New music in 2015

People in the Alabama Shakes thread didn't seem to like this, but I was impressed with their performance on SNL.

I'm no fan of theirs, but I couldn't get this song out of my head for a few days after. It's enough that I'll check out the new CD when it comes out next month.

"Gimme All Your Love"

Adam Lambert's new album is being released in April!

The new Susanne Sundfør album, Ten Love Songs is fantastic. "Slowly" is my current favorite track.

Best Coast

The new Sufjan Stevens is beautiful

Belle and Sebastian's new album is gorgeous

I'm in love with Years and Years.

Laura Marling "Short Movie"

Rumer "Into Colour"

Jose Gonzalez "Vestiges & Claws"

R8 Laura Marling is incredible.

I agree with R7 Years and Years song King is the best song so far in 2015 and the video is great too.

Years and Years is awesome. Everything Everything has a new album coming out. The new Dutch Uncles album is not that bad. The first few tracks from Florence and the Machine are OK. Citizens! have new album coming out and so far what they released as singles are fantastic. These New Puritans will release a new album later this year. The Bjork album is not a bad one, not a great one but a lot better than her last App album. Rhodes put out a pretty good EP. Fyfe released a fucking fantastic album. His voice is incredible. Suede will have a new album out. The Prodigy released a new one it isn't that bad. Only Real released his debut LP which is very summery. Blur's new album isn't that bad. Patrick Wolf will be putting a new album out. The Vaccines will be releasing a new one too (so far the tracks from that one are great). Lots of other stuff too

links would be appreciated.

Jessica Pratt, On Your Own Love Again is awesome, best album of the year so far.

[R5]

YES. A heartbreaking and beautiful album.

Yumo Zouma, ya'll!

Some awesome Americana and Alt Country albums this year,

Gretchen Peters, Blackbirds

The Vespers, Sisters and Brothers was cool

Houndmouth, Little Neon Limelight

Allison Moorer, Down to Believing is fantastic. Her Sister Shelby Lynne has a new album out in May which is suppose to be her best since I Am.

Punch Brothers, The Phosphorescent Blues, awesome live.

Rhiannon Giddens, Tomorrow is my Turn

Calexico Edge of the Sun in April, with surest vocals by Neko Case and Band of Horses

My Morning Jacket The Waterfall out month.

Sufjan is like Annie Clark and other hipster, calculated, measured music but sonically, totally emotionally censored. Their approach is style over depth. Far too self aware, whispy and boring and insipid WASP music.

oh my goodness, anything by Katy Perry & Shakira! ...wooohooo!!

NOT!!!! ...who are these talentless hacks?

Tori Amos is reissuing newly mastered editions of Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink in April, can hardly wait.

R17

It's like you haven't listened to one lyric of his new album. how is it "emotionally censored"? the entire album is about the death of his mother and his dealing with it. it's tragic and so personal.

r20 is right. The new Sufjan album's lyrics are painfully, almost embarrassingly personal. r17 clearly has not listened to it but thought he could score a few cred points by being dismissive.

I like the new Bjork album. Finally a good one from her.

Not the lyrics, but Sufjan is such a measured and analytically stylistic, too self aware an artist. Everything he does, the sort of complete songs, not just the lyrics are too ciphered and calculated.

He sings these beautiful heartbreaking lyrics with an emotional steady and measured vocal, it's like he is singing words from a 100 year old journal.

There is nothing spontaneous, natural or extemporaneous about his work. It's almost like a corporate Pitchfork manufactured urban hipster singer songwriter.

I get he hasn't the vocal ability to let go in terms of his voice, but sonically and emotional and the dayglo hipster hop preposterous and structure of his persona, it gives an air of insincerity and pretentious to his work.

[quote]People in the Alabama Shakes thread didn't seem to like this, but I was impressed with their performance on SNL.

I cannot wait until their new CD is out.

Roisin Murphy has a new album due out in May...I like the first single "Gone Fishin'"

PJ Harvey is suppose to release a record this year, but considering she finished recording it Feb. I doubt it will be out 'til next year. Let England Shake took a year from the date she finished recording to its release dated.

I really, really like the Florance and the Machine song, What Kind of Man, and I never cared for her previous work, thought it was too tame, but this sounds like her most non commercial indie sound yet.

How come there are so many male singers with high-pitched voices (not counting the teenyboppers)? John Grant is the only alt-pop baritone I can think of at this moment.

[23] As for Sufjan's lyrics: I like the fact that there are still artists out there, who are ambitious when it comes to writing lyrics. Do you expect all literary authors, poets, etc. to be prosaic as well?

