Exclaim!'s Top 27 Albums of 2015 So Far

Published Jul 08, 2015
With 2015's midway point (ever so slightly) in the rearview, we've decided to take a look back at what already feels like a banner year for music: two Afro-Cuban twins from Paris wove their traditional music through modern hip-hop and electronic sounds; a solemn UK indie kid waxed gorgeously nostalgic about a golden age of rave he didn't even live through; Southern blues rock got a much-needed injection of Sound & Color; every song on a surprise album (mixtape?) charted on the Billboard Hot 100.
It was all too much for us to boil 2015 down to 25 of the best albums so far, so we cut it where we could reasonably afford to, at 27. And so, without further ado: Exclaim!'s Top 27 Albums of 2015 So Far.
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Exclaim!'s Top 27 Albums of 2015 So Far:
- 1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
- 2. Jamie xx - In Colour
- 3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
- 4. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
- 5. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- 6. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
- 7. D'Angelo & the Vanguard - Black Messiah
- 8. Björk - Vulnicura
- 9. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
- 10. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experience - Surf
- 11. A$AP Rocky - AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
- 12. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
- 13. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
- 14. The Weather Station - Loyalty
- 15. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
- 16. Napalm Death - Apex Predator – Easy Meat
- 17. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
- 18. Blur - The Magic Whip
- 19. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
- 20. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
- 21. Shamir - Ratchet
- 22. Michael Rault - Living Daylight
- 23. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
- 24. METZ - II
- 25. Buffy Saint-Marie - Power in the Blood
- 26. Torche - Restarter
- 27. Ibeyi - Ibeyi