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2015 L.A. RECORD READER POLL
We invite all readers, fans and supporters of Los Angeles music to vote in our BEST OF 2015 poll. If you found this page, you are eligible to vote, and nominations are open: any L.A. area musician who released something in 2015 can be voted for. Bands and fans and labels are encouraged to circulate this poll to as many people as they want.
To vote, send us a list of …
UP TO TEN LOCAL FULL-LENGTHS — any album of any genre by any Los Angeles-area musician or band released on any label on any format during 2015!
UP TO TEN LOCAL SINGLES/EPs — any non-album-length material of any genre by any Los Angeles-area musician or band released on any label on any format during 2015, to include anything from like a single song released as an MP3 to 45s or EPs.
You can make the lists as detailed or as simple as you like! We will be happy to publish explanations/arguments/details of any of your choices but it’s not required if you don’t have time. All we ask is BAND NAME and ALBUM TITLE.
We would like all entries in by noon on Sun., Jan. 3, so we can tally and announce next week.
Email your picks to fortherecord@larecord.com with subject POLL!
We have also made our own list of everything local L.A. RECORD covered this year (as well as things we wanted to cover but weren’t able to) if you need to jog your memory. Below you will find close to 500 local releases. Feel free to use this as a cheat sheet!
| ALBUM LIST | ||
| ARTIST | TITLE | |
| Aceyalone | Action | |
| Adrian Younge | Linear Labs: Los Angeles | |
| Ahnnu | Perception | |
| AM + Shawn Lee | Cold Tears | |
| Baast | Dimensions | |
| Bambu | Party Worker | |
| Bell Gardens | Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions | |
| Bella Novela | Telemetry | |
| Best Coast | California Nights | |
| Billy Changer (Corners) | self-titled | |
| Black Mountain | self-titled | |
| Black Sails | Islands | |
| Blank Tapes | Geodesic Dome Piece | |
| Busdriver | Thumbs | |
| Cavanaugh | Time And Materials | |
| Cellars | Lovesick | |
| Chelsea Wolfe | Abyss | |
| Cold Showers | Matter of Choice | |
| Colleen Green | I Want To Grow Up | |
| Coromandelles | Late Bloomer's Bloomers | |
| Correatown | Embrace the Fuzzy Unknown | |
| Cotillon | self-titled | |
| Cunao | Sangre y Arena | |
| Daedelus and Kneebody | Kneedelus | |
| dakim | leftrecord2 | |
| Dam Funk | Invite The Light | |
| Dante Elephante | Anglo Saxon Summer | |
| De Lux | Generation | |
| Deantoni Parks | Technoself | |
| Deradoorian | Expanding Flower Planet | |
| Derek Castellano | A Modern Ecstasy | |
| Dexter Story | Wondem | |
| Diva | Divinity In Thee | |
| Drab Majesty | Careless | |
| Dream Syndicate | Days of Wine and Roses | |
| Drinks (Tim Presley + Cate LeBon) | Hermits on Holiday | |
| Drug Cabin | Yard Work | |
| Drug Cabin | Wiggle Room | |
| Dustin Lovelis | Dimensions | |
| Earl Sweatshirt | I Don't Like Shit … | |
| ELUDEM | Response | |
| Emily Lacy | Your Weatherbeaten Soul | |
| Empty Palace | The Serpent Between The Stars | |
| Expanders | Hustling Culture | |
| Fake Furs | Fragments | |
| Father John Misty | I Love You … | |
| Fever The Ghost | Zirconium Meconium | |
| FFS | self-titled | |
| FIDLAR | Too | |
| Flying Hair | Haunted Hangout II | |
| Fools Gold | Flying Lessons | |
| Forest of Tongue | Fancy Itch | |
| Frankie Delmane | Collected | |
| Freddie Gibbs | Shadow of a Doubt | |
| Froth | Bleak | |
| Fuzz | II | |
| Gal Pals | Velvet Rut | |
| Gangrene (Alchemist + Oh No) | You Disgust Me | |
| Gardens and Villa | Music For Dogs | |
| Ghost Noise | Our Heaven of Darkness | |
| Giovanni Marks | Double Tech Jeep Music | |
| Girlpool | Before The World Was Big | |
| GospelbeacH | Pacific Surf Line | |
