Here we go, folks. My last year end list on the internet. I’m happy to have been a part (the main one) of something so entertaining for a lot of you over the past few years. Thanks to anyone who has ever read one of our year-end lists or listened to any of our playlists that came with it.

Anyway, hit the jump for my year’s best folks!

Peace and love,
Grizzly

2015 was one of the best year’s in music I can remember. 2014 fell flat for a lot of categories, with hip-hop suffering the most. Thanks to a bunch of new AND old artists, this year had a bit of a jump. So hop to, folks!

Honorable Mentions (alphabetical order):

Baroness – Purple (I really wish this album came out earlier this year, it’s magnificent. Not enough time to place it anywhere, considering I just listened to it for the first, second and third times in the last two days)
Blacklisted – When People Grow, People Go
City & Colour – If I Should Go Before You
Coliseum – Anxiety’s Kiss
Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap
Hudson Mohawke – Lantern
Jack Ü – Jack Ü
Marriages – Salome
Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money
Roosh Williams – Unorthodox

50. Kylesa – Exhausting Fire
49. Young Thug – Barter 6
48. Ty Dolla Sign – Free TC
47. Torche – Restarter
46. Dustin Kensrue – Carry the Fire
45. Money Pit, The – Money Pit, The
44. Spraynard – Mable
43. Suffers, The – Make Some Room (EP)
42. Stév – Beyond Stolen Notes
41. Wonder Years, The – No Closer to Heaven

40. Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material
39. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
38. Trey Songz – Trigga Reloaded
37. Thundercat – The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam (EP)
36. Lydia – Run Wild
35. Citizen – Everybody is Going to Heaven
34. All Get Out – Movement (EP)
33. Leon Bridges – Coming Home
32. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil
31. High on Fire – Luminiforous

30. FKA Twigs – M3LL155X (EP)
29. Travis Scott – Rodeo
28. Counterparts – Tragedy Will Find Us
27. Jeremih – Late Nights: The Album
26. The World is a Beautiful Place and I’m No Longer Afraid to Die – Harmlessness
25. Carly Rae Jepsen – E*MO*TION
24. Drake – If You’re Reading This, You’re Late
23. Bryson Tiller – T R A P S O U L
22. Foxing – Dealer
21. Defeater – Abandoned

20. Justin Bieber – Purpose
Biebs is back. Journals was the Prelude we thought it was.

19. Weeknd, The – Beauty Behind the Madness
Haven’t enjoyed a release from Abel in quite sometime, but I appreciate dedicating the entire sound to pop and not teetering like his previous few.

18. mewithoutYou – Pale Horses
mwY made a strong comeback in rotation with PH. It’s their best album since Brother, Sister.

17. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise
Big Sean finally made a strong studio effort. Love this dude forever, but he’s yet to put out a solid body of work that wasn’t on a mixtape.

16. Miguel – Wild Heart
Miguel’s rock leanings on Wild Heart really made this album shine.

15. Kehlani – You Should Be Here
Kehlani’s gonna be huge. Her debut is excellent, and one of most most oft-played R&B albums this year.

14. Jamie XX – In Colour
In Colour is the exact mood of album I wanted from Jamie XX all along. “I Know There’s Gonna Be Good Times” is a contender for “song of the year,” too.

13. Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife
This album dropped in fucking January, and I’m still turning up to it in December. SremmLife 2 coming soon, thanks to the gods of wilin’ out.

12. Daisyhead – The Smallest Light
More 90s rock nostalgia for ya boy. I can’t help myself, I was raised on grunge.

11. Future – DS2
Where yo ass was at, when Future took the rap game over?

10. ASAP Rocky – At Long Last ASAP
Flacko is pretty consistent, and A.L.L.A. is his strongest effort to date.

9. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf
Having Chance around is one of hip-hop’s most fruitful blessings, yo. Surf is just so damn positive, and it’s an uplifting journey, bringing along a lot of characters for some of their best verses (B.o.B., Busta Rhymes, etc) in years.

