It’s that time of year again when folks start publishing their End of Year Best-Of lists. Almost always first out of the gates is UK-based Rough Trade Shops who dropped their 100 Best Albums of 2015 list today. Coming in at #1 was Bjork‘s devastatingly personal Vulnicura. And here’s their Top 20:
1) Bjork – Vulnicura
2) Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear
3) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
4) Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People
5) Max Richter – From Sleep
6) Wolf Alice – My Love is Cool
7) Kamasi Washington – The Epic
8) Royal Headache – High
9) Romare – Projections
10) Jamie XX – In Colour
11) John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
12) Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
13) Tame Impala – Currents
14) Nadine Shah – Fast Food
15) Wand – Golem
16) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
17) Django Django – Born Under Saturn
18) Tobias Jesso Jr – Goon
19) Georgia – S/T
20) Palma Violets – Danger in the Club
You can check out Rough Trade Shops full Top 100 Albums of 2015 list below…
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Rough Trade’s Top 100 Albums of 2015
1. Bjork – Vulnicura
2. Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear
3. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
4. Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People
5. Max Richter – From Sleep
6. Wolf Alice – My Love is Cool
7. Kamasi Washington – The Epic
8. Royal Headache – High
9. Romare – Projections
10. Jamie XX – In Colour
11. John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
12. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
13. Tame Impala – Currents
14. Nadine Shah – Fast Food
15. Wand – Golem
16. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
17. Django Django – Born Under Saturn
18. Tobias Jesso Jr – Goon
19. Georgia – S/T
20. Palma Violets – Danger in the Club
21. Calexico – Edge of the Sun
22. Natalie Prass – Natalie Prass
23. FFS (Franz Ferdinand + Sparks) – FFS
24. Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space
25. Floating Points – Elaenia
26. Bop English – Constant Bop
27. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
28. Beach House – Depression Cherry
29. Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
30. Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
31. Alabama Shakes – Sound and COlor
32. Trevor Jackson – Format
33. Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter
34. Shopping – Why Choose
35. Songhoy Blues – Music In Exile
36. Mac DeMarco – Another One
37. Richard Hawley – Hollow Meadows
38. Foals – What Went Down
39. New Order – Music Complete
40. Viet Cong – Viet Cong
41. Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes
42. Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs
43. Ibeyi – Ibeyi
44. Matthew E. White – Fresh Blood
45. Fuzz – II
46. Liam Hayes – Slurrup
47. Death and Vanilla – To Where the Wild Things Are
48. Colleen – Captain of None
49. Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
50. Deerhunter – Fading Frontier
51. The Orb – Moonbuilding 2703 AD
52. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
53. Lianne La Havas – Blood
54. Public Enemy – Man Plans God Laughs
55. Mercury Rev – The Light In You
56. Adele – 25
57. Joanna Newsom – Divers
58. Ghost Culture – Ghost Culture
59. Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
60. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
61. Mark Ronson – Uptown Special
62. Sarah Cracknell – Red Kite
63. Fraser A Gorman – Slow Hum
64. C Duncan – Architect
65. The Districts – A Flourish And A Spoil
66. The Unthanks – Mount The Air
67. Damaged Bug – Cold Hot Plumbs
68. Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin’ down…
69. Stealing Sheep – Not Real
70. Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa
71. Public Image Ltd – What The World Needs Now
72. Drenge – Undertow
73. Holly Herndon – Platform
74. Follakzoid – III
75. Death Grips – The Powers That B
76. METZ – II
77. Spit and Shine – Everybody’s A Fuckin Expert
78. Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon
79. Destroyer – Poison Season
80. Andrew Combs – All These Dreams
81. Hills – Frid
82. Grimes – Art Angels
83. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp
84. Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, Girl
85. Shamir – Ratchet
86. Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
87. Ought – Sun Coming Down
88. Sauna Youth – Distractions
89. Nils Frahm – Solo
90. The Fireworks – Switch Me On
91. Leon Bridges – Coming Home
92. Bully – Feels Like
93. Low – Ones and Sixes
94. Arca – Mutant
95. Girlpool – Before the World Was Big
96. Laura Marling – Short Movie
97. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
98. Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
99. Ryan Adams – 1989
100. Protomartyr – The Agen