Sasquatch Board Members' Top Albums of 2015

[Pea]

It is officially the final month of 2015, and barring any surprise albums dropping in the next few weeks, I think we can safely wrap this year up! What were your favorites? Feel free to post whatever quantity you want. I went with a top 25, plus 10 assorted honorable mentions. For me personally, 2015 just had too much great music to whittle down my list to anything smaller.

1. Dragged Into Sunlight & Gnaw Their Tongues - N.V.
2. Jamie xx - In Colour
3. Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
4. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
5. Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
6. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
7. Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
8. Tame Impala - Currents
9. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
10. The Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird Is Home
11. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
12. Best Coast - California Nights
13. Puscifer - Money Shot
14. Death Grips - Jenny Death
15. Leviathan - Scar Sighted
16. Vessels - Dilate
17. Lucero - All A Man Should Do
18. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I just Sit
19. Scuba - Claustrophobia
20. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
21. Akhlys - The Dreaming I
22. Sumac - The Deal
23. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Harmlessness
24. Venetian Snares - Thank You for Your Consideration
25. Gorod - A Maze of Recycled Creeds

Honorable mentions:
Björk - Vulnicura
Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - After
The Chemical Brothers - Born in the Echoes
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Slayer - Repentless
Biome - Sombre
Coheed & Cambria - The Color Before the Sun
Grimes - Art Angels
Cult Leader - Lightless Walk
Napalm Death - Apex Predator-Easy Meat
Mgla - Exercises In Futility

[Darth]

1. Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Grimes- Art Angels
3. Courtney Barnett- Sometimes I sit and Think
4. Young Fathers- White Men Are Black Too
5. Death Grips- The Power That B
6. Modest Mouse- Stranger to Ourselves
7. Majical Cloudz- Are you Alone
8. Deerhunter- Fading Frontier
9. Deafheaven- New Bermuda
10. Action Bronson- Mr. Wonderful
11. Chelsea Wolfe- Abyss
12. Sufjan Stevens- Carrie and Lowell
13. Chvrches- Every Open Eye
14. ASAP Rocky- At.Long.Last.Asap
15. Battles- LaDiDaDi
16. Adele- 25
17. Big Grams- Big Grams
18. Ghost- Meliora
19. Waxahatchee- Ivy Tripp
20. FKA Twigs- M3LL155X

[Dr. Crane]

My favorite color is OH MY GOD BITCH

[Blacksmile]

1. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
2. Beach House – Depression Cherry
3. Blur – The Magic Whip
4. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
5. Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower
6. Deafheaven – New Bermuda
7. Swervedriver – I Wasn’t Born to Lose You
8. Indian Handcrafts - Creeps
9. Alabama Shakes – Sound and Color
10. Dan Mangan + Blacksmith – Club Meds
11. Royal Headache – High
12. Mutoid Man – Bleeder
13. Viet Cong – S/T
14. Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight
15. Elder – Lore
16. Meat Wave – Brother
17. Sumac – The Deal
18. My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall
19. Monolord – Vaenir
20. Pile – The World is Yours
21. Tame Impala – Currents
22. Sandrider – Sandrider + Kinski Split
23. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth – S/T
24. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
25. Beach Slang - The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us

Also Good:
Hayden – Hey Love
Marriages - Salome
Deerhunter – Fading Frontier
Health – Death Magic
Leon Bridges – Coming Home
Ought – Sun Coming Down
Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes
Wilco - Star Wars
Matthew Good - Chaotic Neutral
Obnox – Boogalou Reed
He Whose Ox is Gored – The Camel, The Lion, The Child
EL VY – Return to the Moon

[Geoff]

30. CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
29. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
28. Beach House - Depression Cherry
27. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, and Other Distress
25. Death Grips - Fashion Week
24. Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
24. Battles - La Di Da Di
23. Grimes - Art Angels
22. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
21. Mew - +-
20. Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth
19. Tame Impala - Currents
18. The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Harmlessness
17. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Other Times I Just Sit
16. Algiers - Algiers
15. Deerhunter - Fading Fromtier
14. Ought - Sun Coming Down
13. FKA twigs - M3LL155X
12. Joanna Newsom - Divers
11. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
10. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
9. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
8. Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
7. Deafheaven - Sunbather
6. Bjork - Vulnicura
5. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
4. Death Grips - The Powers That B
3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
2. Kendrick Lamat - To Pimp a Butterfly
1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

[Dr. Crane]

Geno is drunk.

