Even the reunion albums held up Sleater-Kinney and Blur’s new albums hold their own in hall-of-fame catalogs.Īny new full-length album released or announced for release between 1/1/15 to 6/30/15 was eligible for this list, and there was so much great stuff that it’ll take us at least until the end of the year to properly appreciate all of it. If loud, clangy guitars suited your mood better, Screaming Females and Viet Cong and Speedy Ortiz had you covered. If slick pop music was your thing, Drake and Mark Ronson and Brandon Flowers did their respective things as well as anyone could’ve hoped. Everything worked.Īmidst the avalanche of bigger releases, though, there was plenty going on on the margins: Great indie-pop from Colleen Green and Hop Along and Yowler, great extreme metal from Tribulation and Elder and Leviathan, great folk-rock from the Staves and the Weather Station and Johanna Warren, great partied-out rap music from Rae Sremmurd and Action Bronson and Young Thug. Sufjan Stevens stripped back all his orchestral indulgences and tried making a devastatingly direct record about family and loss. Chance The Rapper subsumed his talents into a full-band soul-gospel-jazz odyssey about being in love with life.
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Bjork turned to experimental electronic music to help her cope with the open wound of her divorce. Kendrick Lamar pulled from spoken-word and abstract jazz to make an opus about what it’s like to be black in America in 2015. More often, people are trying out insanely ambitious ideas and pulling them off. There have been disappointments, for sure, but they’ve been few and far between. Thus far, 2015 has been stuffed with major artists setting their sights terrifyingly high and then somehow hitting their targets. And when the huge, fully-formed masterpieces are dropping from the sky with no notice whatsoever, is it even safe to tear our faces away from the internet for a day or two? These are good problems to have. As in: How are we supposed to process all this? How can we fully appreciate one major piece of work when there’s always another one coming right around the corner. WHEN WE ALL WANT SOMEONE TO BLAME NOW FOR THE PAIN.The amount of great music in the past six months has been almost unfair. MELDING HEARTS WHEN WE ALL WATCHED IT FROM AFAR Making instrumental guitar pieces has always been an act of meditation and I hope if only for a brief moment, the listener can wander and lose themselves within the sonic imagery offered in this piece. Side A confronts the issue and Side B acts as a mental respite.
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“Egress" is meant to serve as a faint departure or daydream spaces I often find myself drifting to as a means of escape when disturbing thoughts cyclically plague my brain. The lyrics grapple with the existence of a god in a time of such utter sadness, hopelessness, and confusion. I found the name to be symbolically poignant in light of the events and wanted this to be a tribute piece. The DAIS family lost one of it's most beloved members, Cash Askew, and its song title is a literal translation of her last name In Old Norse being Eiki (oak) Skogr (wood) thus making Oak Wood. DAIS104 - Order the vinyl at “Oak Wood" was a song received a couple weeks following the Ghostship tragedy in Oakland.