Here’s the last monthly Echoes Top 25 for 2015. Predictably, Wax Tailor’s Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra is at the top since it was an Echoes December CD of the Month and it’s followed by Orenda Fink’s Blue Dream by virtue of her wonderful live performance on the show. This album, which I liked from the start, but just keeps growing deeper and more enticing with every listen. Interestingly, six CDs of the Month remained in the Top 25 by year’s end going all the way back to the June pick, Carl Weingarten’s beautifully detailed Life Under Stars. Thirteen of these albums were also in The Best of Echoes 2014.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR DECEMBER 2014
- Wax Tailor – Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra (Le Plan)
- Orenda Fink – Blue Dream (Saddle Creek)
- Philip Selway – Weatherhouse (PIAS America)
- Tigerforest – The Tides of Day and Night (AMAdea Records)
- Gem Club – In Roses (HARDLY ART)
- A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos (Kranky)
- Asura – Radio Universe (Ultimae Records)
- French for Rabbits – Spirits (Lefse Records)
- The Mediaeval Baebes – Of Kings and Angels (Queen of Sheeba Records)
- Thierry David – Hypnosis (Real Music)
- Angela Sheik – Home Before Dark
- Dry the River – Alarms in the Heart (PIAS America)
- Erik Scott – Spirits (Erik Scott)
- Jeff Pearce – With Evening Above (Jeff Pearce Music)
- Tim Farrell – Cascadia (Magrathea)
- Broods – Evergreen (Capitol Records)
- Carl Weingarten – Life Under Stars (Multiphase)
- Tycho – Awake (Ghostly International)
- Krishan – Kundalini Chillout – Liquid Mantra Remixes (Spirit Voyage Records)
- Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (Interscope Records)
- Low Roar – 0 (Tonequake Records)
- Banks– Goddess (Harvest)
- Boats – Boats (Boats)
- Submotion Orchestra – Alium (Counter Records)
- Pink Floyd- The Endless River (Columbia)