Category: BEST OF 2015
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
MAGNET’s #5 Album Of 2015: Royal Headache’s “High”
The second LP from this Sydney, Australia quartet—its members are identified only as Shogun (vocals), Law (guitar), Joe (bass) and
MAGNET’s #6 Album Of 2015: Joanna Newsom’s “Divers”
Has it really been nearly six years since Have One On Me? But it just stopped playing! (Have one on
MAGNET’s #7 Album Of 2015: The Libertines’ “Anthems For Doomed Youth”
That the Libertines—returning to the spotlight after imploding more than a decade ago—managed to record a new album, let alone
MAGNET’s #8 Album Of 2015: Sufjan Stevens’ “Carrie & Lowell”
After a decade and a half of holding it down as indie’s resident maximalist (try finding a review of Illinois
MAGNET’s #9 Album Of 2015: Deafheaven’s “New Bermuda”
Deafheaven is by no means the first metal band to combine the delicate and the brutal, but by god, the
MAGNET’s #10 Album Of 2015: Carly Rae Jepsen’s “E*MO*TION”
Let’s be real: You are dead inside. You have been since the first Bush administration. You are a callous, unfeeling
MAGNET’s #11 Album Of 2015: Low’s “Ones And Sixes”
"Gentle... quiet... careful... measured... stable..." The ambiguous string of adjectives that opens Low’s 11th album reads like a decidedly facile
MAGNET’s #12 Album Of 2015: Sleater-Kinney’s “No Cities To Love”
Sleater-Kinney did everything right with its comeback album, the trio’s first since 2005’s The Woods. Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and
MAGNET’s #13 Album Of 2015: Ricked Wicky’s “Swimmer To A Liquid Armchair”
Not that there’s anything wrong with Robert Pollard’s solo LPs, but his band-centric collaborations seem to invigorate him, and working
MAGNET’s #14 Album Of 2015: Jim O’Rourke’s “Simple Songs”
In a recent interview with BOMB magazine, Jim O’Rourke recalled having to justify to his father his habit of rewatching
MAGNET’s #15 Album Of 2015: Blur’s “The Magic Whip”
Despite having reformed six years ago to play occasional live gigs, the prospect of an entire album’s worth of new