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90. Lingua Ignota – Holy Is The Name (Of My Ruthless Axe) Kristin Hayter first made an impression through her work with the body. The at once beautiful and violently commanding strenght of her voice gave rise to many of the finest moments of the newest output of No One Deserves Happiness and I Have Fought Against It . Her solo work as Lingua Ignota is as pressuring to be comprehended and positions toward in the same way. Self-released in 2017, Profound Lore gave All Bitches Die a major release this year and thus it is only right to highlight the intensity of “Holy is The Name (Of My Ruthless Axe”. Closing an album of industrial electronics mixed with metal and operatic vocal styles, “Holy Is The Name” is a nocturnal and transcendental conclusion. Hayters performance opens towards the operatic and ecclesial music while still grappling with rape and sexual violence in the framework of vengeance. It brilliantly captures the exhaustion of laying down between cold bodies of your aggre...

00. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly Before entering the last part of the top albums of 2015, I have to name my one and only honorable mention. My zero of this list, To Pimp A Butterfly could have taken any spot of the following, but I want to make different point with this mention. You can read about the complexity, the huge message and meanings of To Pimp A Butterfly on a bunch of articles and reviews. To cut it short: You´ll have to listen to this record, read and study the lyrics. It´s no coincidence that “Alright” has become a common chant of black protestors and got panned by white media for inciting violence. What Kendrick has crafted, demands attention and breaches the boundaries of music.  Surely, music has political charge, if implicit or explicit, it can incite thoughts and action, just as art is meant to do. But, and this is my point, To Pimp A Butterfly is more art, than music meant for consumption. This record should be included into history less...

40. Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone? ( Are You Alone? ) This song is just pure bliss. It´s descriptive power, it´s intricate message of human sadness and the interpersonal longing for understanding and being understood. What Majical Cloudz have crafted here is more then just a simple song, it´s a glittering questioning of what feeling sad and forlorn means and views this through the lens of an onlooker, a close friend seeing the pain of his loved one. In its sweet melodies and hazy atmosphere, the words will hit you the hardest. Are You Alone might be one of the best example of crafting a song with as few elements as possible and of writing a deep song with the simpelst words there are without becoming cheesy or redundant. 39. Humeysha – Burma Between You And Me ( Humeysha ) This is one artists, you´ll just have to check out this year! The approach of mixing, in the widest sense, Indian music with western "rock" music has been around for quite sometime....