Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2015

1. Jlin
   Dark Energy
2. Matana Roberts
   Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
3. Joshua Abrams
   Magnetoception
4. Julia Holter
   Have You In My Wilderness
5. Heather Leigh
   I Abused Animal
6. Holly Herndon
   Platform
7. Jim O’Rourke
   Simple Songs
8. Kamasi Washington
   The Epic
9. Kendrick Lamar
   To Pimp A Butterfly
10. The Necks
    Vertigo
11. Hieroglyphic Being
    We Are Not the First
12. Vince Staples
    Summertime ’06
13. Björk
    Vulnicura
14. Joanna Newsom
    Divers
15. Graham Lambkin / Michael Pisaro
    Schwarze Riesenfalter
16. Raphael Rogiński
    Plays John Coltrane And Langston Hughes African Mystic Music
17. Laura Cannell
    Beneath Swooping Talons
18. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Garden of Delete
19. Future
    DS2
20. Helm
    Olympic Mess
21. Sleaford Mods
    Key Markets
22. Hour House
    Chiltern
23. Mbongwana Star
    From Kinshasa
24. Golden Teacher
    Sauchiehall Enthrall
25. Richard Thompson
    Still
26. Domenique Dumont
    Comme ça
27. Visionist
    Safe
28. Six Organs of Admittance
    Hexadic
29. Aphex Twin
    Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
30. Nidia Minaj
    Danger
31. King Midas Sound & Fennesz
    Edition 1
32. Philip Jeck
    Cardinal
33. DJ Esco & Future
    56 Nights
34. Gnod
    Infinity Machines
35. Seymour Wright
    Seymour Writes Back
36. LNRDCROY
    Much Less Normal
37. Jürg Frey
    Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014
38. Guttersnipe
    Demo
39. Jerusalem in My Heart
    If He Dies, If If If If If If
40. Contact
    Allison Cameron: A Gossamer Bit
41. Carter Tutti Void
    F (X)
42. Radu Malfatti
    One man and a fly
43. Thundercat
    The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
44. Uwe Oberg
    Work
45. Micachu & The Shapes
    Good Sad Happy Bad
46. Floating Points
    Elaenia
47. Keith Rowe / John Tilbury
    Enough still not to know
48. Jam City
    Dream a Garden
49. Flying Saucer Attack
    Instrumentals 2015
50. William Basinski
    The Deluge