X
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2. Grimes - Art Angels
3. Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
4. The Cribs - For All My Sisters
5. Vince Staples - Summertime 06'

There's so much I haven't listened to yet, especially in the latter half of the year. The top two are nailed on though.

bergkamp | 1 Dec '15, 17:11 | X
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2. Trust Fund - No One’s Coming For Us
3. Vince Staples - Summertime ‘06
4. Susanne Sundfor - 10 Love Songs
5. Grimes - Art Angels

Honourable mentions to Seems Unfair (also by Trust Fund), TPAB, and the latest Bjork and Ought albums.

roybocuma | 1 Dec '15, 18:22 | X
1. Levon Vincent - S/T
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Surfing - Surfing
4. Mumdance & Logos - Proto
5. Jacober - The Gray Man

Steved | 1 Dec '15, 18:35 | X
1. Girl Band - Holding hands with Jamie
2. Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
4. Follakzoid - III
5. Then Thickens - Colic

honourable mentions to Adem (yes, he kept that quiet), Chemical Brothers and Dinosaur Pile Up,

Si_Badvibes | 1 Dec '15, 23:08 | X
- Nice one on Pageant Material
  
  Not very DiS but great album.
  
  funkycow @Si_Badvibes | 11 Dec '15, 22:24 | X
  
  Si_Badvibes and kiyonemakibi this'd this
1. Desparate Journalist - Desparate Journalist

2. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Style
3. Radical Dads - Universal Coolers
4. Waxahatchee - Ivy Trip
5. Torres - Sprinter

BMS1 | 1 Dec '15, 23:09 | X

thejabberwocky81 this'd this
- Yes!! Desperate Journalist is brilliant. Fine choice!!!
  
  thejabberwocky81 @BMS1 | 10 Dec '15, 13:38 | X
  
  cronenberg this'd this
I'm oldish

and generally 'go back' with music so am not too up with everything (that does sound old!).

Hence no Top 5 from me because I genuinely can't get 5. Would like to add my vote to Divers (Joanna Newsom) as it's an album that I really respect.

midnightpunk | 2 Dec '15, 00:56 | X
- reading above (it's late)
  
  I would add Follakzoid - III as a second to Divers. Can't think of anymore / haven't given time to many more from 2015.
  
  midnightpunk @midnightpunk | 2 Dec '15, 01:14 | X
  
  Si_Badvibes this'd this
Thanks for compiling

1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2. Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
3. Fluisteraars - Luwte
4. Petrels - Flailing Tomb
5. Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow

AphexTwinkletoes | 2 Dec '15, 08:57 | X
- i really should check out the Sufjan record.
  
  Lo-Pan @AphexTwinkletoes | 2 Dec '15, 09:04 | X
  - Yes, you should
    
    Could well be my favourite of the decade so far
    
    AphexTwinkletoes @Lo-Pan | 2 Dec '15, 09:59 | X
    - oooffft, that's quite the accolade
      
      Lo-Pan @AphexTwinkletoes | 2 Dec '15, 10:01 | X
      - Damn straight!
        
        Bear in mind I have famously excellent taste
        
        AphexTwinkletoes @Lo-Pan | 2 Dec '15, 10:36 | X
        
        :)
        
        it's been bought, expect an invoice for amount of record should i not love it
        
        Lo-Pan @AphexTwinkletoes | 2 Dec '15, 10:48 | X
        
        <3
        
        The wait for your feedback is going to be gruelling, but it's these sorts of things that make life so thrilling.
        
        AphexTwinkletoes @Lo-Pan | 2 Dec '15, 11:03 | X
        
        Lo-Pan this'd this
        
        first spin critique
        
        Just what i expected, a typically whimsical bullshit number from Sufjan, what's your address Aphex so i can invoice you.
        
        That aside what a lovely record, couple of absolute standout tracks and looking forward to giving it some more listens very soon! :)
        
        Lo-Pan @AphexTwinkletoes | 2 Dec '15, 15:16 | X
        
        :')
        
        That first comment has proper done me
        
        AphexTwinkletoes @Lo-Pan | 2 Dec '15, 15:34 | X
        
        ok, i've not stopped listening to it since i got it, what a great record
        
        fuck knows why it took me so long to getting round to listening to it. good shout Aphex.
        
        Lo-Pan @AphexTwinkletoes | 7 Dec '15, 11:15 | X
        
        bd
        
        AphexTwinkletoes @Lo-Pan | 8 Dec '15, 09:15 | X
mine

1. Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
2. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
3. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think...
4. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
5. Holly Herndon - Platform

badcustard | 2 Dec '15, 09:40 | X

thejabberwocky81 this'd this
1. Desperate Journalist - s/t

2. Ghost Culture - s/t
3. New Order - Music Complete
4. Wire - WIRE
5. Follakzoid - III

ThirstyDog | 2 Dec '15, 10:00 | X

BMS1 this'd this
Haven't listened to much from this year yet

1. Mount Eerie - Sauna
2. Errors - Lease of Life
3. Sauna Youth - Distractions
4. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
5. Destroyer - Poison Season

jwjp | 2 Dec '15, 10:43 | X
- bollocks i forgot about the sauna youth record
  
  Lo-Pan @jwjp | 2 Dec '15, 10:49 | X
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

2. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
3. Tellison - Hope Fading Nightly
4. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

Antpocalypsenow | 2 Dec '15, 10:45 | X
1. Mutoid Man - Bleeders

2. Hey Colossus - In Black and Gold
3. Locrian - Infinite Dissolution
4. Big | Brave - Au De La
5. Follakzoid - III

colossalhorse | 2 Dec '15, 10:47 | X
1. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
2. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion

Haven't listened to any others but I still know those two are the best.

Royter-Hatfood | 2 Dec '15, 10:48 | X
- What happened to you
  
  RFWare @Royter-Hatfood | 2 Dec '15, 10:54 | X
  - London
    
    Royter-Hatfood @RFWare | 2 Dec '15, 11:19 | X
    
    sadpunk and Severed799 this'd this
Kwaliti

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Grimes - Art Angels
4. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
5. Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Good work prob500, you champ!

hanshotfirst | 2 Dec '15, 11:12 | X
Very strong year, some great stuff also missed out

1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2. Father John Misty - I love you Honeybear
3. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
4. Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
5. Joanna Newsom - Divers

Ta for compiling

Bens-Glenn | 2 Dec '15, 11:19 | X
Difficult this year

1. Miaoux Miaoux - School of Velocity
2. Jamie xx - In Colour
3. Joanna Newsom - Divers
4. Reptar - Lurid Glow
5. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space

chanticleer | 2 Dec '15, 12:02 | X
1. Everything Everything – Get To Heaven
2. Calexico – Edge of the Sun
3. A$ap Rocky – At Long Last
4. Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
5. Kendrick Lamaar – To Pimp A Butterfly

woweezowee | 2 Dec '15, 12:22 | X
1. Christian Fitness - Love Letters In The Age Of Steam
2. Fuzz - II
3. The Chap - The Show Must Go
4. Holly Herndon - Platform
5. Chessmaster - Non-Entity

myyada | 2 Dec '15, 15:16 | X
Stonking year.

