Rockit 50 Albums of 2015 (Italian albums)

Info: Launched in 1997, Rockit is likely the most important Italian webzine focused on the local music scene (rock, electronic, hip hop, mainly underground). This is a playlist based on its chart of best Italian songs of the year. On the Rockit website, each song comes with a short review (in italian). Source: Rockit

Date of publication: 16th december 2015
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1. Iosonouncane - Die
2. Verdena - Endkadenz vol.1 & vol.2
3. Colapesce - Egomostro
4. Nitro - Suicidol
5. Calcutta - Mainstream
6. Adriano Viterbini - Film IOI Sound
7. Go Dugong - A Love Explosion
8. Iacampo - Flores
9. Matilde Davoli - I'm Calling You From My Dreams
10. Albedo - Metropolis
11. Any Other - Silently. Quietly. Going Away
12. Sacri Cuori - Delone
13. Joe Victor - Blue Call Pink Riot
14. Noyz Narcos & Fritz Da Cat - Localz Only
15. Alessio Bondì - Sfardo
16. Dimartino - Un paese ci vuole
17. Paletti - Qui e ora
18. Celluloid Jam - Youth EP
19. C+C=Maxigross - Fluttarn
20. Il Teatro degli Orrori - Il Teatro degli Orrori
21. Cara - Non guardarmi
22. Alessandro Grazian - L'età più forte
23. Zu - Cortar Todo
24. Bachi da pietra - Necroide
25. Dargen D'Amico - D'iO
26. The Hacienda - The Hacienda EP
27. Baba Sissoko - Three Gees
28. Dumbo Gets Mad - Thank You Neil
29. Auden - Some Reckonings
30. Calibro 35 - S.P.A.C.E.
31. Aucan - Stelle fisse
32. Mellow Mood - 2 The World
33. Esterina - Dio ti salvi
34. Fabri Fibra - Squallor
35. Bee Bee Sea - Bee Bee Sea
36. Mezzosangue - Soul of a Supertramp
37. Three In One Gentlemen Suit - Notturno
38. Levante - Abbi cura di te
39. Giovanni Truppi - Giovanni Truppi
40. Egreen - Beats & Hate
41. The Leading Guy - Memorandum
42. Vaghe Stelle - Abstract Speed + Sound
43. Furtherset - No Logic No Death
44. Paolo Spaccamonti - Rumors
45. Yakamoto Kotzuga - Usually Nowhere
46. Guè Pequeno - Vero
47. Ministri - Cultura Generale
48. Futbolìn - Futbolìn
49. La Batteria - La Batteria
50. Erio - Für El

Noisey The 50 Best Songs of 2015

Info: "What determines a good song in 2015? Does it simply have to be well written? Does it get stuck in your head? Does Drake have to sing it? Well, there’s no real answer to this question. Like all music, it’s just a feeling. When you hear a good song, you just kind of… know". On Noisey each song comes with a short review.

Source: Noisey
Date of publication: 1st december 2015
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1. Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean ?