[Pea]

Pea's Top 20 Extreme Metal Albums of 2015:

Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods
Mgla - Exercises In Futility
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Cult Leader - Lightless Walk
Ævangelist - Cloister Of The Temple Of Death
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Abhorrent - Intransigence
Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues - N.V.
Leviathan - Scar Sighted
Sumac - The Deal
Gorod - A Maze of Recycled Creeds
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers
Napalm Death - Apex Predator: Easy Meat
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Cruciamentum - Charnal Passages
Akhlys - The Dreaming I
Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
Temple of Baal - Mysterium
Adversarial - Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of Nihilism

[emptyfox]

I just saw an ad for a napalm death, melvins, melt banana triple bill today.

[Dr. Crane]

Dec 5, 2015 0:40:40 GMT -8 emptyfox said:

I just saw an ad for a napalm death, melvins, melt banana triple bill today.

The Seattle show is during Psych Fest, otherwise I would be all over this.

[Professor Pancakes]

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Tame Impala - Currents
3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
4. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
5. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
6. Ryan Adams - 1989
7. The Districts - A Flourish and A Spoil
8. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down...
9. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
10. High On Fire - Luminiferous
11. Death Grips - The Powers That B
12. Puscifer - Money Shot
13. Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth
14. Kylessa - Exhausting Fire
15. Future - DS2
16. Fuzz - II
17. Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2
18. The Sword - High Country
19. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
20. Grimes - Art Angels

Honorable mentions:
Dr. Dre - Compton
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes
El Vy - Return to the Moon
Elder - Lore

[rimjobflashmob]

1. Braids - Deep In The Iris
2. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
3. Grimes - Art Angels
4. Holly Herndon - Platform
5. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
7. Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
8. Björk - Vulnicura
9. Autechre - AE_LIVE
10. Four Tet - Morning/Evening
11. Container - LP
12. Ought - Sun Coming Down
13. Mark McGuire - Beyond Belief
14. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
15. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
16. Battles - La Di Da Di
17. Jasmine Guffond - Yellow Bell
18. Floating Points - Elaenia
19. Jlin - Dark Energy
20. µ-Ziq - XTLP
21. Ramzi - Houti Kush
22. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
23. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
24. Hama - Torodi
25. Kangding Ray - Cory Arcane
26. Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp - The Island
27. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
28. Beirut - No No No
29. The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD
30. Marriages - Salome
31. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
32. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
33. Inventions - Maze of Woods
34. Wax Stag - II
35. NAP - Uncharted
36. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
37. Alessandro Cortini - Risveglio/Forse 3
38. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl
39. Maserati - Rehumanizer
40. Shigeto - Intermission
41. Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Collaborative Works
42. Sannhet - Revisionist
43. Parquet Courts - Monastic Living
44. Teeth of the Sea - High Deadly Black Tarantula
45. Beat Spacek - Modern Streets
46. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
47. Braille - Mute Swan
48. Keita Sano - Holding New Cards
49. Noveller - Fantastic Planet
50. Percussions - 2011 to 2014

[badchoices]

Alright alright, this was tough to narrow down. What a year! I am sure I will continue to find my favs of 2015 in the years to come but at this stage I am settling with my final list of the year.

20. Freddie Gibbs - Shadow Of A Doubt
19. Elephant Rifle - Ivory
18. Blacklisters - Adult
17. Torche - Restarter
16. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
15. Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
14. Death Grips - The Powers That B
13. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
12. Great Falls - The Fever Shed
11. Yellow Eyes - Sick With Bloom
10. HEALTH - Death Magic
9. Immortal Bird - Empress/Abscess
8. No Spill Blood - Heavy Electricity
7. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
6. Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last
5. Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth - S/T
2. Gaytheist + Rabbits - Gay*Bits
1. Mutoid Man - Bleeder

Favorite EP/Split/7":

5. Great Falls/Thou 7" Split
4. Grizzlor - Cycloptic 7"
3. Fórn – Weltschmerz
2. Fight Amp - Constantly Off
1. Sandrider/Kinski Split

Favorite Shows of 2015:

