Year-End Lists

The Skinny: The 50 Best Albums of 2015

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1. No Cities To Love
   Sleater-Kinney
2. Carrie & Lowell
   Sufjan Stevens
3. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
4. Dumb Flesh
   Blanck Mass
5. Have You In My Wilderness
   Julia Holter
6. Apocalypse, Girl
   Jenny Hval
7. White Men Are Black Men Too
   Young Fathers
8. I Love You, Honeybear
   Father John Misty
9. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
   Kurt Vile
10. Vulnicura
    Björk
11. Sol Invictus
    Faith No More
12. Born Under Saturn
    Django Django
13. Ivy Tripp
    Waxahatchee
14. The Most Lamentable Tragedy
    Titus Andronicus
15. Compton
    Dr. Dre
16. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
17. Fading Frontier
    Deerhunter
18. O Shudder
    Dutch Uncles
19. Viet Cong
    Viet Cong
20. Key Markets
    Sleaford Mods
21. Every Open Eye
    Chvrches
22. No No No
    Beirut
23. Slowness
    Outfit
24. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
25. Poison Season
    Destroyer
26. Divers
    Joanna Newsom
27. Hinterland
    LoneLady
28. Ones and Sixes
    Low
29. Currents
    Tame Impala
30. Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
    John Grant
31. Depression Cherry
    Beach House
32. My Love Is Cool
    Wolf Alice
33. The Rightful Pivot
    Enablers
34. Get To Heaven
    Everything Everything
35. Lantern
    Hudson Mohawke
36. Heirs
    And So I Watch You From Afar
37. A Distorted Sigh
    Garden of Elks
38. Fears Trending
    The Phantom Band
39. The Magic Whip
    Blur
40. Elaenia
    Floating Points
41. Garden of Delete
    Oneohtrix Point Never
42. Sun Coming Down
    Ought
43. Lease of Life
    Errors
44. New Bermuda
    Deafheaven
45. Culture of Volume
    East India Youth
46. Return to the Moon
    EL VY
47. The Expanding Flower Planet
    Deradoorian
48. What Went Down
    Foals
49. Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
    Belle and Sebastian
50. Infinity Machines
    Gnod