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81.

Hasta La Raíz 

 Natalia Lafourcade

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"Really good opening track, great voice."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

75 charts

Rank Score:

331

Rank in 2015:

81

Rank in 2010s:

770

Overall Rank:

4,300

Average Rating:

 78 (84 votes)

Comments:

2

82.

Holding Hands With Jamie 

 Girl Band (IE)

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"Talking to cat's, breakdowns in a tent, asking your doctor what their favourite band is, and worrying about the minutae of day-to-day life constitute the lyrical preoccupation's of this album. However, it is not sweetly sung, rather screamed, howled, and shouted whilst a roiling sea of noise swir...""Talking to cat's, breakdowns in a tent, asking your doctor what their favourite band is, and worrying about the minutae of day-to-day life constitute the lyrical preoccupation's of this album. However, it is not sweetly sung, rather screamed, howled, and shouted whilst a roiling sea of noise swirls around - that is both abrupt and violent. It's great."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

326

Rank in 2015:

82

Rank in 2010s:

779

Overall Rank:

4,350

Average Rating:

 74 (43 votes)

Comments:

2

83.

Mutilator Defeated At Last 

 Thee Oh Sees

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"To me, their best album. Ok, my favorite, It has a wonderful cohesiveness and identity to it. At turns melodic, heavy, psychedelic, mellow- always hook and groove laden and distinctive."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

71 charts

Rank Score:

320

Rank in 2015:

83

Rank in 2010s:

793

Overall Rank:

4,413

Average Rating:

 79 (67 votes)

Comments:

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84.

Platform 

 Holly Herndon

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"If there’s a surfeit of nineties-remembering artists these days, there are many, many more whose entire style is about taking the iconography of the internet and mashing it all up “ironically”. Holly Herndon has some of this going on throughout Platform but actually she’s got a lot to say about a...""If there’s a surfeit of nineties-remembering artists these days, there are many, many more whose entire style is about taking the iconography of the internet and mashing it all up “ironically”. Holly Herndon has some of this going on throughout Platform but actually she’s got a lot to say about alternate realities and identity. Best track: Morning Sun. Mesmerising and very layered."  [+]  Reply

- stereo_mike | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) 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.

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

105 charts

Rank Score:

320

Rank in 2015:

84

Rank in 2010s:

795

Overall Rank:

4,417

Average Rating:

 68 (78 votes)

Comments:

2

85.

Dark Bird Is Home 

 The Tallest Man On Earth

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"I love what Matsson is doing. I love seeing an artist evolve and that’s exactly what Matsson is doing, he’s moving forward with his music. This is drastically different from anything he’s released before. He’s progressively added more and more to his music as time has gone on, an electric guitar ...""I love what Matsson is doing. I love seeing an artist evolve and that’s exactly what Matsson is doing, he’s moving forward with his music. This is drastically different from anything he’s released before. He’s progressively added more and more to his music as time has gone on, an electric guitar here, some keys there, but nothing like this. This is a full band, drums, orchestration, everything. Songs like “Sagres” and “Darkness Of Our Dream” sound like they could be Springsteen songs. The closest you’re gonna get to original TMOE is the final song, the title track, but even that has elements that Matsson hasn’t used before. His lyrics and vocals are still like they’ve always been, and the songs are structured just like we’re used to from him, but the instrumentation is so different, and it’s a real breath of fresh air. Lyrically, Matsson bears all, as he’s often done, and a prime example is in “Sagres”, where he deals with the creeping doubt that comes into his life. The man is an excellent lyricist, and that hasn’t changed. “This is not the end, this is fine” Matsson sings in the title track, and anyone who’s upset about this change needs to remember that: this isn’t the end of The Tallest Man On Earth, this is the beginning of Matsson’s new chapter as an artist. Seeing movement in a musician’s career like this is an awesome thing, and I commend him greatly for it. This album is different from what you’re used to, but it’s still a rewarding listen. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

96 charts

Rank Score:

320

Rank in 2015:

85

Rank in 2010s:

797

Overall Rank:

4,424

Average Rating:

 73 (141 votes)

Comments:

7

86.

