Year-End Lists

NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2015 (roughly alphabetical by artist)

• Africa Express & Andre de Ridder
  Africa Express Presents… Terry Riley’s In C Mali
• Alabama Shakes
  Sound & Color
• Anthony de Mare
  Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
• Ashley Monroe
  The Blade
• Beauty Pill
  Describes Things As They Are
• Bomba Estéreo
  Amanecer
• Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose
  Andrew Norman: Play
• Brandi Carlile
  The Firewatcher’s Daughter
• Carla Morrison
  Amor Supremo
• Carly Rae Jepsen
  E•MO•TION
• Cécile McLorin Salvant
  For One to Love
• Chris Stapleton
  Traveller
• Christian Scott
  Stretch Music (Introducing Elena Pinderhughes)
• Colleen
  Captain of None
• Courtney Barnett
  Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
• Daymé Arocena
  Nueva Era
• Dead To A Dying World
  Litany
• DJ Sotofett & Jaakko Eino Kalevi
  Drippin’ For A Tripp
• Earl Sweatshirt
  I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
• Floating Points
  Elaenia
• Florence + The Machine
  How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
• Four Tet
  Morning / Evening
• Future
  DS2
• The Game
  The Documentary 2
• girlpool
  Before the World Was Big
• Ibeyi
  Ibeyi
• International Contemporary Ensemble
  Thorvaldsdottir: In the Light of Air
• The Internet
  Ego Death
• Jamie xx
  In Colour
• Jason Isbell
  Something More Than Free
• Jazmine Sullivan
  Reality Show
• Joan Shelley
  Over and Even
• Joanna Newsom
  Divers
• Kacey Musgraves
  Pageant Material
• Kamasi Washington
  The Epic
• Kendrick Lamar
  To Pimp A Butterfly
• Low
  Ones and Sixes
• Mbongwana Star
  From Kinshasa
• Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
  Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• Patty Griffin
  Servant of Love
• Rhiannon Giddens
  Tomorrow Is My Turn
• Sam Lee & Friends
  The Fade in Time
• John Adams, San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson Thomas
  Adams: Absolute Jest & Grand Pianola Music
• Sufjan Stevens
  Carrie & Lowell
• Torres
  Sprinter
• Ty Dolla $ign
  Free TC
• Vijay Iyer Trio
  Break Stuff
• Vince Staples
  Summertime ’06
• Worriers
  Imaginary Life
• Xaos
  Xaos