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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2015)

Individual staff lists

Aideen's list

1. Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi (Atlantic)
2. El Vy – Return to the Moon (4AD)
3. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Virgin)
4. Editors – In Dream (PIAS)
5. Bill Ryder-Jones – West Kirby County Primary (Domino)
6. Matt Skiba and the Sekrets – Kuts (Superball)
7. Black Rivers – Self Titled (Ignition Records)
8. Hail The Ghost – Forsaken (Independent)
9. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love (Sub Pop)
10. Idlewild – Everything Ever Written (Empty Words)
11. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop)
12. Anti-Flag – American Spring (Spinefarm Records)
13. Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle (6131)
14. Girls Names – Arms Around a Vision (Tough Love Records)
15. Bring Me The Horizon – That's The Spirit (Sony)
16. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
17. Blur – The Magic Whip (Parlophone)
18. Prayers – Young Gods (LaSalle Records)
19. The Decemberists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (Rough Trade)
20. Humans – Noontide (Hybridity Music)
21. Guy Garvey – Courting the Squall (Polydor)
22. Beirut – No No No (4AD)

Andy's list

1. Sophie Lillienne – The Fragile Idea (IRMA Records)
2. Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey)
3. Mount Eerie – Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.)
4. Craig Taylor-Broad – For the Organs (Independent Release)
5. Menace Beach – Ratworld (Memphis Industries)
6. Patrick Higgins – Bachanalia (Telegraph Harp)
7. Ah! Kosmos – Bastards (Denovali)
8. Dark Oz – ¡Piratas! (Independent)
9. Alexei Shishkin – The Dog Tape (Independent Release)
10. Matana Roberts – COIN COIN Chapter Three: River Run Thee (Constellation)
11. (orb) – Inside Voices (Gloss Records)
12. Disco Doubles – For One Night Only (Emerald & Doreen )
13. Pas Musique – Inside the Spectrum (Alrealon Musique)
14. Neon Indian – VEGA INTL. Night School (Transgressive / Mom & Pop)
15. Princess Century – Progress (Paper Bag Records)
16. Kuba Kapsa Ensemble – Vandraught 10 - Vol. 1 (Denovali)
17. Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls (Profound Lore)
18. Container – LP (Spectrum Spools)
19. Void Boys – Glamorpus (Introvert Records)
20. Mishka Shubaly – Coward’s Path (In Music We Trust Records)
21. Pyramids – A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore)
22. Nova Heart – Nova Heart (Fake Music Media)
23. Monecho – Past Waters / Fever Lives (Independent Release)
24. Filter Distortion – Transition (Independent)
25. Wildhoney – Sleep Through It (Deranged)

Cheryl's list

1. Mg?a – Exercises In Futility (Northern Heritage)
2. Shape of Despair – Monotony Fields (Season of Mist)
3. Tribulation – Children Of The Night (Century Media)
4. Panopticon – Autumn Eternal (Bindrune Recordings)
5. Deafheaven – New Bermuda (Anti)
6. Grave Pleasures – Dreamcrash (Metal Blade)
7. Leviathan – Scar Sighted (Profound Lore)
8. Secrets Of The Moon – Sun (Prophecy Productions)
9. Dead To A Dying World – Litany (Gilead Media)
10. Paradise Lost – The Plague Within (Century Media)
11. Bell Witch – Four Phantoms (Profound Lore)
12. Abyssal – Antikatastaseis (Profound Lore Records)
13. Skepticism – Ordeal (Svart Records)
14. Amorphis – Under The Red Cloud (Nuclear Blast)
15. Barshasketh – Ophidian Henosis (Blut & Eisen Productions)
16. Pyramids – A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore)
17. Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista Recordings)
18. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed (Counsouling Sounds)
19. Bosse-De-Nage – All Fours (Profound Lore Records)
20. Akhlys – The Dreaming I (Blood Music)
21. Drudkh – A Furrow Cut Short (Season of Mist)
22. Misþyrming – Söngvar elds og óreiðu (Terratur Possessions )
23. Locrian – Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
24. Yellow Eyes – Sick With Bloom (Gilead Media)
25. Pinkish Black – Bottom of the Morning (Relapse Records)

Kevin Fitzpatrick's list

1. Faith No More – Sol Invictus (Reclamation Recordings/Ipecac)
2. Le Butcherettes – A Raw Youth (Ipecac)
3. Sunn O))) – Kannon (Southern Lord)
4. Sleaford Mods – Key Markets (Harbinger Sound)
5. Queensrÿche – Condition Hüman (Century Media)
6. Motörhead – Bad Magic (UDR)
7. Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi (Atlantic)
8. The Hussy – Galore (Southpaw Records)
9. Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls (Profound Lore)
10. Warhorse – As Heaven Turns To Ash... (Southern Lord)
11. Anti-Flag – American Spring (Spinefarm Records)
12. Leviathan – Scar Sighted (Profound Lore)
13. Zombi – Shape Shift (Relapse)
14. Built To Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
15. The Dwarves – Gentleman Blag (Fat Wreck Chords)
16. John Carpenter – Lost Themes (Sacred Bones)
17. Steve Von Till – A Life Unto Itself (Neurot Recordings)
18. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love (Sub Pop)
19. The Sonics – This is The Sonics (Revox Records)
20. Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista Recordings)

