Best Albums of the Years: 2015

by 5:4

Original Top 40

  1. Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
  2. John Wall & Alex Rodgers – Work 2011–2014
  3. Mark Andre – … auf …
  4. Autechre – AE_LIVE
  5. Volker Hennes – Emperor Ambassador
  6. John Williams – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  7. Veli-Matti Puumala – Anna Liisa
  8. Monty Adkins – Unfurling Streams
  9. Kenneth Kirschner – Compressions & Rarefactions
  10. Disasterpeace – It Follows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  11. Syl Kougaï – ΙΧΘΥΣ
  12. Sunken Foal – Friday Syndrome Vol. 3
  13. Brian Gascoigne – Phase IV (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  14. Jacek Sienkiewicz – Nomatter
  15. C Duncan – Architect
  16. Man Without Country – Maximum Entropy
  17. Anna Þorvaldsdóttir – In the Light of Air
  18. Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
  19. Line Katcho – Pulsions
  20. James Newton Howard – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  21. Coppice – Spans: Three Perspectival Accounts + Cores/Eruct + Matches
  22. Gilles Gobeil – Les lointains
  23. Cemeteries – Barrow
  24. Björk – Vulnicura
  25. Kreng – The Summoner
  26. Purity Ring – Another Eternity
  27. Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase.
  28. Somatic Responses – The Motor of Decay
  29. Ingar Zach & Miguel Angel Tolosa – Loner
  30. Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – Ex_Machina (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  31. Vanbot – Perfect Storm
  32. various artists – Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde
  33. Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon
  34. Eivør – Slør
  35. East India Youth – Culture of Volume
  36. Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol. 3
  37. IAMX – Metanoia
  38. Kate Havnevik – &i
  39. Benge – Forms 4 – Moor Music
  40. Andrew Liles – Miscellany – Lussuoso (Electronics: 1990 to 2015)

Revised Top 30​

  1. Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
  2. Autechre – AE_LIVE_KATOWICE_210815
  3. John Wall & Alex Rodgers – Work 2011–2014
  4. Mark Andre – … auf …
  5. Kenneth Kirschner – May 29, 2015
  6. Eivør – Bridges
  7. Brian Reitzell – Hannibal: Season 3 Volume 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)
  8. Volker Hennes – Emperor Ambassador
  9. John Williams – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  10. East India Youth – Culture of Volume
  11. Veli-Matti Puumala – Anna Liisa
  12. Monty Adkins – Unfurling Streams
  13. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
  14. Disasterpeace – It Follows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  15. Syl Kougaï – ΙΧΘΥΣ
  16. Sunken Foal – Friday Syndrome Vol. 3
  17. Brian Gascoigne – Phase IV (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  18. Olivia Block – Aberration of Light
  19. Tim Wright – Algorithms for Electronics, Fake Woodwind & Strings (Third Collection)
  20. Jacek Sienkiewicz – Nomatter
  21. Man Without Country – Maximum Entropy
  22. C Duncan – Architect
  23. Anna Þorvaldsdóttir – In the Light of Air
  24. Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
  25. Line Katcho – Pulsions
  26. Ensemble Musikfabrik – Edition Musikfabrik 09: Scherben
  27. Gilles Gobeil – Les lointains
  28. Björk – Vulnicura
  29. Cemeteries – Barrow
  30. Coppice – Spans: Three Perspectival Accounts