Year-End Lists

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2015

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1. Art Angels
   Grimes
2. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
3. E•MO•TION
   Carly Rae Jepsen
4. Summertime ’06
   Vince Staples
5. Carrie & Lowell
   Sufjan Stevens
6. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
   Courtney Barnett
7. Painted Shut
   Hop Along
8. I Want to Grow Up
   Colleen Green
9. Simple Songs
   Jim O’Rourke
10. New Bermuda
    Deafheaven
11. In Colour
    Jamie xx
12. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
13. Harmlessness
    The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
14. Apocalypse, Girl
    Jenny Hval
15. Currents
    Tame Impala
16. Surf
    Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
17. The Most Lamentable Tragedy
    Titus Andronicus
18. DS2
    Future
19. Ivy Tripp
    Waxahatchee
20. Rose Mountain
    Screaming Females
21. Ratchet
    Shamir
22. Divers
    Joanna Newsom
23. The Magic Whip
    Blur
24. The Children of the Night
    Tribulation
25. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
    Drake
26. Natalie Prass
    Natalie Prass
27. No Cities To Love
    Sleater-Kinney
28. O.K.
    Eskimeaux
29. Sun Coming Down
    Ought
30. If I Was
    The Staves
31. Something More Than Free
    Jason Isbell
32. The Offer
    Yowler
33. Every Open Eye
    Chvrches
34. Anareta
    Horrendous
35. The Epic
    Kamasi Washington
36. SremmLife
    Rae Sremmurd
37. All Are Saved
    Fred Thomas
38. Vulnicura
    Björk
39. Teens of Style
    Car Seat Headrest
40. Sprained Ankle
    Julien Baker
41. Before the World Was Big
    girlpool
42. Fading Frontier
    Deerhunter
43. Traveller
    Chris Stapleton
44. Foil Deer
    Speedy Ortiz
45. Viet Cong
    Viet Cong
46. Joy, Departed
    Sorority Noise
47. Depression Cherry
    Beach House
48. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
    Kurt Vile
49. Garden of Delete
    Oneohtrix Point Never
50. Have You In My Wilderness
    Julia Holter