Shifty's Favorite Albums From The Year 2015!!!! Hey That Was This Year!!!!!!
This was a great year for music. Probably the best year since 2012. I listened to more than 300 (maybe 400?) albums that came out this year, and I made a list of the 50 that I liked the most. This isn't a list of the best albums that came out this year. This is a list of my favorite albums that came out this year.
My Top 15 Albums of 2015
- Ought - Sun Coming Down
- Viet Cong - Viet Cong
- Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
- Vince Staples - Summertime '06
- Jimmy Whispers - Summer in Pain
- Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
- Jamie XX - In Colour
- Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
- Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
- Deafheaven - New Bermuda
- Deerhunter- Fading Frontier
- Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
- Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
- Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
- Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
Honorable Mentions (Alphabetical Order)
- Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
- Arca - Mutant
- A$AP Rocky - At.Long.Last.A$AP
- Baroness - Purple
- Beach House - Depression Cherry
- Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
- Blur - The Magic Whip
- Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
- Cloakroom - Further Out
- Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- Czarface - Every Hero Needs a Villain
- Death Grips - The Powers That B
- Destroyer - Poison Season
- FKA Twigs - M3LL155X
- Freddie Gibbs - Shadow of a Doubt
- Girlpool - Before the World Was Big
- Grimes - Art Angels
- Hop Along - Painted Shut
- Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
- Joey Bada$$ - B4.da.$$
- Julio Bashmore - Knockin' Boots
- Krallice - Ygg huur
- Krill - A Distant Fist Unclenching
- Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down
- Leon Bridges - Coming Home
- METZ - II
- Royal Headache - High
- Sleater Kinney - No Cities to Love
- Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
- Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
- Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
- Tame Impala - Currents
- Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
- Tribulation - The Children of the Night
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
- The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Harmlessness
How many of these albums have you listened to? Did you have a favorite album this year?
