top 15 records of 2015

i barely even wanted to make the list this year, so it took a while to get around to posting it.
this is the version without all the ridiculous notes. enjoy every single one of these.

1. sun blood stories - twilight midnight morning (obsolete media objects)
2. toy zoo - toy zoo (heart in a box records)
3. crosss - lo (telephone explosion records)
4. marshall poole - totems (defendu records)
5. cherubs - 2 ynfynyty (brutal panda records)
6. thee oh sees - mutilator, defeated at last (castle face records)
7. viet cong - viet cong (jagjaguwar)
8. ex's with benefits - bad hotel (stone boat records)
9. and and and - the failure (party damage records)
10. courtney barnett - sometimes i sit and think, sometimes i just sit (milk!/mom + pop music)
11. we are hex - bleach brigade (hexhaus/war crime records)
12. built to spill - untethered moon (warner bros)
13. catskills - catskills (la grande music)
14. round eye - round eye (ripping records)
15. legendary shack shakers - southern surreal (alternative tentacles)

other really irresistable ones...
red hands black feet - we must fall forever if we survive (self-released)
strange wilds - subjective concepts (sub pop)
protomartyr - the agent intellect (hardly art)
hillfolk noir - pop songs for elk (self-released)
echo sparks - ghost town girl (self-released)
a place to bury strangers - transfixiation (dead oceans)
high on fire - luminiferous (e1 music)
lord dying - poisoned altars (relapse records)
pop group - citizen zombie (freaks r us)
mutoid man - bleeder (sargeant house)
the great depression - in a starry state (princess records)
neu human - how to stop time (self-released)
jason rubenstein - new metal from old boxes (tonecluster music)
deathwish - out for blood (beer city)
lightning bolt - fantasy empire (thrill jockey)
ancient psychic - dream, punk (self-released)
yonatan gat - director (joyful noise recordings)
max pain & the groovies - electro cosmic (psych lake city records)
zulus - zulus II (aagoo)
brett netson & snakes - scavenger cult e.p. (self-released)
old death whisper - go down fightin' e.p. (self-released)
in the whale - full nelson e.p.
ex-cult - cigarette machine e.p. (lollipop/castle face)
marshall poole - grade aa rock n roll (self-released)
drinks - hermits on holiday (birth records/heavenly recordings)
screaming females - rose mountain (don giovanni records)
raven & the writing desk - some get started e.p. (self-released)
metz - metz II (sub pop)
damaged bug - cold hot plumbs (castle face)
moon duo - shadow of the sun (sacred bones)
red martian - ghost into the fog (bughlt records)
yesterday's saints - generation of vipers (draconum records)
echo bombs - king of uncool (rubber brother records)