1st Quarter Of 2015 in Music - Wrap Up

2015 is the first year I’m actually actively following new releases in music (in past years I’ve just checked things when I so happened to find them, not keeping track of when they get released, really). This is a list of albums I’ve listened to that’ve been released in the first three months of 2015, my current Top 10 of 2015, and albums I’m looking forward to in the second quarter.

Releases I’ve Listened To In The 1st Quarter

  • An Autumn For Crippled Children - The Long Goodbye: 7/10
  • Against The Current - Gravity: coming soon
  • A Place To Bury Strangers - Transfixiation: 7/10
  • Björk - Vulnicura: 7/10
  • Darlia - Petals: 8.5/10
  • The Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World: 6/10
  • EarlyRise - Colors: 5/10
  • Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep: 5/10
  • Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho: 8.5/10
  • Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear: 7.5/10
  • Imagine Dragons - Smoke & Mirrors: 7/10
  • Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$: 9/10
  • Julien-K - California Noir, Chapter I: Analog Beaches & Digital Cities: 3/10
  • Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly: 7/10
  • Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire: 8/10
  • Liturgy - The Ark Work: 7.5/10
  • Papa Roach - F.E.A.R.: 6/10
  • Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha: 8/10
  • Periphery - Juggernaut: Omega: 6/10
  • Purity Ring - Another Eternity: 8/10
  • Rae Morris - Unguarded: 7/10
  • Three Days Grace - Human: 3/10
  • Years & Years - Y & Y EP: 9/10
  • Zs - Xe: 9/10

Top 10 Albums of 2015:

  1. Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho
  2. Zs - Xe
  3. Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$
  4. Imagine Dragons - Smoke & Mirrors
  5. Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha
  6. Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
  7. Purity Ring - Another Eternity
  8. nothing else really
  9. deserves a place
  10. on my list yet :(

Upcoming Releases I’m Looking Forward To in the 2nd Quarter (in order of hype):

  • Muse - Drones
  • 10 Years - From Birth To Burial
  • Incubus - Trust Fall (Side A)
  • Halestorm - Into The Wild Life
  • Portico - Living Fields
  • Years & Years - Communion
  • Breaking Benjamin - Dawn Before Dawn
  • Stone Sour - Meanwhile In Burbank
  • Zac Brown Band - Jekyll + Hyde