Staff Lists 2015

Art: John Williams

Brent Ables

1. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
2. Grimes :: Art Angels
3. Destroyer :: Poison Season
4. Drake :: If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
5. Julia Holter :: Have You In My Wilderness
6. Jenny Hval :: Apocalypse, Girl
7. Vince Staples :: Summertime ’06
8. Sufjan Stevens :: Carrie & Lowell
9. Dr. Dre :: Compton
10. Frog Eyes :: Pickpocket’s Locket

Christopher Alexander

1. Kendrick Lamar :: To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Grimes :: Art Angels
3. Miguel :: Wildheart
4. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
5. Jason Isbell :: Something More Than Free
6. Sleater-Kinney :: No Cities to Love
7. Vince Staples :: Summertime ’06
8. Sufjan Stevens :: Carrie & Lowell
9. Zu :: Cortar Todo
10. Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

Alan Baban

1. Jim O’Rourke :: Simple Songs
2. Oneohtrix Point Never :: Garden of Delete
3. Helm :: Olympic Mess
4. Joanna Newsom :: Divers
5. Destroyer :: Poison Season
6. Hieroglyphic Being :: We Are Not the first
7. Jlin :: Dark Energy
8. Major Games :: Major Games
9. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
10. Levantis :: Romantic Psychology

Corey Beasley

1. Christian Fitness :: Love Letters in the Age of Steam
2. Grimes :: Art Angels
3. Beach House :: Depression Cherry
4. Torres :: Sprinter
5. Vince Staples :: Summertime ’06
6. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
7. Drake :: If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
8. Carly Rae Jepsen :: E*MO*TION
9. Jamie xx :: In Colour
10. MUNA :: Soundcloud Singles

11. Joanna Newsom :: Divers
12. MAS YSA :: Seraph
13. Kendrick Lamar :: To Pimp a Butterfly
14. HEALTH :: DEATH MAGIC
15. Jenny Hval :: Apocalypse, girl
16. Natalie Prass :: Natalie Prass
17. Dilly Dally :: Sore
18. Julia Holter :: Have You in My Wilderness
19. Hop Along :: Painted Shut
20. Empress Of :: Me

21. Julien Baker :: Sprained Ankle
22. Anthony Naples :: Body Pill
23. Bicep :: Just EP
24. Eskimeaux :: O.K.
25. Holly Herndon :: Platform
26. Dawn Richard :: Blackheart
27. Main Attrakionz :: 808s & Dark Grapes III
28. Beach House :: Thank Your Lucky Stars
29. Jason Isbell :: Something More Than Free
30. Waxahatchee :: Ivy Tripp

Chet Betz

1. Kendrick Lamar :: To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Vince Staples :: Summertime ’06
3. Julia Holter :: Have You In My Wilderness
4. Boogie :: The Reach
5. .L.W.H. :: Twelve Living Generations
6. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
7. Main Attrakionz :: 808s and Dark Grapes III
8. Jenny Hval :: Apocalypse, girl
9. Jamie XX :: In Colour
10. Violent Mae :: Kid

Jordan Cronk

1. Prurient :: Frozen Niagara Falls
2. Jamie xx :: In Colour
3. Holly Herndon :: Platform
4. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
5. Deafheaven :: New Bermuda
6. Torres :: Sprinter
7. Oneohtrix Point Never :: Garden of Delete
8. Arca :: Mutant
9. Jenny Hval :: Apocalypse, girl
10. Zs :: Xe

11. Majical Cloudz :: Are You Alone?
12. Björk :: Vulnicura
13. Fred Thomas :: All Are Saved
14. Deerhunter :: Fading Frontier
15. DJ Koze :: DJ-Kicks
16. HEALTH :: Death Magic
17. Ought :: Sun Coming Down
18. Jlin :: Dark Energy
19. Hop Along :: Painted Shut
20. Joanna Newsom :: Divers

21. Colleen :: Captain of None
22. FKA twigs :: M3LL155X EP
23. Julia Holter :: Have You In My Wilderness
24. GABI :: Sympathy
25. Sleater-Kinney :: No Cities to Love
26. Elysia Crampton :: American Drift
27. Colin Stetson / Sarah Neufeld :: Never were the way she was
28. Phaedra :: Blackwinged Night
29. Sufjan Stevens :: Carrie & Lowell
30. Kamasi Washington :: The Epic

