Top 24 Music Albums of 2015
by johnner

Best Tracks of 2015:
1. Umbongo - Girl Band
2. March of Progress - Viet Cong
3. My Terracotta Heart - Blur
4. In Plastic - Girl Band
5. Lost Bliss - Carter Tutti
6. Silhouettes - Viet Cong
7. Death - Viet Cong
8. A Cold Cell - Coil
9. Sleepwalking - Wire
10. Mirrorball - Blur
11. Plastic - New Order
12. Instrumental 4 - Flying Saucer Attack
13. Harpooned - Wire
14. Shoom - P.I.L.
15. Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens
16. The Metal East - Lightning Bolt

• Chart updated: 04/28/2025 22:15
• (Created: 01/07/2015 14:47).
• Chart size: 24 albums.

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Viet Cong 

 Viet Cong

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It's easy to see why Viet Cong are so suited to a genre such as post-punk considering it came with the promise of heralding a 'limitless future' - for music at the very least. Songs often stop, take unexpected de-tours, and to paraphrase the Young Marble Giants constantly change. Like Interpol with 'Turn on the Bright Lights' Viet Cong is a re-boot of a classic sound with frequent and obvious spot-the-influence moments (Gang of Four, This Heat, Wire etc etc) with some of the quirks and eccentricities that half the band shared in their previous incarnation as Women still clearly on show.
It is very much an albums album, with it's only one real concession to pop-music being the single 'Continental Shelf', all the while conjuring an oppressive Orwellian atmosphere where the buildings are healthy...even if the people aren't, it is rarely predictable even if it is a jarring, bumpy ride, but it is also excellent. [First added to this chart: 01/07/2015]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

276 charts

Rank Score:

1,402

Rank in 2015:

19

Rank in 2010s:

184

Overall Rank:

1,234

Average Rating:

 76 (402 votes)

Comments:

32

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Carter Tutti Plays Chris & Cosey 

 Carter Tutti

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Studio reworkings of live Chris & Cosey tracks that are no less engaging - or thrilling for that matter. Putting the sensual into the sexual; hedonistic, paganistic, pugilistic, and clearly enjoying itself, it is (ahem) hot on the heels of love. [First added to this chart: 02/28/2015]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

4 charts

Rank Score:

22

Rank in 2015:

863

Rank in 2010s:

8,479

Overall Rank:

34,832

Average Rating:

 74 (2 votes)

Comments:

1

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The Magic Whip 

 Blur

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Here they are again, sounding better than everyone else all over again. A marked improvement on Think Tank and most definitely rubbing shoulders with some of their best records. Reflective of the city it was recorded in - Hong Kong, there's a spacey, futuristic glow to each song whilst all the while a sense of melancholy loneliness and dislocation pervades amongst the hubbub. The Magic Whip finds Blur very much Lost. In. The. City. It is without a shadow of a doubt a brilliant album and an excellent return to form, sounding for all the world like the same band who released She's So High or even still The Great Escape, it will leave very few Blur fans disappointed - even if inevitably, you're left wanting more. Standout tracks include: Thought I Was A Spaceman; My Terracotta Heart; There Are Too Many Of Us and Mirrorball. 10 out of 10. [First added to this chart: 03/10/2015]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

366 charts

Rank Score:

1,671

Rank in 2015:

15

Rank in 2010s:

149

Overall Rank:

1,034

Average Rating:

 76 (604 votes)

Comments:

55

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Rub 

 Peaches

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[First added to this chart: 07/21/2021]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

5 charts

Rank Score:

22

Rank in 2015:

875

Rank in 2010s:

8,631

Overall Rank:

35,368

Average Rating:

 74 (6 votes)

Comments:

2

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Instrumentals 2015 

 Flying Saucer Attack

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Fifteen Instrumentals that dance around the periphery of what we consider to be 'rock' music. Alternating slab's of noise jostle with some of Dave Pearce's most open-ended guitar work to date, which as so much orchestrate the more 'out-there'/coruscating moment's of Popol Vuh or My Bloody Valentine. Being the nearest FSA have come to resembling Roy Montgomery, Pearce's guitar-play creates a sound that is as old as time and as eternal as the yawning chasm of the universe. The sound of light refracting through space and time and the eye of the storm, Instrumentals 2015 manages to be both anarchically noisey and calmly serene. [First added to this chart: 06/29/2015]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

7 charts

Rank Score:

8

Rank in 2015:

1,685

Rank in 2010s:

16,317

Overall Rank:

63,568

Average Rating:

 73 (9 votes)

Comments:

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Wire 

 Wire

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Continuing to poke and provoke within their silken art-rock, Wire - architects of post-punks 'perfect sound forever' irrigates and re-invigorates. Wire being Wire is perhaps not such a bad thing especially when they manage to piss brilliance like this. [First added to this chart: 02/14/2015]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

29 charts

Rank Score:

109

Rank in 2015:

224

Rank in 2010s:

2,182

Overall Rank:

10,788

Average Rating:

 72 (49 votes)

Comments:

3

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Depersonilisation 

 Nite Fields

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Like Northern Ireland's Girls Names, Australia's Nite Fields specialise in glacial, goth tinged post-punk soundscapes but minus that band's Josef K fetish. If descending guitar chords realign your serotonin levels and if you find comfort in the deepest, most sorrowful 'shoegaze' since Slowdive's heyday, this album is for you. [First added to this chart: 02/03/2015]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

4 charts

Rank Score:

9

Rank in 2015:

1,538

Rank in 2010s:

14,828

Overall Rank:

58,025

Average Rating:

 72 (5 votes)

Comments:

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Backwards 

 Coil

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The album between Love's Secret Domain and Musick to Play in the Dark that was abandoned now finally released finds Coil at a crossroads. The music is as infernal as ever with an impressive technical proficiency - however, Backwards is no techno-fest with many of the tracks very much resembling traditional songs, not unlike their seminal Horse Rotorvator album. But better. [First added to this chart: 10/09/2015]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

2 charts

Rank Score:

6

Rank in 2015:

1,922

Rank in 2010s:

18,643

Overall Rank:

72,406

Average Rating:

 75 (5 votes)

Comments:

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Semi Detached 

 Blancmange

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[First added to this chart: 04/16/2025]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

4 charts

Rank Score:

20

Rank in 2015:

972

Rank in 2010s:

9,471

Overall Rank:

38,308

Average Rating:

 70 (2 votes)

Comments:

1

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Music Complete 

 New Order

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Return to form after the weak Waiting For The Sirens Call see's the electronic techno-pop they're famous for back to the fore. Poppier and more housey than ever before even if the absence of Peter Hook remains a sore point. [First added to this chart: 09/23/2015]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

89 charts

Rank Score:

249

Rank in 2015:

111

Rank in 2010s:

1,010

Overall Rank:

5,419

Average Rating:

 73 (120 votes)

Comments:

4

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Top 24 Music Albums of 2015 composition

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	12	50%
	5	21%
	2	8%
	2	8%
	1	4%
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From makerofbuckets 05/01/2015 04:15 | #140620

2 albums that haven't even come out yet.

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