8. Disclosure – Caracal
This album got a lot of shit because it wasn’t Settle. Don’t get me wrong, Settle is miles better, but Caracal is an entirely different beast, and just as enjoyable. “Omen” is better than “Latch” and “Magnets” is better than just about all of it.

7. Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
Tough year for Vince, considering Kendrick HAD TO go and release TPAB, otherwise, this is the rap album of the year. Two discs of introspective, enjoyable and memorable real shit. Can’t wait to see what he does next.

6. Internet, The – Ego Death
Never was a listener of these guys until this year, and I slept – HARD. Ego Death is a pretty dazzling listen, groovy from start to finish and never really skipping a beat.

5. Ghost Bath – Moonlover
True story: I found out about these guys from a YouTube comment saying “Ghost Bath put out the best metal album of the year.” I listened to Moonlover and instantly fell in love with it. Whether these anons are from North Dakota or China matters none, because this album is a gem.

4. Tame Impala – Currents
Kevin Parker and company won me over in 2012 with Lonerism, and Currents ends up being an even better album than expected. One of my most listened to albums this year.

3. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Nothing needs to be said about TPAB. KDot dropped the most important “hip-hop” album of the last five years and it won’t even be appreciated until about 5 years from now.

2. Deafheaven – New Bermuda
Album is perfect.

1. Turnover – Peripheral Vision
Only reason Deafheaven isn’t number one is because I probably listened to Peripheral Vision like 400 times this year. This album hit me in my feels real good this year. Plus, I don’t want a predictable ass list. More predictable than it already is, anyway.

Here’s a playlist, yo.

(Alphabetical Order)

• Confused Nick Young [LINK]

• @DJKHALED305 ON SNAPCHAT #AnotherOne #KeysToSuccess #LionOrder

• Drake’s Hotline Bling [LINK] (This is one of the biggest memes I’ve ever seen – Bonus: Drake vs. Meek Mill)

• Guy Fieri, Oh It’s Fuckin’ Lit! [LINK]

• Netflix and Chill [LINK]

• #PopeBars [LINK]

• Riley Curry [LINK]

• Sad Pepe / Rare Pepe / Angry Pepe [LINK] (I know the origin of these is a while back, but these saw a huge resurgence this year. Rare pepe is something else)

• Unexpected John Cena [LINK]

• Why The Fuck You Lying? [LINK] [FULL VERSION]

(Alphabetical Order)

Asher Roth & Fat Tony – Sushi (Dir. by Dylan Knight & Marat Shaya) [WATCH]
Big Sean – Play No Games (feat. Chris Brown; Dir. by Mike Carson) [WATCH]
Childish Gambino – Sober (Dir. by Hiro Murai) [WATCH]
Diplo & Skrillex – Where R Ü Now (feat. Justin Bieber; Dir. by Brewer) [WATCH]
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Sunday Morning (Dir. by Austin Vesely) [WATCH]
Drake – Hotline Bling (Dir. by Director X) [WATCH]
Kanye West – Only One (Dir. by Spike Jonze) [WATCH]
Kendrick Lamar – Alright (Dir. by Collin Tilley) [WATCH]
Maroon 5 – Sugar (Dir. by Travis Schneider & Adam Levine) [WATCH]
Rae Sremmurd – Come Get Her (Dir. by N/A) [WATCH]
Rihanna – Bitch Better Have My Money (Dir. by Rihanna & MegaForce) [WATCH]

(in alphabetical order)

Brand New / Manchester Orchestra / Kevin Devine – House of Blues (October 2015)
Chance the Rapper – Austin Music Hall, SXSW, Austin, TX (March 2015)
Cursive – Trees, Dallas TX (March 2015)
Deafheaven – Warehouse Live Studio (November 2015)
Every Time I Die feat. Jason Butler of letlive. on vocals – Warehouse Live (December 2015)
Kendrick Lamar – Day for Night Fest, Silver Street Studios (December 2015)
Miguel – Warehouse Live (July 2015)
Run the Jewels – Stubbs BBQ, SXSW, Austin, TX (March 2015)
Slipknot – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (September 2015)
Tycho – FPSF, Elenor Tinsley Park (June 2015)