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Sweet has always been a great vocalist. Stryper was always great as well, but seemed to take few years off where they just did covers.

Personally I liked the Sweet and Lynch project more than the new Stryper CD. Technically their release was also in 2015 and could be included in the list.

http://www.sweetandlynch.com/

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2015 may be the year I've bought the least amount of new music. I only bought four releases the entire year and two were soundtracks and one was a vinyl single. The only album I bought was The Dead Weather: Dodge & Burn which was pretty decent. I also downloaded the new EP from the Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia which was offered free through their website.

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Nice seeing all these Sufjan Stevens and Courtney Barnett mentions


I know critics have spent the year praising Carly Rae Jepsen,Grimes and Chrvches but I think Neon Indian has those ladies beat as far as pop music and also much "Funkier" then a certain Halftime Superbowl performer.

Check his track out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTuT1s-YPLE



Favorite rock track of the year has to go to The Graduates by Speedy Ortiz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU4FkiO_Bns

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Fixed.

I'm behind on a lot of listening, but I have enjoyed the following:

Beach House - Depression Cherry
CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
Metric - Pagans in Vegas

Growing on me:

Atlas Genius - Inanimate Objects
Dear Rouge - Black to Gold
Purity Ring - Another Eternity
The Sheepdogs - Future Nostalgia

Not feeling it:

City and Colour - If I Should Go Before You
Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams
Grimes - Art Angels
Muse - Drones
Stereophonics - Keep The Village Alive
Twenty One Pilots - The Story So Far

Still need to get to:

The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
Guster - Evermotion
Idlewild - Everything Ever Written
Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin
Wilco - Star Wars

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Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material

Had her 2nd album on repeat this past year. sublime

Standouts: "Late to the Party", "Fine", "Are you sure?" w/ Willie Nelson

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My list is always questionable after I make it. I'd add Ryley Walker's Primrose Green to the best of 2015 if I did it over again.

Re: Best Music of 2015
 

Looking back on a year filled with great music, these 61 songs are the ones that hat public radio hosts and NPR Music team members loved best...

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I like this one as well, although it falls off a bit late in the album.

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okay

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One of several songs from the best album "Delirium"

The song is so good I ignored all the Victoria Secret models walking on the runway

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My favorites:

New Order - Music Complete
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Blur - Magic Whip
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
Sleater Kinney - No Cities to Love
Jeff Lynne's ELO - Alone in the Universe
Muse - Drones (save for the last two songs)

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No love for Frank Turner's Positive Songs for Negative People? I'd never heard of him before and that ended up being my top of the year. My top 10:

1. Frank Turner - Positive Songs for Negative People
2. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
3. The Vaccines - English Graffiti
4. The Damnwells - The Damnwells
5. EL VY - Return to the Moon
6. Metric - Pagans in Vegas
7. Jimi Goodwin - Odludek
8. Josh Ritter - Sermon on the Rocks
9. Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
10. The Wonder Years - No Closer to Heaven

I know Goodwin's was technically released in 2014, but it made it to the states last year, so I included it in 2015. Looking at my overall list from last year, I picked up 98 albums and would say I at least enjoyed 75% of them, with ~25 being good enough to move into long-term rotation.