The Best of 2015:
1. Falling Up – Falling Up A
2. Chvrches – Every Open Eye A-
3. Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance B+
4. Trails and Ways – Pathology B+
5. Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful B+
6. MuteMath – Vitals B+
7. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love B+
8. Mew – + – B+
9. My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall B+
10. Jon Foreman – The Wonderlands B+
Honorable Mention:
11. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color B+
12. San Fermin – Jackrabbit B+
13. The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise B+
14. Joy Williams – Venus B
15. The Decemberists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World B
16. Gungor – One Wild Life: Soul B
17. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell B
18. Metric – Pagans in Vegas B
19. Burlap to Cashmere – Freedom Souls B
20. Calexico – Edge of the Sun B
The Rest:
Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder B
Geographer – Ghost Modern B
Destroyer – Poison Season B
Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi B
Björk – Vulnicura B
The National Parks – Until I Live B
Guy Garvey – Courting the Squall B
Adele – 25 B
Lifehouse – Out of the Wasteland B
Josh Ritter – Sermon on the Rocks B
Timbre – Sun & Moon B
Andrew Peterson – The Burning Edge of Dawn B
Out of the Grey – A Little Light Left B
Darlingside – Birds Say B
Attalus – Into the Sea B
Of Monsters and Men – Beneath the Skin B-
Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams B-
Muse – Drones B-
Lauryn Peacock – Euphonia B-
Lord Huron – Strange Trails B-
New Order – Music Complete B-
Marah in the Mainsail – Thaumatrope B-
The Gray Havens – Fire and Stone B-
Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. B-
mewithoutYou – Pale Horses B-
Dustin Kensrue – Carry the Fire B-
The Lone Bellow – Then Came the Morning B-
Tame Impala – Currents B-
The Arcadian Wild – The Arcadian Wild B-
Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful B-
Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material B-
Seal – 7 B-
Vienna Teng & Tanya Shaffer – The Fourth Messenger B-
Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues B-
Beach House – Thank Your Lucky Stars B-
Tree63 – Land B-
Leigh Nash – The State I’m In B-
Future of Forestry – Pages C+
Cindy Morgan – Bows & Arrows C+
Dar Williams – Emerald C+
The Innocence Mission – Hello I Feel the Same C+
Everything Everything – Get to Heaven C+
FFS – FFS C+
The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ C+
Collective Soul – See What You Started by Continuing C+
Tom Hummer – Sexism Sells C+
The Paper Kites – twelvefour C+
Sara Groves – Floodplain C+
Watkins Family Hour – Watkins Family Hour C+
Passion Pit – Kindred C
Priest – Priest C
Owl City – Mobile Orchestra C
Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves C
Wilco – Star Wars C
Enya – Dark Sky Island C
Dishonorable Mention:
Django Django – Born Under Saturn C-
Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind C-
Beach House – Depression Cherry C-
Kevin Max – Broken Temples C-
Enter Shikari – The Mindsweep C-
Barenaked Ladies – Silverball D+
Lydia – Run Wild D+
P.O.D. – The Awakening D
Nate Ruess – Grand Romantic D-
Don’t Get It/Not That Interested:
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
Compilations/EPs/Live Albums/Re-releases:
The Last Bison – Dorado EP A-
Owel – Every Good Boy EP A-
Flint Eastwood – Small Victories EP A-
Jars of Clay – The Long Fall Back to Earth (Deluxe Edition) B+
Archis – Archis EP B+
Sleeping at Last – Atlas: Life B+
The Good Mad – Face Your Feels EP B+
Geographer – Endless Motion, Vol. 1 B
Copeland – Ixora Twin B
Incubus – Trust Fall (Side A) B
Five Iron Frenzy – Between Pavement and Stars EP B
Umphrey’s McGee – The London Session B-
Falling Up – House Full of Caverns EP C+
Last Update: 12/31/2023
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