2015: Your top 5

iomega

The obligatory best of for 2015

Your top 5 Albums

Your top 5 songs/singles

Your top 5 gigs

Gonzovision

Your top 5 Albums
1 - Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
2 - Father John Misty - I Love you Honeybear
3 - Grimes - Art Angels
4 - Deafheaven - New Bermuda
5 - Tame Impala - Currents


Your top 5 songs
1 - Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
2 - Father John Misty - Nothing Good Ever happens at the Thirsty Crow
3 - Sufjan Stevens — No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
4 - Tame Impala — Let It Happen
5 - Jamie XX - Loud Places

Your top 5 gigs
1 - Father John Misty - Whelans
2 - Godspeed You Black Emperor - Vicar Street
3 - Mogwai - Cork Opera House
4 - Wild Beasts - Cork Opera House

unicio

The obligatory best of for 2015

Your top 5 Albums

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Arca - Mutant
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Miguel - Wildheart
Floating Points - Elaenia


Your top 2 songs/singles

Bjork - Stonemilker.
Drake - Hotline Bling.

loyatemu

5 albums:

The Maccabees - Marks to Prove It.
Four Tet - Morning/Evening
Marika Hackman - We Slept at Last
Mac Demarco - Another One
Jamie xx - In Colour

5 Singles:

Tame Impala - Let It Happen
Ezra Furman - Body was made
Django Django - First Light
Roisin Murphy - Evil Eyes
Deerhunter - Snakeskin

Corholio

Top 5 Albums:

Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
Little Comets - Hope Is Just A State of Mind
EL VY - Return to the Moon
The Maccabees - Marks To Prove It
Darlia - Petals

Top 5 Songs:

Everything Everything - Fortune 500
Darlia - Queen of Hearts
Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
Little Comets - The Blur, The Line and the Thickest of Onions
Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better

mosstin

Top 5 Albums
1. Carrie and Lowell - Sujan Stevens
2. In Colour - Jamie XX
3. Art Angels - Grimes
4. Divers - Joanna Newsom
5. Ones and Sixes - Low

Top 5 songs/singles
1. Loud Places - Jamie XX
2. Play For Today - Belle and Sebastian
3. Evening Side - Four Tet
4. Blood I Bled - The Staves
5. King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar

Top 5 gigs
1. Sufjan Stevens - The Helix
2. Keaton Henson - NCH
3. King Creosote - Róisín Dubh
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - Olympia
5. Lambchop - NCH

Anesthetize

Top 5 albums:
1. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
2. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
3. Grimes - Art Angels
4. Torres - Sprinter
5. Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters

Top 5 songs:
1. Grimes - REALiTi (demo)
2. Courtney Barnett - Depreston
3. Colleen Green - TV
4. Pinkshinyultrablast - Umi
5. CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue

iomega

Albums:
1 Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People - Infectious, uplifting songs about depression. This guy/girl is a star.
2 Tame Impala - Currents - Sonically, the best sounding album of the year. Not a lot of guitars, "No worries mate".
3 Jacco Gardner - Hypnaphobia - 60's style Barrett-esque Soft psych/ baroque pop with subtle krautrock touches.
4 Courtney Barrnett - sometimes I sit & think.... - It's all about the rambling lyrics and that voice.
5 Beach House - Depression Cherry - Not their best (that's bloom) but lush & dreamy & I love her singing.

Singles/Songs
1 Tame Impala - Let it Happen
2 Ezra Furman - Restless Year
3 Tamaryn - Hands all over me
4 Ezra Furman - Wobbly
5 Jeffrey Lewis - Support Tours

Gigs
1 Ezra Furman in the Academy
2 Jacco Gardner in the Workman's Club
3 Beach House in Vicar St.

Some of these won't be very alternative/indie but anyway:

Your top 5 Albums
Grimes - Art Angels
Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Björk - Vulnicura
Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz
Disclosure - Caracal

Your top 5 songs
Savages - "The Answer"
Beck - "Dreams"
Lana Del Rey - "Terrence Loves You"
FKA Twigs - "Figure 8"
CHVRCHES - "High Enough To Carry You Over"

Your top 5 gigs
Beck - Kilmainham Gaol
Fleetwood Mac - 3 Arena
U2 - 3 Arena
Grace Jones - Electric Picnic
Sinéad O'Connor - Vicar Street
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Irish_rat

Not a great year in music IMO (awaits the slagging)

The best albums were:

Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Eternal Summers - Gold and Stone
Jamie xx - In Colour
Beach House - Depression Cherry


Best gig:

Alvvays - EP
Chvrches - EP
Noel Gallagher - Marquee

Pudsy33

Your top 5 Albums
Grimes - Art Angels
Jamie XX - In colour
Courtney Barnett- Sometimes i sit and think...
Empress of - Me
Tame Impala - currents

Your top 5 songs
Grimes - Realiti (demo)
Tame Impala - the less I know the better.
Bicep - Just
Otherkin - Feel it
Kendrick Lamarsh - These walls

