Year-End Lists

AllMusic: 55 Best Albums of 2015 (roughly alphabetical by artist)

• Alejandro Sanz
  Sirope
• Ashley Monroe
  The Blade
• Bilal
  In Another Life
• Björk
  Vulnicura
• Carly Rae Jepsen
  E•MO•TION
• Chastity Belt
  Time to Go Home
• Colleen
  Captain of None
• Container
  LP
• Courtney Barnett
  Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
• Cécile McLorin Salvant
  For One to Love
• Deerhunter
  Fading Frontier
• Destroyer
  Poison Season
• Dornik
  Dornik
• Downtown Boys
  Full Communism
• Dr. Dre
  Compton
• Eric Church
  Mr. Misunderstood
• EZTV
  Calling Out
• Father John Misty
  I Love You, Honeybear
• Floating Points
  Elaenia
• Fred Thomas
  All Are Saved
• Gerardo Ortíz
  Hoy Más Fuerte
• Ghost B.C.
  Meliora
• girlpool
  Before the World Was Big
• Guilty Simpson
  Detroit’s Son
• Hiatus Kaiyote
  Choose Your Weapon
• Jake Xerxes Fussell
  Jake Xerxes Fussell
• Jamie xx
  In Colour
• Jazmine Sullivan
  Reality Show
• Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
  A Year With 13 Moons
• John Grant
  Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
• Julia Holter
  Have You In My Wilderness
• Kamasi Washington
  The Epic
• Kendrick Lamar
  To Pimp A Butterfly
• Kurt Vile
  B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
• Logic
  The Incredible True Story
• Low Cut Connie
  Hi Honey
• Maddie & Tae
  Start Here
• Majical Cloudz
  Are You Alone?
• Matchess
  Somnaphoria
• Natalie Prass
  Natalie Prass
• Lahti Symphony Orchestra & Okko Kamu
  Sibelius: The Symphonies
• Olivia Chaney
  The Longest River
• Oneohtrix Point Never
  Garden of Delete
• Philharmoniker Hamburg & Simone Young
  Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, WAB 105 (Live)
• Years & Years
  Communion
• Rachel Grimes
  The Clearing
• Rachel Podger
  Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Rosary Sonatas
• Róisín Murphy
  Hairless Toys
• Shamir
  Ratchet
• Sick Sad World
  Fear and Lies
• Sufjan Stevens
  Carrie & Lowell
• The Internet
  Ego Death
• The Sonics
  This Is the Sonics
• Vince Staples
  Summertime ’06
• Groot Omroepkoor, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest & Yannick Nézet-Séguin
  Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé & Pavane pour une infante défunte