As I am want to do, below please find my Top 10 Albums and Top 50 Songs of 2015!
Top 10 Albums:
1. Butch Walker – Afraid of Ghosts
2. Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind
3. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
4. James Bay – Chaos and the Calm
5. Hop Along – Painted Shut
6. Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m Going Down
7. Beach Slang – The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
8. Millencolin – True Blue
9. Kristen Diable – Create Your Own Mythology
10. The Very Best – Makes a King
Honorable Mentions:
Royal Headache – High
Dustin Kensrue – Carry the Fire
J.D. McPherson – Let the Good Times Roll
Top 50 Songs:
1. Lucero – Went Looking for Warren Zevon’s Los Angeles
2. Josh Ritter – Getting Ready to Get Down
3. Butch Walker – 21+
4. J.D. McPherson – Let the Good Times Roll
5. Fidlar – West Coast
6. Doomtree – My Own Nation
7. Mumford & Sons – Believe
8. Kendrick Lamar – King Kunta
9. Andy Grammer – Honey, I’m Good
10. Red City Radio – Two Out of Three Ain’t Rad
11. Awolnation – Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)
12. The Fratellis – Imposters (Little by Little)
13. Metric – The Shade
14. Lil Dicky – Molly (feat. Brendon Urie)
15. Royal Headache – Carolina
16. Death Cab for Cutie – The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
17. Desaparecidos – City on the Hill
18. Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts – Youth Quake
19. Blues Traveler – Matador (feat. Thompson Square)
20. Bloodhoung Gang – Uncool As Me (feat. Joey Fatone)
21. Public Service Broadcasting – Go!
22. Mexican Institute of Sound – La Llama
23. Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
24. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – You Know We Can’t Go Back
25. Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds
26. Jamie T – Magnolia Melancholia
27. Major Lazer – Leon On (feat. MO & DJ Snake)
28. Beach Slang – Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas
29. Hop Along – Sister Cities
30. Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear – Silent Movies
31. Violent Femmes – Fast Horses
32. Crow Bait – Separate Stations
33. Kristin Diable – I’ll Make Time for You
34. Millencolin – Bring Me Home
35. Dustin Kensrue – Back to Back
36. James Taylor – Montana
37. GZA – The Mexican (feat. Tom MOrello)
38. Catfish and the Bottlemen – Cocoon
39. The Milk Carton Kids – Shooting Shadows
40. X Ambassadors – Unsteady
41. Mark Knopfler – Beryl
42. Modest Mouse – The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box
43. Local H – Mansplainer
44. Hiss Golden Messenger – He Wrote the Book
45. Action Bronson – Only in America (feat. Party Supplies)
46. Jose Gonzalez – With the Ink of a Ghost
47. Leon Bridges – Better Man
48. Jackie Greene – Light Up Your Window
49. Holy Holy – You Cannot Call for Love like a Dog
50. The Barr Brothers – Burn Card
And the rest of the songs I loved this year, in alphabetical order:
Anderson East – Devil in Me
Bhi Bhiman – Up in Arms
Big Wild – Aftergold
Boysetsfire – One Match
Brandon Flowers – Lonely Town
Brian Wilson – The Right Time
Buddy Guy – Flesh & Bone (feat. Van Morrison)
Calexico – Falling from the Sky
Cayucas – Moony Eyed Walrus
Chris Cornell – Let Your Eyes Wander
CHVRCHES – Never Ending Circles
Craig Finn – Maggie I’ve Been Search For Our Son
David Ramirez – Harder to Lie
Destroyer – Dream Lover
Don Henley – The Cost of Living (feat. Merle Haggard)
Elle King – America’s Sweetheart
Enter Shikari – The Last Garrison
Frank Turner– Glorious You
Hit the Lights – Fucked Up Kids
Houndmouth – Sedona
Gang of Youths – Magnolia
Go! Team, The – Reasons Left to Destroy
Imagine Dragons – Shots
Jack Garratt – Weathered
Laura Stevenson – Jellyfish
Libertines, The – Gunga Din
Life of Dillon – Bluebirds
Lord Huron – Until the Night Turns
Mac McCaughan – Our Way Free
Maine, The – Miles Away
Matt Nathanson – Bill Murray
Mikky Ekko – Smile
Mountain Goats, The – Heel Turn 2
Of Monsters and Men – Crystals
Pops Staples – Friendship
Protoje – The Flame (feat. Kabaka Pyramid)
Raury – Devil’s Whisper
Rocky Votolato – White-Knuckles
Ryan Adams – In the Dark
Sam Outlaw – Who Do You Think You Are?
Sharon Van Etten – Pay My Debts
Strung Out – Spanish Days
Sufjan Stevens – No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Tallest Man on Earth – Sagres
Tal National – Zoy Zoy
Tenement – I’m Your Super Glue
Wale – The White Shoes
Weepies, The – Early Morning Riser
Will Dailey – Castle of Pretending
Wiz Khalifa – See You Again (feat. Charlie Puth)
Zedd – Transmission (feat. Logic, X Ambassadors)
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