Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly": Record of the Year for Pitchfork

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Pitchfork Media, better known on the net as Pitchfork -a dry-, is an online publication from Chicago that analyzes everything that surrounds the world of music on a daily basis, focused mainly on independent artists, but without neglecting the news of genres such as electronic, dance, jazz, experimental, pop, hip hop, etc ...

Pitchfork, in operation since 1995, focus on everything that concerns music news and reviews of both releases and compilation albums. Pitchfork's charts are well known, including the best albums of the 1970s-1980s-1990s, the best songs of the 1960s, and their well-known Best Album of the Year charts. Of the latter, Pitchfork has already published which have been for them the best albums of 2015.

During this year Pitchfork scored above 9 four works: Kendrick Lamar ('To Pimp a Butterfly'), Jamie xx ('In Colors'), Sufjan Stevens ('Carrie & Lowell') and Tame Impala ('Currents') albums. The artist who has taken number 1 on Pitchfork has been Kendrick Lamar, who already achieved it in 2012 with his debut album 'Section.80'.

Within the This year's top 50 for Pitchfork artists such as Shamir with 'Ratchet' who stayed at 48, Janet Jackson with 'Unbreakable' who stayed at 36, Carly Rae Jepsen with 'E • MO • TION' who stayed at 34, Floating have been Points with 'Elaenia' who remain in position 20 and Björk with 'Vulnicura', bordering on the Top 10, which remains in position 15 on the list. In this way, Pitchfor closes its list of the best albums of 2015:

1. Kendrick Lamar: 'To Pimp a Butterfly'
2. Jamie XX: 'In Colors'
3. Grimes: 'Art Angels'
4. Vince Staples: 'Summertime' 06 '
5. Tame Impala: 'Currents'
6. Sufjan Stevens: 'Carrie & Lowell'
7. D'Angelo: 'Black Messiah'
8. Miguel: 'Wildheart'
9. Courtney Barnett: 'Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit'
10. Kamasi Washington: 'The Epic'


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