Consider AmApAc Artists for Your Year-End Lists

It’s that special time of the year again during which we all look back at the previous 365 days, remember the things we liked about them, and organize those things into list form. As you compile your year-end list for CMJ, we encourage you to include some of the exceptional albums we’ve sent you in 2015!

As a reminder, the following LPs all made it into the Top 20 at CMJ Radio 200: 

Built to Spill – Untethered Moon

the Bird and the Bee – Recreational Love  (Nominated for 2016 Grammy, Engineered Album)

Lianne La Havas – Blood  (Nominated for 2016 Grammy, Urban Contemporary Album)

Young Buffalo – House

Gary Clark Jr. – The Story of Sonny Boy Slim 

These records are also all worthy of your consideration:

Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs

Buxton – Half a Native

Mount Eerie – Sauna

Kate Pierson – Guitars & Microphones

Bonson Berner – Reflection

Little Helen Rose – Live at the Monkey Room

The Staves – If I Was

Vetiver – Complete Strangers

DTCV – Uptime!

Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot

Kathryn Calder – s/t

Kuroma – Kuromarama and 20+ Centuries (EP)

Sam Cohen – Cool It

Mr. Robinson – Bury Me Good (EP)

Ghost Against Ghost – Checkpoint Charlie (EP) and still love (EP)

NEEDS – s/t

Fool’s Gold – Flying Lessons

CHAPPO – Future Former Self

KaiL Baxley – A Light That Never Dies

Alpine – Yuck

Zella Day – Kicker

Jeremy & the Harlequins – American Dreamer

Lael Neale – I’ll Be Your Man

Aqueduct – Wild Knights

Tobias the Owl – Painting Zeros By Name

Lost in Stars – Once You Were Fire (EP)

Fever the Ghost – Zirconium Meconium

Young Empires – the Gates

Glint – Introvert (EP) and Extrovert (EP)

Tarmac Adam – In Place

Paper Kites – twelvefour

Futurebirds – Hotel Parties

Jacob Snider – Carrier (featuring Armand Hirsch)

Lithuania – Hardcore Friends

St. Germain – s/t

Electric Sons – Golden Age (EP)

Marco With Love – Promised Land (EP)

Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express – Junun