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AllMusic's Favorite Singer/Songwriter Albums (Ineligible) Ben Folds - So There Bill Fay - Who Is the Sender? Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County Primary Brandi Carlile - The Firewatcher's Daughter Craig Finn - Faith in the Future Jacqueline Abbott / Paul Heaton - Wisdom, Laughter and Lines James M...

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AllMusic's Favorite Metal Albums (Ineligible) Abigail Williams - The Accuser August Burns Red - Found in Far Away Places Battlecross - Rise to Power Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit Children of Bodom - I Worshi...

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AllMusic's Favorite R&B Albums (Ineligible) Alessia Cara - Know-It-All Andra Day - Cheers to the Fall Angie Stone - Dream Babyface - Return of the Tender Lover Bettye LaVette - Worthy Bilal - In Another Life Carmen Rodgers - Stargazer Charlie Wilson - Forever Charlie Columbia Nights - In All Th...

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Well, there it is. List completed and as predicted by mowino's amazingly prescient powers, Kendrick wins!

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1. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear 2. Tame Impala - Currents 3. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool 4. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness 5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell 6. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit 7. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier 8. Beac...

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It's a mystery no one could possibly deduce. So be here tomorrow morning for the thrilling conclusion to our finale!..

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AllMusic's Favorite Box Sets (Ineligible) Billy Cobham - The Atlantic Years, 1973-1978 Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: [Deluxe Edition] Bridget St. John - Dandelion Albums & BBC Recordings Collection Bruce Springsteen - The Ties That Bind: The River Collecti...

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Loving the new Algiers album too. It's comfortably snug in on my top ten for the year. Here's hoping that they'll improve on that with a top five with their next album.

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Nassim wrote:Utterly baffled that Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress only has one mention in the spreadsheet so far, thought it would be top 20 or 30 of the year...

I'm not. The impression I get from many fans is that while it's by no means a bad record, it's their least liked record from GY!BE yet.

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AllMusic's Favorite Indie Pop and Indie Rock Albums (Ineligible) Algiers - Algiers Battles - La Di Da Di Beach House - Depression Cherry Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars Blank Realm - Illegals in Heaven Cairo Gang - Goes Missing Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home...

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AllMusic's Favorite Jazz Albums (Ineligible) Aaron Diehl - Space Time Continuum Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra / Arturo O'Farrill - Cuba: The Conversation Continues Andrew Bishop / Bishop/Cleaver/Flood - De Profundis Ben Goldberg - Orphic Machine Ben Williams - Coming of Age Charles Lloyd - Wild Man Dan...

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Sweet list. Have enjoyed listening to many of those but there are still a few to hear before posting our own EoY lists.

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Well now we know, if one of those five is gonna miss out it ain't gonna be Björk.

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AllMusic's Favorite Latin and World Albums (Ineligible) Alejandro Sanz - Sirope Ben Goldberg - Orphic Machine Benjamin Biolay / Nicolas Fiszman - Trenet Carla Morrison - Amor Supremo Dengue Fever - The Deepest Lake Dexter Story - Wondem Don Omar - The Last Don, Vol. 2 Fabrizio Cassol / Serge Kakudj...

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Treble's Top 50 Albums of 2015 50. Four Tet – Morning/Evening 49. Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside 48. Holly Herndon – Platform 47. Kelela – Hallucinogen EP 46. KEN Mode – Success 45. Beach Slang – The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us 44. Future – Dirty Sprite 43....

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AllMusic's Favoutite Folk Albums (Ineligible) Alasdair Roberts - Alasdair Roberts Black Twig Pickers / Steve Gunn - Seasonal Hire Darrell Scott - Ten: Songs of Ben Bullington Darren Hayman - Chants for Socialists Edie Brickell / Steve Martin - So Familiar Glen Hansard - Didn't He Ramble Jake Xerxes...

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AllMusic's Favoutite Electronic Albums (Ineligible) AFX / Aphex Twin - Orphaned Deejay Selek: 2006-2008 André Bratten - Gode Arca - Mutant Benoît Pioulard - Sonnet Björk - Vulnicura Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh Bob Moses - Days Gone By Carter Tutti Void - f(x) CFCF - The Colours of Life Coil - Backward...

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Well as a British outlet I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Blur or Gwenno was in the running, to upset the order of things. But yeah, those five are most likely of candidates. Wanna take bets as to which order they'll be in instead?..

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AllMusic's Favoutite Rap and Hip-Hop Albums (Ineligible) A$AP Rocky - At. Long. Last. A$AP Action Bronson - Mr. Wonderful Apollo Brown - Grandeur Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise Blu / Madlib / MED - Bad Neighbor Boosie Badazz - Touch Down 2 Cause Hell Dizzy Wright - The Growing Process Earl Sweatshirt...

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AllMusic 2015 Year In Review AllMusic Best of 2015 Alejandro Sanz - Sirope Ashley Monroe - The Blade Bilal - In Another Life Björk - Vulnicura Carly Rae Jepsen - E-MO-TION Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home Colleen - Captain of None Container - LP [2015] Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, A...

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As with the songs, it seems their writers have specified an album of the year: Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness One album stood our beyond all others though. Julia Holter made 2015's most unexpectedly perfect record. It's a record that - more than any other this year - demonstrates the unsha...

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Treble's Top 50 Songs of 2015 50. Holly Herndon – “Interference” 49. Kurt Vile - “Pretty Pimpin” 48. Father John Misty – “The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment” 47. The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – “January 10th, 2014” 46. Kamasi Washington - “Re Run Home” ...

