Ik heb hem zojuist op Spotify toegevoegd aan mijn mapje Albums 2015, dus binnenkort komt ie wel aan de beurt!

01. (01) Benjamin Clementine – At Least for Now
02. (02) Asaf Avidan – Gold Shadow
03. (03) Scott Matthew – This Here Defeat
04. (04) Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
05. (07) The Slow Show – White Water
06. (15) The Great Dictators – Killers
07. (05) Marc Almond – The Velvet Trail
08. (06) Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
09. (==) Charlie Barnes – More Stately Manions
10. (08) Kovacs – Shades of Black

11. (09) Mister and Mississippi – We Only Part to Meet Again
12. (10) Daniel Knox – Daniel Knox
13. (11) Belle and Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
14. (14) Until the Ribbon Breaks – A Lesson Unlearnt
15. (12) Árstíðir – Hvel
16. (13) Rats on Rafts – Tape Hiss
17. (17) Madonna – Rebel Heart
18. (18) Avishai Cohen – From Darkness
19. (16) Blur – The Magic Whip
20. (19) Roosbeef – Kalf

01 Belle And Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
02 Death And Vanilla - To Where The Wild Things Are
03 Other Lives - Rituals
04 Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again
05 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
06 Mister And Mississippi - We Only Part To Meet Again
07 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
08 Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia
09 A Place To Bury Strangers - Transfixiation
10 Mikal Cronin - MCIII

Nog een keer proberen!

1. Oren Ambarchi - Live Knots
2. The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie
3. Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Floating Points & James Holden - Marhaba
4. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
5. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
6. Merzbow & Xiu Xiu - MERZXIU
7. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
8. Six Organs of Admittance - Hexadic
9. Insanlar / Ricardo Villalobos - Kime Ne
10. Shit and Shine - 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral

Toch een stuk minder enthousiast over Shit and Shine (ook al is het niet helemaal eerlijk, tegenvallende optredens lijken daar op de een of andere manier altijd wat aan bij te dragen / aan af te doen), hoge nieuwe notering voor Mbongwana Star (tsjek die shizzle!), en de nieuwe Jim O'Rourke is goed gevallen.

1. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
2. Andreya Triana - Giants
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Jamie xx - In Colour
5. Tourist LeMC - En Route
6. Snoop Dogg - Bush
7. Long Arm - Kellion
8. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special
9. Young Thug - Barter 6
10. Ludacris - Ludaversal

In een vrij korte tijd een erg verschillende lijst gekregen. Ik heb veel tijd om van muziek te kunnen genieten en dat heb ik dus ook maar gedaan. Vanaf nu neem ik enkel de albums mee die 4 sterren krijgen. Dat is jammer voor een aantal goede 3,5 sterren albums, maar helaas.

01. (01) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday *4,5
02. (09) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
03. (02) The Slow Show - White Water
04. (03) Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
05. (04) Benjamin Clementine - At Least for Now

06. (==) Asaf Avidan - Gold Shadow *4
07. (06) Kovacs - Shades of Black
08. (==) TORRES - Sprinter
09. (05) Django Django - Born Under Saturn
10. (==) Janne Schra - Ponzo

11. (07) Mark Knopfler - Tracker
12. (13) Steve Hackett - Wolflight
13. (==) Patrick Watson - Love Songs for Robots
14. (08) Blur - The Magic Whip
15. (==) José James - Yesterday I Had the Blues
16. (==) Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest - Sylva
17. (==) Lord Huron - Strange Trails

Speciale vermelding voor dit live album:
Gazpacho - Night of the Demon *4,5

In willekeurige volgorde

Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
Tobias Jesso Jr. – Goon
Laura Marling – Short Movie
Alamo Race Track – Hawks
Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
Laure Briard – Revelation
The Slow Show – White Water
A$AP Rocky – A.L.LA.
The Weather Station – Loyalty
Jamie XX – In Colour
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

Mei update, favorieten van begin dit jaar zakken nu wel omlaag gelukkig doordat er de afgelopen 5 weken weer een aantal fijne releases erbij zijn gekomen

1. (1) Mini Mansions – The Great Pretenders
2. (2) Skip&Die – Cosmic Serpents
3. ( - ) The Helio Sequence – The Helio Sequence

