Sunday, July 5, 2015

Mid-year Top 40 albums of 2015

This has been a tremendous year for music already. This Top 40 is semi-thrown together and part the product of some measure of thought. These are all albums that I own, so albums I've reviewed for CHIRP but haven't purchased yet by Eleventh Dream Day and The Cairo Gang aren't ranked (and I just purchased the Wavves + Cloud Nothings LP, but haven't listened to it yet, so, yes, I'm not ranking it yet). The rankings are a bit more precise towards the top and by the time it gets to 15 or 16, things are really close, and distinctions aren't as fine. I'd be happy if my Top 20 was a year end list, so I'm excited about what the rest of the year has to offer.

1. FFS - FFS


2. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again 


3. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green




4. Gaz Coombes - Matador







5. Shamir - Ratchet


6. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf


7. Bill Fay - Who Is The Sender?


8. Disappears - Irreal


9. Motor Sister - Ride


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


11. Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile


12. Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born to Lose You


13. Kamasi Washington - The Epic


14.  Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too


15. Olivia Chaney - The Longest River


16. Van Hunt - The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets


17. The Sonics - This is The Sonics


18. Ceremony - The L-Shaped Man


19. Toro Y Moi - What For?


20. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs


21. Fantasma - Free Love


22. Until The Ribbon Breaks -A Lesson Unlearnt


23. Laura Marling - Short Movie


24. Django Django - Born Under Saturn


25. No Joy - More Faithful


26. Andrew Combs - All These Dreams


27. Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth


28. The Darkness - Last of Our Kind


29. Blur - The Magic Whip


30. Stealing Sheep - Not Real


31. Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge


32. Björk - Vulnicura


33. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love 


34. Calexico - Edge of the Sun


35. Mark Ronson -- Uptown Special


36. Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night


37. Evans The Death - Expect Delays


38. Richard Thompson - Still


39. Georgia Anne Muldrow - A Thoughtiverse Unmarred


40. Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart

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