2015, y’all! Here are the albums I listened to this year, with ratings to boot.
- !!! — As If (7.5/10)
- A Place to Bury Strangers — Transfixiation (6.5/10)
- Action Bronson — Mr. Wonderful (7/10)
- Adele — 25 (7/10)
- Adventures — Supersonic Home (8/10)
- Alabama Shakes — Sound and Color (7.5/10)
- Alison Wonderland — Run (7/10)
- Alpine — Yuck (6.5/10)
- Alyx Dennison — Alyx Dennison (7/10)
- And So I Watch You From Afar — Heirs (7/10)
- Art vs. Science — Off the Edge of the Earth and Into Forever, Forever (7/10)
- Ash — Kablammo! (5.5/10)
- Atreyu — Long Live (6/10)
- Avalanche City — We Are for the Wild Places (5.5/10)
- Bad//Dreems — Dogs at Bay (7.5/10)
- Barenaked Ladies — Silverball (4.5/10)
- BATPISS — BIOMASS (7/10)
- Baroness — Purple (8/10)
- Battles — La Di Da Di (7.5/10)
- Beach Slang — The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us (7.5/10)
- Beautiful Bodies — Battles (3.5/10)
- Belle and Sebastian — Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (6.5/10)
- Ben Ely — Goodbye Machine (7/10)
- Ben Lee — Love is the Great Rebellion (3/10)
- Best Coast — California Nights (8/10)
- Björk — Vulnicura (8/10)
- Blur — The Magic Whip (7/10)
- Bob Dylan — Shadows in the Night (4.5/10)
- Brandon Flowers — The Desired Effect (7/10)
- Brian Wilson — No Pier Pressure (5.5/10)
- Bully — Feels Like (7.5/10)
- Cancer Bats — Searching for Zero (7.5/10)
- Carb on Carb — Carb on Carb (8/10)
- Carly Rae Jepsen — Emotion (7.5/10)
- Ceremony — The L-Shaped Man (7.5/10)
- The Chemical Brothers — Born in the Echoes (7/10)
- Chris Cornell — Higher Truth (4.5/10)
- CHVRCHES — Every Open Eye (8/10)
- Ciara — Jackie (5/10)
- Circa Waves — Young Chasers (5/10)
- Citizen — Everybody is Going to Heaven (8/10)
- City and Colour — If I Should Go Before You (7/10)
- City of Ships — Ultraluminal (8/10)
- Clowns — Bad Blood (7/10)
- CocoRosie — Heartache City (7/10)
- Coldplay — A Head Full of Dreams (5.5/10)
- Cosmic Psychos — Cum the Raw Prawn (7.5/10)
- Counterparts — Tragedy Will Find Us (7.5/10)
- Courage My Love — Becoming (6.5/10)
- Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (9/10)
- Crystal Lake — The Sign (7/10)
- Dan Kelly — Leisure Panic (4.5/10)
- Dan Mangan + Blacksmith — Club Meds (8/10)
- Daniel Johns — Talk (7/10)
- Danny Yau — Do You Think We’ll Live Here Forever? (7.5/10)
- Darren Hanlon — Where Did You Come From? (7.5/10)
- Dead Letter Circus — Aesthesis (7/10)
- The Dead Weather — Dodge and Burn (7/10)
- Deafheaven — New Bermuda (8/10)
- The Dear Hunter — Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise (7.5/10)
- Death Cab for Cutie — Kintsugi (8/10)
- Death Grips — Jenny Death (7.5/10)
- The Decemberists — What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (7/10)
- Defeater — Abandoned (7.5/10)
- Demi Lovato — Confident (7.5/10)
- Desaparecidos — Payola (7/10)
- Dr. Dre — Compton (6.5/10)
- Drenge — Undertow (7/10)
- Duran Duran — Paper Gods (6/10)
- Earl Sweatshirt — I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside (7.5/10)
- EL VY — Return to the Moon (7.5/10)
- Elvis Depressedly — New Alhambra (6.5/10)
- Emperors — Chupacabra (5/10)
- Employed to Serve — Greyer Than You Remember (7.5/10)
- Enslaved — In Times (7.5/10)
- Enter Shikari — The Mindsweep (6.5/10)
- Ess-Em — Ess-Em (7/10)
- Everclear — Black is the New Black (5.5/10)
- Everything Everything — Get to Heaven (7/10)
- Faith No More — Sol Invictus (7/10)
- Fall Out Boy — American Beauty/American Psycho (7/10)
- Father John Misty — I Love You Honeybear (6/10)
- FFS — FFS (3.5/10)
- FIDLAR — Too (7.5/10)
- Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (7.5/10)
- FOLEY! — Ascot Vale (7/10)
- Fourteen Nights at Sea — Minor Light (8/10)
- Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes — Blossom (8/10)
- Frank Turner — Positive Songs for Negative People (7.5/10)