Loren's list

1. Worriers – Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
2. Swami John & The Blind Shake – Modern Surf Classics (Swami)
3. Night Birds – Mutiny at Muscle Beach (Fat Wreck Chords)
4. Bangers – Bird (Specialist Subject Records)
5. Basement Benders – Lydiad (No Idea)
6. Great Cynics – I Feel Weird (Specialist Subject Records)
7. Radioactivity – Silent Kill (Dirtnap)
8. Birthday Suits – Adult Party: Spin the Bottle (Recess)
9. Underground Railroad To Candyland – The People Are Home (Recess)
10. Loud Boyz – Tough Love, Hard Feelings (Cricket Cemetery Records)
11. Mixed Blood Majority – Insane World (Doomtree)
12. Faith No More – Sol Invictus (Reclamation Recordings/Ipecac)
13. Pronto – self-titled (Slovenly)
14. Warm Needles – Inconsolable (Tour Van Records)
15. Western Settings – Yes It Is (La Escalera)
16. The Hussy – Galore (Southpaw Records)
17. Murder By Death – Big Dark Love (Bloodshot)
18. Hannahband – Retirement (Art As Catharsis)
19. Shadow in the Cracks – Timeless (Goner Records)
20. War on Women – self-titled (Bridge Nine)
21. Chokecherry – The Future Was a Long Time Ago (Independent)
22. Deafheaven – New Bermuda (Anti)
23. Built To Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
24. Swingin' Utters – Fistful of Hollow (Fat Wreck Chords)
25. Timeshares – Already Dead (Side One Dummy)

Matt's list

1. The Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird Is Home (Dead Oceans)
2. Tame Impala – Currents (Modular)
3. Sleaford Mods – Key Markets (Harbinger Sound)
4. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
5. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg)
6. Tobias Jesso Jr. – Goon (Arts & Crafts)
7. Royal Headache – High (What's Your Rupture?)
8. Jaga Jazzist – Starfire (Ninja Tune)
9. Public Service Broadcasting – The Race For Space (Test Card Recordings)

Nathan G. O'Brien's list

1. G.L.O.S.S. – Demo (Not Normal Tapes)
2. Apollo Brown – Grandeur (Mello Music Group)
3. Dawn of Humans – Slurping at the Cosmos Spine (Toxic State Records)
4. Guilty Simpson – Detroit's Son (Stones Throw Records)
5. King Khan & BBQ Show – Bad News Boys (In The Red)
6. Barcelona – Extremo Nihilismo En Barcelona (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos Punk)
7. Starvin B – The Foreigner (Sickside)
8. Institute – Catharsis (Sacred Bones)
9. Malik B & Mr. Green – Unpredictable (Enemy Soil)
10. La Misma – Kanizadi (Toxic State Records)
11. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge – Twelve Reasons To Die II (Linear Labs)
12. Gay Kiss – Preservation Measures (Sorry State)
13. Grand Invincible – Menace Mode (Megakut Records)
14. Red Death – Permanant Exile (Grave Mistake Records)
15. Czarface (Inspectah Deck and 7L & Esoteric) – Every Hero Needs a Villain (Brick Records)
16. Diat – Positive Energy (Iron Lung Records)
17. DJ EFN – Another Time (Crazy Hood Productions)
18. Broken Prayer – Misanthropocentric AKA Droid's Blood (Sorry State)
19. Gangrene (Alchemist & Oh-No) – You Disgust Me (Mass Appeal)
20. Decades/Failures – Goodbye (Dead Tank Records)
21. Paul Nice & Phil Most Chill – Fabreeze Brothers (AE Productions)
22. L.O.T.I.O.N. – Digital Control and Man's Obsolescence (Toxic State Records)
23. Ratking – 700 Fill (XL Recordings)
24. Vaaska – Todos Contra Todos (Beach Impediment)
25. No – Treating People Like They Don't Exist (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos Punk)

Spyros Stasis's list

1. Blind Idiot God – Before Ever After (Indivisible)
2. The Necks – Vertigo (Northern Spy)
3. Dodheimsgard – A Umbra Omega (Peaceville)
4. Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls (Profound Lore)
5. Wrekmeister Harmonies – Night of Your Ascension (Thrill Jockey)
6. Lycia – A Line That Connects (Handmade Birds)
7. Sumac – The Deal (Profound Lore)
8. Weeping Rat – Tar (Handmade Birds)
9. Bell Witch – Four Phantoms (Profound Lore)
10. Mastery – VALIS (Flenser)
11. Yellow Eyes – Sick With Bloom (Gilead Media)
12. Krallice – Ygg Huur (Avantgarde Music)
13. Minsk – The Crash & The Draw (Relapse)
14. Pinkish Black – Bottom of the Morning (Relapse Records)
15. Sannhet – Revisionist (The Flenser)
16. Leviathan – Scar Sighted (Profound Lore)
17. Locrian – Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
18. Pyramids – A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore)
19. Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum (Neurot Recordings)
20. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
21. Theologian – A Means By Which To Break The Surface of The Real (Nothing Under The Sun)
22. Deafheaven – New Bermuda (Anti)
23. Mamaleek – Via Dolorosa (Flenser)
24. Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey)
25. Daniel Menche & Mamiffer – Crater (Sige)