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2015

Ben Folds - So There (American chamber pop, the singer songwriter collaborates with yMusic Ensemble on eight chamber pop songs, and with Nashville Symphony on a piano concerto)
They Might Be Giants - Glean (American alternative rock)
FFS - FFS (indie rock/art rock, collaboration between Scottish group Franz Ferdinand and American duo Sparks)
Toro y Moi - What For? (American psychedelic rock/chillwave)
They Might Be Giants- Why? (American children's music)
Adele- 25 (English pop/soul)
Kacey Musgraves- Pageant Material (American country)
The Fall - Sublingual Tablet (English garage rock/post punk)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (Canadian dance pop)
The Casket Girls- The Piano Album (American dream pop, a full album based around piano instead of their usual use of drum machines and synthesizers)
Faith No More - Sol Invictus (Alternative metal, their first album in 18 years)
Tame Impala - Currents (Australian psychedelic pop/alternative dance music)
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color (American roots rock / psychedelic soul)
Grimes - Art Angels (Canadian art pop)
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon (American dream pop)
Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp A Butterfly (American hip hop)
FKA twigs - M3LL155X (English art-pop, EP)
Chris Stapleton- Traveller (American country rock, debut album)
Wilco - Star Wars (American art rock/alternative rock, originally released for free on the band's official website)
Marilyn Manson- The Pale Emperor (American gothic metal/blues rock, co-produced by film score composer Tyler Bates)
Mark Ronson - Uptown Special (English soul/funk, with appearances by Bruno Mars, Mystikal, and Kevin Parker of Tame Impala)
The Mountain Goats- Beat The Champ (American indie-folk, concept album about professional wrestling)
The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness (Canadian alternative r & b)
Belle & Sebastian- Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance (Scottish indie pop/neo-disco)
Bjork - Vulnicura (Icelandic art pop)
Sufjan Stevens- Carrie and Lowell (American indie folk, named after the artist's parents and inspired by the death of his mother)
Slayer - Repentless (American thrash metal, their final album and their only album without guitarist Jeff Hanneman)
Blur - Magic Whip (English alternative rock, their first studio album in 12 years, and the first in sixteen years with the full original lineup of the band)
Laura Marling - Short Movie (American folk rock)
Killing Joke - Pylon (English post-punk)
Ghost - Meliora (Swedish hard rock/progressive rock)
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Australian indie rock, debut album)


Notes:

2015 was the very latest year I put in - I actually added it this January, since 2015 was now officially 5 years in the past. It also just happened I was winding down a binge of the entire Ben Folds / Ben Folds Five discography, so So There was the link between the two.

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