Here are a list of my most listened and loved records of 2015 so far with Spotify playlists for overall and Irish albums of 2015. Plenty more playlists on Spotify and Soundcloud and on the site. Don’t forget: you can also catch me on 105.2 TXFM every Thursday night from 10pm to midnight.
Top 25 albums of 2015 so far…
- Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
- Shamir – Ratchet
- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
- Jape – This Chemical Sea
- Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf
- Jamie xx – In Colour
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
- Braids – Deep In The Iris
- Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too
- Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
- Wax Stag – II
- All We Are – All We Are
- Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
- Jonnie Common – Trapped In Amber
- Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys
- Boot & Tax – Boot & Tax
- Alabama Shakes – Sound and Color
- Le Galaxie – Le Club
- Leon Bridges – Coming Home
- Four Tet – Morning /Evening
- Tobias Jesso Jr – Goon
- Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- Ghostface Killah & BadBadNotGood – Sour Soul
- little xs for eyes – Everywhere Else
Top Irish albums of 2015 so far
- Jape – This Chemical Sea
- Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
- Le Galaxie – Le Club
- little xs for eyes – Everywhere Else
- Not Squares – Bolts
- Fight Like Apes – Fight Like Apes
- Lakker – Tundra
- Leo Drezden – Multi-Moment
- Young Wonder – Birth
- The Mighty Stef – Year Of The Horse
- Ryan Vail & Ciaran Lavery – Sea Legs
- No Monster Club – People Are Weird
- SOAK – Before We Forgot How To Dream
- HamsandwicH – Stories from the Surface
- Inni-K – The King Has Two Horse’s Ears
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
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