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Sure enough, even this blissful record must come to an end. Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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Unless you just put it on repeat forever. Worth considering.

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largely thanks to Legrand’s woozing synths and Scally’s guitar flourishes. Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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Although Depression Cherry is relatively stripped back compared to Bloom, Beach House still took the opportunity to expand their repertoire: for example, “Days Of Candy” features a small choir to beautiful effect.

“We brought in eight or nine 19-22 year-olds from Pearl River, Mississippi to sing it. They were really sweet people. To share something that you’re working on with people you’ve never met before and then have them perform it… honestly for us it was a very, very special day. They didn’t have any idea who we were, which was another cool element of it.”
- Victoria Legrand, speaking to NME

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the unhinged power of Freddie Mercury in Queen’s early prog-metal stage. Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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Dismiss Queen as a power-pop band at your own risk.

Queen II is arguably the most underrated album of the 70s, although there are times, particularly on Brian May’s songs, when the lyrics are a bit under-written. A Night At The Opera also shows Mercury at his best, particularly on “The Prophet’s Song” and, of course, “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

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classical instruments blending incredibly seamlessly with ultra-modern dubstep. Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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One of Sundfør’s hallmarks is the lengthy mid-album classical suite, and ten-minute “Memorial” is her finest yet, as well as her most ambitious. The lengthy instrumental break outshines some incredibly vivid lyrics:

Blasting, Blazing
Stars exploding
A cosmic war raging in the sky
But all I could hear was your last goodbye
I dreamt the gods descended
I dreamt that time had ended

Personally, this song soundtracked the highlights of the final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown, which was comfortably my favourite book of 2015.

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memorial is sooooo good

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Although the album has an electronic backbone, Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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Röyksopp and M83 have both sought Susanne for collaborations in the past year, but Ten Love Songs is closer in sound to club anthems than their rock-based electronica. In a move that would have John Stuart Mill scratching his head, Sundfør takes a style that is usually perceived as hedonistic, and treats it like high art. The result is much more impressive than “guitar music without the guitars”.

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“and treats it like high art.” Ooh, makes the Natalie Prauss comparison make even more sense.

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She may knock her singing voice, Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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Prass regularly mentions that she doesn’t think her voice is pretty enough, although it’s frequently praised by reviewers. “Soaring” is used a lot.

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and some of her imagery is visceral. Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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On the fittingly-named “Violently”:

And I’ll break all my bones
Cause they all, they all want you

Brock is very proud of publicly making the connection to “Your Love Is Killing Me” by Sharon Van Etten before Pitchfork did so in their review of Natalie Prass. Van Etten’s lyric:

Break my legs so I won’t walk to you
Cut my tongue so I can’t talk to you
Burn my skin so I can’t feel you
Stab my eyes so I can’t see

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Matthew E. White’s fingerprints. Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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White and Prass were at school together. Prass was about to give up on music and start making jumpers for dogs, until she heard White’s new music and was awestruck:

The music was really special, I have a loyalty to Virginia, I thought that it would probably be an extremely good match. And we met and it just made sense. It was so easy making the album, very easy, extremely easy. It’s really amazing what happened.
- interview with The Guardian

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that’s exactly what Spacebomb Records did with Natalie Prass. Genius – 20 Best Albums of 2015

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The release of Natalie Prass was delayed for so long because Spacebomb couldn’t promote it and label owner Matthew E. White’s Big Inner.

The two records are very similar, and it’s impossible to understand one without the other. They both make extensive use of Spacebomb’s session musicians and in-house arrangers. There’s no doubt, however, that Prass is the stronger songwriter.

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