1) Father John Misty – I love you Honeybear
2) Joanna Newsome – Divers
3) Jenny Hval – Apocalypse Girl
4) Viet Cong – S/T
5) Peter Broderick – Colours of the Night

MrScagdenSir | 2 Dec '15, 15:38 | X
1. Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
2. The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven
3. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
4. CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
5. Grimes - Art Angels

aactv | 2 Dec '15, 15:39 | X
- 3. Still Not Reached Heaven
  
  4. Passengers Travelling To Heaven May Experience Significant Delays
  5. Didn't Want To Go To Heaven Anyway
  
  woweezowee @aactv | 2 Dec '15, 16:35 | X
  
  furio, aboynamedgoo, colonel_getafe, olson, Pale-eyedBadger, Royter-Hatfood, Stringly, colon_closed_bracket, pieces_of_reece, JohnM, j0hn, stemeds, aactv, Severed799, AphexTwinkletoes, OvertakenByTractors, and automatik this'd this
  - :D
    
    deadonthestairs @woweezowee | 9 Dec '15, 16:49 | X
Odd year. Quite a pop year.

1. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
2. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
3. Charli XCX - Sucker
4. Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
5. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too

sean | 2 Dec '15, 19:10 | X
Strongest year for music, this year.

1. Port St. Willow - Syncope
2. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never were the way she was
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
4. Björk - Vulnicura
5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

some more albums because they're too good not to get a recommendation:
6. Björk - Vulnicura
7. Nils Frahm - Solo
8. Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
9. Bing & Ruth - City Lake
10. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
11. Ought - Sun Coming Down
12. Lubomyr Melnyk - Rivers And Streams
13. Arca - Mutant
14. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood - Junun
15. Vessels - Dilate
16. Floating Points - Elaenia
17. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
18. Mount Eerie - Sauna
19. East India Youth - CULTURE OF VOLUME
20. Vennart - The Demon Joke

fabripav | 2 Dec '15, 19:19 | X
- whoops. I fucked up my list a bit.
  
  my actual top 5:
  
  1. Port St. Willow - Syncope
  2. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never were the way she was
  3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
  4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
  5. Joanna Newsom - Divers
  
  fabripav @fabripav | 2 Dec '15, 19:33 | X
- Trying to listen to the new Port St. Willow album
  
  'Amawalk' ruined them. How do you carry on writing music after you've already written a completely perfect song?
  
  automatik @fabripav | 2 Dec '15, 23:14 | X
  
  Jordan_229_2 this'd this
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lovell
2. Jamie XX - In Colour
3. Tame Impala - Currents
4. Julia Holter - Wilderness
5. Everything Everything - Get to Heaven

MarkP | 2 Dec '15, 19:25 | X
1/5 jenny hval - apocalypse girl
2/4 tasseomancy - palm wine revisited
3/3 joanna newsom - divers
4/2 colleen green - i want to grow up
5/1 sufjan steve - carrie and lowell

ThingsThatFly | 2 Dec '15, 19:53 | X
i haven't totally decided yet

but it will be soemthing like:

1. Murg - Murg
2. Nechochwen - Heart of Akamon
3. Grift - Syner
4. Fluisteraars - Luwte
5. Dead to a Dying World - Litany

GoatmeatMF | 2 Dec '15, 20:04 | X
- ffs
  
  that Murg album is called Varg & Bjorn, not Murg.
  
  GoatmeatMF @GoatmeatMF | 6 Dec '15, 15:38 | X
- Going to listen to these
  
  haven't listened to anywhere near enough BM lately! thank you, sir
  
  brainfeedr @GoatmeatMF | 6 Dec '15, 18:43 | X
1. Craig David x Big Narstie - When the bassline drops
2. Craig David x Big Narstie - When the bassline drops
3. Craig David x Big Narstie - When the bassline drops
4. Craig David x Big Narstie - When the bassline drops
5. Craig David x Big Narstie - When the bassline drops

gonad | 2 Dec '15, 20:50 | X

SarcasticFringehead this'd this
I have given it some thought already.

(1) Lower Dens - 'Escape from Evil'
(2) Tame Impala - 'Currents'
(3) Neon Indian - 'VEGA INTL: Night School'
(4) Errors 'Lease of Life'
(5) Grimes - 'Art Angels'

Violator | 2 Dec '15, 21:09 | X
best year in a while

1. The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Harmlessness
2. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
4. Grimes - Art Angels
5. Tame Impala - Currents
And bc i like thrusting opinions round and these are too good to not get mentioned:
6. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
7. Shamir - Ratchet
8. Christine and the Queens - S/t
9. Låpsley - Understudy EP
10. FKA twigs - M3LL155X
11. Joanna Newsom - Divers
12. Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
13. Beach House - Depression Cherry
14. Your Heart Breaks - America
15. Sophie - Product
16. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
Very pop year, lot of good stuff out

stemeds | 2 Dec '15, 23:27 | X
I was putting it off but I don't think my top 5 will change now

Wonderful year, anyway. My whole top ten are all worthy AOTY contenders.

1. Joanna Newsom - Divers
2. Grimes - Art Angels
3. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
4. Beach House - Depression Cherry
5. The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven

automatik | 2 Dec '15, 23:40 | X
1. Alex G - Beach Music
2. Low - Ones and Sixes
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lovell
4. Torres - Sprinter
5. Jamie xx - In Colour

smn66 | 3 Dec '15, 00:18 | X
je suis bedwetter

#1. Joanna Newsom - Divers
#2. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
#3. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
#4. Björk - Vulnicura
#5. Deafheaven - New Bermuda

sunstroke_house | 3 Dec '15, 06:39 | X
So much choice this year but here it goes

1) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
2) Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
3) Jamie XX - In Colour
4) Tame Impala - Currents
5) Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love

Souljacker84 | 3 Dec '15, 08:40 | X
don't think it's been a particularly good year, but...

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
3. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
4. Nils Frahm - Solo
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress

friendofthenight | 3 Dec '15, 09:52 | X
Spectres
Girl Band
Mutoid Man
Title Fight
Viet Cong

steinbolt | 3 Dec '15, 10:09 | X
- Title Fight?!
  
  Severed799 @steinbolt | 3 Dec '15, 17:28 | X
  - Shit, that was this year wasn't it
    
    Severed799 @Severed799 | 3 Dec '15, 17:28 | X
I think...

1 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
2 Floating Points - Elaenia
3 Max Richter - From Sleep
4 Petrels - Flailing Tombs
5. Julia Holter - You are my Wilderness

olson | 3 Dec '15, 11:49 | X
- Slight edit.
  
