WATMM 2015 Album of the Year

Because this is watmm AE or AFX will win even tho they haven't actually released albums this year.

OPN should win and y'all know it.

  On 12/10/2015 at 11:06 AM, QQQ said:

Because this is watmm AE or AFX will win even tho they haven't actually released albums this year.

 

OPN should win and y'all know it.

lol

gonna be honest. was looking at top 2015 album of the year lists earlier today getting all confused as to why everyone was leaving out Syro.

  On 12/10/2015 at 11:06 AM, QQQ said:

Because this is watmm AE or AFX will win even tho they haven't actually released albums this year.

 

OPN should win and y'all know it.

Well autechre mentioned that AE_LIVE is kind of an album/release - I'm willing to entertain that concept enough to add it to potential AOTYs. Of course, you could argue that it's a 2014 release since that's when the public first heard the set back at the Poland Warp party.

AE_LIVE to me as an ' album ' that mutates and changes form every time you listen to it :)

  On 12/10/2015 at 11:25 AM, bitroast said:

AE_LIVE to me as an ' album ' that mutates and changes form every time you listen to it :)

Indeed, the dynamics and changes between sets is entirely part of the concept, which is why it needs to exist in the format that it does.

  On 12/10/2015 at 10:19 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

 

also some people are just using this as an excuse to show off their music collection for the year. narrow it down a little!

 

You're right, mine was daft (although I still left a lot out). Refined mine from 50 or so to a rough top 20:

  On 12/10/2015 at 12:09 PM, purlieu said:

 

  On 12/10/2015 at 10:19 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

 

also some people are just using this as an excuse to show off their music collection for the year. narrow it down a little!

 

You're right, mine was daft (although I still left a lot out). Refined mine from 50 or so to a rough top 20:

 

Chvrches - Every Eye Open

The Future Sound of London - Life in Moments

Idlewild - Everything Ever Written

The Future Sound of London - Archived 8

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs

HKE & t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - Gateway アセンション

Holly Herndon - Platform

2814 ‎– 新しい日の誕生

Haiku Salut - Etch & Etch Deep

Remember - ハートエイクに歩い

Goldmund - Sometimes

Tangerine Dream - Quantum Key

Nmesh / t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 ‎– ロストエデンへのパス

Max Richter - Sleep

Blur - The Magic Whip

2047 - 새로운 삶을 시작

Jennylee - Right On!

木の反射 - Body

HOLOVR - The Wheel of Time

The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD

 

Time to play "Japanese Producer" or "Yet Another Vaporwave Album"

I think we all know the answer to that.

Yeah, you're welcome.

  On 12/8/2015 at 11:23 AM, Npoess said:

Think this has been quite underwhelming, especially compared to last year, only thing that comes to kind right now:

 

Garden of Delete

 

Hopefully Burial will release something in December to save this mess.

In terms of albums, yeah, but I've nonetheless heard a shitload of great music this year.

I'll be posting a list soon hopefully.

  On 12/10/2015 at 9:46 AM, xxx said:

I heard "Fourth of July" by Sufjan Stevens from a comment tree in Reddit that had people shitting about it. After getting repeatedly kicked in the feels from it on YouTube, I bought Carrie & Lowell and it's a triumph.

Reddit is so odd when it comes to music. I started browsing r/indieheads this year but got turned off fairly quicky. It's bizarre how so many people talk about music in terms of everything but how they actually like it/enjoy personally.

Totally forgot about the Blur album ! Definitely deserves some recognition

I still have lots of catching up to do for this year, but here's the list so far..

Slashing Cousin - Fallen Gods

Deadbeat - Walls and Dimensions

Philip Jeck - Cardinal

The Fear Ratio - Refuge of a Twisted Soul

Grischa Lichtenberger - LA DEMEURE / il y a peril en la demeure

Biosphere & Deathprod - Stator

The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD

The Black Dog - Neither/Neither

Edit: and AE_LIVE, fuck.

Kid Cudi- Speeding Bullet 2 Heaven

Autechre - Ae Live

The Black Dog - Neither/Neither

Venetian Snares - Thanks for your consideration

Holly Herndon - Platform

Last Step - Lost Sleep

Kid 606 - Recollected ambient works vol 2

Cex - A spell for ascending into heaven

Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin

Vennart - The Demon Joke

The Dj Producer - Revise Deploy Annihilate

Posthuman - Tusk Mix 2

Coil - Backwards

Puscifer - Money Shot

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Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh

Is it similar to Fuck Buttons?

EDIT:

As for the topic:

AE_LIVE (the only 2015 release I listened to this year so far)

All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker

Autechre - AE_LIVE

BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul

Beach House- Depression Cherry

Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh

The Body & Thou - You Whom I Have Always Hated

Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

Chihei Hatakeyama - Mist

Co La - No No

Container - LP 3

Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages

Dr. Yen Lo (Ka) - Days With Dr. Yen Lo

Elder - Lore

Goatsnake - Black Age Blues

Health - Get Color

High On Fire - Luminiferous

JK Flesh - Nothing Is Free

John Carpenter - Lost Themes

Khemmis - Absolution

Lapalux - Lustmore

Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire

Maps & Diagrams - Celsius

Monolord - Vaenir

Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed

Nils Frahm - Solo

Nosaj Thing - Fated

Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete

A Place To Bury Strangers - Transfixiation

Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
Spectres - Dying

Stoned Jesus - The Harvest

Sunn O))) - Kannon

Sweet Cobra - Earth
Vulfpeck - Thrill of the Arts

Windhand - Grief's Internal Flower

Yair Elazar Glotman - Etudes

  On 12/9/2015 at 8:00 PM, Joyrex said:

Surprised nobody's mentioned (unless I missed them):

 

Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School

Grimes - Art Angels

I didn't mind Art Angels but it also didn't really stick with me, but that Neon Indian album is really great. Forget about all the music blog history and check it out y'all.

Also anyone who remembers Nick Fortè really should check out his bonkers album Primordial Forms, it is great.

  On 12/10/2015 at 9:28 PM, Jev said:

 

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Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh

 

Is it similar to Fuck Buttons?

 

Yeah, more dancey. Some people were really put off by that, but I dig it.

  On 12/11/2015 at 9:57 AM, WeAreOceans said:

 

  On 12/10/2015 at 9:28 PM, Jev said:

 

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Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh

 

Is it similar to Fuck Buttons?

 

 

Yeah, more dancey. Some people were really put off by that, but I dig it.

 

I actually find Fuck Buttons boring. So I guess I should skip Blanck Mass to, right?

Dumb Flesh is definitely not boring.

Tho neither are FB.

  On 12/8/2015 at 6:04 PM, Nil said:

I must say I've been disappointed by Kuedo's though. Not that I want Severant 2, but still, Assertion of... isn't as exciting to my ears as hmmm his µ20 track (for example). I guess I have insanely high expectations for his KNIVES imprint.

... and of course, I decided to play it right after writing that post, for the first time in months... and have been listening to it a lot since then. Funny how sometimes we need some distance to fully enjoy a record.

  On 12/11/2015 at 4:22 PM, QQQ said:

Tho neither are FB.

OK, I will just skip it for now.

Has anybody mentioned Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction? It's high up in the list 4 me

I hate OPN. Just saying.