"750 nominations, boiled down to 60 entries. The results are now in. And while your number one choice might not come us a surprise, there’s plenty of interesting entries. Almost all of these readers-choice-lists consist of mainstream, or more commercial, artists. So post your own Top 10 below in the comments, we need a few […]"
READERS ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2015
750 nominations, boiled down to 60 entries. The results are now in. And while your number one choice might not come us a surprise, there’s plenty of interesting entries. Almost all of these readers-choice-lists consist of mainstream, or more commercial, artists. So post your own Top 10 below in the comments, we need a few alternative, indie and obscure album titles to compensate!
I’m be discussing the list and pick my own Top 10 in my podcast, The Only Music Podcast.
– Mojib
Vote for 3 of your favorite albums from 2015
- Hermitude – Dark Night Sweet Light (0%)
- Oberhofer – Chronovision (0%)
- Chris Stapleton – Traveller (0%)
- Millencolin – True Brew (0%)
- Earthside – A Dream in Static (0%)
- Youth Lagoon – Savage Hills Ballroom (0%)
- Floating Points – Elaenia (0%)
- Destroyer – Poison Season (0%)
- Arca – Mutant (0%)
- The Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes (0%)
- Three Day’s Grace – Human (0%)
- Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (0%)
- David Gilmour – Rattle That Lock (0%)
- Wavves – V (1%)
- Sleater Kinney – No Cities to Love (1%)
- Future – Dirty Sprite 2 (1%)
- Beach House – Thank Your Lucky Stars (1%)
- Tyler, The Creator : Cherry Bomb (1%)
- Viet Cong – Viet Cong (1%)
- The Game – The Documentary 2 (1%)
- Panda Bear – Panda Beer Meets The Grim Reaper (1%)
- Disturbed – Immortalized (1%)
- Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness (1%)
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday (1%)
- Ellie Goulding – Delirium (1%)
- Disclosure – Caracal (1%)
- Mac Miller – GOOD: AM (1%)
- Breaking Benjamin – Dark Before Dawn (1%)
- Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams (1%)
- Joey Badass- B4DA$$ (1%)
- Joanna Newsom – Divers (1%)
- Blur – The Magic Whip (1%)
- Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit (1%)
- Major Lazer – Peace is the Mission (1%)
- Death Grips – Jenny Death (1%)
- Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion (1%)
- Faith No More – Sol Invictus (1%)
- Beach House – Depression Cherry (2%)
- Deafheaven- New Burmuda (2%)
- Travis $cott – Rodeo (2%)
- Steven Wilson – Hand.Cannot.Erase (2%)
- Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool (2%)
- Mumford and Sons – Wilder Mind (2%)
- Ghost – Meliora (2%)
- Muse – Drones (2%)
- Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (2%)
- Björk – Vulnicura (2%)
- Bring Me The Horizon – That’s The Spirit (2%)
- Dr. Dre – Compton (2%)
- Vince Staples – Summertime ’06 (2%)
- CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye (2%)
- Adele – 25 (2%)
- Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon (2%)
- A$AP Rocky – At. Long. Last. A$AP (2%)
- Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (3%)
- FOALS – What Went Down (3%)
- Florence + The Machine – How Big How Blue How Beautiful (3%)
- The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (3%)
- Grimes – Art Angels (3%)
- Jamie xx – In Colour (4%)
- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (5%)
- Tame Impala – Currents (7%)
- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (12%)
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My ‘purpose’ vote was not on the list. And that ‘we need a few alternative’ is totally ridiculous and shameful.
10. Harmlessness – The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
9. The Color Before the Sun – Coheed and Cambria
8. Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise – The Dear Hunter
7. What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World – The Decemberists
6. Meliora – Ghost
5. At Least for Now – Benjamin Clementine
4. I Love You, Honeybear – Father John Misty
3. Kannon – Sunn O)))
2. Falling Up – Falling Up
1. No Closer to Heaven – The Wonder Years
I agree with you’re number 10. Most underrated album of 2015 IMO!
Adele #12? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
That album was so bad. Crazy times….crazy times….
this just proves that people usually vote based on the popularity an artist has instead of actual quality. I mean… Vulnicura far below Adele’s? Srsly?
The Weeknd at #6 because of singles and not because of the actual album LOL
1. Agent Fresco – Destrier
2. The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise
3. Coheed & Cambria – The Color Before The Sun
4. Avalanche City – We Are For The Wild Places
5. Everything Everything – Get To Heaven
6. Jedi Mind Tricks – The Thief And The Fallen
7. Matthew Good – Chaotic Neutral
8. Tech N9ne – Special Effects
9. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp
10. Pentatonix – Self Titled (Not a huge pop fan but these guys are something else)
I listen to less mainstream so I could’ve added 20 more albums from this year.
25. Action Bronson // Mr. Wonderful
24. Blended Babies & Anderson .Paak // The Anderson .Paak EP
23. Diane Coffee // Everybody’s A Good Dog
22. Unknown Mortal Orchestra // Multi-Love (+ I saw them LIVE!)
21. MED, Blu & Madlib // Bad Neighbor
20. Clarence CLarity // No Now
19. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard // Quarters!
18. Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman // Lice
17. Golden Rules // Golden Ticket (This is the one I was the most hyped for, but the production beats the vocals)
16. The Game // The Documentary 2
15. Earl Sweatshirt // I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album By Earl Sweatshirt
14. Mick Jenkins // Wave[s]
13. Pusha T – King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
12. Death Grips // the powers that b
11. Joey Bada$$ // B4.DA.$$
10. the i.l.y’s // I’ve always been good at true love
9. Injury Reserve // Live From The Dentist Office
8. Blackalicious // Imani Vol. 1
7. Toro y Moi // What For?
6. Mac DeMarco // Another One (+ Saw him LIVE as well!)
5. Kendrick Lamar // To Pimp A Butterfly
4. Kamasi Washington // The Epic
3. Young Fathers // White Men Are Black Men Too
2. King Gizzard & The Lizard WIzard // Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
1. Earl Sweatshirt // Solace
Yum. Great year.
possibly the worst end of year list i’ve ever seen.
I honestly thought Jack U or Major Lazer would top this list, Jack U didn’t even make the vote. At least Major Lazer got some recognition, but both of those albums were amazing. Diplo never getting enough credit.
1. Kendrick Lamar
2. Jack U
3. Vince Staples
4. Meg Myers
5. Major Lazer
6. Pusha T
7. Migos
8. Jeremih
9. Tyler, The Creator
10. Meghan Trainor
Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha and Juggernaut: Omega
David Maxim Micic – EGO and ECO
Drewsif Stalin’s Musical Endeavors – …Comes To An End
Just a few that should be on the list that aren’t.
Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. Hands down by far the best album of the year. In fact, there is no competition.
More like a popularity contest votes
Where tf is Muse with Drones?
Lamio and the Gillettes put out a record in 2015, where is it FFS?