Year-End Lists

Sasha Frere-Jones: 89 Favorite Albums of 2015 (listed chronologically within three tiers)

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holy cats / is best

• SremmLife
  Rae Sremmurd
• Xe
  ZS
• If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
  Drake
• Program
  NHK
• Pomegranates
  Nicolas Jaar
• Live Knots
  Oren Ambarchi
• Headache
  Trupa Trupa
• To Pimp A Butterfly
  Kendrick Lamar
• I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
  Earl Sweatshirt
• Dark Energy
  Jlin
• Ivy Tripp
  Waxahatchee
• Cascade
  William Basinski
• II
  METZ
• The Bad Plus Joshua Redman
  Joshua Redman & The Bad Plus
• Plays John Coltrane And Langston Hughes African Mystic Music
  Raphael Rogiński
• Summertime ’06
  Vince Staples
• Piteous Gate
  M.E.S.H.
• Another One
  Mac DeMarco
• E•MO•TION
  Carly Rae Jepsen
• Circular Forms
  Abul Mogard
• Indians & Cowboys
  Den Sorte Skole
• Vertigo
  The Necks
• AE_LIVE
  Autechre
• Nothing
  Kode9
• Garden of Delete
  Oneohtrix Point Never
• Lil Me
  Wiki
• Steamroom 20
  Jim O’Rourke

oh man / is excellent

• In Colour
  Jamie xx
• CR5
  Chinx
• Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
  Aphex Twin
• 15
  Og Maco
• Sour Soul
  BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah
• Behold
  Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke
• The Firewatcher’s Daughter
  Brandi Carlile
• Eat Pray Thug
  Heems
• The Free Fall Inspirations
  12z
• Fantasy Empire
  Lightning Bolt
• Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
  Courtney Barnett
• Crown
  The-Dream
• Also
  Also
• Ex Machina (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow
• Foil Deer
  Speedy Ortiz
• Wire
  Wire
• Days
  Triac
• Sound & Color
  Alabama Shakes
• The Epic
  Kamasi Washington
• Dumb Flesh
  Blanck Mass
• Why Make Sense?
  Hot Chip
• Platform
  Holly Herndon
• The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
  Thundercat
• Wildheart
  Miguel
• Innocent Country
  Quelle Chris
• Instrumentals 2015
  Flying Saucer Attack
• DAZE
  Brood Ma
• M3LL155X
  FKA twigs
• L.A. Takedown
  L.A. Takedown
• Depression Cherry
  Beach House
• Poison Season
  Destroyer
• La Di Da Di
  Battles
• Honeymoon
  Lana Del Rey
• Edition 1
  King Midas Sound & Fennesz
• Ornamente (zwischen Null und Eins)
  Asmus Tietchens
• Peace, Love & Music
  Swindle
• Age Of Transparency
  Autre Ne Veut
• Vanishing Land
  Mirt
• Teens of Style
  Car Seat Headrest
• Slime Season 2
  Young Thug
• Art Angels
  Grimes
• Sold Out
  DJ Paypal
• Thirteen
  Norman Westberg
• Mette Henriette
  Mette Henriette
• Junun
  Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express
• Hard Hold
  Jaala
• But You Caint Use My Phone
  Erykah Badu
• Technoself
  Deantoni Parks
• Murder
  Miss Red
• Late Nights: The Album
  Jeremih
• King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
  Pusha T

wow / so good

• #1Epic EP
  D.R.A.M.
• Amethyst
  Tinashe
• FRKWYS, Vol. 12 – We Know Each Other Somehow
  Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma
• Reflekzionz
  Ekoplekz
• Olympic Mess
  Helm
• Yung Rich Nation
  Migos
• Ones and Sixes
  Low
• Wald
  Pole
• Fetty Wap
  Fetty Wap
• Cuz
  Cuz Lightyear
• Mutant
  Arca