Before QRO lists our own top album of 2015, we give all of our contributors a chance to make their voices heard:
Jayson Berray
1 Adele, 25
2 Ryan Adams, 1989
3 Coldplay, A Head Full of Dreams
4 Deafheaven, New Bermuda
5 Mumford & Sons, Wilder Mind
6 Dr. Dre, Compton
7 Jamie XX, In Colour
8 Marilyn Manson, The Pale Emperor
9 MUTEMATH, Vitals
10 Gunship, Gunship
Ted Chase
1 Blur, The Magic Whip
2 Florence & The Machine, How Big How Blue How Beautiful
3 Miniboone, Bad Sports
4 Mew, +-
5 Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love
6 Andy Kim, It’s Decided
7 Beach Slang, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
8 Dave Monks, All Signs Point To Yes EP
9 Langhorne Slim & The Law, The Spirit Moves
10 Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
11 Death Cab for Cutie, Kintsugi
12 !!!, As If
13 Of Monsters and Men, Beneath the Skin
14 Patrick Watson, Love Songs For Robots
15 A Place To Bury Strangers, Transfixiation
16 Low, Ones and Sixes
17 Christopher Paul Stelling, Labor Against Waste
18 Paul Smith & The Intimations, Contradictions
19 Belle & Sebastian, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
20 Faith No More, Sol Invictus
Katie Chow
1 Carly Rae Jepsen, E-MO-TION
2 Jamaican Queens, Downers
3 Colleen Green, I Want To Grow Up
4 HEALTH, Death Magic
5 JEFF the Brotherhood, Wasted On The Dream
6 Heems, Eat Pray Thug
7 FIDLAR, Too
8 Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
9 Shamir, Ratchet
10 Born Ruffians, RUFF
11 Belle & Sebastian, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
12 Strange Names, Use Your Time Wisely
13 Skylar Spence, Prom King
14 Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material
15 Family Bike, Everything You Own Is Anagrammed
Mike Condon
1 Elle King, Love Stuff
2 Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors
3 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
4 Twenty-One Pilots, Blurryface
5 The Neighbourhood, Wiped Out!
Julia Drummond
1 Foals, What Went Down
2 The Maccabees, Marks to Prove It
3 Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love
4 Grimes, Art Angels
5 Florence & The Machine, How Big How Blue How Beautiful
6 Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear
7 CHVRCHES, Every Open Eye
8 Marika Hackman, We Slept At Last
9 Young Fathers, White Men Are Black Men Too
10 Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
Rachel Fox
1 Dawes, All Your Favorite Bands
2 Langhorne Slim & The Law, The Spirit Moves
3 Andrew Combs, All These Dreams
4 John Moreland, High on Tulsa Heat
5 The Punch Brothers, Phosphorescent Blues
6 Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free
7 Joe Pug, Windfall
8 Pokey LaFarge, Something in the Water
9 Death Cab for Cutie, Kintsugi
10 Sam Outlaw, Angeleno
11 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
12 Spirit Family Reunion, Hands Together
13 Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear
14 Josh Ritter, Sermon On the Rocks
15 Diamond Rugs, Cosmetics
16 The Lonesome Trio, The Lonesome Trio
17 Lord Huron, Strange Trails
18 The Lone Bellow, Then Came the Morning
19 Mandolin Orange, Such Jubilee
20 The Grand Southern, The Grand Southern EP
Michaela Fulton
1 Bring Me the Horizon, That’s the Spirit
2 All Time Low, Future Hearts
3 Enter Shikari, The Mindsweep
4 Of Monsters and Men, Beneath the Skin
5 Mark Ronson, Uptown Special
Shaun Gordon
1 King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Paper Mache Dream Balloon
2 Public Service Broadcasting, The Race For Space
3 Wolf Alice, My Love Is Cool
4 The Maccabees, Marks to Prove It
5 Foals, What Went Down
6 Lonelady, Hinterland
7 Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
8 John Carpenter, Lost Themes
9 Autobahn, Dissemble
10 Saint Raymond, Young Blood
Darren Hodgkinson
1 The Icarus Line, All Things Under Heaven
2 Meat Raffle, Hi Fi Classics
3 Soulsavers, Angels and Ghosts
4 Viet Cong, Viet Cong
5 Wire, Wire
6 The Fall, Sub Lingual Tablet
7 Drenge, Undertow
8 Gaz Coombes, Matador
9 Ringo Deathstarr, Pure Mood
10 Foals, What Went Down
Rick Kern
1 Jamie xx, In Colour
2 Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love
3 Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
4 Adele, 25
5 Foals, What Went Down
6 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
7 Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
8 Panda Bear, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
9 Elle King, Love Stuff
10 Tame Impala, Currents
11 Grimes, Art Angels
12 Leon Bridges, Coming Home
13 A$AP Rocky, At. Long. Last. A$AP
14 Blur, The Magic Whip
15 Florence & The Machine, How Big How Blue How Beautiful
16 CHVRCHES, Every Open Eye
17 Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap
18 Shamir, Ratchet
19 Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear
20 Meg Myers, Sorry
Gloria Lee
1 Four Tet, Morning/Evening
2 Hudson Mohawke, Lantern
3 The Chemical Brothers, Born in the Echoes
4 Bassnectar, Into the Sun
5 Rustie, EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE
6 New Order, Music Complete
7 Squarepusher, Damogen Furies
8 Wave Racer, Flash Drive
9 Floating Points, Elaenia
Paul Mason-Smith
1 SikTh, Opacities
2 Bring Me the Horizon, That’s the Spirit
3 Muse, Drones
4 Between the Buried and Me, Coma Ecliptic
5 65daysof static, No Man’s Sky Soundtrack
Peter Noble
1 New Order, Music Complete
2 Killing Joke, Pylon
3 The Charlatans, Modern Nature
4 Gang of Four, What Happens Next
5 A Place To Bury Strangers, Transfixiation
6 Mew, +-
7 Wolf Alice, My Love Is Cool
8 Public Service Broadcasting, The Race For Space
9 Pond, Man It Feels Like Space Again
10 Ringo Deathstarr, Pure Mood
Ester Segretto
Chelsea Wolfe, Abyss
The Maccabees, Marks to Prove It
A Place To Bury Strangers, Transfixiation
Foals, What Went Down
Blur, The Magic Whip
Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mac DeMarco, Another One
Wolf Alice, My Love Is Cool
Grimes, Art Angels
Bully, Feels Like
