" While there are a few key releases left, I want to compile a list of your favorite albums this year. I think we all can agree that 2015 has been a fantastic year in music, so it’s going to be difficult to make a definitive Top 10. But somehow we managed to do it last year. […]"
NOMINATE ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2015
While there are a few key releases left, I want to compile a list of your favorite albums this year. I think we all can agree that 2015 has been a fantastic year in music, so it’s going to be difficult to make a definitive Top 10. But somehow we managed to do it last year.
Nominate 3 (three!) albums each – Mix and match genres of your choice. I’ll start compiling a list, and in December we’ll all vote for our favorites, which is going to end up in the ultimate Top 10. Since the Has it Leaked community is diverse, it’s going to be a mash-up of different genres, from sludge metal to teen pop. But since making a list doesn’t really make any sense in the first place, let’s just go for it.
Nominations take place in the comment section below. Dupes are going to be scratched off the list, so nominating albums such as To Pimp A Butterfly a million times won’t guarantee Kendrick a number one spot.
Go!
The Hirsch Effekt – Holon : Agnosie
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
So Hideous – Laurestine
Neck Deep – Life’s Not Out to Get You
I The Mighty – Connector
Our Last Night – Younger Dreams
The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Algiers – Algiers
1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
2. Miley Cyrus – Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
3. Borns – Dopamine
Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise
Jay Rock – 90059
Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü
1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Jamie xx – In Colour
3. The Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes
Honorable Mentions :
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
Joey Bada$$ – B4.DA.$$
The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness
More Honorable Mentions :
Dr. Dre – Compton
Kaskade – Automatic
Avicii – Stories
Rudimental – We the Generation
Tame Impala – Currents
Jamie xx – In Colour
A$AP Rocky – At Long Last A$AP
Travi$ Scott – Rodeo
1. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
2. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
3. Neon Indian – VEGA INTL. Night School
Tyler, The Creator : Cherry Bomb
Hopsin : Pound Syndrome
The Internet : Ego Death
1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
3. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
(Honorable Mentions: Björk – Vulnicura, Tame Impala – Currents, FKA twigs – M3LL155X, Kamasi Washington – The Epic, Jamie xx – In Colour, Dr. Dre – Compton, Panda Bear -Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, f(x) – 4 Walls)
P.S. D’Angelo / The Vanguard – Black Messiah falls in a weird timing spot (late December 2014) otherwise it would top my list
Pitchfork isn’t hiring based on your hasitleaked posts be a little original please…. and get additional sources of musical input:)
Hmm I can’t speak for what provoked your unwarranted cynicism, but I don’t deny that my primary music outlet is pitchfork. Listen I’m getting to that age, and I’m sure if I had more time I would go chasing increasingly obscure music, through even more obscure forums. Unfortunately I have a good career, and related things happening of greater consequence. I applaud you for keeping the spirit of indie alive, but you’ll have to forgive me for exercising selective attention.
Btw in a world saturated with content vying for our attention (indie movies, HBO/Netflix shows, Pulitzer Prize winning books, new generation games, indie albums etc.), why is it a crime to use a gatekeeper?
What a repugnant thing to say.
Deafheaven – New Bermuda
Steven Wilson – Hand.Cannot.Erase
Napalm Death – Apex Predator – Easy Meat
1. Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife
2. Wale – The Album About Nothing
3. Kid Ink – Full Speed
Björk – Vulnicura
Grimes – Art Angels
Empress Of – Me
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye
Crywolf – Cataclasm
Galantis – Pharmacy
Crywolf works!
Crywolf rocks!
Florence + the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Foals – What Went Down
Tampe Impala – Currents
BONUS : The Shoes – Chemicals
1 Beach House – Depression Cherry
2 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
3 Death Grips – Jenny Death
4 Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
5 Deafheaven – New Bermuda
Meghan Trainor – Title
Of Monsters and Men – Beneath the Skin
Selena Gomez – Revival
1) My Love Is Cool – Wolf Alice HANDS DOWN
2) Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance – Belle and Sebastian
3) Pagans In Vegas – Metric
HM:
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit – Courtney Barnett
Honeymoon – Lana Del Rey
The Great Pretenders – Mini Mansions
If I Was… – The Staves
FFS – FFS
California Nights – Best Coast
Disclosure – Caracal
K CAMP – Only Way Is Up
Mac Miller – GO:OD AM
Borns – Dopamine
Melanie Martinez – Crybaby
Adele – 25
(If it’s too late to nominate Adele’s release, then Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful)
Meek Mill : Dreams Worth More Than Money
Earl Sweatshirt : I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
Boosie Badazz : Touch Down 2 Cause Hell
Travis Scott – Rodeo
Imagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
1: Everything Everything – Get to Heaven
2: Sizarr – Nurture
3: Darwin Deez – Double Down