Your Albums of the Year

andrew

GuitarAndy2 said:

Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase

How could I forget this on my list?! Great call @GuitarAndy2!

d8m

Forgot about this one!

This is my album of 2015

jamiexsilver

Highlights for me.
Ken Mode - Success
Sannhet - Revisionist
Ghostbath - Moonlover

Disappointed by
Murder By Death - Big Dark Love
Love all their other albums but just can't get into this one.

Grumpyrocker

Iron Maiden - the Book of Souls (Just plain effing brilliant)

and...

Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud (Joyous catchy metal)

Draconian - Sovran (Great doom with male and female vocals)

The Gentle Storm - The Diary (brilliant album from Anneke Van Giersbergen makes up for no album from her form band The Gathering this year)

Paradise Lost - The Plague Within (and their live orchestral album Symphony For the Lost)

Queensryche - Condition Human (Second brilliant album from the band since they ditched that arsehole Tate)

Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine (latest album from Polish prog brand in the Porcupine Tree/Marillion ouvre. Think I might actually like their stuff more than the other two)

Slight disappointment though worth mentioning is the latest Nightwish album. New singer Floor Jansen is phenomenal. Been a fan of hers since After Forever and later her own band Revamp. She's brilliant live - a genuine brilliant talent. But I feel the album Tuomas has written for her debut isn't anywhere near as good as the last two he wrote for former singer Annette. But still a notable album this year because Floor's performance is so good.

duotone

In no order; 

James Taylor - Before This World

Kendrick Lemar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now

Frank Turner - Positive Songs For Negative People

TheMarlin

Cuz - Tomatebaki
The Eccentronic Research Council - Johnny Rocket.

Marlin

Heartfeltdawn

Absolutely nothing. It's been a trek through the recent past instead. Loads of Tim Hecker albums, Stars of the Lid, and listening to my own noises. 

Rocker

Rocker said:

Octahedron said:

"The Killer Instinct" - Black Star Riders
The musicality, the trademark Thin Lizzy twin lead guitars, the slight shift from cheesy lyrics to a more serious front, BSR continued their "war" theme with a solid album. Much better than the first. Very impressed and still enjoy it. The more serious side was what they needed.

Thanks for this info @Octahedron, I did not know that BSR had released another album.  I will look out for this when next in Dublin.  I have "All Hell Breaks Loose" and I like it.  Someone on this forum suggested I get it when I asked for suggestions.... A good buy.

Mrs Rocker got me the BSR album @Octahedron. Not played it yet.

Kebabkid

Nothing really but I've discovered these:-

Ghosts by Big Wreck (a couple of years old)
Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes
Brother Strut

Paul_C

As far as I can recall I've only bought one great 2015 album - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World by The Decemberists.

Having said that, the only other album released this year that I own is Some Feelings by Julia Nunes, which is ok but not wonderful.

koneguitarist

Well on my show tomorrow night I will be revealing my favourite country albums of 2015.

Here is a taster

Jamie Lin Wilson Holidays and wedding rings.

Chris Stapleton Traveller

The SteelDrivers  the muscle shoals recordings 

The Turnpike Troubadors. Self titled 

Alison Moorer Down to Believing. 

And purely for awesome guitar tones and great vibes Larry Campbell and Theresa Williams self titled. 

What a guitarist he is, just google him. 

chrisj1602

I thought I had a few to mention but they are mostly from 2014 now I've checked.

Gaz Coombes - Matador is a good one, and he was fucking great live. And I've been listening to Johnny Marr's new live album a fair bit recently.

DiscoStu

Album, and gig, of the year. Double whammy!

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ourmaninthenorth

koneguitarist said:

Well on my show tomorrow night I will be revealing my favourite country albums of 2015.

Here is a taster

Jamie Lin Wilson Holidays and wedding rings.

Chris Stapleton Traveller

The SteelDrivers  the muscle shoals recordings 

The Turnpike Troubadors. Self titled 

Alison Moorer Down to Believing. 

And purely for awesome guitar tones and great vibes Larry Campbell and Theresa Williams self titled. 

What a guitarist he is, just google him. 

Some fantastic selections there Taff...Chris Stapleton is something else.

Phil_aka_Pip

Hmmmmm ...

I'm still trying to enjoy the James Taylor album, it's not grabbing me in the way the October Road or Hourglass did, although there are some good tracks on it.

Camel's remake of The Snow Goose is highly creditable, but I still prefer the version I've been listening to for the last 40 years.

Loobs

Moominpapa said:

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

This is great. 

Loobs

Some albums I liked this year (some released '14) 

Fading Love - George Fitzgerald

Shedding Skin - Ghostpoet

Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress - Godspeed! You Black Emperor

Making Time - Jamie Woon

Ego Death - The Internet

The Epic - Kamasi Washington

Delusion Moon - Meatwave

Rub - Peaches

Run The Jewels 2 - Run The Jewels

Lily-O - Sam Amidon

Dialate - Vessels

Dude Incredible - Shellac

Deijavoo

Asunder is superb!

Deijavoo

I thought it was one of your 2014s but a quick Google revealed all.

Loobs

Yeah man, saw them in November in Berlin. They were great.