Year-End Lists

Diffuser: 50 Best Albums of 2015

[see also 2017]

1. Sufjan Stevens
   Carrie & Lowell
2. Kendrick Lamar
   To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Grimes
   Art Angels
4. Father John Misty
   I Love You, Honeybear
5. Tame Impala
   Currents
6. Sleater-Kinney
   No Cities To Love
7. Destroyer
   Poison Season
8. Ryan Adams
   1989
9. Beach House
   Depression Cherry
10. Jason Isbell
    Something More Than Free
11. Blur
    The Magic Whip
12. Courtney Barnett
    Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
13. Panda Bear
    Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
14. Björk
    Vulnicura
15. Titus Andronicus
    The Most Lamentable Tragedy
16. Joanna Newsom
    Divers
17. Deafheaven
    New Bermuda
18. Jamie xx
    In Colour
19. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Garden of Delete
20. Wilco
    Star Wars
21. Natalie Prass
    Natalie Prass
22. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
    Surf
23. My Morning Jacket
    The Waterfall
24. Alabama Shakes
    Sound & Color
25. Deerhunter
    Fading Frontier
26. Punch Brothers
    The Phosphorescent Blues
27. Lower Dens
    Escape From Evil
28. Faith No More
    Sol Invictus
29. Mount Eerie
    Sauna
30. Torres
    Sprinter
31. Mew
    + –
32. Baroness
    Purple
33. FIDLAR
    Too
34. The Mountain Goats
    Beat the Champ
35. Florence + The Machine
    How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
36. Car Seat Headrest
    Teens of Style
37. Laura Marling
    Short Movie
38. Wavves
    V
39. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
    Multi-Love
40. Lana Del Rey
    Honeymoon
41. Ratatat
    Magnifique
42. Muse
    Drones
43. Chvrches
    Every Open Eye
44. Speedy Ortiz
    Foil Deer
45. Kurt Vile
    B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
46. Beach House
    Thank Your Lucky Stars
47. The Decemberists
    What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
48. METZ
    II
49. Mumford & Sons
    Wilder Mind
50. The Arcs
    Yours, Dreamily