This year didn’t quite live up to the high expectations I had back in January. Artists like Chance the Rapper, Frank Ocean, Jai Paul, Kanye West, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, and The Wrens didn’t make good on their promise for a new full-length album in 2015. Fortunately, others were there to pick up the slack and provide us with some great albums. Below you will find this year’s edition of what I consider the top 40 albums of the year. You’ll find albums from varying genres and possibly a few albums that are new to you. In a time where you can look up any song on a streaming service and hear it instantaneously, I hold on tightly to a love for the album as a whole, a collection of songs that work off each other, building toward one major theme or mood. As you will see in the list below, I’m a bit obsessed with new music and the art form that is the album. I take great pride in this list and hope that you find something worth checking out by the end.
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Top 20 Albums of 2015 (So Far…) 20-11
We are almost halfway through the year, and there have already been some great releases in 2015. With a stockpile of potentially great albums coming down the pipeline soon (Chance the Rapper, High On Fire, Beach House, Deafheaven, Frank Ocean, Jai Paul, Kanye West, Joanna Newsome, Majical Cloudz, Ghostface Killah, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, and allegedly, The Wrens) I’d like to take a breather and appreciate some of my favorite albums from the year so far. To try to keep some semblance of control, I’ve limited my list to 20 albums released prior to June 1st. Below are albums 20-11.
Honorable Mention
An Autumn For Crippled Children, The Long Goodbye
Joey Bada$$, B.4.DA.$$
Built to Spill, Untethered Moon
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Lightning Bolt, Fantasy Empire
The Mountain Goats, Beat the Champ
Sannhet, Revisionist
Collin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld, Never Were The Way She Was
Thee Oh Sees, Mutilator Defeated At Last
Fred Thomas, All Are Saved
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