Albums of the Year
2019 🎵 2018 🎵 2017 🎵 2016 🎵 2015 🎵 2014🎵 2013 🎵 2012
Go back in time with lists of the Best Albums of the Year from 2012 through 2019!
Best Albums of 2019
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Yung Gravy - Sensational
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TWICE - &TWICE • Feel Special EP • FANCY YOU EP
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Sublime with Rome - Blessings
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Bring Me the Horizon - amo
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Weezer - Weezer (Black Album)
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Big Data - 3.0
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blackbear - ANONYMOUS
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Denzel Curry - ZUU
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DaBaby - KIRK / Baby on Baby
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Bayside - Interrobang
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The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion
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Electric Guest - KIN
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Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
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The Cat Empire - Stolen Diamonds
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Dirty Heads - Super Moon
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TENDER - Fear of Falling Asleep
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Logic - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind / Supermarket Soundtrack
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Tyga - Legendary
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The Chainsmokers - World War Joy
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Bear Hands - Fake Tunes
Best Albums of 2018
Logic – Bobby Tarantino II / YSIV
Poppy – Am I a Girl?
Sofi Tukker – Treehouse
Kero Kero Bonito – Time ‘n’ Place / TOTEP
Underoath – Erase Me
Turnstile – Time & Space
Ballyhoo! – Detonate
Elohim – Elohim
CHVRCHES – Love is Dead / Out of My Head
The Knocks – New York Narcotic
Alison Wonderland – Awake
BROCKHAMPTON – iridescence
Bun B – Return of the Trill
Dashboard Confessional – Crooked Shadows
Eminem – Kamikaze
Panic! at the Disco – Pray for the Wicked
Punchline – LION
Saves the Day – 9
Thrice – Palms
Vince Staples – FM!
Best Albums of 2017
Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3
Magic & Bird – Andy Mineo and Wordsplayed Present Magic & Bird
Silverstein – Dead Reflection
Minus the Bear – VOIDS
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – Zombies on Broadway
Ballyhoo – girls.
The Chainsmokers – Memories…Do Not Open
Knox Hamilton – The Heights
Paramore – After Laughter
Weezer – Pacific Daydream
Fenech-Soler – ZILLA
Portugal. The Man – Woodstock
Vinyl Theatre – Origami
Dirty Heads – SWIM TEAM
Big Boi – BOOMIVERSE
AFI – AFI (The Blood Album)
Anti-Flag – American Fall
BROCKHAMPTON – SATURATION I / SATURATION II / SATURATION III
Early Riser – Currents
Ed Sheeran – ÷
Electric Guest – Plural
For the Win – Heavy Thoughts
Foster the People – Sacred Hearts Club
Foxygen – Avalon
Iron Reagan – Crossover Ministry
Kingdom of Giants – All the Hell You’ve Got to Spare
MisterWives – Connect the Dots
Poppy – Poppy.Computer
Rise Against – Wolves
Stray from the Path – Only Death is Real
Best Albums of 2016
Fitz and the Tantrums - Fitz and the Tantrums
GROUPLOVE - Big Mess
Glass Animals - How to be a Human Being
Balance and Composure - Light We Made
Bayside - Vacancy
Bear Hands - You’ll Pay for This
Big Gigantic - Brighter Future
Dirty Heads - Dirty Heads
Illuminati Congo - Health Wealth Knowledge of Self
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
Kevin Devine - Instigator
Miike Snow - iii
Miniature Tigers - I Dreamt I Was a Cowboy
Nightshade - Predilections
Reef the Lost Cauze and Bear One - Furious Styles
Saosin - Along the Shadow
Thrice - To be Everywhere is to be Nowhere
Touche Amore - Stage Four
Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow
Yellowcard - Yellowcard
Best Albums of 2015
Joywave - How Do you Feel Now?
Smallpools - Lovetap!
The Ongoing Concept - Handmade
Motion City Soundtrack - Panic Stations
Desaparecidos - Payola
Big Data - 2.0
Silverstein - I am Alive in Everything I Touch
Aceyalone - Action
Public Enemy - Man Plans God Laughs
Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
Sublime with Rome - Sirens
Jedi Mind Tricks - The Thief and the Fallen
Charlie Brand - Monsoons
River City Extension - Deliverance
Penguin Prison - Lost in New York
mewithoutYou - Pale Horses
Refused - Freedom
CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
Dustin Kensrue - Carry the Fire
Atreyu - Long Live
Best Albums of 2014
Twin Forks - LP
Glass Animals - Zaba
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace is There
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Miniature Tigers - Cruel Runnings
50 Cent - Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win
Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - We Don’t Have Each Other
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Architects - Lost Forever Lost Together
Backtrack - Lost in Life
Bayside - Cult
Bear Hands - Distraction
Broken Bells - After the Disco
Candy Hearts - All the Ways You Let Me Down
Circa Survive - Decensus
Cold World - How the Gods Chill
Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
Foxygen - …And Star Power
I am the Avalanche - Wolverines
Kingdom of Giants - Ground Culture
La Dispute - Rooms of the House
Such Gold - The New Sidewalk
The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams
XTRMST - XTRMST
Best Albums of 2013
Paramore - Paramore
Kevin Devine - Bulldozer / Bubblegum
Silverstein - This is How the Wind Shifts
Foxygen - We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Love
A Great Big Pile of Leaves - You’re Always on My Mind
Pretty Lights - A Color Map of the Sun
Touche Amore - Is Survived By
TTNG (This Town Needs Guns) - 13.0.0.0.0
Shone - Heat Thing
Minus the Bear - Acoustics II
letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
Portugal. the Man - Evil Friends
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains
Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We’re Missing
A Need for Reason - Growing
A Wilhelm Scream - Partycrasher
AFI - Burials
And So I Watch You from Afar - All Hail Bright Futures
Bad Religion - True North
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Defeater - Letters Home
Dropkick Murphys - Signed and Sealed in Blood
HAIM - Days are Gone
John Mayer - Paradise Valley
Kingdom of Giants - Every Wave of Sound
Kyle O’Quinn - Kyle O’Quinn
Lorde - Pure Heroine
My Heart to Fear - Algorithm
Saves the Day - Saves the Day
The Cat Empire - Steal the Light
The Ongoing Concept - Saloon
Tim Kasher - Adult Film
Twenty One Pilots - Vessel
What’s Eating Gilbert - Solid Gold Hits Vol. 1
Best Albums of 2012
Kevin Devine – Matter of Time
mewithoutYou – Ten Stories
Silverstein – Short Songs
The Chariot – One Wing
Motion City Soundtrack – Go
Anberlin - Vital
Benjamin Gibbard - Former Lives
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
Circa Survive - Violent Waves
Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
Cursive - I am Gemini
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
Green Day - Uno Dos Tres
Miniature Tigers - Mia Pharaoh
Minus the Bear - Infinity Overhead
River City Extension - Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger
Such Gold - Misadventures
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Yellowcard - Southern Air
We Were Skeletons - Blame and Aging