Year-End Lists

Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2015

1. Father John Misty
   I Love You, Honeybear
2. Kendrick Lamar
   To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Björk
   Vulnicura
4. Wolf Alice
   My Love Is Cool
5. Sufjan Stevens
   Carrie & Lowell
6. Carly Rae Jepsen
   E•MO•TION
7. Joanna Newsom
   Divers
8. Braids
   Deep In the Iris
9. Sleater-Kinney
   No Cities To Love
10. Jenny Hval
    Apocalypse, Girl
11. Viet Cong
    Viet Cong
12. Charli XCX
    SUCKER
13. Blur
    The Magic Whip
14. Kathryn Joseph
    Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled
15. Lana Del Rey
    Honeymoon
16. Low
    Ones and Sixes
17. Nils Frahm
    Solo
18. The Lucid Dream
    The Lucid Dream
19. Young Fathers
    White Men Are Black Men Too
20. Laura Marling
    Short Movie
21. Pinkshinyultrablast
    Everything Else Matters
22. Susanne Sundfør
    Ten Love Songs
23. Girl Band
    Holding Hands with Jamie
24. Max Richter
    Sleep
25. Fetty Wap
    Fetty Wap
26. Foals
    What Went Down
27. Kamasi Washington
    The Epic
28. Gwenno
    Y Dydd Olaf
29. Petrels
    Flailing Tomb
30. Haiku Salut
    Etch and Etch Deep
31. Du Blonde
    Welcome Back To Milk
32. BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah
    Sour Soul
33. Marilyn Manson
    The Pale Emperor
34. Mbongwana Star
    From Kinshasa
35. Idlewild
    Everything Ever Written
36. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
37. Ezra Furman
    Perpetual Motion People
38. Algiers
    Algiers
39. Hop Along
    Painted Shut
40. Trust Fund
    Seems Unfair
41. Everything Everything
    Get To Heaven
42. Mew
    + –
43. Grimes
    Art Angels
44. The Icarus Line
    All Things Under Heaven
45. Destroyer
    Poison Season
46. The Maccabees
    Marks to Prove It
47. Then Thickens
    Colic
48. Lower Dens
    Escape From Evil
49. Heather Woods Broderick
    Glider
50. Blanck Mass
    Dumb Flesh
51. girlpool
    Before the World Was Big
52. Health
    Death Magic
53. Deerhunter
    Fading Frontier
54. Lanterns on the Lake
    Beings
55. Julia Holter
    Have You In My Wilderness
56. Ryley Walker
    Primrose Green
57. Gnod
    Infinity Machines
58. Killing Joke
    Pylon
59. Blank Realm
    Illegals in Heaven
60. Title Fight
    Hyperview
61. Belle and Sebastian
    Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
62. Desaparecidos
    Payola
63. Songhoy Blues
    Music In Exile
64. Errors
    Lease of Life
65. Joanna Gruesome
    Peanut Butter
66. Cheatahs
    Mythologies
67. Mercury Rev
    The Light in You
68. Ghostpoet
    Shedding Skin
69. Alabama Shakes
    Sound & Color
70. Beach House
    Depression Cherry
71. Jessica Pratt
    On Your Own Love Again
72. Colder
    Many Colours
73. Ghost Culture
    Ghost Culture
74. Jamie xx
    In Colour
75. Dr. Dre
    Compton
76. Anna von Hausswolff
    The Miraculous
77. The Libertines
    Anthems For Doomed Youth
78. Battles
    La Di Da Di
79. John Grant
    Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
80. LoneLady
    Hinterland
81. Jme
    Integrity
82. The Cribs
    For All My Sisters
83. Courtney Barnett
    Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
84. Drake
    If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
85. Tame Impala
    Currents
86. Kurt Vile
    B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
87. EL VY
    Return to the Moon
88. Ought
    Sun Coming Down
89. Tobias Jesso Jr.
    Goon
90. Holly Herndon
    Platform
91. Villagers
    Darling Arithmetic
92. Deafheaven
    New Bermuda
93. Floating Points
    Elaenia
94. Gaz Coombes
    Matador
95. Fairhorns
    Fuckup Rush
96. Nadine Shah
    Fast Food
97. Róisín Murphy
    Hairless Toys
98. SOAK
    Before We Forgot How To Dream
99. The Mountain Goats
    Beat the Champ
100. Drinks
     Hermits On Holiday