Year-End Lists

NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2015 (roughly alphabetical by artist)

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• Africa Express Presents… Terry Riley’s In C Mali
  Africa Express & Andre de Ridder
• Sound & Color
  Alabama Shakes
• Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
  Anthony de Mare
• The Blade
  Ashley Monroe
• Describes Things As They Are
  Beauty Pill
• Amanecer
  Bomba Estéreo
• Andrew Norman: Play
  Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose
• The Firewatcher’s Daughter
  Brandi Carlile
• Amor Supremo
  Carla Morrison
• E•MO•TION
  Carly Rae Jepsen
• For One to Love
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Traveller
  Chris Stapleton
• Stretch Music (Introducing Elena Pinderhughes)
  Christian Scott
• Captain of None
  Colleen
• Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
  Courtney Barnett
• Nueva Era
  Daymé Arocena
• Litany
  Dead To A Dying World
• Drippin’ For A Tripp
  DJ Sotofett & Jaakko Eino Kalevi
• I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
  Earl Sweatshirt
• Elaenia
  Floating Points
• How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
  Florence + The Machine
• Morning / Evening
  Four Tet
• DS2
  Future
• The Documentary 2
  The Game
• Before the World Was Big
  girlpool
• Ibeyi
  Ibeyi
• Thorvaldsdottir: In the Light of Air
  International Contemporary Ensemble
• Ego Death
  The Internet
• In Colour
  Jamie xx
• Something More Than Free
  Jason Isbell
• Reality Show
  Jazmine Sullivan
• Over and Even
  Joan Shelley
• Divers
  Joanna Newsom
• Pageant Material
  Kacey Musgraves
• The Epic
  Kamasi Washington
• To Pimp A Butterfly
  Kendrick Lamar
• Ones and Sixes
  Low
• From Kinshasa
  Mbongwana Star
• Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
  Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
• Servant of Love
  Patty Griffin
• Tomorrow Is My Turn
  Rhiannon Giddens
• The Fade in Time
  Sam Lee & Friends
• Adams: Absolute Jest & Grand Pianola Music
  John Adams, San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson Thomas
• Carrie & Lowell
  Sufjan Stevens
• Sprinter
  TORRES
• Free TC
  Ty Dolla $ign
• Break Stuff
  Vijay Iyer Trio
• Summertime ’06
  Vince Staples
• Imaginary Life
  Worriers
• Xaos
  Xaos