My Favourite Albums of 2015

Well it that's time of the year again, be doing list of movies again during the week.
All fave tracks have links so you can listen to them, well apart from one....

12. Euros Childs - Sweetheart

Fave Tracks:
Fruit & Veg
Machine
Playing In The Sun

http://euroschilds.co.uk/

11. Martin Courtney - Many Moons

Fave Tracks:
Northern Highway
Airport Bar
Foto

http://martincourtneyiv.com/

10. Jape - This Chemical Sea

Fave Tracks:
The Heart's Desire
Without Life In The Way
Love On The Crest of The Wave

https://www.facebook.com/wearejape/

9. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Fave Tracks:
Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party
Pedestrian At Best
Depreston

http://courtneybarnett.com.au/

8. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier

Fave Tracks:
Breaker
All The Same
Snakeskin

http://deerhuntermusic.com/

7. Sonny & The Sunsets - Talent Night At The Ashram

Fave Tracks:
The Application
Happy Carrot Health Food Store
Icelene's Loss

http://sonnyandthesunsets.bandcamp.com/

6. Tame Impala - Currents

Fave Tracks:
Let It Happen
Eventually
The Less I Know The Better

http://www.tameimpala.com/

5. Toro Y Moi - What For?

Fave Tracks:
Empty Nesters
Spell It Out
Run Baby Run

http://toroymoi.com/

Full of all of the slick grooves and melodies you've come to expect from Chaz Bundick but with a more guitar based sound.

4. Skelocrats - Bella Bella

Fave Tracks:
Laura Dolan
BCE
Permanent House Painter

http://skelocrats.bandcamp.com/

A near perfect album from the Popical Island supergroup which acts almost as a glossary or summary of all the different indie pop that I've grown to love over the years. Also 13 tracks (out of the 14) under 3 minutes, that's how you do it folks!

3. blur - The Magic Whip

Fave Tracks:
Ghost Ship
Ice Cream Man
My Terracotta Heart

http://www.blur.co.uk/

I wasn't sure I needed another blur album in my life, I thought we were done, how many farewell gigs am I expected to go to? Thankfully I wasn't disappointed and got an album better than I had any right to have hoped for, with plenty of the familiar blur sound we've grown to love but also some sonic departures particularly "Ghost Ship" an infectious slice of 70's MOR soul/soft rock, wasn't expecting that on a blur album I can tell you...

2. Anderson - Patterns

Fave Tracks:
Vincent
History
Cecilia's Sister

http://andersonsongs.com/

Danny Anderson's debut solo album is like chicken soup for the soul and it's impossible to hide from it's heartfelt charm. The care and craft that has gone into the album oozes out of every track and it's clear for anyone to hear from first listen, a joy from start to finish.

1. No Monster Club - People Are Weird

Fave Tracks:

I've Retired

Late Bloomers

The Severed Head

http://www.nomonsterclub.com/

This is the album that's stuck with me all year more than any other. "I've Retired" is hands down my favourite song of the year and my last.fm page is all the proof you need (170 plays apparently at time of typing!) but thankfully the rest of the album is of a similar quality. It's just a confident, fun collection of giddy melodies, fuzzy lo-fi sounds and is the most individual or idiosyncratic sounding album I've heard all year (also gets bonus points for having a lyric about winning the World Cup in Qatar)

I've embedded this handy Spotify playlist of all my favourite tracks (also a Soundcloud playlist for fave tunes not on Spotify!)

Previous award winners:

2014 - Ginnels - A Country Life

2013 - Sweet Baboo - Ships

2012 - Jack White - Blunderbuss

2011 - Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See

2010 - Lawrence Arabia - Chant Darling

2009 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

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My Favourite Albums of 2015

20. Belle & Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance

19. Twerps - Range Anxiety

18. The Mighty Stef - The Year of The Horse

17. EL VY - Return To The Moon

16. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi Love

15. Wilco - Star Wars

14. Ash - Kablammo!

13. Villagers - Darling Arithmetic