Best of 2015: Albums and Songs (Part II)

It’s that time of year. Lists. You know the drill. Today we look back at our favorite national albums and songs of 2015

Adam, Reviler

Albums:

1. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
2. A$ap Rocky – At. Long. Last. A$AP
3. Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs
4. Grimes – Art Angels
5. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
6. Wrekmeister Harmonies – Night Of Your Ascension
7. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
8. Moon King – Secret Life
9. The Sonics – This Is the Sonics
10. Kowloon Walled City – Grievances

Songs:

1. A$AP Rocky feat Rod Stewart and Miguel “Everyday”
2. Grimes “Realiti”
3. Carly Rae Jepsen “Warm Blood”
4. Wavves x Cloud Nothings “Come Down”
5. Father John Misty “Chateau Lobby #4 (In C for Two Virgins)”
6. FIDLAR “West Coast”
7. Tame Impala “Let It Happen”
8. Mark Ronson & Mystikal “Feel Right”
9. Chelsea Wolfe “Iron Moon”
10. Wilco “Magnetized”

Spotify playlist of Adam’s complete Top 50 songs of the year

Josh, Reviler

Albums:

1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Palmbomen II – Palmbomen II
3. Oneohtrix Point Never -Garden of Delete
4. Holly Herndon – Platform
5. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma – FRKYWYS 12
6. Arca- Mutant
7. Kamasi Washington – The Epic
8. Viet Cong – Viet Cong
9. Tal National – Zoy Zoy
10. Stellar OM Source – Nite-Glo
11. Levon Vincent – Levon Vincent
12. Steve Hauschildt – Where All if Fed
13. Black Moth Super Rainbow – SeeFu Lilac
14. Jamie XX – In Colour
15. ANAMAI – Sallows
16. Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs
17. William Basinski – Cascade
18. Boof – The Hydrangeas Whisper
19. Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
20. Jlin – Dark Energy

Best EP – Guerilla Toss – Flood Dosed

Songs (from albums not on best albums list):

1. Chance the Rapper “Sunday Candy”
2. Sheer Mag “Fan the Flames”
3. Vince Staples “Lift Me Up”
4. Kurt Vile “Pretty Pimpin”
5. Dan Deacon “Feel the Lightning”
6. Peach Kelli Pop “Princess Castle 1987”
7. Erykah Badu“Cel U Lar Device”
8. DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell “Fresh”
9. Follakzoid “Electric”
10. Savages “The Answer” + “T.I.W.Y.G.”
11. Sleater- Kinney  “No Cities to Love”
12. Guantanamo Baywatch “Too Late”
13. Deerhunter “Snakeskin”
14. Rusite “Big Catzz”
15. Omar Souleyman “Bahdeni Nami”
16. Pop Staples “Somebody Was Watching”
17. Paranoid London “300 Hangovers a Year”
18. Chromatics “Cherry”
19. Nicolaas Jaar “No One is Looking at U”
20. Protomartyr – “Dope Cloud”

Ali, @egyptoknuckles

Albums:

1. Kendrick Lamar “To Pimp A Butterfly”
2. Dr. Dre “Compton”
3. Jamie xx “In Colour”
4. Vince Staples “Summertime ’06”
5. Kamasi Washington “The Epic”
6. Sleater Kinney “No Cities To Love”
7. Oddisee “The Good Fight”
8. Father John Misty “I Love You, Honeybear”
9. A$AP Rocky “At.Long.Last.A$AP”
10. Miguel “Wildheart”
11. Prurient “Frozen Niagara Falls”
12. Tame Impala “Currents”
13. Lianne La Havas “Blood”
14. Arca “Mutant”
15. Sufjan Stevens “Carrie & Lowell”
16. Björk “Vulnicura”
17. Jazmine Sullivan “Reality Show”
18. Beach House “Depression Cherry / Thank Your Lucky Stars” (tie)
19. Thundercat “The Beyond / Where The Giants Roam”
20. Alabama Shakes “Sound & Color”
21. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment “Surf”
22. Julia Holter “Have You In My Wilderness”
23. Earl Sweatshirt “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt”
24. Courtney Barnett “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit”
25. Drake “If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late”
26. FKA Twigs “M3LL155X”
27. Denmark Vessey “Martin Lucid Dream”
28. Future “DS2”
29. Destroyer “Poison Season”
30. Joey Bada$$ “B4.DA.$$”
31. Empress Of “Me”
32. The Internet “Ego Death”
33. Joanna Newsom “Divers”
34. Deerhunter “Fading Frontier”
35. Janet Jackson “Unbreakable”
36. Deafheaven “New Bermuda”
37. Grimes “Art Angels”
38. Toro Y Moi “What For?”
39. Erykah Badu “But You Cain’t Use My Phone”
40. Oneohtrix Point Never “Garden of Delete”
41. The Game “Documentary 2 / Documentary 2.5”
42. Lupe Fiasco “Tetsuo & Youth”
43. NAO “February 15th”
44. Lower Dens “Escape From Evil”
45. Bell Witch “Four Phantoms”
46. Dam-Funk “Invite The Light”
47. GoldLink “And After That, We Didn’t Talk”
48. Panda Bear “Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper”
49. Jlin “Dark Energy”
50. Floating Points “Elaenia”

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

• Four Tet “Morning / Evening”
• Jay Rock “90059”
• Freddie Gibbs “Shadow of a Doubt”
• CHVRCHES “Every Open Eye”
• Purity Ring “Another Eternity”
• Cavanaugh “Time & Materials”
• Algiers “Algiers”
• Dawn Richard “Blackheart”
• Viet Cong “Viet Cong”
• Petite Noir “The King of Anxiety”
• Jessica Pratt “On Your Own Love Again”
• Zs “XE”
• Mount Eerie “Sauna”
• Matana Robers “Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee”
• Africa Express “Africa Express Presents…Terry Riley’s In C Mali”
• Tobias Jesso Jr “Goon”
• Waxahatchee “Ivy Tripp”
• Bell Witch “Four Phantoms”
• Tribulation “The Children of the Night”
• Holly Hunter “Platform”
• Shamir “Ratchet”
• Deafheaven “New Bermuda”
• Deradoorian “The Expanding Flower Planet”
• Neon Indian “VEGA INTL. Night School”
• Majical Cloudz “Are You Alone”
• Protomartyr “The Agent Intellect”
• Kelela “Hallucinogen”
• Archy Marshall “A New Place To Drown”
• Baroness “Purple”
• Jeremih “Late Nights: The Album”
• Ty Dolla $ign “Free TC”
• Baroness “Purple”
• Lotic “Agitations / Heliocetera EP”

Songs:

1. Kendrick Lamar “Alright”
2. Dr. Dre, Anderson .Paak “Animals”
3. Vince Staples “Lift Me Up”
4. Sleater-Kinney “A New Wave”
5. Oddisee “Belong to the World”
6. A$AP Rocky & Joe Fox “Holy Ghost”
7. Jamie xx & Romy “Loud Places”
8. Father John Misty “Bored in the USA”
9. YG “Twist My Fingaz”
10. Thundercat “Them Changes”

Check out the playlist of our favorite songs that are on Spotify (from parts 1 & 2)