2. Jamie XX feat. Young Thug & Popcaan - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)

3. Drake - Hotline Bling

4. Skepta - Shutdown

5. Future - March Madness

6. Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry

7. Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money

8. Bully - I Remember

9. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

10. Dilly Dally - Desire

11. Kanye West - All Day

12. Kendrick Lamar - Alright

13. JME - Man Don't Care

14. Kanye West feat. Paul Mccartney - Only One

15. Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey

16. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

17. Fetty Wap - My Way

18. Tirzah - Make It Up

19. Speedy Ortiz - Raising The Skate

20. Alex Winston - Down Low

21. Stormzy - Know Me From

22. Donmonique - Pilates

23. Hop Along - Waitress

24. Meat Wave - Delusion Moon

25. Tame Impala - Let It Happen

26. Jidenna - Classic Man

27. Young Thug - Hercules

28. Lady Leshurr - Queen's Speech 4

29. Appalachian Terror Unit - Casualties Of A Rape Culture

30. Bea1991 - Filthy Believer

31. Bleed The Pigs - Born Of Filth

32. Car Seat Headrest - Something Soon

33. Kacey Musgraves - Dime Store Cowgirl

34. Drake & Future - Jumpman

35. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood

36. Rich Homie Quan - Flex

37. Japanese House - Still

38. Jack Ü - Where Are U Now

39. Murder By Death - I Shot An Arrow

40. Miguel - The Valley

41. Sam Russo - Sometimes

42. School Of Seven Bells - Open Your Eyes

43. J Hus - Dem Boy Paigon

44. Whitey Morgan - Waitin' Round To Die 

45. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best

46. Mas Ysa - Margarita

47. Torres - Strange Hellos

48. Disemballerina - That Is The Head Of One Who Toyed With My Honor

49. Hudson Mohawke - Ryderz

50. Drake - Know Yourself

NME Best 50 Albums of 2015

Info: On the NME photo gallery, each album comes with a short review.
Source: NME
Date of publication: december 2015
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1. Grimes - Art Angels
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Jamie xx - In Colour
4. Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
5. Tame Impala - Currents
6. CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
7. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
8. Foals - What Went Down
9. The Maccabees - Marks to Prove It
10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
11. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin' Down...
12. A$AP Rocky – At. Long. Last. A$AP
13. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
14. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
15. Blur - The Magic Whip
16. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
17. Joanna Newsom - Divers
18. Swim Deep - Mothers
19. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
20. US Girls - Half Free
21. Shamir - Ratchet
22. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
23. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
24. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
25. Bjork - Vulnicura
26. Holly Herndon - Platform
27. Mac DeMarco - Another One
28. Laura Marling - Short Movie
29. The Libertines - Anthems for Doomed Youth
30. Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
31. Slaves - Are You Satisfied?
32. Charli XCX - Sucker
33. LA Priest - Inji
34. Pond - Man it Feels Like Space Again
35. Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams
36. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
37. Future - DS2
38. Drenge - Undertow
39. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
40. Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
41. Muse - Drones
42. Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz
43. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
44. Young Thung - Barter 6
45. Cribs - For All My Sisters
46. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
47. Bill Ryder Jones - West Kirby County Primary
48. New Order - Music Complete
49. Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
50. Ryan Adams - 1989

Guardian Best 40 Albums of 2015

Info: On The Guardian website, each album comes with a review.

Source: The Guardian

Date of publication: december 2015

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1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
3. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
4. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
5. Björk - Vulnicura
6. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
7. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
8. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
9. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
10. Joanna Newsom - Divers
11. Miguel - Wildheart
12. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
13. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
14. Drake - If You're Reading This, It's Too Late
15. Tame Impala - Currents
16. Floating Points - Elaenia
17. Jamie xx - In Colour
18. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
19. Carly Rae Jepson - Emotion
20. Grimes - Art Angels
21. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
22. New Order - Music Complete
23. Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
24. Holly Herndon - Platform
25. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
26. Laura Marling - Short Movie
27. Mac DeMarco - Another One
28. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
29. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
30. Fantasma - Free Love
31. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
32. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
33. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
34. FFS - FFS
35. Dr. Dre - Compton
36. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
37. Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
38. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
39. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
40. Benjamin Clementine - At Least for Now

Rockit 50 canzoni of 2015 (italian songs)

Info: Launched in 1997, Rockit is likely the most important Italian webzine focused on the local music scene (rock, electronic, hip hop, mainly underground). This is a playlist based on its chart of best Italian songs of the year. On the Rockit website, each song comes with a short review (in italian). 

