e-stone 2015

e-stone · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2015 5:06 pm

guess i'm doing this after all....

pretty loosely ranked after #3, the stuff i dug the most this year:

1. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
2. Wilco - Star Wars
3. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
4. Ryan Adams - 1989
5. José González - Vestiges & Claws
6. Calexico - Edge of the Sun
7. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down...
8. Leon Bridges - Coming Home
9. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
10. Laura Marling - Short Movie

11. The Weather Station - Loyalty
12. Tame Impala - Currents
13. Phil Cook - Southland Mission
14. Guy Garvey - Courting the Squall
15. Futurebirds - Hotel Parties
16. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
17. Daniel Bachman - River
18. Surf City - Jekyll Island
19. The Phantom Band - Fears Trending
20. Meg Baird - Don't Weigh Down The Light

21. Dungen - Allas Sak
22. Martin Courtney - Many Moons
23. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
24. The Staves - If I Was
25. Ought - Sun Coming Down

These were all pretty a'ight too:
The Arcs - Yours, Dreamily
Barna Howard - Quite A Feelin'
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - Ba Power
Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker - Land of Plenty
Blur - The Magic Whip
Built To Spill - Untethered Moon
Dick Diver - Melbourne, Florida
Heather Woods Broderick - Glider
Jamie xx - In Colours
Justin Townes Earle - Absent Fathers
The Libertines - Anthems for Doomed Youth
Lou Barlow - Brace the Wave
Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows
Salad Boys - Metalmania
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born to Lose You
Tal National - Zoy Zoy
Twerps - Range Anxiety
Weed - Running Back
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There

disappointing as hell, but not yet deleted:
The Amazing - Picture You
Howlin Rain - Mansion Songs
Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell - Sing Into My Mouth
The Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird Is Home
Vetiver - Complete Strangers

and the "what the hell is this still doing on my ipod" award:
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves

e-stone · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2015 5:09 pm

also, if i counted live albums, Phosphorescent's Live at the Music Hall would probably be my number one.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:29 pm

Love that Ought album, and I've enjoyed Daniel Bachman, Dungen, and Tame Impala. The Kurt Vile, Wilco, and Alabama Shakes albums are decent.

I should probably listen to the Laura Marling album as I really liked her last one a lot.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:09 pm

e-stone Wrote:

also, if i counted live albums, Phosphorescent's Live at the Music Hall would probably be my number one.

According to Spotify its my 3rd most played album of the year so yeah, really high for me too.

Surprised by the amount of crossover here. Cheers, j, I guess I need to check out Riley Walker.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Isbell and Barna Howard are our only overlap, but that's probably as much as I've had with anyone's list this year. I thought I might see Bill Fay too somewhere on your list but I guess not. He was down near the bottom of mine so I'm not highly recommending it if you haven't heard it. I checked out that Riley Walker album earlier in the year after seeing it highly rated by some folks on RYM that I somewhat follow but it didn't do that much for me. I could see it being a grower though.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Wed Jan 06, 2016 1:34 pm

e-stone Wrote:

1. Riley Walker - Primrose Green - the late 60's/early 70's British folk scene would be proud.
5. José González - Vestiges & Claws
6. Calexico - Edge of the Sun
8. Leon Bridges - Coming Home
9. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
20. Meg Baird - Don't Weigh Down The Light - I miss Espers
21. Dungen - Allas Sak - just missed the cut

Nice !

e-stone · **Posted:** Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:50 pm

Drinky Wrote:

I should probably listen to the Laura Marling album as I really liked her last one a lot.

it's not as good as her last - which i think is her best yet - but still strong.

e-stone · **Posted:** Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:58 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I guess I need to check out Ryley Walker.

billy g Wrote:

I checked out that Ryley Walker album earlier in the year after seeing it highly rated by some folks on RYM that I somewhat follow but it didn't do that much for me. I could see it being a grower though.

sorry for the misspelling in my original post, had to fix (for all of us) it as it was bugging me. hope you give it some more time bg. his influences are obvious, as mcaputo points out above - bert jansch, tim buckley, john martyn, veedon fleece-era van morrison - but i think there's a freshness to it all as well rather than just imitation.

and while i do love the album, he really gets me with his extended live performances. i love absolutely every second of these 18 minutes:

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2016 7:39 pm

huh, didn't know Surf City put out a new one this year. Will check it out, along with Ryley Walker and the new Dungen.

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