AllMusic Loves 2015
Dec. 14, 2015
By this point in the year, it's clear what the consensus picks of 2015 are: Kendrick Lamar's zeitgeist-defining To Pimp a Butterfly, Courtney Barnett's fiery and soulful Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit., Sufjan Stevens' moving Carrie & Lowell, maybe Grimes' nervy art-pop, too. Outside of these records -- popping up on so many of our editors' lists, albeit in shifting variations -- there was plenty about 2015 to love. Maybe too much, actually, because it's possible to look at each of these individual lists and realize we're all living different 2015s, one filled with adventurous electronics, finely-rendered R&B, bracing jazz, haunting folk, brawny country, pure pop, hard-driving rock & roll and, occasionally, a musician that pulls together each of these sounds together and finds something new.
Look through these lists and you'll find new names mixing with the standard bearers, cult favorites, and veterans vying for space with upstarts, and the one thing that they all have in common is that they made records that demanded attention. Use these lists not as a text but as a guide to find music that you also love.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Eric Church - Mr. Misunderstood
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Low Cut Connie - Hi Honey
Maddie & Tae - Start Here
Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
Cam - Untamed
Carly Rae Jepsen - E-MO-TION
Squeeze - Cradle to the Grave
Randy Rogers/Wade Bowen - Hold My Beer, Vol. 1
Veruca Salt - Ghost Notes
Sara Bareilles - What's Inside: Songs from Waitress
Turnpike Troubadours - The Turnpike Troubadours
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again
The Juliana Hatfield Three - Whatever, My Love
Torres - Sprinter
The Dead Weather - Dodge and Burn
The Mavericks - Mono
The Sonics - This Is the Sonics
Various Artists - Ork Records: New York, New York
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966
Little Richard - Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years
Bobby Bare - The Storyteller: The Anthology 1960-1983
Bruce Springsteen - The Ties That Bind: The River Collection
Miles Davis - Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975 - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4
Slim Harpo - Buzzin' the Blues: The Complete Slim Harpo
The Velvet Underground - The Complete Matrix Tapes
Various Artists - Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City
Jerry Lee Lewis - At Sun Records: The Collected Works: What the Hell Else Do You Need?
Zakary Thaks - It's the End: The Definitive Collection
Various Artists - Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock Vol. 3: 1970
Craig Fuller/Eric Kaz - Craig Fuller/Eric Kaz
Grateful Dead - 30 Trips Around the Sun
Paul Williams - A Little on the Windy Side
Various Artists - Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Various Artists - Jon Savage Presents 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
Eddie Bo - Baby I'm Wise: The Complete Ric Singles 1959-1962
Various Artists - Happy Lovin' Time: Sunshine Pop from the Garpax Vaults
Texas Tornados - A Little Bit Is Better Than Nada: Prime Cuts 1990-1996
Heather Phares
Battles - La Di Da Di
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
Björk - Vulnicura
Blank Realm - Illegals in Heaven
Colleen - Captain of None
The Dead Weather - Dodge and Burn
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Disappears - Irreal
EZTV - Calling Out
John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Holly Herndon - Platform
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Rabit - Communion
Shamir - Ratchet
SOPHIE - Product
Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Tim Sendra
Blank Realm - Illegals in Heaven
Travis Bretzer - Waxing Romantic
Cairo Gang - Goes Missing
Death & Vanilla - To Where the Wild Things Are
Dick Diver - Melbourne Florida
EZTV - Calling Out
The Go! Team - The Scene Between
Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf
H. Hawkline - In the Pink of Condition
Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
Mac McCaughan - Non-Believers
Novella - Land
Sauna Youth - Distractions
Sheer Agony - Masterpiece
Sick Sad World - Fear and Lies
The Smoking Trees - TST
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again
John Bush
Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
The Juliana Hatfield Three - Whatever, My Love
Girlpool - Before the World Was Big
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Shamir - Ratchet
Wavves - V
Tame Impala - Currents
Jamie xx - In Colour
Empress Of - Me
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
Tobias Jesso, Jr. - Goon
Grimes - Art Angels
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
Crocodiles - Boys
Purity Ring - Another Eternity
Girlpool - "Before the World Was Big"
Blur - "Lonesome Street"
No Joy - "Everything New"
Laura Marling - "Warrior"
Courtney Barnett - "Depreston"
Kacey Musgraves - "Late to the Party"
The Mountain Goats - "The Ballad of Bull Ramos"
Shamir - "On the Regular"
Disclosure f/ Gregory Porter - "Holding On"
D.R.A.M. - "Cha Cha"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick it? [J. Cole Remix]"
Dr. Dre f/ Kendrick Lamar & Marsha Ambrosius - "Genocide"
Kendrick Lamar - "King Kunta"
A$AP Rocky - "L$D"
The Dead Weather - "I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)"
Wavves - "Way Too Much"
Kurt Vile - "Pretty Pimpin"
Mac DeMarco - "Another One"
Chastity Belt - "Drone"
Panda Bear - "Boys Latin"
Matt Collar [Spotify]
José González - Vestiges & Claws
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Hurts - Surrender
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Editors - In Dream
Twin Danger - Twin Danger
Dave Douglas - High Risk
Cécile McLorin Salvant - For One to Love
Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands
JD McPherson - Let the Good Times Roll
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Terence Blanchard - Breathless
Kenny Wheeler - Songs for Quintet
John Scofield - Past Present
Tori Kelly - Unbreakable Smile
