Favorite Albums of 2015: 40 - 21

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40. Director - Yonatan Gat  
Label: Joyful Noise
Very fun and breezy instrumental improvised rock with great solos and grooves.

 

  

39. White Reaper Does it Again - White Reaper
Album: Polyvinyl
Garage punk trio with bubblegum hooks and psychedelic touches from Louisville, Kentucky. 

 

38. Peace is the Mission - Major Lazer
Label: Mad Decent
Straight up electronic dancehall pop music



 

37. Cocksure - Laura Stevenson
Label: Don Giovanni
Female singer-songwriter with some major backbone

 

36. Every Open Eye - CHVRCHES
Label: Goodbye Records
Glasgow-based trio that plays synth pop inspired by Prince and Kate Bush.

35. Sremmlife - Rae Sremmurd
Label: Interscope
Exuberant party-oriented rap duo

34. Slurrup - Liam Hayes
Label: Fat Possum
Stripped down psych-rock songs with a pop edge and immediate appeal

 

33. Y Dydd Olaf - Gwenno
Label: Heavenly
Good ol' fashioned Welsh electro singer/songwriter pop music

32. Who's Gonna Get F***** First - Father
Label: Awful
Atlanta based rap, which is very NSFW

 

31. Predatory Headlights - Tenement
Label: Don Giovanni
Hooky but smart and powerfully imaginative punk music

30. Painted Shut - Hop Along
Label: Saddle Creek
Explosive, articulate, punk-suffused indie rock led by captivating female vocals

 

29. The Bearer of Bad News - Andy Shauf
Label: Party Damage
Canadian singer/songwriter whose dark, rustic tales reflect his prairie home

 

28. High - Royal Headache
Label: What's Your Rupture?
Sydney, Australia garage punkers infuse their raw sound with a heavy dose of AM radio soul and incredibly catchy songwriting

 

27. Sky City - Amason
Label: Fairfax Recordings
Swedish indie pop supergroup with members of Miike Snow, Dungen, and Little Majorette

26. All Yours - Widowspeak
Label: Captured Tracks
Dark, hazy music equally indebted to Mazzy Star and jangly Sarah Records-style indie pop

25. Melbourne, Florida - Dick Diver
Label: Trouble in Mind
Brainy indie pop that's heavily influenced by the literate, precise emotionalism of the Go-Betweens, as well as the scrappy indie rock of early Yo La Tengo

24. Kicking Every Day - All Dogs
Label: Salinas Records
Melodic, scruffy, and insightful indie rock band from Ohio

 

23. Non-Person - Vacation
Label: Don Giovanni
Very loud very messy punk music

 

22. Green Lanes - Ultimate Painting
Label: Trouble in Mind
Nice and simple '60s and '70s-inspired guitar pop

21. Vestiges and Claws - Jose Gonzalez
Label: Mute
Alternative singer/songwriter whose bewitching sound focuses on autumnal, acoustic indie pop