Top 16 2015 Albums/Songs
1. Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
2. Róisín Murphy, Hairless Toys
3. Beach House, Depression Cherry
4. Joanna Newsom, Divers
5. Laura Marling, Short Movie
6. Florence + The Machine, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
7. Zero 7 , EP3
8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Multi-Love
9. Grimes, Art Angels
10. Alabama Shakes, Sound And Color
11. Beach House, Thank Your Lucky Stars
12. Björk, Vulnicura
13. Sarah Blasko, Eternal Return
14. Vanessa Carlton, Liberman
15. Tame Impala, Currents
16. Alpine, Yuck
Honourable mentions:
Elle King, Love Stuff
José González, Vestiges and Claws
Foals, What Went Down
Purity Ring, Another Eternity
CHVRCHES, Every Open Eye
Toro Y Moi, What For?
Lianne La Havas, Blood
Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
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Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear
Soléy, Ask the Deep
FKA twigs, M3LL155X
Django Django, Born Under Saturn
Mac DeMarco, Another One
Toro Y Moi, Samantha (mixtape)
Kate Havnevik, &I
Belle and Sebastian, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
Older albums I connected with this year:
Anaïs Mitchell, xoa
MØ, No Mythologies To Follow
Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart, Road to Palios
Jessie Ware, Tough Love
Stromae, Racine Carrée
Jamie Cullum, Interlude
Sarah Blasko, I Awake
D’Angelo & The Vanguard, Black Messiah
Rufus Wainwright, All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu
The Decemberists, What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
Ryan Francesconi & Kane Mathis, Songs from the Cedar House
Laura Veirs, Warp and Weft
Sylvan Esso, Sylvan Esso
Zammuto, Anchor
Chelsea Wolfe, Unknown Rooms
Beth Orton and Rustin’ Man, Out of Season
Top 2015 songs:
Roisin Murphy — Exploitation
Beach House — One Thing
Florence + the Machine — Queen of Peace
Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Can’t Keep Checking My Phone
Sufjan Stevens — All of Me Wants All of You
Zero 7 — The Colour of Spring (Talk Talk cover)
Joanna Newsom — Sapokanikan
Beach House — Wildflower
Alabama Shakes — Don’t Wanna Fight
Laura Marling — Howl
Tame Impala — Let It Happen
Alpine — Yeah Baby
Sarah Blasko — I’d Be Lost
Vanessa Carlton — Take It Easy
Lianne La Havas — Midnight
Beck — Dreams
Tori Amos — Darkest Hour
Grimes — Flesh without Blood
Bjork — Family
Toro Y Moi — Lilly
Purity Ring — Repitition
Father John Misty — The Ideal Husband
Courtney Barnett — Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party
Jose Gonzalez — Leaf Off/The Cave