4. (18) Marina and the Diamonds – Froot
5. (3) Belle & Sebastien – Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
6. (5) Natalie Walker – Strange Bird
7. (8) The Decemberists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
8. (16) The The – Hyena
9. (4) Atari Teenage Riot – Reset
10. (6) Brian Wilson – No Pier Pressure

11 ( - ) Faith No More – Sol Invictus
12. (10) Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
13. (12) Nena – Oldschool
14. (22) Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer
15. (7) My Baby – Shamanaid
16. ( - ) Grace Jones - Disco
17. (9) José Gonzáles – Vestiges & Claws
18. (13) Calexico – Edge of the Sun
19. (11) The Waterboys – Modern Blues
20. (15) Lila Downs – Balas Y Chocolate
21. (14) Marilyn Manson – The Pale Emperor
22. (17) Sevdaliza – The Suspended Kid
23. (20) Todd Rundgren – Global
24. (19) Mark Ronson – Uptown Special
25. (21) Katzenjammer – Rockland

1.Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2.Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
3.Björk - Vulnicura
4.Kamasi Washington - The Epic
5.Future - Beast Mode
6.Jamie xx - In Colour
7.Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
8.Blur - The Magic Whip
9.Ibeyi - Ibeyi
10.Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress

11.Cannibal Ox - Blade Of The Ronin
12.Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt. 2
13.Napalm Death - Apex Predator Easy Meat
14.Xibalba - Tierra Y Libertad
15.Future - 56 Nights
16.Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
17.Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
18.Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves
19.Faith No More - Sol Invictus
20.Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin
21.Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
22.Shlohmo - Dark Red
23.Sevdaliza - The Suspended Kid
24.Viet Cong - Viet Cong
25.BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul

1. (1) Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2. (-) Built To Spill - Untethered Moon
3 (2) The Waterboys - Modern Blues
4. (3) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing yesterday
5. (4) Scott Matthew - This Here Defeat
6. (5) Asaf Avidan - Gold Shadow
7. (-) Blur - The Magic Whip
8. (6) Archive - Restriction
9. (7) Hanni El Khatib - Moonlight
10. (9) Marc Almond - The Velvet Trail

11. (-) Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You
12. (10) Siskiyou - Nervous
13. (-) Lee Harvey Osmond - Beautiful Scars
14. (11) Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Club Meds
15. (-) Alabama Shakes - Sound & Colour
16. (-) Marriages - Salome
17. (8) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
18. (-) Kovacs - Shades Of Black
19. (13) The Slow Show - White Water
20. (-) The Great Dictators - Killers

Update: mei

1. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
2. Tribulation - The Children of the Night
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
4. TORRES - Sprinter
5. Raketkanon - RKTKN #2
6. Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat
7. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
8. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Stellar
9. Secrets of the Sky - Pathway
10. Marriages - Salome

Kendrick Lamar moet ik nog plaatsen, maar die zal hoogstwaarschijnlijk wel in de top 10 komen volgende maand.

Update #3. Voor het eerst heb ik tien albums op 4* of meer.

1. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
2. Marina and the Diamonds - Froot
3. Archive - Restriction
4. Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
5. Drenge - Undertow
6. Best Coast - California Nights
7. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
8. Purity Ring - Another Eternity
9. Rae Morris - Unguarded
10. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 5*
2. Jamie xx - In Colours 4,5*
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
4. Patrick Watson - Love Songs for Robots
5. Shlohmo - Dark Red 4*
6. Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$
7. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
8. Great Lake Swimmers - A Forest of Arms
9. Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi
10. José Gonzalez - Vestiges & Claws

Mei is voorbij, tijd voor een update.

