FEATURE:
2015: Colour, Short Movies and Art Angels
IN THIS PHOTO: Laura Marling/PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images/Press
The Best Albums from a Remarkable Year
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I am doing a multi-part series…
IN THIS PHOTO: Grimes in 2015/PHOTO CREDIT: Holly Andres
that looks at the best albums from this century. It may sound random but I am coming back at those who feel the previous century has produced all the very best albums. There is a school of thought that suggests we have long-sine seen the finest from music and the past eighteen-or-so years has been a case of diminished returns. We may not have seen any Beatles-level works of genius but that is not to say the twenty-first century should be overlooked and is not up to the mark. I look at a particularly fine year, 2015, and the variation that arrived from it. Take a look at the exceptional albums laid out below and you cannot say the year was short…
IN THIS PHOTO: Kendrick Lamar/PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images/Press
OF wonderful offerings.
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Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Released: 15th March, 2015
Labels: Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope
Genres: Hip-Hop; Jazz; Experimental
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
Released: 15th March, 2015
Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records
Genre: Indie-Rock
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Released: 20th March, 2015
Label: Marathon Artists
Genre: Indie-Rock; Alternative-Rock
Tame Impala – Currents
Released: 17th July, 2015
Labels: Modular/Universal, Fiction, Interscope
Genre: Psychedelic; Pop; Disco; Synth-Pop
Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Released: 13th February, 2015
Labels: Cash Money, OVO Sound, Republic, Young Money
Genres: Hip-Hop; Rap
Grimes – Art Angels
Released: 6th November, 2015
Label: 4AD
Genres: Synth-Pop; Art-Pop
Jamie xx – In Colour
Released: 29th May, 2015
Label: Young Turks
Genres: Electronica; House; Rave; U.K. Garage
Florence + the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Released: 29th May, 2015
Label: Universal Island Records
Genres: Indie-Pop; Indie-Rock; Soul; Pop
Blur – The Magic Whip
Released: 27th April, 2015
Label: Parlophone
Genres: Rock; Alternative-Rock; Pop; Britpop; Art-Rock
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Released: 18th September, 2015
Label: Interscope Records
Genres: Pop; Dream-Pop; Jazz; Trip-Hop
Beach House – Depression Cherry
Released: 28th August, 2015
Label: Sub Pop
Genre: Dream-Pop
Laura Marling – Short Movie
Released: 23rd March, 2015
Label: Ribbon Music
Genre: Folk; Folk-Rock; Alternative
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye
Released: 25th September, 2015
Label: Glassnote Records
Genre: Synth-Pop