Best Albums of 2015
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
RodeoReviewers filed it as style with nothing underneath. Eleven years on, half of rap's sound is built from it, and the sound was always the point.Read the review
CurrentsHe drops the guitars for disco and heartbreak and makes the record that changed what everyone else sounded like.
At. Long. Last. ASAPLonger, stranger and more psychedelic than the debut, and shaped by the loss of the friend who shaped him.
DS2The peak. Fifty minutes of chemical fog with a bottom end you can feel in your chest.
Barter 6Weightless, slippery and completely new. The record where the voice becomes the instrument.
If You're Reading This It's Too LateBranded a mixtape, sold and charted like an album, and the moment his sound turned cold and mean.
Shadow of a DoubtThe commercial one, and it is both more flexible and more uneven than the album that made his name.
Depression CherryA deliberate retreat from the big drums back into the fog, gorgeous in patches and short on events.
ComptonAstonishing sound design attached to a record you admire rather than return to.
Beauty Behind the MadnessThe pivot record: two enormous singles and a lot of scaffolding holding them up.