- The Front Bottoms — Back On Top (8/10)
- Funeral for a Friend — Chapter and Verse (5.5/10)
- Gallows — Desolation Sounds (7.5/10)
- Gang of Four — What Happens Next (7.5/10)
- Gang of Youths — The Positions (7.5/10)
- Garfunkel and Oates — Secretions (7/10)
- Gatherer — Heavy Hail (5.5/10)
- The Gin Club — Southern Lights (7.5/10)
- Gin Wigmore — Blood to Bone (6.5/10)
- Girlpool — Before the World Was Big (8/10)
- Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing — Scrying in Infirmary Architecture (8/10)
- The Go! Team — The Scene Between (8/10)
- Gold Class — It’s You (7.5/10)
- Grenadiers — Summer (8/10)
- Greyface — Grey Hairs (7/10)
- Grimes — Art Angels (8/10)
- The Hard Aches — Pheromones (8/10)
- Heartless Bastards — Restless Ones (7.5/10)
- Hermitude — Dark Night Sweet Light (7.5/10)
- Hiatus Kaiyote — Choose Your Weapon (6/10)
- High Tension — Bully (8/10)
- Hightime — Mother Crab (7/10)
- Hollywood Vampires — Hollywood Vampires (6/10)
- Hop Along — Painted Shut (8/10)
- Hot Chip — Why Make Sense? (7/10)
- Idlewild — Everything Ever Written (6/10)
- the i.l.y’s — I’ve always been good at true love (7.5/10)
- I’m From Barcelona — Growing Up is for Trees (5.5/10)
- The Internet — Ego Death (7.5/10)
- Iron Maiden — The Book of Souls (5.5/10)
- Ivan Drago — Ivan Drago (6.5/10)
- iwrestledabearonce — Hail Mary (4/10)
- Jack Ü — Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü (7.5/10)
- Jamie xx — In Colour (8/10)
- Jason Isbell — Something More Than Free (8/10)
- Jeff Rosenstock — We Cool? (8/10)
- JEFF the Brotherhood — Wasted on the Dream (7.5/10)
- Jeffrey Lewis and Los Bolts — Manhattan (6.5/10)
- Jess Locke — Words That Seem to Slip Away (8/10)
- Joanna Gruesome — Peanut Butter (8/10)
- Joanna Newsom — Divers (8/10)
- José González — Vestiges and Claws (8/10)
- Josh Pyke — But For All These Shrinking Hearts (6.5/10)
- Julien Baker — Sprained Ankle (8.5/10)
- Justin Bieber — Purpose (7/10)
- Kacey Musgraves— Pageant Material (7.5/10)
- Kath Bloom — Pass Through Here (7/10)
- Keith Richards — Crosseyed Heart (5/10)
- Kelly Clarkson — Piece by Piece (3/10)
- Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp a Butterfly (8.5/10)
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — Quarters! (6/10)
- King Parrot — Dead Set (7/10)
- Kissing Booth — Never Settle (8/10)
- Kurt Vile — b’lieve i’m goin down… (8/10)
- Laura Marling — Short Movie (7.5/10)
- Le Butcherettes — A Raw Youth (7/10)
- LE1F — Riot Boi (7.5/10)
- Lenka — The Bright Side (6.5/10)
- Leon Bridges — Coming Home (6/10)
- Lianne La Havas — Blood (7/10)
- The Libertines — Anthems for Doomed Youth (7/10)
- Lieutenant — If I Kill This Thing We’re Going to Eat for a Week (7/10)
- Lou Barlow — Brace the Wave (8/10)
- Low — Ones and Sixes (8/10)
- Major Lazer — Peace is the Mission (7/10)
- Make Do and Mend — Don’t Be Long (8/10)
- MAKING — HIGHLIFE (8.5/10)
- Man Overboard — Heavy Love (7.5/10)
- Marduk — Frontschwein (8/10)
- Marina and the Diamonds — FROOT (8/10)
- Mark Ronson — Uptown Special (7.5/10)
- Matt and Kim — New Glow (6/10)
- Meghan Trainor — Title (3/10)
- Metric — Pagans in Vegas (5.5/10)
- Mew — +- (7.5/10)
- Micachu and the Shapes — Good Sad Happy Bad (7.5/10)
- Miguel — Wildheart (8/10)
- Miles Away — Tide (8/10)
- Miley Cyrcus — Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz (6/10)
- Millencolin — True Brew (7.5/10)
- Mini Mansions — The Great Pretenders (6/10)
- MisterWives — Our Own House (7.5/10)
- Modest Mouse — Strangers to Ourselves (7.5/10)
- Mumford & Sons — Wilder Mind (5/10)
- Muse — Drones (3/10)
- Motion City Soundtrack — Panic Stations (7.5/10)
- The Mountain Goats — Beat the Champ (8/10)
- My Disco — Severe (7/10)
- My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall (7/10)
- Napalm Death — Apex Predator – Easy Meat (7/10)
