Compiling best-of music lists is almost as good as listening to music itself, and Triple J has been doing a bang-up job of it for yonks with the world-beating Hottest 100. Not content with only cataloguing mere songs, the station’s also gone and asked the nation for their red-hot take on what the year’s best full-lengths have been.
Behold. The ten lucky releases to sneak their way into Australia’s list of 2015’s best albums are as follows:
- Tame Impala – Currents
- Courney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
- Florence & The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- The Rubens – Hoops
- Gang Of Youths – The Positions
- Foals – What Went Down
- Jamie xx – In Colour
- The Wombats – Glitterbug
- San Cisco – Gracetown
It’s not a surprise to see Tame Impala take out the top gong for Currents, and it certainly bodes well for their Hottest 100 chances in January. Still, it is a surprise to see what an absolute British Isles / Australia love-in the list turned into, with Kendrick as the only American representative.
Good tunes, ‘Straya.
Story: Gemma Pike / Triple J.
Photo: Hagen Hopkins / Jeff Spicer / Leon Bennett / Getty.
Photo: Hagen Hopkins / Jeff Spicer / Leon Bennett / Getty.
