2015 In Review: Music

I bought 220 new songs this year (way more than last year) including 4 albums, Every Open Eye/Chvrches, Beneath the Skin/Of Monsters and Men, Song Spells #1/Sea Wolf, Art Angels/Grimes

2015 songs on heavy rotation (* indicates top 5)

*Flesh Without Blood - Grimes 

*Leave a Trace - Chvrches 

*Happy - Marina and the Diamonds
*True Confessions - Blondfire
*Breaker - Deerhunter

The Shade - Metric

Lightning Strike - A Silent Film

Grey Days - Chelsea Wolfe

1998 - Chet Faker feat. Banks

Trip Switch - Nothing but Thieves

I of the Storm - Of Monsters and Men

Body Talk - Foxes

Hiding - Florence and the Machine

High - Zella Day

Step Brother City - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Strange Hellos - TORRES

Greek Tragedy - The Wombats

Little Wanderer - Death Cab for Cutie

Begin Again - Purity Ring

The Labyrinth Song - Asaf Avidan

White Lies - Milo Greene

A Beginning Song - The Decemberists 

My Least Favorite Life - Lera Lynn

Empty Gold - Halsey

Blame it on Me - George Ezra
Anything - TOPS
Too Late to Say Goodbye - Cage the Elephant
Water Slides - Mew
Molecules - Atlas Genius
I Feel It - Avid Dancer

Favorite finds from previous years (* indicates top 5)

*Algiers - The Afghan Whigs (2014)

Cecilia and the Satellite - Andrew McMahon (2014)

*Black Soap - Ex Cops (2014)
Go - Grimes (2014)

*Lover - In the Valley Below (2014)

Black Mambo - Glass Animals (2014)

* Lover, Where Do You Live? - Highasakite (2014)

Zigzagging Toward the Light - Conor Oberst (2014)

Lust and Lies - The Ramona Flowers (2013)

*Teen Idle - Marina and the Diamonds (2012)
Sun - Two Door Cinema Club (2012)
Hold On - Alabama Shakes (2012)

My Secret Friend - IAMX (2010)
Christmas Won't Be the Same Without You - Plain White Ts (2009)

I Don't Believe You - The Magnetic Fields (2004)
August - Rilo Kiley (2001)

Live Music in 2015

+ Alt J with Wolf Alice (Feb 7) in Offenbach, Germany

+ Rachael Yamagata (Feb 20) in Frankfurt, Germany

+ Sea Wolf (May 21) in Frankfurt, Germany

+ Of Monsters and Men with Highasakite (July 1) in Frankfurt, Germany

+ Death Cab for Cutie with Twin Shadow (Sept 19) in Columbus, Ohio

+ Landmark Festival in DC (Sept 27) with Chvrches, George Ezra, TV on the Radio, Lord Huron, Houndmouth, In the Valley Below

+ Deerhunter (December 17) in Columbus, Ohio


I'd love to hear about your favorite music of the year - share with me!!