DTA List: Top 10 Albums of 2015

top 10 2015

This year was an amazing music year for me. So much indie goodness. Sometimes the timing is just right and all of your favorite bands put out albums, like Belle and Sebastian – who I also saw live this year and got to get up on stage and dance in Milwaukee. Alas, Belle and Sebastian’s Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance didn’t make the Top 10 cut.

Coming up with a Top 10 list has taken me many days. It’s so tough when you love all the music. The Spotify song lists below are very representative of what I enjoyed this year and am still listening to. But I guess the challenge of a Top 10 list is the fun of it. So here you go. I hope you’ll check out all the music.

My Top 10*

1. Pale Honey – Pale Honey
2. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
3. EL VY – Return to the Moon
4. Lady Lamb – After
5. San Fermin – Jackrabbit
6. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil
7. Beach House – Thank Your Lucky Stars
8. Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield – Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliot Smith
9. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
10. Matt & Kim – New Glow

*in no particular order

Now that the list is out of the way, here are some other mentions.

Live albums:
Phosphorescent – Live at the Music Hall
Ryan Adams – Ten Songs from Live at Carnegie Hall

International finds:
Amason – Sky City
The Dø – Shake, Shook, Shaken

Bluegrass love:
Mandolin Orange – Such Jubilee
Dave Rawlings Machine – Nashville Obsolete

Best live performance of new album:
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

Album most likely to stand the test of time:
Brandi Carlile – The Firewatcher’s Daughter

 

First Half (2015)

Second Half (2015)

Contributed by Marissa Amoni

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