| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortunate Ones | Lay Me Down | The Bliss | |
| Alabama Shakes | sound and Colour | Sound and Colour | |
| The Staveds | No Me, No You, No More | If I Was | |
| Josh Ritter | Getting Ready to Get Down | Sermon on the Rocks | |
| Kathryn Joseph | The Bird | Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I've Spilled | |
| Daniel Bachman | Song for the Setting Sun II | River | |
| Grimes | Scream (feat. Aristophanes) | Art Angels | |
| Rhiannon Giddens | Black Is the Colour | Tomorrow Is My Turn | |
| Eric Clapton | Tears In Heaven | Slow Hand at 70 | |
| Joanna Wallfisch | Song To a Siren (with Dan Tepfer) | The Origin of Adjustable Things | |
| Courtenay Barnett | Depreston | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | |
| Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | S.O.B. | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | |
| Hozier | From Eden | Hozier | |
| Asleep At the Wheel | Trouble In Mind (with Lyle Lovett) | Still the King:Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys |
The Best of 2015 Tunes from some of the albums rated, by critics and listeners, the best of 2015.