  123 as above
  Girl Band at 4
  Petrels at 5
  Sorry Julia
  Merry Christmas
  
  olson @olson | 21 Dec '15, 07:33 | X
This is the correct order

1) Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh
2) Best Coast: California Nights
3) Sauna Youth: Distractions
4) Haiku Salut: Etch and Etch Deep
5) Kagoule: Urth

andyvine | 3 Dec '15, 11:57 | X
- also
  
  6) Stealing Sheep: Not Real
  7) Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
  8) Charli XCX: Sucker
  9) Sleater Kinney: No Cities To Love
  10) Vessels: Dilate
  
  andyvine @andyvine | 3 Dec '15, 12:08 | X
Currently:

1. Death Grips - Jenny Death
2. Neon Indian - VEGA Intl. Night School
3. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
4. Dornik - Dornik
5. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper

6. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi Love
7. Vessels - Dilate
8. Tame Impala - Currents
9. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
10. Viet Cong - Viet Cong

Still to catch up on the Jlin, Michachu, Lightning Bolt and Romare albums.

lastdino | 3 Dec '15, 13:01 | X
1. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie

2. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit & Think
3. Girls Names - Arms Around A Vision
4. Sauna Youth - Distractions
5. Stealing Sheep - Not Real
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6. The Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet
7. Jape - This Chemical Sea
8. METZ - II
9. Not Squares - Bolts
10. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love

Icarus-Smicarus | 3 Dec '15, 13:57 | X
- actually Christian Fitness should be in there instead of Sleater-Kinney
  
  but that end of the list doesn't matter
  
  Icarus-Smicarus @Icarus-Smicarus | 3 Dec '15, 14:26 | X
  - Thank Your Lucky Stars might have deserved a spot over Not Squares too actually
    
    oh well
    
    Icarus-Smicarus @Icarus-Smicarus | 4 Dec '15, 23:55 | X
1. Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi

2. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was
3. Circuit Des Yeux - In Plain Speech
4. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl
5. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper

wewerewerewolvesonce | 3 Dec '15, 14:25 | X
- oh honurable mentions to
  
  Sufjan Stevens, Girl Band, Title Fight, Joanna Newsom, Bjork, Des Ark, Blanck Mass, Petrels , Julia Holter, it's been an incredible year and there's still loads I haven't even heard yet.
  
  wewerewerewolvesonce @wewerewerewolvesonce | 3 Dec '15, 14:29 | X
It has been a good year

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Father John Misty - I love you Honeybear
3. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
4. Björk - Vulnicura
5. Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now

pablo1 | 3 Dec '15, 16:44 | X
I like guitars, if you can't tell

1. Viet Cong - S/T
2. Self Defense Family - Heaven is Earth
3. Sauna Youth - Distractions
4. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
5. Bjork - Vulnicura

6. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
7. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
8. Joanna Newsom - Divers
9. Title Fight - Hyperview
10. Lightning Bolt - The Metal East

Severed799 | 3 Dec '15, 18:13 | X
keep forgetting this is an indie-rock site

magnificent_work | 3 Dec '15, 18:22 | X
- that's a pretty dumb thing to do
  
  alcxxk @magnificent_work | 4 Dec '15, 13:56 | X
  
  andyvine and JohnM this'd this
Another vote for Davidoff cool water

Icarus-Smicarus | 4 Dec '15, 10:49 | X

Severed799 and JohnM this'd this
1. Viet Cong - S/T

2. Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
3. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Freedom Tower
4. Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
5. Pile - You're Better Than This

chadders | 4 Dec '15, 11:05 | X
Mine

1 Jlin - Dark Energy
2 Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
3 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (hate that I've voted for this but it is pretty undeniable)
4 Holly Herndon - Platform
5 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell (hate that I've voted for this to but...)

Joseph_SP | 4 Dec '15, 12:30 | X
So far I have a top 36

I'll only post the current top 5 for now though

Jute Gyte - Ship Of Theseus
Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
William D. Drake - Revere Reach
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs

Rest assured that the remainder is a Sufjan-free zone

magnificent_work | 4 Dec '15, 13:23 | X
- Nobody cares what you think.
  
  OvertakenByTractors @magnificent_work | 4 Dec '15, 18:26 | X
  - top 5 or stfu pal
    
    magnificent_work @OvertakenByTractors | 4 Dec '15, 18:35 | X
    
    andyvine and Severed799 this'd this
Here we go then:

1) Stealing Sheep - Not Real
2) The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness
3) Georgia - Georgia
4) Laura Marling - Short Movie
5) Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

Sloame_Ocean | 4 Dec '15, 13:33 | X
This>>>

1. Alabama Shakes "Sound and Colour"
2. Nicole Dollanganger "Natural Born Losers"
3. Sophie "Product"
4. US Girls "Half Free"
5. Shamir "Ratchet"

sartana | 4 Dec '15, 19:36 | X
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie + Lowell

2. Mew - +/-
3. Björk - Vulnicura
4. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
5. HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC

pichaelmarker | 5 Dec '15, 00:17 | X
1. Drenge - Undertow

2. The Cribs - For All My Sisters
3. El Vy - Return To The Moon
4. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think
5. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

skybluesam | 5 Dec '15, 11:34 | X
1. Joanna Newsom - Divers

2. Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love
3. Fr John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
4. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
5. Low - Ones & Sixes

Bjork, Sufjan, Kendrick, Wilco & Courtney Barnett all close to top 5.

Trev | 5 Dec '15, 15:17 | X
Yeah

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
4. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
5. Gengahr - A Dream Outside

rainmaker | 5 Dec '15, 15:50 | X
So....

1. Roots Manuva - Bleeds
2. Destroyer - Poison Season
3. Kendrick Lamar - To pimp a butterfly
4. Floating Points - Elaenia
5. Vince Staples - Summertime 06

Can't believe noone else rates the new Roots Manuva?

HumanDog | 5 Dec '15, 20:08 | X
- I really like it too
  
  Although not enough to make my top five. It is a shame how little attention it's had - I think he just gets taken for granted
  
  bornin69 @HumanDog | 6 Dec '15, 10:31 | X
THE TOP FIVE:

1. Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
2. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
3. Holly Herndon - Platform
4. Joanna Newsom - Divers
5. Nils Frahm - Solo

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR:
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
Braids - Deep in the Iris
Petrels - Flailing Tomb
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Toundra - (IV)
CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Errors - Lease of Life

I'm going to be the only DiSer who lists Steven Wilson, aren't I.

Yvash | 5 Dec '15, 20:33 | X
1. Jaga Jazzist - Starfire

2. Errors - Lease of Life
3. A Place to Bury Strangers - Transfixiation
4. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
5. Franz Ferdinand & Sparks - FFS

cowcow | 5 Dec '15, 23:28 | X
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

2. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
4. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
5. Lower Dens - Escape From Evil

Hornet | 6 Dec '15, 10:28 | X
1. Four Tet - Morning/Evening
2. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
3. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
4. Jamie XX - In Colour
5. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

JohnEW | 6 Dec '15, 12:16 | X
Good year for heavier stuff

1. Sannhet - Revisionist
2. Caspian - Dust & Disquiet
3. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
4. Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography
5. Flying Saucer Attack - Instrumentals 2015

6. Pyramids - A Northern Meadow
7. Alessandro Cortini - Risveglio
8. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons
9. Benoit Pioulard - Sonnet
10. Hope Drone - Cloak Of Ash

only_shallow | 6 Dec '15, 13:39 | X

ClamingToBeOnTele this'd this
Mine

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Algiers - Algiers
4. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
5. Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?