Source: Rockit
Date of publication: 10th december 2015
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1. Calcutta - Cosa mi manchi a fare
2. Iosonouncane - Stormi
3. Adriano Viterbini - Tubi Innocenti
4. Verdena - Contro la ragione
5. Colapesce - Maledetti italiani
6. Go Dugong - I Would Tell You Many Things
7. Matilde Davoli - Dust
8. Any Other - Gladly Farewell
9. m+a - Do The Shout
10. C+C=Maxigross - Est 1973
11. Iacampo - Palafitta
12. Godblesscomputers - Closer
13. Nitro - Ong Bak Feat. Fabri Fibra (prod. By Donjoe)
14. Auden - Next Regrets
15. Celluloid Jam - Fire
16. Paletti - Avere te
17. Dargen D'Amico - La mia generazione
18. Evil Twin - Jawa
19. Alessandro Grazian - Satana
20. Dimartino - La vita nuova
21. Bachi da pietra - Black Metal: Il mio folk
22. Bugo - Cosa ne pensi Sergio
23. Jovanotti - Sabato
24. wrongonyou - Killer
25. Noyz Narcos - Localz Only
26. Baba Sissoko - Il Faut Ecouter
27. Sacri Cuori - Delone
28. Giovanni Truppi - Stai andando bene Giovanni
29. Aucan - Disto
30. Coez - La rabbia dei secondi
31. Levante - Ciao per sempre
32. Johnny Mox - They told me to have faith and all I got was the sacred dirt of my empty hands
33. Guè Pequeno - Le bimbe piangono
34. Luca Carboni - Luca lo stesso
35. Dumbo Gets Mad - Misanthropulsar
36. Dardust - Sunset On M.
37. Vincenzo Fasano - La Mia Vita Al Contrario
38. Egreen - Riepilogo 2015
39. Rancore & DJ Mike - S.U.N.S.H.I.N.E.
40. Calibro 35 - S.P.A.C.E.
41. Vaghe Stelle - 25 Minutes
42. Clementino - Cos Cos Cos
43. Il Teatro Degli Orrori - Lavorare stanca
44. Zeus! - Enemy e Core
45. Appino - Rockstar
46. Capibara - Joga Bonito
47. Panoram - There Was A Hole Here
48. Frank Siciliano - Il cielo come china
49. Mecna - Non Dovrei Essere Qui
50. Bobby Solo - Al tuo amore non ci credo

NPR 50 Favorite Albums of 2015

Info: "This list of our favorite albums of the year (published alphabetically) includes hip-hop that reckons with our incandescent political moment and the foundational ideas that shaped our nation. Pop for the first moments of new love, metal for the end of the world. Songs from a dozen countries and as many genres, and plenty from areas in-between. There's so much here we adore, from old favorites and new obsessions. We hope you find something to love". On NPR, each album comes with a short review. As usual with NPR end-of-year selection, albums are not ranked. 

Source: NPR
Date of publication: 7th december 2015
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Africa Express & Andre de Ridder – Africa Express Presents… Terry Riley’s In C Mali

Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color

Anthony de Mare – Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano

Ashley Monroe – The Blade

Beauty Pill – Describes Things As They Are

Bomba Estéreo – Amanecer

Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose – Andrew Norman: Play

Brandi Carlile – The Firewatcher’s Daughter

Carla Morrison – Amor Supremo

Carly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TION

Cécile McLorin Salvant – For One to Love

Chris Stapleton – Traveller

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Stretch Music (Introducing Elena Pinderhughes)

Colleen – Captain of None

Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Daymé Arocena – Nueva Era

Dead To A Dying World – Litany

DJ Sotofett & Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Drippin’ For A Tripp

Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album

Floating Points – Elaenia

Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

Four Tet – Morning / Evening

Future – DS2

The Game – The Documentary 2

Girlpool – Before the World Was Big

Ibeyi – Ibeyi

International Contemporary Ensemble – Thorvaldsdottir: In the Light of Air

The Internet – Ego Death

Jamie xx – In Colour

Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free

Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show

Joan Shelley – Over and Even

Joanna Newsom – Divers

Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material

Kamasi Washington – The Epic

Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly

Low – Ones and Sixes

Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa

various artists – Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Patty Griffin – Servant of Love

Rhiannon Giddens – Tomorrow Is My Turn

Sam Lee & Friends – The Fade in Time

John Adams, San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson Thomas – Adams: Absolute Jest & Grand Pianola Music

Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

Torres – Sprinter

Ty Dolla $ign – Free TC

Vijay Iyer Trio – Break Stuff

Vince Staples – Summertime ’06

Worriers – Imaginary Life

Xaos – Xaos

Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2015

Info:  "Records released this year and records that made their greatest impact in 2015 were eligible". On Pitchfork each album comes with a review. 

