2015 yielded some pretty top notch music (or at least we’d like to think so). Some of the LPR staff put together a list of their favorite releases this year, check them out below.
BRETT:
Father John Misty – I Love You Honey Bear (Sub Pop)
Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
Deafheaven – New Bermuda (ANTI-)
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Style (Matador)
Faith No More – Sol Invictus (Reclamation)
Modest Mouse – Stranger to Ourselves (Epic)
Majical Cloudz – Are you Alone (Matador)
Bully – Feels Like (Columbia)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar)
BRIANNE:
Empress Of – Me (Terrible Records)
HEALTH – DEATH MAGIC (Loma Vista)
Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
Tanlines – Highlights (True Panther)
Small Black – Best Blues (Jagjaguwar)
Braids – Deep in the Iris (Arbutus)
Wolf Alice – My Love is Cool (Dirty Hit Ltd)
Christine and the Queens – self titled (neon Gold/Because Music)
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie (Rough Trade)
MONICA:
Kamasi Washington – The Epic (Brainfeeder)
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Floating Points – Elaenia (Luaka Bop/Pluto)
Leon Bridges – Coming Home (Columbia)
Holly Herndon – Platform (4AD)
Vijay Iyer Trio – Break Stuff (ECM)
Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete (Warp)
Guerilla Toss – Flood Dosed (DFA)
Thundercat – The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam (Brainfeeder)
Pandabear – Pandabear Meets The Grim Reaper (Domino)
JOHN:
Joanna Newsom – Divers (Drag City)
Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (Domino)
Ryley Walker – Primrose Green (Dead Oceans)
Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
INTERNS:
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul (Lex Records)
Kamasi Washington – The Epic (Brainfeeder)
Bilal – Another Life (eOne Music/Purpose)
Seinabo Sey – Pretend (Universal)
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Andra Day – Cheers To The Fall (Warner Bros)
BRAD:
Crypt Sermon – Out of the Garden (Dark Descent)
Red River Dialect – Tender Gold & Gentle Blue (Hinterland)
Macabre Omen – Gods of War – At War (Ván)
Panopticon – Autumn Eternal (Bindrune)
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
Joanna Newsom – Divers (Drag City)
Obsequiae – Aria of Vernal Tombs (20 Buck Spin)
Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls (Sanctuary)
False – Untitled (Gilead)
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Night of Your Ascension (Thrill Jockey)
IVAN:
Royal Headache – High (Whats Your Rupture?)
Radioactivity – Silent Kill (Dirtnap)
Sleater Kinney – No Cities To Love (Subpop)
Lower Dens – Escape From Evil (Ribbons Music)
Jack Ladder and The Dreamlanders – Playland (Fat Possum)
Blur – The Magic Whip (Parlophone)
Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
TRISH:
Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (Universal)
Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine)
JENIFER:
Beirut – No No No (4AD)
Nero – Between II Worlds (Virgin EMI)
Jamie xx – In Colour (Young Turks)