Yep. My list is getting a bit too long. I have thought about just cutting it down to a top 25 or something at this point.
And I'm the opposite. Before their latest album I felt like Mumford was pretty repetitive. Mostly because a lot of their bridges consisted of a build-up that lead into a "twang-diddle-twang-diddle-twang-diddle-twang" that just nauseated me. But hey, I'm a sucker for a good rock tune I can run on the treadmill to. I honestly couldn't care less about the writing, just as long as the lyrics aren't whiny. Just write me a catchy, driven rock tune. Probably also explains why I'm so into Bring Me The Horizon's new album.
GREAT ALBUMS Iron Maiden - The Book Of Soul David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock Deafheaven - New Bermuda Adam Angst - Adam Angst Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep GOOD ALBUMS Anti-Flag - American Spring Deichkind - Niveau Weshalb Warum Three Days Grace - Human Sondaschule - So Schön Kaputt Donots - Karacho OK ALBUMS Madsen - Kompass Papa Roach - F.E.A.R. ANTICIPATING Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams
Okay, let's see. Kinda sleepy three months since then. 01. Death Grips - The Powers That B 02. Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep 03. Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit 04. Deafheaven - New Bermuda 05. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 06. Death Grips - Fashion Week 07. Ghost - Meliora 08. Imagine Dragons - Smoke + Mirrors 09. NAH - LIGHT AS FUCK 10. Muse - Drones 11. The i.l.y.'s - I've always been good at true love 12. twenty one pilots - Blurryface 13. Foals - What Went Down 14. Refused - Freedom 15. Tame Impala - Currents 16. Madeon - Adventure 17. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 18. The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy 19. Swain - Heavy Dancing 20. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress 21. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
So I was going to update everything Ive listened to since I last posted as that has been a lot but I decided that I will just try to update my overall list which will be super hard. Top 50 Albums of the year: 1. Silversun Pickups- Better Nature 2. Mariana’s Trench- Astoria* 3. 5 Seconds of Summer- Sounds Good, Feels Good*/ Knuckle Puck- Copacetic* 4. Chvrches- Every Open Eye 5. Halsey- Badlands 6. Tame Impala- Currents 7. The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Ready to Die- Harmlessness 8. As It Is- Never Happy, Ever After* 9. Neck Deep- Life’s Not Out To Get You [Up 23 Spots from 34] 10. Dance Gavin Dance- Instant Gratification* 11. Thomas Rhett- Tangled Up 12. Seaway- Colour Blind* 13. Fetty Wap- Fetty Wap 14. Maddie and Tae- Start Here 15. Bring Me the Horizon- That’s The Spirit’ 16. State Champs-Around the World and Back* 17. 21 Pilots- Blurryface 18. A Skylit Drive- ASD* 19. Escape the Fate- Hate Me* 20. Sun Kill Moon- Universal Themes 21. Melanie Martinez- Cry Baby 22. I See Stars- Phases 23. Kelsea Balerini- The First Time 24. Jamie XX- In Colour 25. Billy Currington- Summer Forever 26. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment- Surf 27. Lana Del Rey- Honeymoon 28. Angels and Airwaves- …Of Nightmares EP 29. Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp A Butterfly 30. Matt and Kim- New Glow 31. Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase. 32. Atlas Genius- Inanimate Objects 33. Disturbed- Immortalized 34. The Story So Far- The Story So Far 35. For Today- Wake* 36. Man Overboard- Heavy Love* 37. Toro Y Moi- Samantha 38. Panda Bear- Crosswords EP 39. Miguel- Wildheart 40. Dr. Dre- Compton 41. Rae Shremmurd- Shremlife 42. Curren$y- Pilot Talk 3 43. Darius Rucker- Southern Style 44. Tyler Farr- Suffer In Peace 45. Of Monsters and Men- Beneath The Skin 46. GRiZ- Say It Loud 47. Death Cab For Cutie- Kintsugi 48. Sleeping With Sirens- Madness 49. Enter Shikari- The Mindsweep 50. Modest Mouse- Strangers to Ourselves Songs of the Year: She's Kinda Hot by 5 Seconds of Summer Mene by Brand New Leave a Trace by Chvrches Disdain by Kunckle Puck Astoria by Mariana's Trench Can't Kick Up the Roots by Neck Deep The Wild Kind by Silversun Pickups I Can Be Afraid of Anything by The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die
