Year-End Lists

NME: Top 50 Albums of 2015

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1. Art Angels
   Grimes
2. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
3. In Colour
   Jamie xx
4. My Love Is Cool
   Wolf Alice
5. Currents
   Tame Impala
6. Every Open Eye
   Chvrches
7. Honeymoon
   Lana Del Rey
8. What Went Down
   Foals
9. Marks to Prove It
   The Maccabees
10. Multi-Love
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra
11. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
    Kurt Vile
12. AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
13. No Cities To Love
    Sleater-Kinney
14. Fading Frontier
    Deerhunter
15. The Magic Whip
    Blur
16. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
17. Divers
    Joanna Newsom
18. Mothers
    Swim Deep
19. Beauty Behind the Madness
    The Weeknd
20. Half Free
    U.S. Girls
21. Ratchet
    Shamir
22. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
23. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
    Drake
24. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
25. Vulnicura
    Björk
26. Platform
    Holly Herndon
27. Another One
    Mac DeMarco
28. Short Movie
    Laura Marling
29. Anthems For Doomed Youth
    The Libertines
30. Fetty Wap
    Fetty Wap
31. Are You Satisfied?
    Slaves
32. SUCKER
    Charli XCX
33. Inji
    LA Priest
34. Man It Feels Like Space Again
    Pond
35. A Head Full of Dreams
    Coldplay
36. E•MO•TION
    Carly Rae Jepsen
37. DS2
    Future
38. Undertow
    Drenge
39. White Men Are Black Men Too
    Young Fathers
40. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
    Florence + The Machine
41. Drones
    Muse
42. Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
    Miley Cyrus
43. Key Markets
    Sleaford Mods
44. Barter 6
    Young Thug
45. For All My Sisters
    The Cribs
46. Viet Cong
    Viet Cong
47. West Kirby County Primary
    Bill Ryder-Jones
48. Music Complete
    New Order
49. That’s the Spirit
    Bring Me the Horizon
50. 1989
    Ryan Adams