I also don't agree with the notion that all music should be confessional or deeply personal. Sometimes storytelling or singing from someone else's perspective, is a more interesting way to tackle personal issues or ideas.

[quote]John Grant is the only alt-pop baritone I can think of at this moment.

Love him. I'm proud I started the only John Grant thread on DL. I wonder if webmistress closed it.

I'm really excited about new Roisin Murphy.

r26 It will be brilliant

Which one r30? PJ or Florance.

BTW anyone get to watch PJ recording the album at Somerset House? Near The Memorials To Vietnam And Lincoln sounds intriguing.

Kendrick Lamar's new album. He's at the top of the game.

Lamar makes West sound like Mr. Kardashian.

Could someone start a new thread please along these lines: we are almost officially halfway through the decade now. What do you think is the #1 song of the Decade thus far, one that maybe will always be associated with this time, helps define it?

I know mine. Very curious as to what others think.

Wouldn't mind a thread on what film is the Best of the Decade thus far too. Far more difficult since there are very few obvious classics like "Godfather" or "Taxi Driver".

Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection. Love it.

Courtney Barnett

For me this year will be about Years &Years, FKA Twigs , and Frank Ocean (please god!!!!)

Also interested as to how Jussie Smollett’s music career proper will play with the mainstream US public

r31 both of em!

Have any of you heard of Ben Khan? He just put out a top EP

Shakira is far from "untalented."

Can't wait for the new Florence album, the vide o for What Kind of Man is epic.

Amason

2015 for me is going to be about Years & Years, FKA Twigs, and Frank Ocean (pleeeease jesus!)

I’ll also be looking out for how Jussie Smollett’s album proper is received by the mainstream US audience -- that could be a game changer --well socioculturally, probably not artistically LOL

Kendrick Lamar's album is awesome!

So far, not a damn thing that impresses me.

Panda Bear. Here's the trippy animated video (with a possible gay subtext) for "Boys Latin":

[quote]Can't wait for the new Florence album, the vide o for What Kind of Man is epic.

Does she always sing at the top of her voice?

I would have thought this song epic when I was in high school, doing air guitar in my room.

R27, Jack Lukeman sings with a deep rich voice.

I just want some new tunes from Lauryn Hill and Janet Jackson this year. :(

It's all about Shamir right now. There, I said it.

The singer from Tame Impala has a deep voice too.

All this talk and no mention of the truly great music of this year?!

Modest Mouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW5Or7bIVJk

MNEK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fYeiGeuTFA

Marina and the Diamonds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17UL5ks9amY

Milo Greene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_cxSpZqM0A

bump

Asbjørn just released his new album here and it's fucking insane.

The Vaccines have a new song out!

New Josef Salvat!

Robert Pattinson and FKA twigs Are Engaged!

Tobias Jessor Jr. - How Could You Babe

I guess technically it was 2014, but since it will compete in this season's awards Fun Home is the best new score of 2015.

Also another older score getting an official 2015 debut is The Visit, and though not top tier K&E, it nonetheless is very strong.

The Suffers- "Gwan"

Kendrick just released the video for King Kunta:

New Lo-fi fnk

Another nod for the new Sufjan Stevens album.

Lonelady- Hinterlandbus really good. Catchy bouncy indie electro pop

This is so cute. Pitchfork reading hipster wannabes trying to outcool each other.

Rob Thomas just announced a tour to support his third solo album called The Great Unknown which will be released in the summer. Between his solo work and Matchbox 20 his songs are pretty ubiquitous on the radio.

Steven Wilson has my album of the year so far (RIYL Pink FLoyd)

New Sufjan is indeed wonderful. I think it's already my fave album of his.

Also, new Death Cab for Cutie album came out recently. It's definitely worth a listen, and it's the last one with the original lineup, before the guitarist leaves.

Isn't that a strange coincidence? R64 got his age in the reply number.

r69 chicken dippah

R 16 I like your choices.

Morgan James

r64 is not capable of conceiving that some people might like things that she is not interested in or does not understand.

Nick Hill

[quote]John Grant is the only alt-pop baritone I can think of at this moment.

Is Hozier considered alt-pop? He's a baritone for sure.

Hozier is a tenor...just like 90% of all rock stars. Not sure how you're hearing baritone.

Soko

The Decemberists and Belle and Sebastian's new CDs are lovely.

I can't wait for the Brandon Flowers CD, although he's starting to look like Aaron Schlock.

Spookyland. Gonna blow up big this year.

The new Adam Lambert song Ghost Town

The new Built to Spill and Speedy Ortiz I like.

Bop English too

Torres

Music went from exciting and innovative to dead boring in 1977.

The new Torres album is wonderful. The album is produced by PJ Harvey's producers.