TOP 5 1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 2. Foals - What Went Down 3. The Chemical Brothers - Born in the Echoes 4. Algiers - Algiers 5. Balthazar - Thin Walls GREAT ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Balthazar - Thin Walls Johnny Jewel - Lost River (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Blur - The Magic Whip Algiers - Algiers The Chemical Brothers - Born in the Echoes Dr Dre - Compton The Soft Moon - Deeper Foals - What Went Down The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness GRiZ - Chasing The Golden Hour Pt. 1 BOOTS - AQUΛRIA GOOD ALBUMS GRiZ - Say It Loud The Prodigy - The Day is My Enemy Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Modestep - London Road Jamie XX - In Colour Ash Koosha - GUUD Refused - Freedom Disclosure - Caracal ANTICIPATING James Blake - Radio Silence Kanye West - SWISH
The Best: Death Grips - The Powers that B Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear Kamasi Washington - The Epic Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly milo - so the flies don't come * Native Construct - Quiet World Panopticon - Autumn Eternal Soilwork - The Ride Majestic * Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. The Great: Algiers - Algiers Arcane - Known / Learned Dave Kerzner - New World (Deluxe / Extended Edition) Deafheaven - New Bermuda * The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise Ghost - Meliora Junkie XL - Mad Max: Fury Road (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) * Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang * Leprous - The Congregation Periphery - Juggernaut Sunn O))) - Kannon * Tame Impala - Currents Thundercat - The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam The Good: Between The Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf Foo Fighters - Saint Cecilia * Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls John Carpenter - Lost Themes Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu Nero - Between II Worlds Run the Jewels - Meow the Jewels Xibalba - Tierra Y Libertad The Okay / Disappointing / Bad: Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress Madeon - Adventure Muse - Drones Ne Obliviscaris - Hiraeth Ne Obliviscaris - Sarabande to Nihil Swain - Heavy Dancing TesseracT - Polaris Anticipating / Stuff I Still Need To Hear: Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Tempel - The Moon Lit Our Path Paradise Lost - The Plague Within * = New Additions / Position Changes
My favorite album of the year so far is In Colour by Jamie xx. My favorite songs are "SeeSaw" by Jamie xx, "The Blacker the Berry" by Kendrick, "Radio Silence" by James Blake, "Can't Feel My Face" by the Weeknd Albums I've been waiting for are Anti by Rihanna, new Frank Ocean, Radio Silence by James Blake, and the new Deftones. I don't think Kanye is releasing his next album anytime soon. If we're lucky, we'll get some kind of single or new demos from LP soon (besides LPU15). I wonder if Mike will do like a 4-5 song EP for Fort Minor.
Best albums of 2015 Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon Marius Neset - Pinball Mumford & Sons - Wilder Minds Justin Bieber - Purpose Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Good albums from 2015: Breaking Benjamin - Dark Before Dawn Infected Mushroom - Friends on Mushrooms Periphery - Juggernaut (Alpha and Omega) Death Grips - The Powers That B Muse - Drones Papa Roach - F.E.A.R. Guster - Evermotion Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit Bad albums from 2015: Meghan Trainor - Title Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho Three Days Grace - Human I really liked Purpose, so come at me. Homeboys.
