Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2015

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1. Dark Energy
   Jlin
2. Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
   Matana Roberts
3. Magnetoception
   Joshua Abrams
4. Have You In My Wilderness
   Julia Holter
5. I Abused Animal
   Heather Leigh
6. Platform
   Holly Herndon
7. Simple Songs
   Jim O’Rourke
8. The Epic
   Kamasi Washington
9. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
10. Vertigo
    The Necks
11. We Are Not the First
    Hieroglyphic Being
12. Summertime ’06
    Vince Staples
13. Vulnicura
    Björk
14. Divers
    Joanna Newsom
15. Schwarze Riesenfalter
    Graham Lambkin / Michael Pisaro
16. Plays John Coltrane And Langston Hughes African Mystic Music
    Raphael Rogiński
17. Beneath Swooping Talons
    Laura Cannell
18. Garden of Delete
    Oneohtrix Point Never
19. DS2
    Future
20. Olympic Mess
    Helm
21. Key Markets
    Sleaford Mods
22. Chiltern
    Hour House
23. From Kinshasa
    Mbongwana Star
24. Sauchiehall Enthrall
    Golden Teacher
25. Still
    Richard Thompson
26. Comme ça
    Domenique Dumont
27. Safe
    Visionist
28. Hexadic
    Six Organs of Admittance
29. Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
    Aphex Twin
30. Danger
    Nidia Minaj
31. Edition 1
    King Midas Sound & Fennesz
32. Cardinal
    Philip Jeck
33. 56 Nights
    DJ Esco & Future
34. Infinity Machines
    Gnod
35. Seymour Writes Back
    Seymour Wright
36. Much Less Normal
    LNRDCROY
37. Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014
    Jürg Frey
38. Demo
    Guttersnipe
39. If He Dies, If If If If If If
    Jerusalem in My Heart
40. Allison Cameron: A Gossamer Bit
    Contact
41. F (X)
    Carter Tutti Void
42. One man and a fly
    Radu Malfatti
43. The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
    Thundercat
44. Work
    Uwe Oberg
45. Good Sad Happy Bad
    Micachu & The Shapes
46. Elaenia
    Floating Points
47. Enough still not to know
    Keith Rowe / John Tilbury
48. Dream a Garden
    Jam City
49. Instrumentals 2015
    Flying Saucer Attack
50. The Deluge
    William Basinski