Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2015 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
- Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
- Grimes — Art Angels
- Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
- Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
- Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
- Kamasi Washington — The Epic
- Jamie xx — In Colour
- Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
- Jason Isbell — Something More Than Free
- Tame Impala — Currents
- Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color
- Miguel — Wildheart
- Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment — Surf
- Joanna Newsom — Divers
- Future — DS2
- Drake — If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
- The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness
- Kacey Musgraves — Pageant Material
- Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast — Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
- Hop Along — Painted Shut
- Björk — Vulnicura
- Chris Stapleton — Traveller
- Leon Bridges — Coming Home
- Earl Sweatshirt — I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
- Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
- TORRES — Sprinter
- Dawn Richard — Blackheart
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete
- Shamir — Ratchet
- Young Thug — Barter 6
- Julia Holter — Have You In My Wilderness
- Mbongwana Star — From Kinshasa
- Adele — 25
- Ashley Monroe — The Blade
- Waxahatchee — Ivy Tripp
- Beach House — Depression Cherry
- Jazmine Sullivan — Reality Show
- Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife
- Chvrches — Every Open Eye
- D’Angelo and The Vanguard — Black Messiah
- Wilco — Star Wars
- Royal Headache — High
- Deerhunter — Fading Frontier
- Low — Ones and Sixes
- Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect
- Beach Slang — The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
- Bob Dylan — Shadows In The Night
- Titus Andronicus — The Most Lamentable Tragedy
- James McMurtry — Complicated Game
- Rhiannon Giddens — Tomorrow Is My Turn
- Blur — The Magic Whip
- Deafheaven — New Bermuda
- DJ Esco & Future — 56 Nights
- Dr. Dre — Compton
- Destroyer — Poison Season
- The Internet — Ego Death
- Viet Cong — Viet Cong
- Colleen Green — I Want to Grow Up
- Lana Del Rey — Honeymoon
- Bully — Feels Like
- Jessica Pratt — On Your Own Love Again
- Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- A$AP Rocky — AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
- Arca — Mutant
- Natalie Prass — Natalie Prass
- Algiers — Algiers
- Yo La Tengo — Stuff Like That There
- Julien Baker — Sprained Ankle
- Downtown Boys — Full Communism
- Susanne Sundfør — Ten Love Songs
- The Sonics — This Is the Sonics
- Heems — Eat Pray Thug
- New Order — Music Complete
- Floating Points — Elaenia
- Speedy Ortiz — Foil Deer
- Holly Herndon — Platform
- FFS — FFS
- Joan Shelley — Over and Even
- Jim O’Rourke — Simple Songs
- HEALTH — Death Magic
- Eric Church — Mr. Misunderstood
- Laurie Anderson — Heart of a Dog
- My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall
- Bob Dylan — The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966
- Jeremih — Late Nights: The Album
- John Grant — Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Style
- Jeffrey Lewis — Manhattan
- Ryan Adams — 1989
- Janet Jackson — Unbreakable
- The Mountain Goats — Beat the Champ
- J.D. McPherson — Let the Good Times Roll
- Erykah Badu — But You Caint Use My Phone
- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats — Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
- Beauty Pill — Describes Things As They Are
- Panda Bear — Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
- Screaming Females — Rose Mountain
- Tenement — Predatory Headlights