Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2015 Music

Flood: Best Music of 2015

11 December 2015

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Flood Magazine: Best Music of 2015

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014]

  1. To Pimp A Butterfly
    Kendrick Lamar
  2. Currents
    Tame Impala
  3. Fresh Blood
    Matthew E. White
  4. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
    Kurt Vile
  5. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
  6. Star Wars
    Wilco
  7. Have You In My Wilderness
    Julia Holter
  8. Multi-Love
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  9. Divers
    Joanna Newsom
  10. La Di Da Di
    Battles
  11. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
  12. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
    Panda Bear
  13. Fading Frontier
    Deerhunter
  14. FFS
    FFS
  15. Vulnicura
    Björk
  16. I Aubade
    Elvis Perkins
  17. Policy
    Will Butler
  18. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
  19. Mutilator Defeated At Last
    Thee Oh Sees
  20. All Odds End
    The Mantles
  21. Hypnophobia
    Jacco Gardner
  22. Fated
    Nosaj Thing
  23. Viet Cong
    Viet Cong
  24. Coming Home
    Leon Bridges
  25. Big Grams
    Big Grams

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