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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