A quick roundup of all the music that we've been listening to a lot this year.
Another year, another set of lists. 2015 was great for music and a lot of artists (many of whom we have the pleasure of working with) released some stellar music. So without further ado, here are our selections.
DAN
SONGS
Tirzah - Make It Up
Vince Staples - Senorita
Spring King - City
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
Tame impala - 'Cause I'm a Man
Songhoy Blues - Soubour
MØ - Kamikaze
Jamie XX - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) feat Young Thug & Popcaan
Majical Cloudz - Downtown
Acid Arab - Hafia
Honourable mentions:
Melt Yourself Down - Dot To Dot, Holly Herndon - Platform, LA Priest - Oino, Neon Indian - Annie, Royal Headache - High, Novelist - Endz.
ALBUMS
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Shye Ben Tzur / Jonny Greenwood / The Rajasthan Express - Junun
Holly Herndon - Platform
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi Love
Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile
Nathalie Prass - Natalie Prass
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Honourable mentions: Bill Ryder Jones - West Kirby County Primary, TimeCop 1983 - Reflections, Royal Headache - High, Jlin - Dark Energy, Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
JOE
SONGS
Grimes - Kill V. Maim
Dej Loaf - Back Up feat Big Sean
Oneohtrix Point Never - No Good
Royal Headache - Another World
Dilly Dally - Ice Cream
Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
Our Girl - Level
Julia Holter - Sea Calls Me Home
Girl Band - Pears for Lunch
Sheer Mag - Fan the Flames
ALBUMS
Majical Cloudz - Are you Alone?
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
U.S. Girls - Half Free
LA Priest - Inji
Braids - Deep in the Iris
Protomartyr - Agent Intellect
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home
Grimes - Art Angels
WOODY
SONGS
Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky
Julia Holter - Feel You
Majical Cloudz - Downtown
Widowspeak - Girls
Thee Oh Sees - Web
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Peasantry or ‘Light! inside of Light!’
ANAMAI - Lucia
LA Priest - Oino
Alva Noto - Xerrox Isola
Tame Impala - Let It Happen
ALBUMS
Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Julia Holter - Have you in My Wilderness
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Container - LP3
Swami John Reis & The Blind Shake - Modern Surf Classics
Widowspeak - All Yours
Eartheater - RIP Chrysalis
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Torche - Restarter
MIKE
SONGS
Car Seat Headrest - Something Soon
The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face
Loyle Carner - Aint Nothing Changed
Tirzah - Make It Up
Novelist - 1 Sec
Spring King - City
The Internet (feat. Kaytranada) - Girl
Jamie T - Don't You Find
Blur - Lonesome Street
Erykah Badu (feat. Andre 3000) - Hello
Honourable mention: Skepta - Shutdown
ALBUMS
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Jamie T - Carry On The Grudge
JME - Integrity
Blur - The Magic Whip
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
D' Angelo - Black Messiah
Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
Archy Marshall - A New Place 2 Drown
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
AMI
SONGS
Will Butler - Anna
Father John Misty - The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Aptartment
King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizard - Bone
Matthew E White - Rock & Roll Is Cold
Courtney Bartnett - Pedestrian at Best
Major Lazer - Lean On (feat MØ & DJ Snake)
Charlie Cunningham - Breather
Marika Hackman - Claude’s Girl
Venn - Real Blood
Pond - Zond
ALBUMS
Tame Impala - Currents
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Songhoy Blues - Music In Exhile
Micachu and the Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad
Cass McCombs - A Folk Set Apart
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Patrick Watson - Love Songs For Robots
Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
CONRAD
SONGS
Girl Band - Paul
Dream Wife - Believe
Sauna Youth - Transmitters
The Death of Pop - Gardens
Menace Beach - Medicine
Colleen Green - Grind My Teeth
Girl Ray - Ghosty
Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
Lana Del Rey - High by the Beach
Jimmy Whispers - I Get Lost in You
ALBUMS
Sauna Youth - Distractions
Thee Oh See's - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Elvis Depressedly - New Alhambra
Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
La Luz - Weirdo Shrine
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
Sievehead - Into The Blue
Colleen Green - I Want to Grow Up
And just because we found it SO hard to choose just ten each, we've compiled a bumper playlist of 100+ tracks from this year that we thought were killer. Listen below, see you in 2016.