Well, I figured it's that time of year. Ain't nothing else I'm interested coming out for the rest of the year. Time to make a list of my Top 10 Albums of 2015! 10. Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Genre: Pop [thumb]http://www.panorama24.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/A-Head-Full-Of-Dreams.jpg[/thumb] While my inital impressions of the record were a bit lower than expected, a few decent listens helped me appreciate the record. It may lack as an album, but it's incredibly fun. It's great to hear Coldplay this upbeat. Highlights: Hymn for the Weekend Birds 9. Ghost - Meliora Genre: Heavy Metal [thumb]http://batzbatz.com/uploads/posts/2015-08/1440111819_cover.jpg[/thumb] I've never been much of a Ghost fan. I've always found their music too cheesy, and while cheese can be great, the music didn't make up for it. However, Meliora is a fantastic record. Ghost went a bit heavier this time, and it produced great results. Never has Satan worship sounded so pleasant. Highlights: He Is Majesty 8. Soilwork - The Ride Majestic Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore / Progressive Metal [thumb]http://i0.wp.com/ampsandgreenscreens.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Soilwork-The-Ride-Majestic-Artwork.jpg[/thumb] The Living Infinite, but with less filler, and a lot heavier. This is one of the funnest Metal records I've heard it years. Please, give it a try if you haven't already done so. Highlights: The Ride Majestic Alright in the Aftermath The Phantom 7. Native Construct - Quiet World Genre: Progressive Rock / Progressive Metal [thumb]http://www.metalblade.com/us/covers/NativeConstruct-QuietWorld.jpg[/thumb] Just with their debut album, these guys have shown the potential to be one of the next Prog greats; the album is utterfly fantastic. Native Construct is the equivilant of a Between the Buried and Me x Dream Theater x Queen love-child. I can't wait to see what these dudes do next. Higlights: Mute The Spark of the Archon 6. Kamasi Washington - The Epic Genre: Jazz [thumb]http://louderthanwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CCkuZeyW8AA5Z9I.jpg-large.jpeg[/thumb] One of the finest Jazz records in years. Every single track on this album is fantastic, and considering this is a triple, three hour long album, that's quite a feat. If you're into stuff such as John Coltraine, give this a listen, NOW. Highlights Miss Understanding Clair de Lune 5. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal Genre: Black Metal / Folk [thumb]http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2881869020_10.jpg[/thumb] If you wanna get an idea of what this album sounds like, think Deafheaven, but less pretty. What makes Panopticon so interesting to me is that the project doesn't utilize Folk music of the European variety, but American Folk music, even Bluegrass. Thought it lacks the Melo-Death flavour of their previous record, it's still a fantastic Black Metal record. It evokes the feeling of the American Wilderness in such a brilliant way, that I've never heard before. Highlights: Into the North Woods Autumn Eternal Sleep to the Sound of the Waves Crashing A Superior Lament 4. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. Genre: Progressive Rock [thumb]http://stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HCE-finalcover.jpg[/thumb] Words cannot even begin to describe how much this album means to me. Steven Wilson has had a career spanning 23 years, with Porcupine Tree, his solo career, and too many side-projects to count. And of all of those records he's released, this one is his best yet. It's a concept album that tells the story of a woman who isolates herself from her loves ones in our now very technological age, and it's so damn well realized. This is Prog at its finest. If only there were more Prog artists who released albums this good. I thought this was going to be my #1 of the year, but I had no idea these next few albums would happen. Highlights: First Regret / 3 Years Older Ancestral Happy Returns / Ascendant Here On... 3. Death Grips - The Powers that B Genre: Experimental Hip-Hop [thumb]http://www.treblezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/death-grips-the-powers-that-b.jpg[/thumb] I have nothing much to say about this record except that it's fucking great. NOIDED. Highlights: Say Hey Kid I Break Mirrors with my Face in the United States Centuries of Damn On GP 2. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear Genre: Indie Folk [thumb]http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/57304/8a2cb994.jpg[/thumb] This record is an aboslute gem. Joshua Tillman is a brilliant songwriter. He has really quicky lyrics, masked by a more happy sound. It's hard to describe this album, you just have to hear it. The cover art is a great representation of this album. Standard and pretty when you first glance at it, but when you take a harder look, something a big more dark and weird is revealed. Highlights: I Love You, Honeybear Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins) Holy Shit 1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Genre: Hip-Hop / Jazz / Funk [thumb]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/03/21/27442FF800000578-3024985-image-a-94_1428091558368.jpg[/thumb] Was there any doubt that this was going to take the #1 spot? There's literally nothing I can say about this record that hasn't already been said. It's a modern classic, that blows good kid, m.A.A.d city of the fucking water. Highlights: EVERYTHING
The dickriding... Good list. Some album about bears over The Powers That B, though? Why the fuck you lyyyin?
