Hi Guys and Welcome to my blog! In this particular segment I will be discussing the albums from 2015 that I have personally selected to be my favourite. I might be calling these my favourite but it does not necessarily mean that they are the best, it is just my view. I think that 2015 has been quite a sad year for music as there has not been many good albums that have come out, a lot of great bands and acts are just hiding in the shadows while writing future hits or are just relaxing. Although there have been some albums that have come out from quite popular acts and what they have done have let people down with their terrible music, making me feel a bit ill. I shall not name any names *cough* Kodaline *cough* but let it been known that follow up albums are always anticipated too highly and when they turn out to be terrible, the pain is all the more painful. Anyway let's get on with the list.
5. Circa Waves: Young Chasers- This is an album which has some good points but has some bad points too. I'll start with the bad points, the album can feel like it is repeating itself a lot in the shape and format of the songs that it has. It also has the feeling that it copies of other bands in how the music and tries to hard to be exactly like other bands but I just want it really to break that boundary and show me something new. However the copying or sounding like other bands is also a good thing as well as a bad one because it reminds me of a lot of bands that have come and gone in the last few years (not really gone but temporally absent). It reminds me of a few bands like Two Door Cinema Club and a little of The Pigeon Detectives but more than anything it reminds me of the band The View, in just the how youthful the lead singer, Kieran Shudall, sounds. I do really like the songs 'Get Away' and the one known as 'T-Shirt Weather' both are great songs and yes they might be the most popular but how else would I have started listening to them, generally and literally since they are the first two songs of the album. This album although there are faults is a really good album and I have enjoyed listening to it and say that if you want to, to listen to it.
4. Foals: What Went Down- What can I say about this album other than, it is very Foals-ish. I mean that in the sense of when I listen to it, it just reminds me of the other Foals' albums if not this one being a bit more aggressive than the other ones and very more heavy on the rocky side. It does have that Queens of the Stone Age feel to it when listening to it especially with the song 'Snake Oil', which I take as a good thing as I do enjoy the songs by QotSA. I do not think though that this is the best album that they have ever done, and I'm not quite sure if it's the worse one yet but however I do like the album so obviously that means something good. Right? I mean 'Holy Fire' was a big album to live up to as it was amazing but it got a lot of people starting to notice Foals due 'My Number' and it's not like this album is 'Total Life Forever' containing 'Spanish Sahara' or the album 'Antidotes' involving 'Olympic Airways'. But it is still a good album nonetheless and has some really good tunes like 'Night Swimmers' and the one most popular at the moment 'What Went Down' which shares the name with the album. Some of the songs are absolute belters and are good to sit and relax to, letting the day just pass. I really liked this album and I hope that you do too if you listen to it. I completely recommend it and I would put it on a list as a must listen to.
3. James Bay: Chaos & The Calm- Everyone knows James Bay for his great hit 'Hold Back the River', it is a great song and it is one that I cannot stop listening to or even stop replaying it in my head. However the rest of his album is just as good if not even better. It is a beautiful album which talks about so much to people and it has amazing tunes and words. You can tell there is a real sense of love in this album but not just that, it is a tale of travel and the unknown. Even his most famous song is about traveling back home so he can see his family, because that's all he wants or wanted to do as he was away for a while. Like I said there are many different great songs, like 'Let It Go', no it's not a cover of the Disney song if that thought ever crossed your mind. But it's another great song that just talks of so much love but yet there is the sense of, if not hate then resentment to the people or person he loves. Even the album kicks off with a belter of a song 'Craving' which is just something, at least for me, had me tapping my toes and getting along to the beat of the albums. There are some songs that can seem to be boring or depressing, but I say to you now that you should endure through it and I promise that you will love the album. I hope that his follow up album will not be a let down as many others have before this year from other acts.
2. Years & Years: Communion- This is another act which is probably known for its hit 'King' that came out and probably was the hit for everyone's Summer. But I genuinely think this band is absolutely brilliant, of course I do why else would I put this album second? Anyway they have a whole album full (imagine that) of great songs and I think that they should get as much praise as 'King' did. I do think that it is the unique voice of the lead singer Olly Alexander, he has a quite powerful voice which is something that just goes so well with this type of music. Think about it like this, when Calvin Harris or Sigma or any famous DJ's have collaborations with people with great voices like Ellie Goulding or Ella Henderson they make songs that are amazing and stick with people. Now this band are like this, DJ's that have collaborated with a great singer, but they have made an actual band and album out of it. They are just non-stop hits, like 'Shine' for example which is just another great song, which I think might be favourite from them or even 'Ties'. Both just have that right combination of great vocal and a great beat behind it without being too full of itself to make a great song. But this album does not just have dance songs like the well know hits, it has some heartfelt ones too and when you listen to the songs properly you realise that they have a deeper meaning to them and tell a story. This is a truly a great album and I highly recommend it to anyone to listen to it immediately if they haven't already. I mean it! Now! Go on then!
1. The Wombats: Glitterbug- Yes! It's true I absolutely love this album and this band! And if that's not obvious to you yet then I have no idea how, I mean I did a post not that long ago expressing my love for this new album and I even stated my five favourite songs from it. Which, by the way, you can check on this blog (just a little hint there). I have always been a fan of this band and never have I seen them fail with follow up albums, it just as usual with The Wombats. There are just some songs that are god like with what they say and the meaning behind them. It annoys me that they are not appreciated more by people or even rated much on the Top 40 Charts. I think that every song in this album is just a thing of pure genius and I know it seems like I am, but I cannot express just how great I think it is. The songs like 'Greek Tragedy' for example is just something that gets me so excited and beating along to every drum beat and has me air guitaring whilst lip syncing. There are so many great songs that come out of this and there are those that I love more than others and you can see which ones they are on my previous post about the album. I mean the list will literally go on and on if I could, like 'Be Your Shadow' and 'Give Me A Try' but my favourite of all of them has to be 'Curveballs' which just in my eyes beats all the others hands down. It talks of love, deceipt, grief and cheating which is pretty much like the whole album and the ones previous. This just goes to show that Matthew Murphy the lead has gone through some crap and we should feel so sorry for him but yet love him at the same time just because he has made some great music with it. This is my favourite album of the year hands down it is better in my eyes than all of the others, it just has better tunes and none truer words spoken. Seriously if you've not listened to this album, why!? You should right now!? I am serious, stop whatever it is that you are doing, I don't care how important it is, just go and listen to this album! Then you can come back read my blogs again and then we can relate! It is by far amazingly tremendous at being incredibly awesome! That's how serious I am! Get listening to it now, even if you've already listened to it. Listen to it over and over. I hope you're listening to it, I know I am!
These are what I genuinely think have been some of the better albums of this year. I know people might not agree with me or say that some of the albums are not that great, well if that's true it just shows how terrible 2015 has been for music. But that's what we have to show for it, it has given us some really good bits of music and some truly terrible ones. I hope that you have enjoyed this latest blog. Thanks for reading, bye!
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