The Line of Best Fit's 50 Best Albums of 2015

The Line of Best Fit's 50 Best Albums of 2015

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May 26, 2015
Critic Score
74
30 reviews

At.Long.Last.A$AP feels epochal. It has the strange sense about it of a new rap monument being erected.

November 20, 2015
Critic Score
77
24 reviews
It might be a bit early in his career to hail Arca as a visionary, but he has certainly done more to change the landscape of modern music than the majority of his peers.

November 6, 2015
Critic Score
78
13 reviews
Through the intelligent, measured expansion of the artistic characteristics for which he has been so respected since his departure from The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones has confirmed his place among this country’s most vital contemporary songwriters.

January 20, 2015
Critic Score
85
41 reviews

Vulnicura is stark and powerful in a way that Björk has merely danced around for years. Here, in these songs, she has shed all of her skin

June 23, 2015
Critic Score
78
22 reviews

Feels Like is the culmination of everything Bognanno has learned about making music and, most importantly, about herself; an album of unflinching rawness full of tight, searing tracks that whizz along at breakneck speed.

CocoRosie - Heartache City
September 18, 2015
Critic Score
64
8 reviews

March 24, 2015
Critic Score
84
44 reviews

Sometimes is the work of probably the best lyricist writing today, and roundly deserves to be an album for the ages.

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

Like all great Country records, Romano’s is cathartic - your heart aches for him and with him - and it is this emotive sway that makes the record a success.

Danny Seth - Perception
September 19, 2015
Critic Score
80
1 review

October 2, 2015
Critic Score
79
24 reviews

New Bermuda doesn't quite tear up the script put in place by its predecesser but it does signal a changing Deafhaven.

August 21, 2015
Critic Score
75
21 reviews
It’s a very brave record where Deradoorian eschews the traditional language of pop music to create her own pictures and conversations and turn them into brilliantly beautiful songs.

August 28, 2015
Critic Score
82
34 reviews
It makes for hard but rewarding listening, and ultimately the kind of record on which every track becomes its own standout moment.

October 30, 2015
Critic Score
75
28 reviews
It’s complex, witty, and - crucially - taps into a side of each man’s creativity in a manner hitherto unseen.

Emilie Nicolas - Like I'm A Warrior
September 29, 2014
Critic Score
73
4 reviews

September 11, 2015
Critic Score
79
10 reviews

Me is both a fabulous anthology of boisterous pop songs, and a timely, revelatory album for a lot of people to live vicariously through.

July 10, 2015
Critic Score
81
23 reviews

Despite Furman’s own insecurities and wanderlust, Perpetual Motion People sounds like home.

February 10, 2015
Critic Score
87
42 reviews

A messy, extravagant, astonishing, beguiling and honest experience: that’s love, and that’s also what I Love You, Honeybear is. Just magnificent.

November 6, 2015
Critic Score
83
25 reviews
If you’re looking for some music to jog to, this probably isn’t it. But for an album to lose 40 minutes in – to remember what it feels like for an LP to challenge the listener to stay enveloped for its whole duration – look no further.

August 28, 2015
Critic Score
76
32 reviews

While not a step forward, What Went Down is a consolidation and refinement of Foals’ artistic strengths and explorations over their previous trio of albums.

November 6, 2015
Critic Score
67
8 reviews

GoldLink's And After That We Didn’t Talk is as impressive of a rap debut as there has been in 2015.

July 24, 2015
Critic Score
76
17 reviews

Y Dydd Olaf is a marvellously magical mixture of elation, anger and sorrow and is very lovely indeed. With the opening salvo of her solo career Gwenno has added another album to the growing list of this year’s highlights.

May 19, 2015
Critic Score
79
29 reviews
While still creating boundless, exceptional fringe-pop, on Platform Herndon is finding countless new ways to hold our attention: deploying a greater sense of narrative, an emboldened melodic arsenal and enough enthusiasm to remind us why she remains a vital voice in peripheral pop.

June 1, 2015
Critic Score
83
45 reviews

In Colour is a record that could soundtrack break ups, facilitate unions, and prompt both soul searching and sweaty debauchery.

June 9, 2015
Critic Score
79
27 reviews

Apocalypse, girl is staggering in so many ways; funny, shocking, engaging, musically ambitious and uncompromising.

