2015年 01月 1日 木曜日 12:42
In no particular order. Completely subjective.
Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar (progressive metal)
Arcane - Known/Learned (progressive metal)
Negură Bunget - Tău (atmospheric black / folk / progressive metal)
Zs - Xe (experimental rock / jazz)
The Neal Morse Band - The Grand Experiment (progressive rock)
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters (shoegaze / dream pop)
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (progressive rock)
Liturgy - The Ark Work (experimental / post metal)
Enslaved - In Times (progressive black metal)
Alkaloid - The Malkuth Grimoire (progressive death metal)
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (indie folk)
Jakub Żytecki - Wishful Lotus Proof (progressive metal)
Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers (progressive death metal)
Anekdoten - Until All The Ghosts Are Gone (progressive rock)
Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues (progressive bluegrass)
Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours (post-black metal)
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was (experimental / post-minimalism / modern classical)
Native Construct - Quiet World (progressive metal)
Kamasi Washington - The Epic (jazz)
Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot (jazz)
Leprous - The Congregation (progressive metal)
Envy - Atheist's Cornea (post-rock / post-hardcore)
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh (electronic / drone / idm)
Algiers - Algiers (post-punk / industrial rock / gospel)
Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic (progressive metal)
Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (indie rock / art pop)
Tame Impala - Currents (psychedelic pop)
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (darkwave / industrial rock / doom metal)
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire (nu jazz / electronic / post-rock)
Symphony X - Underworld (progressive metal)
echolyn - I Heard You Listening (progressive rock)
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Honorable mentions:
Aesthete - The Mary Cornelia
Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now
Beardfish - +4626-COMFORTZONE
A Forest Of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Shattered Skies - The World We Used to Know
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
VOLA - Inmazes
Chaos Divine - Colliding Skies
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon
Unjustly Labeled - Beholder
Klone - Here Comes The Sun
The Psychedelic Ensemble - The Sunstone
Korpiklaani - Noita
Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
Jim O’Rourke - Simple Songs
Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Classical Punk and Echoes Under the Beauty
Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
Rosetta - Quintessential Ephemera
Blur - The Magic Whip
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Abigail’s Ghost - Black Plastic Sun
Other good albums: The Decemberists, Caïna, Panda Bear, Raised Fist, Pond, Lights & Motion, Viet Cong, Teen Daze, Sleater-Kinney, Periphery, Björk, Blind Guardian, Joey Bada$$, Matana Roberts, Napalm Death, Morgan Ågren, ptf, Archive, Natalie Prass, Level 10, Wildhoney, Mount Eerie, A Place To Bury Strangers, Toundra, A Swarm Of The Sun, Solefald, The Amazing, Torche, Jessica Pratt, Simon Steensland, Drifting Sun, Autumn Electric, Adventures, Ensiferum, Northaunt, Levon Vincent, Modest Mouse, An Autumn For Crippled Children, THEESatisfaction, Gay Kiss, Father John Misty, BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah, Leviathan, Susanne Sundfør, Nightwish, Marius Neset, Ghost Bath, Dødheimsgard, CHON, The Gentle Storm, Sannhet, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grand Tour, Angelus Apatrida, Broken Water, Melechesh, Psycroptic, Lower Dens, Steve Hackett, While She Sleeps, My Morning Jacket, Von Hertzen Brothers, Dance Gavin Dance, The Pop Group, Sigh, All That Remains, The Prodigy, Polar Bear, Apocalyptica, Faith No More, Widek, Frosttide, Nils Frahm, Mutiny on the Bounty, Vijay Iyer Trio, The Tangent, Shining, Mew, John Zorn, Action Bronson, Arcturus, Callisto, Jacco Gardner, CMX, Theodor Bastard, Mumford & Sons, Bell Witch, Novella, Ozric Tentacles, Timbre, Sunchild, Rolo Tomassi, Joanne Robertson, Magic Pie, Upsilon Acrux, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Nordic Giants, Jamie xx, Vespero, Muse, Siddharta, High On Fire, Peste Noire, The Aristocrats, God Is An Astronaut, Ratatat, mouse on the keys, Four Tet, Sunset In The 12th House, Corpo-Mente, Lamb of God, Bullet For My Valentine, IOEarth, Dr. Dre, Tim Bowness, Battles,
To do list: Cailyn Lloyd, The Nerve Institute, Misþyrming, Unreal City, Trna, Svartsot, Föllakzoid, Winter, Elvis Jackson, Subversion, The Man-Eating Tree, NAÏVE, Tyler, The Creator, Drudkh, Astrobrite, Kontinuum, Wilderun, Two Steps From Hell, Kamelot, Veil Of Maya, Death Grips, Irreversible Mechanism, Circuit des Yeux, Karjalan Sissit, Bjesovi, Orakle, Midnight Odyssey, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, My Sleeping Karma, Avishai Cohen Trio, Entrails, Mandolin Orange, Lindemann, Ryley Walker, Blind Idiot God, Nicolas Jaar, Everything Everything, mewithoutYou, Joe Satriani, Cemeteries, Paul Wardingham, Sleaford Mods, Miguel, Final Days Society, toe, Krallice, Grimoir, The Black Dahlia Murder, Year Of The Goat, Cattle Decapitation, Disturbed, Nile, Soulfly, Dead Letter Circus, Above The Earth, Jörg Widmann,