[minho]

Interesting that you chose DC. I feel like I'm the only one who preferred the other album, but I liked both a lot anyways. Sparks was the best thing they released this year though for sure.

[Eeveelution]

When your music is as GOOD as BH's you don't really need to change your sound, so idg all the criticism over that, DC slays!

[Halien4Life]

15. Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School

SLAY Kang

[MP2K]

Yeah Beach House def. had a lot of pressure on them to PUNCH. It was still a nice album.

I wasn't able to listen to Thank Your Lucky Stars

[Kang.]

see, i've been having me a real hard time
but it feels so nice to know i'm gonna be alright

13. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color

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Alabama Shakes' very serious retroism was a good look on their 2012 debut but their turning one eye to the future is an even better one. There's just way more going on in the music here than the ~style they tend to get identified with would ever dictate. To say nothing of her voice, which is kind of a KNOCKOUT. Like I could just listen to her sing all day. That's some Brandy ****. She doesn't sound like Brandy though.
My favorite brand of sludgge

[Kang.]

swordfish, my reality is more fish
banana clips for all you curious georges

12. Pusha T - King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude

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Probably the biggest compliment a piece of music can be given, that it makes me feel like Chris Rock on Blame Game: YOU NEVER USED TO TALK DIRTY, BUT NOW, NOW- YOU GOD DAMN DISGUSTING. MY, MY GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT? Well obviously Pusha T been talking his very very specific brand of (coke dealer) dirty talk for a while now, but still: disgusting. Super last minute addition, and it's always tricky with any new release rushing to make judgments about where it fits in relation to all the other albums in the world, but let me say with 100% certainity: this album is really, really good. Cours' My Name Is My Name was really good, but I think it got confused in spots with what it was aiming for and how some of those random ass featured guests were supposed to get it there. But now the fat has been cut and we're back to some straight Hell Hath No Fury (one of the 5 best rap albums from 2000 to today) ****. () He gets together Kanye and A$AP Rocky for a song here and he has them SPLIT THE HOOK. NO VERSE, THEY DONT EVEN GET THEIR OWN PARTS OF THE HOOK TO SING. THEY SOUND SOO ANONYMOUS. That's like taking Ty Dolla's move of confidence and pumping it full of growth hormones and then setting it on fire. But it's what you're allowed to do when you're the president of G.O.O.D. Music and you know that your album is disgusting. And then it's all over in 10 songs and 30 minutes so you can go and play it again.

I think there's a part 2 in the wings. So we're hype for that.

[Kang.]

i must confess, i've made a mess of what should be a small success
but i digress, at least i've tried my very best, i guess

11. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

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11 of the best songs of the year and 11 of the year's best short stories. Courtney came up as one of 2015's most exciting new artists, and obviously what put her in that position above everything else was her crazy sharp way with words. Some of the tracks on her full-length debut work as character sketches or like, sitcom-esque storytelling moments, but mostly it's her opening up her head to us and seeing what comes out. She's another one who's great at starting with pretty normal seeming circumstances and somehow ending up with some articulation of an emotion or observation that we've all kinda had bouncing around up there but never thought about with any precision. But if I wanted to read a short story I would just do that, and what elevates the songs here to the level of great music is their total presentation: memorable guitar licks, CB's sarcastic, aimless delivery. It rocks, but it doesn't sound like the rock music you're used to.

[AshleeSimpsonFan]

Depression Cherry is an amazing album! Love Beach House

[Tom Vercetti]

I haven't seen a bad album so far. Keep em coming

[Penk]

I reallllly just cannot connect with BH as much as other people. They have so many individual songs/singles that I love, but after going though a whole album of their songs it just feels like too much of the same. Nothing wrong with sticking to your sound/being cohesive but..

I only listened to a few Pusha songs, I liked what I heard.

I thought Courtney was a lil bit overrated this year. A lot of killer tracks but I felt like it got bogged down by some filler and overlong songs.

Alabama Shakes + Neon Indian are heaven in musical form.

[Kang.]

Originally posted by Wicked

You don't know how much I'm stanning you right now for stating the FACT that Ghostface is the most consistent rapper of all time.

And might I add one of, if not the best discography for a rapper. Kanye better hope SWISH is some next level ish because SC2 will not be a joke.

Your taste

Rocky's album was so Just nah. And I kinda agree about Viet Cong as well but I still really liked it. Loving how Post-Punk is re-surging.

oh I don't think I saw this, yesss I am also all about that wu-tang life

I think he's really up there in terms of discogs too, hope SC2 is as good as OB4CL2 () was, I think he can do it.

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I wonder what ablums will be in the top 10

[chilicheese01]

Not too familiar with any of these. I did listen to Beach House once, and it flowed incredibly well.

[Sunderland 4ever]

11. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

[madonnas]

I thought you didn't like Courtney for whatever reason

[Kang.]

Originally posted by madonnas

I thought you didn't like Courtney for whatever reason

Is yous a fan too?

[minho]

I should listen to Alabama Shakes! Idk why i've avoided them for so long.

[Bloomers]

Pusha is so high already. He always delivers so Im not too surprised. I haven't had the time to devote to listening to his album.

I'm going to have to get on that.

But now the fat has been cut and we're back to some straight Hell Hath No Fury (one of the 5 best rap albums from 2000 to today)

True.

[Kang.]

Oof guess I'll start on #10 after I eats my dinner + get back
But for anyone trying to REMINISCE, tbt to this point last year!

[Bloomers]

Most all those albums still hit hard or harder than ever.

That bottom row

[Kang.]

happy new year

broken home, all i had was my homeboys
either build or destroy, what you going for?
just a pawn and a plan tryin' to hold on
when the smoke clear why was the war fought?
bout time you abandon the folklore

10. Vince Staples - Summertime '06

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This is the most emo rap album I've ever heard in my life, but if you listen to the words for 1 second you'll understand the numbness / existentialism. It's this perspective that makes Vince a super unique figure in today's hip hop scene. He raps about getting caught up in some very sketchy cycles incl. that one of street violence, and he's never apologetic about what he's had to do to stick around. But he's as sharp a critic of the system as you'll find and over the 2 discs here he lays out a POV on the whoooole setup of racism, violence that I've never really heard articulated in the new school of west coast rap or really mainstream rap music at all. There's a super claustrophobic vibe to the production, but on the other side I feel extending the story across a double disc helps to counteract this and make for a clearer STATEMENT that it's harder to ignore. For all the depressing stuff, it's something energizing.