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Bird Calls
Swim Deep - Mothers
Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
Little Boots - Working Girl
Kendrick Scott Oracle - We Are the Drum
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "Downtown"
Frankmusik - "I Remember"
Hurts - "Lights"
Tori Kelly - "Should've Been Us"
DNCE - "Cake by the Ocean"
Little Boots - "Get Things Done"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Janelle Monáe - "Yoga"
Field Music - "The Noisy Days Are Over"
Maritime - "Satellite Love"
The 1975 - "Love Me"
Tobias Jesso, Jr. - "Can We Still Be Friends"
The Ordinary Boys - "Four Letter Word"
John Newman - "Come and Get It"
Duran Duran - "Pressure Off"
Circa Waves - "Stuck in My Teeth”
Swim Deep - "Namaste"
Young Galaxy - "Factory Flaws"
Kacey Musgraves - "Biscuits"
José González - "Let It Carry You"
Mark Deming
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
The Bottle Rockets - South Broadway Athletic Club
The Sonics - This Is the Sonics
Rachel Grimes - The Clearing
Downtown Boys - Full Communism
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015
James McMurtry - Complicated Game
Protomartyr - Agent Intellect
Wilco - Star Wars
The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
Olivia Chaney - The Longest River
METZ - II
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Kasey Chambers - Bittersweet
Local H - Hey, Killer
Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart
The Mavericks - Mono
Richard Thompson - Still
Childbirth - Women's Rights
Marcy Donelson [Spotify]
Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
Hop Along - Painted Shut
Destroyer - Poison Season
Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom
Son Lux - Bones
Teen Men - Teen Men
Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Yonatan Gat - Director
The Weepies - Sirens
Here We Go Magic - Be Small
Martin Courtney - Many Moons
Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
The Dodos - Individ
Pfarmers - Gunnera
Alex G - Beach Music
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
CHAPPO - Future Former Self
Small Feet - From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like the Ocean
Of Montreal - "Bassem Sabry"
Sondre Lerche - "Despite the Night"
Fred Thomas - "Cops Don't Care, Pt. 2"
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - "Betray My Heart"
Superhuman Happiness - "Super 8"
Son Lux - "You Don't Know Me"
Big Data f/ Rivers Cuomo - "Snowed In"
Pearl and the Beard - "You"
Here We Go Magic - "Falling"
AURORA - "Runaway"
David Jeffries
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Miguel - WILDHEART
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt
Drake/Future - What a Time to Be Alive
Future - DS2
Oddisee - The Good Fight
Jay Rock - 90059
Dâm-Funk - Invite the Light
Heems - Eat Pray Thug
Boosie Badazz - Touch Down 2 Cause Hell
Mac Miller - GO:OD AM
Snoop Dogg - Bush
Major Lazer - Peace Is the Mission
Logic - The Incredible True Story
The Game - The Documentary 2
Dr. Dre - Compton
Guilty Simpson - Detroit's Son
Jah Cure - The Cure
Various Artists - Sherwood at the Controls, Vol. 1: 1979-1984
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Thom Jurek
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Algiers - Algiers
Caspian - Dust and Disquiet
María Toledo - Consentido
Lila Downs - Balas y Chocolate
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Swallow the Sun - Songs from the North I, II & III
Bilal - In Another Life
Ben Goldberg - Orphic Machine
Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta La Raiz
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Alejandro Sanz - Sirope
Julieta Venegas - Algo Sucede
Boz Scaggs - A Fool to Care
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Maná - Cama Incendiada
Gerardo Ortiz - Hoy Más Fuerte
Farruko - Visionary
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Marcus Miller - Afrodeezia
Andy Kellman [Spotify]
Bilal - In Another Life
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Floating Points - Elaenia
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Dornik - Dornik
Nicolay - City Lights, Vol. 3: Soweto
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Jam City - Dream a Garden
Jamie Woon - Making Time
Algiers - Algiers
Gaussian Curve - Clouds
King Midas Sound/Fennesz - Edition 1
The Foreign Exchange - Tales from the Land of Milk and Honey
Carmen Rodgers - Stargazer
Tomeka Reid Quartet - Tomeka Reid Quartet
Santiago Salazar - Chicanismo
Columbia Nights - In All Things
Heathered Pearls - Body Complex
Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"
Thundercat - "Them Changes"
Special Request - "Amnesia"
Okzharp - "Dear Ribane"
Róisín Murphy - "House of Glass [Maurice Fulton Remix]"
Kelela - "Rewind"
The Black Queen - "Ice to Never"
Jamie Woon - "Sharpness"
Golden Teacher - "Shatter"
Morgan Hammer - "Killer Nighter"
Algiers - "Black Eunuch"
Disclosure - "Willing & Able"
Bullion - "Loop the Loop"
Guordan Banks - "Keep You in Mind"
Nicolay - "The Brightest Star"
Jazmine Sullivan - "Let It Burn"
The Internet - "Girl"
Shift K3Y - "2 Doors"
The Galleria - "Calling Card"
Simon Fisher Turner - "Shishapangma"
James Monger
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
Ghost - Meliora
Joan Shelley - Over and Even
Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Baroness - Purple
San Fermin - Jackrabbit
Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
Tenement - Predatory Headlights
Lonelady - Hinterland
Stealing Sheep - Not Real
The Darkness - Last of Our Kind
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Olivia Chaney - The Longest River
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Jake Xerxes Fussell
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
This Is the Kit - Bashed Out
The Unthanks - Mount the Air
C Duncan - Architect
Kurt Vile - "Pretty Pimpin"
Gwenno - "Amser"
Róisín Murphy - "Evil Eyes"
Desaparecidos - "Golden Parachutes"
No Joy - "Judith"
Chris Connelly - "Decibels from the Heart"
Chvrches - "Leave a Trace"
Young Fathers - "Shame"
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - "S.O.B."