October 23, 2015
Critic Score
89
43 reviews

With a formidable knack for telling an engaging story in the space of a song, Divers is further proof that, as a lyricist, Newsom is second to none.

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September 25, 2015
Critic Score
88
37 reviews
In a career that has been nothing short of innovative, this arguably marks a creative peak.

March 15, 2015
Critic Score
95
45 reviews
It’s hard to escape the conclusion that he did, in the end, make his deal with the Devil. But the result is a really excellent album: uncompromising, thoughtful, and with enough buried complexities to keep people arguing for years to come.

November 6, 2015
Critic Score
73
14 reviews

Kwabs - Love + War
September 11, 2015
Critic Score
73
9 reviews

September 18, 2015
Critic Score
75
38 reviews

Honeymoon reaffirms her ability to make important, masterful pop music that doesn’t pay a blind bit of notice to fashion and it's all the better for it.

September 18, 2015
Critic Score
78
11 reviews
It’s not only a very solid debut, but it’s one with the power to break down and challenge the way things are done in the music industry.

March 23, 2015
Critic Score
81
14 reviews

Effusive, highly danceable and crammed with hooks, Hinterland plays like a greatest hits from a parallel universe.

Ludovico Einaudi - Elements
October 16, 2015
Critic Score
78
2 reviews

Elements is as breathtakingly beautiful and poignantly polarised as one would expect from one of this generation’s finest classical talents.

October 16, 2015
Critic Score
78
23 reviews
With a slight expansion in sound, but yet with the core DNA of their sonic aesthetic intact, they present a musical novella of love and loneliness that aims (tastefully) for the heart and the big time.

March 13, 2015
Critic Score
73
21 reviews

Not only the first album written, produced and for herself, but also remarkably candid in her fear of death, legacy and memory. This is Diamandis at her best.

September 11, 2015
Critic Score
68
19 reviews

Musically, Good Sad Happy Bad is both challenging and engrossing. But it's the simple yet subtle investigations into questions and actions that are intrinsic to our daily existence which makes this record so exceptional. It's pop music, but it says big things.

April 6, 2015
Critic Score
77
11 reviews

Fast Food isn’t as labyrinthine as her debut – exits are neon-lit fire escapes rather than barricaded doors – but it is just as powerful.

January 27, 2015
Critic Score
83
24 reviews

Natalie Prass is a break-up album that doesn’t wallow; it’s the most realistic take on relationships you’ll have heard in a long time.

October 16, 2015
Critic Score
76
23 reviews

As with every Neon Indian album, VEGA INTL Night School can feel chaotic, effusive, even overwhelming at times. But, much like the proverbial “bright lights” of the city which provide the inspiration for this LP, it's dazzling, too.

January 20, 2015
Critic Score
80
30 reviews

There is no denying the raw power of Viet Cong ... anyone with punk in their heart will connect with this album.

Sóley - Ask the Deep
May 12, 2015
Critic Score
70
4 reviews

May 19, 2015
Critic Score
75
29 reviews

Chin up, eyes out, Shamir looks ever outward on Ratchet, staking his claim as the foremost purveyor of future pop for future people.

February 24, 2015
Critic Score
79
12 reviews

March 31, 2015
Critic Score
91
47 reviews

Despite its light-handed approach, Carrie & Lowell strikes with a sort of urgency unparalleled across the composer's 15-year career. 

August 28, 2015
Critic Score
68
11 reviews

By taking a sharp turn into the light, the shades of grey of her older material have been splattered by blasts of glorious technicolour, a move resulting in her best album to date.

March 17, 2015
Critic Score
79
26 reviews

He doesn’t claim to have all the answers—from a strictly epistemological stand-point, Jesso Jr. makes note of how little his experiences in the world have taught him – and it is surely the simplicity of the universe on Goon that offers it and the artist their charm.

May 5, 2015
Critic Score
79
25 reviews

This album is a vital listen: Scott’s unrestrained emotion, godly technical prowess and a natural gift for just great songwriting make it one of the finest of 2015 so far.

September 25, 2015
Critic Score
75
17 reviews

With her newest effort, she takes the sonic pillars of electronic music—big hooks, beats, synths—and warps them to create a disquieting brand of avant-pop, a surreal landscape populated by the tragic everywoman.

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