Another quarter, another list of phenomenal records. Truth be told, I didn’t think the back half of 2015 could hold a candle to the first half. I was wrong. These past three months have introduced a number of remarkable records into the my year-end best-of list. None have impressed me quite like Deafheaven’s New Bermuda, a scathing slab of black metal counterbalanced by gorgeous post-rock tones. It’ll be hard to top, but with three months to go anything can happen.
- Deafheaven, New Bermuda
- Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
- Hiatus Kaiyote, Choose Your Weapon
- Dungen, Allas Sak
- Failure, The Heart is a Monster
- The Tallest Man on Earth, Dark Bird is Home
- Emancipator, Seven Seas
- Anekdoten, Until All the Ghosts are Gone
- Chelsea Wolfe, Abyss
- Bjork, Vulnicura