Year-End Lists

The Skinny: The 50 Best Albums of 2015

1. Sleater-Kinney
   No Cities To Love
2. Sufjan Stevens
   Carrie & Lowell
3. Kendrick Lamar
   To Pimp A Butterfly
4. Blanck Mass
   Dumb Flesh
5. Julia Holter
   Have You In My Wilderness
6. Jenny Hval
   Apocalypse, Girl
7. Young Fathers
   White Men Are Black Men Too
8. Father John Misty
   I Love You, Honeybear
9. Kurt Vile
   B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
10. Björk
    Vulnicura
11. Faith No More
    Sol Invictus
12. Django Django
    Born Under Saturn
13. Waxahatchee
    Ivy Tripp
14. Titus Andronicus
    The Most Lamentable Tragedy
15. Dr. Dre
    Compton
16. Courtney Barnett
    Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
17. Deerhunter
    Fading Frontier
18. Dutch Uncles
    O Shudder
19. Viet Cong
    Viet Cong
20. Sleaford Mods
    Key Markets
21. Chvrches
    Every Open Eye
22. Beirut
    No No No
23. Outfit
    Slowness
24. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
25. Destroyer
    Poison Season
26. Joanna Newsom
    Divers
27. LoneLady
    Hinterland
28. Low
    Ones and Sixes
29. Tame Impala
    Currents
30. John Grant
    Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
31. Beach House
    Depression Cherry
32. Wolf Alice
    My Love Is Cool
33. Enablers
    The Rightful Pivot
34. Everything Everything
    Get To Heaven
35. Hudson Mohawke
    Lantern
36. And So I Watch You From Afar
    Heirs
37. Garden of Elks
    A Distorted Sigh
38. The Phantom Band
    Fears Trending
39. Blur
    The Magic Whip
40. Floating Points
    Elaenia
41. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Garden of Delete
42. Ought
    Sun Coming Down
43. Errors
    Lease of Life
44. Deafheaven
    New Bermuda
45. East India Youth
    Culture of Volume
46. EL VY
    Return to the Moon
47. Deradoorian
    The Expanding Flower Planet
48. Foals
    What Went Down
49. Belle and Sebastian
    Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
50. Gnod
    Infinity Machines