Top 31 Albums of 2015 (by Amplidyne Effect)

31. Nite Fields – Depersonalisation (Felte) ( Shoegaze / Post-Punk / Indie )

Best Track: You I Never Knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq…

30. Archy Marshall – A New Place 2 Drown (XL / True Panther) ( Electronic / R’n’B / Experimental )

Best Track: Swell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaJ…

29. Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness (Domino Records) ( Chamber Pop / Electronic / Ambient Pop )

Best Track: Feel You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2J…

28. The American Dollar – Across The Oceans (Yesh Music) ( Post-rock / Ambient / Electronic )

Best Track: Vondelpark (Noon) + (Night)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdl…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp0…

27. Yumi Zouma – EP II (Cascine) ( Dream pop / Synth Pop)

Best Track: Second Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wm…

26. Dan Deacon – Gliss Riffer (Domino) ( Electronic / Experimental )

Best Track: Feel The Lightning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-…

25. Dimitar Dodovski – Potential Worlds (Womblabel) ( Ambient / Rhythmic Ambiance / Drone / Minimalist )

Best Track: Half Retaken by Nature
https://womblabel.bandcamp.com/albu…

24. A Place to Bury Strangers – Transfixiation (Dead Oceans) ( Shoegaze / Noise Rock / Post-Punk)

Best Track: We’ve Come So Far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI3…

23. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green (Dead Oceans) ( Folk / Country / Blues )

Best Track: Primrose Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96q…

22. Ghost Culture – Ghost Culture (Phantasy) ( Electronic / Deep House / Synthpop )

Best Track: Mouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52_…

21. Brian Wilson – No Pier Pressure (Capitol Records) ( Pop / Classic Rock )

Best Tracks: On The Island, Whatever Happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHT…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaO…

20. The Slow Show – White Water (HALDERN POP) ( Chamber Pop / Art Rock / Ambient Pop )

Best Tracks: Bloodline , Augustine, Long Way Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdl…

19. FKA Twigs – M3LL155X (Young Turks) ( Electronic / Experimental / Trip-Hop )

Best Tracks: Figure 8, In Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYU…

18. Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop) ( Dream pop / Indie / Shoegaze )

Best Tracks: Sparks, Space Song, 10:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5k…

17. Colin Stetson / Sarah Neufeld – Never Were The Way She Was (Constellation Records) ( Experimental / Minimalist / Ambient / Contemporary Classical )

Best Tracks: The Rest of Us, The Sun Roars Into View

16. Molly Nilsson – Zenith (Dark Skies Association) ( Lo-Fi / Synthpop )

Best Tracks: Lovers are Losers, 1995, The Lonely Planet,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYq…

15. Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop) ( Slowcore / Post-rock / Indie )

Best Tracks: Lies, Spanish Translation, No End
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kU…

14. Tamaryn – Cranekiss (Mexican Summer) ( Shoegaze / Dreampop )

Best Track: Hands All Over Me, Cranekiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCp…

13. Mac DeMarco – Some Other Ones (self released) ( Instrumentals / Indie Rock / BBQ Music (like elevator music but for BBQ) )

Best Track: Young Coconut, Peter Pickles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7h…

12. New Order – Music Complete (Traffic, Inc) ( Electronic / New Wave )

Best Track: Restless, Tutti Fruti, Academic,

11. Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down… (Matador) ( Alt – Folk / Indie / Country )

Best Tracks: Pretty Pimpin, Life Like This, I’m an Outlaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659…

10. Pikolomini – Megu Mitovi i Bombi (Sharla) ( Indie Pop / Alternative )

Best Tracks: Iluminacija, Avioni, Slatka Demondra, Majka so Dete

9. Swervedriver – I Wasn’t Born to Lose You (Cobraside) ( Shoegaze / Alternative / Indie Rock )

Best Tracks: English Subtitles, Autodidact, Setting Sun,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6…

8. Destroyer – Poison Season (Pod/Inertia) ( Indie Rock / Alternative )

Best Tracks: Dream Lover, Hell, Girl in a Sling, Times Square, Bangkok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krp…

7. Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks) ( Indie Rock / Alternative )

Best Tracks: The Way You’d Love Her, Another One, No Other Heart, Without Me

6. Pinkshinyultrablast – Everything Else Matters (Club AC30) ( Shoegaze / Dream Pop )

Best Tracks: Metamorphosis, Holy Forest, Wish We Were, Land’s End…

5. Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino) ( Indie Rock / Dream Pop )

Best Tracks: Headbanging In The Mirror, St. Catherine, Surreal Exposure, Church

4. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records) ( Indie Rock )

Best Tracks: Elevator Operator, Pedestrian at Best, Depreston, Dead Fox, Debbie Downer

3. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty Records) ( Alt – Folk / Alt – Country )

Best Tracks: Almost all of them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJ…

2. Mercury Rev – The Light in You ( [PIAS] ) ( Dream Pop / Psychedelic )

Best Tracks: Pretty much all of them!

1. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop) ( Alt-Folk / Alt-Country )

Best Tracks: All of them!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caM…