The Best Of 2015. 10x10

In terms of longplays it was some kind of a martyr for me to choose the better albums out of the good ones. I've spent hours and hours after hours writing and re-writing the lists. What you see below is the result of many iterations.
So let's go. The 10th place, ten albums, 10x10.

Los Rusos Hijos De Puta "La Rabia Que Sentimos Es El Amor Que Nos Quitan" (p)self-released Listen/Buy

La Perra De Pavlov "Cronica De Un Movimiento" (p)self-released

AMA "Nada Dos Veces" (p)Jabalina Listen/Buy

Perro "Estudias, Navajas" (p)Miel De Moscas Listen/Buy

Bye Bye Lullaby "Origen" (p)self-released Buy

WANN "We Knew It Was You" (p)self-released Listen

Grushenka "La Insoportable Levedad Del Ser" (p)El Genio Equivocado Listen/Buy

Hazte Lapon "No Son Tu Marido" (p)El Genio Equivocado Listen/Buy

Tulsa "La Calma Chicha" (p)Gran Derby Buy Listen

Vacaciones "Soy Tu Fan" (p)Discos De Kirlian Listen/Buy

• The second effort of Argentinean garage/noise punks Los Rusos Hijos De Puta (how could I discard the band with such the name!?) is less psychotic and more controlled than their "Hola" EP that was released 2 years ago. And their song "Fan" is the one you definitely are to listen to. 
• La Perra De Pavlov seems to me a fake pop band in the best sense of the term "fake pop": actually they make pop music in the vein of Two Door Cinema Club but their rock roots are not fully hidden in the sand. The tracks "Huellas" and "Retratos" are the evidences.
• The tight and moody indie pop of AMA's "Nada Dos Veces" was the constant in my playlist all the year through, and most likely will continue to live in there.
• The Murcian noise popsters Perro have released their best release to-date. Being the longtime fan of such bands as Enon and Skeleton Key as well as of many post-hardcore bands, I can embrace the music of "Estudias, Navajas" pretty easily.
• Bye Bye Lullaby impressed me much by their performance on Sonorama 2015. So I've purchased their album "Origen" in iTunes immediately by return a la casa. There is a couple of the traditionalist country tracks ("Gravedad Cero", for example) on the album, but on the most part of "Origen" the band successfully manages to widen the borders of the genre to make more interesting and diversified music. 
• The members of the post-hardcore duo WANN name the releases of the labels Polyvinyl, Jade Tree, Deep Elm and Dischord amongst their main influences. This means alot to me. The place where the new album "We Knew It Was You" was recorded means to me even more. "Recorded, mixed and mastered in La Caterva Grabaciones (Telde, Gran Canaria) by Jose A. Lopez". Just look in the liner notes of Pumuky's "Justicia Poetica".
• The second longplay of the twee/nugaze quintet Grushenka sounds like the twin brother of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart's debut. Sincerity in every note.
• To name the folk pop duo Hazte Lapon a folk pop duo is the wrong way because Hazte Lapon is some kind of avant garde folk pop duo. In fact the band is beyond all borders and is quite difficult to be categorized. The new album is diversified yet tight music that has folk pop only as a base for planting the strangely attractive with-the-smile-in-the-corner-of-the-mouth compositions above it. 
• Miren Iza was silent for enough time to start to miss her. This year she has returned with the new release, and "La Calma Chicha" is the major step aside from her previous country/folk-based releases. Now her music is the somber inward-looking experimental rock with the leanings to the likes as Marina & The Diamonds or Joanna Newsom. 
• 13 years were gone since the previous effort of twee/indie pop combo Vacaciones. This indie-pop-how-it-should-sound-like album "Soy Tu Fan" was released through the bookstore-turned-record label Discos de Kirlian, and now the band runs the crowdfunding campaign to release it physically as LP.

Grushenka "La Insoportable Levedad Del Ser"

Grushenka "La Insoportable Levedad Del Ser" (p)2015 El Genio Equivocado

If Grushenka sounded like the noisy version of New Order on their first longplay "Tecnicas Subversivas", then on the newest effort "La Insoportable Levedad del Ser" (which means "The Unbearable Lightness of Being") the quintet sounds more like any of that famous C86 cassette inhabitants. Throughout the songs like the title track or "Viaje Lisergico" you can almost see the frontman Xavi being haunted by the spirit of Bob Wratten (The Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars).

As a massive Trembling Blue Stars fan I can only recommend this album to anyone who's into the quiet and intelligent indie pop/jangle pop with a bit 'who cares'-attention to the drums sound.

The best tracks: Nueva Era Existencial, Nos Encanta Hacerlo Todo Mal, La Procesion Va Por Dentro

To buy/listen: Bandcamp

Las Resenas Casuales. Grushenka "Tecnicas Subversivas"

Grushenka "Tecnicas Subversivas" (p)2012 El Genio Equivocado

Named after the female character from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Karamazov Brothers" (yes, yes, the Russian roots are detected!) Barcelona's Grushenka play noise pop. And dreampop. And twee. All in a pretty naive way. I discovered them through the Ondas Del Espacio's Los Planetas' homage CD where they reinterpreted "Mi Hermana Pequena" and were the best band I wasn't familiar with. Honestly, I should say that the Los Planetas' song being played by Grushenka sounds better than any of Grushenka's own songs. But that's not the sentence - it's just the fact ascertaining that the band makes their own songs another way, and judging them by a cover (what a word-play here!) is not the best way to consider them at all.

Stylistically, "Tecnicas Subversivas" lies somewhere halfway from Times New Viking's "Dancer Equired"(which is undoubtedly the calmest album of the usually fast and furious trio) to The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart successfully delivering the carelessness-based creative vision of the first and fragile sincerety of the second.  

The best tracks: El Mecanismo De Defensa, Punset Ya Me Lo Dija, Ese Gran Lunar De Tu Epalda