Best of 2015: Local Albums & Songs

It’s that time of year. Lists. You know the drill. Today we look back at our favorite local songs and albums of 2015.

Jon, Reviler

Albums:

1. Morly – In Defense of My Muse (Song)
2. Night Court – Law & Order (Introducing)
3. Jacob Pavek – Illume
4. False – Untitled (Song)
5. Beat Detectives – Climate Change (Song)
6. Kill The Vultures – Carnelian (Review)
7. Yingthi – Beyond the Threshold (Review)
8. Greg Grease – Born to Lurk, Forced to Work (Review)
9. Paul Fonfara – Seven Secrets of Snow (Review)
10. Warehouse Eyes – Prisms (Review)

Ali, @egyptoknuckles

Albums:

1. Kill The Vultures – Carnelian (Review)
2. Bae Tigre – Perennial Bygones
3. Greg Grease “Born To Lurk, Forced to Work” / “Motif ii” (tie) (Review)
4. Lizzo “Big GRRRL Small World”
5. Mixed Blood Majority “Insane World” (Review)
6. Tek “Midway Motel” / Tek & Metasota “Hurry Up And Bye” (tie)
7. Muja Messiah & I Self Devine “9th House” (Review)
8. Prof “Liability”
9. Naive Sense “Art Failures”
10. Warehouse Eyes “Prisms” (Review)

Songs:

1. Kill The Vultures “Broke”
2. Greg Grease “Really Tho”
3. Muja Messiah, I Self Devine & Lady Midnight “Midnight to Jupiter”
4. Lizzo “My Skin”
5. Tek & Metasota “Scenario”
6. Prof “Bar Breaker”
7. Bae Tigre “Death To the Fairytale”
8. Warehouse Eyes “The Same Dream”
9. Naive Sense “Expose”
10. Mixed Blood Majority “Foxes Den”

Jon Jon, @soundverite1

Albums:

• Greg Grease – Born To Lurk Forced To Work (Review)
• I Self Devine & Muja Messiah – 9th House (Review)
• Lexii Alijai – Joseph’s Coat
• Muja Messiah – Angel Blood Soup
• Finding Novyon – The Food Network
• Ghostband -Acid Deco
• Kill The Vultures – Carnelian
• Why Khaliq -TheOther Side : The Six5
• Bones & Beeker -S/T
• D’Allen White – Not A Damn Was Given

Honorable Mentions:

• Low – One’s And Sixes
• Mike The Martyr – Ghost Dose
• Bad Bad Hats – Psychic Reader
• Taylor J- 1999
• Ced Linus – Christ Like

EPs:

• Metasota, TEK – #HurryUpAndBye
• Greg Grease – Motif EP /Motiff ii
• Morly – In Defense of My Muse
• Crescent Moon/Andrew Broder
• GRRRL PRTY – GRRRL PRTY & Bionic

Adam, Reviler

Albums:

1. False — Untitled (Song)
2. Uranium Club — Human Exploration (Introducing)
3. Näive Sense — Art Failures
4. Flavor Crystals – The Shiver Of The Flavor Crystals (Stream)
5. France Camp – Purge (Review)
6. Shadow In The Cracks – s/t (Introducing)
7. Hammerhead – New Directionz (Review)
8. Father You See Queen – s/t (Stream)
9. Oaks — Animal Life (Review)
10. Panther Ray – Ripple (Introducing)

Josh, Reviler

Albums:

1. Night Court – Law and Order (Introducing)
2. Uranium Club — Human Exploration (Introducing)
3. Kill the Vultures – Carnelian (Review)
4. Sasha Conda — Bronco (Review)
5. Naïve Sense – Art Failures
6. France Camp – Purge (Review)
7. Flavor Crystals — The Shiver of the Flavor Crystals (Stream)
8. Greg Grease – Born to Lurk, Forced to Work (Review)
9. Beat Detectives – Climate Change + Boogie Chillin’/Hills of Cyprus (Song)
10. Falcon Arrow – Tower (Review)

(Honorable Mention, or the next 15 ) more.is.more – Roy.G.Black , Magic Castles – s/t, I Self Devine & Muja Messiah – 9th House, BOYG (White Boyfriend) – White Boyfriend, Low – Ones and Sixes, Dreamweapon – S/T, Larry Wish – Born Outside My Window, Dosh & Ghostband = Def Kif, Panther Ray – Ripple, The Rope – Water’s Rising, Yingthi – Beyond the Threshold, Swimsuit Area – Occupado, The Cult of Lip – S/t, Father You See Queen – S/t, Oaks – Animal Life

Songs (not on best records):

• Big Cats “Take a Step”
• Gay Witch Abortion “Two Rats and a Pimp”
• Ripper “On the Curb”
• Sarah White “Creature Found”
• Chatham Rise “How Do You Rise”
• Yume Nikki “Part 2: Light Shines and Birds Sing in Permanent Day-Night”
• American Cream “Ride Hard for Myth”
• Toki Wright + Lazerbeak “I’m Not Lying”
• Shadows in the Cracks “Timeless”
• Morly “Drone Poem (In Defense Of My Muse)”
• Guante “One Bad Cop” + “White People on Twitter”
• Allan Kingdom “Glass Up”
• Buildings “Mouth Gift”
• Andrew Broder & Crescent “Moon“Ritual”
• Homeless and Big Cats “Well Wishes (feat. Lydia Liza)”

Check out the playlist of our favorite local songs that are on Spotify

Jon Behm