Below is a list of awesome albums released in 2015:
Adele – 25 (November 20)
Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (April 21)
Alex Preston – Alex Preston (July 21)
All Dogs – Kicking Every Day (August 28)
Ash – Kablammo (May 25)
Barenaked Ladies – Silverball (June 2)
Beach House – Depression Cherry (August 28)
Beach House – Thank your Lucky Stars (October 16)
Beirut – No No No (September 11)
Belle and Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (January 19)
Björk – Vulnicura Strings (November 6)
BØRNS – Dopamine (October 16)
The Brothers Kaschak – The Ark & The Amateur (April 14)
Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (April 21)
Bully – Feels Like (June 23)
Cage the Elephant – Tell Me I’m Pretty (December 18)
Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Style (October 30)
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye (September 25)
City and Colour – If I Should Go Before You (October 9)
Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams (December 4)
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (March 23)
David Ramirez – Fables (August 28)
David Wax Museum – Guest House (October 16)
The Dead Weather – Dodge & Burn (September 25)
Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi (March 31)
The Decembrists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (January 20)
The Deslondes – The Deslondes (June 9)
Disclosure – Caracal (September 25)
The Dodos – Individ (January 23)
Eilen Jewell – Sundown Over Ghost Town (May 26)
Ellie Goulding – Delirium (November 6)
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (February 10)
The Floorwalkers – Kids, Are You Listening? (April 17)
Florence & the Machine – How Big How Blue How Beautiful (June 2)
Foo Fighters – Saint Cecilia (November 23)
Fort Lean – Quiet Day (October 2)
The Fratellis – Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied (August 21)
The Front Bottoms – Back on Top (September 18)
Gang of Youths – The Positions (April 17)
Gin Wigmore – Blood to Bone (August 28)
Glen Hansard – Didn’t He Ramble (September 18)
Guster – Evermotion (January 13)
Grace Potter – Midnight (August 14)
Grimes – Art Angels (November 6)
The Helio Sequence – The Helio Sequence (May 19)
Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight (March 17)
Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell – Sing Into My Mouth (July 17)
Jason Isbell – Something More than Free (July 17)
J.D. McPherson – Let the Good Times Roll (February 9)
Joe Pug – Windfall (March 10)
Justin Towns Earle – Absent Fathers (January 13)
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (March 16)
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper – After (March 3)
Langhorne Slim – The Spirit Moves (August 7)
Laura Marling – Short Movie (March 23)
Lord Huron – Strange Trails (April 7)
Lowland Hum – Lowland Hum (April 14)
Madeon – Adventure (March 31)
Matt and Kim – New Glow (April 7)
mewithoutyou – Pale Horses (June 16)
The Milk Carton Kids – Monterey (May 19)
Mini Mansions – The Great Pretenders (March 23)
Misterwives – Our Own House (February 24)
The Modern Electric – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (June 28)
Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves (March 17)
The Motel Beds – Mind Glitter (October 16)
Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind (May 4)
Murder by Death – Big Dark Love (February 3)
Muse – Drones (June 5)
My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall (May 4)
Nate Ruess – Grand Romantic (June 16)
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats – Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats (August 21)
Noah Gundersen – Carry the Ghost (August 21)
Oberhofer – CHRONOVISION (October 9)
Of Monsters & Men – Beneath the Skin (June 9)
The Oh Hellos – Dear Wormwood (October 16)
Only Real – Jerk at the End of the Line (March 27)
Other Lives – Rituals (May 4)
Passion Pit – Kindred (April 21)
Pokey LaFarge – Something in the Water (April 7)
Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues (January 27)
RATATAT – Magnifique (July 17)
Ryan Adams – 1989 (September 21)
Saintseneca – Such Things (October 9)
Sam Cohen – Cool It (April 28)
Samantha Crain – Under Branch and Thorn and Tree (July 17)
Samantha Fish – Wild Heart (July 10)
Silversun Pickups – Better Nature (September 25)
Son Lux – Bones (June 23)
Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (April 20)
The Staves – If I Was (March 31)
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (March 31)
The Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home (May 12)
Tame Impala – Currents (July 17)
Third Eye Blind – Dopamine (June 16)
Turnover – Peripheral Vision (May 4)
Toro y Moi – What For? (April 6)
twenty one pilots – Blurryface (May 19)
Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (April 7)
Wilco – Star Wars (July 17)
Wild Child – Fools (October 2)
The Wood Brothers – Paradise (October 2)
Top Picks (Alphabetical)
Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (April 21)
All Dogs – Kicking Every Day (August 28)
Bully – Feels Like (June 23)
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (March 23)
The Decembrists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (January 20)
The Dodos – Individ (January 23)
Fort Lean – Quiet Day (October 2)
Gang of Youths – The Positions (April 17)
Guster – Evermotion (January 13)
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (March 16)
Langhorne Slim – The Spirit Moves (August 7)
Saintseneca – Such Things (October 9)
Sam Cohen – Cool It (April 28)
Samantha Crain – Under Branch and Thorn and Tree (July 17)
The Staves – If I Was (March 31)
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (March 31)
The Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home (May 12)
Turnover – Peripheral Vision (May 4)
twenty one pilots – Blurryface (May 19)
The Wood Brothers – Paradise (October 2)
Buy what you can & get listening! Comment below to put 2015 albums on my radar that you don’t see here.
Cheers,
Mark
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