Best albums of 2015

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We've wrapped up the Albums of 2014 thread with the full 2014 playlist here.

Now you can start sharing the albums you recommend from 2015 with the Spotify Community below. We recommend posting a Spotify Play Button following these steps:

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2. Click 'Copy Spotify URI'.

2. Go to your Community post. 

3. Click 'Insert/edit link button'

4. Paste URI.

5. Click Post. 

And remember to give kudos to the albums you also agree belong on the "best of 2015" list. 

I'll get us started with my current favorite for 2015: Panda Bear's new album "Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper".

Want to share your favorite songs of 2015? Join this thread here. 

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2015 - News indie-Pop-Rock ( Singles And Albums Extracts )

Since 1st January 2015

( Update : May 1st )

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Ereb Altor - Nattramn ( 2015 )

Mighty swedish epic metallers Ereb Altor have finished recordings for their 5th longplaying album! it´s called "nattramn" and unleashed on the 24th of april!
Expect nothing less than a true masterpiece of cold, atmopsheric northern metal

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Wire - Wire ( 2015 )

Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976[1] by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), and Robert Gotobed (drums). They were originally associated with the punk rock scene, appearing on The Roxy London WC2 album—a key early document of the scene—and were later central to the development of post-punk.

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Houndmouth - Little Neon Limelight ( 2015 )

Houndmouth became a band in the summer of 2011. After playing locally in Louisville and Indiana, they performed at the SXSW music festival in March 2012 to promote their homemade self-titled EP. Geoff Travis, the head of Rough Trade was in the audience and offered a contract shortly after. In 2012, the band was named "Band Of The Week" by The Guardian.

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White Arrows - In Bardo ( 2015 )

White Arrows is a psych-pop group from Los Angeles, California. The band consists of Mickey Church, Andrew Naeve, John Paul Caballero and Jake Nielsen.
White Arrows, a psychedelic pop band, began on a whim when writing a song in New York that immediately got attention from blogs including Nylon magazine. Mickey never thought of being in a band or playing music before this, but after getting such immediate attention it was difficult to not take advantage. Soon thereafter, Mickey took the name to Los Angeles to form the band with Andrew Naeve, John Paul Caballero, Steven Vernet, and his younger brother Henry. Mickey and Andrew began writing, producing and remixing music together. Not long after, White Arrows began touring the world. Since their debut tour with Cults, they have toured with many other bands, including White Denim, The Naked and Famous, !!!, Santigold and The Neighbourhood. ( Wikipedia )

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They call it "future soul". It's sort of a mix of neo-soul / beats / jazz fusion / electronic / progressive. I've never heard anything like it. They're ridiculously talented and their songs are bursting with creativity and heart. Do yourself a favour and check them out

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Sophie Hunger - Supermoon ( 2015 )

Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on 31 March 1983) is a jazz pop singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, blues harp, piano) and bandleader, living currently in Berlin.
Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti was born on 31 March 1983 in Bern, Switzerland. She was a diplomat's daughter and grew up, with two older siblings, in: Bern, London (England, UK), Bonn (North Rhine-Westphalia, DE) and Zurich. She graduated high-school in 2002, then subsequently studied German and English.
During childhood, for some time Hunger took piano lessons. She was familiar with jazz from an early age, since her father was a listener. Independently, she had a varying taste in music, as a teenager, she first was into hip-hop and R&B. Later she listened to rock – then, as a young adult, she discovered country, bluegrass and folk.( Wikipedia )

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Mew   + -   ( 2015 )

Formed in 1994 in Hellerup, an upper-class suburb of Copenhagen, Mew has a profound impact on the Danish indie scene, emerging alongside the likes of Carpark North, Swan Lee and Saybia, amongst others, in 2003. They released their debut album A Triumph for Man in April 1997 and its follow-up Half the World is Watching Me in 2000. At the 2003 Danish Music Critics Award Show, Mew won the awards for "Album of the Year" and "Band of the Year".
Whilst their music may be classified as indie and on occasion progressive rock, the band's guitarist Bo Madsen said "I usually say we are ‘indie stadium.’ A mix between ‘feelings’ and ‘thinking’ is usually good." ( Wikipedeia )

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Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind  ( 2015 )

Mumford & Sons are a British rock band from London, England, formed in 2007. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboard, piano, synthesiser), Winston Marshall (vocals, electric guitar, banjo) and Ted Dwane (vocals, bass guitar, double bass).
Mumford & Sons have released three studio albums: Sigh No More (2009), Babel (2012) and Wilder Mind (2015). Sigh No More peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US, with Babel debuting at number one in the UK and US, becoming the fastest-selling album of 2012 and leading to a headline performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2013. The band have also issued two live albums: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire (2011) and The Road to Red Rocks (2012).
The band have won a number of music awards throughout their career, with Sigh No More earning the band the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011 and six overall Grammy Award nominations. The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers led to a surge in popularity for the band in America. The band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The band also won the Brit Award for Best British Group in 2013.
Wilder Mind is the third studio album by British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. After working in their first two albums with Markus Dravs, the band decided to go in a different direction, and for their third album, they went to work with producer James Ford and The National's Aaron Dessner.( Wikipedia )

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2015 - News indie-Pop-Rock ( Singles And Albums Extracts )

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Other Lives -  Rituals ( 2015 )

Other Lives is an American indie rock band from Stillwater, Oklahoma. The band originally formed in 2004 and released one album in 2006 under that name.Other Lives finished working on their latest album Tamer Animals in February 2011 On October 22, 2012, Other Lives' new album, Mind the Gap EP, was released:

Critical response to Other Lives was generally positive. everyview.com, which gave the album an 8 out of 10, said the album "plays like Parachutes era Coldplay" and "Other Lives produces a tiny gem of a record that couples classical music with indie rock."After touring with Radiohead, and headlining their own tour in 2012, they are on a touring break to work on a new album.......

