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CHIRP Radio Best of 2015

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from DJ and blog editor Tyler Clark.

I'm really bad at making objective good/better/best statements when it comes to music, so consider this a list of my personal favorites/albums from 2015 that I'm likely to return to in the future.

 

#1   Magnetic Bodies/Maps of Bones by Maritime (Dangerbird)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Maritime Magnetic Bodies/Maps of BonesBecause I'm a sucker for old emo dudes making music that sounds like 2006.

Favorite Track: "Roaming Empire"

 

#2   Art Angels by Grimes (4AD)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Grimes Art AngelsBecause I love the sound of breaking glass (and Game Boys in blenders).

Favorite Track: "Kill V. Maim"

 

#3   Have You In My Wilderness by Julia Holter (Domino)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Julia Holter Have You In My WildernessBecause we need a soundtrack for our newest fables.

Favorite Track: "Sea Calls Me Home"

 

 

#4   I Love You, Honeybear by Father John Misty (Sub Pop)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Father John Misty I Love You, HoneybearBecause getting older is tiring.

Favorite Track: "True Affection"

 

#5   E•MO•TION by Carly Rae Jepsen (Interscope)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Carly Rae Jepsen E•MO•TIONBecause I have ears and am not a contrarian.

Favorite Track: "Run Away With Me"

 

#6   The Race for Space by Public Service Broadcasting (Test Card Recordings)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Public Service Broadcasting The Race for SpaceBecause I have a thing for space.

Favorite Track: "Go!"

 

#7   Another One by Mac DeMarco (Captured Tracks)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Mac DeMarco Another OneBecause I trust a man who's willing to give out his home address on a record.

Favorite Track: "The Way You'd Love Her"

 

#8   b’lieve i’m goin down by Kurt Vile (Matador)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Kurt Vile b’lieve i’m goin downBecause sometimes you just want to lie down in the tall grass.

Favorite Track: "Pretty Pimpin"

 

#9   Summertime '06 by Vince Staples (Def Jam)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Vince Staples Summertime '06Because 2015 was pretty shitty, and that's how we should remember it.

Favorite Track: "Norf Norf"

 

#10   Ratchet by Shamir (XL)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Shamir RatchetBecause dancing is how we feel better.

Favorite Track: "On the Regular"

 

Honorable Mentions

Albums #11-#25

11) The Mountain Goats, Beat the Champ
12) Colleen, Captain of None
13) Low, Ones and Sixes
14) Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
15) Wavves x Cloud Nothings, No Life for Me
16) Tobias Jesso, Jr., Goon
17) Girlpool, Before the World Was Big
18) Natalie Prass, Natalie Prass
19) Destroyer, Poison Season
20) FFS, FFS
21) Twerps, Range Anxiety
22) Craig Finn, Faith in the Future
23) Deradoorian, The Expanding Flower Planet
24) Robert Pollard, Faulty Superheroes
25) Swervedriver, I Wasn't Born to Lose You

40 Songs I Loved from Artists Who Didn't Make the Top 25

Action Bronson, "Baby Blue"
American Wrestlers, "I Can Do No Wrong"
Andy Shauf, "You're Out Wasting"
Arthur Russell, "Lucky Cloud"
Battles, "The Yabba"
Beach Slang, "Dirty Cigarettes"
Beirut - "No No No"
Belle & Sebastian, "The Party Line"
Bill Fay - "The Geese Are Flying Westward"
Car Seat Headrest, "Something Soon"
Chance the Rapper, "Angels"
The Chills - "Warm Waveform"
Dan Deacon - "Feel the Lightning"
Desaperecidos, "Von Maur Massacre"
Diet Cig, "Harvard"
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - "Sunday Candy"
Dream Version - "Firefighter"
FIDLAR - "40oz. on Repeat"
Foals - "What Went Down"
Heems - "Sometimes"
JEFF The Brotherhood - "Coat Check Girl"
John Maus, "Hey Moon"
The Kickback - "Sting's Teacher Years"
Lady Lamb - "Billions of Eyes"
Mac McCaughan - "Lost Again"
Neon Indian - "C'est la vie (Say the Casualties!)"
New Order - "Restless"
No Joy, "Moon in My Mouth"
Panda Bear - "Boys Latin"
The Radio Dept., "Occupied"
Screaming Females, "Wishing Well"
Shopping - "Straight Lines"
The Sidekicks - "Jesus Christ Supermalls"
Sleater-Kinney - "Bury Our Friends"
Tame Impala - "Let It Happen"
They Might Be Giants - "Erase"
Title Fight - "Chlorine"
Toro y Moi - "Empty Nesters"
Viet Cong - "Silhouettes"
Wet, "Deadwater"

 

 

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