2015 Album Releases

[jr29]

As we head into the home stretch it's looking like my top five will come from:

Clutch: Psychic Warfare
Heartless Bastards: Restless Ones
Jimbo Mathus: Blue Healer
Local H: Hey Killer
My Morning Jacket: The Waterfall

Other good ones this year have been:

Built To Spill: Unteathered Moon
Chris Cornell: Higher Truth
Faith No More: Sol Invictus
Gary Clark Jr: The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
Iron Maiden: Book of Souls
Los Lobos: Gates of Gold
Steven Wilson: Hand.Cannot.Erase

I need to give the Jimbo Mathus some more listens. His last two albums were tremendous but i was a little underwhelmed with Blue Healer. "Shoot Out The Lights" is great btw.

[rlipps]

After hearing him play the album in its entirety back in August at the High Watt in Nashville, I got a feeling Joey Kneiser's "The Wildness" will be battling with John Moreland's "High on Tulsa Heat" for the #1 spot in my 2015 album list when it's released on November 20th. Here's a few trailers for it:

[Clams]

I currently have Bottle Rockets' Building Chryslers edging out Isbell's Children of Children for Beast of the Year.

[Zip City]

An "in progress" Best Songs of 2015 play list

[Kudzu Guillotine]

This is from an album that won't actually be out until February. Also, while Skylar may originally be from Virginia, she's presently based in North Carolina.

Skylar Gudasz shares wry ode “I’m So Happy I Could Die” — listen
Virginia-based songwriter preps new album, Oleander, due out in February

[tinnitus photography]

the new Bevis Frond record is excellent.

[Zip City]

Butthead approves

[grapico]

After hearing him play the album in its entirety back in August at the High Watt in Nashville, I got a feeling Joey Kneiser's "The Wildness" will be battling with John Moreland's "High on Tulsa Heat" for the #1 spot in my 2015 album list when it's released on November 20th. Here's a few trailers for it:

It will over take HOTH

[tinnitus photography]

Butthead approves

soft 'e' you neanderthal.


everyone here should listen to Nick. he's a great songwriter.

[Clams]

Butthead approves

soft 'e' you neanderthal.

Heh heh
Heh heh heh
Heh heh
You said soft!

[tinnitus photography]

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Billy Gibbons' first solo album, Perfectamundo, which I've heard described as "Latin hip-hop", drops tomorrow.

[Zip City]

I thought Jim James was supposed to have a record this year?

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Tinariwen's first live album, Oukis N'Asuf drops on November 20th.



Tinde (Tinariwen Feat. Lalla Badi)
Tamiditin
Koudedazamin
Imidiwan Ahi Sigidam
Tamatant Tiley
Tinde (Lalla Badi)
Azawad
Chaghaybou
Toumast Tincha
Tiwayyen
Emin Assosam
Tinde Final (Tinariwen Feat. Lalla Badi)

[linkous]

Not many more new releases still to come now that the Xmas saturation market is in full mode.

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums ... -soon/date

F'in Coldplay


Soon be time for the end year lists from mags, blogs etc. Think I'll work on mine over the next day or two.

[lotusamerica]

Yep, xmas displays were up in some stores in October, so I guess it seems about time to declare the year over and write our best album lists. No one can actually seriously rate albums released in the past month or two, but that's never stopped us before! But if I do it, I'm going to include anything a year prior to my post, not from jan 1. End of the year records either get screwed or overrated so maybe that's a way to go anyways...

[Kudzu Guillotine]

If I post a list of favorites for the year, it's usually not until the end of January. At Christmas time I usually end up with some new albums. It's still not an ample amount of time to give them their due but at least I'll have a chance to give them a couple spins.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

New EP from Courtney Barnett. You can listen to it and see clips from the sessions here.

[Clams]

So are live records eligible for our 3dd best records of the year lists? Speaking of course about DBT's Great to be Alive.

[dogstar]

So are live records eligible for our 3dd best records of the year lists? Speaking of course about DBT's Great to be Alive.

And the next Neil Young archive release, which is out very soon.