BMC's 2015 End of the Year list - all styles, new recordings only

That time of the year again, lists! Always enjoy looking back on the year and see what I enjoyed most (focussing on new releases, not reissues). It's usually a reggae list with an additional few non-reggae albums. 2015 showed a major change in that: bought much more new non-reggae than reggae. So the list is an 'overall' list, with a few reggae titles in it. Only albums I actually bought on CD or LP are included. The picture shows my top 10 albums for the year 2015, the list goes further to 20 and 30. :-)

BMC's 2015 End of the Year list – top 20 (all styles – new recordings only, format I bought the album on in brackets)

Top 20:

1. Leon Bridges - Coming Home (LP)

2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (CD)

3. Saun & Starr - Look Closer (LP)

4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (LP)

5. Lianne La Havas - Blood (CD)

6. Son Little - Son Little (LP)

7. Pauw - Macrocosm Microcosm (LP)

8. Jr. Thomas & The Volcanos - Beware (LP)

9. Kamasi Washington - The Epic (3-CD)

10. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2-LP)

11. Micah Shemaiah - Original Dread (LP)

12. Adele - 25 (LP)

13. Pokey LaFarge - Something In The Water (LP)

14. Protoje - Ancient Future (2-LP)

15. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (LP)

16. Joss Stone - Water For Your Soul (2-LP)

17. BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul (LP)

18. Martin Courtney – Many Moons (LP)

19. Vintage Trouble - 1 Hopeful Rd. (LP)

20. Selah Sue - Reason (2-LP)

Bubbling under:

A$ap Rocky - At.Long.Last.A$ap (CD)

D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah (CD)

Noel Ellis meets Lone Ark - Zion (LP)

Bohicas, The - The Making Of (LP + 7")

Morgan Heritage - Strictly Roots (CD)

Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color (CD)

My Baby - Shamanaid (LP)

Vince Staples - Summertime '06 (Deluxe Edition) (2-CD)

Jah Cure - The Cure (LP)

Nneka - My Fairy Tales (LP)

Overall plenty of nice new music that I'll keep enjoying in 2016 and beyond. :-)

Happy new year all.

BMC