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2015 Albums of the Year – Part One
It’s that time of year again, when us music bloggers write our end-of-year lists of the albums that have impressed us over the past twelve months. Usual caveats apply, of course, there are no doubt...
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2015 Albums of the Year – Part Two
We continue the album rundown with the countdown down to Eleven, setting things up for the Top Ten. Eleven is a very metal number…. Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic A quite remarkable record...
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2015 Albums of the Year – Part Three
We’re into the top ten now, with the top five to go. It says a lot about how good this year has been that many of these would have been in the top five in other years. Gazpacho – Molok The Norwegian...
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2015 Albums of the Year – Part Four
Into the top five, with only the Album of the Year to go. Two or three of these albums could easily been the album of the year themselves. Again, they’re not in any order, consider them all equal 2nd....
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2015 Records of the Year – Not only but also…
My self-imposed rules for album of the year restricts the list to full-length albums of new material. That means it excludes live albums, unplugged records with new versions of existing songs, or EPs....
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2015 Album of the Year
It was extremely hard to choose just one single record as album of the year. Even after I had begun publishing the first few instalments of this rundown I hadn’t been able to make the final decision of...
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2015 in Live Music – Ten of the Best
It’s harder to rank gigs in any kind of order than it is for records, since you can’t relive a one-off experience. These ten are those which have particularly stuck in the mind, and there is probably...
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