Rachel Sermanni - "Run"
Ewert & the Two Dragons - "Pictures"
Saintseneca - "Sleeper Hold"
Ryley Walker - "Primrose Green"
Fantasma - "Basbizile"
Courtney Barnett - "Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party"
Bop English - "Dani’s Blues (It Was Beyond Our Control)"
Beck - "Dreams"
Maccabees - "Marks to Prove It"
Algiers - "Blood"
Christine and the Queens - "Tilted"
Timothy Monger
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Jake Xerxes Fussell
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg - Ambsace
Tom Brosseau - Perfect Abandon
José González - Vestiges & Claws
Los Hijos de la Montaña - Los Hijos de la Montaña
Olivia Chaney - The Longest River
Stornoway - Bonxie
Crying Lion - The Golden Boat
Leveret - New Anything
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Lonelady - Hinterland
Django Django - Born Under Saturn
Wilderness - Escape Was Narrow
Red River Dialect - Tender Gold & Gentle Blue
Bop English - Constant Bop
Mac DeMarco - Another One
The Weather Station - Loyalty
Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
B.C. Camplight - "You Should've Gone to School"
The Darkness - "Barbarian"
Promised Land Sound - "Through the Seasons"
Young Ejecta - "Into Your Heart"
Turnover - "Humming"
Summer Fiction - "Perfume Paper"
Mocky - "Hymn (For Murka)"
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - "S.O.B."
Pogo - "The Trouble"
Beat Connection - "Another Go Round"
Jeff Lynne's ELO - "When I Was a Boy"
Kid Wave - "All I Want"
The Real McKenzies - "Lilacs In the Alleyway"
Vetiver - "Stranger Still"
Astropol - "Make Love Stay"
The Very Best - "Let Go"
Joan Shelley - "Stay on My Shore"
Belle Ghoul - "Winter's Gone"
Tame Impala - "'Cause I'm a Man"
Linden - "Rest and Be Thankful"
Paul Simpson [Spotify]
Matchess - Somnaphoria
Rabit - Communion
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year with 13 Moons
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
Coil - Backwards
Johan Agebjörn - Notes
Dan Friel - Life
Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography
Steve Roach - Skeleton Keys
King Midas Sound/Fennesz - Edition 1
Colleen - Captain of None
Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
Downtown Boys - Full Communism
White Poppy - Natural Phenomena
Natural Snow Buildings - Terror's Horns
Container - LP
Mind Over Mirrors - The Voice Calling
Fis - The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now
Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra - Galactic Parables, Vol. 1
Venetian Snares - "Your Face When I Finally"
Colleen - "Lighthouse"
Matchess - "Sinister Prophecies of Coming Catastrophe"
Rabit - "Pandemic"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "I Bite Through It"
DJ Spinn f/ DJ Rashad & Danny Brown - "Dubby"
Julia Holter - "Feel You"
Natural Snow Buildings - "King in Yellow"
In Tall Buildings - "Flare Gun [City Center Remix]"
Panda Bear - "Boys Latin [Andy Stott Remix]"
Holly Herndon - "Interference"
Amnesia Scanner - "Angels Rig Hook"
Jessica Pratt - "Back, Baby"
White Poppy - "Telepathic Love"
Anthony Naples - "Abrazo"
Dax J - "In the Shadows"
Low - "Landslide"
DJ Taye f/ DJ Earl - "XTCC"
Container - "Eject"
Oven Toast Jam - "MG42"
Sean Westergaard
Actis Dato Quartet - Earth Is the Place
Ahleuchatistas - Arrebato
Scott Amendola & Henry Kaiser - Leaps
Bardo Pond - Record Store Day Trilogy
Czarface - Every Hero Needs a Villain
Miles Davis - Live in Tokyo 1975
Eleventh Dream Day - Works for Tomorrow
Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters - Omaha Civic Auditorium, 17th November, 1975
Charlie Hunter Trio - Let the Bells Ring On
Henry Kaiser/Ray Russell - The Celestial Squid
Henry Kaiser/Robert Musso - Echoes for Sonny
Henry Kaiser - Garden of Memory
King Crimson - Live at the Orpheum
Fall Line - Korekyojinn
Krokofant - Krokofant, Vol. 2
Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Hannover
Never Enough Hope - The Gravity of Our Commitment
Sun Ra - The Pit Inn 8-8-88
Frank Zappa - Roxy: The Movie
The Dreamers/John Zorn - Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula
Neil Z. Yeung [Spotify]
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
Grimes - Art Angels
Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
BØRNS - Dopamine
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
Daniel Johns - Talk
Carly Rae Jepsen - E-MO-TION
The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy
Big Data - 2.0
Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood
Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Tame Impala - Currents
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Clutch - Psychic Warfare
Ryan Adams - 1989
Empire Cast - Empire [Original Soundtrack from Season 1]
Adele - 25
Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best"
Marilyn Manson - "Mephistopheles of Los Angeles"
Sia - "Elastic Heart"
Coasts - "Modern Love"
Florence + the Machine - "Hiding"
The Chemical Brothers f/ Q-Tip - "Go!"
Muse - "Reapers"
Brandon Flowers - "Can't Deny My Love"
Coldplay - "Adventure of a Lifetime"
Michael Giacchino - "As the Jurassic World Turns"
The Dear Hunter - "Waves"
Kelly Clarkson - "Take You High"
Adele - "I Miss You"
Ariana Grande - "One Last Time"
Nick Jonas - "Chains"
The Prodigy - "Nasty"
Mark Ronson f/ Kevin Parker - "Daffodils"
BØRNS - "Electric Love"
Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"
Holy Holy - "You Cannot Call for Love Like a Dog"
James Wilkinson
Triptides - Azur
Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Emma Kupa - Home Cinema
Disasterpeace - It Follows
Max Richter - Sleep
Jon Brooks - Walberswick
Blur - The Magic Whip
Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County Primary
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Ducktails - St. Catherine
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
Houndstooth - No News from Home
Tobias Jesso, Jr. - Goon
GospelbeacH - Pacific Surf Line
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Meg Baird - Don't Weigh Down the Light
Mac DeMarco - Another One
Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band - "Velvets in the Dark"
Cabane & Bonnie Prince Billy - "La Gomera"
Emma Kupa - "Consequences"
Trembling Bells - "Killing Time in London Fields"
Whyte Horses - "La Couleur Originelle"
Faten Kanaan - "Planet 898/Circle Drawn"
Pye Corner Audio - "Prowler"
Vic Mars - "Road Through the Village"
The Besnard Lakes - "Golden Lion"
Widowspeak - "All Yours"
Waxahatchee - "Breathless"
Belle & Sebastian - "Nobody's Empire"
The Declining Winter - "This Sadness Lacks"
The Leaf Library - "Sailing Day"
Julia Holter - "Sea Calls Me Home"
Joanna Newsom - "Leaving the City"
Low - "What Part of Me"
Salad Boys - "Here's No Use"
Jacco Gardner - "Before the Dawn"
Jack Sharp - "Adieu to Old England"
John D. Buchanan
Aardvarck - Co in Ci
Eivind Aarset - I.E.
