As
at the end of every year, we ask our employees to share their favorite releases
of the year. Herein are the results of our end of year employee poll. We gave
each employee a sheet suggesting ten titles on different formats but weren’t
strict about how the numbers broke down and also weren’t strict about what
format, whether titles were new, or whether it was even music, so there’s a lot
of variety here.
This
year had the most votes for a leader that we’ve had in years – D’Angelo’s album
Black Messiah, which came out last
December after we’d already polled the staff for 2014. It garnered votes from
over a third of the staff, the most-widely picked title since Flaming Lips’ Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots back in
2002! But before it became clear that no official 2015 release was gonna catch
it, Tame Impala’s Currents, Kendrick
Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, and
Sleater-Kinney’s No Cities to Love
all were in there pitching and each of them seemed like contenders for the top
spot. And all four are worthwhile albums, to boot. Check out our individual
lists and see what your favorite employee voted for, find that person whose
tastes are in line with yours, or the one who can point you to some great new
music that you’ve never heard before.
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