Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2015

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2015

Listing for 204 records from 2015 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Laurie Anderson: *Heart of a Dog* [Nonesuch]
A	Courtney Barnett: *Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.* [Mom + Pop] Beauty Pill: *Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are* [Butterscotch] Grimes: *Art Angels* [4AD] Heems: *Eat Pray Thug* [Megaforce] Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts: *Manhattan* [Rough Trade] James McMurtry: *Complicated Game* [Complicated Game] The Paranoid Style: *Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall* [Worldwide Battle] Sleater-Kinney: *No Cities to Love* [Sub Pop] Swan Silvertones: *Amen Amen Amen: The Essential Collection* [Rock Beat/Archive Alive] Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment: *Surf* [no label download] Yo La Tengo: *Stuff Like That There* [Matador] *Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording* [Atlantic]
A-	Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman: *Lice* [Stones Throw EP] Arca: *Mutant* [Mute] Eszter Balint: *Airless Midnight* [Red Herring] Blue Lu Barker: *Remastered Collection* [J. Joes J. Edizioni Musicali] The Bottle Rockets: *South Broadway Athletic Club* [Bloodshot] Brandi Carlile: *The Firewatcher's Daughter* [ATO] Childbirth: *Women's Rights* [Suicide Squeeze] Alex Chilton: *Ocean Club '77* [Norton] Leonard Cohen: *Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour* [Columbia/Legacy] Daddy Issues: *Can We Still Hang* [Infinity Cat] Lana Del Rey: *Honeymoon* [Polydor/Interscope] Jason Derulo: *Everything Is 4* [Beluga Heights/Warner Bros.] Desaparecidos: *Payola* [Epitaph] Lupe Fiasco: *Tetsuo & Youth* [Atlantic] Craig Finn: *Faith in the Future* [Partisan] Robert Forster: *Songs to Play* [Tapete] Foxymorons: *Fake Yoga* [Foxyphonic] Future: *DS2 (Deluxe Edition)* [Epic] The Go! Team: *The Scene Between* [Memphis Industries] Colleen Green: *I Want to Grow Up* [Hardly Art] Halsey: *Badlands* [Astralwerks] Hop Along: *Painted Shut* [Saddle Creek] The Internet: *Ego Death* [Columbia] Jason Isbell: *Something More Than Free* [Southeastern] Ata Kak: *Obaa Sima* [Awesome Tapes From Africa] Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: *Ba Power* [Glitterbeat] John Kruth: *The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujevic* [Smiling Fez] Kyle: *Smyle* [Indie-Pop] Kendrick Lamar: *To Pimp a Butterfly* [Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope] Jon Langford & the Men of Gwent: *The Legend of LL* [Country Mile] Last Exit: *Iron Path* [ESP-Disk'] Amy LaVere and Will Sexton: *Hallelujah I'm a Dreamer* [Archer] Jinx Lennon: *30 Beacons of Light for a Land Full of Spite, Thugs, Drug Slugs, and Energy Vampires* [Septic Tiger] Lil Dicky: *Professional Rapper* [Lil Dicky] L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae: *The Night Took Us in Like Family* [Mello Music] Mbongwana Star: *From Kinshasa* [World Circuit] Nellie McKay: *My Weekly Reader* [429] The Mekons and Robbie Fulks: *Jura* [Bloodshot] Miguel: *Wildheart* [RCA] Milo: *So the Flies Don't Come* [Ruby Yacht] The Mountain Goats: *Beat the Champ* [Merge] Thiago Nassif: *Três* [Foom] New York Gypsy All Stars: *Dromomania* [self-released] Dawn Oberg: *Bring* [Blossom Theory] Oneohtrix Point Never: *Garden of Delete* [Warp] Ought: *Sun Coming Down* [Constellation] Paris: *Pistol Politics* [Guerrilla Funk] Peaceful Solutions: *Barter 7* [self-released] Ann Peebles: *Greatest Hits* [Hi] Plus Sized Dan: *Plus Sized Dan With Marshall Ruffin* [Plus Sized Dan EP] Rae Sremmurd: *Sremm Life* [Eardrum/Interscope] The Ragpicker String Band: *The Ragpicker String Band* [Yellow Dog] Mark Rubin Jew of Oklahoma: *Southern Discomfort* [Rubinchik] Boz Scaggs: *A Fool to Care* [429] Shamir: *Ratchet* [XL] Shopping: *Why Choose?