With 2015 ending, I got a reminder at Best Buy today that another begins: Pusha T joins D’Angelo and Beyonce in the year end list disruption sweepstakes. But what follows represents a sturdy distillation of the year.
1. Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show
2. Maddie & Tae – Start Here
3. Miguel – Wildheart
4. The Chills – Silver Bullets
5. Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
6. Carly Rae Jepsen – EMOTION
7. Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
8. Joanna Newsome – Divers
9. Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer
10. Dawn Richard – Blackheart
11. Jason Derulo – Everything is 4
12. A$AP Rocky – At Long Last
13. Grimes – Art Angels
14. Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba – Ba Power
15. Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
16. Ashley Monroe – The Blade
17. Kehlani – You Should Be Here
18. Angel Haze – Back to the Woods
19. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
20. Alan Jackson – Angels and Alcohol
21. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
22. Sleater Kinney – No Cities to Love
23. Florence + the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
24. Future – DS2
25. Heems – Eat Pray Thug
26. The Mavericks – Mono
27. Dwight Yoakam – Second Hand Heart
28. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ
29. Dead Sara – Pleased to Meet You Over
30. Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect
31. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf
32. Destroyer – Poison Season
33. Janet Jackson – Unbreakable
34. Robert Forster – Songs to Play
35. Years & Years – Communion
Humanizing The Vacuum 