SarcasticFringehead | 6 Dec '15, 13:46 | X
1. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Miguel - Wildheart
4. Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
5. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Jack205 | 6 Dec '15, 17:24 | X
My selection

1. New Order - Music Complete
2. HEALTH - DEATH MAGIC
3. Viet Cong - S/T
4. Bjork - Vulnicura
5. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh

with Holly Herndon, The Soft Moon, Sleater Kinney, No Devotion, Mew, Ghost Poet, Ghost Culture, Public Service Broadcasting, 8:58 and Vessels just bubbling under...

akt1001 | 6 Dec '15, 18:48 | X
Hard to get it down to five...

...been a good year.

1) Holly Herndon - Platform
2) Petrels - Flailing Tomb
3) Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
4) Oneohtrix Point Never - Gardens Of Delete
5) Faith No More - Sol Invictus

Number five spot could have gone to loads of albums that I've really enjoyed this year (Stealing Sheep, Cheatahs, Lonelady, Young Fathers, about 20 others) but credit where it's due to FNM coming back after a long time off with an album that is genuinely a valuable addition to their back catalogue. Still great live too natch.

Pentago | 7 Dec '15, 12:07 | X
- Having had a chance to listen to...
  
  ...Oneohtrix Point Never a few more times I would probably have bumped that up a couple of spots in the final analysis. Ah well, you live and die by your lists on this place.
  
  Pentago @Pentago | 10 Dec '15, 14:11 | X
My top 5

1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
2. Joanna Newsom - Divers
3. Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
4. Destroyer - Poison Season
5. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

MarwoodW | 7 Dec '15, 12:57 | X
Here ya go...

1. Petrels - Flailing Tomb
2. Checkpoint 303 - The Iqrit Files
3. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
4. New Order - Music Complete
5. Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun

colonelbingobongo | 7 Dec '15, 13:50 | X
14 accounts so far share an IP address with OvertakenByTractors.

I'll email you with further details.

bugduv | 7 Dec '15, 18:01 | X
- SCANDAL
  
  funkycow @bugduv | 11 Dec '15, 22:29 | X
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
3. Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
4. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi Love
5. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down

BarriElCastell | 7 Dec '15, 19:13 | X
pretty interchangeable all the way down but this'll do

1. joanna newsom - divers
2. miguel - wildheart
3. beach house - thank your lucky stars
4. jazmine sullivan - reality show
5. lower dens - escape from evil

6. susanne sundfor - ten love songs
7. kathryn joseph - bones you have thrown me and blood you have spilled
8. julia holter - have you in my wilderness
9. vince staples - summertime '06
10. eric chenaux - skullsplitter

more good ones: kendrick lamar, u.s. girls, bill wells & aidan moffat, sleater kinney, american wrestlers, ought, jim o' rourke, sufjan stevens, evans the death, floating points, roisin murphy, j hus, bjork, micachu, kath bloom, deerhunter, rozi plain, grimes, beat spacek

great year, nice job everyone

shrewbie | 7 Dec '15, 19:35 | X

magnificent_work this'd this
- did you hear/like the dawn richard record?
  
  it's in my next 5, amazing stuff.
  
  magnificent_work @shrewbie | 8 Dec '15, 08:51 | X
  - really liked goldenheart but never listened to this one for some reason
    
    shrewbie @magnificent_work | 8 Dec '15, 14:06 | X
    - oh em gee
      
      shrewbie! rectify this at some point
      
      magnificent_work @shrewbie | 8 Dec '15, 14:35 | X
      - i'm on it
        
        shrewbie @magnificent_work | 8 Dec '15, 21:06 | X
Thank you for introducing me to The Icarus Line :)

1. The Icarus Line - All Things Under Heaven
2. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
3. Circuit des Yeux - In Plain Speech
4. PC Worship - Basement Hysteria
5. Jerusalem In My Heart - If He Dies, If If If If If If

radetzky | 7 Dec '15, 19:52 | X
- PC Worship!!!
  
  awesome
  
  magnificent_work @radetzky | 8 Dec '15, 08:52 | X
1- Ethical Debating Society - New Sense
2- Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld- Never Were the Way She Was
3- Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
4- The Manhattan Love Suicides - More Heat! More Panic!
5- Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
6- Angel Haze- Back to the Woods
7- Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
8- Fairhorns - Fuckup Rush
9- Milky Wimpshake - Encore, Un Effort!
10- Heather Leigh Murray - I Abused Animal

neon_grunge | 8 Dec '15, 10:09 | X
What a great year, hard to choose 5

1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
2. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
3. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
4. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
5. Mew - +/-

Mr_Grieves | 8 Dec '15, 13:01 | X
Light on inspiration this year

Hoping to continue finding more 2015 gems into 2016
1) Destroyer- Poison Season
2) Mew +/-
3) Tame Impala- Currents
4) Errors- Lease of Life
5) Gwenno- Y Dydd Olaf

buffet_king | 8 Dec '15, 13:38 | X
1. Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last

2. Duke Garwood - Heavy Love
3. Destruction Unit - Negative Feedback Resistor
4. Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
5. Damaged Bug - Cold Hot Plumbs

Albert-Swearengen | 8 Dec '15, 15:53 | X
No I didn't forget to make Sufjan Stevens no 1, I just can't get away with him, so...

1. Battles - La Di Da Di
2. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
3. Shit and Shine - Everyone's A Fucking Expert
4. Sannhet - Revisionist
5. Krallice - Ygg Huur

ClamingToBeOnTele | 8 Dec '15, 20:57 | X
1. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
4. Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
5. Bjork - Vulnicura

Very boring and standard, but that's 5 amazing albums. If anybody's interested (which you probably aren't) Joanna Newsom, Sleater-Kinney, Father John Misty, Carly Rae Jepsen and Trust Fund would round out my top 10. Been a really great year for albums.

Konichiwa_Bitches | 8 Dec '15, 21:12 | X
Subject to change

1. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
2. Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
3. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
4. Lanterns On The Lake - Beings
5. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

sizeofanocean | 8 Dec '15, 21:44 | X
here we go:

1. Self Defense Family – Heaven is Earth
2. Caspian – Dust and Disquiet
3. Cheatahs – Mythologies
4. No Joy – More Faithful
5. Swervedriver – I Wasn't Born to Lose You

bozo | 9 Dec '15, 00:18 | X
- That 3, 4, 5 is a good combo to listen to back to back
  
  Ideally on a nice long drive...
  
  Pentago @bozo | 9 Dec '15, 09:39 | X
  - gaze tastic
    
    funkycow @Pentago | 11 Dec '15, 22:36 | X
1. Errors - Lease of Life
2. Micachu - Good sad happy bad
3. Young Fathers - White Men are Black Men too
4. Wrekmeister Harmonies - Night of Your Ascension
5. Kathryn Joseph - Bones you've thrown me and blood I've spilled

Annoying_person | 9 Dec '15, 09:49 | X
Good year I think

1) Mew - +/-
2) Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
3) Foals - What Went Down
4) Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
5) Evans The Death - Expect Delays

Notible almost made its; Eternal Summers, Natalie Prass, The Amazing, Desperate Journalist, No Joy, Lanterns on the Lake.