Strangers To Ourselves 

 Modest Mouse

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"Look, Modest Mouse is my favorite band but I'm sadly not feeling this one. Not bad, just unmemorable like WWDBTSES. The production remains relatively flat, Of Course We Know could've been great if the massive bass drum was heavier and louder. The groovier moments (Best Room, Lampashades on Fire) ...""Look, Modest Mouse is my favorite band but I'm sadly not feeling this one. Not bad, just unmemorable like WWDBTSES. The production remains relatively flat, Of Course We Know could've been great if the massive bass drum was heavier and louder. The groovier moments (Best Room, Lampashades on Fire) are some of the better moments here but I sadly can't get being most of what's being done here."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

116 charts

Rank Score:

319

Rank in 2015:

86

Rank in 2010s:

800

Overall Rank:

4,437

Average Rating:

 69 (288 votes)

Comments:

22

87.

Compton 

 Dr. Dre

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"Frankly, this album is far better than anybody could have reasonably expected it to be. If you think back to the singles he's put out in the interim since The Chronic 2001, both 'Kush' and 'I Need a Doctor' were overhammed and half-speed, precisely the sorts of out-of-touch songs you would expect...""Frankly, this album is far better than anybody could have reasonably expected it to be. If you think back to the singles he's put out in the interim since The Chronic 2001, both 'Kush' and 'I Need a Doctor' were overhammed and half-speed, precisely the sorts of out-of-touch songs you would expect from a hip-hop artist nearing his fifties. 'I Need a Doctor' in particular reeked of all the focus group balladry trappings that have marred Eminem's work over the past six or seven years, and it was difficult to imagine Dr. Dre ever sounding relevant again. Thankfully, those songs can now be consigned to history, along with everything else locked away in those infamous Detox vaults; Dre finally binned that album in favour of something far more focused, and I'm delighted to say that it's an unqualified success. Now, for an album named after the city of Compton, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this album is going to be a trip down memory lane, a retrofetishist jaunt through Dre's past, from the g-funk sounds of the early '90s to the brash and cocky clean lines of his second album - and that would, in all honesty, probably be welcome (to some extent) among a lot of listeners. But, instead, Dre has opted for something else, a labyrinth of different styles, heavily layered and maximalist in the extreme, snaking in multiple unpredictable directions, refusing to settle on one particular style. It makes the album feel refreshingly out of time, neither beholden to the ghosts of West Coast past or to the sounds of hip-hop's present. I mean, yes, we do get a couple of nods to trap, and the occasional moment that harks back to Dre's early Parliament-aping days, but on the whole this album defies any sort of categorisation. It's beefy, in the same way that The Chronic 2001 was, but it's also undeniably more frazzled than that record. It's lush, but it isn't always clean. Production-wise, it sounds to me like peak-era Timbaland being reimagined by MBDTF's ambitious perfectionist, but captured through an undeniably West Coast lens. It might be comparable to 2015's West Coast masterpiece, To Pimp a Butterfly, in that it doesn't ever settle into a particular groove, but where that album was tied together by its jazzy leanings, this record is harder to pin down - we get a lot of twinkling synths and triumphant horns, but its cohesion comes from how luxurious it all sounds. If Kendrick has had a major influence on this album, it's in proving to Dre that he can make a massive, mazy album in 2015 without it having to bend to current trends, whilst still sounding utterly contemporary. It's an exciting direction for Dre, and proves that even throughout these late-career, headphone-hawking wilderness years, he can still stay ahead of the game. In terms of rapping, the album feels more mature than previous Dre albums. Whilst he has always been able to offer a more sobering view of life in the ghetto than he's often given credit for (think The Chronic's 'Lil Ghetto Boy'), this record feel undeniably more mature than previous records, something that feels to me as though it's been brought on not only by middle-age but also by his current connection to Kendrick, who has proven that you can stay true and authentic and resolutely Compton whilst still offering some perspective on that gangster lifestyle. And so, yes, this album goes over a lot of West Coast gangsta tropes, but does so in a way that feels more grown up (and, perhaps, detached) than the Dre of albums past, for better or worse. Newcomers Justus and King Mez (and, to a lesser extent, Anderson Paak) excel whenever they show up throughout the record, and there are some brilliant throwback verses from Snoop, Ice Cube, Xzibit, and in particular Cold 187um. Kendrick predictably offers standout moments, but it's Dre evolution as a rapper that is most interesting on this album. Whilst his verses are obviously ghostwritten, I don't think Dre has ever sounded this comfortable on the mic - his flow has become much more nimble with age, and gone are the clunky missteps that occasionally marred albums past. That said, he appears to have lost something vocally, and he isn't quite as immediately recognisable as he has been in the past. Being as he's never been a writer, it's questionable whether nimble flows for booming voice is a good trade off, but I generally think it works on this album, which plays out like a real team effort, with Dre acting as a deep-lying playmaker, allowing others to steal the show as and when certain people are better suited to certain moments. So lyrically, this album is a cohesive love letter to Compton, comfortably and naturally speaking on both the positives and the negatives of the city over the past three decades. Sonically, it's unique within the Dre canon, but maintains a West Coast vibe without necessarily falling back on a stereotypical West Coast sound. I've only listened to the record three times, but it already stands out as easily one of the best hip-hop records of 2015 and, as I said in my opening sentence, a far better album than could reasonably have been expected from Dre in 2015. Brilliant stuff. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