* [Fat Cat] Slutever: *Almost Famous* [self-released EP] Sophie: *Product* [Numbers] Speedy Ortiz: *Foil Deer* [Carpark] Jazmine Sullivan: *Reality Show* [RCA] Tal National: *Zoy Zoy* [Fat Cat] Taraf de Haïdouks: *Of Lovers, Gamblers and Parachute Skirts* [Crammed Discs] Tinariwen: *Live in Paris* [Anti-] Carrie Underwood: *Storyteller* [Arista] The Velvet Underground: *The Complete Matrix Tapes* [UMe] Jamie xx: *In Colour* [Young Turks] Young Fathers: *White Men Are Black Men Too* [Big Dada] *Have Moicy 2: The Hoodoo Bash* [Red Newt] *Jon Savage's 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded* [Ace] *Lost in Mali* [Riverboat] *The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters* [World Music Network]
B+	Death Grips: *The Powers That B* [Third Worlds/Harvest] The Front Bottoms: *Back on Top* [Fueled by Ramen] Mariem Hassan & Vadiya Mint El Hanevi: *Baila Sahara Baila* [Nubenegra] Injury Reserve: *Live From the Dentist Office* [Las Fuegas] Freedy Johnston: *Neon Repairman* [Singing Magnet] Joi Sound System: *Joi Sound System* [RealWorld] DeJ Loaf: *#AndSeeThatsTheThing* [IBGM/Columbia EP] Lord Huron: *Strange Trails* [IAmSound] Old Man Luedecke: *Domestic Eccentric* [True North] Major Lazer: *Peace Is the Mission* [Mad Decent] Migos: *Yung Rich Nation* [300 Entertainment/Quality Control/Atlantic] Vince Staples: *Summertime '06* [Def Jam] Terakaft: *Alone (Ténéré)* [Out Here] Pat Thomas: *Pat Thomas and Kwabishu Area Band* [Strut] Amara Touré: *1973-1980* [Analog Africa] *The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cumbia* [World Music Network] *Senegal 70* [Analog Africa]
*******	Brian Chilala & Ngoma Zasu: *Vangaza!* [SWM] Eric Church: *Mr. Misunderstood* [EMI Nashville] Drake: *If You're Reading This It's Too Late* [Cash Money] Kinky Friedman: *The Loneliest Man I Ever Met* [Avenue A] Ezra Furman: *Perpetual Motion People* [Bella Union] Giant Sand: *Heartbreak Pass* [New West] Sam Hunt: *Between the Pines: An Acoustic Mixtape* [MCA Nashville] Carly Rae Jepsen: *Emotion* [Schoolboy/Interscope] Kill the Noise: *Occult Classic* [Owsla] The Kropotkins: *Portents of Love* [Mulatta] Lil Wayne: *No Ceilings 2* [DatPiff download] Rhett Miller: *The Traveler* [ATO] Father John Misty: *I Love You, Honeybear* [Sub Pop] Modest Mouse: *Strangers to Ourselves* [Epic] Gurf Morlix: *Eatin' at Me* [Rootball] Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard: *Django and Jimmie* [Legacy] 75 Dollar Bill: *Wooden Bag* [Other Music] STS X RJD2: *STS X RJD2* [RJ's Electrical Connection] Tanya Tagaq: *Animism* [Six Shooter] Otis Taylor: *Hey Joe Opus: Red Meat* [TranceBluesFestival.com] T.I.: *Da Nic'* [Grand Hustle] Samba Touré: *Gandadiko* [Glitterbeat] Boubacar Traoré: *Mbalimaou* [Lusafrica] Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne: *Never No More Blues* [Ripple] Waco Brothers: *Cabaret Showtime* [Bloodshot] The Wainwright Sisters: *Songs in the Dark* [PIAS America] Watkins Family Hour: *Watkins Family Hour* [Thirty Tigers] Wilco: *Star Wars* [dBpm] Wire: *Wire* [Pinkflag] Wussy: *Public Domain, Volume 1* [Shake It] *Next Stop Soweto Vol. 4* [Strut] *Vintage Latino* [Putamayo]
**	Ryan Adams: *1989* [Blue Note/Pax Am] Adele: 25 [XL/Columbia] Algiers: *Algiers* [Matador] All Dogs: *Kicking Every Day* [Salinas] A$AP Rocky: *At.Long.Last.A$AP* [Polo Grounds/RCA] Erykah Badu: *You Caint Use My Phone* [self-released] Beach House: *Depression Cherry* [Sub Pop] Beach House: *Thank Your Lucky Stars* [Sub Pop download] Big Grams: *Big Grams* [Epic] Blackalicious: *Imani Vol. 1* [Black Mines] Cam: *Untamed* [Arista] Car Seat Headrest: *Teens of Style* [Matador] Chastity Belt: *Time to Go Home* [Hardly Art] Clem Snide: *Girls Come First* [Zahpwee] Guy Davis: *Kokomo Kidd* [M.C.] The Dead Weather: *Dodge and Burn* [Third Man] Lizzy Mercier Descloux: *Press Color* [Light in the Attic] Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès: *Aw Sa Yone Vol. 2* [Teranga Beat] Drake & Future: *What a Time to Be Alive* [Cash Money/Epic] Steve Earle & the Dukes: *Terraplane* [New West] Girlpool: *Before the World Was Big* [Wichita Recordings] Buddy Guy: *Born to Play Guitar* [Silvertone] Joanna Gruesome: *Peanut Butter* [Slumberland] L'Orange & Kool Keith: *Time? Astonishing!* [Mello Music Group] Low Cut Connie: *Hi Honey* [Contender] Corb Lund: *Things That Can't Be Undone* [New West] Ashley Monroe: *The Blade* [Warner Bros.] P.K. (Park Kultury): *Get Lost* [H.S.I.] Raury: *All We Need* [Columbia] The Rolling Stones: *Brussels Affair (Live 1973)* [Rolling Stones] Daniel Romano: *If I've Only One Time Askin'* [Smog Veil] Lisa Said: *First Time, Long Time* [lisasaid.com EP] Sheer Mag: *II 7"* [Wilsuns RC/Katorga Works] Skrillex and Diplo: *Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü* [Mad Decent] Pops Staples: *Don't Lose This* [dBpm] Tame Impala: *Currents* [Interscope] This Way to the Egress: *Great Balancing Act* [self-released] Richard Thompson: *Still* [Fantasy] Total Babes: *Heydays* [Wichita] Neil Young + Promise of the Real: *The Monsanto Years* [Reprise] Young Thug: *The Barter 6* [300 Entertainment/Atlantic] *Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre* [Aftermath/Interscope]
*	Kelsea Ballerini: *The First Time* [Black River Entertainment] Björk: *Vulnicura* [One Little Indian] Downtown Boys: *Full Communism* [Don Giovanni] Bob Dylan: *1965-1966: The Best of the Cutting Edge* [Columbia] Earth, Wind & Fire: *The Classic Christmas Album* [Legacy] Empress Of: Me [Terrible] Donnie Fritts: *Oh My Goodness* [Single Lock] Future: *56 Nights* [mixtape download] Rhiannon Giddens: *Tomorrow Is My Turn* [Nonesuch] Little Simz: *A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons* [Age 101] Lyrics Born: *Real People* [Mobile Home] Madonna: *Rebel Heart (Deluxe)* [Interscope] Steve Martin & Edie Brickell: *So Familiar* [Rounder] Mac McCaughan: *Non-Believers* [Merge] Kacey Musgraves: *Pageant Material* [Mercury] Youssou N'Dour et le Super Etoile de Dakar: *Fatteliku* [RealWorld] Public Enemy: *Man Plans God Laughs* [Spitdigital] Public Image Ltd.: *What the World Needs Now* [PiL Official] Travis Scott: *Rodeo* [Epic/Grand Hustle] Sleaford Mods: *Key Markets* [Harbinger] Sufjan Stevens: *Carrie & Lowell* [Asthmatic Kitty] Pusha T: *King Push: Darkest Before Dawn--The Prelude* [Def Jam/G.O.O.D. Music] Tamikrest: *Taksera* [Glitterbeat] Fred Thomas: *All Are Saved* [Polyvinyl] Rokia Traoré: *Né So* [Nonesuch] Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express: *Junun* [Nonesuch] Waxahatchee: *Ivy Tripp* [Merge] The Yawpers: *American Man* [Bloodshot] *Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian and Ghanaian Recordings From London & Lagos--1954-66* [Soundway]

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