Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room What are your top 10 albums of 2015?

Mine are very electronic leaning:-

1 Tenek - Smoke & Mirrors
2 Susanne Sundfor - 10 Love Songs
3 John Foxx - London Overgrown
4 Bjork - Vulnicura
5 Duran Duran - Paper Gods
6 Jean Michel Jarre - Electronica
7 Hannah Peel - Rebox 2
8 Chvrches - Every Open Eye
9 Public Service Broadcasting -The Race for Space
10 Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture


Brian

Bri ,me Baggie mate I can only offer one nomination "Made in A.M " One Direction My daughter has it on in constant rotation and I can hear it booming out from her bedroom. Much to my chagrin, I haven't listened to any albums in 2015 including Den's London Overgrown

Addie wins mine. Leitmotiv is just beautiful

Leitmotiv - Addie
In A Moment - Ghost Box
Smoke Fairies - Smoke Fairies
BlueVelvet Revisited - Cult With No Name & Tuxedomoon
Nil By Mouth - Blancmange
Codex - Ghost Harmonic
London Overgrown - John Foxx
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
To Run The Easting Down - Amanda Feery & Michael Tanner
The Land Of Holy Joy - The Band Of Holy Joy

Damn it.How did I forget Codex

I still have to get a the Ghost Box & Blue Velvet revisited.

Brian

I havent heard Bjork's latest, or Ghost Culture and (shamefully) still not Suzanne Sundfors

Your list contains some great choices though Brian.
Duran Duran's album surprised me, I must say

I've always been a Duran Duran fan.

The wife has played it a lot & broken down my defences.

The new album has had very mixed reviews.

If you can accept some of the updates to trendy modern sounds then you will get on better with this album.It is out & out pop.

Bjork's is also excellent album and an account of her heart wrenching relationship break up.

I travelled down to London to see Susan Sundfor in October.
Again something very different and excellent live.

If you took Abba mixed with a bit of classical and added some harder edged synth pop
you'd get Susanne Sundfor.

Brian

I've been able to stretch it only to a Top 5 I'm afraid:


5. Tame Impala - Currents

4. Little Boots - Working Girl

3. China Crisis - Autumn in the Neighbourhood

2. New Order - Music Complete

3. J-M Jarre - Electronica Pt. 1


Best re-release
OMD - Junk Culture (2CD deluxe)

Best compilation album:
80s Re:Covered, Your Songs With The 80's Sound

Ooooh, Currents

Good call

I might struggle to make five ... I feel like I have taken a year off.

Not the music's fault necessarily.

Three that really stood out:

1 Hatchback "Colors of the Sun" (although I learn tonight that this is a reissue apparently - one for the summer)
2 Marc Almond "The Velvet Trail" (especially the title track)
3 Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat "The Most Important Place in the World"

Several I have yet to experience more than twice so I will have to make them ineligible: namely China Crisis, Ghost Harmonic, A-Ha, Low and New Order. Most of them promising to be brilliant, and for New Order this is a real surprise.

Then there is "The Sum of the Sum of the Sum of the Sum of the Parts_ The Very Best of Brian Pern, Thotch and Beyond" which I have not heard yet except in snippets from the two BBC4 series so far (another starts in January - it's ace).

Another mention of "London Overgrown" is necessary - despite my quite vocal (which is ironic ...) early misgivings it does work very well as an album and deserves the attention it has received this year.

Can I give you the album of 2016? That's going to be Bowie, not that I have heard a note yet ...

The Velvet Trail!!

The Velvet Trail!!! And I saw him perform it live.
D'oh.