1. (1) Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2. (2) The Slow Show - White Water
3. (--) Sylvium - Waiting for the Noise
4. (4) Blur - The Magic Whip
5. (6) Asaf Avidan - Gold Shadow
6. (7) Toundra - IV
7. (5) Föllakzoid - III
8. (--) Two Gallants - We Are Undone
9. (9) Benjamin Clementine - At Least for Now
10. (--) Drenge - Undertow

11. (8) The White Birch - The Weight of Spring
12. (--) Sylvan - Home
13. (10) Unreal City - Il Paese del Tramonto
14. (--) Ryan Bingham - Fear and Saturday Night
15. (3) Arena - The Unquiet Sky
16. (--) Bill Fay - Who Is the Sender
17. (--) Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
18. (--) The Neal Morse Band - The Grand Experiment
19. (--) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
20. (--) James McMurtry - Complicated Game

Eerste twee plekken staan redelijk vast, daarachter is het stuivertje wisselen. Top 10 uitgebreid naar 20 door de grote hoeveelheid 4 sterren albums.

Ik kom al uit op een top 20...

01 - Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia (2015) 4*
02 - Jamie xx - In Colour (2015)
03 - Balthazar - Thin Walls (2015)
04 - Roosbeef - Kalf (2015)
05 - Shlohmo - Dark Red (2015)
06 - Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
07 - Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015) 3.5*
08 - Villagers - Darling Arithmetic (2015)
09 - The Slow Show - White Water (2015)
10 - Django Django - Born Under Saturn (2015)

11 - Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015) 3.0*
12 - Other Lives - Rituals (2015)
13 - Viet Cong - Viet Cong (2015)
14 - Other Lives - Rituals (2015)
15 - Twerps - Range Anxiety (2015)
16 - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday (2015)
17 - Ibeyi - Ibeyi (2015)
18 - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love (2015) 2.5*
19 - Lapalux - Lustmore (2015)
20 - Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase. (2015) 2.0*

Update:

1. (1) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell 5*
2. (--) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit 4,5*
3. (2) Björk - Vulnicura
4. (3) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
5. (9) Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
6. (4) Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
7. (5) Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
8. (--) Shamir - Ratchet 4*
9. (--) Purity Ring - Another Eternity
10. (6) Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear

Mijn eerste lijstje:

1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell 4,5*
2. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was 4*
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Girl Band - The Early Years
5. The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie
6. Jamie xx - In Colour
7. Björk - Vulnicura 3,5*
8. BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul
9. Death Grips - The Powers That B
10. Wand - Golem

Lekker jaar tot nu toe, hoor!

1. Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now
2. Faith No More - Sol Invictus
3. zZz - Juggernaut
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
5. The Slow Show - White Water

Weer een update, alweer 19 platen met 4,0* of hoger:

1. Shlohmo - Dark Red
2. Blur - The Magic Whip
3. DJ Sotofett - Drippin' for a Tripp (Tripp-A-Dubb-Mix)
4. Maribou State - Portraits
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

6. Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Floating Points & James Holden - Marhaba
7. Jamie xx - In Colour
8. Fink - Horizontalism
9. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
10. Variant - Auratia

11. José James - Yesterday I Had the Blues
12. Nils Frahm - Solo
13. Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
14. DRS - Mid Mic Crisis
15. Europe

16. Jon Hopkins - Late Night Tales
17. Substance
18. Henrik Schwarz - Instruments
19. Walls - Urals
20. Long Arm - Kellion

Patrick Watson mag best wat vaker voorbij komen wat mij betreft.

1. Henry Kaiser & Ray Russell - The Celestial Squid
2. Xibalba - Tierra y Libertad
3. Wand - Golem
4. Föllakzoid - III
5. Drug Church - Swell
6. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
7. Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter
8. METZ - II
9. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
10. Colleen Green - I Want to Grow Up

Zal zoals in andere jaren aan het einde van het jaar wel weer totaal veranderden. Vind het nog niet je van het, maar ben dan ook al een maand of twee niet meer zo actief nieuwe albums aan het beluisteren. Verwacht nog wel hoge scores voor die van Ryley Walker, Jim O' Rourke en Shit and Shine. Collaboratie van Xiu Xiu en Merzbow lijkt me ook wel aardig en The Epic zal nog wel een keer de revue passeren, maar ben daar een beetje huiverig voor.

Zal ik die dan gelijk maar eens tevoorschijn toveren .

