Year-End Lists
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Highlights
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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
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2015 Music
Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2015
17 December 2015
Drowned in Sound
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100 Favourite Albums of 2015
[see also
2018
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I Love You, Honeybear
Father John Misty
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Vulnicura
Björk
My Love Is Cool
Wolf Alice
Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens
E•MO•TION
Carly Rae Jepsen
Divers
Joanna Newsom
Deep In the Iris
Braids
No Cities To Love
Sleater-Kinney
Apocalypse, Girl
Jenny Hval
Viet Cong
Viet Cong
SUCKER
Charli XCX
The Magic Whip
Blur
Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled
Kathryn Joseph
Honeymoon
Lana Del Rey
Ones and Sixes
Low
Solo
Nils Frahm
The Lucid Dream
The Lucid Dream
White Men Are Black Men Too
Young Fathers
Short Movie
Laura Marling
Everything Else Matters
Pinkshinyultrablast
Ten Love Songs
Susanne Sundfør
Holding Hands with Jamie
Girl Band
Sleep
Max Richter
Fetty Wap
Fetty Wap
What Went Down
Foals
The Epic
Kamasi Washington
Y Dydd Olaf
Gwenno
Flailing Tomb
Petrels
Etch and Etch Deep
Haiku Salut
Welcome Back To Milk
Du Blonde
Sour Soul
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah
The Pale Emperor
Marilyn Manson
From Kinshasa
Mbongwana Star
Everything Ever Written
Idlewild
Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Perpetual Motion People
Ezra Furman
Algiers
Algiers
Painted Shut
Hop Along
Seems Unfair
Trust Fund
Get To Heaven
Everything Everything
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Mew
Art Angels
Grimes
All Things Under Heaven
The Icarus Line
Poison Season
Destroyer
Marks to Prove It
The Maccabees
Colic
Then Thickens
Escape From Evil
Lower Dens
Glider
Heather Woods Broderick
Dumb Flesh
Blanck Mass
Before the World Was Big
girlpool
Death Magic
HEALTH
Fading Frontier
Deerhunter
Beings
Lanterns on the Lake
Have You In My Wilderness
Julia Holter
Primrose Green
Ryley Walker
Infinity Machines
Gnod
Pylon
Killing Joke
Illegals in Heaven
Blank Realm
Hyperview
Title Fight
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Belle and Sebastian
Payola
Desaparecidos
Music In Exile
Songhoy Blues
Lease of Life
Errors
Peanut Butter
Joanna Gruesome
Mythologies
Cheatahs
The Light in You
Mercury Rev
Shedding Skin
Ghostpoet
Sound & Color
Alabama Shakes
Depression Cherry
Beach House
On Your Own Love Again
Jessica Pratt
Many Colours
Colder
Ghost Culture
Ghost Culture
In Colour
Jamie xx
Compton
Dr. Dre
The Miraculous
Anna von Hausswolff
Anthems For Doomed Youth
The Libertines
La Di Da Di
Battles
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
John Grant
Hinterland
LoneLady
Integrity
Jme
For All My Sisters
The Cribs
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Courtney Barnett
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Drake
Currents
Tame Impala
B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
Kurt Vile
Return to the Moon
EL VY
Sun Coming Down
Ought
Goon
Tobias Jesso Jr.
Platform
Holly Herndon
Darling Arithmetic
Villagers
New Bermuda
Deafheaven
Elaenia
Floating Points
Matador
Gaz Coombes
Fuckup Rush
Fairhorns
Fast Food
Nadine Shah
Hairless Toys
Róisín Murphy
Before We Forgot How To Dream
SOAK
Beat the Champ
The Mountain Goats
Hermits On Holiday
Drinks