- Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Style (Matador)
- Colleen – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
- Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
- Colleen Green – I Want to Grow Up (Hardly Art)
- Helvetia – Dromomania (Joyful Noise)
- Hurry Up – S/T (Army of Bad Luck)
- La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
- Quarterbacks – S/T (Team Love)
- Shopping – Why Choose (Fatcat)
- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
Songs I Really Liked in 2015, Alphabetically
- Aquadolls – “Our Love Will Always Remain” – Stoked on You (Burger)
- Car Seat Headrest – “Something Soon” – Teens of Style (Matador)
- Colleen – Soul Alphabet – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
- Mikal Cronin – “VI) Circle” – MCIII (Merge)
- Expert Alterations – “Psychic Surgery” – You Can’t Always Be Liked (Kanine)
- Flesh World – “Strawberry Bomber” – The Wild Animals in My Life (Iron Lung)
- Girlpool – “Ideal World” – Before the World Was Big (Wichita)
- Colleen Green – “TV” – I Want to Grow Up (Hardly Art)
- Hard Left – “Hard Left Rules OK” – We Are Hard Left (Future Perfect)
- Helvetia – “A Dot Running For the Dust” – Dromomania (Joyful Noise)
- Hierophants – “321” – Parallax Error (Goner)
- Hurry Up – “Kick em Out” – S/T (Army of Bad Luck)
- Jaill – “Getaway” – Brain Cream (Burger)
- Jeff the Brotherhood – “In My Dreams” – Wasted on the Dream (Infinity Cat)
- La Luz – “I Can’t Speak” – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
- Magic Potion – “Booored” – Melt (Beech Coma)
- Micachu and the Shapes – “LA Poison” – Good Sad Happy Bad (Rough Trade)
- Of Montreal – “Bassem Sabrey” – Aureate Gloom (Polyviny)
- Quarterbacks – “Schmictionary” – S/T (Team Love)
- Michael Rault – “Too Bad So Sad” – Living Daylight (Burger)
- The School – “I Will See You Soon” – Wasting Away and Wondering (Elefant)
- Shannon and the Clams – “My Man” – Gone By the Dawn (Hardly Art)
- Sheer Mag – “Fan the Flames” – II (Wilsuns)
- Shopping – “Straight Lines” – Why Choose (Fatcat)
- Slick! – “I Want You” – S/T (S/R)
- Sufjan Stevens – “Fourth of July” – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Titus Andronicus – “Dimed Out” – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
- Anthonie Tonnon – “A Friend From Argentina” – Successor (Misra)
- Kurt Vile – “Lost My Head There” – B’lieve I’m Goin Down (Matador)
- Juan Wauters – “Woodside Queens” – Who Me? (Captured Tracks)
- Waxahatchee – “Breathless” – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
- Westkust – “Weekends” – Last Forever (Run for Cover)
Albums I Really Liked in 2015, But Then Realized They Were Released in 2014, Alphabetically
- Ariel Pink – Pom Pom (4AD)
- Bearhug – So Gone (Spunk)
- Limiñanas – I’ve Got Trouble in Mind (Trouble in Mind)
- The Number Ones – S/T (Static Shock)
- Sheer Mag – S/T (Wilsuns)