The Best Albums of 2015... so far

So, here we are at mid-year, and it's time to recognize some of the excellent releases that have come out in the first half of 2015. As always, I've enlisted the help of some of my friends to provide some additional insight and coverage of the wide musical spectrum. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions, so feel free to leave some feedback (and even your own lists) in the comments section below - or interact at the Life On This Planet Facebook Page. Click on an album cover to purchase - or investigate a release further. Okay, let's get started. - Bret

Bret Helm

Life On This Planet Blog | Audra

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The Black Ryder - The Door Behind The Door

Soko - My Dreams Dictate My Reality

Bill Fay - Who Is The Sender?

Olafur Arnalds & Sara Alice Ott - The Chopin Project
Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes

Jason DeWolfe Barton

Phoenix, AZ | Audra

Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love

Arcturus - Arcturian

Bjork - Vulnicura

Leviathan - Scar Sighted

Jack DeJohnette - Made in Chicago

Napalm Death - Apex Predator/Easy Meat

Troyka - Ornithophobia

Enslaved - In Time

Sarah Quarrie

Nashville, TN

Lower Dens - Escape From Evil

Preoccupations - Viet Cong

No Joy - More Faithful

Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Torres - Sprinter

Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl

The Staves - If I Was

Stealing Sheep - Not Real

Marc Almond - The Velvet Trail

Jaymz Todd

Phoenix, AZ | SNMC

Au.Ra - Jane's Lament

Algiers - s/t

MG - s/t

The Helio Sequence

Oddisee - The Good Fight

Disappears - Irreal

Dream Pop Jesse

Phoenix, AZ | SNMC

The Charlatans - Modern Nature

Blur - The Magic Whip

Belle & Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia

Echo Lake - Era

Bjork - Vulnicura

Lower Dens - Escape From Evil

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

Mew - +-

Pins - Wild Nights

Jonathan Salisbury

Phoenix, AZ | SNMC

Ryley Walker - Primrose Green

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color

Froth - Bleak

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last

Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia

Monophonics - Sound of Sinning

Pops Staples - Don't Lose This

Lower Dens - Escape From Evil

Rob Clark
Chicago, IL

Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color

Little Brave - Myth Ology

Torres - Sprinter

Admiral Falllow - Tiny Rewards

Brent Berg
Phoenix, AZ | SNMC

Froth - Bleak

Damaged Bug - Cold Hot Plumbs
King Khan & BBQ Show - Bad News Boys
Tuxedo (with Mayer Hawthorne)

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