Year-End Lists

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2015

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