Adam Downer

1. Carly Rae Jepsen :: Emotion
2. Future Stoa Ltd. :: post rock on~~~
3. Kamasi Washington :: The Epic
4. Mount Eerie :: Sauna
5. Kendrick Lamar :: To Pimp a Butterfly
6. Foxing :: Dealer
7. Ariadne :: Tsalal
8. Grimes :: Art Angels
9. Skylar Spence :: Prom King
10. Kreng :: The Summoner

11. The Necks :: Vertigo
12. Jeff Rosenstock :: We Cool?
13. Hecq :: Mare Nostrum
14. Katie Dey :: asdfasdf
15. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment :: Surf
16. Hop Along :: Painted Shut
17. Ava Luna :: Infinite House
18. Tuxis Giant :: Tuxis Giant
19. Title Fight :: Hyperview
20. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong

Joel Elliott

1. Kamasi Washington :: The Epic
2. Julia Holter :: Have You in My Wilderness
3. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld :: Never Were the Way She Was
4. Kendrick Lamar :: To Pimp a Butterfly
5. Sufjan Stevens :: Carrie & Lowell
6. Low :: Ones and Sixes
7. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
8. Colleen :: Captain of None
9. Aphex Twin :: Computer-Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt. 2
10. Phaedra :: Blackwinged Night

11. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment :: Surf
12. Holly Herndon :: Platform
13. Bjork :: Vulnicura
14. Deradoorian :: The Expanding Flower Planet
15. Leila Abdul-Rauf :: Insomnia
16. Jerusalem in My Heart :: If He Dies, If If If If If
17. Oneohtrix Point Never :: Garden of Delete
18. Rachel Grimes :: The Clearing
19. Destroyer :: Poison Season
20. Beach House :: Depression Cherry

21. Mount Eerie :: Sauna
22. Joan Shelley :: Over and Even
23. Ian William Craig :: Cradle for the Wanting
24. U.S. Girls :: Half Free
25. Levon Vincent :: Levon Vincent
26. Sharon Van Etten :: I Don’t Want to Let You Down EP
27. Botany :: Dimming Awe, the Light is Raw
28. Jenny Hval :: Apocalypse, Girl
29. Pole :: Wald
30. Zs :: Xe

David M. Goldstein

1. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
2. Sleater-Kinney :: No Cities to Love
3. Jason Isbell :: Something More than Free
4. Torres :: Sprinter
5. Veruca Salt :: Ghost Notes
6. Alabama Shakes :: Sound and Color
7. Tame Impala :: Currents
8. Kendrick Lamar :: To Pimp a Butterfly
9. New Order :: Music Complete
10. My Morning Jacket :: The Waterfall

11. Chemical Brothers :: Born in the Echoes
12. Vince Staples :: Summertime ’06
13. Deerhunter :: Fading Frontier
14. Florence + The Machine :: How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
15. Foals :: What Went Down
16. Heartless Bastards :: Restless Ones
17. Ought :: Sun Coming Down
18. Royal Headache :: High
19. Vulfpeck :: Thrill of the Arts
20. Chris Stapleton :: Traveler

Maura McAndrew

1. Courtney Barnett :: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
2. Girlpool :: Before the World Was Big
3. Jessica Pratt :: On Your Own Love Again
4. Kenny Knight :: Crossroads
5. Juan Wauters :: Who Me?
6. Built to Spill :: Untethered Moon
7. Denny Lile :: Hear the Bang
8. The Weather Station :: Loyalty
9. Joanna Newsom :: Divers
10. Sleater-Kinney :: No Cities to Love

11.Christian Fitness :: Love Letters in the Age of Steam
12. Mountain Goats :: Beat the Champ
13. Sufjan Stevens :: Carrie & Lowell
14. Waxahatchee :: Ivy Tripp
15. Le Butcherettes :: A Raw Youth

Colin McGowan

1. Earl Sweatshirt :: I Don’t Like Shit I Don’t Go Outside
2. Young Thug :: Barter 6
3. L.W.H. :: Twelve Living Generations
4. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
5. Jamie xx :: In Colour
6. Ratking :: 700 Fill EP
7. Boogie :: The Reach
8. Destroyer :: Poison Season
9. Joanna Newsom :: Divers
10. Future :: Dirty Sprite 2

Clayton Purdom

1. Earl Sweatshirt :: I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
2. Vince Staples :: Summertime ’06
3. Drake :: If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
4. Grimes :: Art Angels
5. Jamie xx :: In Colour
6. Main Attrakionz :: 808s & Dark Grapes III
7. Boogie :: The Reach
8. Ratking :: 700 Fill EP
9. Lucki Eck$ :: X
10. Julia Holter :: Have You in My Wilderness

