The Best Albums of 2015

2015 has been a great year for music and for Step On Magazine.  Thanks to our fantastic readers and fabulous writers, we have been introduced to some incredible new bands and have become reacquainted with so many greats from the past.  So like any proper magazine should do, we present you with “best of 2015” lists as chosen by our writers.  We’ll start with the best albums of 2015, in no particular order, according to:

Lindsy Carr

1. Troye Sivan – Blue Neighborhood
2. Marina and the Diamonds – Froot
3. Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface
4. Allison Weiss – New Love
5. The Maine – American Candy

Adam Hammond –  Adam is the head of Isolation in Sussex, once a small record label and now an independent music website and gig promoter www.isolationrecords.co.uk

1. Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
2. Chastity Belt – Time To Go Home
3. Spectres – Dying
4. Institute – Catharsis
5. Traams – Modern Dancing
6. The Telescopes – Hidden Fields
7. The Pop Group – Citizen Zombie
8. Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter
9. The Membranes – Dark Matter/Dark Energy
10. Chain Of Flowers – Chain of Flowers
11. Wire – Wire
12. Viet Cong – Viet Cong
13. Sauna Youth – Distractions
14. Novella – Land
15. Kagoule – Urth
16. Bully – Feels Like
17. Girls Names – Arms Around A Vision
18. Menace Beach – Ratworld
19. The Libertines – Anthems For Doomed Youth
20. Blur – The Magic Whip

Dustin Ragucos – Dustin is a writer of things fictional, poetic, and musical. His main loves include Death Grips and Indie music. Dustin’s blog is host to a weekly blurb about albums old and new.

1. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
2. Grimes – Art Angels
3. Deafheaven – New Bermuda
4. FKA twigs – M3LL15X
5. Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?
6. Low – Ones and Sixes
7. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ
8. U.S. Girls – Half-Free
9. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Think
10. Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle

phil locke

1. Crimsonettes – Sickly Sweet EP
2. Astrobrite – Deluxer
3. 93millionmilesfromthesun – Fall Into Nothing
4. Low – Ones And Sixes
5. The Virgance – Hiko Shrine
6. Jaguwar – I EP
7. The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Harmlessness
8. The Telescopes – Hidden Fields
9. Brilliant Swords – Wreckage
10. Fog Lake – Victoria Park

Alex Thompson

1. Mac Demarco – Another One
2. Jamie xx – In Colour
3. Misogi – Pink2
4. Sango – Da Rocinha 3
5. Harrison – Colors