Not listened to Joanna Newsom enough or else it would probably have made it.

Can't believe that this is an end of year list in a year where Beach House have released 2 albums and they are both pretty good and I adore Beach House.

kev_theinvisable | 9 Dec '15, 10:33 | X
1. Romare - Projections
2. Kendrick - To pimp a butterfly
3. Floating points - Elaenia
4. Algiers - Algiers
5. ２８１４ - 新しい日の誕生/Birth of a New Day

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6. Elder - Lore
7. Jamie XX - In Colour
8. Mbongwana star - From kinshasha
9. Vince staples - Summertime '06
10. Title fight - Hyperview

Honourables: Special Request, Palmbomen II, Tame Impala, Four Tet, Grimes, Lapalux, Kirk Knight, Cheatahs, Kurt Vile, Ibeyi..

seewhyeneyesee | 9 Dec '15, 11:13 | X
1. Björk – Vulnicura
2. 2 8 1 4 – 新しい日の誕生
3. Miguel – Wildheart
4. Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals
5. Dungen – Allas Sak

Also really good:

Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness; Ssaliva - Sextape Hiss;
Kamasi Washington - The Epic; Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly;
Lil Ugly Mane - Third Side Of Tape; Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear; Jam City - Dream A Garden; Joanna Newsom - Divers; Mew - +/-

Dan_S | 9 Dec '15, 12:00 | X
Difficult, difficult

01 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
02 Joanna Newsom - Divers
03 Deafheaven - New Bermuda
04 Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
05 Tricot - A N D

Also enjoyed: Kurt Vile, Snow Ghosts, Built to Spill, Action Bronson, Sleater-Kinney, Natalie Prass, Kowloon Walled City, Wolf Alice and Petrels.
There will be an album from 2015 I discover in 2016 which I will love and would easily make the top 5. Always is.

AcceptanceIII | 9 Dec '15, 16:53 | X
Great year..

1. The Icarus Line - All Things Under Heaven
2. Low - Ones and Sixes
3. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
4. Algiers - Algiers
5. Cheatahs - Mythologies

Also really loved: Christian Fitness, Girl Band, Ought, Elder, Julia Holter, Ghost Culture, Swervedriver, Joanna Newsom, Ringo Deathstarr, Title Fight, Spectres, Bill Ryder-Jones, BC Camplight... the list could go on.

mouth_breather | 9 Dec '15, 18:10 | X
x

1. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
2. Errors - Lease of Life
3. Helios - Yume
4. Foxing - Dealer
5. The Phantom Band - Fears Trending

justanothersheeldz | 10 Dec '15, 09:45 | X
- Oh my GIDDY AUNT that Helios record is incredible
  
  Seriously just gone right in as my new AOTY. Lush, dreamy goodness.
  
  automatik @justanothersheeldz | 14 Dec '15, 01:41 | X
  - On to the Errors record now. Cracking. How do you have a better top five than me?
    
    (This is what I love about AOTY season tbf tbh)
    
    automatik @automatik | 14 Dec '15, 13:17 | X
1. Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
2. Victories at Sea - Everything Forever
3. Young Fathers - White Men are Black Men too
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
5. Grimes - Art Angels

Huggy_Bear | 10 Dec '15, 12:33 | X
Top 5 of 2016

1) Eaves - What Green Feels Like
2) Desperate Journalist - Desperate Journalist
3) Menace Beach - Rat World
4) Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
5) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I sit and think and sometimes i just sit

thejabberwocky81 | 10 Dec '15, 13:49 | X
- Honourable mentions to Joanna Gruesome, Idlewild, Stornoway, Laura Marling, Blur, Guy Garvey and Noel Gallagher (I don't care, it's a good record)
  
  thejabberwocky81 @thejabberwocky81 | 10 Dec '15, 13:54 | X
  - ban request
    
    RFWare @thejabberwocky81 | 10 Dec '15, 14:10 | X
    
    Gorkys_Forever this'd this
    - Ban request???
      
      thejabberwocky81 @RFWare | 11 Dec '15, 21:09 | X
      - I think he's upset about Noel.
        
        olson @thejabberwocky81 | 13 Dec '15, 16:14 | X
        
        Thought that might be the case. I'm obviously not allowed to like it and should have picked Taylor Swift or something nice and ironic
        
        thejabberwocky81 @olson | 16 Dec '15, 16:45 | X
        
        1989 came out last year ffs
        
        andyvine @thejabberwocky81 | 27 Dec '15, 22:50 | X
1. Levon Vincent - self titled
2. Panda Bear - PB vs the grim reaper
3. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
4. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell

honourable mentions: Julia Holter, Errors, Floating Points, Gnoomes, Patricia, Ducktails

p_a_u_l | 10 Dec '15, 14:50 | X
- also forgot a couple of 1080p cassettes from earlier in the year:
  
  Neu Balance - Rubber Sole
  Project Pablo - I want to believe
  
  p_a_u_l @p_a_u_l | 10 Dec '15, 14:55 | X
1. Mew +-

2. FFS-FFS
3. Bill Wells and Aidan moffat-the most important place in the world (how did you all miss this one!??)
4. Low-One's and Sixes
5. Luke Haines-British Nuclear Bunkers

auteur55 | 10 Dec '15, 23:36 | X
1. Kendrick Lamar
2. Joanna Newsom
3. Sufjan Stevens
4. Father John Misty
5. Carly Rae Jepsen
6. Grimes
7. Petrels
8. Deafheaven
9. Girl Band
10. Then Thickens

:):):):)

unfamiliar | 11 Dec '15, 11:51 | X
1 - Metz 'II'
2 - Bully 'Feels Like'
3 - Girl Band 'Holding Hands With Jamie'
4 - USA Nails 'No Pleasure'
5 - Meat Wave 'Delusion Moon'

Deniers | 11 Dec '15, 13:13 | X
1. Kendrick Lamar
2. Father John Misty
3. Clarence Clarity
4. Grimes
5. Ezra Furman

Yesiamaduck | 11 Dec '15, 13:17 | X
1. Royal Headache - High
2. Petrels - Flailing Tomb
3. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
4. Jamie XX - In Colour
5. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper

thegarageflower | 11 Dec '15, 21:50 | X
Firstly, thank you for doing this. I know that it takes a hell of a lot of time.

1. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
2. Son Lux - Bones
3. Hudson Mohawke - Lantern
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
5. Jamie xx - In Colour

medulla | 12 Dec '15, 09:11 | X
- Shit, sorry!
  
