WATMM 2015 Album of the Year

In no order

Mick Chillage - Infinite Perspectives

Alva Noto - Xerrox 3

Steve Hauschildt - Where all is fled

Donnacha Costello - Stay perfectly still

Underworld - Second toughest in the infants (deluxe box edition)

Vertical67 - Panta Rhei

The Black Dog - Neither/Neither

Motionfield - Luftrum

Regis - Manbait

FSOL - Life in moments

ASC - Fervent dream

CRX091081GB - Becoming the camracid

Tropic of Cancer - Stop suffering

Moufang/Czamanski - Live in seattle

Arovane & Hior Chronik - In between

36 - Void dance

Touched Two (remixes)

Wandering II Compilation - Silent Season

Lakker - Tundra

I think I forgot Squarepusher - Damogen Furies from my list. Worth it for the last minute of Baltang Ort alone.

Such a well crafted album - sonically, harmonically, melodically, and rhythmically.

Unreleased/not-properly-released tracks of the year:

Legowelt - Orgonon V

Diana Est - Tenax (Smackos TR808 Remix)

Sadly i didnt listen to the latest OPN & Sunno))) yet but some of my favorite "records" were actually digital series :

- AE LIVE

- Spire live archive (bandcamp release, including Fennesz, Philip Jeck, BJ Nilsen recordings)

- Aphex soundcloud mess

What was the album of the year then?

  On 1/4/2016 at 10:18 AM, tec said:

What was the album of the year then?

no need for a poll

I can't really say what my favourites albums of the year are. Been shitty year overall and just hasn't found any enjoyment in things. I guess some highlights of the few new albums I got around to listening to.

Jute Gyte - Dialectics

Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

phase90 - Infinitati and the various Variant releases from echospace

Moritz von Oswald Trio - Sounding Lines (now featuring afrobeat legend Tony Allen on the drums)

Sensient - Projekt Grunberg

Ufomammut - Ecate

Probably some others that I haven't gotten around to listening to yet.

fuck, this year's been great. Syro is still golden, ODS ain't too shabby. AE_LIVE is monolithic, two quality Cylob albums, and there's a grip of other high-quality music that's been released. Schwarze Riesenfalter on Erstwhile Records, and Another Timbre (label) is on fire. Rutger Zuydervelt + Dirk Serries made a great ambient album called "Buoyant," and Joseph Clayton Mills put out "Sifr"

garden of delete is good music for teenagers, riding around on toy segways, Instagram and shit. are people really feeling those songs?

  On 1/4/2016 at 11:31 AM, azatoth said:

I can't really say what my favourites albums of the year are. Been shitty year overall and just hasn't found any enjoyment in things.

i misread what you typed there.. also having a shitty year, been sort of immersed into tv and music. not much else

I didn't make a real list, but my top albums were:

Squarepusher - Damogen Furies

Holly Herndon - Platform

Blackalicious - Imani Vol. 1

Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin

Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves

Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete

I'm so busy acquainting myself with older music I missed that I'm missing all the new music.

Of the music I heard this year that was actually released this year, I enjoyed the new Holly Herndon, OPN, Squarepusher, Clutch, the two RDJ releases... I vaguely recall last year saying one of my resolutions was to get acquainted with more new music, but that clearly didn't pan out. I've only heard one of the Ae soundboards. It was good. The new Faith No More was prob my favorite of 2015 that I heard, followed by Squarepusher.

Clutch are still going? Well shit, looks like I've got 10 years of albums to catch up on.

  On 1/5/2016 at 4:03 AM, barbara planar said:

garden of delete is good music for teenagers, riding around on toy segways, Instagram and shit. are people really feeling those songs?

I'd like to know just how many segway riding, instagramming teenagers are listening to 0pn. I assume it's all 30+ yr olds with catholic tastes in culture like myself.

I'm glad I keep reading this thread since I missed John Tejada's Signs Under Test. It's really nice.

  On 12/26/2015 at 11:56 AM, Amen Lare said:

Late addition:

 

Lil Ugly Mane - Oblivion Access

haven't gotten this myself yet, but was listening in a friends house over the holidays, great stuff.

Not heard many new albums in 2015 but I'd say Garden of Delete is my pick.

I actually thought 2015 was quite poor... I didn't hear too many things that would've cracked into a "Best of 2014" list... I thought far and away the best things I heard this year were Jessica Pratt's "On Your Own Love Again" and King Midas Sound / Fennesz "Edition 1"...

not in love with anything below #3 tbh.

1. max richter - sleep / from sleep

2. en - city of brides

3. beach house - thank your lucky stars

4. deerhunter - fading frontier

5. beach house - depression cherry

6. helen - original faces

7. telepathe - destroyer

8. valet - nature

9. pye corner audio - prowler

10. new order - music complete

11. martin courtney - many moons

12. neon indian - vega intl night school

13. circe - circe ost

14. no joy - more faithful

15. death grips - jenny death

16. datassette - offal

17. night sequels - children of the night make music

18. george clanton - 100% electronica

19. skylar spence - prom king

20. alva noto - xerrox vol 3

21. new pornographers - brill bruisers

22. toro y moi - what for?

23. helios - yume

24. blur - magic whip

25. kendrick - to pimp a butterfly

26. disclosure - caracal

27. panda bear - grim reaper

28. oneohtrix point never - garden of delete

29. wavves - v

30. jamie xx - in colour

afx - deejay selek/sc dump

father john misty - i love you honeybear

lakker - tundra

toro y moi - samantha

sufjan - carrie & lowell

eod - the eps

Soundcloud dumps for the win. And the various bandcamp dumps. My album of the year isn't from the past year though, as music of the year for me is from any era and I made contact with some insane late disco this year, but that ain't adhering to the concept, maybe the vsnares thanksyou album, but I go back to like 3 tracks, so that's not album. I still haven't heard the new vibert one that probably would have been up there.

hhrrrmm sorry for punking up your thread.

Absolute essential:

Upbeat:

(Ghost) - Elas ep

Donato Dozzy & Anna Caragnano - Sintetizzatrice

Asmus Tietchens - Ornamente (Zwischen Null Und Eins)

Lackluster - All of it!!!

Maps & Diagrams - All of it!!!

Troum - Acouasme

Bvdub - A step in the dark

Downbeat:

Arovane & Hior Chronik - In-between

Bvdub - Safety in a Number

Lorenzo Montanà - Vari Chromo

Mick Chillage - Infinite Perspectives

Milieu - Statuettes, Part One

Woob - All of it!!!

Ambient:

Hakobune & Dirk Serries - Obscured By Beams Of Sorrow

Markus Guentner - Theia

Steve Hauschildt - Where All Is Fled

Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow

Donato Dozzy - The Loud Silence

Modern Classical

Bersarin Quartett - III

Christina Vantzou - No. 3

Goldmund - Sometimes/Helios - Yume

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Sicario

Luke Howard & Nadje Noordhuis - Ten Sails

that john tejada album is nice thanks watuum

Made a WATMM Top Albums List for every year in google sheets

King of Limbs lol.

  On 6/12/2016 at 12:28 PM, MaartenVC said:

Made a WATMM Top Albums List for every year in google sheets

thx

  On 1/7/2016 at 11:37 PM, playbynumbers said:

not in love with anything below #3 tbh.

 

 

1. max richter - sleep / from sleep

2. en - city of brides

3. beach house - thank your lucky stars

4. deerhunter - fading frontier

5. beach house - depression cherry

6. helen - original faces

7. telepathe - destroyer

8. valet - nature

9. pye corner audio - prowler

10. new order - music complete

11. martin courtney - many moons

12. neon indian - vega intl night school

13. circe - circe ost

14. no joy - more faithful

15. death grips - jenny death

16. datassette - offal

17. night sequels - children of the night make music

18. george clanton - 100% electronica

19. skylar spence - prom king

20. alva noto - xerrox vol 3

21. new pornographers - brill bruisers

22. toro y moi - what for?

23. helios - yume

24. blur - magic whip

25. kendrick - to pimp a butterfly

26. disclosure - caracal

27. panda bear - grim reaper

28. oneohtrix point never - garden of delete

29. wavves - v

30. jamie xx - in colour

nice list

max richter is in my top 5 of 2015

but alva noto im also in love

you should try chris walla- tape loops

those are my top 3 of 2015 in ambient at least.