There are plenty of relative unknowns in the group - DIY home-recording auteurs, underground extreme-metal blood-churners, edge-of-noise experimenters. If there’s a lesson from 2015’s top 50 albums, it’s this: You can never be too famous to push yourself. It also means our list is straight-up top-to-bottom gold.
That means plenty of great music is going to go unrecognized. We are living through a great time for music - for music from just about every possible cultural strata - and it’s a full-time job just to keep up with all of it. There are albums that once felt like all-time classics that are buried in the lists’s second half. There are albums that at least a few members of your Stereogum staff absolutely loved that aren’t represented on this list. We always agonize over our year-end lists, but we agonized harder over this one than we usually do. We heard it again and again in 2015: This year in music is so good that any attempt to make sense of it is going to be a fool’s errand.
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