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Django Django - Born Under Saturn ( 2015 )

Django Django are a British rock band based in London, England. The group was formed in 2009 and has released one self-titled studio album in 2012, with a second album scheduled for release on 4 May 2015. ....... It is now !!

The Guardian gave the album 5 stars out of 5 whilst NME rated the album 8 out 10.

uppence Magazine gave the album 4.5 out of 5, describing it as "a new modern classic" referencing the innovative use of African polyrhythms (an interweaving of at least two contrasting rhythm patterns at the same time), and what it calls "a flick switch of variation throughout the album".

Rolling Stone voted the album at #26 in its 50 Best Albums of 2012.NME voted the album at #10 in its 50 Best Albums of 2012.

Blitz, a Portuguese music magazine, voted the album at #1 in its "Best 2012 Albums" edition.

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Cloud - Zen Summer ( 2015 )

DjPress Quotes for Cloud: 

"Astoundingly accomplished." - Pitchfork
“Glossy dream-pop production with deeply confessional lyrics” – Stereogum
“Reminiscent of Panda Bear or Toro Y Moi, the gentle arrangement is matched to a delicate vocal which hints at something darker”. – Clash Music
"Cloud know their way around a pop song, and for all of the album's off-beat charms, and occasionally hard-to-grasp content, it's a true pop heart which can be found at the centre of every song that helps to make this such a rewarding listen - Drowned In Sound
"Slow motion melodies stretching to a blissful infinity. Here’s one cloud that won’t spoil your day." - The Irish Times
"A great record." - Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6 Music)
"Great!" - Eric Lawrence (KCRW) 

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Brothers Born - Knife Wounds ( 2015 )

Killswitch Engage fans who are used to seeing guitarist Joel Stroetzel tear through ferocious chords on songs like "In Due Time" and "Starting Over" may expect his new side project, Brothers Born, to sound the same way -- especially if they go by the title of its debut album, Knife Wounds (Feb. 24, Nine Mile Records). But that would be way off base: His album with fellow six-stringer Michael Wyzik of Storm the Ohio is, in Stroetzel's words, "folk/indie rock with a bit of an '80s twist."
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Mikal Cronin - MCIII  ( 2015 )

Mikal Cronin (born December 26, 1985) is an American musician and songwriter. He has released three solo albums and several singles. Cronin is also a member of the bands Okie Dokie, Epsilons, Party Fowl and Moonhearts, and occasionally plays bass guitar and adds backing vocals in Ty Segall's live band; he has also released an album and a single in collaboration with Segall. Cronin earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in music from California Institute of the Arts. ( Wikipedia )

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Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer ( 2015 )

Speedy Ortiz is an American indie rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. The band originated in 2011 as Sadie Dupuis' solo project while she was teaching songwriting at a summer camp, recording her own material using her laptop. Two releases resulted from this solo endeavor, the Cop Kicker EP, and the album, The Death of Speedy Ortiz.
The project expanded into a full band in late 2011. The group independently released "Taylor Swift" b/w "Swim Fan," recorded by Paul Q Kolderie, which was followed by 2012's Sports, released on Exploding in Sound Records.
Their debut album, Major Arcana, was released on Carpark Records in 2013.The album was well received. Pitchfork Media deemed the album "Best New Music."
In 2014, guitarist Matt Robidoux was replaced by fellow Massachusetts musician Devin McKnight of Grass is Green. On January 21, 2015, Dupuis announced their second studio album, Foil Deer, which was released on April 21, 2015.

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Parov Stelar - The Demon Diaries ( 2015 )

Marcus Füreder (born November 27, 1974 in Linz, Upper Austria) better known by his stage name Parov Stelar, is an Austrian musician, producer and DJ. His musical style is based in a combination of jazz, house, electro and breakbeat. He is known as one of the pioneers of electroswing.
Marcus Füreder first appeared as a DJ at nightclubs during the mid-late 1990s. He got involved in producing and publishing in 2000. Having released his first maxi singles on Bushido (still using his real name and his stage name Plasma), Füreder founded the record label Etage Noir Recordings in 2003. A year later, now with the stage name Parov Stelar, the EP Kiss Kiss was immediately picked up by the influential Austrian radio station FM4. KissKiss, soon followed by the LP Rough Cuts, provided him with a breakthrough on the international electronic music scene.
Parov Stelar was among the first who produced electronic swing music in Europe.[With his album Shine the BBC named Parov Stelar as one of the most promising producers active in Europe today. His specific approach to music production, combined with a proven sense of sound aesthetics, led to a reaction from audiences and colleagues all around the world, giving him a reputation as the founder of a new genre: Electro Swing.( Wikiedia )

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Hi everyone! I'm an indie singer-songwriter based in Seattle, WA and I released an album in 2015 called "Heart Into Everything" - I hope you like it!

https://open.spotify.com/album/1bUhG2Nv17HX1TtDYwCQO1

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