The ATH Top 50 Albums of 2015
Year-end lists are everywhere…and I can see why they’re important to people. But, seeing as we generally walk off the beaten path more often than not, our list of the Top 50 Albums of 2015 is in no particular order, save alphabetically. It seems pointless to rank one piece of art higher than another, especially when the four of us at ATH all have varying tastes. We just put this list together of the albums we loved the most this year. Are we saying they’re better than records by Grimes or Kendrick Lamar? No, we’re just saying that these are the records we loved more than others. So, you can read on for what we thought was hot.
Also…put links to individual stores where you can buy the albums from the bands…as that’s how we all survive in this music world.
All Dogs – Kicking Every Day (BUY)
American Culture – Pure American Gum (BUY)
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit (BUY)
Beach House – Depression Cherry (BUY)
Belle and Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (BUY)
The Black Ryder – The Door Behind the Door (BUY)
The Chills – Silver Bullets (BUY)
Martin Courtney – Many Moons (BUY)
The Crayon Fields – No One Deserves You (BUY)
Destroyer – Poison Season (BUY)
Dick Diver – Melbourne, Florida (BUY)
Evans the Death – Expect Delays (BUY)
Expert Alterations – You Can’t Always Be Liked (BUY)
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (BUY)
The Fireworks – Switch Me On (BUY)
Girls Names – Arms Around a Vision (BUY)
Colleen Green – I Want to Grow Up (BUY)
Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter (BUY)
Hierophants – Parrallax Error (BUY)
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper – After (BUY)
Jeffrey Lewis and Los Bolts – Manhattan (BUY)
Lower Dens – Escape from Evil (BUY)
Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone (BUY)
Mammoth Penguins – Hide and Seek (BUY)
The Mantles – All Odds End (BUY)
Keath Mead – Sunday Dinner (BUY)
Ocean Party – Light Weight (BUY)
Painted Palms – Horizons (BUY)
Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect (BUY)
Quarterbacks – s/t (BUY)
Radioactivity – Silent Kill (BUY)
Royal Headache – High (BUY)
Salad Boys – Metalmania (BUY)
The Spook School – Try to Be Hopeful (BUY)
Stutter Steps – s/t (BUY)
Tijuana Panthers – Poster (BUY)
Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes (BUY)
The Woolen Men – Temporary Monument (BUY)
Wax Idols – American Tragic (BUY)
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (BUY)