This year I listened to a ton of music and a lot of it was new releases. Here’s the list of everything that includes. The releases in bold are ones that made my Best of 2015 list, which you can read here if you’re so inclined.
Albums
The Districts – A Flourish and A Spoil
Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
Daisyhead – The Smallest Light
The Maine – American Candy
Madonna – Rebel Heart
The Weaks – Bad Year
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
Make Do and Mend – Don’t Be Long
Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Lieutenant – If I Kill This Thing We’re All Going To Eat For a Week
Torche – Restarter
Mark Ronson – Uptown Special
Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
All Time Low – Future Hearts
Mat Kearney – JUST KIDS
Fall Out Boy – American Beauty/American Psycho
The Decemberists – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love
Title Fight – Hyperview
Stick To Your Guns – Disobedient
Imagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors
Kelly Clarkson – Piece by Piece
Purity Ring – Another Eternity
Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves
Darius Rucker – Southern Style
Lord Huron – Strange Tails
Ludacris – Ludaversal
Matt and Kim – New Glow
The Damnwells – S/T
Reba McEntire – Love Somebody
Wire – S/T
The Wombats – Glitterbug
Dance Gavin Dance – Instant Gratification
Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
Built To Spill – Untethered Moon
Dustin Kensrue – Carry the Fire
Tom Delonge – To the Stars… Demos, Odds and Ends
Rocky Votolato – Hospital Handshakes
Tyler Farr – Suffer In Peace
Zac Brown Band – Jekyll + Hyde
Mumford and Sons – Wilder Mind
The Early November – Imbue
Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect
Billy Currington – Summer Forever
Hidden Hospitals – Surface Tension
Twentyonepilots – Blurryface
The Story So Far – S/T
Tanlines – Highlights
Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man
The Vaccines – English Graffiti
Best Coast – California Nights
The Tallest Man On Earth – Dark Bird Is Home
Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms
Anti Flag – American Spring
Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Muse – Drones
Sorority Noise – Joy, Departed
Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material
Leon Bridges – Coming Home
Man Overboard – Heavy Love
Third Eye Blind – Dopamine
Tori Kelly – Unbreakable Smile
Hilary Duff – Breathe In. Breathe Out.
Nate Ruess – Grand Romantic
Easton Corbin – About To Get Real
Pet Symmetry – Pets Hounds
The Money Pit – The Money Pit
Brett Eldridge – Illinois
The Wonder Years – No Closer To Heaven
Better Off – Milk
Beach House – Depression Cherry
Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion
Noah Gundersen – Carry The Ghost
The Obsessives – Heck No, Nancy
The Painted Hands – Rapscallions
The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness
Public Enemy – Man Plans God Laughs
MS MR – How Does It Feel
Tame Impala – Currents
Ashley Monroe – The Blade
Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Knuckle Puck – Copacetic
Dr. Dre – Compton
Frank Turner – Positive Songs For Negative People
Luke Bryan – Kill The Lights
New Politics – Viking
Miguel – Wildheart
Senses Fail – Pull the Thorns from Your Heart
FKA Twigs – MeLL155X
Mac Demarco – Another One
Kip Moore – Wild Ones
Foals – What Went Down
Funeral Advantage – Body Is Dead
Motion City Soundtrack – Panic Stations
The Front Bottoms – Back On Top
Thomas Rhett – Tangled Up
Jana Kramer – Thirty One
Carrie Underwood – Storyteller
Adele – 25
Laura Stevenson – Cocksure
Pentimento – I, No Longer
Punchline – Thrilled
EPs
All Get Out – Movement
Head North – Bloodlines
Owel – Every Good Boy
1st Vows – 1st Vows
You, Me, And Everyone We Know – Dogged
Have Mercy/Somos – Split
Man Overboard/Senses Fail – Split
Kelley Plante – Ooh La La
Dryjacket – Lights, Locks, & Faucets
Hidden In Plain View – Animal
Sundressed – Dig Up A Miracle
Fossil Youth – Intertwined With You
Anthony Raneri – Sorry State of Mind
Marco With Love – Tidal Wave
Run Forever – Big Vacation
Dead Leaves – S/T
Koji – Fury
Safety – Congratulate Me I’ve Lost My Mind
Farnsworth – Farnsworth
Steady Hands – Tropical Depression
Whale Bones – The Seaside
Devinyl Splits 1-4
Mighty – bye, have nice!
Sundressed – The Same Condition
Bonfires – The Way This Ends
Modern Baseball – The Perfect Cast