Source: Pitchfork
Date of publication: 16th december 2015
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1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Jamie xx - In Colour
3. Grimes - Art Angels
4. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
5. Tame Impala - Currents
6. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
7. D'Angelo / The Vanguard - Black Messiah
8. Miguel - Wildheart
9. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
10. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
11. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
12. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
13. Joanna Newsom - Divers
14. Young Thug - Barter 6
15. Björk - Vulnicura
16. FKA twigs - M3LL155X
17. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
18. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
19. Future - Dirty Sprite 2
20. Floating Points - Elaenia
21. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf
22. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
23. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down
24. Thundercat - The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
25. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
26. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
27. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
28. Beach House - Depression Cherry
29. Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife
30. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
31. Kelela - Hallucinogen EP
32. Dr. Dre - Compton
33. Archy Marshall - A New Place 2 Drown
34. Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
35. Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School
36. Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
37. Empress Of - Me
38. Arca - Mutant
39. Holly Herndon - Platform
40. Jlin - Dark Energy
41. Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
42. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl
43. Destroyer - Poison Season
44. Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
45. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
46. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
47. DJ Koze - DJ-Kicks
48. Shamir - Ratchet
49. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
50. Dawn Richard - Blackheart

Fact The 50 Best Tracks of 2015

Info: "... it’s infinitely tougher to compare and contrast three-minute moments than 10+ track stories, but it’s notable that 2015’s list features more self-released efforts than any previous year. The role of the traditional label is far from obsolete, but there are more people becoming stars on their own terms than ever, and that, at least, is a positive we can take from 2015". On Fact website each song comes with a short review. 

Source: Fact
Data of publication: 17th december 2015
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1. Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
2. Kelela - All The Way Down
3. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
4. dJJ - just a lil (Extended Mix)
5. Future - March Madness
6. Busy Signal - #Text Message
7. Fit Siegel - Carmine
8. E-40 - Choices (Yup)
9. Kowton - On Repeat
10. Tate Kobang - Bank Rolls (Remix)
11. SOPHIE - Just Like We Never Said Goodbye
12. Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama
13. Dawn Richard - Calypso
14. AJ Tracey - Naila
15. Kodak Black - Ran Up A Check
16. Fetty Wap - My Way
17. Rabit - Straps
18. Beatrice Dillon - Face A
19. Erykah Badu feat. Andre 3000 - Hello
20. Stormzy - Shut Up
21. Justin Bieber - Sorry
22. FKA Twigs - In Time
23. Young Thug - Best Friend
24. Alexandria - Bad
25. Ty Dolla $ign - Straight Up
26. Rizzla feat. Odile Myrtil - Iron Cages
27. Boogie - Odyssey
28. Bricc Baby Shitro - 6 Drugs
29. Murlo - High Rise
30. Denis Sulta - It's Only Real
31. D.R.A.M. - Cha Cha
32. DJ Koze - XTC
33. Natalie La Rose feat. Jeremih - Somebody
34. Zora Jones - First Light
35. Travis Porter - Money Right
36. Errorsmith & Mark Fell - Cuica Digitales
37. Jamie xx feat. Young Thug & Popcaan - Good Times
38. Hodge - Forms of Life
39. Sevdaliza - That Other Girl
40. Jlin - I Am the Queen
41. Brenmar feat. UNIIQU3 - Hula Hoop
42. Dark0 - Fuschia
43. CYPHR - Lone Peak
44. Bleaker - Hype (Funk)
45. Strict Face - Alice
46. Nick Höppner - Relate (The Black Madonna Remix)
47. Fawkes - Invocatio
48. A Made Up Sound - Half Hour Jam on a Borrowed Synth
49. Kanye West - All Day
50. Menchess - Mitsubishi Song

Wire Top 50 Releases of 2015

Info: Wire is a British avant garde music magazine founded in 1982. It focuses on different styles of experimental and underground music, from electronic to hip hop, from modern classical to post-rock, from ambient to world music. 