  'Divers' by Joanna Newsom at 3., Hudson Mohawke 4, Sufjan at 5.
  
  medulla @medulla | 12 Dec '15, 09:12 | X
1. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
2. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I sit and Think...
3. Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
4. Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
5. Braids - Deep In The Iris

pudding4 | 12 Dec '15, 10:28 | X
1. Kendrick Lamar- TPAB

2. Vince Staples- Summertime '06
3. Viet Cong- s/t
4. Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Style
5. Deafheaven- New Bermuda

Difficult. Honorable mentions go to Sufjan, Self Defense Family, Title Fight, Beach Slang and Future (DS2).

coolerthantv | 13 Dec '15, 16:05 | X
1. Farao - Till It's All Forgetten

2. Anamai - Sallows
3. Health - Death Magic
4. Holly Herndon - Platform
5. Nadine Shah - Fast Food

bruised_blood | 13 Dec '15, 22:02 | X
top 10

1 . Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
2 . Desperate Journalist - Desperate Journalist
3 . Mew - +-
4 . Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
5 . Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show

6 . Floating Points - Elaenia
7 . Viet Cong - Viet Cong
8 . Tame Impala - Currents
9 . Sonic Jesus - Niether Virtue Nor Anger
10 . Everything Everything - Get To Heaven

cronenberg | 13 Dec '15, 23:35 | X

thejabberwocky81 this'd this
Great year, and thanks for doing this prob500

My Top 15:

1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. Julia Holter - Have You in my Wilderness (Domino)
3. Ian William Craig - Cradle for the Wanting (Recital)
4. Joanna Newsom - Divers (Drag City)
5. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa (World Circuit)

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6. Mount Eerie - Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
7. Petrels - Flailing Tomb (Denovali)
8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete (Warp)
9. Viet Cong - Viet Cong (Jagjaguwar)
10. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation)
11. Rival Consoles - Howl (Erased Tapes)
12. Andrew Weathers Ensemble - Fuck Everybody, You Can Do Anything (Full Spectrum)
13. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (Domino)
14. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh (Sacred Bones)
15. Ought - Sun Coming Down (Constellation)

A lot of love for 2 8 1 4, Sean McCann, Steve Hauschildt, Slow Meadow & Destroyer too.

Old_Man_Burner | 14 Dec '15, 13:01 | X
Yeah, cheers prob500!

1) Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School
2) Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
3) Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
4) Braids - Deep In The Iris
5) Lana Del Ray - Honeymoon

blobcow | 14 Dec '15, 20:15 | X
okay i've skim read this thread

can i just give grimes 5 points or is that not possible?

georgiabeth | 15 Dec '15, 17:08 | X
Bookended by bears, haha

1) Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
2) Tame Impala - Currents
3) Jamie xx - In Colour
4) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit
5) Polar Bear - Same As You

waveyswirley | 15 Dec '15, 19:40 | X
TOP OF MY POPS:

01) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
02) Braids - Deep In The Iris
03) Tame Impala - Currents
04) Vietcong - Vietcong
05) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
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06) Cheatahs - Mythologies
07) Beach House - Depression Cherry
08) Jamie XX - In Colour
09) Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
10) Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper

eimaj_thing | 15 Dec '15, 20:09 | X
A'sOTY

1) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
2) Elder - Lore
3) Frog - Kind of Blah
4) Fuzz - II
5) Trust Fund - No One's Coming for Us

SurfsUp | 16 Dec '15, 10:36 | X
Great year

1 Trust Fund - Seems Unfair
2 Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
3 Future - Dirty Sprite 2
4 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
5 Vince Staples - Summertime 06

my top 10 would have Hop Along, the other Trust Fund record, Sun Kil Moon, Kamasi Washington, Destroyer and Car Seat Headrest

emmettcruddas | 16 Dec '15, 10:44 | X
1 U.S. Girls - Half Free

2 Tocotronic - s/t (the red album)
3 Blur - The Magic Whip
4 Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
5 Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete

lynshroom | 16 Dec '15, 11:16 | X
It's bee a great year

1. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
2. East India Youth - Culture of Volume
3. Haiku Salut - Etch and Etch Deep
4. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
5. Marika Hackman - We Slept at Last

WiStBu | 16 Dec '15, 20:00 | X
enjoyable year imo

1. Kendrick Lamar - TPAB
2. Joanna Newsom - Divers
3. Mount Eerie - Sauna
4. Björk - Vulnicura
5. Deradoorian - The Expanding Flower Planet

ohgood | 16 Dec '15, 20:59 | X
1. Father John Misty - Honeybear

2. Kendrick Lamar - TPaB
3. Grimes - Art Angels
4. Bjork - Vulnicura
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love

backtotheballs | 16 Dec '15, 22:21 | X
Top 5 of 2015 (very hard to pick)

1. Levitation - Meanwhile Gardens
2. Rozi Plain - Friend
3. Inventions - Maze of Woods
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
5. My Autumn Empire - Dreams of Death and Other Favourites

Greegor74 | 16 Dec '15, 22:59 | X
My Favs of 2015

1. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
2. Miguel - Wildheart
3. Justin Bieber - Purpose
4. Beach House - Depression Cherry
5. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf
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6. Flo Rida - My House (EP)
7. Grimes - Art Angels
8. Julio Bashmore - Knockin' Boots
9. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down...
10. Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School

Other Favs: Kacey Musgraves (Pageant Material), Jazmine Sullivan (Reality Show), Natalie Prass (Natalie Prass), Ciara (Jackie), Shamir (Ratchet), Jordin Sparks (Right Here Right Now), Angie Stone (Dream), Tobias Jesso Jr. (Goon), Carly Rae Jepsen (E-MO-TION), Tame Impala (Currents), FKA twigs (M3LL155X [EP]), Scuba (Claustrophobia), Joanna Newsom (Divers), Christine and the Queens (Christine and the Queens), Jeremih (Late Nights: The Album)

Biggest Disappointment: Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

bluehejira | 17 Dec '15, 04:01 | X
my top 5 - Its been more of a rocky year for me

1. Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Blossom
2. Wolf Alice - My love is cool
3. Drenge - Undertow
4. Mini Mansions - The Great Pretenders
5. Torche - Restarter

shelington | 17 Dec '15, 10:45 | X
Proper haircuts

1. Down I Go - You're Lucky God, I Cannot Reach You
2. USA Nails - No Pleasure
3. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
4. Mutoid Man - Bleeder
5. Axis Of - The Mid Brae Inn

shucks | 17 Dec '15, 20:45 | X
- several there that i've been meaning to check out
  
  Icarus-Smicarus @shucks | 17 Dec '15, 21:14 | X
  - Mate, the USA Nails album is utterly dark and punishing.
    
    It would be my No.1 but it's Down I Fucking Go, isn't it? Best band ever.
    