| Gossamer | Automaton | |
| Grinning Ghosts | Pictures of a Parking Lot | |
| Guy Blakeslee | The Middle Sister | |
| Gypsy Mamba | Da Feenux | |
| H09909 | Horrors of 1999 | |
| Hanni El Khatib | Moonlight | |
| Health | Death Magic | |
| Henshaw Serbian | Variations In The Key … | |
| High Functioning Flesh | Definite Structures | |
| Igor Amokian | no title | |
| Jack Name | Weird Moons | |
| Jesika Von Rabbit | Journey Mitchell | |
| Jessica Pratt | On Your Own Love Again | |
| Jessie Jones | self-titled | |
| Jesus Sons | Bring It On Home | |
| Jew Cocks | Full Release | |
| Jonwayne | Here You Go 1+2 | |
| Julia Holter | Have You In My Wilderness | |
| Jungle Fire | Tropicoso | |
| Kamasi Washington | The Epic | |
| Kaufmann and Caboor | Songs From Suicide Bridge | |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp A Butterfly | |
| Knxwledge | Hud Dreems | |
| Kone | Yellowstone | |
| Korey Dane | Youngblood | |
| Lael Neale | I'll Be Your Man | |
| Little Wings | Explains | |
| Lord Huron | Strange Trails | |
| Loveydove | Showstopper | |
| Matthewdavid | Super Harvest Moon | |
| MED Blu Madlib | Bad Neighbor | |
| Media Jeweler | 99 R/T Hawaii | |
| Michael Nhat | Heads On Sticks | |
| Mikal Cronin | MCIII | |
| Mike Hudson and the Pagans | Hollywood High | |
| Mild High Club | Timeline | |
| Miles Tackett | The Fool Who Wonders | |
| Minnows | Trembles and Temperance | |
| Mystic Braves | Days of Yesteryear | |
| Natural Numbers | Field Reality Dub | |
| Night Terrors of 1927 | Everythings Coming Up Roses | |
| No Parents | May The Thirst Be With You | |
| Nosaj Thing | Fated | |
| Opio x Free The Robots | Semper Virens | |
| Peg Leg Love | Until The Night Time | |
| Pi Jacobs | Hi Rise Ranch | |
| Pink Siifu | UareL | |
| POMAR | The Chung King | |
| Queen Kwong | Get A Witness | |
| Ras G & The Koreatown Oddity | 5 Chuckles | |
| Red Space Cyrod | AM | |
| Retox | Beneath California | |
| Risa Rubin | Jewish Unicorn | |
| S. Araw Trio XI | Gazebo Effect | |
| Semi Hendrix | Breakfast at Banksys | |
| Sextile | A Thousand Hands | |
| Shock | Shock Proof | |
| SiR | Seven Sundays | |
| Sloths | Back From The Grave | |
| Smokey | How Far Will You Go? | |
| SoCal Tennis Pros | MMXV | |
| Stephen Scott Day | Fuck A Thon | |
| Summer Twins | Limbo | |
| Superhumanoids | Do You Feel OK | |
| Susan | The Eleanore Sessions | |
| Talk In Tongues | Alone With A Friend | |
| Tall Tales and the Silver Lining | Tightropes | |
| Teebs | AV ESTR | |
| The Bird and the Bee | Recreational Love | |
| The Buttertones | American Brunch | |
| The Chapin Sisters | Today's Not Yesterday | |
| The Garden | haha | |
| The Gaslamp Killer Experience | Live In Los Angeles | |
| The Intelligence | Vintage Future | |
| The Internet | Ego Death | |
| The Lions | Soul Riot | |
| The Thingz | Red Future | |
| Thee Commons | Rock Is Dead … | |
| Thee Oh Sees | Mutilator Defeated At Last | |
| Tijuana Panthers | Poster | |
| Tom Brosseau | Perfect Abandon | |
| Trabants | Freakout | |
| Traps PS | Real Corner Shock | |
| Tulips | Doom & Bloom | |
| Tuxedo | self-titled | |
| Two Sheds | Assembling | |
| Ty Segall | Ty Rex | |
| Various | Life Is | |
| Versis | copeaesthetic | |
| Vince Staples | Summertime 06 | |
| Vision | Inertia | |
| Vivians | self-titled | |
| Urinals | Next Year at Marienbad | |
| Wand | 1000 Days | |
| Wavves | V | |
| Wet & Reckless | self-titled | |
| Whisper Kitten | Unit Six Celebration | |
| White Boiz | Neighborhood Wonderful | |
| White Murder | Form Early | |
| William Alexander | Strangest Things | |
| Winter | Supreme Blue Dream | |
| W-X (Tim Presley) | self-titled | |
| Wyatt Blair | Banana Cream Dream | |
| XL Middleton | Tap Water | |
