Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2015

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

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