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My favorite records from 2015

Great albums released this year, A-Z with favorites are in bold.

Album 🍏
Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie – Travels in Constants Vol. 24 🍏
Anthony Child – Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1 🍏
Arca – Mutant 🍏
Bang on a Can All-Stars – Field Recordings 🍏
Beirut – No No No 🍏
Björk – Vulnicura 🍏
Chilly Gonzales – Chambers 🍏
Demdike Stare – Testpressing #007: Rathe/Patchwork 🍏
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear 🍏
Four Tet – Morning/Evening 🍏
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' 🍏
Grimes – Art Angels 🍏
Holly Herndon – Platform 🍏
Inventions – Maze of Woods 🍏
Jamie xx – In Colour 🍏
Jeff Bridges – Sleeping Tapes 🍏
Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, girl 🍏
Jim O'Rourke – Simple Songs
Joanna Newsom – Divers
Jon Hopkins – Late Night Tales 🍏
Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin down... 🍏
Lubomyr Melnyk – Rivers and Streams
Luke Abbott – Music For A Flat Landscape: Original Soundtrack to 'The Goob' 🍏
METZ – II 🍏
Max Richter – From Sleep 🍏
Nava Mamă – Nava Mamă
Nils Frahm – Late Night Tales 🍏
Nils Frahm – Solo 🍏
Noveller – Fantastic Planet
Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete 🍏
OZmotic & Fennesz – AirEffect 🍏
Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect 🍏
Rachel Grimes – The Clearing 🍏
Richard Hawley – Hollow Meadows 🍏
Richie Hawtin – From My Mind To Yours 🍏
Sleaford Mods – Key Markets 🍏
Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love 🍏
Squarepusher – Damogen Furies 🍏
St Germain – St Germain 🍏
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell 🍏
Sunn O))) – Kannon 🍏
Tame Impala – Currents 🍏
The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian – Komitas
Tigran Hamasyan – Luys i Luso
Viet Cong – Viet Cong 🍏
Wil Bolton – Marram
William Basinski – The Deluge/Cascade 🍏
Wolfgang Voigt – Rückverzauberung 10 / Nationalpark 🍏
Yuta Nagashima – White Sleep 🍏

Timeline of favorite records: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.

A few other year-end lists:

+ Largehearted Boy's excellent meta-list.