Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2015 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
   Courtney Barnett
3. E•MO•TION
   Carly Rae Jepsen
4. Art Angels
   Grimes
5. No Cities To Love
   Sleater-Kinney
6. Carrie & Lowell
   Sufjan Stevens
7. Summertime ’06
   Vince Staples
8. The Epic
   Kamasi Washington
9. In Colour
   Jamie xx
10. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
11. Something More Than Free
    Jason Isbell
12. Currents
    Tame Impala
13. Sound & Color
    Alabama Shakes
14. Wildheart
    Miguel
15. Surf
    Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
16. Divers
    Joanna Newsom
17. DS2
    Future
18. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
    Drake
19. Beauty Behind the Madness
    The Weeknd
20. Pageant Material
    Kacey Musgraves
21. Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
22. Painted Shut
    Hop Along
23. Vulnicura
    Björk
24. Traveller
    Chris Stapleton
25. Coming Home
    Leon Bridges
26. I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
    Earl Sweatshirt
27. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
    Kurt Vile
28. Sprinter
    TORRES
29. Blackheart
    Dawn Richard
30. Garden of Delete
    Oneohtrix Point Never
31. Ratchet
    Shamir
32. Barter 6
    Young Thug
33. Have You In My Wilderness
    Julia Holter
34. From Kinshasa
    Mbongwana Star
35. 25
    Adele
36. The Blade
    Ashley Monroe
37. Ivy Tripp
    Waxahatchee
38. Depression Cherry
    Beach House
39. Reality Show
    Jazmine Sullivan
40. SremmLife
    Rae Sremmurd
41. Every Open Eye
    Chvrches
42. Black Messiah
    D’Angelo and The Vanguard
43. Star Wars
    Wilco
44. High
    Royal Headache
45. Fading Frontier
    Deerhunter
46. Ones and Sixes
    Low
47. The Agent Intellect
    Protomartyr
48. The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
    Beach Slang
49. Shadows In The Night
    Bob Dylan
50. The Most Lamentable Tragedy
    Titus Andronicus
51. Complicated Game
    James McMurtry
52. Tomorrow Is My Turn
    Rhiannon Giddens
53. The Magic Whip
    Blur
54. New Bermuda
    Deafheaven
55. 56 Nights
    DJ Esco & Future
56. Compton
    Dr. Dre
57. Poison Season
    Destroyer
57. Ego Death
    The Internet
59. Viet Cong
    Viet Cong
60. I Want to Grow Up
    Colleen Green
61. Honeymoon
    Lana Del Rey
62. Feels Like
    Bully
63. On Your Own Love Again
    Jessica Pratt
64. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
    Florence + The Machine
65. AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
66. Mutant
    Arca
67. Natalie Prass
    Natalie Prass
68. Algiers
    Algiers
69. Stuff Like That There
    Yo La Tengo
70. Sprained Ankle
    Julien Baker
71. Full Communism
    Downtown Boys
72. Ten Love Songs
    Susanne Sundfør
73. This Is the Sonics
    The Sonics
74. Eat Pray Thug
    Heems
74. Music Complete
    New Order
76. Elaenia
    Floating Points
77. Foil Deer
    Speedy Ortiz
78. Platform
    Holly Herndon
79. FFS
    FFS
80. Over and Even
    Joan Shelley
81. Simple Songs
    Jim O’Rourke
82. Death Magic
    HEALTH
83. Mr. Misunderstood
    Eric Church
83. Heart of a Dog
    Laurie Anderson
85. The Waterfall
    My Morning Jacket
86. The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966
    Bob Dylan
87. Late Nights: The Album
    Jeremih
88. Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
    John Grant
89. Teens of Style
    Car Seat Headrest
90. Manhattan
    Jeffrey Lewis
91. 1989
    Ryan Adams
92. Unbreakable
    Janet Jackson
92. Beat the Champ
    The Mountain Goats
94. Let the Good Times Roll
    J.D. McPherson
95. But You Caint Use My Phone
    Erykah Badu
96. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
    Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
97. Describes Things As They Are
    Beauty Pill
98. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
    Panda Bear
99. Rose Mountain
    Screaming Females
100. Predatory Headlights
     Tenement