Best albums of 2015
The Guardian's top albums of 2015, as voted for by its music writers
The best albums of 2015 – readers' picks
We’ve had our say – but what did you think were the best albums of 2015? Here’s what you voted for
The best albums of 2015: how our writers voted
You’ve seen our end of year list – now it’s time to look behind the scenes and discover the favourite albums and tracks of the Guardian’s music critics
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Best albums of 2015: No 1 – To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
The rapper’s knotty and apparently uncommercial album found a mass audience by sounding like 2015 often felt: bleak, desperate and broiling with anger
Best albums of 2015: Kamasi Washington, Courtney Barnett and Young Fathers on making the cut
Best albums of 2015: No 2 – Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
Best albums of 2015: No 3 – I Love You, Honeybear by Father John Misty
Can you sing about falling in love without getting all sentimental? You can if you ‘let the mess in’ with brutal honesty, as Josh Tillman’s second album does
Best albums of 2015: No 4 – Have You in My Wilderness by Julia Holter
A painterly album, a kind of musical impressionism, it evoked the otherworldy quality of love through landscapes of free jazz and minimalist classical music
Best albums of 2015: No 5 – Vulnicura by Björk
Björk laid her heart so bare on her brutal, beautiful ninth album we could hardly listen. But those that persevered found light at the end of a gruelling tunnel
Best albums of 2015: No 6 – No Cities to Love by Sleater-Kinney
Agitation and anxiety never sounded so good as on the fired up return of Lena Dunham’s favourite band
Best albums of 2015: No 7 – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney Barnett
With songs about dead foxes and buying veg, this singer-guitarist’s laconic debut provided the perfect soundtrack for modern ennui
Best albums of 2015: No 8 – The Epic by Kamasi Washington
This jazz debut by the American saxophonist was massive in scale and scope, and sounded unlike anything else released this yearSee our countdown of the best albums so far
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Best albums of 2015: No 9 – White Men Are Black Men Too by Young Fathers
The Edinburgh trio improved on their 2014 Mercury prize-winning debut to make an ecstatic genre-defying album on their own terms
Best albums of 2015: No 10 – Divers by Joanna Newsom
On her fourth LP, harpist Newsom let the wonder of existence and the pain of living slug it out on an album dense with allusions yet heady with joy
What was the best album of 2015? You decide
We’re counting down our best albums of the year – and we want you to tell us how wrong we were by voting for your own list
The best albums of 2015
The Guardian music critics’ favourite albums this year, counting down to reveal 2015’s best release
