Be(a)st of 2015

[D.o.S.]

Yeah but you're satisfied with End Hits so idk what to say.

[casecandy]

I love when we agree on stuff... it's just so rare...

All Fugazi albums are worth hearing. Worth owning, even.

[popvulture]

Ha, I'm watching the DC punk documentary as we speak.

There's absolutely no way I could ever pick a fave of theirs, but I do view their records as having a really fucking amazing chronology of growth and improvement. Steady Diet could be my favorite because for whatever reason it's the first one I bought when I was like 13. Then again, there are times when I listen to The Argument and wonder if it could be my fave. Full Disclosure? Fucking come on. All I know is that I really couldn't say a bad thing about any of it. I can think of few bands that mean more to me musically and personally.

[neonblack]

Don't forget Epic Problem!

[neonblack]

But yes, full disclosure is bangin

[popvulture]

Fuck yes!

[popvulture]

I can never narrow down a concise list of 10 or 20, so I always do the following. Guess I went down a bit of an electronic music rabbit hole this year.

50 new records I liked in 2015, in no particular order:

1. CFCF - The Colours of Life
2. Blur - The Magic Whip
3. Jade Statues - Executive Towers
4. Journeymann Trax - Smoke Tape
5. Shape Worship - A City Remembrancer
6. Body Boys - No Face
7. Chemotex - Thulsa EP
8. Time Wharp - S/T
9. Lower Dens - Escape from Evil
10. Heathered Pearls - Body Complex
11. Tribulation - The Children of the Night
12. Elder - Lore
13. Title Fight - Hyperview
14. Auscultation - L’étreinte Imaginaire
15. G.L.O.S.S. - DEMO
16. Hunee - Hunch Music
17. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
18. Faith Healer - Cosmic Troubles
19. Anthony Naples - Body Pill
20. Eleventh Dream Day - Works for Tomorrow
21. Jim O’Rourke - Simple Songs
22. Dave Heumann - Here in the Deep
23. Lakker - Tundra
24. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
25. The Amazing - Picture You
26. Jack J - Thirstin’
27. Four Tet - Morning / Evening
28. Thundercat - The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
29. Fuzz - II
30. Torche - Restarter
31. Vattnet Viskar - Settler
32. Project Pablo - I Want to Believe
33. Tame Impala - Currents
34. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
35. Floating Points - Elaenia
36. Bully - Feels Like
37. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
38. Botany - Dimming Awe, The Light is Raw
39. Dornik - S/T
40. The Internet - Ego Death
41. Glassine - No Stairway
42. Gwilym Gold - A Paradise
43. Dungen - Allas Sak
44. André Bratten - Gode
45. Dick Diver - Melbourne, Florida
46. Beauty Pill - Describes Things As They Are
47. Savant - Artificial Dance (Compilation)
48. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
49. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Night Creeper
50. Monolord - Vaenir

Bonus - 2014 records I came across late:
Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
Doug Tuttle - S/T
Twin Peaks - Wild Onion
Blake Mills - Heigh Ho
Mondo Drag - S/T

[Inconuucl]

You liked the new Torche? ewwwww

[neonblack]

Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Shopping - Why Choose
Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
Leapling - Vacant Page
No Spill Blood - Heavy Electricity
Pile - You're Better Than This

[popvulture]

You liked the new Torche? ewwwww

I did! Not a fan? I liked it better than Harmonicraft.

[casecandy]

Great list, popvulture.

[popvulture]

Thanks man! Always fun to look back—my tastes are pretty ADD, so the end of year review's good timez for me. I'm sure there's tons of shit I forgot.

Much less metal this year. Weird.

[popvulture]

I can't even begin to think of a list of old shit / reissues. Way too much.

[Inconuucl]

You liked the new Torche? ewwwww

I did! Not a fan? I liked it better than Harmonicraft.

I loved harmonicraft, but this one melted and I was never ever to get through to it without turning off. I'll try to give it a spin again sometime soon.

[popvulture]

I didn't dislike Harmonicraft—they're just one of those bands whose heavier/less melodic material sounds better to me (despite the fact that I love melodic stuff probably most of the time). Same goes for Baroness.