2015 - Favorite Albums

[parkervb]

The Ryan Adams Live at Carnegie Hall set is fantastic.  Part acoustic set, part comedy. 

[Mahgeetah34]

Future-DS2 goes hard

[ManNamedTruth]

Don't feel like listing everything now, but since i haven't seen it listed here yet I just want to mention that the new JD McPherson is pretty awesome.

[beardedwonder]

coming home by Leon Bridges - if u need some retro soul in your life - guy is rather amazing

[Murph]

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/12/430367065/first-listen-nathaniel-rateliff-nathaniel-rateliff-the-night-sweats

This album hasn't even officially come out yet, but it's definitely one of my favorite this year.  I can't wait to see these guys.  If anyone saw their performance on Fallon a few weeks back, they know what im talking about

[LBSUNFLWR]

Heard 2 songs off the upcoming Jackie Greene album and hoping to like the rest as much as I liked those 2 songs!!!

[Bernard]

In no particular order:

Lord Huron
Jason Isbell
Florence + The Machine
Young Fathers
Alabama Shakes
Built to Spill
Jose Gonzalez
Sufjan Stevens
Courtney Barnett
Diamond Rugs

[APR]

A lot of good ones so far with Foals (August) and Kurt Vile (September) on my radar for upcoming releases.  And Puscifer's new one coming in October, which I'm hopeful will be great. But their previous stuff is so inconsistent...... some songs fantastic and a few unlistenable.

[LBSUNFLWR]

loving the new Kurt Vile!

[iLikeBeer]

Looking forward to the new Kurt Vile as well!  Also, Futurebirds are dropping a new one 9/25 and I can't wait for that! 

Lot's of good releases in 2015!   

[APR]

loving the new Kurt Vile!

I guess you got the leak. I'm looking forward checking it out.  Pretty Pimpin is a great tune (which is on Spotify and I assume elsewhere).

Amazing:
MMJ - Waterfall
Tame Impala - Currents
Foals - What Went Down

Very Good:
Sleater Kinney - No Cities
Modest Mouse - Strangers

Good but not as great as I had hoped for:
Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Jose Gonzalez - Vestiges

[dmooney99]

will add:

Ghost- Meliora
Foals- What Went Down

[e_wind]

Okay. Everyone start with their year ends... I feel like I'm behind this year.

[wcazcooper95]

Futurebirds - Hotel Parties

[Come Closer]

Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Style
Father John Misty- I Love You, Honeybear
Dr Cosmo's Tape Lab- Beyond the Silver Sea
Paul Orwell- Blowing Your Mind Away
Attic Fowler- City Hall
The Butterscotch Cathedral- s/t
Israel Nash- Silver Season
Ultimate Painting- Green Lanes
Swim Deep- Mothers
Triptides- Azur


This will definitely change. More I need to digest, there are albums from earlier in the year to get back to, and a few more coming out before year end.

[beardedwonder]

recent releases I'm digging on:

Mystic Braves - Days of Yesteryear
Mutemath - Vitals 
Wood Brothers - Paradise
Alberta Cross - Alberta Cross
Woozy - Blistered
The Arcs - yours dreamily
The Neighborhood - Wiped Out
Drive By Truckers - Its Great to Be Alive
Brian Jonestown Massacre - mini album thingy wing
Ty Segall - Ty Rex
Deerhunter - Fading frontier

[e_wind]

trying to get this going....

In kind of, but maybe not particular order, I loved...

Perfect, 5 Starts, 10/10, A1..
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Great
Father John Misty - I Love You Honey Bear
Phosphorescent - Live at a Music Hall
Dr. Dog - Live at a Flamingo Hotel
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Ryan Adams - 1989

Good
Action Bronson - Mr. Wonderful
MMJ - Waterfall
Alabama Shakes - S&C
Wilco - Star Wars


Still needs more digesting:
So many. I've really fallen behind...

[sillyboob]

I agree about Ryan Adams' version of 1989.  I've gotten to know Taylor Swift's music because of my wife, and I think she writes very good songs.  I'm just not a fan of the pop music stylings of her recent albums.  Ryan Adams version of 1989 is what I'm hoping to hear from Taylor Swift in the coming years - a more mature (less pop) version of the songs she writes.

[spence]

Gotta give a vote for Futurebirds - Hotel Parties.  That song Hard As You Like....  Seriously, so damn good.
The Waterfall of course.
Phospho Live
FJM
I like a couple off Tame Impala
Wilco - Star Wars

[getinthevan]

At the moment, my top albums of the year are looking something like this:

Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Mutoid Man - Bleeder
My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves
Wilco - Star Wars
Caspian - Dust And Disquiet
Vattnet Viskar - Settler
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet, and Other Distress
Joe Pug - Windfall