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The best albums of 2015 -
Americana |
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1 |
Jason Isbell |
Something more than free |
2015 |
2 |
Giant sand |
Heartbreak pass |
2015 |
3 |
Rhiannon Giddens |
Tomorrow is my turn |
2015 |
4 |
Sun kil moon |
Universal themes |
2015 |
5 |
Robert Earl Keen |
Happy prisoner : the bluesgrass sessions |
2015 |
6 |
Dave & Phil Alvin |
Lost time |
2015 |
7 |
Wilco |
Star wars |
2015 |
8 |
James McMurtry |
Complicated games |
2015 |
9 |
Olivia Chaney |
The longest river |
2015 |
10 |
Jim White vs the Packway handle band |
Take it like a man |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 - Blues |
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1 |
Buddy Guy |
Born to play guitar |
2015 |
2 |
Shemekia Copeland |
Outskirts of love |
2015 |
3 |
Ian Siegal |
One night in Amsterdam |
2015 |
4 |
Beth Hart |
Better than home |
2015 |
5 |
Chris James & Patrick Rynn |
Trouble don't last |
2015 |
6 |
Snooks Eaglin |
New Orleans street singer |
2015 |
7 |
Joe Bonamassa |
Muddy wolf at Red rocks |
2015 |
8 |
Lightnin' Slim |
I'm a rolling stone |
2015 |
9 |
Tampa Red |
Dynamite! : the unsung king of the blues |
2015 |
10 |
Cash box kings |
Holding court |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 -
Electronica |
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1 |
Floating points |
Elaenia |
2015 |
2 |
Jamie XX |
In colour |
2015 |
3 |
Oneothrix point never |
Garden of Delete |
2015 |
4 |
LHF |
For the thrown |
2015 |
5 |
Uffe |
Radio days |
2015 |
6 |
Herbert |
The shakes |
2015 |
7 |
FP-oner |
5 |
2015 |
8 |
Seven Davis jr. |
Universes |
2015 |
9 |
Portico quartet |
Living fields |
2015 |
10 |
Orb |
Moonbuilding 2703 AD |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 - Folk |
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1 |
Tom Russell |
The rose of Roscrae |
2015 |
2 |
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Joy of living |
2015 |
3 |
Qristina & Quinn Bachand |
Little hinges |
2015 |
4 |
Lau |
The bell never rang |
2015 |
5 |
Stick in the wheel |
From here |
2015 |
6 |
Kerr, Cutting & Simpson |
Murmurs |
2015 |
7 |
Young 'uns |
Another man's ground |
2015 |
8 |
Rhiannon Giddens |
Tomorrow is my turn |
2015 |
9 |
Tom & Ben Paley |
Paley & son |
2015 |
10 |
Eliza Carthy & Tim Eriksen |
Bottle |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 - Jazz |
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1 |
Dennis Rollins Velocity trio |
Symbiosis |
2015 |
2 |
Partikel |
String theory |
2015 |
3 |
Pete Oxley & Nicolas Meier |
Chasing tales |
2015 |
4 |
Julian Argüelles |
Let it be told |
2015 |
5 |
Bad plus |
The Bad plus |
2015 |
6 |
Phil Robson |
The cut off point |
2015 |
7 |
Indigo kid II |
Fist full of notes |
2015 |
8 |
John Scofield |
Past present |
2015 |
9 |
Fred Hersch |
Solo |
2015 |
10 |
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In the Empire state |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 -
Soundtracks |
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1 |
Jessica Curry |
Everybody's gone to be the rapture (soundtrack) |
2015 |
2 |
Jed Kurzel |
Slow West (soundtrack) |
2015 |
3 |
Ryuichi Sakamoto |
Furyo (soundtrack) |
2015 |
4 |
Bronnt industries kapital |
Turksib (soundtrack) |
2015 |
5 |
Cat's eyes |
The duke of Burgundy (soundtrack) |
2015 |
6 |
Debbie Wiseman |
Wolf Hall (soundtrack) |
2015 |
7 |
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury |
Ex machina (soundtrack) |
2015 |
8 |
Disasterpeace |
It follows (soundtrack) |
2015 |
9 |
Mikael Tariverdiev |
Film music |
2015 |
10 |
# |
Holy mountain (soundtrack) |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 -
Underground |
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1 |
Lightning bolt |
Fantasy empire |
2015 |
2 |
Richard Dawson |
Nothing important |
2014 |
3 |
Laura Cannell |
Beneath swooping talons |
2015 |
4 |
Dean McPhee |
Fatima's hand |
2015 |
5 |
Christiana Vantzou |
No. 3 |
2015 |
6 |
Prurient |
Frozen Niagara falls |
2015 |
7 |
Helm |
Olympic mess |
2015 |
8 |
Lee Bannon |
Patterns of excel |
2015 |
9 |
Mount Eerie |
Sauna |
2015 |
10 |
Billy Jenkins |
Death, ritual & resonation |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 - Urban |
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1 |
Kendrick Lamar |
To pimp a butterfly |
2015 |
2 |
Mbongwana star |
From Kinshasha |
2015 |
3 |
Young fathers |
White men are black men too |
2015 |
4 |
Dr. Yen Lo |
Days with dr. Yen Lo |
2015 |
5 |
Roots manuva |
Bleeds |
2015 |
6 |
Dr. Dre |
Compton : a soundtrack by Dr. Dre |
2015 |
7 |
Constant deviants |
Avant garde |
2015 |
8 |
Stig of the dump |
Kubrick |
2015 |
9 |
Badbadnotgood ft. Ghostface Killah |
Sour soul |
2015 |
10 |
Kwabs |
Love + war |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 - World |
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1 |
Songhoy blues |
Music in exile |
2015 |
2 |
Mbongwana star |
From Kinshasha |
2015 |
3 |
Ibeyi |
Ibeyi |
2015 |
4 |
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba |
Ba power |
2015 |
5 |
Ester Rada |
Ester Rada |
2015 |
6 |
Criolo |
Convoque seu buda |
2015 |
7 |
Africa Express presents |
Terry Riley's in C Mali |
2015 |
8 |
Omar Souleyman |
Bahdeni nami |
2015 |
9 |
Dengue fever |
The deepest lake |
2015 |
10 |
Kandia Kouyaté |
Renascence |
2015 |
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The best albums of 2015 - Reggae
reissues |
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1 |
Bunny 'Striker' Lee & friends |
Next cut! : dub plates, rare sides & unreleased
cuts |
2015 |
2 |
Singers & Players |
War of words |
1981 |
3 |
Lee 'Scratch' Perry |
Mr Perry I presume |
2015 |
4 |
Abyssinians |
Arise |
1978 |
5 |
# |
Rastafari : the dreads enter Babylon 1955-83 |
2015 |
6 |
# |
Frontline presents reggae discomixes |
2015 |
7 |
Burning Spear |
Social living & living dub |
2015 |
8 |
Pablo Moses |
Revolutionary dream |
1992 |
9 |
Yabby You |
Dead prophecy : the strange and wonderful story
of
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2015 |
10 |
Linval Thompson |
Strong like Sampson |
2015 |