115 charts

Rank Score:

312

Rank in 2015:

87

Rank in 2010s:

816

Overall Rank:

4,526

Average Rating:

 70 (160 votes)

Comments:

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88.

Elaenia 

 Floating Points

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"Silhouettes is an amazing song and takes up 1/4 of the album’s runtime. If the whole album were like it this would immediately make my top 50. Unfortunately the rest of the album is just OK. EDIT: Rest of the album wound up growing on me quite a bit"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

93 charts

Rank Score:

305

Rank in 2015:

88

Rank in 2010s:

834

Overall Rank:

4,619

Average Rating:

 75 (79 votes)

Comments:

1

89.

Surf 

 Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment

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"This is a really fascinating album! Though I didn't care much for Chances Coloring Book, this one is somewhat less pop-oriented, but more importantly its a lot more free-form and experimental. Songs are strucutred in very unique ways for hip-hop albums, and there are even entirely non hip-hop par...""This is a really fascinating album! Though I didn't care much for Chances Coloring Book, this one is somewhat less pop-oriented, but more importantly its a lot more free-form and experimental. Songs are strucutred in very unique ways for hip-hop albums, and there are even entirely non hip-hop parts, such as jazz interludes and other pieces that approach ambient. It makes this album a really wonderful tapestry and one of those albums that must be digested as a whole, not in chunks, in order to fully appreciate it."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

95 charts

Rank Score:

299

Rank in 2015:

89

Rank in 2010s:

848

Overall Rank:

4,702

Average Rating:

 71 (119 votes)

Comments:

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90.

Departure Songs 

 We Lost The Sea

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

23 charts

Rank Score:

298

Rank in 2015:

90

Rank in 2010s:

850

Overall Rank:

4,709

Average Rating:

 77 (30 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of 2015 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	5	1%
Justin Townes Earle	2	0%
Lil Ugly Mane	2	0%
RP Boo	2	0%
Steven Wilson	2	0%
Gov't Mule	2	0%
Beach House	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	470	47%
	194	19%
	51	5%
	37	4%
	29	3%
	27	3%
	25	3%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	974	97%
Yes	26	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	978	98%
Yes	22	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	991	99%
Yes	9	1%