Year-End Lists

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]

1. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
3. Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
4. Grimes — Art Angels
5. Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
6. Sufjan Stevens — Carrie & Lowell
7. Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
8. Kamasi Washington — The Epic
9. Jamie xx — In Colour
10. Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
11. Jason Isbell — Something More Than Free
12. Tame Impala — Currents
13. Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color
14. Miguel — Wildheart
15. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment — Surf
16. Joanna Newsom — Divers
17. Future — DS2
18. Drake — If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
19. The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness
20. Kacey Musgraves — Pageant Material
21. Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast — Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
22. Hop Along — Painted Shut
23. Björk — Vulnicura
24. Chris Stapleton — Traveller
25. Leon Bridges — Coming Home
26. Earl Sweatshirt — I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
27. Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
28. TORRES — Sprinter
29. Dawn Richard — Blackheart
30. Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete
31. Shamir — Ratchet
32. Young Thug — Barter 6
33. Julia Holter — Have You In My Wilderness
34. Mbongwana Star — From Kinshasa
35. Adele — 25
36. Ashley Monroe — The Blade
37. Waxahatchee — Ivy Tripp
38. Beach House — Depression Cherry
39. Jazmine Sullivan — Reality Show
40. Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife
41. Chvrches — Every Open Eye
42. D’Angelo and The Vanguard — Black Messiah
43. Wilco — Star Wars
44. Royal Headache — High
45. Deerhunter — Fading Frontier
46. Low — Ones and Sixes
47. Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect
48. Beach Slang — The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
49. Bob Dylan — Shadows In The Night
50. Titus Andronicus — The Most Lamentable Tragedy
51. James McMurtry — Complicated Game
52. Rhiannon Giddens — Tomorrow Is My Turn
53. Blur — The Magic Whip
54. Deafheaven — New Bermuda
55. DJ Esco & Future — 56 Nights
56. Dr. Dre — Compton
57. Destroyer — Poison Season
57. The Internet — Ego Death
59. Viet Cong — Viet Cong
60. Colleen Green — I Want to Grow Up
61. Lana Del Rey — Honeymoon
62. Bully — Feels Like
63. Jessica Pratt — On Your Own Love Again
64. Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
65. A$AP Rocky — AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
66. Arca — Mutant
67. Natalie Prass — Natalie Prass
68. Algiers — Algiers
69. Yo La Tengo — Stuff Like That There
70. Julien Baker — Sprained Ankle
71. Downtown Boys — Full Communism
72. Susanne Sundfør — Ten Love Songs
73. The Sonics — This Is the Sonics
74. Heems — Eat Pray Thug
74. New Order — Music Complete
76. Floating Points — Elaenia
77. Speedy Ortiz — Foil Deer
78. Holly Herndon — Platform
79. FFS — FFS
80. Joan Shelley — Over and Even
81. Jim O’Rourke — Simple Songs
82. HEALTH — Death Magic
83. Eric Church — Mr. Misunderstood
83. Laurie Anderson — Heart of a Dog
85. My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall
86. Bob Dylan — The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966
87. Jeremih — Late Nights: The Album
88. John Grant — Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
89. Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Style
90. Jeffrey Lewis — Manhattan
91. Ryan Adams — 1989
92. Janet Jackson — Unbreakable
92. The Mountain Goats — Beat the Champ
94. J.D. McPherson — Let the Good Times Roll
95. Erykah Badu — But You Caint Use My Phone
96. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats — Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
97. Beauty Pill — Describes Things As They Are
98. Panda Bear — Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
99. Screaming Females — Rose Mountain
100. Tenement — Predatory Headlights