Don't disrespect Father John Misty boi Anyway, take my list and Move As It Is to right after Churches, everything else is the same.
GREAT ALBUMS Iron Maiden - The Book Of Soul David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock Deafheaven - New Bermuda Adam Angst - Adam Angst Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep GOOD ALBUMS Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams Anti-Flag - American Spring Deichkind - Niveau Weshalb Warum Three Days Grace - Human Sondaschule - So Schön Kaputt Donots - Karacho OK ALBUMS Madsen - Kompass Papa Roach - F.E.A.R.
I highly agree with these top two, though I would put Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell somewhere in this list. Agreed. Father John Misty has released two absolutely brilliant albums, and I'm sad that more people haven't noticed. He's arguably one of the best songwriters out there right now.
GREAT ALBUMS Iron Maiden - The Book Of Soul David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock Deafheaven - New Bermuda Adam Angst - Adam Angst Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep GOOD ALBUMS Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams Anti-Flag - American Spring Deichkind - Niveau Weshalb Warum Three Days Grace - Human Sondaschule - So Schön Kaputt Donots - Karacho Alligatoah - Musik Ist Keine Lösung OK ALBUMS Madsen - Kompass Papa Roach - F.E.A.R.
Fuck it, I was gonna listen to some more albums from this year, but that's obviously not gonna happen so here is the list of my favorite albums throughout 2015. If you're reading this in 2023, what the fuck are you doing here anyway? Anyway, this list might get outdated. Honorable mentions (albums I enjoyed this year, but didn't make the top 10, listed in alphabetical order, or at least close to it): Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep: Hospitalised Foals - What Went Down the i.l.y.'s - I've always been good at true love Muse - Drones NAH - LIGHT AS FUCK Refused - Freedom Tame Impala - Currents Swain - Heavy Dancing [EP] Top 10 albums I listened to throughout 2015: 10. Highly Suspect - Mister Asylum Highly Suspect's debut is 45 minutes of dirty, sexy blues influenced rock 'n' roll. There's a sea of music like this out there, but albums on which really every track stands out with a catchy melody and a great guitar riff are a rarity. The album also benefits greatly from a great, unusual bass tone. Tracks to check out would be "Lydia" and the title track to give you a better idea of what the album is about. 09. twenty one pilots - Blurryface Not gonna lie, there are a lot of flaws to this album, but it's just such an enjoyable album with highlights so high that it just had to crack the top 10. It's all fairly simple tracks, but there's something that makes them stand out among the sea of other pop songs out there. Josh Dun has an amazing drum technique and it's one of the things to look out for when listening to the album. Check out "Stressed Out", "Tear In My Heart", "Lane Boy" and "Goner". All very different songs from one another. 08. Imagine Dragons - Smoke + Mirrors It's true I kind of fell out with Imagine Dragons by the end of this year but that doesn't mean I appreciate this album any less than I did when I first heard it. This album is 17 tracks, all different from one another, and yet provides a pretty cohesive piece of work. I don't look at it like anything more than it is - a pop album, but it's a damn good one at that. Standouts are "Shots" and "Polaroid". The deluxe edition has my other two favorites, "Thief" and "Release". 07. Death Grips - Fashion Week Death Grips' instrumental album released right at the beginning of the year is just a fucking great listen beginning to end. Even without the trademark vocals from Stefan Burnett, this feels like a Death Grips album. It's just a riot from the first second to the last, and like I mentioned in another thread, there's not a single song here that I dislike. Check out "Runway J", "Runway E" and "Runway E". 