NOW Magazine's Top Albums of 2015

NOW Magazine's Top Albums of 2015

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10.

James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg - Ambsace
August 21, 2015
Critic Score
83
4 reviews

9.

January 20, 2015
Critic Score
85
41 reviews

These nine ballads are stripped to essentials - beats, strings, stirring vocals - full of beautiful and eerie contrasts that highlight Björk's loneliness, anger and fleeting moments of optimism.

8.

March 31, 2015
Critic Score
91
47 reviews

While death and pain are major players in this collection of songs, the record is more about love than tragedy - although it can still make you bawl your eyes out if you listen to the words closely enough.

7.

November 6, 2015
Critic Score
84
36 reviews

Boucher herself has come out to claim her music as genre-less, but the Art Angels incarnation of Grimes is through-and-through Frankenstein pop, influenced by so many irresistible sounds ... smashed together, somehow coming out just the right way.

6.

June 2, 2015
Critic Score
79
5 reviews

4.

March 15, 2015
Critic Score
95
45 reviews

He meets that challenge - ramping up his musicality with elements of funk, doo-wop, jazz and spoken-word poetry, debuting a dizzying number of new cadences and diving deeper into the ever-evolving question of what it means to be black in America.

3.

February 10, 2015
Critic Score
87
42 reviews

He's equally talented at writing heartfelt acoustic guitar riffs or quiet piano tunes, adding the ideal dose of strings and lush backing vocals.

2.

May 11, 2015
Critic Score
77
20 reviews
It's never clear where these songs are going, but the result always satisfies.

1.

July 17, 2015
Critic Score
83
49 reviews

It’s unabashedly pop-soul but still plenty psychedelic, thanks to band visionary Kevin Parker’s genius studio experimentation.

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