Unlike 2014, I did buy enough albums this year to pick out a decent list. 2015 felt pretty good overall with a lot of bands I like releasing strong records. It was similar to 2013 in some ways. I pretty much had my top five for the year by June, thanks to Container, Drainolith, Sightings, White Poppy, and Zaïmph. I went back to buying CDs a little more out of the convenience of the format. As always any album had to be released in the calendar year and I had to listen to it a lot. And if you are one of those types who needs a definitive album of the year, then that honor goes to Lightning Bolt's Fantasy Empire.
The list goes band/album/label for those with questions of that nature.
01. Lea Bertucci & Leila Bordreuil - L'Onde Souterraine - Telegraph Harp
02. Bitchin Bajas & Natural Information Society - Automaginary - Drag City
03. Dave Borden - Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments - Spectrum Spools
04. Container - LP - Spectrum Spools
05. Drainolith - Hysteria - NNA
06. Flying Saucer Attack - Instrumentals 2015 - Drag City
07. Steve Hauschildt - Where All Is Fled - Kranky
08. Helen - The Original Faces - Kranky
09. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire - Thrill Jockey
10. Night Court - Law & Order - Not Not Fun
11. People Of The North - Era Of Manifestations - Thrill Jockey
12. Positive No - Glossa - Little Black Cloud
13. Quarterbacks - Quarterbacks - Team Love
14. Sightings - Amusers & Puzzlers - Dais
15. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love - Sub Pop
16. U.S. Girls - Half Free - 4AD
17. White Poppy - Natural Phenomena - Not Not Fun
18. Wolf Eyes - I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces - Third Man
19. Yarn/Wire & Pete Swanson - Eliminated Artist - Distributed Objects
20. Zaïmph - Two Aspects Divided - Yew
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