Choosing an album of the year or rounding up your top 25 albums of the year (or whichever frankly arbitrary number of albums from the last 12 months you’ve decided you can cope with summarising) is both a joy and an overwhelming task. Any one writer or team of writers is never going to be able to cover every release, and there are always those albums that you wish you could have included had you only had that one more place in the list.
With that in mind, here at Skin Back Alley we’d thought we’d round up some “Honourable Mentions”: those albums that didn’t quite make it in to our list of the top albums of 2015, but that gave us hours of listening pleasure nevertheless.
So, in no particular order, here’s a bunch of albums that we hope you’ve loved, or will come to love, as much as we did over the last year.
Von Hertzen Brothers ~ New Day Rising
Holly Herndon ~ Platform
Mieke – Mieke
Gary Clark Jr. ~ The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
Michael Monroe – Blackout States
Julia Holter ~ Have You In My Wilderness
Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
Joni Fuller ~ Letters From The West Coast
B.Dolan ~ Kill The Wolf
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation ~ Horse Dance
Gazpacho – Molok
Riverside – Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Teenage Time Killers ~ Greatest Hits Vol.1
The Decoy – Parasites
Thunder ~ Wonder Days
AWOLNATION ~ Run
Feed Her To The Sharks – Fortitude
Laura Marling ~ Short Movie
Fear Lies ~ Elements
Of Allies ~ Fragments
Eva Plays Dead ~ Sounds Of The Written Word
Suze DeMarchi ~ Home
Brandon Flowers ~ The Desired Effect
Butcher Babies ~ Take It Like A Man
Halestorm ~ Into The Wild Life
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