I've realized I listen to an average of five hundred newly released records per year.
One of my new year's resolution is to try to double that figure and write a micro-review for each of them. A self imposed challenge. Not only will I need to listen to complete albums I would normally turn my back on after the first two songs, but also pick records and artists I would reject based on personal taste and previous experience.

Rules: Mostly none. Just one: Records first released in 2015.

This is gonna be fun… I hope.
As if I hadn't enough…

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1. subtle turnhips - redhair with some (homeless)
http://i59.tinypic.com/20t2yhi.jpg

2. ariel pink - pom pom (4AD)
http://i60.tinypic.com/10d9ta9.jpg

3. obnox - louder space (12XU)
http://i60.tinypic.com/fu28ow.jpg

4. low life - dogging (rip society)
http://i59.tinypic.com/oi7ukj.jpg

5. eastlink - eastlink (in the red)
http://i58.tinypic.com/21e5k45.jpg

6. the backstabbers - shame
http://i58.tinypic.com/w071mt.jpg

7. scrabbled - live / welcome to pig city (albert's basement / virtual cool)
http://i61.tinypic.com/2m3mw54.jpg

8. dean blunt - black metal (rough trade)
http://i60.tinypic.com/t9y0l1.jpg

9. watery love - decorative feeding (in the red)
http://i62.tinypic.com/wwgc28.jpg

10. the coneheads - total conetrol / canadian cone
http://i61.tinypic.com/14jwbnm.jpg

11. cheveu - bum (born bad records)
http://i61.tinypic.com/2nlr4fq.jpg

12.…

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you guys make it look so easy.

1. Dean Blunt - the redeemer
Ex aequo: Каменный остров
http://i40.tinypic.com/2w708co.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/29cp8g5.jpg
2. matana roberts - coin coin chapter two: mississippi moonchile
http://i61.tinypic.com/tyyjk.jpg
3. Satanic Rockers - fu kung
http://i43.tinypic.com/9h6o80.jpg
4. spray paint - spray paint
Ex aequo: rodeo songs
http://i48.tinypic.com/2d0xtn9.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/r8t26s.jpg
5. ausmuteants - ah… what an ugly face every face is
Ex aequo: amusements
http://i42.tinypic.com/2q3137b.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/oftysw.jpg
6. Cuntz - aloha
Ex aequo: solid mates
http://i48.tinypic.com/9t1lhe.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/2vimr5y.jpg
7. tony molina - dissed and dismissed
http://i39.tinypic.com/c2s1c.jpg
8. Connections - private airplane
Ex aequo: body language
http://i47.tinypic.com/mcaj5c.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/2qvflok.jpg…

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1. cheater slicks: Reality is a grape (columbus discount)
http://i49.tinypic.com/2qnsgly.jpg
2. dan melchior: Excerpts and half-speeds (kye)
http://i45.tinypic.com/2sb8kch.jpg
3. Spacin': Deep thuds (richie)
http://i46.tinypic.com/1o37n4.jpg
4. Wadada Leo Smith: Ten freedom summers (cuneiform)
http://i49.tinypic.com/2ms1npt.jpg
5. secular joy: Made for better things
http://i45.tinypic.com/k46lh3.jpg
6. blank realm: Go easy (siltbreeze)
http://i50.tinypic.com/1zlevr7.jpg
7. Parquet courts: Light up gold (what's your rapture?)
http://i45.tinypic.com/2dratj6.jpg
8. useless eaters: C'est bon! (southpaw)
http://i49.tinypic.com/b6y23k.jpg
9. the uv race: Racism (in the red)
http://i50.tinypic.com/2kiwqd.jpg
10. jens lekman: I know what love isn't (secretly canadian)
http://i47.tinypic.com/2j29fd4.jpg
11. the mad scene…

I'm only listing five and four larries, which stand for extraordinary and very good.

