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Album of 2015
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Gigs of the year:
1) Sufjan Stevens @RFH
2) Ride @ Roundhouse
3) Father John Misty @ Cambridge Junction
4) Barr Brothers @ Bush Hall
5) Simone Felice @ Lexington
6) Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ Islington Assembly Hall
7) King Creosote @ Barbican
8) Matthew E White @ St Luke's
9) Run the Jewels/Petite Noir @ 100 Club
10) El Vy @ Electric Ballroom
Festival performances:
1) Beck @ Hyde Park
2) Future Islands @ Hyde Park
3) Father John Misty @ Green Man
4) Matthew E White @ Green Man
5) St Vincent @ Green Man
@ReluctantLou
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The Top ten Albums of 2015 from Lucky Strikes frontman & solo singer/songwriter M.G. Boulter
Emily Portman - Coracle
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
Bob Collum and the Welfare Mothers - Little Rock
Vera Van Heerigen - Proper Brew
The Cairo Gang - Goes Missing
Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell - Sing into my Mouth
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell 8Phil Cook - Southland Mission
Lucero - All a Man Should Do
Matt releases his latest solo effort as MG Boulter on the 29th January 2016. It's called 'With Wolves The Lamb Will Die'
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Julie’s Top Ten Album’s 2015
The Shires – Brave
Father John Misty – I Love you, Honeybear
Joe Pug – Windfall
The Leisure Society - The Fine Art of Hanging on
Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material
Andrew Combs – All These Dreams
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
The Staves – If I was
Jason Isbell – Something More than Free
Alan Jackson – Angels and Alcohol
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Top Albums – 2015
Lorna – London’s Leaving Me
Low – Ones and Sixies
Surfjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
The Decemberists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m going down
Julia Holter – Have You in my Wilderness
Gengahr – A Dream Outside
This is the Kit – Bashed Out
Top Ten Gigs – 2015
Nick Cave – Nottingham Theatre Royal
Camera Obscura – Trades Hall Hebden Bridge
Super Fury Animals – Cardiff University
Ride - Roundhouse
Death Cab for Cutie – Brixton Academy
Laura Marling – CCE
Interpol – Roundhouse
King Crimson – Birmingham Symphony Hall
Calexico – SBE
Lambchop – Barbican
Top Ten Festival Shows – 2015
Surfjan Stevens – End of the Road
Patti Smith & Band playing 'Horses' – Field Day
Television playing 'Marquee Moon' - Green Man
Spiritualized – Liverpool Psych Fest
Low – End of the Road
The War on Drugs – End of the Road
Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe – Liverpool Psych Fest
Ryan Adams & The Shining – London Calling
This is the Kit – Green Man
Ultimate Painting. – Green Man
Best Song
El Vy – Return to the Moon
- Top Tens
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Alex G - DSU
3. Rival Consoles - Howl
4. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
5. Micachu & The Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad
6. The Spook School - Try to be Hopeful
7. Bjork - Vulnicura
8. Tame Impala - Currents
9. Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
10. Lou Barlow - Brace the Wave
Glasgwegian popster's Tuff Love are set to release their three EPs as one 15-track compilation. Due Jan 29th via Lost Map Records, 'Resort' brings together sell-outs 'Junk' & 'Dross' - both now unavailable - and the more recent EP 'Dregs'
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Alison runs BiGiAM Promotions and here are her Top Ten album choices for 2015
1. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
2. Du Blonde- Welcome Back To Milk
3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
4. This Is The Kit - Bashed Out
5. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit & Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
6. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
7. The Maccabees - Marks to Prove It
8. The Staves - If I Was
9. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
10. Tame Impala - Currents
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Top 10 Albums of 2015 according to The Most Serene Republic:
(in no particular order)
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
Four Tet - Morning/Evening
Tame Impala - Currents
Shy Kids - Lofty
Diva - Divinity in Thee
Thundercat - The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
Born Ruffians - Ruff
Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School
Jamie XX - In Colour
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
{https://soundcloud.com/themostserenerepublic/benefit-of-the-doubt}
The Band's new album "Mediac" is available now as both a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD and LIMITED EDITION WHITE VINYL via MapleMusic Recordings.
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Rosie Wilby picks her Top Ten albums of 2015
1. Father John Misty - I love you, honey bear
2. Low - Ones and Sixes
3. Wilco - Star Wars
4. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
6. Julia Holter - Have you in my Wilderness
7. The Self Help Group - Dead Stars
8. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
9. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm goin Down
10. Sean Taylor - The Only Good Addiction is Love
Rosie Wilby is a writer, comedian and founder of Piranha Music PR. Rosie previews a new show at Camden Etcetera Theatre on 25 January which is well worth checking out. Tickets
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Here's a Top Ten from Jeremy Tuplin who has an EP Open Letters out on 29 Jan and recently released this single from it, Time's Essence:
{https://soundcloud.com/jeremytuplin/timesessence}
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Blur - The Magic Whip
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Gaz Coombes - Matador
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Jamie Woon - Making Time
Mac Demarco - Another One
Gabriel Moreno - Songs Of Love And Decadence
Jamie xx - In Colour
- Top Tens
1 Hamilton - original Broadway cast recording
2 Carrie and Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
3 Welcome Back to Milk - DuBlonde
4 I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty
5 Marks to Prove It - The Maccabees
6 To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
7 Sometimes I just Sit and Think... - Courtney Barnett
8 Something More Than Free - Jason Isbell
9 Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues
10 Currents - Tame Impala
Songs of the year:
Wait for It - Hamilton
John My Beloved - Sufjan Stevens (thanks to Carson)
i - Kendrick Lamar
Film:
Girlhood
Festival performance of the year (ever)
Sufjan Stevens @ End of the Road Festival
Second place - SS's soundcheck @ End of the Road Festival
Kevin B.
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The youth of the Republic of Essex have spoken - Jack and Torran's Top 10 Albums -
Nothing but Thieves - Nothing but Thieves
Bring me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
Halsey - Badlands
Justin Bieber - Promise
Major Lazer - Peace is the Mission
Jack U - Jack U
Halestorm - Into the Wildlife
5 Seconds of Summer - Sounds Good Feels Good
Ellie Goulding- Delirium
The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
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2015 Top 10 Albums
Dan Patlansky - Dear Silence Thieves
Shinedown -Threat to Survival
Halestorm - Into the Wildlife
Silent Divide - Master of Disguise
Dinosaur Pile Up - Eleven Eleven
Blackberry Smoke - Holding all the Roses
Gun - Frantic
Plain white T's -American Nights
We are the Ocean - Ark
Zac Brown Band - Jeckyll & Hyde
Iain @docswallow
