Year-End Lists

Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2015

[see also 2025 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

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