    The Axis Of album is quality as well; better than Finding St. Kilda and I loved that.
    
    shucks @Icarus-Smicarus | 17 Dec '15, 22:20 | X
Mine

1. Sufjan Stevens
2. Courtney Barnett
3. Father John Misty
4. Deerhunter
5. Beach house - Depression Cherry

shadster | 18 Dec '15, 08:46 | X
1. Girl Band

2. Sufjan
3. Blur
4. Metz
5. Shit and Shine (everyones a fuckin expert)

thewarn | 18 Dec '15, 08:56 | X
1) Hot Chip - Why Make Sense
2) Ryan Adams - 1989
3) Sannhet - Revisionist
4) Jed Kurzel - MacBeth OST
5) The Mynabirds - Lover's Know

UnluckyBeast | 18 Dec '15, 09:33 | X
So much good stuff

1) Low - Ones & Sixes
2) Heather Woods Broderick - Glider
3) Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love
4) Built To Spill - Untethered Moon
5) Wand - Golem

mdjt | 19 Dec '15, 08:50 | X
something like:

1. Viet Cong — Viet Cong
2. CHVRCHES — Every Open Eye
3. Grimes — Art Angels
4. Ringo Deathstarr — Pure Mood
5. Young Fathers — White Men Are Black Men Too

though it was a flip of a 3-sided coin for No.5 spot, with The Go! Team's "The Scene Between" and Telepathe's "Destroyer" also in the running.

robluvsnic | 19 Dec '15, 15:03 | X
Such a good year

My top 5:
1. Julia Holter - Have Me In My Wilderness
2. Grimes - Art Angels
3. Jaakko Eino Kaveli - Jaakko Eino Kaveli
4. Jamie xx - In Colour
5. Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION

Come at me

Full top 30: http://iplugtoyou.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/best-albums-of-2015.html

Constantino_chr | 20 Dec '15, 18:21 | X
1. Floating Points - Elaenia

2. Outfit - Slowness
3. Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
5. Braids - Deep in the Iris

rjb94 | 20 Dec '15, 18:54 | X
Britannia rules the waves:

1. Joey Fourr - To The Floorr
2. Haiku Salut - Etch And Etch Deep
3. Shopping - Why Choose
4. Sauna Youth - Distractions
5. Trust Fund - No One's Coming For Us

aboynamedgoo | 21 Dec '15, 10:24 | X
-

1. Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
2. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
3. Joanna Newsom - Divers
4. Ought - Sun Coming Down
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Nestor | 21 Dec '15, 10:44 | X
1. Wolf Alice

2. Blanck Mass
3. Follakzoid
4. Petrels
5. Susanne Sundfør

Brain_Freeze | 22 Dec '15, 18:39 | X
1. GNOD: Infinity Machines
2. Titus Andronicus: the Most Lamentable Tragedy
3. Ian WIlliam Craig: Cradle For the Wanting
4. Hot Chip: Why Make Sense?
5. Royal Headache: High

prob500 | 24 Dec '15, 11:09 | X
1 - Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

2 -Viet Cong - S/T
3 - Ought - Sun Coming Down
4 - Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
5 - Single Mothers - Negative Qualities

chowny | 24 Dec '15, 11:45 | X
Left it late

1. Eskimeaux - Ok
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
3. Grimes - Art Angels
4. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
5. Low - Ones and Sixes

rich-t | 27 Dec '15, 10:45 | X
finally decided

1. oneohtrix point never - garden of delete
2. death grips - jenny death/the powers that b
3. blanck mass - dumb flesh
4. holly Herndon - platform
5. the soft moon - deeper

just missing the cut: prurient, carter tutti void, arca, health, and grimes.

blicky | 27 Dec '15, 17:26 | X
Pale-eyed Albums of 2015.

1. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
2. Kentrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Blur - Magic Whip
4. Floating Points - Elaenia
5. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space

Pale-eyedBadger | 27 Dec '15, 18:38 | X
1. Time Wharp - Time Wharp

2. Floating Points - Elaenia
3. Tamaryn - Cranekiss
4. Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys
5. Boof - The Hydrangeas Whisper

The_Groke | 27 Dec '15, 20:37 | X
1. Mew - +-
2. Micachu - Good sad happy bad
3. Wrekmeister Harmonies - Night of Your Ascension
4. Tricot - A N D
5. Evans The Death - Expect Delays

OvertakenByTractors | 27 Dec '15, 21:25 | X
1) Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

2) Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
3) The Cribs - For All My Sisters
4) Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
5) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

orangejuice | 28 Dec '15, 13:14 | X
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2. Viet Cong - S/T
3. Shannen Moser - You Shouldn't Be Doing That
4. Joanna Newsom - Divers
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

sadballadman | 28 Dec '15, 17:02 | X
Didn't love much this year but I still love these

1. Traams- Modern Dancing
2. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
3. Bop English - Constant Bop
4. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
5. Viet Cong

shimmetry | 28 Dec '15, 17:29 | X
Liked a lot, loved very little

1. Ringo Deathstarr - Pure Mood
2. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
3. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
4. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
5. Son Little - Son Little
---------------------------------------------------------------
6. Rozi Plain - Friend
7. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
8. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
9. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
10. Plaistow - Titan

funkycow | 28 Dec '15, 21:20 | X
1 Wolf Alice

larome | 29 Dec '15, 01:41 | X
- 2 Grimes
  3 Destroyer
  4 Sufjan Stevens
  5 Ghostpoet
  
  larome @larome | 29 Dec '15, 01:42 | X
Top 5:

1. The White Birch – The White Birch
2. Kathryn Joseph – Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I’ve Spilled
3. Happyness – Weird Little Birthday
4. Halleluwah – Halleluwah
5. Dan Deacon – Gliss Riffer

****
Others I liked: Soak, Beach House, CocoRosie, Youth Lagoon, Des Ark, Pas De Printemps Pour Marnie, Beirut, Farao, Sufjan Stevens, Daniel Knox, Grasscut, Mew, Daniel Norgren, Haiku Salut..

paulo13 | 29 Dec '15, 16:28 | X
After much consideration I would have to go with

1. Sikth - Opacities
2. No Devotion - Permanence
3. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
4. Gengahr - A Dream Outside
5. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

TVDenimChap | 30 Dec '15, 17:10 | X
.

1. Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
4. Passion Pit - Kindred
5. Autre Ne Veut - Age of Transparency

kiyonemakibi | 30 Dec '15, 18:52 | X
Thanks again for organising this!

1. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
5. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love

6. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
7. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
8. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
9. Drake - If You’re Reading this it’s Too Late
10. Empress Of - Me

Faceless_Opinion | 30 Dec '15, 22:37 | X
LAST ORDERS

Nice work on all the responses.

I'll be back on Sunday to close the thread and start totting up the results. So there's still a few days to post up your top 5 if you haven't already done so.

prob500 | 31 Dec '15, 12:20 | X
Here you go

1. Petrels - Flailing Tomb
2. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
3. U.S. Girls - Half Free
4. The Go! Team - The Scene Between
5. Black Rivers - s/t

Just missing out:
Grimes - Art Angels
Holly Herndon - Platform
Noveller - Fantastic Planet
Youth Worship - Lp1
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

Stringly | 31 Dec '15, 13:05 | X
Number 5 gets in by virtue of being on my 'turntable' right now

1. Low - Ones and Sixes
2. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons
3. Helios - Yume
4. Cheatahs - Mythologies
5. Baroness - Purple

kostenurky | 31 Dec '15, 15:06 | X
1. Jim Perkins - Constance
2. Son Lux - Bones
3. Black Wing - ...is doomed
4. Petrels - Flailing Tomb
5. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was
...

