Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2015

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1. I Love You, Honeybear
   Father John Misty
2. Currents
   Tame Impala
3. My Love Is Cool
   Wolf Alice
4. Have You In My Wilderness
   Julia Holter
5. Carrie & Lowell
   Sufjan Stevens
6. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
   Courtney Barnett
7. Fading Frontier
   Deerhunter
8. Depression Cherry
   Beach House
9. Every Open Eye
   Chvrches
10. Return to the Moon
    EL VY
11. To Pimp A Butterfly
    Kendrick Lamar
12. Art Angels
    Grimes
13. Natalie Prass
    Natalie Prass
14. Thank Your Lucky Stars
    Beach House
15. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
    Kurt Vile
16. Divers
    Joanna Newsom
17. No Cities To Love
    Sleater-Kinney
18. Multi-Love
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra
19. + –
    Mew
20. VEGA INTL. Night School
    Neon Indian
21. What Went Down
    Foals
22. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
    Panda Bear
23. In Colour
    Jamie xx
24. Ones and Sixes
    Low
25. Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
    John Grant
26. Y Dydd Olaf
    Gwenno
27. Star Wars
    Wilco
28. Cranekiss
    Tamaryn
29. St. Catherine
    Ducktails
30. FFS
    FFS
31. Get To Heaven
    Everything Everything
32. Sexwitch
    Sexwitch
33. Music Complete
    New Order
34. Vulnicura
    Björk
35. Teens of Style
    Car Seat Headrest
36. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
    Florence + The Machine
37. Sky City
    Amason
38. Inji
    LA Priest
39. Short Movie
    Laura Marling
40. The Waterfall
    My Morning Jacket
41. Gliss Riffer
    Dan Deacon
42. Culture of Volume
    East India Youth
43. Born Under Saturn
    Django Django
44. Another One
    Mac DeMarco
45. Dissolver
    Younghusband
46. Many Moons
    Martin Courtney
47. Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
    Belle and Sebastian
48. Before We Forgot How To Dream
    SOAK
49. Times Infinity, Vol. One
    The Dears
50. Sprinter
    TORRES
51. Jackrabbit
    San Fermin
52. No No No
    Beirut
53. The Magic Whip
    Blur
54. Ratchet
    Shamir
55. Escape From Evil
    Lower Dens
56. Viet Cong
    Viet Cong
57. Why Make Sense?
    Hot Chip
58. Summertime ’06
    Vince Staples
59. Jaakko Eino Kalevi
    Jaakko Eino Kalevi
60. Contrepoint
    Nicolas Godin
61. The Light in You
    Mercury Rev
62. O Shudder
    Dutch Uncles
63. Uptown Special
    Mark Ronson
64. Ad Infinitum
    Telekinesis
65. Poison Season
    Destroyer
66. Hypnophobia
    Jacco Gardner
67. Arms Around a Vision
    Girls Names
68. La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful
    Petite Noir
69. Policy
    Will Butler
70. Love Songs for Robots
    Patrick Watson
71. Are You Alone?
    Majical Cloudz
72. New Bermuda
    Deafheaven
73. Mythologies
    Cheatahs
74. Me
    Empress Of
75. The Agent Intellect
    Protomartyr
76. The Epic
    Kamasi Washington
77. Fresh Blood
    Matthew E. White
78. Half Free
    U.S. Girls
79. Be Small
    Here We Go Magic
80. Algiers
    Algiers
81. Simple Songs
    Jim O’Rourke
82. Savage Hills Ballroom
    Youth Lagoon
83. Goon
    Tobias Jesso Jr.
84. Best Blues
    Small Black
85. Boxed In
    Boxed In
86. Deep In the Iris
    Braids
87. Another Eternity
    Purity Ring
88. Foil Deer
    Speedy Ortiz
89. Alone With a Friend
    Talk In Tongues
90. Hollow Meadows
    Richard Hawley
91. The Names
    Baio
92. The Door Behind the Door
    The Black Ryder
93. All Around Us
    Briana Marela
94. Abyss
    Chelsea Wolfe
95. Garden of Delete
    Oneohtrix Point Never
96. Many Levels of Laughter
    J Fernandez
97. Dumb Flesh
    Blanck Mass
98. Slowness
    Outfit
99. Metalmania
    Salad Boys
100. Primrose Green
     Ryley Walker