Source: Wire Issue 283

Date of publication: Wire Issue 283 - January 2016

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1. JLin - Dark Energy
2. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
3. Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception
4. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
5. Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal
6. Holly Herndon - Platform
7. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
8. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
9. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
10. The Necks - Vertigo
11. Hieroglyphic Being & JITU Ahn-Sahm-Buhl - We Are Not The First
12. Vince Staples - Summertime 06
13. Björk - Vulnicura
14. Joanna Newsom - Divers
15. Graham Lambkin & Michael Pisaro - Schwarze Riesenfalter
16. Raphael Roginski - Plays John Coltrane And Langston Hughes: African Mystic Music
17. Laura Cannell - Beneath Swooping Talons
18. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete
19. Future - DS2
20. Helm - Olympic Mess
21. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
22. Hour House - Chiltern
23. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
24. Golden Teacher - Sauchiehall Enthrall
25. William Parker - For Those Who Are, Still
26. Domenique Dumont - Comme ça
27. Visionist - Safe
28. Six Organs Of Admittance - Hexadic
29. Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2
30. Nidia Minaj - Danger
31. King Midas Sound & Fennesz - Edition 1
32. Philip Jeck - Cardinal
33. Future & DJ Esco - 56 Nights
34. Gnod - Infinity Machines
35. Seymour Wright - Seymour Writes Back
36. Lnrdcroy - Much Less Normal
37. Jürg Frey - Grizzana And Other Pieces 2009-2014
38. Guttersnipe - Demo
39. Jerusalem In My Heart - If He Dies, If If If If If If
40. Alison Cameron/Contact - A Gossamer Bit
41. Carter Tutti Void - f(x)
42. Radu Malfatti - One Man And A Fly
43. Thundercat - The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam
44. Uwe Oberg - Work
45. Micachu & The Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad
46. Floating Points - Elaenia
47. Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Enough Still Not To Know
48. Jam City - Dream A Garden
49. Flying Saucer Attack - Instrumentals 2015
50. William Basinski - The Deluge

Les Inrocks Les 100 Meilleures Albums de l'année 2015

Info: "End of year is getting closer, and so it is our hors-série issue focused on the best albums of last twelve months. What about you? Are yo more Sufjan Stevens, Young Thug, Björk, Jeane Added, Blur, Nekfeu or Courtney Barnett?" (Les Inrockuptibles is a French weekly publication, started in 1986 mainly as a rock magazine, now open to many other topics like culture, politics, books, movies...)

Source: Les Inrocks Hors Série - Les 100 Meilleures Albums de l'année 2015
Date of publication: 11th december 2015
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1. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
2. Tame Impala - Currents
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
5. Django Django - Born Under Saturn
6. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
7. Chassol - Big Sun
8. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Think and Sit, and Sometimes I Just Sit
9. C Duncan - Architect
10. Flavien Berger - Léviathan
11. Max Richer - From Sleep
12. Young Thug - Barter 6
13. Algiers - Algiers
14. Jamie XX - In Colour
15. Foals - What Went Down
16. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
17. Kurt Vile - b'lieve I'm going down
18. Jeanne Added - Be Sensational
19. The Internet - Ego Death
20. Shamir - Ratchet
21. Feu! Chatterton - Ici le jour
22. Odezenne - Dolziger Str. 2
23. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
24. Mac DeMarco - Another One
25. Grimes - Art Angels
26. Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
27. Ibeyi - Ibeyi
28. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
29. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
30. Blur - The Magic Whip
31. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
32. FFS - FFS
33. The Shoes - Chemicals
34. Low - Ones and Sixes
35. Soko - My Dreams Dictate My Reality
36. Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now
37. Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture
38. Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows
39. JC Satan - JC Satan
40. PNL - Le monde chico
41. Björk - Vulnicura
42. Panda Bears - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
43. Flow Morrissey - Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful
44. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
45. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
46. Bertrand Belin - Cap Waller
47. Elliott Moss - Highspeeds
48. Only Real - Jerk at the End of the Line
49. Nekfeu - Feu
50. U.S. Girls - Half Free
51. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
52. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
53. Mikal Cronin - MCIII
54. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
55. The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth
56. Baio - The Names
57. Salut c'est cool - Sur le thème des grandes découvertes
58. Beach House - Depression Cherry
59. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
60. Villagers - Darling Arithmetic
61. Beirut - No No No
62. Sons of Kernet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do
63. Damily - Very Aomby
64. LA Priest - Inji
65. Aurélien Merle - Remerle
66. Tigana Santana - Tempo & Magma
67. Holly Herndon - Platform
68. Torres - Sprinter
69. Perez - Saltos
70. Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia
71. Mansfield.TYA - Corpo Inferno
72. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal - Musique de nuit
73. Summer Fiction - Himalaya
74. Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?
75. Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin
76. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
77. Christopher Owens - Chrissybaby Forever
78. Omar Souleyman - Bahdeni Nami
79. Disclosure - Caracal
80. The King Khan & BBQ Show - Bad News Boys
81. We Are Match - Shores
82. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
83. Bill Fay - Who Is the Sender ?
84. Ash - Kablammo!
85. Travi$ Scott - Rodeo
86. Gengahr - A Dream Outside
87. The Wave Pictures - Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon
88. Lou Doillon - Lay Low
89. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
90. Aline - La vie électrique
91. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
92. Martin Courtney - Many Moons
93. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
94. Son Lux - Bones
95. Rhum for Pauline- Leaving Florida
96. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-love
97. Alex Calder - Strange Dreams
98. Rozi Plain - Friend
99. Booba - D.U.C.
100. Wand - Golem

