MOJO's Top 50 Albums of 2015

MOJO's Top 50 Albums of 2015

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50.

September 25, 2015
Critic Score
77
35 reviews
This darker edge lends substance to some of Vile's best songs to date.

49.

February 17, 2015
Critic Score
75
17 reviews

48.

David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
September 18, 2015
Critic Score
70
12 reviews

47.

October 16, 2015
Critic Score
79
40 reviews

Cox’s naked sensitivity and inability to filter himself have been constants through the band’s career; on Fading Frontier, they ensure Deerhunter’s most accessible songs yet are also their most affecting.

46.

March 17, 2015
Critic Score
79
26 reviews

43.

January 13, 2015
Critic Score
71
30 reviews

In the world of Uptown Special, everyone’s on the A-list.

39.

September 18, 2015
Critic Score
74
23 reviews

38.

March 23, 2015
Critic Score
81
14 reviews

37.

October 2, 2015
Critic Score
80
3 reviews

36.

February 10, 2015
Critic Score
87
42 reviews
There are grand arrangements and barbed bon mots in the style of Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, but what's most striking are the more restrained moments.

35.

September 11, 2015
Critic Score
68
36 reviews

It’s this powerful nostalgia for their original selves ... that makes Anthems For Doomed Youth better than it really ought to be, as if the last decade hadn’t happened.

34.

July 17, 2015
Critic Score
83
28 reviews

Something More Than Free is as close as he's yet come.

33.

March 2, 2015
Critic Score
67
33 reviews

Ultimately, Chasing Yesterday is an assured second step on Noel Gallagher’s solo path – more sure-footed lyrically, while bearing a very becoming new-found musical spaciness.

32.

June 1, 2015
Critic Score
83
45 reviews

In Colour really comes into its own when Jamie xx gets abstract and confounding; where his ability to conjure something wonderful from mosaic, non-linear paths is most evident.

31.

July 10, 2015
Critic Score
81
23 reviews
Driven, hooky, moving. Better than Prozac or a sunny day.

30.

Bill Fay - Who Is the Sender?
April 28, 2015
Critic Score
75
9 reviews

29.

March 23, 2015
Critic Score
76
28 reviews

This portrait of the artist might be a gloomy, oppressive one but it’s grimly fascinating nevertheless.

27.

June 23, 2015
Critic Score
76
23 reviews

26.

July 16, 2015
Critic Score
79
30 reviews

Star Wars confirms that Wilco now fully own a unique American noise wherein nothing is wholly traditional or wholly experimental.

24.

January 26, 2015
Critic Score
77
19 reviews
Ole! The Supergrass frontman hits the bull's eye with his maximum scoring second solo album.

22.

April 7, 2015
Critic Score
83
30 reviews
Their music is often at its most infectiously joyful when songs trespass into war-torn lyrical polemic.

21.

June 23, 2015
Critic Score
79
20 reviews

20.

September 25, 2015
Critic Score
76
15 reviews
A serious trip.

19.

October 23, 2015
Critic Score
89
43 reviews

It’s when everything begins to fan out like a peacock’s tail at the height of the courting season that you’re reminded just why Newsom is a 21st century oneoff.

18.

April 27, 2015
Critic Score
79
45 reviews

For a collection with an eye on the setting sun and the slow decline, it’s a fine late flowering. If they’ve made it, finally, to the end, there’s nothing to regret here.

16.

December 15, 2014
Critic Score
92
31 reviews

The singer’s reappearance in the post-Ferguson climate feels like nothing less than a superhero donning his cape. Black Messiah is an exquisite realisation of what D’Angelo does best.

14.

January 20, 2015
Critic Score
89
46 reviews

No Cities To Love stares down its troubles, power and joy ultimately lying in the hands of the people who can write such songs.

13.

September 11, 2015
Critic Score
78
28 reviews

12.

March 24, 2015
Critic Score
84
44 reviews

Barnett doesn't quite equal this deadpan reportage but navigates similar terrain in charming style.

11.

February 3, 2015
Critic Score
81
32 reviews
This extraordinary record is more refreshing burst than last gasp and its timelessness speaks more to life than death.

10.

March 31, 2015
Critic Score
91
47 reviews

A tender, affecting album that, through its jumble of religious allusions, nature imagery, classical references, half-remembered visions and overwhelming sense of loss, has a simple message.

8.

May 19, 2015
Critic Score
87
14 reviews

7.

February 24, 2015
Critic Score
79
12 reviews

6.

November 6, 2015
Critic Score
78
13 reviews

West Kirby Country Primary declares the vivid flowering of a great talent.

5.

May 19, 2015
Critic Score
80
10 reviews

4.

July 17, 2015
Critic Score
83
49 reviews

These songs might inhabit unsteady mental states, but each component could have been places with tweezers and a jeweller's loupe.

3.

September 25, 2015
Critic Score
76
33 reviews

2.

March 15, 2015
Critic Score
95
45 reviews

To Pimp A Butterfly attempts to the tackle the issues of the day without recourse to blunt, shallow sloganeering.

1.

September 25, 2015
Critic Score
88
37 reviews
This is not a record that wants or needs to be solved, but the clues and traces it leaves behind are so compelling it's difficult to let it alone.
Original Source: http://www.mojo4music.com/22395/50-best-albums-of-2015-the-final-reckoning/
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