Ancestral Voices - Night of Visions
Chevel - Blurse
Avishai Cohen Trio - From Darkness
Simone Dinnerstein - Broadway-Lafayette
Fis - The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now
Giorgio Gigli - The Right Place Where Not to Be
Goldmund - Sometimes
Gonno - Remember the Life Is Beautiful
Rachel Grimes - The Clearing
Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography
Kerridge - Always Offended Never Ashamed
Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
Merzbow - Konchuuki
Mouse on the Keys - The Flowers of Romance
Of Feather and Bone - Embrace the Wretched Flesh
Pole - Wald
Max Richter - Sleep
Wagakki Band - Yasou Emaki
Liam Martin
Crazy P - Walk Dance Talk Sing
Eli Escobar - Up All Night
Tame Impala - Currents
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Jamie xx - In Colour
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
The Districts - A Flourish and a Spoil
Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
Floating Points - Elaenia
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
A1 Bassline - Technicality
Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture
µ-Ziq - XTLP
Nadastrom - Nadastrom
Citizenn - Human Interface
Scuba - Claustrophobia
Scntst - Puffer
Kangding Ray - Cory Arcane
Mac DeMarco - "Another One"
Chvrches - "Leave a Trace [Four Tet Remix]"
Waves/Cloud Nothings - "How It's Gonna Go"
DJ Koze - "Knee on Belly"
Para One - "Elevation"
Ducktails - "St. Catherine"
Bok Bok/Sweyn Jupiter - "Papaya Lipgloss [Club Mix]"
Romare - "Love Song"
Foals - "Mountain at My Gates"
Hot Chip - "Dancing in the Dark/All My Friends"
Ghost Culture - "Giudecca"
Nautiluss - "Aerochrome"
Courtney Barnett - "Depreston"
Father John Misty - "True Affection"
Deerhunter - "Breaker"
The Districts - "Heavy Begs"
Tame Impala - "Eventually"
Jamie xx f/ Romy - "Loud Places"
Girl Band - "Pears for Lunch"
Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"
Simon Spreyer [Spotify]
Owiny Sigoma Band - Nyanza
Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do
Vula Viel - Good Is Good
The Comet Is Coming - Prophecy
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Clap! Clap! - Simple
Kink Gong - Tanzania
Colin Stetson/Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Anthony Child - Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle, Vol. 1
Anthony Naples - Body Pill
Kassem Mosse/Simone White - Three Versions
Cosmin TRG - III
Pearson Sound - Pearson Sound
The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD
AFX - Orphaned Deejay Selek: 2006-2008
Floating Points - Elaenia
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Ghostface Killah/Adrian Younge - Twelve Reasons to Die
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Thundercat - Where the Giants Roam
Rob Wacey
Arca - Mutant
AWOLNATION - Run
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Ex Machina
Björk - Vulnicura
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Foals - What Went Down
Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin
Grimes - Art Angels
Health - Death Magic
John Carpenter - Lost Themes
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Marriages - Salome
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space
Purity Ring - Another Eternity
Refused - Freedom
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tyler, The Creator - Cherry Bomb
Wax Idols - American Tragic
AWOLNATION - "Jailbreak"
Chromatics - "Yes (Love Theme from Lost River)"
Chvrches - "Keep You on My Side"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Deafheaven - "Baby Blue"
Du Blonde - "Black Flag"
Foals - "Give It All [Clint Mansell Remix]"
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - "Piss Crowns Are Trebled"
Haelos - "Pray"
Health - "Hurt Yourself"
Marriages - "Love, Texas"
M.I.A. - "Borders"
Nevermen - "Tough Towns"
Public Service Broadcasting - "Sputnik"
Purity Ring - "Begin Again"
Puscifer - "Grand Canyon"
Sufjan Stevens - "All of Me Wants All of You"
The Black Queen - "Maybe We Should"
Wax Idols - "Deborah"
Wolf Alice - "Silk"
Rich Wilson
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Elephant Micah - Where in Our Woods
The Sidekicks - Runners in the Nerved World
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Container - LP
All Dogs - Kicking Every Day
Dogs on Acid - Dogs on Acid
Lou Barlow - Brace the Wave
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
Winter Break - Winter Break
Helen - The Original Faces
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Harmlessness
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
Spraynard - Mable
Beach Slang - The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
October - Black Body Radiation
Father John Misty - "Bored in the USA"
Yowler - "Bedroom Wall"
Pale Angels - "Wild Vile Flesh"
Personal Best - "This Is What We Look Like"
Pinkshinyultrablast - "Kiddy Pool Dreams"
Mikal Cronin - "Made My Mind Up"
Mac McCaughan - "Lost Again"
Soko - "My Dreams Dictate My Reality"
Chrononautz - "Noments"
Diet Cig - "Harvard"
Jahiliyya Fields - "Clear Collar"
Michael Vallera - "Dream Lense"
Shit Present - "Kick Me"
Girl Band - "Pears for Lunch"
Youth Code - "Anagnorisis"
Special Request - "Tractor Beam"
Roots Manuva - "Hard Bastards"
Not Waving - "Get Serious"
Broken English Club - "Godless"
Tropic of Cancer - "Stop Suffering"
Look through these lists and you'll find new names mixing with the standard bearers, cult favorites, and veterans vying for space with upstarts, and the one thing that they all have in common is that they made records that demanded attention. Use these lists not as a text but as a guide to find music that you also love.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Eric Church - Mr. Misunderstood
Ashley Monroe - The Blade
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Low Cut Connie - Hi Honey
Maddie & Tae - Start Here
Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
Cam - Untamed
Carly Rae Jepsen - E-MO-TION
Squeeze - Cradle to the Grave
Randy Rogers/Wade Bowen - Hold My Beer, Vol. 1
Veruca Salt - Ghost Notes