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I got completely the opposite impression antonius. Seems like Jirin is saying that he believes it would be in the top 50 (because of it's great qualities) if it had been elligible for the charts but it isn't because of its format. I think it's a great EP too but to fall back on semantics here, this ...

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As with the two lists above, the list below is ineligible as Treble always posts a complete list non-genre list at the end of the month. It's good to get it on record. This list has also been ranked by a single writer. So I'm not sure if this is meant to represent Treble's hip-hop list for the year,...

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Hey Jirin, could you put a quick link to the latest mega-critic albums of 2015 thread in the OP for convienience? I'll nominate Blackheart by Dawn Richard ...If not I nominate Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show Great to see members here appreciating R&B/soul releases, outside of the usual big names...

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This is interesting since Julia Holter is an American artist, but sort of makes sense in that UK outlets typically like more experimental stuff like Holter. I wonder if she can get some more #1 rankings from some of the left field publications like The Wire, which she won in 2013. Perhaps that will...

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And they chose 'Smother' over 'Two Dancers'! An unusual choice I can stand by.

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The Guardian - The best albums of 2015 40. Benjamin Clementine - At Least for Now 39. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls 38. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure 37. Janet Jackson - Unbreakable 36. Vince Staples - Summertime '06 35. Dr. Dre - Compton 34. FFS - FFS 33. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own ...

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Anyone noticing any patterns or disparities amongst the list? As one on my favourite albums of the year, I'm ecstatic that ' Have you in My Wilderness ' is doing so well with UK critics but unfortunatley it is close to nowhere-to-be-seen with many US outlets so far. I'm also (happily) surprised to s...

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While it's been an enjoyable time on other fronts, 2015 hasn't exactly set my musical world alight when it has come to electronic albums. So happy that 'Elaenia' and 'Garden of Delete' were released recently.

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Son Volt | Trace Upgraded to 5 stars on Allmusic.

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Honorio wrote:Again the AM lists are much better than any other list. These are the Top 25 best Rock bands right now according to AM:
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Have to agree with you Honorio. Nice work.

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AMG making a minor adjustment to Janet Jackson's discography due to her new release:

Janet Jackson | janet. upgraded from 3 stars to 4 stars on Allmusic.

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More WTF re-ratings from Allmusic:

Richard Hawley | Coles Corner downgraded from 4.5 stars to 4 stars
Richard Hawley | Lady's Bridge downgraded from 4.5 stars to 4 stars

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Nice, little setup so far. Will keep checking up on its progress. AM is becoming quite a well-known site. I see its name pop-up on various music forums every so often.

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Ugh, what the heck AllMusic!?!...: Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong with Love = Downgraded from 4.5 stars to 4.0 stars on AllMusic Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret = Downgraded from 4.5 stars to 4.0 stars on AllMusic Built to Spill - You in Reverse = Downgraded from 4.5 stars to 4.0 star...

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Jan's right - though I thought it had been reported a while ago I can't find any previous post. Here's the link:

Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night

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Wolfmother - Wolfmother = Upgraded from 3.0 stars to 3.5 stars on AllMusic

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Madonna - Ray of Light = Upgraded from 4.0 stars to 4.5 stars on AllMusic

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If you're a fan of Björk's work, regardless whether that's only her pre-Medúlla output or everything since Debut, I'd say it's easily worth picking up. If you're not already a fan, you can check out her other releases online for f r e e first.

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To me everything else Beck has done since Sea Change has felt like Odelay-lite. I suppose you could say Morning Phase is Sea Change-lite, but I like Sea Change better than Odelay. It's funny that since Sea Change many of Beck's listeners seems to have divided into two camps - his poppy eccentric hi...

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Setherex wrote:
Matski wrote:Really want to hear this but I'm having problems accessing Spotify at the moment. Is there any other place I can still stream it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57yHnFN ... Ag3KKEGADS

Cheers Setherex. Will listen to it throughout the week.

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The War on Drugs joins these other artists in "Winners of the AM EOY Poll"... Hmm, if I was going to rank them... LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (Love all three of the LCD albums but this pinches 1st place) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion Sufjan Stevens - Illinois PJ Har...

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Really want to hear this but I'm having problems accessing Spotify at the moment. Is there any other place I can still stream it?

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01 The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream Thanks for all the amazing work you've put into this Dan. It was a very unusual way of rolling the list out in parts; one that gave us all a chance to discuss the lower-placed less-renowned choices, while also building up tension going into the top five. As f...

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Kanye also said afterwards that "Beck needs to respect artistry and give his award to Beyonce". He was right that maybe Beyonce would have deserved the award this year, but it came off like as if Beck wasn't a real artist. It's a shame if Kanye did say that afterwards. Seeing the best alb...

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Not a bad introduction to Sleater-Kinney. If you're curious to listen to them some more you should defintely check out ' Dig Me Out ', which was my fantastic introduction to the band. A lot of people may understandably tell you to check out ' The Woods ' too. After that, it's up to you as they're qu...

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Top work Harold. Really looking forward to spending today pouring over this spreadsheet.

And Romain - completely agree with your sentiments on Black Messiah. Hopefully this is just the start and that there will be many half-decade lists published this year that will help propel it further upwards.

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Looking forward to listening to 'Tetsuo & Youth' , as well as 'B4.DA.$$' . Exciting start to the year for hip hop. I think Belle & Sebastian's is on the same level as Life Pursuit. I haven't heard negative consensus about it though, last I checked it had an 82 on MC. ... Edit: B&S is dow...

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