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Top Ten Albums of 2015 from Mark Bruce, frontman of The Self Help Group whose album Dead Stars is out now
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
2. Other lives - Rituals
3. Father John Misty-I Love You,Honeybear
4. Israel Nash Gripka - Silver Season
5. Tallest Man On Earth-Dark Bird Is Home
6. Low-Ones and Sixes
7. Vetiver - Complete Strangers
8. This is the kit - Bashed Out
9. Beruit - No No No
10. The Staves - If I Was
@thegroupies
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Albums
1. Low - One & Sixes
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Rozi Plain - Friend
4. This Is The Kit - Bashed Out
5. Calexico - Edge of the Sun
6. The Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
7. Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
8. Mew - +-
9. Andrew Combs - All These Dreams
10. Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun
Gigs
1. The Blue Aeroplanes - Fleece, Bristol
2. Sun Kil Moon - Leeds
3. The Decemberists, Bristol
4. Steven Wilson - Manchester
5. The Cadillac Three, Leeds
6. PINS, Brudenell, Leeds
7. Moon Duo, Leeds
8. Calexico, Manchester
9. Death Cab For Cutie, Manchester
10. Fish, Sheffield
Festival Performances
1. Low - EOTR
2. Sufjan Stevens - EOTR
3. The Wedding Present - Deershed
4. John Grant - Deershed
5. Pulled Apart By Horses - Long Division
6. Rozi Plain - Long Division
7. My Morning Jacket - EOTR
8. Chris Wood - Unity Folk Festival
9. Fat White Family - Long Division
10. Blossoms - Live At Leeds
@kjsmith4082
- Top Tens
Albums
If I Was- The Staves
I Love You, Honeybear- Father John Misty
B'lieve I'm Goin Down- Kurt Vile
Young Chasers- Circa Waves
Return To The Moon- El Vy
Born Under The Saturn- Django Django
Get To Heaven- Everything Everything
FFS- FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks)
Green Lanes- Ultimate Painting
Ivy Tripp- Waxahatchee
Gigs
Interpol - Roundhouse
Death Cab For Cutie- Shepherds Bush Empire
FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks)- The Forum
Maximo Park- Roundhouse
Elbow- Hammersmith Apollo
The War On Drugs- Brixton Academy
Foo Fighters- Milton Keynes Bowl
Circa Waves- Under The Bridge
Ryan Adams- De Montfort Hall
Battles- The Dome
Festivals
Goat- Glastonbury
Father John Misty- Green Man
Kylie- BST Hyde Park
Ryan Adams- Glastonbury
Circa- Glastonbury
Beck- BST Hyde Park
Hot Chip- Green Man
Everything Everything- Glastonbury
Slug- Green Man
Elbow- OnBlackheath
Song of the year
I Love you, Honeybear- Father John Misty
@thejoeeley
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Top Ten Albums of 2015 from Gráinne
1. February 15 EP - Nao.
2. All Yours - Widowspeak.
3. No no no - Beirut.
4. Inside Out OST - Michael Giacchino.
5. Jackrabbit - San Fermin.
6. Snack EP - Deqn Sue
7. Over and Even - Joan Shelley.
8. Headlights EP - Tor Miller
9. Hairless Toys - Roisin Murphy
10. Agus anois an aimsir - Colm Mac Con Iomaire
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Akarusa Yami - Tom Brumpton (Vocals) sends in his Top Ten albums of 2015
1. Clutch - Psychic Warfare
2. Frank Turner - Positive Songs For Negative People
3. Skindred - Volume
4. Soilwork - The Ride Majestic
5. Napalm Death - Apex Predator/Easy Meat
6. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
7. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
8. Rolo Tomassi - Grievances
9. The Man From UNCLE OST
10. SiKTh - Opacities EP
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Top Ten Albums of 2015 from Seep Away - Dom Smith (Drums) & Max Watt: (Guitar/Vocals)
1. Marilyn Manson (The Pale Emperor)
2. Pictureplane (Technomancer)
3. HEALTH (Death Magic)
4. Failure (The Heart Is A Monster)
5. Desaparecidos - Payola
6. Lamb Of God (VII: Sturm Und Drang)
7. Turnstile (Nonstop Feeling)
8. The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing (Not Your Typical Victorians)
9. The Bastard Sons (Smoke)
10. Pitboss 2000 (The Cult of F*ck Yeah)
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Practical Lovers’ Top Ten albums of 2015
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Modern Dancing - Traams
The Weekend - Beauty and the Madness
Stephan Bodzin - Powers of Ten
Bjork - Vulnicura
Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
Slaves - Are you Satisfied
Mishka Shubaly - Cowards Path
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Holly Herndon – Platform
The band have just released their debut LP release ‘Agony’ and also unveiled a new video for ‘Textbook Romance’. Have a look & listen. They also play the Dublin Castle in London this Friday 18th December.
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Top Ten Albums 2015
Slaves – Are You Satisfied?
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I sit..
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
Willis Earl Beale- Noctunes
Bjork-Vulnicura
Kendrick Lamaar – to Pimp a Butterfly
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Girl band – Holding Hands with Jamie
Unthanks – Mount the Air
False Lights – Salvor
Top Ten Gigs 2015
Rhino and the Ranters, Prince of Whales, Birmingham
The Dualers, Junction Ska Train, Cambridge
Keltrix, Grapes, Cambridge
Wire/Orlando, Lexington
Mentes Maskent Trio, Szeged Bridge Fair, Hungary
Hayseed Dixie, Parkers Piece, Cambridge
Major Toms – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham
Emily Barker, Gill Sandell, Paul Goodwin, Portland Arms, Cambridge
Tomorrow We Sail – Shindig, Unitarian Church, Cambridge
UB40, Corn Exchange
Top Ten Festival Performances
Slaves-Great Escape
Zombies, Black Lion, Great Escape
Thurston Moore - GE
Funke and the 2 Tone Baby - Strawberry Fayre
Wilko Johnson- Cambridge Folk Fest
Rhiannon Giddens - Cambridge Folk Fest
The Monkees with Polyphonic Spree –Moseley Folk Fest
Stick in the Wheel - Moseley
Josh T Pearson -Mutations
Lightning Bolt - Mutations
@Kevinhand3
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Simon Bromide's Top Ten albums of 2015. Well a top 9 plus a plea to The Crystal Slits
1 Katy Carr – ‘polonia’ (deluce)
2 Last Harbour – ‘caul’ (gizeh)
3 Joey Herzfeld and his so-called friends – ‘are watching you’ (scratchy)
4 Desperate Journalist – ‘desperate journalist’ (fierce panda)
5 Wet Dog – ‘divine times’ (upset the rhythm)
6 Gentle Folk – ‘into the greenwood’ (dharma)
7 Drenge – ‘undertow’ (infectious)
8 Sleaford Mods – ‘key markets’ (harbinger sound)
9 The Moonlandingz ep (without consent)
10 Crystal Stilts – and where exactly is the new record. hmm ?????
+ gig of the year - The Replacements at the roundhouse
Simon runs London-based Scratchy Records and plays with 3-piece band Rockersbromide whose next gig is at Vinyl Records, Tanners Hill Deptford on Sat 19th Dec.
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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
