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Top 10 Debut LPs

Posted on January 8, 2015

  • Alvvays – S/T (Polyvinyl)
  • Pup – S/T (Side One Dummy)
  • Sylvan Esso – S/T (Partisan)
  • Foxing – The Albatross (Triple Crown)
  • Jungle – S/T (XL)
  • Adult Jazz – Gist Is (Spare Thought)
  • Los Angeles Police Department – S/T (Forged Artifacts)
  • MØ – No Mythologies To Follow (Sony)
  • Benjamin Booker – S/T (ATO)
  • Glass Animals – Zaba (Wolf Tone)

Top 5 Debut EPs

  • Small Wonder – Wendy (Father/Daughter)
  • Courtney Bartnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (Mom+Pop)
  • Sun Club – Dad Claps At The Mom Prom (Goodnight)
  • Joywave – How Do You Feel? (Cultco)
  • Erik Hassle – Somebody’s Party (Record Company)

Top 10 Local Releases

  • Cocktails – Adult Life (Father/Daughter)
  • City Tribe – Undertow (S/R)
  • Painted Palms – Forever (Polyvinyl)
  • Cathedrals – S/T (Neon Gold)
  • Doncat – Don Gato (S/R)
  • The Soft White Sixties – GET RIGHT. (S/R)
  • Doe Eye – TELEVISION (S/R)
  • Everyone Is Dirty – Dying Is Fun (Tricycle)
  • Grow & Twine – Wind Fool (S/R)
  • Travis Hayes – Young Daze (S/R)

5 Amazing Local Shows (Not including festival sets) out of a grand total of 120

  • We Were Promised Jetpacks – Bimbos 2/22, 11/4
  • John Moreland – Night Light 3/25, 11/14
  • MØ – Rickshaw Stop 5/3
  • Typhoon – Academy of Sciences 8/7, 8/8
  • Laura Jane Grace – City Winery Napa 12/27

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