Time Out London's 50 Best Albums of 2015

Time Out London's 50 Best Albums of 2015

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49.

Royce Wood Junior - The Ashen Tang
May 12, 2015
Critic Score
73
3 reviews

48.

September 25, 2015
Critic Score
76
33 reviews

47.

Landshapes - Heyoon
May 4, 2015
Critic Score
69
5 reviews

46.

September 4, 2015
Critic Score
73
27 reviews

It’s eclectic, ferocious, brash and sly, full of studio tricks and yell-along refrains. Dudes are smarter than your average three-chord wonders. 

45.

October 2, 2015
Critic Score
74
14 reviews
You’ve heard the influences before, but with Shopping you really can taste the difference.

44.

September 25, 2015
Critic Score
79
21 reviews

43.

May 11, 2015
Critic Score
77
20 reviews

42.

January 20, 2015
Critic Score
85
41 reviews

Her ninth record ... is the obligatory break-up album, one sung with extraordinarily renewed power. It hardly seems like a conscious uncoupling: the Icelandic diva bleeds utter devastation, drenched in strings and despair.

41.

January 20, 2015
Critic Score
75
44 reviews

Like all of the band’s most recent albums, ‘Girls in Peacetime…’ contains a handful of gobsmackingly great songs and a lot of less inspiring material, varying from the teeth-grittingly quirky to the likeably dreamy and tender.

40.

January 20, 2015
Critic Score
89
46 reviews

Though fretting about fame has destroyed lesser bands for good, Sleater-Kinney have come back golden. Success hasn’t killed them after all – it’s made them stronger.

39.

September 18, 2015
Critic Score
69
34 reviews

Like your maths homework, you’ll need to give it your full attention. It’s not background music for a party, unless your parties involve sitting around a MacBook reading Pitchfork.

37.

December 16, 2014
Critic Score
78
36 reviews
‘Sucker’ sounds like an album made by someone you’d want to raid the mini bar with.

35.

May 19, 2015
Critic Score
87
14 reviews

34.

Marriages - Salome
April 7, 2015
Critic Score
75
7 reviews

32.

October 23, 2015
Critic Score
79
14 reviews

31.

July 17, 2015
Critic Score
80
8 reviews

30.

July 3, 2015
Critic Score
79
4 reviews

28.

June 2, 2015
Critic Score
70
12 reviews

27.

October 2, 2015
Critic Score
81
30 reviews
The sharp-witted, silken-voiced singer-songwriter has created a raggle-taggle bunch of marvellous songs for ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’ that barely leave a genre unturned and yet are all unmistakably his own.

26.

September 20, 2015
Critic Score
70
23 reviews

25.

August 30, 2015
Critic Score
59
20 reviews

It’s bloated, self-indulgent and occasionally cringey – but never boring. A couple of tracks are up with the best of 2015.

24.

March 23, 2015
Critic Score
81
14 reviews

23.

April 7, 2015
Critic Score
79
32 reviews

Over 13 songs, it darts from ramshackle indie-rock inspired by Crutchfield’s 1990s heroines to more stripped down singer-songwriter fare. But there’s definite experimentation and expansion here too.

21.

February 17, 2015
Critic Score
75
17 reviews

18.

April 27, 2015
Critic Score
79
45 reviews
Some of us have come a long way with this great, perhaps even quintessential London band. Against the odds, ‘The Magic Whip’ shows there’s more distance left to run.

16.

June 1, 2015
Critic Score
83
45 reviews
‘In Colour’ is a fine album, but expecting songs as feisty as his DJ sets is a big mistake.

15.

April 6, 2015
Critic Score
77
11 reviews

11.

All We Are - All We Are
February 3, 2015
Critic Score
67
13 reviews
This is a clever and confident debut with enough baked-in energy to see it become one of 2015’s slow-burning successes.

9.

November 6, 2015
Critic Score
84
36 reviews

8.

February 10, 2015
Critic Score
87
42 reviews

Fans of sensitive woodburning-stove indie may be surprised to hear the one-time Fleet Foxes drummer skewering shortcomings close to home. 

7.

March 31, 2015
Critic Score
91
47 reviews

Despite soul-baring moments, it almost feels like we learn more about Carrie than we do her son; he remains a beautiful enigma.

6.

June 22, 2015
Critic Score
80
27 reviews
Their versatility and talent here should make most bands their age take a long, hard look at themselves.

5.

August 7, 2015
Critic Score
76
15 reviews
This 12-track debut album from the Bristolian house producer is a much-needed sonic reminder that the weekend never dies. It’s one of those nighttime-evoking, start-to-finish classics on a par with Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ or the Beastie Boys’ ‘Paul’s Boutique’.

4.

June 2, 2015
Critic Score
77
39 reviews
It’s taken three goes but to my mind, ‘How Big’ is her first really great album.

3.

March 24, 2015
Critic Score
84
44 reviews
Charming and ironic, bored and anxious, disillusioned but hopeful: Barnett captures those millennial complications and contradictions like nobody else.

2.

March 15, 2015
Critic Score
95
45 reviews
‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ makes no attempt at the charts, or even hip hop radio. Instead, it’s aimed squarely at the musical canon that inspires it.
Original Source: http://www.timeout.com/london/music/the-best-albums-of-2015
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