Merry Christmast, guys Wish you all warm and happy days with the people you love Once again, thank you for your comments, they are greatly appreciated. Here's the last bunch of my favourite albums of 2015, hope you enjoy them.
STANDOUTS
Sound & Color | Don't Wanna Fight | Gimme All Your Love | This Feeling | I Miss You | Over My Head
First up for this update, it's Alabama Shakes with "Sound & Color". A huge surprise for me, as I usually don't enjoy Rock music as much. I don't even remember how I got to listen to this record, but I fell in love with Don't Wanna Fight this summer and then I just couldn't stop listening to this album. I think that Brittany has one of the greatest female vocal I've heard recently, this woman can sing anything. Such growl is rare to come by nowadays. Something about the album just works - it's has its weird moments but I feel like they make the album shine as much as it does. It's raw, emotional and full of passion - a definite 2015 must-listen for every music lover, no matter their preferred genre.
STANDOUTS
Ship To Wreck | What Kind of Man | How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | Queen of Peace | Long & Lost | Third Eye | Mother
At Number 4 this year, it's Florence + The Machine with "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful". I've enjoyed Florence's previous albums enough to be quite excited for this one. I was never a huge fan, but I know that they are capable of delivering a good quality music with their albums. This one turned out to be my favourite album of theirs. I love how grand it sounds in its composition, and some of the lyrics are just masterpieces. I feel that HBHBHB is a perfect balance between Lungs and Ceremonials and it just works perfectly. This is what an album of a true visionary and talent should look and sound like.
STANDOUTS
Real Life | Tell Your Friends | Often | The Hills | Can't Feel My Face | Shameless | Acquainted | Prisoner
Number 3 this year goes to The Weeknd and "Beauty Behind The Madness". I've been following his career for sometime, but I've never been a huge fan until this year. I love the direction that he's taking with this one, even though some people may argue that he sold out to pop, I can still hear his signature sound coming through in this record. It shows that he can be mainstream and still sound authentic, which is rather hard to achieve these days. He was able to become huge in just a year without coming across as a try-hard who wants to fit in but is doing his own thing and changing the current sound as he goes, which is more than admirable. Even though I saw him as a supporting act for Drake in 2014, I cannot be more excited to see him perform the record live on the ANTi Tour next year.
STANDOUTS
Foundation | Real | Shine | King | Worship | Eyes Shut | Ties | Desire | Take Shelter | 1977
Just a place under the top spot in 2015 is my favourite debut album of the year - the British band Years & Years with "Communion". It feels like we've waited for this one for so long, but man, was it worth it! I love every single song on this record, I feel like each one adds something to the overall sound of the album. It's original, full of great lyrics and deep meaning. The boys were able to create an emotional record full of confessions about heartbreak and unrequited love which you can dance to. And what more can somebody ask for. There isn't a single thing that I would change about it. Can't wait for more music from these guys.
I really like Blue Neighborhood's cover. As for the album, I just bop to a few songs.
Drake and Justin delivered Glad you could get into Justin for the music.
Top 5 slays so far, especially Florence, Abel and Y&Y. I wonder who your #1 is
It's no other but Adele's incredible third studio album 25. There probably isn't a praise left that wasn't said about Adele and whatever I say will not be enough to express how much I love her. She brings out some different kind of emotions out of me. I still remember the day that I downloaded 19 back in 2008 and fell in love with her voice. Never in a million years did I think that she'll become what she is today - the biggest star of our generation. She followed up with 21 and turned me into a stan. It's probably my favourite album of all time and still sounds as fresh as the day it was released to me. I was beyond excited for her follow-up and she delivered once again. 25 is flawless in my books, every time I listen to it I find something new to love about it. She is real, emotional, raw and it has always shown through her music. What more can you ask for.
She just had me at Hello.