We leave 2015 in the rear view mirror and prepare for the bold new world of 2016. Probably the biggest change here at GMR headquarters is we will be moving down the road a bit in March to Olympia. I will be preparing a new recording space and all that stuff, so hopefully we won’t get too messed up on our scheduled releases in the next few months. 
This year we are preparing to release The Navins, which we almost did a years or so ago, Liquid Generation, whose single we put out a million years ago, the Green Pajamas and King County Queens are making new album noises. I am planning to get 1-2 new Tom Dyer albums of some sort out this year and most excitingly, we are preparing to reis
sue our most obscure release ever: Joe Leonard’s Rock Opera Breath! And that’s just the stuff we know about right now. We have some other interesting possibilities that we shall just have to see how they pan out. As with each year some of that will happen and some things we haven’t even thought about will happen. How glorious!
Which brings us to the Cheaters. As you may have noticed, they made my Top 10 albums of 2015. If not, behold.
Tom Dyer’s Top 10 of 2015 – The Final Tally!
1. The Sonics – This Is The Sonics
2. Industrial Revelation – Liberation & the Kingdom of Nri
3. K. Leimer – the grey catalog
4. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
5. Chris Potter Underground Orchestra – Imaginary Cities
6. Trees and Timber – Hello, My Name is Love
7. Sam Phillips – The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll
8. D’Angelo And The Vanguard – Black Messiah
9. Minus 5 – Dungeon Golds
10. The Cheaters – see you next year fuckbrains
11. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
12. Future Fridays – From Fun-zo to Done-zo