We’ve done a bit of tidying up, the hangover is lingering and all the family have gone home. Not grabbed by Christmas television, and with New Year on the horizon, we thought we would pitch in to the ‘Album of the Year’ debate.
Having read lots of other lists it became clear that, whilst we’ve listened to a host of music this year, many of the larger ‘critically-acclaimed’ albums completely passed us by! Therefore no New Order, Bjork, Kendrick Lamar or Wolf Alice on our list. It’s fair to say that we would probably enjoy all of them and I’m sure we will…as soon as we find time.
In addition to this we run two record labels and of course that fills a lot of listening time. We put out two of our favourite records this year M. Lockwood Porter’s ’27’ and Brent Best’s ‘Your Dog, Champ’ – but took the decision to keep our list as impartial as possible (Sorry Brent & Max, we love you guys and your records!)
The rules explained, here is the first part of our run-down of the records that rocked our 2015.
#15 Anna von Hausswolff – The Miraculous
Some seriously heavy vibes from Anna and her organ – pitched somewhere between drone and indie-noise-rock. Sounds intense, which it is, but also amazing. In the year I fell back in love with Spacemen 3, this was the perfect accompaniment.
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#14 Demob Happy – Dream Soda
Rocks & reminds us a bit of Nirvana – both excellent qualities!
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#13 Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down
If we were being picky we’d say it’s not quite as good as our favourite Kurt album (‘Smoke Ring For My Halo’ if you’re interested). That said it is more laid back cool from the man with big hair.
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#12 Royal Headache – High
We still know very little about this band, but having been given a strong recommendation to check out this album we were instantly hooked – great sound, cool guitars and committed, authentic vocals. A top notch rock record.
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#11 Sexwitch – Sexwitch
Is it a one-off collaboration or something bigger? Sexwitch (Natasha Khan, Dan Carey and Toy) takes you on some hypnotic ride. Expectations are always high when Natasha/Bat for Lashes is involved and this did not disappoint.
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Thanks for reading, next up will be #10 – #6.
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