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(Hopefully) The Final 2015 List of 2015

I know we're probably worn out by these lists by now, but fuck it I've worked too much on this list already and this was an incredible year for music. I didn't have enough time this month to give all these albums descriptions so I only stuck to my top 10. And with that out of the way, let's begin.
100Meghan Trainor
Title


Pop, Doo-Wop
1.9/5
99Rae Sremmurd
SremmLife


Pop Rap, Trap Rap, Southern Hip Hop
2/5
98Barenaked Ladies
Silverball


Pop Rock, Alternative Rock
2.1/5
97Three Days Grace
Human


Post-Grunge, Alternative Rock
2.1/5
96Falling in Reverse
Just Like You


Pop Punk
2.2/5
95Kid Ink
Full Speed


Pop Rap, Jerk Rap
2.2/5
94Neil Young and Promise of the Real
The Monsanto Years


Folk Rock
2.2/5
93Imagine Dragons
Smoke + Mirrors


Pop Rock, Alternative Rock
2.3/5
92Coldplay
A Head Full of Dreams


Pop Rock
2.3/5
91Papa Roach
F.E.A.R.


Alternative Metal, Nu Metal
2.4/5
90Ne-Yo
Non-Fiction


Contemporary R&B
2.4/5
89Sleeping With Sirens
Madness


Emo-Pop, Pop Rock
2.4/5
88Hopsin
Pound Syndrome


Hardcore Hip Hop
2.5/5
87Pond (AUS)
Man, It Feels like Space Again


Neo-Psychedelica, Psychedelic Pop
2.5/5
86Purity Ring
Another Eternity


Synthpop
2.6/5
85Foxing
Dealer


Post-Rock, Midwest Emo
2.6/5
84Panda Bear
Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper


Psychedelic Pop, Neo-Psychedelica
2.6/5
83Guster
Evermotion


Indie Pop
2.7/5
82Tyler, the Creator
Cherry Bomb


Experimental Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
2.7/5
81Title Fight
Hyperview


Shoegaze, Alternative Rock
2.7/5
80Infected Mushroom
Friends on Mushrooms (Deluxe Edition)


Psytrance
2.8/5
79Passenger (UK)
Whispers II


Singer/Songwriter
2.9/5
78Cage The Elephant
Tell Me I'm Pretty


Alternative Rock, Garage Rock
2.9/5
77Neal Morse
The Grand Experiment


Progressive Rock
3/5
76Gang of Four
What Happens Next


Dance-Punk, Post-Punk
3/5
75Leprous
The Congregation


Progressive Metal
3/5
74Belle and Sebastian
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance


Indie Pop
3/5
73Demi Lovato
Confident


Dance-Pop
3/5
72Millencolin
True Brew


Pop Punk
3/5
71Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Chasing Yesterday


Pop Rock, Alternative Rock
3/5
70Mark Ronson
Uptown Special


Synth Funk, Funktronica
3/5
69Earl Sweatshirt
I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside


Abstract Hip Hop, West Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
3/5
68Jazmine Sullivan
Reality Show


Contemporary R&B
3.1/5
67All Time Low
Future Hearts


Pop Punk
3.1/5
66Godspeed You! Black Emperor
'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'


Post-Rock
3.1/5
65Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear


Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
3.1/5
64Lil Dicky
Professional Rapper


Comedy Rap
3.1/5
63The Decemberists
What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World


Indie Rock, Folk Rock
3.2/5
62Bullet for My Valentine
Venom


Melodic Metalcore
3.2/5
61Muse
Drones


Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
3.2/5
60Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD
Sour Soul


Jazz Rap, Hardcore Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop
3.2/5
59Stick To Your Guns
Disobedient


Hardcore Punk
3.3/5
58B.o.B
Psycadelik Thoughtz


Pop Rap, Contemporary R&B
3.4/5
57Fall Out Boy
American Beauty / American Psycho


Pop Rock
3.4/5
56AWOLNATION
Run


Pop Rock
3.5/5
55Periphery
Juggernaut: Alpha


Djent, Progressive Metal
3.5/5
54Wolf Alice
My Love Is Cool


Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Noise Pop
3.5/5
53Halsey
Badlands


Electropop
3.5/5
52Marina and The Diamonds
Froot


Electropop, Synthpop
3.5/5
51Modest Mouse
Strangers to Ourselves


Indie Rock
3.5/5
50Red
Of Beauty and Rage


Alternative Rock
3.6/5
49Paradise Lost
The Plague Within


Doom Metal, Gothic Metal
3.6/5
48Faith No More
Sol Invictus


Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock
3.7/5
47Jamie xx
In Colour


