Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2015

[see also 2018, 2017, 2011]

1. Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
2. Tame Impala — Currents
3. Wolf Alice — My Love Is Cool
4. Julia Holter — Have You In My Wilderness
5. Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
6. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
7. Deerhunter — Fading Frontier
8. Beach House — Depression Cherry
9. Chvrches — Every Open Eye
10. EL VY — Return to the Moon
11. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
12. Grimes — Art Angels
13. Natalie Prass — Natalie Prass
14. Beach House — Thank Your Lucky Stars
15. Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
16. Joanna Newsom — Divers
17. Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
18. Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Multi-Love
19. Mew — + –
20. Neon Indian — VEGA INTL. Night School
21. Foals — What Went Down
22. Panda Bear — Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
23. Jamie xx — In Colour
24. Low — Ones and Sixes
25. John Grant — Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
26. Gwenno — Y Dydd Olaf
27. Wilco — Star Wars
28. Tamaryn — Cranekiss
29. Ducktails — St. Catherine
30. FFS — FFS
31. Everything Everything — Get To Heaven
32. Sexwitch — Sexwitch
33. New Order — Music Complete
34. Björk — Vulnicura
35. Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Style
36. Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
37. Amason — Sky City
38. LA Priest — Inji
39. Laura Marling — Short Movie
40. My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall
41. Dan Deacon — Gliss Riffer
42. East India Youth — Culture of Volume
43. Django Django — Born Under Saturn
44. Mac DeMarco — Another One
45. Younghusband — Dissolver
46. Martin Courtney — Many Moons
47. Belle and Sebastian — Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
48. SOAK — Before We Forgot How To Dream
49. The Dears — Times Infinity, Vol. One
50. TORRES — Sprinter
51. San Fermin — Jackrabbit
52. Beirut — No No No
53. Blur — The Magic Whip
54. Shamir — Ratchet
55. Lower Dens — Escape From Evil
56. Viet Cong — Viet Cong
57. Hot Chip — Why Make Sense?
58. Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
59. Jaakko Eino Kalevi — Jaakko Eino Kalevi
60. Nicolas Godin — Contrepoint
61. Mercury Rev — The Light in You
62. Dutch Uncles — O Shudder
63. Mark Ronson — Uptown Special
64. Telekinesis — Ad Infinitum
65. Destroyer — Poison Season
66. Jacco Gardner — Hypnophobia
67. Girls Names — Arms Around a Vision
68. Petite Noir — La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful
69. Will Butler — Policy
70. Patrick Watson — Love Songs for Robots
71. Majical Cloudz — Are You Alone?
72. Deafheaven — New Bermuda
73. Cheatahs — Mythologies
74. Empress Of — Me
75. Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect
76. Kamasi Washington — The Epic
77. Matthew E. White — Fresh Blood
78. U.S. Girls — Half Free
79. Here We Go Magic — Be Small
80. Algiers — Algiers
81. Jim O’Rourke — Simple Songs
82. Youth Lagoon — Savage Hills Ballroom
83. Tobias Jesso Jr. — Goon
84. Small Black — Best Blues
85. Boxed In — Boxed In
86. Braids — Deep In the Iris
87. Purity Ring — Another Eternity
88. Speedy Ortiz — Foil Deer
89. Talk In Tongues — Alone With a Friend
90. Richard Hawley — Hollow Meadows
91. Baio — The Names
92. The Black Ryder — The Door Behind the Door
93. Briana Marela — All Around Us
94. Chelsea Wolfe — Abyss
95. Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete
96. J Fernandez — Many Levels of Laughter
97. Blanck Mass — Dumb Flesh
98. Outfit — Slowness
99. Salad Boys — Metalmania
100. Ryley Walker — Primrose Green