1Low
Ones And Sixes
2Julia Holter
Have You In My Wilderness
3Susanne Sundfør
Ten Love Songs
4Sleater-Kinney
No Cities To Love
5Drenge
Undertow
6Torres
Sprinter
7LoneLady
Hinterland
8Gwenno
Y Dydd Olaf
9My Morning Jacket
The Waterfall
10Gaz Coombes
Matador
11Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
12The Decemberists
What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
13Farao
Till It’s All Forgotten
14Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Multi-Love
15John Grant
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
16New Order
Music Complete
17Ought
Sun Coming Down
18Wolf Alice
My Love Is Cool
19Patty Griffin
Servant Of Love
20The Unthanks
Mount The Air
This year I found it very hard to choose between the top three choices – they are all SO good. In the end took the easy option I went with the order of most listens on last.fm.
Choosing albums to go on the list beyond the top dozen on so was also quite difficult. I added 1771 tracks to my iTunes library in 2015 and giving all that music the attention it deserved to make album of the year choices was basically impossible. I’m happy with the list as it stands but it took a concerted effort in the last few weeks of the year to be able to make my choices.
I think I only attended a couple of gigs this year. The Ex were great at Summerhall, but I had to leave early due to toothache. Low were similarly great at the Glasgow School of Art but it was spoiled by the guy who talked non-stop through the first half of the gig.
My favourite new-to-me track of the year was Kamikaze by Susanne Sundfør.
My most listened to track was Lies by Low