Your top 5 gigs
Alt J in the 3 Arena
Kasabian in the 3 Arena
Slaves in the academy
Run the jewels at Forbidden fruit
Caribou at longitude
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UrbanSprawl

Top albums

1-beach slang - the things we do to find people who feel like us.
2-The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die-Harmlessness
3-Mike Krol -Turkey.
4-Ought -Sun Coming down
5-Colleen Greene- I Want to Grow Up

Top Songs

1-Otherkin Ay Ay- From the excellent 201 EP.A full album must surely be on the cards in 2016.
2-Built To Spill - Living Zoo
3-The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die-January 10th 2014.-'Diana,the hunter of bus drivers'
4-Protomatyr-Why does it Shake? Presumably this what the owners of the workmans will be asking when Protomatyr take to the stage on 31st March.
5-Modest Mouse -The Best Room. Still a damm good album even if not their magnum opus.

Top Gigs

1-R.S.A.G @ EP,Salty Dog with special guests will live long in the memory.
2-A Place to bury strangers @workmans.
3-Otherkin AY AY single release @ grand social.
4-Editors @ Olympia
5-Flying Lotus AV Show @Vicar St...for the AV.

sheroman01

Your top 5 songs:

1 - El Vy - I'm The Man To Be
2 - Foals - What Went Down
3 - Drenge - We Can Do What We Want
4 - Tame Impala - Let It Happen
5 - Florence & the Machine - What Kind of Man

Album of the Year:

El Vy - Return to the Moon

Gig of the Year:

Catfish & the Bottleman - The Academy

BullBlackNova

Albums:

Jamie xx: "In Colour"
Grimes: "Art Angels"
Sufjan Stevens: "Carrie & Lowell"
EL VY: "Return to the Moon"
Father John Misty: "I Love You, Honeybear"

Songs:

Jamie xx: "Loud Places"
Tame Impala: "Eventually"
Alabama Shakes: "Sound & Colour"
Grimes: "Kill V Maim"
Sufjan Stevens: "Should Have Known Better"

Gigs:

I didn't go to too many this year, so my highlights were mainly Electric Picnic sets. Girl Band, War on Drugs, My Morning Jacket and Blur mainly.

TheGoldenAges

Albums: (I listed my top 10)
1| Harmlessness | The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm not afraid to die
2| Time to go Home | Chastity Belt
3| My Love is Cool | Wolf Alice
4| All of Something | Sports
5| Sprained Ankle | Julien Baker
6| What Went Down | Foals
7| Thank Your Lucky Stars | Beach House
8| Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit | Courtney Barnett
9| Honeymoon | Lana Del Rey
10| To Pimp a Butterfly | Kendrick Lamar

S/O to albums from Beach House (First album of the year 'Depression Cherry'), The Libertines, Wavves, Chvrches, The Weeknd, Jamie XX, Bully and Mac Demarco who narrowly missed out.

Songs:
The Wonderwhy | Wolf Alice
Dead Fox | Courtney Barnett
We Can't Live Here Forever | The World is a Beautiful Place and I'm no Longer Afraid to Die
Loud Places | Jamie XX/Romy
Terrence Loves You | Lana Del Rey

Gigs:
The Strokes, Beck, Future Islands | BST Festival, Hyde Park, London
Fleetwood Mac | 3Arena
The Libertines | 3Arena
Wolf Alice | Longitude, Marlay Park
Best Coast | The Academy

Rothko

Albums:
Currents - Tame Impala
Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
Simple Songs - Jim O'Rourke
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
New Bermuda - Deafheaven

Songs:
Let It Happen - Tame Impala
Yes, I'm Changing - Tame Impala
Should Have Known Better - Sufjan Stevens
The Blacker The Berry - Kendrick Lamar
Welcome To New York - Ryan Adams

Gigs:
Ryan Adams - Olympia
Ennio Morricone - 3 Arena
Gary Numan - Olympia
J Mascis - Whelans

Chimera88

Albums
1) Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
2) Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space
3) Foals - What Went Down
4) Mew - +-
5) Jamie XX - In Colour

Tracks
1) Everything Everything - Spring/Summer/Winter Dread
2) Warpaint - I'll Start Believing
3) Foals - Mountain at My Gates
4) Jamie XX - I Know There's Gonna Be Good Times
5) Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
Honourable Mention to Major Lazer/Mo - Lean On...it might not be the most indie thing ever but catchiest tune of the year by a long shot.

poundhound

@ suas11

Re: Gary Numan @ The Olympia?

Numan played one Irish gig in 2015, at the Cork Opera House.

Frito

Albums

Mercury Rev - The Light In You
Gaz Coombes - Matador

Cosmicfox

Florence and the machine-How big, how blue, how beautiful
Wolf Alice-My love is cool
Bjork-vulnicura
Nostalghia-Chrysalsis
Lana del rey-honeymoon

Songs
FATM-Queen of peace
Fatm-Delilah
Fatm-what kind of man
Lana del rey-Art deco
Bjork-atom dance

jester77

I don't see BØRNS - Dopamine on anyones list. I can't stop listening to this, my favourite album of 2015