Sunday, January 3, 2016

My Favorite Records of 2015

My Favorite Records of 2015

This year I decided to narrow down my list a bit. Below are my 33 favorite records of 2015 with #1 being my absolute favorite. All of them are exceptional and are well worth a listen. They only represent a fraction of what I purchased and listened to throughout the year but for one reason or another somehow stood out. The list represents a combination of LPs, downloads, and compact cassettes.

  1. Holly Herndon – Platform
  2. Felica Atkinson – A Readymade Ceremony
  3. Jenny Hval – Apocalypse Girl

  4. Mette Henriette – S/T

  5. FKA twigs – M3LL155X

  6. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld – Never were the way she was

  7. Lucrecia Dalt – Ou

  8. Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

  9. Julia Holter – Have You in My Wilderness

  10. Circuit des Yeux – In Plain Speech

  11. Bjork – Vulnicura

  12. D'Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah

  13. Colleen – Captain of None

  14. Ibeyi – S/T

  15. Laurie Anderson – Heart of a Dog

  16. GABI – Sympathy

  17. Carter Tutti Void – f(x)

  18. Chrstina Vantzou – No. 3

  19. Darius Jones Quartet featuring Emilie Lesbros - Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)

  20. Akira Sakata & Jim O'Rourke with Chikamorachi & Merzbow – Flying Basket

  21. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress

  22. Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra

  23. Dave Douglas – High Risk

  24. The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus – Beauty Will Save The World

  25. Deradoorian – The Expanding Flower Planet

  26. Tiger Village – In Stereo

  27. ZS – Xe

  28. Rrose – Having Never Written A Note for Percussion

  29. Beach House – Thank Your Lucky Stars

  30. Kim Kashkashian / Sarah Rothenberg / Steven Schick / Robert Simpson - Rothko Chapel: Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, John Cage

  31. King Midas Sound & Fennesz – Edition 1

  32. Milford Graves & Bill Laswell – The Stone

  33. Gwenno Saunders – Y Dydd Olaf