Midyear Microlist of Favorite Album of the Year Contenders

Frontrunner: Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire

The rest, alphabetically:

Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Will Butler - Policy

Mux172: June 2015

Boom.

Apologies for the last two muxes ending with very long songs. Or, in this case, two very long songs. But it makes sense... I think.

1. The Tallest Man On Earth - Darkness of the Dream (Dark Bird Is Home)
2. Will Butler - Son of God (Policy)
3. Toro Y Moi - Spell It Out (What For?)
4. Hot Chip - Love Is The Future (Why Make Sense?)
5. Crystal Castles - Not In Love (Album Version) (Crystal Castles II)
6. Blanck Mass - Atrophies (Dumb Flesh)
7. Prefuse 73 - Infrared (feat. Sam Dew) (Rivington Nao Rio)
8. RJD2 - Chicken-Bone Circuit (Dead Ringer)
9. Kendrick Lamar - How Much A Dollar Cost (feat. James Fauntleroy and Ronald Isley) (To Pimp A Butterfly)
10. Four Tet - First Thing (Rounds)
11. DJ Shadow - Stem / Long Stem (Endtroducing...)
12. Viet Cong - Death (Viet Cong)

TRT 56:42

Rookies: Blanck Mass

2015 music: Blanck Mass, Hot Chip, Kendrick Lamar, Prefuse 73, The Tallest Man On Earth, Toro Y Moi, Viet Cong, Will Butler