Sara Bareilles - What's Inside: Songs from Waitress
Turnpike Troubadours - The Turnpike Troubadours
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again
The Juliana Hatfield Three - Whatever, My Love
Torres - Sprinter
The Dead Weather - Dodge and Burn
The Mavericks - Mono
The Sonics - This Is the Sonics
Various Artists - Ork Records: New York, New York
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966
Little Richard - Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years
Bobby Bare - The Storyteller: The Anthology 1960-1983
Bruce Springsteen - The Ties That Bind: The River Collection
Miles Davis - Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975 - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4
Slim Harpo - Buzzin' the Blues: The Complete Slim Harpo
The Velvet Underground - The Complete Matrix Tapes
Various Artists - Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City
Jerry Lee Lewis - At Sun Records: The Collected Works: What the Hell Else Do You Need?
Zakary Thaks - It's the End: The Definitive Collection
Various Artists - Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock Vol. 3: 1970
Craig Fuller/Eric Kaz - Craig Fuller/Eric Kaz
Grateful Dead - 30 Trips Around the Sun
Paul Williams - A Little on the Windy Side
Various Artists - Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Various Artists - Jon Savage Presents 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
Eddie Bo - Baby I'm Wise: The Complete Ric Singles 1959-1962
Various Artists - Happy Lovin' Time: Sunshine Pop from the Garpax Vaults
Texas Tornados - A Little Bit Is Better Than Nada: Prime Cuts 1990-1996
Heather Phares
Battles - La Di Da Di
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
Björk - Vulnicura
Blank Realm - Illegals in Heaven
Colleen - Captain of None
The Dead Weather - Dodge and Burn
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Disappears - Irreal
EZTV - Calling Out
John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Holly Herndon - Platform
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Rabit - Communion
Shamir - Ratchet
SOPHIE - Product
Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Tim Sendra
Blank Realm - Illegals in Heaven
Travis Bretzer - Waxing Romantic
Cairo Gang - Goes Missing
Death & Vanilla - To Where the Wild Things Are
Dick Diver - Melbourne Florida
EZTV - Calling Out
The Go! Team - The Scene Between
Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf
H. Hawkline - In the Pink of Condition
Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
Mac McCaughan - Non-Believers
Novella - Land
Sauna Youth - Distractions
Sheer Agony - Masterpiece
Sick Sad World - Fear and Lies
The Smoking Trees - TST
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
White Reaper - White Reaper Does It Again
John Bush
Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
The Juliana Hatfield Three - Whatever, My Love
Girlpool - Before the World Was Big
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Shamir - Ratchet
Wavves - V
Tame Impala - Currents
Jamie xx - In Colour
Empress Of - Me
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
Tobias Jesso, Jr. - Goon
Grimes - Art Angels
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
Crocodiles - Boys
Purity Ring - Another Eternity
Girlpool - "Before the World Was Big"
Blur - "Lonesome Street"
No Joy - "Everything New"
Laura Marling - "Warrior"
Courtney Barnett - "Depreston"
Kacey Musgraves - "Late to the Party"
The Mountain Goats - "The Ballad of Bull Ramos"
Shamir - "On the Regular"
Disclosure f/ Gregory Porter - "Holding On"
D.R.A.M. - "Cha Cha"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick it? [J. Cole Remix]"
Dr. Dre f/ Kendrick Lamar & Marsha Ambrosius - "Genocide"
Kendrick Lamar - "King Kunta"
A$AP Rocky - "L$D"
The Dead Weather - "I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)"
Wavves - "Way Too Much"
Kurt Vile - "Pretty Pimpin"
Mac DeMarco - "Another One"
Chastity Belt - "Drone"
Panda Bear - "Boys Latin"
Matt Collar [Spotify]
José González - Vestiges & Claws
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Hurts - Surrender
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Editors - In Dream
Twin Danger - Twin Danger
Dave Douglas - High Risk
Cécile McLorin Salvant - For One to Love
Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands
JD McPherson - Let the Good Times Roll
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Terence Blanchard - Breathless
Kenny Wheeler - Songs for Quintet
John Scofield - Past Present
Tori Kelly - Unbreakable Smile
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Bird Calls
Swim Deep - Mothers
Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
Little Boots - Working Girl
Kendrick Scott Oracle - We Are the Drum
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "Downtown"
Frankmusik - "I Remember"
Hurts - "Lights"
Tori Kelly - "Should've Been Us"
DNCE - "Cake by the Ocean"
Little Boots - "Get Things Done"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Janelle Monáe - "Yoga"
Field Music - "The Noisy Days Are Over"
Maritime - "Satellite Love"
The 1975 - "Love Me"
Tobias Jesso, Jr. - "Can We Still Be Friends"
The Ordinary Boys - "Four Letter Word"
John Newman - "Come and Get It"
Duran Duran - "Pressure Off"
Circa Waves - "Stuck in My Teeth”
Swim Deep - "Namaste"
Young Galaxy - "Factory Flaws"
Kacey Musgraves - "Biscuits"
José González - "Let It Carry You"
Mark Deming
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
The Bottle Rockets - South Broadway Athletic Club
The Sonics - This Is the Sonics
Rachel Grimes - The Clearing
Downtown Boys - Full Communism
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015
James McMurtry - Complicated Game
Protomartyr - Agent Intellect
Wilco - Star Wars
The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
Olivia Chaney - The Longest River
METZ - II
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Kasey Chambers - Bittersweet
Local H - Hey, Killer
Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart
The Mavericks - Mono
Richard Thompson - Still
Childbirth - Women's Rights
Marcy Donelson [Spotify]
Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
Hop Along - Painted Shut
Destroyer - Poison Season
Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom
Son Lux - Bones
Teen Men - Teen Men
Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Yonatan Gat - Director
The Weepies - Sirens
Here We Go Magic - Be Small
Martin Courtney - Many Moons
Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
The Dodos - Individ
Pfarmers - Gunnera
Alex G - Beach Music
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
CHAPPO - Future Former Self
Small Feet - From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like the Ocean
Of Montreal - "Bassem Sabry"
Sondre Lerche - "Despite the Night"
Fred Thomas - "Cops Don't Care, Pt. 2"
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - "Betray My Heart"
Superhuman Happiness - "Super 8"
Son Lux - "You Don't Know Me"
Big Data f/ Rivers Cuomo - "Snowed In"
Pearl and the Beard - "You"
Here We Go Magic - "Falling"
AURORA - "Runaway"
David Jeffries
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Miguel - WILDHEART
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt
Drake/Future - What a Time to Be Alive
Future - DS2
Oddisee - The Good Fight
Jay Rock - 90059
Dâm-Funk - Invite the Light
Heems - Eat Pray Thug
Boosie Badazz - Touch Down 2 Cause Hell
Mac Miller - GO:OD AM
Snoop Dogg - Bush
Major Lazer - Peace Is the Mission
Logic - The Incredible True Story
The Game - The Documentary 2
Dr. Dre - Compton
Guilty Simpson - Detroit's Son
Jah Cure - The Cure
Various Artists - Sherwood at the Controls, Vol. 1: 1979-1984
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Thom Jurek
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Algiers - Algiers
Caspian - Dust and Disquiet
María Toledo - Consentido
Lila Downs - Balas y Chocolate
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Swallow the Sun - Songs from the North I, II & III
Bilal - In Another Life
Ben Goldberg - Orphic Machine
Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta La Raiz
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Alejandro Sanz - Sirope
Julieta Venegas - Algo Sucede
Boz Scaggs - A Fool to Care
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Maná - Cama Incendiada
Gerardo Ortiz - Hoy Más Fuerte
Farruko - Visionary
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Marcus Miller - Afrodeezia
Andy Kellman [Spotify]
Bilal - In Another Life
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Floating Points - Elaenia
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Dornik - Dornik
Nicolay - City Lights, Vol. 3: Soweto
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Jam City - Dream a Garden
Jamie Woon - Making Time
Algiers - Algiers
Gaussian Curve - Clouds
King Midas Sound/Fennesz - Edition 1
The Foreign Exchange - Tales from the Land of Milk and Honey
Carmen Rodgers - Stargazer
Tomeka Reid Quartet - Tomeka Reid Quartet
Santiago Salazar - Chicanismo
Columbia Nights - In All Things
Heathered Pearls - Body Complex
Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"
Thundercat - "Them Changes"
Special Request - "Amnesia"
Okzharp - "Dear Ribane"
Róisín Murphy - "House of Glass [Maurice Fulton Remix]"
Kelela - "Rewind"
The Black Queen - "Ice to Never"
Jamie Woon - "Sharpness"
Golden Teacher - "Shatter"
Morgan Hammer - "Killer Nighter"
Algiers - "Black Eunuch"
Disclosure - "Willing & Able"
Bullion - "Loop the Loop"
Guordan Banks - "Keep You in Mind"
Nicolay - "The Brightest Star"
Jazmine Sullivan - "Let It Burn"
The Internet - "Girl"
Shift K3Y - "2 Doors"
The Galleria - "Calling Card"
Simon Fisher Turner - "Shishapangma"
James Monger
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
Ghost - Meliora
Joan Shelley - Over and Even
Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Baroness - Purple
San Fermin - Jackrabbit
Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
Tenement - Predatory Headlights
Lonelady - Hinterland
Stealing Sheep - Not Real
The Darkness - Last of Our Kind
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Olivia Chaney - The Longest River
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Jake Xerxes Fussell
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
This Is the Kit - Bashed Out
The Unthanks - Mount the Air
C Duncan - Architect
Kurt Vile - "Pretty Pimpin"
Gwenno - "Amser"
Róisín Murphy - "Evil Eyes"
Desaparecidos - "Golden Parachutes"
No Joy - "Judith"
Chris Connelly - "Decibels from the Heart"
Chvrches - "Leave a Trace"
Young Fathers - "Shame"
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - "S.O.B."
Rachel Sermanni - "Run"
Ewert & the Two Dragons - "Pictures"
Saintseneca - "Sleeper Hold"
Ryley Walker - "Primrose Green"
Fantasma - "Basbizile"
Courtney Barnett - "Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party"
Bop English - "Dani’s Blues (It Was Beyond Our Control)"
Beck - "Dreams"
Maccabees - "Marks to Prove It"
Algiers - "Blood"
Christine and the Queens - "Tilted"
Timothy Monger
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Jake Xerxes Fussell
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg - Ambsace
Tom Brosseau - Perfect Abandon
José González - Vestiges & Claws
Los Hijos de la Montaña - Los Hijos de la Montaña
Olivia Chaney - The Longest River
Stornoway - Bonxie
Crying Lion - The Golden Boat
Leveret - New Anything
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Lonelady - Hinterland
Django Django - Born Under Saturn
Wilderness - Escape Was Narrow
Red River Dialect - Tender Gold & Gentle Blue
Bop English - Constant Bop
Mac DeMarco - Another One
The Weather Station - Loyalty
Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
B.C. Camplight - "You Should've Gone to School"
The Darkness - "Barbarian"
Promised Land Sound - "Through the Seasons"
Young Ejecta - "Into Your Heart"
Turnover - "Humming"
Summer Fiction - "Perfume Paper"
Mocky - "Hymn (For Murka)"
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - "S.O.B."