6. Gideon Wolf - Near Dark
7. Raphael Anton Irasarri - Fragile Geography
8. Max Richter - Sleep
9. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
10. Humans - Noontide

static | 31 Dec '15, 17:23 | X
Bit late but, in no particular order (doubt they'll get enought votes for it to matter):

Loads of my either current or past favourite bands relased records in 2015 so it's been a great year for music for me but still some surprises and somes disappointments.

Ash - Kablammo!
Proving once again that Tim Wheeler is a brilliant and underrated pop song writer. Probably their strongest album since Free All Angels (but that's not including the excellent A-Z Series) it's a great fun mix of punk, pop and ballads.

mewithoutYou - Pale Horses
I loved Ten Stories and this takes some of that album and mixes it with the urgency and heaviness of Catch for Us the Foxes era. Full of great lines and melodies that roll and knock into each other making it as exciting as anything they've done which for a band on their 6th album is impressive.

Medium 21 - Remains (Lost Tapes Vol.1)
If there was a record I never thought I'd hear, let alone in 2015, it's this. Releases to zero fanfare, I only found out about it when seeing it on Spotify. From the title I guess it's the never released second album by the massively under rated/forgotten early 2000s band. They reminded me of a more exciting version of the national with similar drawled vocals but with more going on. Just as good if not better than their first album and it's great to hear some 'new' stuff from them this year.

The Wonder Years - No Closer to Heaven
Another surprise entry in that I'd never heard any Wonder Years records before but this is one of the best, most exciting, euphoric, anthemic, fist-pumping, sing-along emo/punk albums I've heard in ages.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
The one that most people will have heard. Beautiful and touching.

Other stuff:
Desaparacedos - Payola
Very nearly made the top five but got pipped by the Wonder Years for reasons I can't quite remember. Another record I never thought would be out but Conor Oberst and the rest of Desa finally got round to releasing their second album 13 years after the amazing Read Music/Speak Spanish and it's just was exciting and visceral as their debut.

Craig Finn - Faith in the Future
A nice surprise this one as I didn't rate Crag Finn's (of the Hold Steady) first solo debut but this is one of the best things he's done in years with his lyrical story telling getting back to some heights he maybe hadn't been hitting recently. Also mention to the Newmyer's Roof Ep which is even better and has the song Extras which is the best thing he's done recently.

Darren Hayman - Florence
Darren continues to knock out brilliant albums on a regular basis. This is lovely stripped down folk.

Good Life - Everybody's Coming Down
Lot's of love for Tim Kasher (of Cursive) but he solo albums haven't done much for me so it was a nice surprise that the first Good Life album in 8 years was actually pretty good.

Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
A bit disappointed that this isn't in the top five as I do love Modest Mouse. It's good record but hasn't stayed with me as much as their other albums, I did enjoy it but I'd have hoped after so long they're have some back with something a bit stronger.

Decemberists - Treading similar ground to they're previous and up up there with Picaresque or the Crane Wife but still a good album.

Disappointments:
The World Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid To Die - Harmlessness
I loved first album Whenever If, Ever and though this would be easily in my top five but it never really clicked with me. Seems everyone else loves it so I'll chalk it down to 'it's me and not them'.

Belle & Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
Yeah it's stronger that their previous one but it's still not that great. Perfect Couples is one of the worse songs they're every done.

Special Award for album that would've been near the top if it had been released this year not last:
Prawn - Kingfisher
Absolutely brilliant emo-ish indie rock with bits of Brand New and Death Cab.

NickDS | 31 Dec '15, 23:47 | X
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
3. Joanna Newsom - Drivers
4. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, ...
5. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshea
-----------------------------------------------------------
6. Elaenia - Floating Points
7. Grimes - Art Angels
8. Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile
9. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
10. Jlin - Dark Energy

mroc | 1 Jan '16, 00:36 | X
1. The World Is A Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Harmlessness

2. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
3. Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
4. Youth Lagoon - Savage Hills Ballroom
5. Kurt Vile - b'lieve I'm going down

Notable mentions Waxahatchee, Jason Isbell, Alex G, Protomartyr, Wavves/Cloud Nothings

cameron12 | 1 Jan '16, 18:51 | X
1. Vince Staples - Summertime '06

2. Built To Spill - Untethered Moon
3. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
4. The Cribs - For All Our Sisters
5. Ought - Sun Coming Down

colonel_getafe | 1 Jan '16, 23:08 | X
Finally made a list

1) Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was
2) Helen - The Original Faces
3) Low - Ones & Sixes
4) Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
5) Dark Star - Foam Island

Flailing | 2 Jan '16, 13:34 | X
Mine...

1. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
5. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier

Stu_ | 2 Jan '16, 18:41 | X
11th hour entry...

Not heard an absolute standout 10/10 type record this year, there seems to be a cluster of 8-9/10 albums that I'm finding very hard to put in order. Nonetheless...

1 The Cribs - For All My Sisters
2 The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven
3 The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Harmlessness
4 Grimes - Art Angels
5 Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp

Honourable mentions to Sufjan, Panda Bear and Dick Diver, which could all have made it on another day.

OceanStorm | 2 Jan '16, 23:37 | X
Last chance saloon, if you haven't yet voted I'll be back this afternoon to take all the entries and tally up. Could we say a 2pm deadline?

prob500 | 3 Jan '16, 10:26 | X
1. Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
2. Lakker - Tundra
3. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
4. Health - Death Magic
5. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh

JohnM | 3 Jan '16, 10:46 | X
1. Grimes - Art Angels
2. Beach House - Depression Cherry
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
4. Floating Points - Elaenia
5. Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp

furio | 3 Jan '16, 10:59 | X
Just squeaking in

1. Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
2. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
3. Haiku Salut - Etch and Etch Deep
4. Gaz Coombes - Matador
5. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think

shinymcshine | 3 Jan '16, 12:51 | X
alright then

1. Joanna Newsom – Divers
2. Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy
3. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
4. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
5. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love

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Wasted_Opportunity | 3 Jan '16, 12:55 | X
- screwed that up huh?
  
  Wasted_Opportunity @Wasted_Opportunity | 3 Jan '16, 12:56 | X
THREAD CLOSED

Thanks for all the entries.

I'll be back maybe Tuesday, but probably on Wednesday, once I've have some fun with spreadsheets with all the results.

prob500 | 3 Jan '16, 18:56 | X
- Thanks so much for the time :)
  
  Happy new year.
  
  medulla @prob500 | 3 Jan '16, 19:02 | X
  
  funkycow this'd this
  - Yep very much ^THIS
    
    Thanks for doing it again.
    
    Pale-eyedBadger @medulla | 3 Jan '16, 19:20 | X
    
    Stringly and bornin69 this'd this
It seems this closed early and this won't matter anyway

And I've not had a great year, but:
1 The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven
2 Down I Go - you're lucky god, I can't reach you
3 Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
4 Carly Rae Jepson - E.Mo.tion
5 Grimes - Art Angels

pieces_of_reece | 3 Jan '16, 21:05 | X

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