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Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year

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published: 24 / 12 / 2015



Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year

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Our writers and photographers list their favourite albums and also their favourite gig of 2015

CARL BOOKSTEIN 1. Alabama Shakes/Sound and Color 2. Watkins Family Hour/Watkins Family Hour 3. Beach House/Depression Cherry 4. My Morning Jacket/The Waterfall 5. D'Angelo and the Vanguard/Black Messiah 6. Orange Humble Band/Depressing Beauty 7. Los Lobos/Gates of Gold Gig of the Year: Santana, DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, Michigan, 28/8/2015 MALCOLM CARTER 1. Steve Robinson and Ed Woltil/Cycle 2. Granite Shore/One More from the Top 3. Hattie Briggs/Red and Gold 4. David Corley/Available Light 5. Natalie Prass/Natalie Prass 6. Dave Rawlings/Nashville Obsolete 7. Simi Stone/Simi Stone 8. Matthew E White/Fresh Blood 9. Legends Of Country/Talk about Country 10.Michelle Lewis/The Parts Of Us That Still Remain JOHN CLARKSON 1. Bitter Springs/Cuttlefish and Love's Remains 2. Cathode Ray/Infinite Variety 3. Band of Holy Joy/The Land of Holy Joy 4. Bromide/I Remember 5. Nils/Shadows and Ghosts 6. Delines/The Scenic Sessions 7. Lisa Ronson/Emperors of Medieval Japan 8. New Order/Music Complete 9. St Christopher Medal/Sunny Day Machine 10.Big Hogg/Big Hogg Gig of the Year: Band of Holy Joy, the Cathode Ray and Texas Bob Juarez, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 21/9/2015 DANIEL CRESSEY (In no particular order) 1. Ought/Sun Coming Down 2. Ezra Furman/Perpetual Motion People 3. Sleaford Mods/Key Markets 4. Doomtree/All Hands 5. Eagles of Death Metal/Zipper Down 6. Viet Cong - Viet Cong 7. Courtney Barnett/Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit 8. Mike Krol/Turkey 9. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats/Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats 10.Pharaon de Winter/Pharaon de Winter Gig of the Year: Dessa, Old Blue Last, London 23/04/2015 DASTARDLY 1. Katy Carr/Polonia 2. Last Harbour/Caul 3. Joey Herzfeld and His So-Called Friends/Are Watching You 4. Desperate Journalist/Desperate Journalist 5. Wet Dog/Divine Times 6. Gentle Folk/Into the Greenwood 7. Drenge/Undertow 8. Sleaford Mods/Key Markets 9. Moonlandingz/Moonlandingz EP Gig of the Year: Replacements, Roundhouse, London, 2/6/2015 DIXIE ERNILL 1. Robert Forster/Songs to Play 2. I am Kloot/Hold Back the Night 3. Cheerleader/The Sunshine of Your Youth 4. Chills/Silver Bullets 5. Richard Hawley/Hollow Meadows Gig of the Year: Robert Forster, Knust, Hamburg, 12/12/2015 DAVE GOODWIN 1. Orphan Boy/Coastal Tones 2. Practical Lovers/Agony 3. Decemberists/What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World 4. Galactic/Into the deep 5. Suede/Night Thoughts 6. Kirt Debique/Things Left Unsaid 7. No! Disco/Just Visiting 8. Florence and the Machine/How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 9. Winter Severity Index/Slanting Ray 10.Evans the Death/Expect Delays Gig of the Year: Gary Numan, Forum, London, 23/10/2015 KEITH HOW 1. Arvo Part/Musica Selecta 2. Rival Consoles/Howl 3. Loscil/Sea Island 4. Soft Hearted Scientists/Whatever Happened to... 5. Godspeed You Black Emperor/Asunder, Sweet and Other Distresses 6. Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus/Beauty will Save the World 7. Various/Rothko Chapel, Feldman, Satie, Cage. 8. Toby Hay/Rhayder EP 9. Jim Ghedi/Home Is Where I Live… BENJAMIN HOWARTH 1. Idlewild/Everything Ever Written 2. Richard Hawley/Hollow Meadows 3. Dodson and Fogg/And When The Light Ran Out 4. Songhoy Blues/Music in Exile 5. Sorren Maclean/Winter Stay Autumn 6. Sweet Billy Pilgrim/Motorcade Amnesiacs 7. John Howard and the Night Mail/John Howard and the Night Mail 8. Unthanks/Mount the Air 9. Dodson and Fogg/Warning Signs 10.Darren Hayman /Florence ADRIAN HUGGINS 1. Father John Misty/I Love You Honeybear 2. Weedeater/Goliathan 3. High On Fire/Luminiferous 4. Leviathan/Scar Sighted 5. Bad Guys/Bad Guynaecology 6. Chvrches/Every Open Eye 7. Sufjan Stevens/Carrie and Lowell 8. Sleaford Mods/Key Markets 9. Sunn o)))/Kannon 10.Refused/Freedom Gig of the Year: Chas and Dave, O2 Academy, Newcastle, 23/5/2015 ADRIAN JANES (In no particular order) 1. Imaginary People/Deadletter Box 2. Pop Group/Citizen Zombie 3. Ava Luna/Infinite House 4. Eyes of a Blue Dog/Hamartia 5. Sealings/I’m A Bastard 6. Wire/Wire 7. Slow Down Molasses/Burnt Black Cars 8. Midas Fall/The Menagerie Inside 9. John Brown’s Body/Kings and Queens in Dub 10.Jah Wobble/Redux : Anthology 1978-2015 (30 Hertz) ERICK MERTZ 1. Quarterbacks/Quarterbacks 2. Pete Astor/Spilt Milk 3. Vacilando/While They Were Dancing 4. Holy Sons/Decline of the West, Vol I & II 5. Mantles/All Odds Out 6. Self-Defense Family/Heaven is Earth 7. Caribou/Up In Flames (Re-Issue) 8. Black Wing/...Is Doomed 9. British Sea Power "Sea of Brass" 10.White Reaper "White Reaper Does It All Gig of the Year: High on Fire, Pallbearer and Lucifer, Hawthorne Theatre, Portland, Oregon, 3/8/2015 MARY O'MEARA 1. Charlatans/Modern Nature 2. Sarah Cracknell/Red Kite 3. New Order/Music Complete 4. Various/1966 Compilation (Companion to '1966' book by Jon Savage) - Vari 5. Marc Almond/The VelvetTtrail Favourite Gig of the Year: Super Furry Animals, Albert Hall, Manchester, 7/5/2015 JAMIE ROWLAND (In no particular order) 1. Sleater Kinney/No Cities to Love 2. Kurt Vile/ B'lieve I'm Goin' Down 3. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier 4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 5. Beach House/Depression Cherry 6. Calexico/Edge of the Sun 7. Waxahatchee/Ivy Trip 8. Busdriver/Thumbs MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. Zulus/II 2. Derek Piotr/Bahar 3. Mbongwana Star/From Kinshasa 4. Max Richter/From Sleep 5. Soapkills/Soapkills 6. Julia Kent/Asperities 7. Die Wilde Jagd/Die Wilde Jagd 8. Dancing Mice/Quiz Culture 9. Lourdes Rebels/Snuff Safari 10.Peacers/Peacers MELANIE SMITH (In no particular order) 1. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People 2. Dead Weather - Doge And Burn 3. Florence & The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 4. Lila Rose - We. Animals 5. Du Blonde - Welcome Back To The Milk 6. Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - The Third Gig of the Year: Patti Smith, Apollo, Manchester, 9/6/2015 ANTHONY STRUTT 1. Ian McNabb/Krugerrands 1. Johnny Marr/Adrenalin Baby 1. Chorusgirl/Chorusgirl 4. Wand 1,000 Days 5. Death and Vanilla/To Where the Wild Things Are 6. Lightning in the Twilight Hour/Fragments of a Former Moon 7. A Projection/Exit 8. A Place to Bury Strangers./Transfixiation 9. Pinkshinyultrablast/Everything else matters. Gig of the Year: Ride, Roundhouse, London, 23/5/2015 LISA TOREM 1. Albert Hammond Jr./Momentary Masters 2. Adele/25 3. English Beat/Here We Go Love 4. Ashley Reaks/Before Koresh 5. Darlene Love/Introducing Darlene Love Gig of the Year: English Beat, Space, Evanston, Illinois, 16/7/2015 PAUL WALLER 1. Tame Impala/Currents 2. Disasterpiece/It Follows 3. Gruesome/Savage Land 4. Black Breath/Slaves Beyond Death 5. Old Man Lizard/Old Man Lizard 6. Rose Windows/Rose Windows 7. Myrker/ 8. Blur/The Magic Whip 9. Rolo Tomassi/Grievances 10. Death Grips/Fashion Week DENZIL WATSON 1. New Order/Music Complete 2. Sleaford Mods/Key Markets 3. Slaves/Are You Satisfied? 4. Wire/Wire 5. Luke Haines/British Nuclear Bunkers 6. Blur/The Magic Whip 7. Lana Del Rey/Honeymoon 8. Leather Nun/Whatever 9. Reverend and The Makers/Mirrors 10.Fall/Sub-Lingual Tablet Gig of the Year: New Order, Warehouse Project, Manchester, 6/12/2015



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