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20 Favorite Records of 2015

Posted on January 3, 2016

  • Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit. (Mom + Pop)
  • Blitzen Trapper – All Across This Land (Vagrant)
  • Calexico – Edge Of The Sun (Anti-)
  • Deerhunter – Fading Frontier (4AD)
  • Colleen Green – I Want To Grow Up (Hardly Art)
  • Buddy Guy – Born To Play Guitar (RCA)
  • Glen Hansard – Didn’t He Ramble (Anti-)
  • Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free (Southeastern)
  • Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
  • New Order – Music Complete (Mute)
  • Nordic Affect – Clockworking (Sono Luminus)
  • Public Service Broadcasting – The Race For Space (Test Card)
  • Max Richter – Sleep (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)
  • Songhoy Blues – Music In Exile (Atlantic)
  • The Staves – If I Was (Atlantic Records UK)
  • Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m going down… (Matador)
  • Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
  • Dwight Yoakam – Second Hand Heart (Reprise)

Favorite Box Sets

  • Bob Dylan – The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (Legacy)
  • The Velvet Underground – The Complete Matrix Tapes (Polydor)

Favorite Reissues

  • Henri Texier – L’intÈgrale, Les AnnÈes JMS (JMS)
  • The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (Ume)
  • Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (Atlantic)
  • Led Zeppelin – Coda (Atlantic)

Favorite Compilations

  • Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodiaís Lost Rock and Roll (Dust-To-Digital)
  • Native North America Vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966-1985 (Light In The Attic)
  • Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton (Tompkins Square)
  • Sherwood At The Controls Volume 1: 1979-1984 (On-U Sound)

Single of the Year

  • Missy Elliot – WTF (Where They From) ft. Pharrell (Atlantic)

Comeback Album of the Year

  • Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)

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