01. (01) Benjamin Clementine - At Least for Now
02. (03) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
03. (02) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
04. (----) Patrick Watson - Love Songs for Robots
05. (04) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
06. (----) Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
07. (05) Asaf Avidan - Gold Shadow
08. (----) Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
09. (07) Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
10. (----) Blur - The Magic Whip

Prima, prima. Die gaat nog wel stijgen, gok ik

Studio albums
1. Benjamin Clementine - At Least for Now 5*
2. Van Hunt - The Fun Rises, the Fun Sets
3. Calexico - Edge of the Sun 4.5*
4. Pops Staples - Don't Lose This
5. Sven Hammond - IV
6. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall 4*
7. Tristan - 2Nd Phase
8. Bettye LaVette - Worthy
9. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
10. José James - Yesterday I Had the Blues


Verzamel / Heruitgave / Live
1. George Jackson and Dan Greer - At Goldwax 4.5*
2. The Soul Stirrers - Joy in My Soul
3. Sam Dees - It's Over (70s Songwriter Demos and Masters)
4. Diversen - Soul Emissaries: Super Funk
5. The Staple Singers - Freedom Highway Complete
6. Jimmy Holiday - Spread Your Love (The Complete Minit Singles 1966-1970) 4*
7. The Valentinos - Lookin' for a Love
8. The Fame Gang - Grits & Gravy
9. Diversen - Los Angeles Soul
10. Diversen - Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Volume 5

Bijna halverwege het jaar 2015 zet ik ze in deze volgorde:

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase
3. Benjamin Clementine - At Least for Now
4. Judith Hill - Back in Time
5. Jamie xx - In Colour
6. Faith No More - Sol Invictus
7. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Muse - Drones
9. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
10 Heartless Bastards - Into The Light

Moet dit niet Restless Ones zijn?

Je hebt helemaal gelijk! Hoe kwam ik daar nou bij?

01 (01) Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia (2015) 4*
02 (---) FFS - FFS (2015)
03 (07) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
04 (02) Jamie xx - In Colour (2015)
05 (03) Balthazar - Thin Walls (2015)
06 (04) Roosbeef - Kalf (2015)
07 (05) Shlohmo - Dark Red (2015)
08 (06) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
09 (08) Villagers - Darling Arithmetic (2015) 3.5*
10 (11) Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015)

11 (09) The Slow Show - White Water (2015)
12 (---) Nosaj Thing - Fated (2015)
13 (---) Best Coast - California Nights (2015) 3*
14 (10) Django Django - Born Under Saturn (2015)
15 (---) TORRES - Sprinter (2015)
16 (12) Other Lives - Rituals (2015)
17 (13) Viet Cong - Viet Cong (2015)
18 (---) Muse - Drones (2015)
19 (---) Blur - The Magic Whip (2015)
20 (15) Twerps - Range Anxiety (2015)

21 (16) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday (2015)
22 (17) Ibeyi - Ibeyi (2015)
23 (---) Soak - Before We Forgot How to Dream (2015) 2.5*
24 (---) The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy (2015)
25 (18) Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love (2015)

Eerste update in drie maanden.

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 4.5*
2. Turnstile - Nonstop Feeling
3. xRepentancex - The Sickness of Eden 4*
4. Xibalba - Tierra y Libertad
5. Violent Reaction - Marching On
6. Thou & The Body - You, Whom I Have Always Hated
7. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
8. Drake - If You're Reading This it's Too Late
9. Ceremony - The L-Shaped Man
10. Fister - IV

11. Death Grips - The Power That B
12. Retox - Beneath California
13. Peste Noire - La Chaise-Dyable
14. Z-Ro - Melting the Crown
15. Blacklisted - When People Grow, People Go
16. Acid King - Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere
17. Drug Church - Swell
18. Antagonist A.D. - Haunt Me As I Roam 3.5*
19. Pure Disgust - Chained
20. Aesop Rock - Cat Food

In afwachting van het '10-decenniumtopic maar (weer) eens 2015 op een rijtje zetten:

1. Oren Ambarchi - Live Knots
2. Leonid Fedorov, Vladimir Martynov, Vladimir Volkov, Tatjana Grindenko & Opus Posth - Elegiya
3. Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Floating Points & James Holden - Marhaba
4. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
5. The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie
6. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
7. Insanlar / Ricardo Villalobos - Kime Ne
8. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
9. Merzbow & Xiu Xiu - MERZXIU
10. Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge