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WCBN Music Department

12.07.2015

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