We’ve polled our writers and editorial staff and have gathered 50 of our most recommended albums of the year. We didn’t include reissues and only included releases reviewed in 2015. Some titles released in December will be considered in the 2016 “best-of” list.

We understand the difficulties in ranking and decided this year to only rank the Top 10. We hope that the readers use this list merely as a guide to the best music that Louisiana has to offer: There’s a lot of great mu...