- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Aftermath)
- Grimes – Art Angels (4AD)
- Shamir – Rachet (XL)
- Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (Domino)
- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Jamie xx – In Colour (Young Turks)
- Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes (Astralwerks)
- Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment – Surf (S/R)
- Joanna Newsom – Divers (Drag City)
- Hop Along – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
12 Artists/Albums I Discovered Through KALX in 2015
- California X – Nights in the Dark (Don Giovanni)
- Claudettes – No Hotel (Yellow Dog)
- Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation)
- Diane Coffee – Everyone’s a Good Dog (Western Vinyl)
- Fort Romeau – Insides (Ghostly International)
- L’Orange and Kool Keith – Time? Astonishing! (Mello)
- Male Gaze – Gale Maze (Castleface)
- Petite Noir – La Vie Est Belle (Domino)
- Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space (Test Card)
- Royal Headache – High (What’s Your Rupture?)
- Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch)
- Taraf de Locos – S/T (S/R)
10 Fantastically Challenging Things I Heard in 2015
- Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt. 2 (Warp)
- Arca – Mutant (Mute)
- Battles – La Di Da Di (Warp)
- Bjork – Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
- FKA Twigs – M3LL155X (Young Turks)
- Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, Girl (Sacred Bones)
- Kamasi Washington – The Epic (Brainfeeder)
- Micachu and the Shapes – Good Sad Happy Bad (Rough Trade)
- Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete (Warp)
- Sarah Kirkland Snyder – Unremembered (New Amsterdam)