- Natalie Prass — Natalie Prass (5.5/10)
- Nate Ruess — Grand Romantic (4.5/10)
- Newton Faulkner — Human Love (6/10)
- Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds — Chasing Yesterday (7.5/10)
- Northlane — Node (8/10)
- Of Monsters and Men — Beneath the Skin (5.5/10)
- One Direction — Made in the A.M. (5/10)
- Owl City — Mobile Orchestra (5/10)
- Panda Bear — Panda Bear Versus the Grim Reaper (7.5/10)
- Palms [AUS] — Crazy Rack (7.5/10)
- Paper Arms — Great Mistakes (7.5/10)
- The Paper Kites — twelvefour (7.5/10)
- Parkway Drive — Ire (3.5/10)
- Peaches — Rub (7/10)
- Pentimento — I, No Longer (7.5/10)
- Philadelphia Grand Jury — Summer of Doom (7.5/10)
- Pitt the Elder — At the End of the Day (7/10)
- Pond — Man, It Feels Like Space Again (7.5/10)
- The Prodigy — The Day is My Enemy (3.5/10)
- Pryti — Tales of a Melancholic (5.5/10)
- Purity Ring — Another Eternity (7.5/10)
- Raein — Perpetuum (7.5/10)
- Raised Fist — From the North (6.5/10)
- Refused — Freedom (8/10)
- Robert Forster — Songs to Play (7.5/10)
- Rolo Tomassi — Grievances (8/10)
- Roots Manuva — Bleeds (4/10)
- Rosetta — Quintessential Ephemera (8/10)
- Royal Headache — High (8/10)
- Ryan Adams — 1989 (6/10)
- Ryan Bingham — Fear and Saturday Night (7/10)
- Screaming Females — Rose Mountain (7.5/10)
- Seasick Steve — Sonic Soul Surfer (5.5/10)
- Seaway — Colour Blind (7/10)
- Selena Gomez — Revival (7.5/10)
- Seth Sentry — Strange New Past (7.5/10)
- Shanghai — The Ultraviolent (7/10)
- Shaky Handz — Celebrity Make Me a Sandwich (6.5/10)
- The Sidekicks — Runners in the Nerved World (7.5/10)
- Silversun Pickups — Better Nature (8/10)
- Slaves [UK] — Are You Satisfied? (7/10)
- Slayer — Repentless (7/10)
- Sleaford Mods — Key Markets (8/10)
- Sleater-Kinney — No Cities to Love (8/10)
- Snoop Dogg — Bush (7.5/10)
- The Snowdroppers — Business (6.5/10)
- Soko — My Dreams Dictate My Reality (6/10)
- Spectres — Dying (7/10)
- Speedy Ortiz — Foil Deer (7.5/10)
- Stories — The Youth to Become (6.5/10)
- The Story So Far — The Story So Far (7.5/10)
- Stray from the Path — Subliminal Criminals (7.5/10)
- Sufjan Stevens — Carrie and Lowell (8/10)
- Summer Camp — Bad Love (7/10)
- Sun Kil Moon — Universal Themes (7.5/10)
- Super Best Friends — Status Updates (7/10)
- Surfer Blood — 1000 Palms (7/10)
- The Sword — High Country (7/10)
- Tame Impala — Currents (7.5/10)
- Tanned Christ — Antipodean Sickness (8/10)
- Terror — The Twenty-Fifth Hour (6.5/10)
- Tex Perkins and the Dark Horses — Tunnel at the End of the Light (6.5/10)
- THEESatisfaction — EarthEE (7/10)
- They Might Be Giants — Glean (6/10)
- Thorax — Thorax (7.5/10)
- Tim Rogers and the Bamboos — The Rules of Attraction (4/10)
- Title Fight — Hyperview (8.5/10)
- Tommy Rutland — The Iconography of Our Youth (1/10)
- The Tongue — Hard Feelings (7.5/10)
- Torche — Restarter (7.5/10)
- Tuka — Life Death Time Eternal (7/10)
- Turnover — Peripheral Vision (8/10)
- Twitching Tongues — Disharmony (7.5/10)
- Tyler, the Creator — Cherry Bomb (5.5/10)
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Multi-Love (8/10)
- Veruca Salt— Ghost Notes (5.5/10)
- Viet Cong — Viet Cong (7/10)
- The Waifs — Beautiful You (4/10)
- War on Women — War on Women (8/10)
- Wavves — V (8/10)
- Wavves x Cloud Nothings — No Life for Me (7/10)
- Waxahatchee — Ivy Tripp (8/10)
- We Lost the Sea — Departure Songs (8/10)
- The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness (7.5/10)
- White Walls — Afterthoughts in Limbo (8/10)
- Will Butler — Policy (7/10)
- Wolf Alice — My Love is Cool (7/10)
- The Wonder Years — No Closer to Heaven (7.5/10)
- Worriers — Imaginary Life (8/10)
- You Am I — Porridge and Hotsauce (7.5/10)
- You Beauty — Illywhacka (7.5/10)
- Young Fathers — White Men Are Black Men Too (8/10)
- Young Lions — Blue Isla (3.5/10)
- Zac Brown Band — Jekyll + Hyde (3.5/10)