Revisited, Trouble Will Find Me will undoubtedly end in the annals of the 10's as one of the most poignant, emotional mainstream acts of the time. Trouble Will Find Me's songwriting rivals those of the great folk rock albums of the 70's.

A little Tame Impala, a little MGMT. Woozy, thick psychedelic rock with goofy elements.

Waiting Around for Grace, Elvis' Flaming Star, Holding Out for You, Sitting Up On Our Crane, Medicine Hat, Man It Feels Like Space Again

Pounding, experimental indie pop that is taken to different effects in each song.

Hail Bop, Default, Love's Dart, Storm, Skies Over Cairo

Biggest disappointment of the year so far. Devolves the kick-and-stomp of their excellent first album into blasé indietronica. The album significantly tapers off after the first few songs into same-tempo, same-style forgettable songs.

Shake and Tremble, Found You

A beautifully sparse, melancholy album with Sufjan's best lyrical departures yet.

Should Have Known Better, Drawn to the Blood, Fourth of July, The Only Thing, Carrie & Lowell, No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross

Punch Brothers showcase their seasoned technical chops in complex, varied songs.

Familiarity, Julep, My Oh My, Boll Weevil, Little Lights

A step in the wrong direction for Death Cab. It has good moments, but they are padded with bland, forgettable melodies. Ben's singing is too clean and the lyrical matter too sappy for the dirty guitar interlaced intermittently. Death Cab should move towards a more jammy album, longer solos and less structure.

Black Sun

After hearing "I Don't Mind" (definitely my favorite song of 2015 so far), my expectations were insanely high for this album. Unfortunately, this summery, blasé album never gets anywhere near that height.

I Don't Mind, Cheap Education

A little messy for my tastes. The best songs are great, the worst songs are terrible (Pistol, Pistol, PISTOL). The album feels a little all over the place.

Lampshades on Fire, The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box, The Best Room

Was not expecting to love this as much as I do. Very monolithic, heavy sound, yet still human and delicate. Fantastic.

Precipitation, Bubble, Competition, Goodbyes and Endings, Retriever, Pattern/Shadow

Sweet but sad, there's not much beyond face value with this album, but it's still very sincere and genuine.

Pedestrian at Best, Depreston, Dead Fox, Debbie Downer, Kim's Caravan

Björk's songwriting is passionate and heartbreaking, but often falls into its own world of complexity and difficulty. But I guess that's kind of Björk's thing anyways. She does whatever she wants.

Stonemilker, Family, Quicksand

Charming songwriting and unique instrumentals make Honeybear a definitive hit. Father John Misty is writing his best lyrics yet, which are a good mix of conscientious sarcasm and heartfelt balladry.

"I Love You, Honeybear", "Chateau Lobby #4", "When You're Smiling and Astride Me", "The Ideal Husband", "Bored in the USA", "I Went to the Store One Day"

Lennox's great songwriting is spoiled by repetitive phrasing and dense, muddled, horrible production. A shame, because many of the songs could be fantastic tracks if the vocals weren't unintelligible and the midrange didn't dominate the mix.

"Mr Noah", "Boys Latin", "Tropic of Cancer"

It's their "party album". That's not to say it's not good, but it definitely feels a little light compared to other QOTSA releases.

Unexpectedly great. QOTSA shows off their smooth-crunchy range well here, and Josh Homme's voice (especially falsetto) sounds as good as ever.

The towering high of Kieran Hebden's career is beautiful, atmospheric dance music that simply cannot be better. It sounds like a miniature world in which everything is perfectly assembled.

I really went in to Benji thinking I would like it, but I just unexpectedly disliked it so much. I know the prose-lyrics are his "thing", but they turn me off so much, it's like listening to an audiobook. Where other people hear Sun Kil Moon's emotional life stories, I can't make the connection to his feelings.

Just the worst.

An overall good album that never really builds up to anything.