Pogo - "The Trouble"
Beat Connection - "Another Go Round"
Jeff Lynne's ELO - "When I Was a Boy"
Kid Wave - "All I Want"
The Real McKenzies - "Lilacs In the Alleyway"
Vetiver - "Stranger Still"
Astropol - "Make Love Stay"
The Very Best - "Let Go"
Joan Shelley - "Stay on My Shore"
Belle Ghoul - "Winter's Gone"
Tame Impala - "'Cause I'm a Man"
Linden - "Rest and Be Thankful"
Paul Simpson [Spotify]
Matchess - Somnaphoria
Rabit - Communion
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year with 13 Moons
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
Coil - Backwards
Johan Agebjörn - Notes
Dan Friel - Life
Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography
Steve Roach - Skeleton Keys
King Midas Sound/Fennesz - Edition 1
Colleen - Captain of None
Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
Fred Thomas - All Are Saved
Downtown Boys - Full Communism
White Poppy - Natural Phenomena
Natural Snow Buildings - Terror's Horns
Container - LP
Mind Over Mirrors - The Voice Calling
Fis - The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now
Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra - Galactic Parables, Vol. 1
Venetian Snares - "Your Face When I Finally"
Colleen - "Lighthouse"
Matchess - "Sinister Prophecies of Coming Catastrophe"
Rabit - "Pandemic"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "I Bite Through It"
DJ Spinn f/ DJ Rashad & Danny Brown - "Dubby"
Julia Holter - "Feel You"
Natural Snow Buildings - "King in Yellow"
In Tall Buildings - "Flare Gun [City Center Remix]"
Panda Bear - "Boys Latin [Andy Stott Remix]"
Holly Herndon - "Interference"
Amnesia Scanner - "Angels Rig Hook"
Jessica Pratt - "Back, Baby"
White Poppy - "Telepathic Love"
Anthony Naples - "Abrazo"
Dax J - "In the Shadows"
Low - "Landslide"
DJ Taye f/ DJ Earl - "XTCC"
Container - "Eject"
Oven Toast Jam - "MG42"
Sean Westergaard
Actis Dato Quartet - Earth Is the Place
Ahleuchatistas - Arrebato
Scott Amendola & Henry Kaiser - Leaps
Bardo Pond - Record Store Day Trilogy
Czarface - Every Hero Needs a Villain
Miles Davis - Live in Tokyo 1975
Eleventh Dream Day - Works for Tomorrow
Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters - Omaha Civic Auditorium, 17th November, 1975
Charlie Hunter Trio - Let the Bells Ring On
Henry Kaiser/Ray Russell - The Celestial Squid
Henry Kaiser/Robert Musso - Echoes for Sonny
Henry Kaiser - Garden of Memory
King Crimson - Live at the Orpheum
Fall Line - Korekyojinn
Krokofant - Krokofant, Vol. 2
Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Hannover
Never Enough Hope - The Gravity of Our Commitment
Sun Ra - The Pit Inn 8-8-88
Frank Zappa - Roxy: The Movie
The Dreamers/John Zorn - Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula
Neil Z. Yeung [Spotify]
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
Grimes - Art Angels
Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
BØRNS - Dopamine
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
Daniel Johns - Talk
Carly Rae Jepsen - E-MO-TION
The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy
Big Data - 2.0
Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood
Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Tame Impala - Currents
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Clutch - Psychic Warfare
Ryan Adams - 1989
Empire Cast - Empire [Original Soundtrack from Season 1]
Adele - 25
Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best"
Marilyn Manson - "Mephistopheles of Los Angeles"
Sia - "Elastic Heart"
Coasts - "Modern Love"
Florence + the Machine - "Hiding"
The Chemical Brothers f/ Q-Tip - "Go!"
Muse - "Reapers"
Brandon Flowers - "Can't Deny My Love"
Coldplay - "Adventure of a Lifetime"
Michael Giacchino - "As the Jurassic World Turns"
The Dear Hunter - "Waves"
Kelly Clarkson - "Take You High"
Adele - "I Miss You"
Ariana Grande - "One Last Time"
Nick Jonas - "Chains"
The Prodigy - "Nasty"
Mark Ronson f/ Kevin Parker - "Daffodils"
BØRNS - "Electric Love"
Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"
Holy Holy - "You Cannot Call for Love Like a Dog"
James Wilkinson
Triptides - Azur
Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Emma Kupa - Home Cinema
Disasterpeace - It Follows
Max Richter - Sleep
Jon Brooks - Walberswick
Blur - The Magic Whip
Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County Primary
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Ducktails - St. Catherine
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
Houndstooth - No News from Home
Tobias Jesso, Jr. - Goon
GospelbeacH - Pacific Surf Line
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Meg Baird - Don't Weigh Down the Light
Mac DeMarco - Another One
Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band - "Velvets in the Dark"
Cabane & Bonnie Prince Billy - "La Gomera"
Emma Kupa - "Consequences"
Trembling Bells - "Killing Time in London Fields"
Whyte Horses - "La Couleur Originelle"
Faten Kanaan - "Planet 898/Circle Drawn"
Pye Corner Audio - "Prowler"
Vic Mars - "Road Through the Village"
The Besnard Lakes - "Golden Lion"
Widowspeak - "All Yours"
Waxahatchee - "Breathless"
Belle & Sebastian - "Nobody's Empire"
The Declining Winter - "This Sadness Lacks"
The Leaf Library - "Sailing Day"
Julia Holter - "Sea Calls Me Home"
Joanna Newsom - "Leaving the City"
Low - "What Part of Me"
Salad Boys - "Here's No Use"
Jacco Gardner - "Before the Dawn"
Jack Sharp - "Adieu to Old England"
John D. Buchanan
Aardvarck - Co in Ci
Eivind Aarset - I.E.
