Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2015

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Jlin — Dark Energy
2. Stara Rzeka — Zamknęły się oczy ziemi
3. Mbongwana Star — From Kinshasa
4. Carter Tutti Void — F (X)
5. Matana Roberts — Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
6. East India Youth — Culture of Volume
7. Eek! — Kahraba
8. Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete
9. New Order — Music Complete
10. Holly Herndon — Platform
11. Circuit Des Yeux — In Plain Speech
12. Elysia Crampton — American Drift
13. The Inward Circles — Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984
14. Helm — Olympic Mess
15. Jam City — Dream a Garden
16. Jenny Hval — Apocalypse, Girl
17. Teeth of the Sea — Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
18. King Midas Sound & Fennesz — Edition 1
19. Sunn O))) — Kannon
20. Laura Cannell — Beneath Swooping Talons
21. Hawthonn — Hawthonn
22. Gnod — Infinity Machines
23. WIDT — POINT#03
24. Jerusalem in My Heart — If He Dies, If If If If If If
25. Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
26. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba — Ba Power
27. Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
28. Hey Colossus — Radio Static High
29. RP Boo — Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints
30. My Disco — Severe
31. Enya — Dark Sky Island
32. One More Grain — Grain Fever
33. Chrononautz — Noments
34. Julia Holter — Have You In My Wilderness
35. DJ Richard — Grind
36. Karin Park — Apocalypse Pop
37. Księżyc — Rabbit Eclipse
38. Prurient — Frozen Niagara Falls
39. Membranes — Dark Matter / Dark Energy
40. Mika Vainio & franck vigroux — Peau froide, léger soleil
41. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma — FRKWYS, Vol. 12 – We Know Each Other Somehow
42. The Eccentronic Research Council — Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine…I’m Your Biggest Fan
43. Arca — Mutant
44. Kerridge — Always Offended Never Ashamed
45. LoneLady — Hinterland
46. Owiny Sigoma Band — Nyanza
47. M.E.S.H. — Piteous Gate
48. Jaakko Eino Kalevi — Jaakko Eino Kalevi
49. Russell Haswell — As Sure As Night Follows Day
50. Björk — Vulnicura
51. Rabit — Communion
52. The Soft Moon — Deeper
53. Future — DS2
54. Eric Chenaux — Skullsplitter
55. Gnaw Their Tongues — Abyss of Longing Throats
56. Imaginary Forces — Low Key Movements
57. Colleen — Captain of None
58. Wire — Wire
59. Levon Vincent — Levon Vincent
60. FIS — The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now
61. Meatraffle — Hi Fi Classics
62. Anthony Child — Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle, Vol. 1
63. Algiers — Algiers
64. Shapednoise — Different Selves
65. Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke — Behold
66. Leif — Taraxacum
67. Melechesh — Enki
68. Pearson Sound — Pearson Sound
69. TORRES — Sprinter
70. Consumer Electronics — Dollhouse Songs
71. Jme — Integrity
72. Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon — Studies I-XVII for Samplers and Percussion
73. Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
74. Ian William Craig — Cradle for the Wanting
75. Container — LP
76. Bad Guys — Bad Guynaecology
77. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
78. Broken English Club — Suburban Hunting
79. Joey Anderson — Invisible Switch
80. Shit & Shine — 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral
81. Dawn Richard — Blackheart
82. Cornered Yet Climbing Featuring Kelly Jayne Jones — Fevered Realities
83. Master Musicians of Bukkake — Further West Quad Cult
84. The Charlatans — Modern Nature
85. Terakaft — Alone (Ténéré)
86. Milo — So the Flies Don’t Come
87. Paper Dollhouse — Aeonflower
88. Claude Speeed — Sun Czar Temple
89. Real Lies — Real Life
90. Jute Gyte — Ship of Theseus
91. John Foxx — London Overgrown
92. Lightning Bolt — Fantasy Empire
93. The Necks — Vertigo
94. Roots Manuva — Bleeds
95. Rizan Said — King of Keyboard
96. Guapo — Obscure Knowledge
97. Checkpoint 303 — The Iqrit files
98. Eugene The Oceanographer — The Tigers Of Mount Paektu
99. RSS Boys — Hddn
100. Pissgrave — Suicide Euphoria