Exclaim!'s Top 10 Folk & Country Albums of 2015

Exclaim!'s Top 10 Folk & Country Albums of 2015

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10.

Dave Rawlings Machine - Nashville Obsolete
September 18, 2015
Critic Score
83
8 reviews

9.

Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart
April 14, 2015
Critic Score
83
8 reviews
This is a hard-rocking, sing-out-loud, air-guitar-in-the-mirror kind of country record.

8.

Lindi Ortega - Faded Gloryville
August 7, 2015
Critic Score
79
6 reviews

7.

Laura Marling - Short Movie
March 23, 2015
Critic Score
81
34 reviews
The resulting album sounds like a brave, at times combative, fresh start, not least because of the fact that Marling has revamped her relationship with the guitar by switching mostly to an electric.

6.

Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
January 27, 2015
Critic Score
78
24 reviews

Despite the fact that the album is still almost entirely solo ... the songs seem poppier, trippier; far more open-ended.

5.

Daniel Romano - If I've Only One Time Askin'
July 31, 2015
Critic Score
80
8 reviews

You won't hear a more open hearted, impassioned and lyrically rich roots album this year.

4.

Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
July 17, 2015
Critic Score
83
28 reviews

Still walking the high wire, with Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell continues his streak of genre-defining masterworks.

3.

The Weather Station - Loyalty
May 12, 2015
Critic Score
82
6 reviews

Loyalty is undeniably a folk album, underpinned by Lindeman's finger-picked guitar, spacious piano and banjo, her husky, timeless voice having taken on a new maturity, every word now clearly articulated.

2.

Joanna Newsom - Divers
October 23, 2015
Critic Score
89
43 reviews

Rather than breaking from Newsom's tradition of complex, bewitching songwriting, Divers feels like the culmination of all of Newsom's incredible work over the past decade.

1.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Critic Score
91
47 reviews

It's Stevens' own life and relationships that he mines here with his trademark deftness and nuance. And gosh, what agonizing, cathartic beauty he's shared.

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