Valk's 52% of 2015
To be honest, this year hasn't been all that good for me. Maybe I've been looking for good music in the wrong places, I was simply unlucky with my picks, or just need to dig deeper (this, for sure...), but regardless: here is a list of noteworthy releases I heard this year, and while some entries are pretty set in place at this point, other entries might disappear from my (future) definitive year-end list as I get around to listen to them more, and listen to more 2015 releases. List is organized by rating |
| 49 |  | Lost Salt Blood Purges
The Voids We All Long For
3.0 - drone/folk |
| 48 |  | Vril
Portal
3.0 - techno ~ pretty good but a bit too repetitive for my taste |
| 47 |  | Jasmine Guffond
Yellow Bell
3.0 - ambient |
| 46 |  | Viet Cong
Viet Cong
3.0 - post-punk |
| 45 |  | Ntjam Rosie
The One
3.0 - soul |
| 44 |  | Kamasi Washington
The Epic
3.0 - jazz fusion |
| 43 |  | Desolate Shrine
The Heart of the Netherworld
3.0 - death metal |
| 42 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
3.0 - post-rock |
| 41 |  | Misthyrming
Söngvar elds og óreiðu
3.0 - black metal |
| 40 |  | Rebekah
Transient Being
3.0 - techno |
| 39 |  | Sean McCann
Ten Impressions For Piano And Strings
3.0 - classical ambient |
| 38 |  | Panabrite
Disintegrating Landscape
3.0 - ambient ~ more on the electronic side of things |
| 37 |  | Steven Wilson
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
3.0 - progressive rock |
| 36 |  | Obscure Infinity
Perpetual Descending into Nothingness
3.0 - death metal |
| 35 |  | Sulphur Aeon
Gateway to the Antisphere
3.0 - death metal |
| 34 |  | Beppu
Persuasion
3.0 - industrial techno |
| 33 |  | Paula Temple
RA.464
3.0 - techno |
| 32 |  | Tricot
AND
3.0 - pop/math rock |
| 31 |  | PINKSHINYULTRABLAST
Everything Else Matters
3.0 - shoegaze |
| 30 |  | Big Blood
Double Days I
3.0 - psych folk |
| 29 |  | Alva Noto
Xerrox Vol. 3
3.0 - ambient |
| 28 |  | Izah
Sistere
3.0 - post-metal |
| 27 |  | Helicalin
Everyting So Stoned, Everything Is Bad
3.0 - downtempo/ambient/trip hop |
| 26 |  | Sumbu Dunia
Sister Nature
3.0 - sound collage ~ i've yet to decide if this is really well done experimental stuff or very random collage with some great parts |
| 25 |  | Ozel AB
Crimes
3.0 - techno ~ probably still the best techno I've heard this year |
| 24 |  | Sufjan Stevens
Carrie and Lowell
3.0 - indie folk |
| 23 |  | Person of Interest
Person of Interest
3.0 - outsider house |
| 22 |  | The Tallest Man on Earth
Dark Bird Is Home
3.0-3.5 - folk |
| 21 |  | Dave DK
Val Maira
3.0 - house |
| 20 |  | Helena Hauff
Lex Tertia
3.0 - techno |
| 19 |  | Tzusing
A Name Out of Place Pt. II
3.0 - techno |
| 18 |  | The Flashbulb
aBliss
3.0 - idm |
| 17 |  | Carly Rae Jepsen
E MO TION
3.0 - pop |
| 16 |  | Akhlys
The Dreaming I
3.5 - black metal |
| 15 |  | bansheebeat
Lumine
3.5 - idk |
| 14 |  | Hiatus Kaiyote
Choose Your Weapon
3.5 - neo soul |
| 13 |  | Thou/The Body
You, Whom I Have Always Hated
3.5 - sludge metal ~ crushing as fuck |
| 12 |  | Nekomata Master
follow slowly
3.5 - world/electronic/j-pop |
| 11 |  | Leviathan
Scar Sighted
3.5 - black metal |
| 10 |  | Prurient
Frozen Niagara Falls
3.5 - industrial/noise |
| 9 |  | Aux Field
Imaginable Layers
3.5 - ambient ~ more on the electronic side of things |
| 8 |  | Aidan Baker
Half Lives: As I Walked On Dead Earth
3.5 - drone/post-rock ~ both entries, this is a double album |
| 7 |  | ASC
Imagine The Future
3.5 - minimal dnb ~ more great music from this guy... as if you could expect anything else |
| 6 |  | Big Blood
Double Days II
3.5 - psych folk |
| 5 |  | Acherontas
Ma-IoN 'Formulas Of Reptilian Unification'
3.5 - black metal / ritual ambient |
| 4 |  | Moderator
The World Within
3.5 - trip hop |
| 3 |  | Mount Eerie
Sauna
3.5 - drone/folk |
| 2 |  | Aine O'Dwyer
Music for Church Cleaners Vol. I and II
4.0 - ambient/free improv |
| 1 |  | Aidan Baker
The Confessional Tapes
4.0 - drone/post-rock |
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