Category: BEST OF 2015

Best Of 2015: Singer/Songwriter
MAGNET’s Hobart Rowland picks the best singer/songwriter releases of the year 1 Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp (Merge) 2 Bobby Long Ode

Best Of 2015: Metal
MAGNET’s Andrew Earles picks the best metal releases of the year 1 Kylesa Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist) 2 False

Best Of 2015: Reissues
MAGNET’s A.D. Amorosi picks the best reissues of the year 1 Various Artists Ork Records: New York, New York (Numero

MAGNET’s Top 25 Albums Of 2015
25. Chastity Belt | Time To Go Home (Hardly Art) Did you ever have That Hilarious Friend (you know the

MAGNET’s #1 Album Of 2015: Wilco’s “Star Wars”
You could argue that Star Wars, the ninth album from now-more-or-less-venerable Wilco, is a softball choice for MAGNET’s album of

MAGNET’s #2 Album Of 2015: Alabama Shakes’ “Sound & Color”
Alabama Shakes built a huge following with their classic rock debut, so revisiting that Hendrix-meets-Janis vibe on the follow-up would

MAGNET’s #3 Album Of 2015: Father John Misty’s “I Love You, Honeybear”
On one hand, J. Tillman’s second album as Father John Misty is junk food for the soul—as irresistibly self-destructive as

MAGNET’s #4 Album Of 2015: Courtney Barnett’s “Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit”
“Put me on a pedestal, and I’ll only disappoint you,” warns Australian folk-rocker Courtney Barnett on a punk-chorded “Pedestrian At