The 10th annual Nialler9 Readers’ Poll 2015

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The Nialler9 Readers’ Poll in association with Tower Records is back for its 10th (!) year. Once again, I’m looking to find out what Irish music did it for you this year along with the best clubs, gigs, DJ and more.

You can win the following for sharing your choices.

• A selection of CDs and Vinyl from Tower Records
• Two tickets to Grimes in the Olympia
• A year-long pass for you and a friend to Lumo Club
• Two tickets to the sold out Oh Wonder Whelan’s show.

Voting closes next Wednesday.

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First, here are my favourite Irish albums and songs of the year to get you started:

Nialler9’s Irish albums of 2015

1. Jape – This Chemical Sea
2. Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
3. Anderson – Patterns
4. Le Galaxie – Le Club
5. Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys
6. Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
7. little xs for eyes – Everywhere Else
8. Ryan Vail & Ciaran Lavery – Sea Legs EP
9. Augustus & John – Above Water Hull
10. Somadrone – Oracle
11. The Mighty Stef – Year Of The Horse
12. Leo Drezden – Multi-Moment
13. Not Squares – Bolts
14. The Jimmy Cake – Master
15. Lakker – Tundra
16. Evvol – Eternalism
17. Fight Like Apes – Fight Like Apes
18. Donnacha Costello – Love From Dust
19. SOAK – Before We Forgot How To Dream
20. Young Wonder – Birth
21. Girls Names – Arms Around A Vision
22. Elephant – HyperGiant
23. Brian Deady – Non-Fiction
24. Owensie – Dramamine
25. No Monster Club – People Are Weird

Nialler9’s Irish songs of 2015

1. Bicep – ‘Just’
2. Jape – ‘Ribbon Ribbon Ribbon’
3. Shit Robot – ‘Where It’s At’ (feat. Reggie Watts)
4. All Tvvins – ‘Too Young To Live’
5. Le Galaxie – ‘Put The Chain On’
6. Saint Sister – ‘Blood Moon’
7. Murli / Rusangano Family – ‘Both Sides’
8. Talos – ‘In Time’
9. Pleasure Beach – ‘Go’
10. Roisin Murphy – ‘Evil Eyes’
11. Rusangano Family – ‘Heathrow’
12. Girl Band – ‘Paul’
13. Villagers – ‘Hot Scary Summer’
14. Bitch Falcon – ‘TMJ’
15. Anderson – ‘Cecila’s Sister’
16. EMBRZ – ‘Lights’ ft. pennybirdrabbit
17. Planet Parade – ‘Blue Sky’
18. Jape – ‘Séance Of Light’
19. Meltybrains? – ‘The Vine’
20. Fierce Mild – ‘Small Talk’
21. Hare Squead – ‘Bop With It’
22. Daithí – ‘Mary Keane’s Introduction’
23. I Have A Tribe – ‘Scandinavia’
24. MMOTHS – ‘Deu’
25. The Cyclist – ‘Hot House’
26. Augustus & John – ‘There Goes My Train’
27. Rejjie Snow – ‘Blkkst Skin’
28. Bicep & Hammer – ‘Dahlia’
29. Paddy Hanna – ‘Austria’
30. The Hard Ground – ‘Pucker’
31. Little xs for eyes – ‘Logical Love’
32. Conor Walsh – ‘The Front’
33. Tomorrows – ‘Free’
34. Enemies- ‘Play Fire’
35. Joni – ‘Running’
36. Ciaran Lavery and Ryan Vail as Sea Legs – ‘The Colour Blue’
37. All Tvvins – ‘Darkest Ocean’
38. Sinead White – ‘Better’
39. Girls Names – ‘Zero Triptych’
40. TPM – ‘All The Boys On The Dole’
41. Brian Deady – ‘A Darkness’
42. Young Wonder – ‘Sweet Dreaming’
43. Hystereo – ‘Aquarium’
44. Somadrone – ‘Oracle’
45. Maud In Cahoots – ‘Cure For The Crazy’
46. Tell No Foxx – ‘Dust’
47. Inni-K – ‘Come With Me’
48. Spies – Quincy ‘Morris’
49. Buffalo Woman – ‘U Make Me High’
50. Katie Laffan – ‘Ego’

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