UK Bass
3.7/5
46Lupe Fiasco
Tetsuo and Youth


Conscious Hip Hop
3.7/5
45Melanie Martinez
Crybaby


Electropop, Contemporary R&B, Art Pop
3.8/5
44Knuckle Puck
Copacetic


Pop Punk, Emo
3.9/5
43Death Cab for Cutie
Kintsugi


Indie Pop
3.9/5
42Marilyn Manson
The Pale Emperor


Industrial Rock, Alternative Rock
4/5
41ASAP Rocky
At.Long.Last.A$AP


East Coast Hip Hop
4.1/5
40Infected Mushroom
Converting Vegetarians II


Psybient
4.1/5
39Blind Guardian
Beyond the Red Mirror


Power Metal, Symphonic Metal
4.1/5
38Periphery
Juggernaut: Omega


Djent, Progressive Metal
4.1/5
37Viet Cong
Viet Cong


Post-Punk
4.1/5
36Ghostface Killah
Twelve Reasons to Die II


East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
4.1/5
35Stratovarius
Eternal


Power Metal
4.1/5
34Sleater-Kinney
No Cities to Love


Indie Rock
4.2/5
33Bjork
Vulnicura


Art Pop
4.2/5
32Travis Scott
Rodeo


Trap Rap, Southern Hip Hop
4.2/5
31Death Grips
The Powers That B


Experimental Hip Hop, Glitch Hop
4.2/5
30Cattle Decapitation
The Anthropocene Extinction


Deathgrind
4.2/5
29Joey Badass
B4.DA.$$


Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
4.2/5
28Oneohtrix Point Never
Garden of Delete


Progressive Electronic
4.3/5
27Tame Impala
Currents


Psychedelic Pop, Synthpop, Neo-Psychedelica
4.3/5
26The Chemical Brothers
Born in the Echoes


Big Beat
4.4/5
25Blur
The Magic Whip


Alternative Rock, Art Rock
4.4/5
24Neck Deep
Life's Not Out To Get You


Pop Punk
4.4/5
23Drake
If You're Reading This It's Too Late


Pop Rap
4.4/5
22Ghost (SWE)
Meliora


Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
4.5/5
21FIDLAR
Too


Garage Punk, Pop Punk
4.5/5
20The Wonder Years
No Closer to Heaven


Pop Punk, Alternative Rock
4.5/5
19Iron Maiden
The Book of Souls


Heavy Metal
4.6/5
18Everything Everything
Get To Heaven


Progressive Pop, Art Pop
4.6/5
17Four Year Strong
Four Year Strong


Pop Punk
4.6/5
16Westkust
Last Forever


Shoegaze, Noise Pop
4.6/5
15City and Colour
If I Should Go Before You


Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
4.6/5
14Grimes
Art Angels


Electropop, Synthpop
4.6/5
13Sufjan Stevens
Carrie and Lowell


Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
4.6/5
12Jeff Rosenstock
We Cool?


Pop Punk, Indie Rock
4.6/5
11Mgla
Exercises in Futility


Black Metal
4.7/5
10Mayday Parade
Black Lines


Emo-Pop
Mayday Parade's best since their debut, making some of the catchiest songs of the year, mixing their style of emo-pop with some new elements such as a bit of post-hardcore influence and a more stadium rock feel.
Best Tracks
1. One Of Us
2. All On Me
3. Until You're Big Enough
4.7/5
9Hop Along
Painted Shut


Indie Rock
Now I know alone the lyrics on this album may not sound very intriguing for the most part, all of these songs are just about Frances' life events, and a lot of the time not even interesting life events. But the way shes sings those lyrics with her incredible voice of power, a nice bit of rasp, and her sporadic vocal style, it doesn't matter, it'll make you interested along with the brilliantly catchy indie rock instrumentation going on. Nothing reaches quite the heights of Tibetan Pop Stars, but then again, what does?
Best Track
1. Texas Funeral
2. Sister Cities
3. Waitress
4.7/5
8Sleaford Mods
Key Markets


