Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2015
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010s]
- Grimes — Art Angels
- Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
- Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
- Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
- Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
- Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- Hop Along — Painted Shut
- Colleen Green — I Want to Grow Up
- Jim O’Rourke — Simple Songs
- Deafheaven — New Bermuda
- Jamie xx — In Colour
- Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
- The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die — Harmlessness
- Jenny Hval — Apocalypse, Girl
- Tame Impala — Currents
- Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment — Surf
- Titus Andronicus — The Most Lamentable Tragedy
- Future — DS2
- Waxahatchee — Ivy Tripp
- Screaming Females — Rose Mountain
- Shamir — Ratchet
- Joanna Newsom — Divers
- Blur — The Magic Whip
- Tribulation — The Children of the Night
- Drake — If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
- Natalie Prass — Natalie Prass
- Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
- Eskimeaux — O.K.
- Ought — Sun Coming Down
- The Staves — If I Was
- Jason Isbell — Something More Than Free
- Yowler — The Offer
- Chvrches — Every Open Eye
- Horrendous — Anareta
- Kamasi Washington — The Epic
- Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife
- Fred Thomas — All Are Saved
- Björk — Vulnicura
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Style
- Julien Baker — Sprained Ankle
- girlpool — Before the World Was Big
- Deerhunter — Fading Frontier
- Chris Stapleton — Traveller
- Speedy Ortiz — Foil Deer
- Viet Cong — Viet Cong
- Sorority Noise — Joy, Departed
- Beach House — Depression Cherry
- Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete
- Julia Holter — Have You In My Wilderness