Het is weer december, en 2015 is wat de redactie van Checko.nl betreft een mooi jaar geweest. De hoogste tijd om terug te blikken dus. Checko.nl vroeg voor het derde jaar op rij (want zo lang bestaan we nu eenmaal) aan een geselecteerde groep mensen uit de muziekindustrie om hun favoriete tien albums van 2015 in te leveren. Na een ingewikkelde procedure van optellen en aftrekken is daar het volgende lijstje uitgerold, met Tame Impale’s Currents als nummer 1:
Inhoud
1. Tame Impala – Currents (Caroline/Universal)
2. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty/Konkurrent)
3. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar/Konkurrent)
4. Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art/Konkurrent)
5. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit (Kobalt/V2)
(Dead Fox)
6. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (Interscope/Universal)
(Alright)
7. Low – Ones And Sixes (Sub Pop/Konkurrent)
(Gentle)
8. Killing Joke – Pylon (Spine Farm/Caroline)
(I Am The Virus)
9. Blur – The Magic Whip (Parlophone/warner)
(Lonesome Street)
10. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (Bella Union/PIAS)
(I Love You, Honeybear)
11. Viet Cong – Viet Cong (Jagjaguwar/Konkurrent)
(Silhouettes)
12. Foals – What Went Down (Transgressive/Warner)
(What Went Down)
13. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green (Dead Oceans/Konkurrent)
(Primrose Green)
14. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash)
(Ballad Of The Mighty I)
15. Guy Garvey – Couting The Squall (Polydor/Universal)
De Muzine. nl Top 15 van 2015 is samengesteld uit de lijstjes van mensen die werkzaam zijn in de muziekindustrie. Van platenmaatschappijen, distibuteurs, bands, promo-agency’s, platenwinkels en de muziekjournalisten van Checko.nl en andere muziekbladen….. Enjoy…
MIRJAM VON BANNISSEHT (KONKURRENT)
1. Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh
2. The Soft Moon – Deeper
3. Viet Cong – Viet Cong
4. Föllakzoid – III
5. Tame Impala – Currents
6. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
7. Wand – Golem
8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
9. Grimes – Art Angel
10. Fuzz – II
ERIK VAN DEN BERG (OOR)
1. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
2. A Place To Bury Strangers – Transfixiation
3. Cheatahs – Mythologies
4. Killing Joke – Pylon
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
6. Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect
7. Disappears – Irreal
8. Flying Horseman – Night Is Long
9. Albert Hammond Jr – Momentary Masters
10. Ought – Sun Coming Down
MARC BURFORD (ECHOTAPE)
1.Everything Everything – Get To Heaven
2. Alabama Shakes – Sound And Colour
3. Tobias Jess jr – Goon
4. Gaz Coombes – Matador
5. Dave Gahan – Angels And Ghosts
6. The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It
7. Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin
8. Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
9. Foals – What Went Down
10. Tallest Man On Earth – Dark Bird Is Home
FLORIS DE DECKER (TEAM WILLIAM)
1. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
2. Tame Impala – Currents
3. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too
4. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
5. Bonzo – The Sights I’ve Seen
6. Balthazar – Thin Walls
7. Fidlar – Too
8. Viet cong – Viet Cong
9. Blur – The Magic Whip
10. Django Django – Born Under Saturn
LUUK DENEKAMP (MUZINE.NL / OOR)
1. Ought – Sun Coming Down
2. Sleater Kinney – No Cities To Love
3. Drenge – Undertow
4. Tame Impala – Currents
5. Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
6. Chvrches – Every Open Eye
7. Metz – II
8. Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last
9. Health – Death Magic
10. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
XANDER VAN DIJK (THE AFTERVEINS / CLOUDHEAD BOOKINGS)
1. Brian Jonestown Massacre – Pish
2. De Likt – De Likt
3. Rats on Rafts – Tape Hiss
4. Hallo Venray – Vegtables n Fruit
5. Blur – The Magic Whip
6. Ringo Deathstarr – Pure Mood
7. Holy Wave – The Evil Has Landed Pt. II
8. Surfjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
9. A Place To Bury Strangers – Transfixation
10. Spectres – Dying
DIMITRI HAKKE (OOR / MUZINE.NL)
1. Ryan Adams – 1989
2. Libertines – Anthems For Doomed Youth
3. Soko – My Dreams Dictate My Reality
4. The Cribs – For Alll My Sisters
5. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
6. Noel Gallagher & High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterdays
7. The Sonics – This Is The Sonics
8. Protomartyr –The Agent Intellect
9. Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance
10. The Charlatans – Modern Nature
STEFAN HAYES (BERTUS)
1. Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
2. Nadine Shah – Fast Food
3. Gemma Hayes – Bones + Longing
4. Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
5. Grimes – Art Angels
6. Say Lou Lou – Lucid Dreaming
7. Rome – A Passage To Rhodesia
8. Helena Hauff – Discreet Desires
9. Rats On Rafts – Tape Hiss
10. Misþyrming – Söngvar elds og óreidu
LARA HEETVELD (PIAS)
1. Patrick Watson – Love Songs For Robots
2. Howling – Sacred Ground
3. Eaves – What Green Feels Like
4. Jamie Woon – Making Time
5. Nosaj Thing – Fated
6. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Just Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
7. Portico – Living Fields
8. Jamie xx – In Colour
9. Tame Impala – Currents
10. Foals – What Went Down
FRANK HEYTHUYSEN (MUZINE.NL)
1. Melody Gardot – Currency Of Man
2. Tame Impala – Currents
3. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
4. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
5. Tourist LeMC – En Route
6. Mercury Rev – The Light In You
7. Daughn Gibson – Carnation
8. Lonelady – Hinterland
9. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos
10. Afterpartees – Glitter Lizard
FABIAN HOFLAND (MUZINE.NL / SOUNDS DELFT)
1. Ghostpoet – Shedding Skin
2. Floating Points – Elaenia
3. Dawn Of Midi – Nysnomia
4. Tame Impala – Currents
5. Sophie Hunger – Supermoon
6. Ibeyi – Ibeyi
7. Kamasi Washington – The Epic
8. Public Service Broadcasting – The Race For Space
9. Gaz Coombes – Matador
10. Failure – The Heart Is A Monster
PETER PAUL VAN DER HOUT (VELVET MUSIC DORDRECHT)
1. Balthazar – Thin Walls
2. Howling – Sacred Ground
3. Darwin Deez – Double Down
4. City & Colour – If I Should Go Before You
5. Róisín Murphy – Hairless Toys
6. Low – Ones And Sixes
7. Of Monsters and Men – Beneath The Skin
8. Ryan Adams – 1989
9. Lusts – Illuminations
10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi Love
RONALD KLOOTWIJK (MUZINE.NL)
1. Therapy? – Disquiet
2. Clutch – Psychic Warfare
3. New Order – Music Complete
4. Killing Joke – Pylon
5. Antimatter – The Judas Table
6. Kadavar – Berlin
7. Ghost – Meliora
8. Girls Names – Arms Around A Vision
9. Faith No More – Sol Victus
10. Mxrcxl – In Alarm
ROBERT KOOLE (FLUOR, AMERSFOORT)
1. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
2. Tame Impala – Currents
3. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
4. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
5. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
6. Kamasi Washington – The Epic
7. Jamie XX – In Colour
8. DMA’s – DMA’s
9. Mike Krol – Turkey
10. Viet Cong – Viet Cong
HENK KOOLEN (PAARD VAN TROJE / STATE_X NEW FORMS)
1. Adam Torres – Nostra Nova
2. Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa
3. Kamasi Washington – The Epic
4. Ryley Wallker – Primrose Green
5. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
6. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit
7. Lubomyr Melnyk – Rivers And Streams
8. Algiers – Algiers
9. Jamie xx – In Colour
10. Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
ROSS LEIGHTON (FATHERSON)
1. Enter Shikari – The Mindsweep
2. Purity ring – Another Eternity
3. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
4. Circa Waves – Young Chasers
5. Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
6. Alabama Shakes – Sound And Color
7. Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect
8. Jess Glynne – I Cry When I Laugh
9. Prides – The Way Back Up
10. Tellison – Hope Fading Nightly
STEPHAN MAASKANT (ROTOWN, ROTTERDAM)
1. Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect
2. Viet Cong – Viet Cong
3. Action Bronson – Mr. Wonderful
4. Rats On Rafts – Tape Hiss
5. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp
6. Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
7. Ought – Sun Coming Down
8. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
9. Royal Headache – High
10. Bjork – Vulnicura
MICHEL MEES (MUZINE.NL)
1. Tame Impala – Currents
2. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
3. Fay Wildhagen – Snow
4. Glen Hansard – Didn’t He Ramble
5. Dave DK – Val Maira
6. Conforce – Presentism
7. Alma – Alma
8. Killing Joke – Pylon
9. Fatima Yamaha – Imaginary Lines
10. Mattheis – Kindred Phenomena
GEORGE MEIJER (MUZINE.NL)
1. Never Young – Never Young E.P.
2. The Hickey Underworld – III
3. Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect
4. The Afterveins – Showers
5. Girls Names – Arms Around a Vision
6. Elder – Lore
7. Other Lives – Rituals
8. Tripwires – Watermelancholia
9. Horsebeach – II
10. Toundra – IV
STEVEN MILNE (THE LITTLE KICKS)
1. Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear
2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
3. Floating Points – Elaenia
4. Richard Hawley – Hollow Meadows
5. Mac DeMarco – Another One
6. Tame Impala – Currents
7. Best Girl Athlete – Carve Every Word
8. Amason – Sky City
9. Kathryn Joseph – Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood You’ve Spilled
10. Foals – What Went Down
WIM DU MORTIER (MUZINE.NL)
1. Low – Ones and Sixes
2. Courtney Barnet – Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
3. Hot Chip – Why Make Sense?
4. Everything Everything – Get to Heaven
5. Die Nerven – Out
6. Lonelady – Hinterland
7. Paul Smith and the Intimations – Contradictions
8. Bob Moses – All In All
9. Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
10. Wire – Wire
RENE OONK (MUZINE.NL)
1. Low – Ones and Sixes
2. Idlewild – Everything Ever Written
3. Die Nerven – Out
4. The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It
5. Saybia – No Sound From The Outside
6. Killing Joke – Pylon
7. Roosbeef – Kalf
8. Half Way Station – Dodo
9. Guy Garvey – Courting The Squall
10. Marika Hackman – We Slept At Last
RONALD RENIRIE (MUZINE.NL)
1. Low – Ones And Sixes
2. Tame Impala – Currents
3. Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect
4. Guy Garvey – Courting The Squall
5. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
6. The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It
7. Viet Cong – Viet Cong
8. Swervedriver – I Wasn’t Born To Lose You
9. Killing Joke – Pylon
10. Holy Holy – When The Storms Would Come
JAN RIJK (MUZINE.NL)
1. Chvrches – Every Open Eye
2. Lou Barlow – Brace The Wave
3. Low – Ones And Sixes
4. Peter Broderick – Colours Of The Night
5. Built To Spill – Untethered Moon
6. Anna von Hauswolff – The Miraculous
7. Joanna Newsom – Divers
8. Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect
9. Fidlar – Too
10. Valet – Nature
RAYMOND ROTTEVEEL (OOR)
1. Blur – The Magic Whip
2. Richard Hawley – Hollow Meadows
3. Guy Garvey – Courting The Squall
4. Rats On Rafts – Tape Hiss
5. Killing Joke – Pylon
6. Protoje – Ancient Future
7. New Order – Music Complete
8. Sleafords Mods – Key Markets
9. Cheatahs – Mythologies
10. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
RUUD SABLEROLLE (MUZINE.NL)
1. Chvchres – Every Open Eye
2. The Soft Moon – Deeper
3. A Place to Bury Strangers – Transfixiation
4. Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People
5. Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect
6. Mikal Cronin – MCIII
7. EL VY – Return To The Moon
8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
9. Fuzz – II
10. New Order – Music Complete
LUCA SARANSZKY (PIAS)
1. Balthazar – Thin Walls
2. Foals – What Went Down
3. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
4. Tame Impala – Currents
5. Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
6. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
7. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
8. Hanni El Khatib – Moonlight
9. Jono McCleery – Pagodes
10. Tobias Jesso Jr – Goon
IMMANUEL SPOOR (DE NIEUWE LICHTING / ON TRACK AGENCY)
1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Action Bronson – Mr. Wonderful
3. Fresku – Nooit Meer Terug
4. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf
5. De Likt – De Likt
6. Boom boom Du Terre – Blood Red
7. Thundercat – The Beyond / Where The Giants Roam
8. FKA Twigs – M3LL155x
9. Floating points – Elaenia
10. Nao – February 15
MINK STEEKELENBURG (HALF WAY STATION)
1. Rival Consoles – Howl
2. Slime – Company
3. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
4. Floating Points – Elaenia
5. Beach House – Depression Cherry
6. Nosaj Thing – Fated
7. Braids – Deep In The Iris
8. Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi
9. Nils Frahm – Solo
10. Rats on Rafts – Tape Hiss
THEO STEPPER (MUZINE.NL)
1. Half Way Station – Dodo
2. Holy Holy – When The Storms Would Come
3. Maaike Ouboter – En Hoe Het Dan Ook Weer Dag Wordt
4. Low – Ones & Sixes
5. Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?
6. Daniel Norgren – Alabursy
7. Fuzz – II
8. Tamaryn – Cranekiss
9. Yukon Blonde – On Blonde
10. Tourist LeMc – En Route
THE BOXER REBELLION (BAND)
1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
3. Rhodes – Wishes
4. Tame Impala – Currents
5. Blur – Magic Whip
6. Gaz Coombes – Matador
7. A$AP Rocky – At. Long. Last. A$AP
8. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
9. Foals – What Went Down
10. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
MAX TIMMERS (MUZINE.NL)
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
2. Tame Impala – Currents
3. Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
4. The Libertines – Anthems For Doomed Youth
5. Cage The Elepant – Tell Me I’m Pretty
6. Wire – Wire
7. Blur – The Magic Whip
8. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
9. Guy Garvey – Courting The Squall
10. Leon Bridges – Coming Home
SWIE TIO (SWEET T PRODUCTIONS)
1. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
2. Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
3. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
4. Mark Ronson – Uptown Special
5. Föllakzoid – III
6. Lemon –Perfect It Will Never Be
7. Shamir – Ratchet
8. Herman Grimme – Pond Life
9. Blond:ish – Welcome To The Present
10. Jain – Zanaka
MARCEL VERHAAR (VESTROCK / FFWD/PLAY)
1. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffatt – The Most Important Place In The World
2. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
3. Bill Ryder Jones – West Kirby County Primary
4. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
5. Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
6. Peter Doran – Outlines
7. Best Girl Athlete – Carve Every Word
8. Bill Fay – Who Is The Sender
9. Destroyer – Poison Season
10. New Order – Music Complete
ANNE CAESAR VAN WIEREN (KARAWANE/LPG)
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
2. Courtney Barnet – Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
3. Meindert Talma – Werkman
4. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
5.Joanna Newsom – Divers
6. Thundercat – The Beyond / Where The Giants Roam
7. Bjork – Vulnicura
8. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
9. The Mysterons – The Mysterons
10. Deerhoof – Chamber Variations
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