Ancestral Voices - Night of Visions
Chevel - Blurse
Avishai Cohen Trio - From Darkness
Simone Dinnerstein - Broadway-Lafayette
Fis - The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now
Giorgio Gigli - The Right Place Where Not to Be
Goldmund - Sometimes
Gonno - Remember the Life Is Beautiful
Rachel Grimes - The Clearing
Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography
Kerridge - Always Offended Never Ashamed
Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
Merzbow - Konchuuki
Mouse on the Keys - The Flowers of Romance
Of Feather and Bone - Embrace the Wretched Flesh
Pole - Wald
Max Richter - Sleep
Wagakki Band - Yasou Emaki
Liam Martin
Crazy P - Walk Dance Talk Sing
Eli Escobar - Up All Night
Tame Impala - Currents
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Jamie xx - In Colour
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
The Districts - A Flourish and a Spoil
Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
Floating Points - Elaenia
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.
A1 Bassline - Technicality
Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture
µ-Ziq - XTLP
Nadastrom - Nadastrom
Citizenn - Human Interface
Scuba - Claustrophobia
Scntst - Puffer
Kangding Ray - Cory Arcane
Mac DeMarco - "Another One"
Chvrches - "Leave a Trace [Four Tet Remix]"
Waves/Cloud Nothings - "How It's Gonna Go"
DJ Koze - "Knee on Belly"
Para One - "Elevation"
Ducktails - "St. Catherine"
Bok Bok/Sweyn Jupiter - "Papaya Lipgloss [Club Mix]"
Romare - "Love Song"
Foals - "Mountain at My Gates"
Hot Chip - "Dancing in the Dark/All My Friends"
Ghost Culture - "Giudecca"
Nautiluss - "Aerochrome"
Courtney Barnett - "Depreston"
Father John Misty - "True Affection"
Deerhunter - "Breaker"
The Districts - "Heavy Begs"
Tame Impala - "Eventually"
Jamie xx f/ Romy - "Loud Places"
Girl Band - "Pears for Lunch"
Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"
Simon Spreyer [Spotify]
Owiny Sigoma Band - Nyanza
Sons of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do
Vula Viel - Good Is Good
The Comet Is Coming - Prophecy
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Clap! Clap! - Simple
Kink Gong - Tanzania
Colin Stetson/Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Anthony Child - Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle, Vol. 1
Anthony Naples - Body Pill
Kassem Mosse/Simone White - Three Versions
Cosmin TRG - III
Pearson Sound - Pearson Sound
The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD
AFX - Orphaned Deejay Selek: 2006-2008
Floating Points - Elaenia
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Ghostface Killah/Adrian Younge - Twelve Reasons to Die
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Thundercat - Where the Giants Roam
Rob Wacey
Arca - Mutant
AWOLNATION - Run
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Ex Machina
Björk - Vulnicura
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Foals - What Went Down
Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin
Grimes - Art Angels
Health - Death Magic
John Carpenter - Lost Themes
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Marriages - Salome
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space
Purity Ring - Another Eternity
Refused - Freedom
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tyler, The Creator - Cherry Bomb
Wax Idols - American Tragic
AWOLNATION - "Jailbreak"
Chromatics - "Yes (Love Theme from Lost River)"
Chvrches - "Keep You on My Side"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Deafheaven - "Baby Blue"
Du Blonde - "Black Flag"
Foals - "Give It All [Clint Mansell Remix]"
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - "Piss Crowns Are Trebled"
Haelos - "Pray"
Health - "Hurt Yourself"
Marriages - "Love, Texas"
M.I.A. - "Borders"
Nevermen - "Tough Towns"
Public Service Broadcasting - "Sputnik"
Purity Ring - "Begin Again"
Puscifer - "Grand Canyon"
Sufjan Stevens - "All of Me Wants All of You"
The Black Queen - "Maybe We Should"
Wax Idols - "Deborah"
Wolf Alice - "Silk"
Rich Wilson
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Elephant Micah - Where in Our Woods
The Sidekicks - Runners in the Nerved World
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Container - LP
All Dogs - Kicking Every Day
Dogs on Acid - Dogs on Acid
Lou Barlow - Brace the Wave
Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
Winter Break - Winter Break
Helen - The Original Faces
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Harmlessness
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
Spraynard - Mable
Beach Slang - The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
October - Black Body Radiation
Father John Misty - "Bored in the USA"
Yowler - "Bedroom Wall"
Pale Angels - "Wild Vile Flesh"
Personal Best - "This Is What We Look Like"
Pinkshinyultrablast - "Kiddy Pool Dreams"
Mikal Cronin - "Made My Mind Up"
Mac McCaughan - "Lost Again"
Soko - "My Dreams Dictate My Reality"
Chrononautz - "Noments"
Diet Cig - "Harvard"
Jahiliyya Fields - "Clear Collar"
Michael Vallera - "Dream Lense"
Shit Present - "Kick Me"
Girl Band - "Pears for Lunch"
Youth Code - "Anagnorisis"
Special Request - "Tractor Beam"
Roots Manuva - "Hard Bastards"
Not Waving - "Get Serious"
Broken English Club - "Godless"
Tropic of Cancer - "Stop Suffering"