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

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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
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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
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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

Mojo Top 50 Albums of 2015

Info: One of the greatest magazines in the world devoted to classic & modern rock, Mojo is a British monthly launched in 1993. Its 2015 albums chart awards Julia Holter as #1, Kendrick Lamar as #2 and New Order as #3. 

Source: Mojo 266 magazine
Date of publication: Mojo 266 - January 2016 issue
Spotify playlist latest update: 21st november 2015
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01. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
02. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
03. New Order - Music Complete
04. Tame Impala - Currents
05. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
06. Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County Primary
07. Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile
08. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
09. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
10. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
11. Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night
12. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit
13. Low - Ones An Sixes
14. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
15. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
16. D'Angelo - Black Messiah
17. Hooton Tennis Club - Highest Point In Cliff Town
18. Blur - The Magic Whip
19. Joanna Newsom - Divers
20. Dungen - Allas Sak
21. Richard Thompson - Still
22. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
23. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
24. Gaz Coombes - Matador
25. Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern
26. Wilco - Star Wars
27. Leon Bridges - Coming Home
28. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood
29. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
30. Bill Fay - Who Is The Sender?
31. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
32. Jamie XX - In Colour
33. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
34. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
35. The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth
36. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
37. Promised Land Sound - For Use And Delight
38. Lonelady - Hinterland
39. Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
40. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
41. Kasami Washington - The Epic
42. Boz Scaggs - A Fool To Care
43. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special
44. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
45. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness
46. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
47. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
48. David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
49. Ibeyi - Ibeyi
50. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down

Rough Trade Top 100 Albums of 2015

Info: Rough Trade record shops website is the usual opener of the end-of-year charts season. Its list of Top 100 albums of 2015 awards Björk (#1), Father John Misty (#2) and Courtney Barnett (#3).

Source: Rough Trade
Date of publication: 16th November 2015
Spotify playlist latest update: 16th November 2015
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1. Björk - 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 - Georgia

20. Palma Violets - Danger in the Club

21. Calexico - Edge of the Sun

22. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass

23. FFS - 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 - Holdings 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 Gum

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 Limited - 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. Shit 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 Agent Intellect