wcbn fm chart december 7, 2015

Hey all,

Last chart of the year, which means I get to do the whole "best of 2015" list thing. This is by no means a final, definitive list, and neither will be the list that I will be posting to the Allmusic Loves 2015 feature on Allmusic.com (which will also include a link to a Spotify playlist that I've been working on that's well over 10 hours at this point), and I'm sure my Best of 2015 radio shows will be entirely different too. It's pretty useless to try and definitively rank everything, isn't it? Anyway here is an incomplete list of things I liked a lot this year:

Matchess: Somnaphoria (Trouble in Mind)

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: A Year with 13 Moons (Mexican Summer)

Rabit: Communion (Tri Angle)

Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee (Constellation)

Coil: Backwards (Cold Spring)

Colleen: Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)

Venetian Snares: Your Face (Planet Mu) + Thank You For Your Consideration (Bandcamp)

Five Star Hotel: Outlands (Visual Disturbances) [https://fivestarhotel.bandcamp.com/album/outlands seriously this is FIRE]

King Midas Sound/Fennesz: Edition 1 (Ninja Tune)

White Poppy: Natural Phenomena (Not Not Fun)

Downtown Boys: Full Communism (Don Giovanni)

Fred Thomas: All Are Saved (Polyvinyl)

Vaadat Charigim: Sinking As a Stone (Anova Music)

Container: LP [2015] (Spectrum Spools)

Amnesia Scanner: Angels Rig Hook (Soundcloud)

Natural Snow Buildings: Terror's Horns (Ba Da Bing!)

etc. etc. 

Safe holidays/winter everyone, see you in 2016!

-paul

wcbn fm chart december 7, 2015 "who shot who in the what now?"

1. Grimes "Art Angels" 4AD

2. Oneohtrix Point Never "Garden of Delete" Warp

3. Floating Points "Elaenia" Luaka Bop

4. Joanna Newsom "Drivers" Drag City

5. v/a "Gazing with Tranquility: A Tribute to Donovan" Rock the Cause

6. Yak "No" Third Man

7. Julia Holter "Have You in My Wilderness" Domino

8. Mark Kirschenmann "Icosahedron" Sonikmann

9. Kishi Bashi "String Quartet Live!" Joyful Noise

10. Bones and Beeker "s/t" Wax Poetics

11. Dan Friel "Life" Thrill Jockey

12. Jeffrey Lewis and Los Bolts "Manhattan" Rough Trade

13. Barbara Morgenstern "Doppelstern" Monika Enterprise

14. Arca "Mutant" Mute

15. SK Kakraba "Songs of Paapieye" Awesome Tapes From Africa

16. L'Orange & Kool Keith "Time? Astonishing!" Mello Music Group

17. Hot Chip "Dancing in the Dark" Domino

18. Boogarins "Manual" Other Music

19. Christina Vantzou "No. 3" Kranky

20. Disclosure "Caracal" Capitol

21. v/a "Rough Guide to Psychedelic Samba" World Music Network

22. Ross Manning "Interlacing" Room40

23. Ruhe "Patriarchs" Eilean

24. Shye Ben Tzur/Jonny Greenwood/The Rajasthan Express "Junun" Nonesuch

25. Bang on a Can All-Stars "Field Recordings" Cantaloupe

26. Kode9 "Nothing" Hyperdub

27. Ty Segall "Ty Rex" Goner

28. Valerie Kuehne & the Wasps Nests "The Apocalypse As Witnessed By a Slice of American Cheese" Gold Bolus

29. Jerusalem in My Heart "If He Dies, If If If If If If" Constellation

30. Made of Oak "Penumbra" Partisan

31. Hinds "Very Best of Hinds So Far" Mom+Pop

32. Goblin Rebirth "s/t" Relapse

33. St. Germain "s/t" Nonesuch

34. Beirut "No No No" 4AD

35. Tom Collier "Across the Bridge" Origin

36. W-X "s/t" Castle Face

37. Kelley Stoltz "In Triangle Time" Castle Face

38. Video "The Entertainers" Third Man

39. Soldiers of Fortune "Early Risers" Mexican Summer

40. Express Rising "Fixed Rope" Numero Group

41. v/a "Pop Ambient 2016" Kompakt

42. The Garden "Haha" Epitaph

43. Car Seat Headrest "Teens of Style" Matador

44. Martin Courtney "Many Moons" Domino

45. Locrian "Infinite Dissolution" Relapse

46. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "It's a Holiday Soul Party" Daptone

47. Young Galaxy "Falsework" Paper Bag

48. Shmu "Shhh!!!!" GTZ

49. Surf Rock is Dead "SRID" self-released

50. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard "Paper Mache Dream Balloon" ATO

Adds:

Monkey Power Trio "Left Behind" Pocahontas Swamp Machine Recordings

Akira Rabelais "The Little Glass" self-released

Rafael Anton Irisarri "A Fragile Geography" Room40

Erik Griswold "Pain Avoidance Machine" Room40

Spectral Park/The Furr "split" Crash Symbols