Best Rock Album of 2015

Courtney Barnett "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit"
Dengue Fever "the deepest lake"
Calexico "Edge Of The Sun"

Regarding My Morning Jacket & Death Cab For Cutie.. their latest' sound very good. My top pick right now for "best rock album" is DCFC. The differences in them as I see it, for sonics are:
MMJ = an overall feeling that this is an album that gets it's sound from studio trickery, IE: mixing, isolating individual people/instruments then adjusting accordingly, it's inconsistent.
DCFC = a very consistent sound that I find to be at least a half a notch or more above and beyond the MMJ. It sounds much, much more like I think it would sound live. Isn't this suppose to be the test?

... also, by comparison the MMJ is thick and confused it the bass to the DCFC lp.

Ryan Bingham "Fear & Saturday Night", one caveat...expect your lps to be warped. ( I've owned two copies, one was pressed so out of center that you could literally watch the tonearm move side to side a couple of times per revolution, ( when I took it back for replacement, the dealer played it back on his Crosley and could immediately hear Ryan's famous gravely voice was out of wack), my latest copy was just warped.) Notice I said, "just warped".

Of Monsters and Men "Beneath The Skin"

"Edge Of The Sun" isn't their best sonically... musically it ranks right up there, however!

Noah Gundersen "Carry The Ghost"

Dgarretson: I wish I could have been there!

As far as ("I'm hearing bands like they're (Is this really a word?) all brand new"... I totally get it!!!

Acman3: Thanks. Saw CB on Austin City Limits last night. Wow! She is the real deal. I love this lp more every time I hear it. That's pretty amazing at this stage in my life.

Blur "The Magic Whip"!

Blur "The Magic Whip"