PopMatters The 90 Best Songs of 2015

Info: "from electronic to americana... from r&b to country... from hip-hop to rockin' and poppin' indie... 2015 had something great for everyone". On the PopMatters website, each song comes with a short review. 

Source: PopMatters

Date of publication: 4th december 2015

Spotify playlist latest update: 17th december 2015

Spotify direct links: URI / HTTP

(end-of-2015 playlist series)

Full list

Strikethrough songs (7/90) are not available on Spotify. Some songs may be not available in all countries.

1. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
2. Jamie xx feat. Young Thug - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)
3. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
4. Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
5. Chvrches - Leave a Trace
6. Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood
7. The Weeknd - Can’t Feel My Face
8. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
9. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
10. Alabama Shakes - Gimme All Your Love
11. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
12. Rudimental - We the Generation feat. Mahalia
13. Oneohtrix Point Never - Mutant Standard
14. BØRNS - Electric Love
15. Titus Andronicus - Dimed Out
16. FKA Twigs - Glass & Patron
17. Joanna Newsom - Sapokanikan
18. Grimes - Realiti
19. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
20. Battles - The Yabba
21. The Mountain Goats - The Legend of Chavo Guerrero
22. Rabit - Snow Leopard
23. Leon Bridges - Coming Home
24. Autre Ne Veut - World War Pt. 2
25. Belle and Sebastian - Nobody's Empire
26, Dâm-Funk - Missing U
27. And So I Watch You From Afar - Animal Ghosts
28. Skylar Spence - Can't You See
29. Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers
30. Kacey Musgraves - Biscuits
31. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
32. Jason Isbell - If It Takes a Lifetime
33. Rival Consoles - Looming
34. Death Grips - On GP
35. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Piss Crowns Are Trebled
36. Julia Holter - Feel You
37. Elle King - Ex’s & Oh’s
38. Everything Everything - Distant Past
39. Freddie Gibbs - Fuckin’ Up the Count
40. FKA Twigs - Figure 8
41. Majical Cloudz - Downtown
42. Protomartyr - Why Does It Shake?
43. Rizzla feat. Odie Myrtil - Iron Cages
44. Travis Scott feat. Kanye West - Piss On Your Grave
45. Jill Scott - Closure
46. Natalie Prass - My Baby Don’t Understand Me
47. Run the Jewels - Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)
48. The Tallest Man on Earth - Sagres
49. Sun Kil Moon - Garden of Lavender
50. Fleur East - Sax
51. The Dead Weather - I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)
52. Tobias Jesso, Jr. - How Could You Babe
53. Joanna Newsom - Time, As a Symptom
54. Quiet Company - Understand the Problem
55. Cam - My Mistake
56. Hot Chip - Need You Now
57. John Moreland - Sad Baptist Rain
58. Algiers - Blood
59. Drake - Know Yourself
60. Ashley Monroe - On to Something Good
61. Swervedriver - Autodidact
62. Deafheaven - Brought to the Water
63. Ruby Amanfu - Cathedrals
64. Alessia Cara - Here
65. Young Thug - Check
66. Holly Herndon - An Exit
67. Miranda Lambert - Little Red Wagon
68. Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
69. The Go! Team - What’d You Say
70. U.S. Girls - Damn that Valley
71. Lera Lynn - SONG
72. Jake Xerxes Fussell - Raggy Levy
73. Father John Misty - The Ideal Husband
74. Bully - Six
75. Braids - Taste
76. Blood Orange - Sandra's Smile
77. Bjork - Stonemilker
78. Charli XCX feat. Rita Ora - Doing It
79. Death - Look at Your Life
80. Christopher Paul Stelling - Scarecrow
81. Delta Rae - Run
82. Blur - Go Out
83. Hiatus Kaiyote - Breathing Underwater
84. Sleater-Kinney - A New Wave
85. Viet Cong - March of Progress
86. Speedy Ortiz - Raising the Skate
87. Gary Clark Jr. - The Healing
88. Murder by Death - Send Me Home
89. Shigeto - Pulse
90. Panda Bear - No Mans Land

