The Line of Best Fit's 50 Best Albums of 2015

From A$AP Rocky to Viet Cong, here are fifty records from 2015 that you really need to hear.

Published: December 10, 2015 00:00 Source

# 1

Have You In My Wilderness by Julia Holter

Album • Sep 25 / 2015 Art Pop Chamber Pop

# 2

Mutant by Arca

Album • Nov 20 / 2015 IDM Deconstructed Club Epic Collage

# 3

West Kirby County Primary by Bill Ryder-Jones

Album • Nov 06 / 2015 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock

# 4

Vulnicura by Björk

Album • Jan 20 / 2015 Art Pop

# 5

Feels Like by Bully

Album • Jun 19 / 2015 Indie Rock

# 6

Heartache City by CocoRosie

Album • Sep 18 / 2015 Art Pop Freak Folk Ambient Pop

# 7

Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney Barnett

Album • Mar 23 / 2015 Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock

# 8

If I've Only One Time Askin' by Daniel Romano

Album • Jul 31 / 2015 Country Countrypolitan

# 9

Perception by Danny Seth

Album • Nov 18 / 2016 Trap Cloud Rap

# 10

New Bermuda by Deafheaven

Album • Oct 02 / 2015 Atmospheric Black Metal Blackgaze

# 11

The Expanding Flower Planet by Deradoorian

Album • Aug 21 / 2015 Art Pop Progressive Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 12

Poison Season by Destroyer

Album • Aug 28 / 2015 Chamber Pop

# 13

Sore by Dilly Dally

Album • Oct 09 / 2015 Alternative Rock Noise Pop Indie Rock

# 14

Return to the Moon by EL VY

Album • Oct 30 / 2015 Indie Rock

# 15

Like I'm a Warrior by Emilie Nicolas

Album • Sep 29 / 2014 Art Pop Synthpop Alt-Pop

# 16

Me by Empress Of

Album • Sep 11 / 2015 Electropop Art Pop

# 17

Perpetual Motion People by Ezra Furman

Album • Jul 06 / 2015 Indie Rock

# 18

I Love You, Honeybear by Father John Misty

Album • Feb 10 / 2015 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 19

Elaenia by Floating Points

Album • Nov 06 / 2015 Progressive Electronic

# 20

What Went Down by Foals

Album • Aug 28 / 2015 Indie Rock

# 21

And After That, We Didn't Talk by GoldLink

Album • Nov 06 / 2015 Hip House East Coast Hip Hop

# 22

Y Dydd Olaf by Gwenno

Album • Jul 24 / 2015 Indie Pop Indietronica

# 23

Platform by Holly Herndon

Album • May 15 / 2015 Glitch Glitch Pop

# 24

In Colour by Jamie xx

Album • May 29 / 2015 UK Bass

# 25

Apocalypse, girl by Jenny Hval

Album • Jun 09 / 2015 Art Pop Experimental

# 26

Divers by Joanna Newsom

Album • Oct 23 / 2015 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 27

AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP by A$AP Rocky

Album • May 26 / 2015 East Coast Hip Hop

# 28

To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

Album • Mar 16 / 2015 Conscious Hip Hop West Coast Hip Hop Jazz Rap

# 29

Nothing by Kode9

Album • Nov 06 / 2015 UK Bass Footwork

# 30

Love + War by Kwabs

Album • Sep 11 / 2015 Pop Soul Contemporary R&B Electropop

# 31

Honeymoon by Lana Del Rey

Album • Sep 18 / 2015 Chamber Pop Art Pop

# 32

A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons by Little Simz

Album • Sep 18 / 2015 UK Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 33

Hinterland by LoneLady

Album • Mar 23 / 2015 Post-Punk Alternative Dance Dance-Punk

# 34

Elements by Ludovico Einaudi

Album • Oct 16 / 2015 Modern Classical

# 35

Are You Alone? by Majical Cloudz

Album • Oct 16 / 2015 Ambient Pop

# 36

FROOT by Marina and The Diamonds

Album • Mar 09 / 2015 Synthpop Pop Rock Electropop

# 37

The Light in You by Mercury Rev

Album • Oct 02 / 2015 Neo-Psychedelia Dream Pop

# 38

Good Sad Happy Bad by Micachu & The Shapes

Album • Sep 11 / 2015 Art Pop Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock

# 39

Fast Food by Nadine Shah

Album • Apr 06 / 2015 Art Rock Indie Rock

# 40

Natalie Prass by Natalie Prass

Album • Jan 27 / 2015 Chamber Pop Pop Soul Baroque Pop

# 41

VEGA INTL. Night School by Neon Indian

Album • Oct 16 / 2015 Synthpop Chillwave

# 42

Viet Cong by Viet Cong

Album • Jan 20 / 2015 Post-Punk

# 43

Ask the Deep by Sóley

Album • May 08 / 2015 Art Pop

# 44

Ratchet by Shamir

Album • May 19 / 2015 Electro-Disco Synthpop Electropop

# 45

Music In Exile by Songhoy Blues

Album • Feb 24 / 2015 Songhai Music

# 46

Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens

Album • Mar 31 / 2015 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 47

Cranekiss by Tamaryn

Album • Aug 28 / 2015 Dream Pop

# 48

Goon by Tobias Jesso Jr.

Album • Mar 16 / 2015 Singer-Songwriter Piano Rock

# 49

Sprinter by TORRES

Album • May 04 / 2015 Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 50

Half Free by U.S. Girls

Album • Sep 25 / 2015 Psychedelic Pop Art Pop