Year-End Lists

AllMusic: 55 Best Albums of 2015 (roughly alphabetical by artist)

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• Sirope
  Alejandro Sanz
• The Blade
  Ashley Monroe
• In Another Life
  Bilal
• Vulnicura
  Björk
• E•MO•TION
  Carly Rae Jepsen
• Time to Go Home
  Chastity Belt
• Captain of None
  Colleen
• LP
  Container
• Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
  Courtney Barnett
• For One to Love
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Fading Frontier
  Deerhunter
• Poison Season
  Destroyer
• Dornik
  Dornik
• Full Communism
  Downtown Boys
• Compton
  Dr. Dre
• Mr. Misunderstood
  Eric Church
• Calling Out
  EZTV
• I Love You, Honeybear
  Father John Misty
• Elaenia
  Floating Points
• All Are Saved
  Fred Thomas
• Hoy Más Fuerte
  Gerardo Ortíz
• Meliora
  Ghost B.C.
• Before the World Was Big
  girlpool
• Detroit’s Son
  Guilty Simpson
• Choose Your Weapon
  Hiatus Kaiyote
• Jake Xerxes Fussell
  Jake Xerxes Fussell
• In Colour
  Jamie xx
• Reality Show
  Jazmine Sullivan
• A Year With 13 Moons
  Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
• Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
  John Grant
• Have You In My Wilderness
  Julia Holter
• The Epic
  Kamasi Washington
• To Pimp A Butterfly
  Kendrick Lamar
• B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
  Kurt Vile
• The Incredible True Story
  Logic
• Hi Honey
  Low Cut Connie
• Start Here
  Maddie & Tae
• Are You Alone?
  Majical Cloudz
• Somnaphoria
  Matchess
• Natalie Prass
  Natalie Prass
• Sibelius: The Symphonies
  Lahti Symphony Orchestra & Okko Kamu
• The Longest River
  Olivia Chaney
• Garden of Delete
  Oneohtrix Point Never
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, WAB 105 (Live)
  Philharmoniker Hamburg & Simone Young
• Communion
  Years & Years
• The Clearing
  Rachel Grimes
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Rosary Sonatas
  Rachel Podger
• Hairless Toys
  Róisín Murphy
• Ratchet
  Shamir
• Fear and Lies
  Sick Sad World
• Carrie & Lowell
  Sufjan Stevens
• Ego Death
  The Internet
• This Is the Sonics
  The Sonics
• Summertime ’06
  Vince Staples
• Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé & Pavane pour une infante défunte
  Groot Omroepkoor, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest & Yannick Nézet-Séguin