Best Albums of 2015

Listed below are the best albums of 2015 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 5 hours ago).
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2015 year summaryThe best artists of 2015 were Kendrick Lamar, Sufjan Stevens, Tame Impala, Father John Misty, Grimes, Courtney Barnett, Beach House, Carly Rae Jepsen, Steven Wilson and Kamasi Washington.
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"It's a modern NYC vibe. On Joey's previous projects, he tried to emulate Nas' Illmatic jazziness and to some degree he succeeded. This one is like his take on the city vibe itself. It's not jazzy but it is loungey in a weird way"  Reply
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"Brilliant. I think Palomo's actually gotten stronger and stronger as an artist and this is easily his peak. It has the fun and freakishness of Psychic Chasms combined with the hooks and haziness of Era Extrana but it's also a lot more assured than those two. The album plays as one long extended t..."  [+]  Reply
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"That great big next step forward that was needed. Starker and more contemplative than her previous releases, which often valued pulsating swagger over lyrical and emotional depth, it's a surprisingly mature album full of perspective and confrontational of it's creator's own faults and fears, it's..."  [+]  Reply
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"I disagree. I think each song strings together very specific moments, because they all teach a very specific lesson, or have a running idea. I think the clearest idea of this is the closing track, which is all about being somewhere you said you'd be, but then feeling out of place, and learning to..."  [+]  Reply
- HoldenM | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"If I had to summarize it in the most crass reductionist terms possible, I might describe it as Broadcast meets David Lynch meets Cyndi Lauper. But I'm not going to do that because this album just surprises me with something new and unexpected at every turn. "Oh cool, a cute upbeat surf-rock song ..."  [+]  Reply
- SquishypuffDave | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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