Uncut Best 75 Albums of 2015

Info: Uncut is a monthly magazine based in London, launched in 1997, focused on music, movies and books.

Source: Uncut magazine
Date of publication: Uncut - January 2016 issue
Spotify playlist latest update: 16th december 2015
Spotify direct links: URI / HTTP
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Full List

Strikethrough albums (3/75) are not available on Spotify. Some albums may be not available in all countries. 

1. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
4. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
5. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
6. Tame Impala - Currents
7. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit
8. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
9. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
10. New Order - Music Complete
11. Bjork - Vulnicura
12. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
13. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
14. Robert Forster - Songs To Play
15. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
16. The Weather Station - Loyalty
17. Blur - The Magic Whip
18. Wilco - Star Wars
19. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
20. Holly Herndon - Platform
21. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Colour
22. Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf
23. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
24. Richard Thompson - Still
25. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
26. Joanna Newsom - Divers
27. Jamie XX - In Color
28. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Ba Power
29. Kurt Vile - b'lieve i'm goin down
30. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
31. Four Tet - Morning/Evening
32. Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
33. Matthew E White - Fresh Blood
34. FFS - FFS
35. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
36. Destroyer - Poison Season
37. Low - Ones And Sixes
38. Dave Rawlings Machine - Nashville Obsolete
39. Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern
40. Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night
41. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
42. JD McPherson - Let The Good Times Roll
43. Ezra Fuhrman - Perpetual Motion People
44. Laura Marling - Short Movie
45. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Vs The Grim Reaper
46. Olivia Chaney - The Longest River
47. Miguel - Wildheart
48. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
49. Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile
50. Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
51. Algiers - Algiers
52. H Hawkline - In The Pink Of Condition
53. Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys
54. Israel Nash - Israel Nash's Silver Season
55. Neil Young - The Monsanto Years
56. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
57. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
58. Fuzz - Fuzz II
59. Stick In The Wheel - From Here
60. Chip Taylor - The Little Prayers Trilogy
61. Vince Staples - "Summertime '06"
62. Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
63. Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul
64. PiL - What The World Needs Now...
65. Bop English - Constant Bop
66. The Apartments - No Song No Spell No Madrigal
67. Micachu And The Shapes - Good Bad Happy Sad
68. Dave Alvin And Phil Alvin - Lost Time
69. Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves
70. Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again
71. Drinks - Hermits On Holiday
72. Killing Joke - Pylon
73. Phil Cook - Southland Mission
74. Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
75. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Loin Des Hommes OST

Pitchfork The 100 Best Tracks of 2015

Info: "Presenting our selections for The 100 Best Tracks of 2015, as voted by our writers and editors. Any track that was released in 2015 or had its greatest impact in the U.S. during this year was eligible". On Pitchfork, each track comes with a short review. 

Source: Pitchfork
Date of publication: 14th december 2015
Spotify playlist latest update: 16th december 2015
Spotify direct links: URI / HTTP
(end-of-2015 playlist series)


Full list

Strikethrough tracks (7/100) are not available on Spotify. Some tracks may be not available in all countries. 

1. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
2. Drake - Hotline Bling
3. Jamie xx feat. Young Thug & Popcaan - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)
4. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
5. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
6. Young Thug feat. Birdman - Constantly Hating
7. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
8. D'Angelo - Really Love
9. Courtney Barnett - Depreston
10. Vince Staples - Lift Me Up
11. Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better
12. The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face
13. Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money
14. Miguel - Coffee
15. Adele - Hello
16. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
17. Grimes - REALiTi
18. Jamie xx - Gosh
19. Vince Staples - Norf Norf
20. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
21. Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker the Berry
22. Drake - Know Yourself
23. Future - March Madness
24. Erykah Badu - Cel U Lar Device
25. D'Angelo - Sugah Daddy
26. Tame Impala - Eventually
27. Thundercat - Them Changes
28. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away with Me
29. Julia Holter - Feel You
30. Missy Elliott feat. Pharrell - WTF (Where They From)
31. Kamasi Washington - The Rhythm Changes
32. Alessia Cara - Here
33. Panda Bear - Tropic of Cancer
34. D.R.A.M. - Cha Cha
35. Drake - Energy
36. Jamie xx feat. Romy - Loud Places
37. Janet Jackson - No Sleeep
38. Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
39. Grimes - Kill V. Maim
40. Kanye West feat. Allan Kingdom, Theophilus London & Paul McCartney - All Day
41. Sleater-Kinney - A New Wave
42. Future - I Serve the Base
43. Rich Homie Quan - Flex
44. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
45. Joanna Newsom - Leaving the City
46. Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama
47. Dr. Dre feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay - Genocide
48. Kelela - Rewind
49. Beach House - Sparks
50. Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin
51. David Bowie - Blackstar
52. FKA twigs - in time
53. ANOHNI - 4 Degrees
54. Jeremih - Oui
55. Nao - Inhale Exhale
56. Earl Sweatshirt - Grief
57. Destroyer - Dream Lover
58. Nicolas Jaar - Fight (Nymphs IV)
59. Janelle Monáe / Wondaland Records - Hell You Talmbout
60. Neon Indian - Annie
61. G.L.O.S.S. - G.L.O.S.S. (We're from the Future)
62. Blood Orange - Sandra's Smile
63. Chromatics - Shadow
64. Chance the Rapper feat. Saba - Angels
65. Deerhunter - Living My Life
66. Jazmine Sullivan feat. Meek Mill - Dumb
67. Rae Sremmurd - This Could Be Us
68. Björk - Lionsong
69. Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
70. DJ Rashad / DJ Spinn feat. Danny Brown - Dubby
71. Father John Misty - The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment
72. Hudson Mohawke - Ryderz
73. Rick Ross - Foreclosures
74. Frank Ocean - (At Your Best) You Are Love (Aaliyah/The Isley Brothers cover)
75. Lana Del Rey - High by the Beach
76. Empress Of - Standard
77. Majical Cloudz - Downtown
78. iLoveMakonnen feat. Migos & Rich the Kid - Whip It (Remix)
79. YG - Twist My Fingaz
80. Dej Loaf feat. Lil Wayne - Me U & Hennessy
81. Jenny Hval - That Battle Is Over
82. Chairlift - Ch-Ching
83. Moses Sumney - Seeds
84. Titus Andronicus - Dimed Out
85. Lower Dens - To Die in L.A.
86. Savages - The Answer
87. Tate Kobang - Bank Rolls (Remix)
88. Shamir - Demon
89. Natalie Prass - My Baby Don't Understand Me
90. Ty Dolla $ign feat. Future & Rae Sremmurd - Blasé
91. Kamaiyah - How Does It Feel
92. Cool Uncle feat. Jessie Ware - Break Away
93. Bully - I Remember
94. DJ Koze - XTC
95. WOKE feat. George Clinton - The Lavishments of Light Looking
96. Isaiah Rashad - Nelly
97. Frankie Cosmos - Young
98. Protomartyr - Dope Cloud
99. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Can't Keep Checking My Phone
100. Dâm-Funk - Free