Essentials: Seasons (Waiting On You), Doves, Spirit
49. Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan
Essentials: About To Die, Impregnable Question, Gun Has No Trigger
48. Tame Impala, Lonerism
Essentials: Feels Like We Only Go Backwards, Mind Mischief, Why Won’t They Talk To Me?
47. Sky Ferreira, Night Time, My Time
Essentials: I Blame Myself, 24 Hours, Boys
46. Neon Indian, Era Extraña
Essentials: Polish Girl, Fallout, Hex Girlfriend
45. James Blake, Assume Form
Essentials: Into The Red, Barefoot In The Park, Mile High
44. Whitney, Light Upon The Lake
Essentials: No Woman, No Matter Where We Go, Follow
43. First Aid Kit, The Lion’s Roar
Essentials: Emmylou, Blue, King Of The World
42. Classsixx, Hanging Gardens
Essentials: Hanging On, Stranger Love, Dominoes
41. Grimes, Art Angels
Essentials: Realiti, Flesh Without Blood, California
40. Big Thief, U.F.O.F.
Essentials: Open Desert, U.F.O.F., Cattails
39. The Hotelier, Home, Like NoPlace There Is
Essentials: An Introduction To The Album, Your Deep Rest, Dendron
38. Sleigh Bells, Treats
Essentials: Kids, Crown On The Ground, Rill Rill
37. Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest
Essentials: Helicopter, He Would Have Laughed, Earthquake
36. Japandroids, Celebration Rock
Essentials: Younger Us, Adrenaline Nightshift, The House That Heaven Built
35. Beach House, Depression Cherry
Essentials: Space Song, PPP, Beyond Love
34. Solange, A Seat At The Table
Essentials: Cranes In The Sky, Don’t Touch My Hair, Don’t You Wait
33. Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool
Essentials: Daydreaming, Deck’s Dark, Present Tense
32. Vampire Weekend, Contra
Essentials: Giving Up The Gun, White Sky, Cousins
31. Destroyer, Kaputt
Essentials: Chinatown, Kaputt, Savage Night At The Opera
30. Alvvays, Antisocialites
Essentials: Dreams Tonite, In Undertow, Plimsoll Punks
29. The 1975, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful, Yet So Unaware Of It
Essentials: Somebody Else, A Change Of Heart, Love Me
28. Kanye West, My Beautiful, Dark Twisted Fantasy
Essentials: Runaway, Dark Fantasy, Monster
27. MGMT, Little Dark Age
Essentials: Me And Michael, Little Dark Age, When You Die
26. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
Essentials: Dance Yrself Clean, I Can Change, Home
25. Purity Ring, Shrines
Essentials: Fineshrine, Crawlersout, Obedear
24. Real Estate, Days
Essentials: Green Aisles, Easy, It’s Real
23. Big Thief, Two Hands
Essentials: Not, Forgotten Eyes, The Toy
22. Frank Ocean, Blonde
Essentials: Nikes, Self Control, Nights
21. Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear
Essentials: Chateau Lobby #4 (In C For Two Virgins), Holy Shit, When You’re Smiling And Astride Me
20. Girls, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Essentials: Vomit, Honey Bunny, Alex
19. Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
Essentials: Should Have Known Better, Carrie & Lowell, Fourth Of July
18. M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Essentials: Midnight City, Intro, Reunion
17. Bon Iver, 22, A Million
Essentials: 8 (Circle), 33 “GOD”, 666 ʇ
16. The War On Drugs, A Deeper Understanding
Essentials: In Chains, Holding On, You Don’t Have To Go
15. Grimes, Visions
Essentials: Oblivion, Genesis, Be A Body
14. Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Essentials: The Greatest, Venice Bitch, Norman Fucking Rockwell
13. Arcade Fire, Reflektor
Essentials: Reflektor, It’s Never Over (Hey Orpheus), Afterlife
12. The 1975, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
Essentials: Love It If We Made It, It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You), Sincerity Is Scary
11. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
Essentials: Helplessness Blues, Grown Ocean, Battery Kinzie
10. Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Essentials: Holocene, Beth/Rest, Calgary
9. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly
Essentials: Alright, King Kunta, The Blacker The Berry
8. The Hotelier, Goodness
Essentials: Two Deliverances, Sun, Opening Mail For My Grandmother
7. Lorde, Melodrama
Essentials: Supercut, Green Light, The Louvre
6. Father John Misty, Pure Comedy
Essentials: Pure Comedy, So I’m Growing Old On Magic Mountain, Ballad of the Dying Man
5. Tame Impala, Currents
Essentials: The Less I Know The Better, Let It Happen, Yes I’m Changing
4. Beach House, Bloom
Essentials: Myth, Lazuli, Wild
3. The War On Drugs, Lost In The Dream
Essentials: Under The Pressure, An Ocean In Betweeen Waves, Burning
2. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires Of The City
Essentials: Ya Hey, Step, Hannah Hunt
- Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
Essentials: Sprawl II, The Suburbs, Modern Man
