Here we are again, folks. Another year has come and gone, and quite a lot of phenomenal music fell into our laps along the way. Everything from hip-hop to shoegaze revival made its way onto the indie (and not-so-indie) charts, and we wanted to take the time to reminisce a bit before continuing our inexorable march into the brave new world that 2016 promises to herald.

We put this list together as a team. Each one of our writers, editors, photographers, fat-cat executives, and the barely-sentient AIs that run our social media submitted a list of their top picks of 2015, and we whittled them down through a grueling process of passive-aggressive email arguments. What remained is what you see here.

While we wanted to include the bigger-name albums that really lived up to their hype, this list focuses on a good number of smaller artists that might not have gotten much recognition when they were released. This isn't an act of charity or anything—all of these records are excellent—we simply got tired of seeing the same twenty things on every year-end roundup.

So without further ado, ThrdCoast is excited to present you with the best albums of 2015. We hope you dig 'em as much as we did.



Son Lux - Bones