Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2015
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
- Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
- Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
- Hop Along — Painted Shut
- Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
- Natalie Prass — Natalie Prass
- Tame Impala — Currents
- Leon Bridges — Coming Home
- Deerhunter — Fading Frontier
- The Mountain Goats — Beat the Champ
- Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect
- Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Style
- TORRES — Sprinter
- Chvrches — Every Open Eye
- Kamasi Washington — The Epic
- Jason Isbell — Something More Than Free
- Beach House — Depression Cherry
- Jamie xx — In Colour
- Holly Herndon — Platform
- Tobias Jesso Jr. — Goon
- Jessica Pratt — On Your Own Love Again
- Grimes — Art Angels
- The Lone Bellow — Then Came the Morning
- Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
- Kacey Musgraves — Pageant Material
- Guantanamo Baywatch — Darling… It’s Too Late
- Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats — Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
- Wilco — Star Wars
- Royal Headache — High
- Twerps — Range Anxiety
- J.D. McPherson — Let the Good Times Roll
- Palehound — Dry Food
- Battles — La Di Da Di
- Ashley Monroe — The Blade
- Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color
- The Decemberists — What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
- Ryan Adams — 1989
- Beach Slang — The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
- My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall
- Majical Cloudz — Are You Alone?
- Purity Ring — Another Eternity
- Desaparecidos — Payola
- Beirut — No No No
- Pops Staples — Don’t Lose This
- Dilly Dally — Sore
- Julien Baker — Sprained Ankle
- Calexico — Edge of the Sun