I'm loving Roisin Murphy's new album "Hairless Toys."

Listen you undercut ankle-cuffed hipsters, c'est trop recherché

really like tailor swifts new song and wix kalifa is always good withe biebs

"Painted Shut" by Hop Along

Shamir's debut "Rachet" is bouncy pop fun.

Should be one of the summers fun recording.

The video is a fun early 90s hip hop throwback... Is he gay?

Wet - "Deadwater"

Been loving Unknown Mortal Orchestra and their song "Can't Keep Checking my Phone" off their Recording "Multi Love"

Are you headless R87?

Lower Dens

I can't get the new K-os out of my head, even though I'm not sure I like the song.

Nepal by USS

Their whole back catalogue is great.

I hear Janet is coming out with the album of her career and of the millinium! It's going to blow every other white female away, never to be heard from again! Janet is the only artist who should exist, all the other ones should just kill themselves! I hate any other signer who has had a better career than Janet, even though she's living in a country I've never heard of and she's the size of a house! So what if Madonna is nearly a Billionaire! She's fierce and will sell ten million albums the first week so she will go platinum! Diamond! Fuck the other bitches! Remember Rythum Nation? She was so fierce never mind that the album came out 25 years ago, it was that fierce that everyone is still talking about! DJ WrongTune in Canada even said on his blog it's the best album he's ever heard! "Eating Chicken Baskets and All You Can Eat Ribs At The State Fair" is going to sell millions of albums and sell out every state fair in the world. You'll all see!

Jamie XX his debut "In Colour" is this years Caribou

Priest

Ezra Furman

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Young Fathers

r65, I am really excited about Rob Thomas' new album. "Trust You" is the first single which came out last week - he wrote and co-produced it with Ryan Tedder from One Republic. It is so hot, as he said on Twitter, "So hot it will melt your face right off your skull!"

It's definitely different from Rob's earlier solo stuff but I really like it. This might be the song of the summer.

He's been posting videos and pics from the video shoot all week on his Twitter account.

Braids

Class Actress

Saint Motel have a new album coming out later this year. I hope it's got a few songs as strong as this one.

Ryan Bingham - Fear And Saturday Night

Will Butler - Policy

Leonard Cohen - Can't Forget: A Souvenir Of The Grand Tour

Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie

Steve Earle & The Dukes -Terraplane

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - The Travelin' Kind

Ray Wylie Hubbard - The Ruffian's Misfortune

Bettye Lavette - Worthy

Lone Bellow - Then Came The Morning

Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes

Shelby Lynne - I Can't Imagine

The Mavericks - Mono

Nellie McKay - My Weekly Reader

James McMurtry - Complicated Game

Bette Midler - It's The Girls!

Milk Carton Kids - Monterey

Van Morrison - Duets

Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ

Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind

Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds

Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues

J. D. Souther - Tenderness

Amy Speace - That Kind Of Girl

Ralph Stanley & Friends - Man Of Constant Sorrow

Pops Staples - Don't Lose This

Staves - If I Was

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

Striking Matches

Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart

Empress Of

Adam Lambert- The Original High. Album of the Year!!!

Wow, I can't believe Built to Spill actually got mentioned on Datalounge. The new album rules.

Ron Thomas lives in NYC, does he? Is he still bi?

Since when did Olly Alexander and Neil Milan get together? They're cute. How come nobody writes about them? Two successful young gay musicians dating. This should be bigger news!

Interview part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Miguel's "Wildheart" is great.

This is a huge hit currently here in Europe, and the lead singer is gay.

Luxury by Pr0files

Julia Holter

This is the cover song of the summer.

Janet Jackson owns 2015.

Her new song and video is AMAZING and blows everything else out of the water.

Thread closed.

[quote]So far, not a damn thing that impresses me

yep

Emilie Nicolas

No one is praising my album Rebel Heart?

Young Ejecta - Into Your Heart

Pure Bathing Culture - "Pray For Rain"

I'll grumble again about the shitty identical music we get in every bar in America when there's such a variety of musical preferences out there.

Elina Born - Fall With Me

This seems to be a slow burner, as it's from 2013, but I heard it on the radio only this year:

Radical Face - Chains

from the album "Family Tree: The Branches"

Tame Impala

Honeymoon. Lana Del Rey. The Album of the Year.

Monogem - "Wait and See"

Christine and the Queens ft. Perfume Genius

Cliff Airey - Anything

It's from the soundtrack of the UK gay-themed movie "Cal".

Everything Everything released a great album. So did The Vaccines, Foals and NZCA LINES.

So far, any music from the 60s and 70s beats it hands down.

"Hello" Adele, amazing

Janet Jackson's Unbreakable.

Cute