STN albums of 2015 10-1

10 John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure



9 Chorusgirl - Chorusgirl



8 Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love



7 Nadine Shah - Fast Food



6= Trust Fund - No One's Coming For Us/Seems Unfair



5 Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness



4 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit



3 Algiers - Algiers



2 Haiku Salut - Etch And Etch Deep



1 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell


Sufjan Stevens, "Should Have Known Better" (Official Audio) from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.



And as is traditional here's our 2015 Spotify playlist, including a track from all fifty albums (apart from Two White Cranes and Grubs which aren't on there and can only lead us to think someone there owes Roxy Brennan money) plus a grab-bag of standout tracks from near misses, albumless singles, loose songs etc. As many as are on there of these (unedited random figure ahoy) 93 tracks:


Alimony Hustle - DWUW
Amateur Best - They Know
Animal Collective - FloriDada
Anna Of The North – The Dreamer
AUTOBAHN - Impressionist
Battles - Summer Simmer
Belle & Sebastian - Nobody's Empire
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - This Dark Desire
The Bitter Springs - Only Sour Grapes Are Free
Bruising - Emo Friends
The Catenary Wires - Intravenous
Cheatahs - Freak Waves
The Chills - Silver Bullets
Cloud - Sunshine Psych
Comet Gain - To The City's Core
Craig Finn - Newmyer's Roof
Daughter - Numbers
David Bowie - Blackstar
Diagrams - Phantom Power
Dilly Dally - Purple Rage
Drape - Replica
DRINKS - Hermits On Holiday
Du Blonde - Young Entertainment
Echo Lake - Waves
Elizabeth Morris - Historic Times
Emma Kupa - Consequences
Evans The Death - Enabler
Everything Everything - Regret
The Fall - Dedication Not Medication
Fever Dream - Serotonin Hit
FEWS - Ill
FFS - Piss Off
Foals - What Went Down
Froth - The Rat
Girls Names - Reticence
Gramma's Boyfriend - I Live My Broken Dreams
Grandbrothers - Arctica
Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf
Heavy Petting Zoo - Isabelle
HeCTA - Sympathy for the Auto Industry
Idles - The Idles Chant
Jamie XX - Loud Places
Jilk & Haiku Salut - Periscopes
Johnny Foreigner - Flooding
The Jonbarr Hinge - Ballbarian
Kiran Leonard - Pink Fruit
Laura Groves – Committed Language
The Leisure Society - The Fine Art Of Hanging On
Lone Wolf - Bleak Technique
Lord Huron - The World Ender
The Lucid Dream - Cold Killer
The Maccabees - Marks To Prove It
Man Of Moon - The Road
Maribou State feat. Pedestrian - The Clown
Martha - Chekov's Hangnail
Matthew E White - Fruit Trees
Meilyr Jones - How To Recognise A Work Of Art
Mercury Rev - The Queen Of Swans
Mew - Satellites
Model Village - Time To Share
Modest Mouse - Lampshades On Fire
MOLARS - Talk
Novella - Land Gone
Oh Peas! - Learning To Love You Less
Oscar - Daffodil Days
Ought - Men For Miles
Outblinker - Pink
Palehound - Molly
Peaness - Fortune Favours The Bold
Pinkshinyultrablast - Umi
Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
The Radio Dept. - This Repeated Sodomy
Rival Consoles - Afterglow
Roxy Rawson - Nothing Was Left
Savages - T.I.W.Y.G.
Sharon Van Etten - I Don't Want To Let You Down
Simon Love - The New Adam & Eve
Spectres - Family
Spoilers - It Would Be Nice
Stanley Brinks & the Wave Pictures - Berlin
Supermoon - New Boy
Swahili Blonde - Discover Aurora
Sweet Baboo - Got To Hang Onto You
T-Shirt Weather - (Don't) Hold Your Breath
Telegram - Inside Outside
Tindersticks - We Are Dreamers
TVAM - Porsche Majeure
Vienna Ditto - Long Way Down
The Wave Pictures - I Could Hear The Telephone (3 Floors Above Me)
Widowspeak - All Yours
Wire - Octopus
With Luck - Garnethill
Yak - Hungry Heart
Youth Lagoon - Hghway Patrol Stun Gun

STN albums of 2015 20-11

20 Death And Vanilla - To Where the Wild Things Are



19 Robert Forster - Songs To Play



18 The Drink - Capital



17 Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars



16 Laura Marling - Short Movie



15 Colder - Many Colours



14 Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter



13 Other Lives - Rituals



12 Lonelady - Hinterland



11 The Spook School - Try To Be Hopeful

STN albums of 2015 30-21

30 The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ



29 Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper



28 Low - Ones And Sixes



27 TRAAMS - Modern Dancing



26 Lone Wolf – Lodge



25 Summer Camp - Bad Love



24 Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect



23 C Duncan - Architect



22 SHOPPING - Why Choose



21 SOAK - Before We Forgot How To Dream

STN albums of 2015 40-31

40 Girlpool - Before The World Was Big



39 Blur - The Magic Whip



38 Two White Cranes - Radisson Blue



37 Grawl!x - Good Grief



36 Landshapes - Heyoon



35 Marika Hackman - We Slept At Last



34 Ralegh Long - Hoverance



33 Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts - Manhattan



32 Post War Glamour Girls - Feeling Strange



31 H Hawkline - In The Pink Of Condition

STN albums of 2015 50-41

For various reasons there's not going to be the usual mini-essays for each entry this year so it's basically a week's worth of one of those illustrated listicles they have now, but if the example tracks sound good you know where to find the full albums and details thereof.

50 Tigercats – Mysteries



49 Darren Hayman - Florence



48 Deradoorian - The Expanding Flower Planet



47 The Acorn - Vieux Loup



46 Mammoth Penguins - Hide And Seek



45 The School - Wasting Away And Wondering



44 Guy Garvey - Courting The Squall



43 Grubs - It Must Be Grubs



42 Totem Terrors - Hard Science



41 Micachu & The Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad