Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2015

TRACKS

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

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

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

Saved on Spotify on strength of band name alone.

21 albums

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

40x Q4 Tracks

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

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

some stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet:

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

tracks:
GEoRGiA - "Heart Wrecking Animals"

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like Picture You a lot

David Borden - Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments

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

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

Both of those are great!

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

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

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

Picture You album is definitely one my favorites this year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rolling Favorite Tracks of 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

duane pitre - organized pitches occurring in time

whoops, wrong thread