- Anderson Paak - Malibu
- Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
- Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
- The Hotelier - Goodness
- Noname - Telefone
- Preoccupations - Preoccupations
- Jessy Lanza - Oh No
- David Bowie - Blackstar
- Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
- Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
- Ian William Craig – Centres
- Cobalt – Slow Forever
- Laura Gibson – Empire Builder
- Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
- Bon Iver – 22, A Million
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
- Anna Meredith - Varmints
- Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
- The Avalanches - Wildflower
- Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
Can Radiohead be changed to MONEY - Suicide Songs for me plz?
- damien jurado – visions of us on the land
- whyte horses – pop or not
- sun kil moon & jesu – s/t
- hammock – everything and nothing
- okkervil river - away
- David Bowie - Blackstar
- Show Me the Body - Body War
- Frank Ocean - Blonde
- Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
- Parquet Courts - Human Perfomance
- HAMMOCK - EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
- Wussy - Forever Sounds
- Arabrot - The Gospel
- Max Richter - Nosedive
- Memoryhouse - Soft Hate
As always, 3 of my fave records are belated 2015 discoveries…
- Ulrika Spacek – The Album Paranoia
- Every Time I Die – Low Teens
- Balance and Composure – Light We Made
- Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
- Helms Alee – Stillicide
- The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (Dirty Hit)
- David Bowie - ★ (Columbia)
- School of Seven Bells - SVIIB (Vagrant/Full Time Hobby)
- Marissa Nadler - Strangers (Bella Union/Sacred Bones)
- Nick Cave & The Badseeds - Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
More full list: Redirecting...
- David Bowie - Blackstar
- The Coral - Distance Inbetween
- The Filthy Tongues - Jacob’s Ladder
- The Temperance Movement - White Bear
- Swans - The Glowing Man
1.) Black Foxxes - I’m Not Well
2.) Russian Circles - Guidance
3.) The Fall of Troy - OK
4.) Tigercub - Abstract Figures In The Dark
5.) Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
1, Thrice: To be everywhere is to be nowhere
2. Diiv: Is the is are
3. Eagulls: Ullages
4. Deftones: Gore
5. American Football: American Football
- The Avalanches - Wildflower
- Deakin - Sleep Cycle
- Angel Olsen - My Woman
- James Blake - The Colour in Anything
- Mitski - Puberty 2
- Skyjelly - Blank Panthers / Priest, Expert or Wizard
- Dyr Faser - Volum 2
- Peter Kris - Labrador
- Buck Curran - Immortal Light
- Jon Mueller - Tongues
- Danny Brown, Atrocity Exhibition
- Dälek, Asphalt for Eden
- Deftones, Gore
- DJ Shadow, The Mountain Will Fall
- David Bowie, Blackstar
Wasn’t even deliberate, although the year itself is a D in general.
1 – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS
2 – Sarah Neufeld – The Ridge
3 – Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
4 – Oliver Coates – Upstepping
5 – Ex-Easter Island Head – Twenty Two Strings
Hon. Mentions – Kendrick Untitled Unmastered, Isaiah Rashad, Radiohead, Good Willsmith, Kanye, Powell, Tomaga ahh I thought it was a dry year but having a hard time putting these in order…
- whitney - light upon the lake
- kevin devine - instigator
- avalanches - wildflower
- into it. over it. - standards.
- weezer - self-titled (white album)
- Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart
- The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
- future of the left - the peace and truce of future of the left
- Deftones - Gore
- Mystery Jets - Curve Of The Earth