Post-Punk, Art Punk
This was probably the best album I went into this year completely unknowing of what it is, I had no idea what t expect, but I was more than happy with the results. A fairly simple concept, repetitive instrumentals consisting only of bass and drums and atop of that some English guy ranting about everything, but what came out is a blood-pumping, anger-fueled, fun time full of clever lyrics ranging from political to hilarious. Hidden gem of the year.
Best Tracks
1. In Quiet Streets
2. Live Tonight
3. Bronx in a Six
4.7/5
7Dance Gavin Dance
Instant Gratification


Post-Hardcore
With how much I've been defending this thing all year it should be no surprise it's this high. This album is a delectable treat, with DGD's brand of "pop-core" they've been wearing recently this album is ear-worm after ear-worm of catchy melodic post-harcore goodness. It may not be the most intellectual or philosophical album but damn is it the most fun I've had listening to an album from this year.
Best Tracks
1. Death of a Strawberry
2. Variation
3. Awkward
4.7/5
6Sorority Noise
Joy, Departed


The best emo album of the year for sure, Sorority Noise deliever a greatly diverse set of self-deprecating, poetic, catchy emo anthems, from the sinister Your Soft Blood to the power pop-influenced Mononokay. However this album does something that seperates it from a lot of other recent emo releases: look on the bright-side. In the second half of the album the songs start build up to these crescendos of realisation of self-confidence. If you're feeling down in the dumps give this a spin and hopefully it'll make you feel a bit better.
Best Tracks
1. Mononokay
2. Art School Wannabe
3. When I See You (Timberwolf)
4.7/5
5Enter Shikari
The Mindsweep


Post-Hardcore
The word "epic" gets thrown around a lot, and usually when someone says something is epic, what they really mean is it's just very good, but The Mindsweep is epic. It sounds huge, it feels huge, it's an adventure album if I've ever heard one. Enter Shikari just keep on maturing and expanding their sound. The colossal post-hardcore instrumentation, mixed with flourishes of electronica and orchestra, plus the biting political lyrics sung and screamed by Rou Reynolds with his incredible range make this an album not to be passed over, matter what any online pretentious hipster (or a certain really annoying user who starts with a 't') will tell you.
Best Tracks
1. Dear Future Historians...
2. Torn Apart
3. The Last Garrison
4.7/5
4Twenty One Pilots
Blurryface


Pop Rap, Indie Pop
Yeah I know, you're probably scoffing at this being so high on the list. But look I know Blurryface is flawed, the lyrics are clumsy, some of the songs aren't too far off sounding like the songs on the radio they're criticising and Tyler Joseph's voice can be annoying to some (not to me). But there's not a single album this year that I related to more, the lyrics are clumsy and dorky yes that's undeniable but that's what gives them more charm to me and makes the emotion seem more raw. It's not perfect but damn do I love it.
Best Tracks
1. Not Today
2. Goner
3. We Don't Believe What's On TV
4.7/5
3Kamasi Washington
The Epic


Spiritual Jazz
Now I'll admit I don't know a lot about jazz, with this being my first proper dive into the genre, but I'd be lying if I said this album wasn't a work of art. Kamasi Washington couldn't of picked a more suitable title for the album, coming in at nearly 3 hours long, it might seem like a lot to get through but once you're in the right mood this album is a breeze to listen to.
Best Tracks
1. Clair de Lune
2. Malcolm's Theme
3. The Rhythm Changes
5/5
2Destroyer
Poison Season


Chamber Pop
Sophisticated, tight, beautiful, orchestral, Destroyer releases an outstandingly brilliant album full of poetic lyrics and not a single weak track in sight. I can see why Dan Bejar's voice might be a turn-off to some people but the give the album a chance, it's well worth your time in my opinion.
Best Tracks
1. Hell
2. Midnight Meet The Rain
3. Forces From Above
5/5
1Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly


West Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Boy, what is there to say about TPAB that hasn't been already (not much but I'm still gonna try my best to explain why this album is amazing). Kendrick somehow tops his last modern classic, 'Good Kid, M.A.A.d City' with this mix of conscious hip hop, hardcore hip hop and jazz fusion, touching on everything from modern racism, the hypocrisy of the black community, the evils of money and the music industry, self hatred and learning to love yourself, with as many different moods and vibes as possible; angry, dark, upbeat, melancholy, and to top it all off extremely detailed instrumentals, a phenomenal guest list, and not to mention the absolutely beautiful poem being recited throughout the entire album that ends with one of the best album climaxes in recent history. I knew since I heard this album back in March it would be at the top of the list, and I really can't think of anything more deserving.
5/5
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