December 31, 2015
2015 was a diverse year, with a diverse collection of top albums:
| 20 | Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin Sticking with what they know best, packed with uplifting rhythms and enchanting vocals which emanate from every track. Read review |
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| 19 | Langhorne Slim & The Law The Spirit Moves Just about everything you’re looking for from alt-folk/country backwoods. Read review |
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| 18 | Elle King Love Stuff The biggest surprise album of 2015. This won’t the last we hear from Elle. |
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| 17 | Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space Public Service Broadcasting have only gone and conquered Space. |
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| 16 | Mew +- Alt-savants return in top form. Read review |
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| 15 | A Place To Bury Strangers Transfixiation Sonic skill comes more and more out from behind those big amps. Read review |
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| 14 | Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly There is no slowing down for Kendrick. His third album continues his dominance atop the rap genre. |
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| 13 | Jamie xx In Colour A rich and illustrious solo debut. |
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| 12 | New Order Music Complete Back with a cracking set of well crafted songs that indeed help make a Complete album. Read review |
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| 11 | Adele 25 The album of 2015 that literally everyone loves. Read review |
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| 10 | Grimes Art Angels Experimental electro-pop princess keeps at the height of her anything-but-a-game. Read review |
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| 9 | Blur The Magic Whip The best of Brit-pop returns in top form. Read review |
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| 8 | Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell This is the Sufjan Stevens everyone wants. Read review |
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| 7 | Bring Me the Horizon That’s the Spirit Despite moving away from their metalcore roots, these British metalheads have produced yet another album full of exhilarating riffs and astounding vocals. Read review |
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| 6 | Florence & The Machine How Big How Blue How Beautiful It’s great that a sound How Beautiful has gotten How Big. Read review |
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| 5 | Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool Wolf Alice’s debut album came at the end of an incredible twelve months for the North London youngsters – and if you grabbed it in gold vinyl, nice one. |
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| 4 | The Maccabees Marks To Prove It Not just any other U.K. indie band on the way up, London boys The Maccabees have delivered another strong album that is made for larger venues and bigger crowds. Read review |
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| 3 | Sleater-Kinney No Cities To Love A great record for a well-loved return. Read review |
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| 2 | Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit Lyrics just seem to hit that melancholy / wistful spot, but this twelve-track album is full of fun. |
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| 1 | Foals What Went Down Booming basslines are surely designed for the bigger sound that bigger audiences demand. Look out for Foals in 2016 – coming to a stadium near you… Read review |
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