| YACHT | I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler | |
| Yppah | Bushmills | |
| yuk | a n a k | |
| Zackey Force Funk | Chrome Steel Tiger |
| EP AND SINGLE LIST | |
| ARTIST | TITLE |
| Aditi and I | Contact |
| Auscencia | self-titled |
| Blazing Eye | Ways To Die |
| Bloody Death Skull | Space Age Sock Hop |
| Bombon | A Date With … |
| Bouquet | In A Dream |
| Brainstory | A Natural Phantasm |
| Brown Irvin | No Secrets |
| Brown Irvin | Tone / Bay Fog |
| Castro | Tricks |
| Cherry Glazerr | Had Ten Dollaz |
| Cody Crump | self-titled |
| Cold Showers | Plant Life |
| Contact Field Orchestra | Mapping The Futures … |
| Corners / Morning Smoke | split |
| Cosmonauts | Doom Generation |
| Criminal Hygeine | Turpentine |
| Dabble | II |
| Death Valley Girls | Electric High |
| Death Valley Girls | Death Valley Boogie |
| Death Valley Girls | Summertime |
| Dirt Dress | Revelations |
| Dorian Wood | Hymn to Freedom |
| Duderella | Sophomore Slump |
| Dva Damas | Wet Vision |
| Eagle Nebula | Space Goddess |
| El-Haru Karoi | Ella |
| Fakers | Personality Voices |
| Fernanda Ulibarri | Polkas de Amor |
| Frankie Verdugo | self-titled |
| Fumigados | self-titled |
| Gangs | self-titled |
| Gavin Turek | You're Invited |
| GDNA | Quadrants |
| GOGGS (Ty Segall / Ex Cult / Charlie Mootheart) | She Got Harder |
| Guides | Abstract Minds |
| Hammered Satin | Reptilian / Good Girl |
| Howls | Come On |
| Intimatchine | Part Time Punks Sessions |
| Intimatchine / Glare | split |
| Isaac Rother & the Phantoms | Heebie Jeebies |
| Jackie Mendez | Introducing … |
| Junk | Like A Cop |
| Kim and the Created | Dead To Me |
| Kim and the Created | Get Go |
| L.A. Takedown | self-titled |
| LA Witch | Drive Your Car |
| LA Witch | Kill My Baby Tonight |
| Languis | Other Desert Cities |
| Levitation Room | Minds Of Our Own |
| Melted | Ziptripper |
| Mind Meld | You're Not Free |
| Mood of Defiance | In A Box |
| Moses Sumney | Seeds |
| Ned Doheny | To Prove My Love |
| Night Auditor | Drugzdilla |
| Night Audtior | Heart of Grime |
| Night Jacket | Right Way To Fall |
| Nobody | Prodigal Son |
| NxWORRIES | Link Up & Suede |
| Only You | The Pressure / Let Me Burn |
| Paul Bergmann | Romantic Thoughts |
| Pearl Charles | self-titled |
| Pharoahs | Rinse Dream |
| Popheart | More Me Less You |
| Pop Noir | Don't Fool Yourself |
| Post Life | Living Can Wait |
| Pyramid Vritra | PV4 |
| Remy Kay | In The Mourning |
| Rewrote | Letters + Numbers |
| Richard Sax Ross | Man From The Nearly Recent Future |
| Riothorse Royale | The Guest House |
| Rudy De Anda | Ostranenie |
| Rules Follow Us | Vol. 1 |
| Sadgirl | Vol. 1 |
| Sadgirl | Vol. 2 |
| Slutever | Almost Famous |
| Snakearm | Concrete |
| So Many Wizards / Tennis System | split |
| Spaceships | self-titled |
| Spare Parts For Broken Hearts | I Love You II |
| Sunshine Mind | self-titled |
| Swahili Blonde | Deities in Decline |
| Talk In Tongues | Still Don't Seem To Care |
| Tete | Newblood |
| The Cigarette Bums | Son of The Bums |
| The Molochs | Sleep In Doom |
| The Turns | self-titled |
| Thundercat | The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam |
| together PANGEA | The Phage |
| Tozcos | Existencia Aturdida |
| Tracy Bryant | The Little Things |
| Ty Segall | Mr. Face |
| Ty Segall / King Tuff | Live At Pickathon |
| Upset | 76 |
| Veronica Bianqui | If Love's A Gun … |
| Vial | self-titled |
| Vice Versa | self-titled |
| Vug Arakas | Strange Way |
| VUM | This Is The Witch |
| Wetwood Smokes | Organ Donor |
| White Magic | I'm Hiding My Nightinggale |
| Will Ivy | Scrap Plastic |
| WOKE | Lavishments … |
| Words | Earwig |
| Y Los Blancos | Don't Go Away |
| Yellow Red Sparks | New Thangs Old Pangs |
| Youth Code | Anagnorisis |
| Zig Zags | Slime |