It's time.
The Top 125+ Albums of 2015(alphabetical order)Adventures -
Supersonic Home (Run For Cover Records)
All Dogs -
Kicking Every Day (Salinas Records)
All Hell -
The Red Sect (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
Antlered Auntlord -
Ostensibly Formerly Stunted (And On Fire) (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
APE! -
Hunting With The Lord (Reptilian Records)
Baby Shakes -
Starry Eyes (Lil' Chewy Records)
Baroness -
Purple (Abraxan Hymns)
The Barreracudas -
Can Do Easy (Oops Baby Records)
Big Quiet -
s/t (self-released)
The Blind Shake -
Fly Right (Slovenly Recordings)
Bully -
Feels Like (Startime International/Columbia)
Butcher -
Holding Back The Night (Butcher Records)
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Style (Matador)
Chastity Belt -
Time To Go Home (Hardly Art)
Cherubs -
2 YNFYNYTY (Brutal Panda Records)
Clutch -
Psychic Warfare (Weathermaker Music)
Cold Beat -
Into the Air (Crime On The Moon)
Coliseum -
Anxiety's Kiss (Deathwish Inc.)
Colleen Green -
I Want To Grow Up (Hardly Art)
Courtney Barnett -
Sometimes I Sit And Think - And Sometimes I Just Sit (Marathon Artists/Mom + Pop)
Crypt Sermon -
Out of the Garden (Dark Descent Records)
Cult Leader -
Lightless Walk (Deathwish Inc.)
Deafheaven -
New Bermuda (Anti-)
Deaf Wish -
Pain (Sub Pop)
Deerhunter -
Fading Frontier (4AD)
Destroyer -
Poison Season (Merge Records)
Dick Diver -
Melbourne - Florida (Trouble In Mind)
Don Howland -
Life Is A Nightmare (12XU)
Downtown Boys -
Full Communism (Don Giovanni Records)
Drug Church -
Hit Your Head (No Sleep Records)
Elder -
Lore (Armageddon Shop)
Eleventh Dream Day -
Works For Tomorrow (Thrill Jockey)
Erase Errata -
Lost Weekend (Under The Sun)
Failure -
The Heart is a Monster (Failure Records)
Faith No More -
Sol Invictus (Reclamation!/Ipecac)
False -
Untitled (2015) (Gilead Media)
Fuzz -
II (In The Red)
Ghetto Ghouls -
Collisions (Monofonus Press)
Ghost -
Meliora (Loma Vista)
Grimes -
Art Angels (4AD)
Gun Outfit -
Dream All Over (Paradise of Bachelors)
Helta Skelta -
Beyond The Black Stump (Deranged Records/Helta Skelta Records)
The Hex Dispensers -
III (Alien Snatch! Records)
Horrendous -
Anareta (Dark Descent Records)
Hurry Up -
s/t (Army Of Back Luck)
Immortal Bird -
Empress/Abscess (Manatee Rampage Recordings)
The Intelligence -
Vintage Future (In The Red)
Iron Maiden -
The Book of Souls (BMG)
ISS -
s/t (Loki)
Jim O'Rourke -
Simple Songs (Drag City)
Joanna Gruesome -
Peanut Butter (Slumberland Records)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -
Freedom Tower-No Wave Dance Party 2015 (Shove Records/Mom + Pop)
Kelley Stoltz -
In Triangle Time (Castle Face Records)
KEN Mode -
Success (Season of Mist)
Khemmis -
Absolution (20 Buck Spin)
Killing Joke -
Pylon (Spinefarm Records)
The King Khan & BBQ Show -
Bad News Boys (In The Red)
Kinski -
7 (Or [8]) (Kill Rock Stars)
Kitchen's Floor -
Battle of Brisbane (bruit direct disques (LP)/self-released (digital)/forthcoming in U.S. from HoZac (apparently))
Kowloon Walled City -
Grievances (Gilead Media)
Kylesa -
Exhausting Fire (Season of Mist/Retro Futurist)
La Luz -
Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
Life Stinks -
You'll Never Make It (S-S Records)
Lightning Bolt -
Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey)
Locrian -
Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
Low -
Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
Lucifer -
Lucifer I (Rise Above Records)
Magic Circle -
Journey Blind (20 Buck Spin)
Mikal Cronin -
MCIII (Merge Records)
Mike Krol -
Turkey (Merge Records)
The Minneapolis Uranium Club -
The Minneapolis Uranium Club Performs Human Exploration (self-released)
The Mountain Goats -
Beat The Champ (Merge Records)
Mutoid Man -
Bleeder (Sargent House)
Napalm Death -
Apex Predator - Easy Meat (Century Media)
Negative Scanner –
s/t (Trouble In Mind)
Nervosas -
s/t (Dirtnap)
Niche -
Heading East (Retro Futurist)
Noisem -
Blossoming Decay (A389 Recordings)
Northern Liberties -
Errant Ray (self-released)
OBN III's -
Worth A Lot Of Money (12XU)
Obnox x 3 -
Boogalou Reed (12XU) /
Know America (Ever/Never) /
Wiglet (Ever/Never)
Palehound -
Dry Food (Exploding in Sound Records)
Panopticon -
Autumn Eternal (Birdrune Recordings)
Peach Kelli Pop –
III (Burger Records)
Pierre & Bastien -
Que du Bonheur (Polly Maggoo Records)
Protomartyr -
The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
Pyramids -
A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore Records)
Radical Dads -
Universal Coolers (Old Flame Records)
Radioactivity -
Silent Kill (Dirtnap)
Rats in the Louvre -
s/t (Water Under The Bridge)
Richard Papiercuts -
"IF" (Ever/Never) [
"Peanut Butter Is Back" +
"Now I've Found You" -- two gems from this one]
Ricked Wicky x 3 -
I Sell The Circus /
King Heavy Metal /
Swimmer To A Liquid Armchair (GBV Inc.)
Robert Pollard -
Faulty Superheroes (GBV Inc.)
Royal Headache -
High (What's Your Rupture?)
The Rubs -
The Rubs Are Trash (Tall Pat Records/Dumpster Tapes)
Ruby the Hatchet -
Valley of the Snake (Tee Pee Records)
Salad Boys -
Metalmania (Trouble In Mind)
Sannhet -
Revisionist (Flenser Records)
Screaming Females Rose Mountain (Don Giovanni Records)
Slayer -
Repentless (Nuclear Blast)
Sleater-Kinney -
No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)
Snooty Garbagemen -
s/t (12XU)
Soupjam Stevens -
Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty Records)
Spray Paint x 2 -
Punters on a Barge (Homeless) /
Dopers (Monofonus Press)
Sweet Cobra -
Earth (Magic Bullet Records)
Sweet Talk -
Double Perfect (12XU)
Thee Oh Sees -
Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face Records)
Thee Tsunamis -
Saturday Night Sweetheart (Magnetic South)
Torche -
Restarter (Relapse)
Toupee -
Leg Toucher (Moniker Records)
Tropical Trash -
UFO Rot (Load Records)
TV Freaks -
Bad Luck Charms (Deranged Records)
Twerps –
Range Anxiety (Merge Records)
Uniform -
Perfect World (12XU)
Vapid -
Lake of Tears (self-released)
Veruca Salt-
Ghost Notes (El Camino Media)
Vhol -
Deeper The Sky (Profound Lore Records)
Viet Cong -
s/t (Jagjaguwar)
WAND x 2 -
Golem (In The Red) /
1000 Days (Drag City)
Waxahatchee -
Ivy Trip (Merge Records)
Windhand -
Grief's Infernal Flower (Relapse)
With The Dead -
s/t (Rise Above Records)
Xetas -
The Redeemer (12XU)
Young Guv -
Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland Records)
The Zoltars -
s/t (Happenin Records)
Edit: I'm not going to boot any of the above, but I did forget to include
Jerry Gaskill -
Love & Scars (Rat Pak Records); solo album from King's X drummer, which manages to sound pretty King's X-y despite no Pinnick or Tabor. A particularly triumphant release considering Mr. Gaskill's two heart attacks in recent years; he also lost his home/all possessions to Hurricane Sandy.