{"id":2985,"date":"2016-01-03T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T12:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2016-01-08T18:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:39:30","slug":"albums-of-the-year-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/albums-of-the-year-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Albums of the year: 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week my friend Giles asked how many albums I’d listened to this year and I guessed at a hundred. In putting together a list of albums that I’d listened to properly (as against tried and discarded) it came to almost exactly a hundred. Many (Kamasi Washington’s three disc opus The Epic<\/em>, for instance) I haven’t had time to form a considered opinion of. The number keeps growing, even as last year’s releases are pushed aside by leaks of this year’s (Bowie’s Blackstar<\/em> is very good in part). Anyway, usual drill, I cut off my list at the point where it feels like there’s serious competition to get in. The 41 is based on how much I enjoyed the album over the year, not seeking credibility points. Some albums fade over a year, but my 2015 number one established itself in my affections early on and stayed there with its combination of witty, self-lacerating lyrics and gorgeous, memorable music, building into a gloriously uplifting celebration of love. Greatly look forward to seeing him at Rock City in May. And, yes, I did buy my top three on vinyl – several of the others, too – because they seemed to belong in my collection that way.<\/p>\n

40= The Orange Humble Band \u2013 Depressing Beauty<\/p>\n

40 = Four Tet \u2013 Morning\/Evening<\/p>\n

39 Boz Scaggs \u2013 A Fool To Care<\/p>\n

38 Leftfield \u2013 Alternative Light Source<\/p>\n

37 Prince \u2013 Hitnrun Phase One<\/p>\n

36 Seckou Keita \u2013 22 Strings<\/p>\n

35 Wilco \u2013 Star Wars<\/p>\n

34 Alabama Shakes \u2013 Sound & Color<\/p>\n

33 Tame Impala \u2013 Currents<\/p>\n

32 Sarah Cracknell \u2013 Red Kite<\/p>\n

30= Indiana – No Romeo<\/p>\n

30= Michael Chapman \u2013 Fish<\/p>\n

29 Tracey Thorn \u2013 Songs From The Falling (EP)<\/p>\n

28 Rickie Lee Jones \u2013 The Other Side of Desire<\/p>\n

27 Sons of Bill \u2013 Love and Logic<\/p>\n

26 Libertines \u2013 Anthems For Doomed Youth<\/p>\n

25 Franz Ferdinand and Sparks \u2013 FFS<\/p>\n

24 Mercury Rev \u2013 The Light In You<\/p>\n

23 James McMurtry \u2013 Complicated Game<\/p>\n

22 Grimes \u2013 Art Angels<\/p>\n

21 New Order \u2013 Music Complete<\/p>\n

20 The Delines \u2013 Scenic Sessions<\/p>\n

19 Laura Marling \u2013 Short Movie<\/p>\n

18 Don Henley \u2013 Cass County<\/p>\n

17 Unknown Mortal Orchestra \u2013 Multi-Love<\/p>\n

16 Bill Ryder-Jones \u2013 West Kirby County Primary<\/p>\n

15 El Vy \u2013 Return To The Moon<\/p>\n

14 Kendrick Lamar \u2013 To Pimp A Butterfly<\/p>\n

13 Matthew E White \u2013 Fresh Blood<\/p>\n

12 Destroyer \u2013 Poison Season<\/p>\n

11 Bob Dylan \u2013 Shadows In The Night<\/p>\n

10 Hot Chip \u2013 Why Make Sense?<\/p>\n

9 Bjork \u2013 Vulnicura<\/p>\n

8 Kurt Vile \u2013 B\u2019lieve I\u2019m Goin\u2019 Down<\/p>\n

7 Young Fathers \u2013 White Men Are Black Men Too<\/p>\n

6 Calexico \u2013 Edge of the Sun<\/p>\n

5 James Taylor \u2013 Before This World<\/p>\n

4 Jason Isbell \u2013 Something Other Than Free<\/p>\n

3 Ezra Furman \u2013 Perpetual Motion People<\/p>\n

2 Sleaford Mods \u2013 Key Markets<\/p>\n

1 Father John Misty \u2013 I Love You, Honeybear<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week my friend Giles asked how many albums I’d listened to this year and I guessed at a hundred. In putting together a list of albums that I’d listened to properly (as against tried and discarded) it came to almost exactly a hundred. Many (Kamasi Washington’s three disc opus The Epic, for instance) I haven’t had time to form a considered opinion of. The number keeps growing, even as last year’s releases are pushed aside by leaks of this year’s (Bowie’s Blackstar is very good in part). Anyway, usual drill, I cut off my list at the point where it feels like there’s serious competition to get in. The 41 is based on how much I enjoyed the album over the year, not seeking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}