Decembertid er listetid. Når året skal gøres op, sker det på bedste og mest overskuelig vis ved at rangere årets udgivelser i prioriteret rækkefølge. Det har vi gjort her på sitet, hvor Jamie xx tog førstepladsen foran Kendrick Lamar i kampen om bedste internationale album. Hos andre medier ser det dog nærmere omvendt ud, hvor Kendrick langt de fleste steder trumfer og tager førstepladsen. Vi har lavet en opsamling over ti af de mest respekterede musikmediers top-10 – kig med forneden.
Listerne indeholder for det meste mange gengangere, men der er også visse, som inderholder mere variation, her især dem fra Resident Advisor og FACT Magazine, der i højere grad fokuserer på elektronisk musik. Nogle lister inkluderer også D’Angelos ‘Black Messiah’, der egentlig er fra sidste år – men eftersom den udkom 15. december er den for nogles vedkommende, sandsynligvis grundet deadlines, en del af albumåret 2015.
Pitchfork:
1. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
2. Jamie xx ‘In Colour’
3. Grimes ‘Art Angels’
4. Vince Staples ‘Summertime ’06’
5. Tame Impala ‘Currents’
6. Sufjan Stevens ‘Carrie & Lowell’
7. D’Angelo and the Vanguard ‘Black Messiah’
8. Miguel ‘Wildheart’
9. Courtney Barnett ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’
10. Kamasi Washington ‘The Epic’
Rolling Stone:
1. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
2. Adele ’25’
3. Drake ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’
4. D’Angelo and the Vanguard ‘Black Messiah’
5. The Weeknd ‘Beauty Behind the Madness’
6. Courtney Barnett ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’
7. Jason Isbell ‘Something More Than Free’
8. Various Artists: ‘Hamilton: Original Broadway Soundtrack’
9. The Arcs ‘Yours, Dreamily’
10. Blur ‘The Magic Whip’
NME:
1. Grimes ‘Art Angels’
2. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
3. Jamie xx ‘In Colour’
4. Wolf Alice ‘My Love Is Cool’
5. Tame Impala ‘Currents’
6. Chvrches ‘Every Open Eye’
7. Lana Del Rey ‘Honeymoon’
8. Foals ‘What Went Down’
9. The Maccabees ‘Marks to Prove It’
10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘Multi-Love’
Consequence of Sound:
1. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
2. Sufjan Stevens ‘Carrie & Lowell’
3. Grimes ‘Art Angels’
4. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Garden of Delete’
5. Tame Impala ‘Currents’
6. Jamie xx ‘In Colour’
7. D’Angelo and the Vanguard ‘Black Messiah’
8. Sleater-Kinney ‘No Cities to Love’
9. Titus Andronicus ‘The Most Lamentable Tragedy’
10. Vince Staples ‘Summertime ’06’
Spin:
1. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
2. Courtney Barnett ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’
3. Jamie xx ‘In Colour’
4. Tame Impala ‘Currents’
5. Vince Staples ‘Summertime ’06’
6. Waxahatchee ‘Ivy Tripp’
7. Deerhunter ‘Fading Frontier’
8. Kacey Musgraves ‘Pageant Material’
9. Shamir ‘Ratchet’
10. Alex G ‘Beach Music’
Stereogum:
1. Grimes ‘Art Angels’
2. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
3. Carly Rae Jepson ‘Emotion’
4. Vince Staples ‘Summertime ’06’
5. Sufjan Stevens ‘Carrie & Lowell’
6. Courtney Barnett ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’
7. Hop Along ‘Painted Shut’
8. College Green ‘I Want to Grow Up’
9. Jim O’Rourke ‘Simple Songs’
10. Deafheaven ‘New Bermuda’
Complex:
1. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
2. Future ‘DS2’
3. Rae Sremmurd ‘SremmLife’
4. Adele ’25’
5. Justin Bieber ‘Purpose’
6. Big Sean ‘Dark Sky Paradise’
7. A$AP Rocky ‘At.Long.Last.A$AP’
8. Father John Misty ‘I Love You, Honeybear’
9. Drake ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’
10. The Internet ‘Ego Death’
Resident Advisor:
1. Floating Points ‘Elaenia’
2. Levon Vincent ‘Levon Vincent’
3. Jlin ‘Dark Energy’
4. LNRDCROY ‘Much Less Normal’
5. Björk ‘Vulnicura’
6. Suzanne Kraft ‘Talk From Home’
7. Julia Holter ‘Have You in My Wilderness’
8. Boof ‘The Hydrangeas Whisper’
9. DJ Sotofett ‘Drippin’ for a Tripp (Tripp-a-Dub-Mix)’
10. Hunee ‘Hunch Music’
The A.V. Club:
1. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
2. Sleater-Kinney ‘No Cities to Love’
3. Sufjan Stevens ‘Carrie & Lowell’
4. Grimes ‘Art Angels’
5. Father John Misty ‘I Love You, Honeybear’
6. Vince Staples ‘Summertime ’06’
7. Beach Slang ‘The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us’
8. Waxahatchee ‘Ivy Tripp’
9. Courtney Barnett ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’
10. Torres ‘Sprinter’
FACT Magazine:
1. Dawn Richard ‘Blackheart’
2. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Garden of Delete’
3. Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
4. Arca ‘Mutant’
5. Grimes ‘Art Angels’
6. Future ’56 Nights/DS2′
7. Jlin ‘Dark Energy’
8. Kelela ‘Hallucinogen’
9. DJ Richard ‘Grind’
10. Eartheater ‘RIP Chrysalis’
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