За музыкальные итоги года отчитался культовый британский журнал NME.
По мнению редакции, лучший диск 2015 года записала канадская певица Grimes – её четвёртый лонгплей “Art Angels” возглавил рейтинг. Второе место за Кендриком Ламаром, чей диск “To Pimp A Butterfly” стал одним из главных фаворитов критиков. Замыкает тройку дебютник Джейми xx “In Colour”.
50 лучших альбомов 2015 года по версии NME:
- Grimes – Art Angels
- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
- Jamie xx – In Colour
- Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
- Tame Impala – Currents
- Chvrches – Every Open Eye
- Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon
- Foals – What Went Down
- The Maccabees – Marks to Prove It
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
- Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
- A$AP Rocky – AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
- Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love
- Deerhunter – Fading Frontier
- Blur – The Magic Whip
- Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
- Joanna Newsom – Divers
- Swim Deep – Mothers
- The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness
- U.S. Girls – Half Free
- Shamir – Ratchet
- Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
- Björk – Vulnicura
- Holly Herndon – Platform
- Mac Demarco – Another One
- Laura Marling – Short Movie
- The Libertines – Anthems For Doomed Youth
- Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap
- Slaves – Are You Satisfied?
- Charli XCX – Sucker
- LA Priest – Inji
- Pond – Man It Feels Like Space Again
- Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams
- Carly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TION
- Future – DS2
- Drenge – Undertow
- Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too
- Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- Muse – Drones
- Miley Cyrus – Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
- Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
- Young Thug – Barter 6
- The Cribs – For All My Sisters
- Viet Cong – Viet Cong
- Bill Ryder-Jones – West Kirby County Primary
- New Order – Music Complete
- Bring Me the Horizon – That’s the Spirit
- Ryan Adams – 1989