2015 is almost at a close and it was a hefty year for video games and music alike, but before I write my piece on the best albums of this year, I would briefly like to talk about some of the best music I've listened to this year. 2014 I had primarily listened to rap and hip-hop instrumentals, but this year my findings were a lot more diverse. Going from the likes of Ghostface Killah's 12 Reasons to Die II to Wiz's french rock, and the classical sounds of Distant Worlds III the palette was quite diverse. Oddisee and Akua Naru's Fly were the ones most often playing in my ear as well as ChocQuibTown's Salsa & Choque. While going back to review my list I came to re-appreciate some of albums I had listened to briefly since release. Though I felt that Hip-Hop this year was somewhat disappointing, overall the medium was great this year. Below I have posted a playlist of 32 of my favorite tracks from this year along with a list of every album in consideration for this year. Some great stuff are missing, but I omitted some for the sake of variety. I hope you enjoy.
Tracklist
1. Andra Day - Forever Mine - Cheers to the Fall
2. Kali Uchis - Call Me - Por Vida
3. Aaradhna - Burn You Down
4. Inspectah Deck and 7l & esoteric - Czartacus - Czarface II: Every Hero Needs a Villain
5. Stereo Nasty - Interstellar - Nasty By Nature
6. Oddisee - First Choice - The Good Fight
7. Kendrick Lamar - How Much a Dollar Cost? ft. Ronald Isley - To Pimp a Butterfly
8. Vanilla - Dreamcatcher - Origin
9. Andreya Triana - That's Alright With Me
10. Zion I - Trippin' - The Rapture: Live from Oaklandia
11. Beach Baby - Ladybird - Ladbybird
12. Joseph Jacobs - City of Nostalgia (Ecruteak City Remix)
13. ChocQuibTown - Una Raza Llamada Sabor - El Mismo
14. Christian Scott - TWIN - Stretch Music
15. Erykah Badu - Cel U Lar Device - But You Caint Use My Phone
16. Cookin Soul - Them Gangstaz (Eazy-E Remix) - Them Gangstaz
17. Grace - The Honey - Memo
18. Lianne La Havas - Unstoppable - Blood
19. Mickey Guyton - Better Than My Last
20. Nneka - My Love, My Love - My Fairy Tales
21. Noveliss - One Time - A3C Festival
22. Pete Rock - Heaven & Earth - Petestrumentals 2
23. DJ EFN - Paradise (feat. Talib Kweli,Wrekonize, & Redman) - Another Time
24. Destiny aka Princess Nokia - Orange Blossom - Honeysuckle
25. Sheisty Khrist x Lo Fidel - Havanna Nights f. Natti - Cold Winter
26. Snakehips - Forever Pt. II ft. Kaleem Taylor - Forever Pt. II
27. Timecop1983 - Tonight (Instrumental) - Reflections
28. Yung Bae - Distant Love - Japanese Disco Edits
29. Alice Smith - I've Put a Spell on You - Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone
30. Small Professor - Wish cops would stop killing unarmed black people - Mixed Jawns III
31. Akua Naru - Fly ft. Ben L'Oncle Soul - The Miner's Canary
32. Arnie Roth & Nobuo Uematsu - Not Alone - Distant Worlds III
Albums Reviewed for the Year
20syl - Motifs II
Action Bronson - Actin' Crazy
Akua Naru - The Miner's Canary
Andra Day - Cheers to the Fall
Andreya Triana - Giants
Arnie Roth & Nobuo Uematsu - Distant Worlds III: More Music from Final Fantasy
Bambu - 5AM in Manila
Bambu -The Comrade's Sessions
Beach Baby - Ladybird / Bruiser
Brock Berrigan - Chapter 10
Camille Safiya - 24K
Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin
Chinese Man - Sho-Bro
ChocQuibTown - El Mismo
Christian Scott - Stretch Music
D.R.A.M. - #1 Epic
Daymé Arocena - Nueva Era
Deacon The Villain - Peace or Power
Dead End Hip Hop x Salem Psalms - The Joint
DJ EFN - Another Time
Dragontime - Dragontime
DUCID - VISTANT
Dutch Rebelle - Kiss Kiss
Erykah Badu - But You Caint Use My Phone
Esbe - Bloomsday
FKA Twigs - M3LL155X
Gavlyn - Breakup to Make Up
Ghostface Killah - 12 Reasons to Die II
Goblin Rebirth - Goblin Rebirth
Grace - Memo
Handbook - Botanicals
I Am Kawehi - Evolution
Ibeyi - Ibeyi
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Jean Grae - iSweatergawd
Jean Grae - Saix
Jedi Mind Tricks - The Thief and the Fallen
Jill Scott - Woman
Jojo Abot - Fyfa Wota
Kali Uchis - Por Vida
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kirby's Dream Band - Pink Sells
Knxwledge. - H.S.PRT9_
Knxwledge. - Hexual Sealings Pt.8
Knxwledge. - Hud Dreems
Lianne La Havas - Blood
Linn Mori - invisible vision
L'Orange & Kool Keith - Time? Astonishing!
London Symphony & Katharina Treutler - Final Symphony
Mavis Staples - Your Good Fortune
Mega Ran and Storyville - Soul Veggies
Method Man - The Purple Tape
Moderator - The World Within
Mura Masa - Someday Somewhere
Nacho Picasso - Stoned & Dethroned
Narcy (The Narcicyst) - World War Free Now!
Nneka - My Fairy Tales
Noveliss - Toonami Tsunamis
Oddisee - The Good Fight
Onra - Fundamentals
OverClocked ReMix - Final Fantasy IX: Worlds Apart
Papa J. Ruiz - HR - 1955
Pete Rock - Petestrumentals 2
Pharoahe Monch - Lost in Translation
Pineapple - Pineapple
Poetic Death (VON POE VII) - The Purity of Love and War
Pumpkin & Vin'S da Cuero - PEINTURE FRAICHE
Rapper Big Pooh - Words Paint Pictures
RED PILL - Look What This World Did To Us
Rock + Roz (Rocky Rivera & DJ Roz) - Rock & Roz Present: Rose Gold (Hosted by Irie Eyez)
Sadistik x Kno - Phantom Limbs
Sahtyre - LSD
Sa-Roc - Extra Terrestial
Sa-Roc - The Legend of Black Moses
Sean C. Johnson - Circa 1993
Shayna Steele - Rise
Sheisty Khrist x LoFidel - Cold Winter
Sheisty Khrist x LoFidel x Dr. Dundiff - Cold Winter Remixes and Instrumentals
SkyBlew - Jazz For Autumn Kismet
Slime Girls - YUMEMI/LONELY PLANET GIRL
Slum Village - Yes!
Small Professor - Mixed Jawns III
Small Professor - Tiny Jawns
Snakehips - Forever Pt. II
Soulchef - Good Vibes
Stereo Nasty - Nasty By Nature
Sugarz - Natural High
Tairrie B -Vintage Curses
Timecop1983 - Natural High
Undogmatic - The Philosophy Of Nature
Vanilla - Origin
Various - Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone
Various - WIZZZ! french psychorama Vol. 3
Various - A3C Festival Volume 5
Various - Tummy Touch: Best Of 2014
Via Tania - Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra
Yung Bae - Japanese Disco Edits
Zion I - The Rapture: Live from Oaklandia
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