Having said that…

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1. Dan Melchior:
Assemblage blues (siltbreeze)
http://i57.tinypic.com/rvdjtd.jpg

2. Thee Oh Sees:
Carrion crawler/The dream (in the red)
http://i44.tinypic.com/14sgwnr.jpg

3. Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake:
Period (s-s)
http://i43.tinypic.com/6qures.jpg

4. Matana Roberts:
Coin coin chapter one: Gens de couleur libres (constellation)
http://i53.tinypic.com/122ezxh.jpg

5. Alvarius B:
Baroque primitiva (poon village)
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/1966/pv006lp.jpg

6. Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine:
Suppléments de mensonge (columbia)
http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/3083/thiefaine.jpg

7. Psandwich:
Northren psych (columbus discount)
http://i40.tinypic.com/20pq0wz.jpg

8. Curren$y:
Weekend at Burnie's (warner bros)
http://i46.tinypic.com/2lj4z6f.jpg

9. Liquor…

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6294/larrydavid5.jpg

1. Sun City Girls:
Funeral Mariachi (abduction)
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8445/1292473236991tn12923317.jpg

2. The-Dream:
Love king (def jam)
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3483/5a4040a3f6dc49f181295bc.jpg

3. Earl Sweatshirt:
EARL (ofwgkta)
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1773/earl.png

4. The Red Krayola with Art & Language:
Five American portraits (drag city)
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2577/larges.jpg

5. Georgia Anne Muldrow:
Kings ballad (ubiquity)
http://i47.tinypic.com/2pye44w.jpg/img]

6. Tyler, the creator:
Bastard (ofwgkta)
http://i46.tinypic.com/2moz4w7.jpg

7. Arnaud Fleurent-Didier:
La reproduction (columbia/la musique du film)
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3720/200x200c.png

8. Kanye West:
My beautiful dark twisted fantasy (g.o.o.d)
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1677/30507481.jpg

9. Sufjan Stevens:
The age of adz (asthmatic kitty)
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2960/akr077aoa350.jpg

10. Gary Wilson:
Electric Endicott (western vinyl)
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/3328/31329681.jpg

11.…

The Excellence :

1. Georgia Anne Muldrow:
Umsindo (SomeOthaShip/E1)
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9771/510hdqbgvclss400.jpg
2. Dan Melchior's Broke Revue:
O'clouds unfold! (hook or crook)
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/9931/folderwik.jpg
3. Broadcast & The Focus Group:
Investigate witch cults of the radio age (warp)
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/2536/warplp189packshot480.jpg
4. Lo Moda:
Replica watches (creative capitalism)
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9659/20034681.jpg
5. Sufjan Stevens:
The BQE (asthmatic kitty)
http://i48.tinypic.com/mm66vm.jpg
6. Richard Youngs:
Beyond the valley of ultrahits (sonic oyster)
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2982/r18244231245924398.jpg
7. Keith Rowe:
Erstlive 007: AMPLIFY 2008: Light Festival(erstwhile)
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/1089/1976932.jpg
8. Kurt Vile:
God is saying this to you? (mexican summer)
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5584/2202161.jpg
9. Brigitte Fontaine:
Prohibition (polydor)
http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5534/brigittefontaineprohibii.jpg…

"The Excellence":

1. The Legendary Pink Dots
Plutonium blonde (roir)
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/2346/folderzu2xm2.jpg

2. excepter
Debt Dept. (paw tracks)
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6677/1203814lr0.jpg

3. Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet
The Breadwinner (erstwhile)
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1539/1435793ve2.jpg

4. Landed
How little will it take (load)
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8094/landedhlwitcoverbf8.jpg

5. jim ford
Point of no return: Previously unreleased masters, a lost 45 & rare demos (bear family)
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8300/jimforday1.jpg

6. prurient
Arrowhead (mego)
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5330/emego091ft3.jpg

7. Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra
Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra (thrill jockey)
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7367/billdixonhr4.jpg

8. Otomo Yoshihide
Core anode (meenna)
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/8848/coreanodevm2.jpg

9. The Magic I.D.
Till my breath gives out (erstwhile)
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2160/magicidic7.png

10. singer
Unhistories (drag city)…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy14g1jtW9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkqfJKvf36k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-z1bP4mcKY