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Highest Rated Albums of 2015
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1
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Cindy Lee - Act of Tenderness
December 26, 2015
Noise Pop
,
Hypnagogic Pop
Score
95
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2
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Crosss - LO
May 26, 2015
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
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Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
March 17, 2015
Singer-Songwriter
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
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Battles - La Di Da Di
September 18, 2015
Experimental Rock
,
Electronic
Score
92
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
.
Grimes - Art Angels
November 6, 2015
Electropop
,
Synthpop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
.
U.S. Girls - Half Free
September 25, 2015
Psychedelic Pop
,
Art Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
.
Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
September 25, 2015
Noise Rock
,
Post-Punk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
September 18, 2015
Doom Metal
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
9
.
Foals - What Went Down
August 28, 2015
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
July 28, 2015
Indie Rock
,
Rock Opera
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
Girl Band - The Early Years
April 21, 2015
Noise Rock
,
Post-Punk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
.
Mylets - Arizona
April 21, 2015
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
Drenge - Undertow
April 6, 2015
Garage Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
April 7, 2015
Art Pop
,
Indietronica
,
Neo-Soul
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
José González - Vestiges & Claws
February 17, 2015
Singer-Songwriter
,
Indie Folk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
.
Björk - Vulnicura
January 20, 2015
Art Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Singer-Songwriter
,
Indie Folk
Score
89
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
October 9, 2015
Post-Punk
,
Art Punk
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
January 27, 2015
Singer-Songwriter
,
Contemporary Folk
Score
87
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
.
Jack Name - Weird Moons
January 20, 2015
Neo-Psychedelia
,
Hypnagogic Pop
Score
86
Source →
Amazon
Music
21
.
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
March 24, 2015
Indie Rock
,
Singer-Songwriter
,
Slacker Rock
Score
86
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
November 13, 2015
Post-Industrial
,
Progressive Electronic
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Michael Stasis - RIP III
August 7, 2015
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
.
Tame Impala - Currents
July 17, 2015
Neo-Psychedelia
,
Psychedelic Pop
,
Synthpop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
.
Hudson Mohawke - Lantern
June 16, 2015
Wonky
,
Trap [EDM]
,
Electronic
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Northern Transmissions awarded albums throughout 2015.
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