Best albums of 2015

This is a list of the best albums of 2015 according to the site’s editors.
Date: December 29, December 2015

01

Julia Holter
Have You In My Wilderness

02

Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

03

Joanna Newsom
Divers

04

Laura Marling
Short Movie

05

Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly

06

Grimes
Artangels

07

UFO
A Conspiracy of Stars

08

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Chasing Yesterday

09

Kurt Vile
b’lieve i’m goin down…

10

Tame Impala
Currents

11

Lana Del Rey
Honeymoon

12

New Order
Music Complete

13

Steven Wilson
Hand.Cannot.Erase

14

Natalie Prass
Natalie Prass

15

Father John Misty
I Love You Honeybear

16

Muse
Drones

17

Florence + The Machine
How Big How Blue How Beautiful

18

Def Leppard
Def Leppard

19

Wolf Alice
My Love Is Cool

20

Ezra Furman
Perpetual Motion People

21

Róisín Murphy
Hairless Toys

22

CHVRCHES
Every Open Eye

23

Peace
Happy People

24

Rhiannon Giddens
Tomorrow Is My Turn

25

Jamie XX
In Color

26

Soko
My Dreams Dictate My Reality

27

The Libertines
Anthems For Doomed Youth

28

Ryan Adams
1989

29

Kacey Musgraves
Pageant Material

30

Colleen Green
I Want To Grow Up

31

Carly Rae Jepsen
E-MO-TION

32

Everything Everything
Get To Heaven

33

Beach House
Depression

34

Susanne Sundfør
Ten Love Songs

35

Foals
What Went Down

36

John Grant
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

37

Steve Earle & The Dukes
Terraplane

38

Sleater-Kinney
No Cities To Love

39

Beach House
Thank Your Lucky Stars

40

Leon Bridges
Coming Home

41

Deerhunter
Fading Frontier

42

Sun Kil Moon
Universal Themes

43

Dwight Yoakam
Second Hand Heart

44

Iron Maiden
The Book Of Souls

45

Nicki Bluhm And The Gramblers
Loved Wild Lost

46

Torres
Sprinter

47

Jessica Pratt
On Your Own Love Again

48

The Weeknd
Beauty Behind The Madness

49

Bjork
Vulnicura

50

Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell

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