Best Albums of the Year. (Mixtapes are a different thread).

[venom lyrix]

Rihanna dropped a banger

 

[topnotchtolu]

GKMC

 

[Canadian Destroyer]

Ill keep it limited to just 2 broad genres
Rock: The Shins- Port of Morrow ( cant believe only one other person mentioned this)
Hip hop: Aesop Rock- Skelethon

 

[certifiedsw]

Top 10 (in order):

1. Beach House - Bloom
2. Purity Ring - Shrines
3. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
5. DIIV - Oshin
6. XXYYXX - XXYYXX
7. The xx - Coexist
8. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
9. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
10. Sky Ferreira - Ghost EP


Honorable Mentions:
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Tame Impala - Lonerism
John Talabot - Fin
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel.....

 

[stillmaticshay]

so far for me:


beach house - bloom
purity ring - shrines
kendrick lamar - gkmc
frank ocean - channel orange
norah jones - little broken hearts
nas - life is good
jmsn - priscilla
lianne la havas - is your love big enough

honorable mentions:

grimes, grizzlybear, chromatics

 

[nocomment6]

My top 10 would look something like this:

1. The XX - Coexist
2. Four Tet - Pink
3. XXYYXX - XXYYXX
4. Grimes - Visions
5. Chromatics - Kill for love
6. Lana Del Rey - Born to die
7. Kindness - World, you need a change of mind
8. Crystal Castles - III
9. Norah James - Little broken hearts
10. Polica - Give you the ghost

Honorable mentions: Lupe Fiasco - F&L II; Tame Impala - Lonerism; WZRD -WZRD; Kendrick Lamar - gkmc

And although it was an EP: Zomboy - Deadsymphonic

 

[cruthik3]

I completely forgot about Swans- The Seer probably top 5

 

[mronegative]