Year-End Lists

Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2015

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
2. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Björk — Vulnicura
4. Wolf Alice — My Love Is Cool
5. Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
6. Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
7. Joanna Newsom — Divers
8. Braids — Deep In the Iris
9. Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
10. Jenny Hval — Apocalypse, Girl
11. Viet Cong — Viet Cong
12. Charli XCX — SUCKER
13. Blur — The Magic Whip
14. Kathryn Joseph — Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled
15. Lana Del Rey — Honeymoon
16. Low — Ones and Sixes
17. Nils Frahm — Solo
18. The Lucid Dream — The Lucid Dream
19. Young Fathers — White Men Are Black Men Too
20. Laura Marling — Short Movie
21. Pinkshinyultrablast — Everything Else Matters
22. Susanne Sundfør — Ten Love Songs
23. Girl Band — Holding Hands with Jamie
24. Max Richter — Sleep
25. Fetty Wap — Fetty Wap
26. Foals — What Went Down
27. Kamasi Washington — The Epic
28. Gwenno — Y Dydd Olaf
29. Petrels — Flailing Tomb
30. Haiku Salut — Etch and Etch Deep
31. Du Blonde — Welcome Back To Milk
32. BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah — Sour Soul
33. Marilyn Manson — The Pale Emperor
34. Mbongwana Star — From Kinshasa
35. Idlewild — Everything Ever Written
36. Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
37. Ezra Furman — Perpetual Motion People
38. Algiers — Algiers
39. Hop Along — Painted Shut
40. Trust Fund — Seems Unfair
41. Everything Everything — Get To Heaven
42. Mew — + –
43. Grimes — Art Angels
44. The Icarus Line — All Things Under Heaven
45. Destroyer — Poison Season
46. The Maccabees — Marks to Prove It
47. Then Thickens — Colic
48. Lower Dens — Escape From Evil
49. Heather Woods Broderick — Glider
50. Blanck Mass — Dumb Flesh
51. girlpool — Before the World Was Big
52. HEALTH — Death Magic
53. Deerhunter — Fading Frontier
54. Lanterns on the Lake — Beings
55. Julia Holter — Have You In My Wilderness
56. Ryley Walker — Primrose Green
57. Gnod — Infinity Machines
58. Killing Joke — Pylon
59. Blank Realm — Illegals in Heaven
60. Title Fight — Hyperview
61. Belle and Sebastian — Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
62. Desaparecidos — Payola
63. Songhoy Blues — Music In Exile
64. Errors — Lease of Life
65. Joanna Gruesome — Peanut Butter
66. Cheatahs — Mythologies
67. Mercury Rev — The Light in You
68. Ghostpoet — Shedding Skin
69. Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color
70. Beach House — Depression Cherry
71. Jessica Pratt — On Your Own Love Again
72. Colder — Many Colours
73. Ghost Culture — Ghost Culture
74. Jamie xx — In Colour
75. Dr. Dre — Compton
76. Anna von Hausswolff — The Miraculous
77. The Libertines — Anthems For Doomed Youth
78. Battles — La Di Da Di
79. John Grant — Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
80. LoneLady — Hinterland
81. Jme — Integrity
82. The Cribs — For All My Sisters
83. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
84. Drake — If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
85. Tame Impala — Currents
86. Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
87. EL VY — Return to the Moon
88. Ought — Sun Coming Down
89. Tobias Jesso Jr. — Goon
90. Holly Herndon — Platform
91. Villagers — Darling Arithmetic
92. Deafheaven — New Bermuda
93. Floating Points — Elaenia
94. Gaz Coombes — Matador
95. Fairhorns — Fuckup Rush
96. Nadine Shah — Fast Food
97. Róisín Murphy — Hairless Toys
98. SOAK — Before We Forgot How To Dream
99. The Mountain Goats — Beat the Champ
100. Drinks — Hermits On Holiday