Caribou @ The Showbox Market (Seattle)
Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Grenades @ Columbia City Theater (Seattle)
SUMAC @ The Shakedown (Bellingham)
Kowloon Walled City, Fight Amp @ The Shakedown (Bellingham)
Chelsea Wolfe @ The Shakedown (Bellingham)
Snoop Dogg @ Life Is Beautiful Festival (Las Vegas)
Babes In Toyland @ Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle)
Sandrider, Leatherdaddy (Merso), He Whose Ox Is Gored @ The Sunset (Seattle)
Melvins @ Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle)
Sandrider, Kinski, Blood Drugs @ Neumos (Seattle)
Run The Jewels @ Life Is Beautiful Festival (Las Vegas)
Deerhunter, Atlas Sound @ The Showbox Market (Seattle)

[Dr. Crane]

I am disappointed by the lack of Lightning Bolt in this thread.

My list is almost done. SPOILER: It includes Lightning Bolt.

[badchoices]

Yeah dude, Lightning Bolt was right on the cusp for me. Lots of good ones that I had a hard time leaving out. Some others: Tame Impala, Built To Spill, Deradoorian, Chelsea Wolfe, SUMAC, Motherfucker, Blood Drugs, Dead To A Dying Wolrd, All THem Witches, Mercy Ties, SLow Code, My Morning Jacket, Mick Jenkins, Scarface, Vince Staples, Jay Rock on and on. I loved 2015.

[Dr. Crane]

1. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
2. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
3. Battles - La Di Da Di
4. Death Grips - The Powers That B
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
6. Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
7. Erase Errata - Lost Weekend
8. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
9. Inventions - Blanket Waves/Maze of Woods
10. Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last
11. Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
12. Shinobu - 10 Thermidor
13. Tsembla - Terror & Healing
14. Damaged Bug - Cold Hot Plumbs
15. Joanna Newsom - Divers
16. Sightings - Amusers and Puzzlers
17. Indian Jewelry - Doing Easy
18. Wand - Golem
19. Deradoorian - The Expanding Flower Planet
20. Pharaoh Overlord - Circle

[Fig]

Severe lack of Son Lux in this thread.

[matt]

1. Sleater-Kinney- No Cities to Love
2. Sufjan Stevens- Carrie & Lowell
3. Deerhunter- Fading Frontier
4. The Staves- If I Was
5. Hop Along- Painted Shut
6. Vince Staples- Summertime '06
7. Faith Healer- Cosmic Troubles
8. Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp a Butterfly
9. Natalie Prass- Natalie Prass
10. Tobias Jesso Jr.- Goon
11. Jim O'Rourke- Simple Songs
12. Bully- Feels Like
13. Tame Impala- Currents
14. Joanna Newsom- Divers
15. Courtney Barnett- Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
16. The Weather Station- Loyalty
17. Aero Flynn- Aero Flynn
18. Miguel- Wildheart
19. My Morning Jacket- The Waterfall
20. Wilco- Star Wars

Honorable Mention: Eskimeaux- O.K., Julien Baker- Sprained Ankle, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper- After, Sorority Noise- Joy, Departed, and Speedy Ortiz- Foil Deer

[badchoices]

Dec 30, 2015 12:18:00 GMT -8 badchoices said:

Favorite Shows of 2015:

Caribou @ The Showbox Market (Seattle)
Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Grenades @ Columbia City Theater (Seattle)
SUMAC @ The Shakedown (Bellingham)
Kowloon Walled City, Fight Amp @ The Shakedown (Bellingham)
Chelsea Wolfe @ The Shakedown (Bellingham)
Snoop Dogg @ Life Is Beautiful Festival (Las Vegas)
Babes In Toyland @ Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle)
Sandrider, Leatherdaddy (Merso), He Whose Ox Is Gored @ The Sunset (Seattle)
Melvins @ Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle)
Sandrider, Kinski, Blood Drugs @ Neumos (Seattle)
Run The Jewels @ Life Is Beautiful Festival (Las Vegas)
Deerhunter, Atlas Sound @ The Showbox Market (Seattle)

So stoked to see the Chelsea Wolfe love. Seriously heavy and emotionally intense show. One of my favs of 2015. I know Burrito saw her in support of Abyss as well (levitation i think?). Pretty sure he can vouch for the mind fuckery that you will endure. Lovely mind fuckery.

[Dr. Crane]

MIIIIIIND FUCKERYYYYYY

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