Scott Reid

1. Holly Herndon :: Platform
2. Julia Holter :: Have You in My Wilderness
3. Viet Cong :: Viet Cong
4. Vince Staples :: Summertime 06
5. Grimes :: Art Angels
6. Dawn Richard :: Blackheart
7. Jenny Hval :: Apocalypse, girl
8. Oneohtrix Point Never :: Garden of Delete
9. Kendrick Lamar :: To Pimp a Butterfly
10. Ian William Craig :: Cradle for the Wanting

11. Main Attrakionz :: 808s & Dark Grapes III
12. Kamasi Washington :: The Epic
13. Frog Eyes :: Pickpocket’s Locket
14. Floating Points :: Elaenia
15. Jamie xx :: In Color
16. Nicolas Jaar :: Pomegranates / Nymphs EPs
17. Mount Eerie :: Sauna
18. Weather Station :: Loyalty
19. .L.W.H. :: 12 Living Generations
20. Faith Healer :: Cosmic Troubles

21. Boogie :: The Reach
22. Phaedra :: Blackwinged Night
23. Majical Cloudz :: Are You Alone?
24. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld :: Never Were the Way She Was
25. Empress Of :: Me
26. Matana Roberts :: Coin Coin Chapter 3
27. Arca :: Mutant
28. Future Stoa :: post-rock on~~~
29. A Sunny Day in Glasgow :: Planning Weed Like It’s Acid / Life is Loss
30. Roommate :: Make Like

Dom Sinacola

1. Holly Herndon :: Platform
2. Vince Staples :: Summertime ’06
3. Carly Rae Jepsen :: E.mo.tion
4. Oneohtrix Point Never :: Garden of Delete
5. Majical Cloudz :: Are You Alone?
6. (Viet Cong) :: Viet Cong
7. Main Attrakionz :: 808s and Dark Grapes III
8. Dawn Richard :: Blackheart
9. Natasha Kmeto :: Inevitable
10. Boogie :: The Reach

11. Kendrick Lamar :: To Pimp a Butterfly
12. Phaedra :: Blackwinged Night
13. Kara-lis Coverdale :: Aftertouches
14. Roommate :: Make Like
15. HEALTH :: Death Magic
16. Skylar Spence :: Prom King
17. Nicolas Jaar :: Nymphs EPs
18. Freddie Gibbs :: Shadow of a Doubt
19. Future :: DS2
20. Jamie xx :: In Colour

21. Julia Holter :: Have You In My Wilderness
22. Deerhunter :: Fading Frontier
23. Frog Eyes :: Pickpocket’s Locket
24. Dr. Dre :: Compton
25. FIS :: The Blue Quicksand is Going Now
26. Jerusalem in My Heart :: If He Dies, If If If If If If
27. Floating Points :: Elaenia
28. Ian William Craig :: Cradle for the Wanting
29. Jim O’Rourke :: Simple Songs
30. Built to Spill :: Untethered Moon

Robin Smith

1. Ian William Craig :: Cradle for the Wanting
2. Eric Chenaux :: Skullsplitter
3. Beach House :: Depression Cherry
4. Strie :: Struktura
5. John Chantler :: Still light, Outside
6. Kara-Lis Coverdale & Lxv :: Sirens
7. Grimes :: Art Angels
8. Danny Clay :: Ganymede
9. Raica :: Dose
10. Jerusalem in my Heart :: If He Dies, if if if if if

11. Anna Caragnano and Donato Dozzy :: Sintetizzatrice
12. Matana Roberts :: Coin Coin Ch. 3
13. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld :: Never were the way she was
14. Cloud Rat :: Qlilpoth
15. Anna von Hausswolff :: The Miraculous
16. Sufjan Stevens :: Carrie & Lowell
17. Nicolas Jaar :: Pomegranates
18. GLOSS :: GLOSS
19. Jme :: Integrity
20. Julia Holter :: Have You in My Wilderness

21. Jenny Hval :: Apocalypse, girl
22. Helen :: The Original Faces
23. Ava Luna :: Infinite House
24. Gordon Ashworth :: The One You Love and Cannot Trust
25. Tinashe :: Anthemyst
26. Stara Rzeka :: zamkenly sie oczy ziemni
27. Christina Vantzou :: No. 3
28. Spheruleus :: Peripheres
29. Steve Hauschildt :: Where All is Fled
30. Sarah Davachi :: Baron’s Court