06. Ghost - Meliora "Meliora" literally means "better". This is 45 minutes of 70s influenced heavy metal, and it's just spot on the entire time. The album is so dark yet there's so much color to it, it's just incredible. All the vocals, all the melodies, all the riffs and the way the rhythm section works is just executed perfectly. It's kinda important to note that it's pretty Satanic so, if you have a problem with that... hah. Do check out "From The Pinnacle To The Pit", the incredible lead single "Cirice" and the ballad "He Is". 05. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly Oh boy. Kendrick's new album is a fucking piece of work. Granted, I didn't like it from the first listen. It brings in so much influence from funk, jazz and other genres I'm not very used to, so it was a tough pill to swallow. But when I worked my way through that, oh man... What a great album it was. But! I still feel like "good kid, m.A.A.d. city" is even better, which says a lot about that album aswell. Anyway, since the album isn't available on YouTube, check out a great performance of "For Free?" and "Wesley's Theory" and watch the short film for "These Walls". 04. Deafheaven - New Bermuda And now for something totally different, the new Deafheaven album has no fucking chill. 5 tracks, 45 minutes, this album has no bad moments. The line "a multiverse of violet and fuchsia surrenders to blackness now" describes the transition from their previous album, "Sunbather" to this one perfectly. My favorites would be the amazing opener "Brought To The Water", the second track, "Luna" and the closing track, "Gifts for the Earth". 03. Bring Me The Horizon - That's the Spirit Yup, I'm ranking BMTH over Kendrick and Deafheaven. I'll gladly admit those albums are objectively better in every way, but this album suits me so well. It's a pop rock record, and I just dig it from the front to the back, no shame. My favorites on the album are "Doomed", "Follow You", "Avalanche" and "Oh No". 02. Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep I wasn't a Shikari fan before this album. I liked "Anaesthetist" when the video dropped right at the beginning of the year, so I was like "oh well, might aswell check out this album". Bam. Instant like. So I kept on listening and listening to it and the album became truly something special to me. So I checked their tour dates, saw they had a show in Croatia. Said fuck it, went, met them, snapped a shit pic and now I got this bigass signed poster in my bedroom. Needless to say, I became a pretty big fan this year, and their first three albums still feel like just one big rehearsal for "The Mindsweep". It's just that good. I've tried so hard to narrow down the selection of my favorites, but I couldn't. So check out "The Appeal and The Mindsweep I", "The One True Colour", "Never Let Go Of The Microscope", "Myopia", "Torn Apart", "There's A Price on Your Head", "Dear Future Historians..." and "Sliphod". Fuck it. Check out the entire album. Ye scum ye. 01. Death Grips - The Powers That B Ah! Surprise! Except not really... I'm sure everyone saw that coming. But! I did spend a considerable amount of time thinking about putting "The Mindsweep" at the top. After a few more listens, I ruled out that thought. "The Powers That B" is a double album consisting of two halves, the wildly electronic, jarring "ni**as on the moon" and the heavy, punky, dirty "Jenny Death". Spanning 80 minutes, there's not a single moment here that you can relax with it. No chill. If you haven't heard this album, I heavily recommend you do. Almost all of the 18 tracks stand out to me one way or another, so I'll just list my absolute favorites, as hard as choosing them may be. On "ni**as on the moon" those are "Up My Sleeves" and "Billy Not Really". I've said this already, but even after listening to a lot of metal music through the past two years, "Up My Sleeves" stands out as one of the heaviest things I've ever heard, and it comes from a fucking rap group. It's amazing. On "Jenny Death", check out "Inanimate Sensation", "The Powers That B" and "On GP". Song of the year: [video=youtube;cinJDxLUsNY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cinJDxLUsNY[/video] Video of the year: [video=youtube;ev-bR9ii7Gs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-bR9ii7Gs[/video]