Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2015

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1. I Love You, Honeybear
   Father John Misty
2. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
3. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
   Courtney Barnett
4. No Cities To Love
   Sleater-Kinney
5. Painted Shut
   Hop Along
6. Carrie & Lowell
   Sufjan Stevens
7. Natalie Prass
   Natalie Prass
8. Currents
   Tame Impala
9. Coming Home
   Leon Bridges
10. Fading Frontier
    Deerhunter
11. Beat the Champ
    The Mountain Goats
12. The Agent Intellect
    Protomartyr
13. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
    Kurt Vile
14. Teens of Style
    Car Seat Headrest
15. Sprinter
    TORRES
16. Every Open Eye
    Chvrches
17. The Epic
    Kamasi Washington
18. Something More Than Free
    Jason Isbell
19. Depression Cherry
    Beach House
20. In Colour
    Jamie xx
21. Platform
    Holly Herndon
22. Goon
    Tobias Jesso Jr.
23. On Your Own Love Again
    Jessica Pratt
24. Art Angels
    Grimes
25. Then Came the Morning
    The Lone Bellow
26. Summertime ’06
    Vince Staples
27. Pageant Material
    Kacey Musgraves
28. Darling… It’s Too Late
    Guantanamo Baywatch
29. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
    Florence + The Machine
30. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
    Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
31. Star Wars
    Wilco
32. High
    Royal Headache
33. Range Anxiety
    Twerps
34. Let the Good Times Roll
    J.D. McPherson
35. Dry Food
    Palehound
36. La Di Da Di
    Battles
37. The Blade
    Ashley Monroe
38. Sound & Color
    Alabama Shakes
39. What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
    The Decemberists
40. 1989
    Ryan Adams
41. The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
    Beach Slang
42. The Waterfall
    My Morning Jacket
43. Are You Alone?
    Majical Cloudz
44. Another Eternity
    Purity Ring
45. Payola
    Desaparecidos
46. No No No
    Beirut
47. Don’t Lose This
    Pops Staples
48. Sore
    Dilly Dally
49. Sprained Ankle
    Julien Baker
50. Edge of the Sun
    Calexico