Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness [2015]

Holter has released high quality music in the past, with songs like the hauntingly bleak and string filled “World” being a highlight off of her last LP, Loud City Song, which was released in 2013. However, with Have You In My Wilderness, the singer/songwriter seems to have taken it up another level. Holter’s latest record features great string arrangements, graceful piano playing and a tasteful use of just the right amount of echo on the primary and background vocals.

Versis - Copæsthetic [2015]

L.A. rapper Versis debuted with iLLCANDESCENT, an excellent album that showed a maturity and confidence far beyond his young age. He skillfully rhymed over airy atmospheric boom-bap production that had tasteful jazzy samples. Five years later, he returned with the brief and effective twenty minutes of Copæsthetic.