I do this every year. It’s never the same number of albums. I just start putting together a list. When I run out of things to put on the list, I usually top it off to a round number. This year I got to about 36. I scrounged around for four more that were good enough.
Requirements for inclusion:
- Gotta be on Spotify. That’s about all I listen to any more. Sorry, no Taylor Swift (not likely to have made it even if available) or Adele (a slam dunk had it been made available).
- I’ve gotta like it.
- I’ve gotta have listened to more than one of its songs more than a few times.
Enjoy.
- Active Child, Mercy
- Alpine, Yuck
- Astronauts, etc., Mind Out Wandering
- the bird and the bee, Recreational Love
- Bop English, Constant Bop
- B
ORNS, Dopamine - CHAMPS, Vamala
- City and Colour, If I Should Go Before You
- Disclosure, Caracal
- Eilen Jewell, Sundown Over Ghost Town
- EL VY, Return To The Moon
- Ex Cops, Daggers
- Florence + The Machine, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- Foals, What Went Down
- Golden Rules, Golden Ticket
- Grimes, Art Angels
- Houndmouth, Little Neon Limelight
- Howling, Sacred Ground
- Indigo Girls, One Lost Day
- Jamie Woon, Making Time
- Jose Gonzalez, Vestiges & Claws
- JR JR, JR JR
- Kelela, Hallucinogen
- Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
- The Late Call, Golden
- Lord Huron, Strange Trails
- The Maccabees, Marks To Prove It
- Oddisee, The Good Fight
- Oh Wonder, Oh Wonder
- Other Lives, Rituals
- Parlour Tricks, Broken Hearts/Bones
- Passion Pit, Kindred
- Patrick Watson, Love Songs For Robots
- Punch Brothers, The Phosphorescent Blues
- Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
- Tove Styrke, Kiddo
- Until the Ribbon Breaks, A Lesson Unlearnt
- Vetiver, Complete Strangers
- The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness
- The Weepies, Sirens
If you are on Spotify, I’ve got these albums in a list (see below as well). Have a listen around. If something comes out between now and the end of 2015, and it meets the rigorous criteria outlined above, I’ll add it to the list here and on Spotify.