2015.5

We're half way through another year and 2015 has been pretty great for new music. My favorites releases of the year (so-far) below:



There seem to have been a lot of high impact records in the first half of 2015. Whether you're into the full on rock of Sleater-Kinney, Speedy Ortiz, or Hop Along, the personal vulnerability of Bjork and Sufjan Stevens, the revolutionary rap of Kendrick Lamar, the trippy psychedelics of Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Panda Bear, or the brain busting noise of Prurient and Lightning Bolt, you're due to find something that peaks your interests.

ALBUMS

01 BJÖRK | Vulnicura
02 PANDA BEAR | Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
03 SUFJAN STEVENS | Carrie & Lowell
04 LEON BRIDGES | Coming Home
05 JAMIE XX | In Colour
06 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA | Multi-Love
07 SANNHET | Revisionists
08 VIET CONG | Viet Cong
09 LOWER DENS | Escape from Evil
10 SHAMIR | Ratchet
11 SLEATER-KINNERY | No Cities to Love
12 COURTNEY BARNETT | Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
13 TOBIAS JESSO JR. | Goon
14 LIGHTNING BOLT | Fantasy Empire
15 METZ | II
16 KENDRICK LAMAR | To Pimp a Butterfly
17 BULLY | Feels Like
18 HOP ALONG | Painted Shut
19 MIGUEL | Wildheart
20 SPEEDY ORTIZ | Foil Deer

SONGS

01 JAMIE XX | "Loud Places" (feat. Romy)
02 RIHANNA | "FourFiveSeconds" (feat. Kanye West and Paul McCartney)
03 TAME IMPALA | "'Cause I'm a Man"
04 SHAMIR | "Call It Off"
05 LEON BRIDGES | "River"
06 TOBIAS JESSO JR. | "How Could You Babe?"
07 LOWER DENS | "To Die in LA"
08 YUMI ZOUMA | "Catastrophe"
09 PANDA BEAR | "Tropic of Cancer"
10 KENDRICK LAMAR | "The Blacker the Berry"
11 SUFJAN STEVENS | "Should've Known Better"
12 GRIMES | "REALiTi" (Demo)
13 COURTNEY BARNETT | "Pedestrian at Best"
14 MIGUEL | "Coffee (Fucking)" (feat. Wale)
15 TEI SHI  | "Go Slow"
16 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA | "Multi-Love"
17 LIGHTNING BOLT | "The Metal East"
18 SLEATER-KINNEY | "Hey Darling"
19 SANNHET | "Revisionist"
20 BJÖRK | "Lionsong"
21 VIET CONG  | "Bunker Buster"
22 METZ | "Acetate"
23 NATALIE PRASS  | "My Baby Don't Understand"
24 TITUS ANDRONICUS | "Dimed Out"
25 BULLY | "I Remember"
26 NICOLAS JAAR | "Swim"
27 BEACH HOUSE | "Sparks"
28 JESSY LANZA | "You Never Show Your Love" (with DJ Spinn + Taso)
29 PRURIENT | "Dragon Flies to Sew You Up"
30 WIDOWSPEAK | "Girls"