Sasha Frere-Jones: 89 Favorite Albums of 2015 (listed chronologically within three tiers)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife
- ZS — Xe
- Drake — If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
- NHK — Program
- Nicolas Jaar — Pomegranates
- Oren Ambarchi — Live Knots
- Trupa Trupa — Headache
- Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
- Earl Sweatshirt — I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
- Jlin — Dark Energy
- Waxahatchee — Ivy Tripp
- William Basinski — Cascade
- METZ — II
- Joshua Redman & The Bad Plus — The Bad Plus Joshua Redman
- Raphael Rogiński — Plays John Coltrane And Langston Hughes African Mystic Music
- Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
- M.E.S.H. — Piteous Gate
- Mac DeMarco — Another One
- Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
- Abul Mogard — Circular Forms
- Den Sorte Skole — Indians & Cowboys
- The Necks — Vertigo
- Autechre — AE_LIVE
- Kode9 — Nothing
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete
- Wiki — Lil Me
- Jim O’Rourke — Steamroom 20
holy cats / is best
- Jamie xx — In Colour
- Chinx — CR5
- Aphex Twin — Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
- Og Maco — 15
- BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah — Sour Soul
- Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke — Behold
- Brandi Carlile — The Firewatcher’s Daughter
- Heems — Eat Pray Thug
- 12z — The Free Fall Inspirations
- Lightning Bolt — Fantasy Empire
- Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- The-Dream — Crown
- Also — Also
- Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow — Ex Machina (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Speedy Ortiz — Foil Deer
- Wire — Wire
- Triac — Days
- Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color
- Kamasi Washington — The Epic
- Blanck Mass — Dumb Flesh
- Hot Chip — Why Make Sense?
- Holly Herndon — Platform
- Thundercat — The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
- Miguel — Wildheart
- Quelle Chris — Innocent Country
- Flying Saucer Attack — Instrumentals 2015
- Brood Ma — DAZE
- FKA twigs — M3LL155X
- L.A. Takedown — L.A. Takedown
- Beach House — Depression Cherry
- Destroyer — Poison Season
- Battles — La Di Da Di
- Lana Del Rey — Honeymoon
- King Midas Sound & Fennesz — Edition 1
- Asmus Tietchens — Ornamente (zwischen Null und Eins)
- Swindle — Peace, Love & Music
- Autre Ne Veut — Age Of Transparency
- Mirt — Vanishing Land
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Style
- Young Thug — Slime Season 2
- Grimes — Art Angels
- DJ Paypal — Sold Out
- Norman Westberg — Thirteen
- Mette Henriette — Mette Henriette
- Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express — Junun
- Jaala — Hard Hold
- Erykah Badu — But You Caint Use My Phone
- Deantoni Parks — Technoself
- Miss Red — Murder
- Jeremih — Late Nights: The Album
- Pusha T — King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude