FKA twigs // photo by Dave Lichterman
This week, as we continue to post KEXP DJs’ Top 10 Albums of 2015 lists, we also want to share the favorites of KEXP’s staff, volunteers and interns, the many many dedicated people who work behind the scenes at KEXP, and who are all passionate music fans themselves. We’ve already shared Part 1 and Part 2, which you can view here and here. Today, you’ll find even more! And be sure to check out what KEXP listeners voted as their Top 90.3 Albums of 2015 here.
| Alli Adamonis | KEXP Donor Services Manager | |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp A Butterfly | TDE/Aftermath/Interscope |
| Jamie xx | In Colour | Young Turks |
| FKA twigs | M3LL155X | Young Turks |
| D’Angelo and The Vanguard | Black Messiah | RCA |
| BRAIDS | Deep in the Iris | Arbutus |
| Grimes | Art Angels | 4AD |
| Majical Cloudz | Are You Alone? | Matador |
| Shamir | Ratchet | XL |
| Miguel | Wildheart | RCA/Bystorm |
| Panda Bear | Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | Domino |
| Megan Ternes | Front Desk Volunteer | |
| Shana Cleveland & the Sandcastles | Oh Man, Cover the Ground | Suicide Squeeze |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp A Butterfly | TDE/Aftermath/Interscope |
| Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Mom + Pop |
| Chastity Belt | Time to Go Home | Hardly Art |
| Tame Impala | Currents | Interscope |
| Car Seat Headrest | Teens of Style | Matador |
| Childbirth | Women’s Rights | Suicide Squeeze |
| Protomartyr | Agent Intellect | Hardly Art |
| Hibou | Hibou | Barsuk |
| Beach House | Depression Cherry | Sub Pop |
| Hannah Violet | Front Desk Volunteer | |
| Joanna Newsom | Divers | Drag City |
| Julia Holter | Have You In My Wilderness | Domino |
| Björk | Vulnicura | One Little Indian |
| Chastity Belt | Time To Go Home | Hardly Art |
| Jamie XX | In Colour | Young Turks |
| THEESatisfaction | EarthEE | Sub Pop |
| Sick Sad World | Fear and Lies | Help Yourself |
| White Poppy | Natural Phenomena | Not Not Fun |
| Briana Marela | All Around Us | Jagjaguwar |
| Lower Dens | Escape From Evil | Ribbon Music |
Mac Demarco // photo by Dave Lichterman
| Nikhil Sarma | Production Intern | |
| Mac Demarco | Another One | Captured Tracks |
| Blond:ish | Welcome To The Present | Kompakt |
| Fouk | Kill Frenzy EP | Heist Recordings |
| Jack J | Thirstin’ | Future Times |
| Car Seat Headrest | Teens of Style | Matador |
| Childbirth | Women’s Rights | Suicide Squeeze Records |
| Various Artists | Volume II | Bedroomer |
| A Tribe Called Quest | People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (25th Anniversary Edition) | Sony Legacy |
| Pender Street Steppers | MH008 | Mood Hut |
| Sick Sad World | Fear and Lies | Help Yourself |
| Sharon Branson | Front Desk, Programming Assistant, DJ Assistant | |
| Belle and Sebastian | Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance | Matador |
| Bob Moses | Days Gone By | Domino |
| The Arcs | Yours, Dreamily | Nonesuch |
| El Vy | Return To The Moon | 4AD |
| Foals | What Went Down | Warner Bros. |
| Chemical Brothers | Born In The Echoes | Capitol |
| Lost Lander | Medallion | Self-Released |
| The Twilight Sad | Òran Mór Session | FatCat |
| Sufjan Stevens | Carrie & Lowell | Asthmatic Kitty |
| Small Feet | From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like The Ocean | Barsuk |
| McKenna Haley | Community Partnership/Events Intern | |
| Mount Eerie | Sauna | P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. |
| Björk | Vulnicura | One Little Indian |
| Beach House | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Sub Pop |
| Homeshake | Midnight Snack | Sinderlyn |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp A Butterfly | TDE/Aftermath/Interscope |
| Mikal Cronin | MCIII | Merge |
| Fuzz | II | In The Red |
| Sick Sad World | Fear And Lies | Help Yourself Records |
| Shana Cleveland & The Sandcastles | Oh Man Cover The Ground | Suicide Squeeze |
| Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Mom + Pop |
youryoungbody // photo by Melissa Wax
| Alexander Barr | Audioasis Research Assistant & DJ Assistant | |
| TRANS FX | Into the Blu | Perennial Death |
| Nail Polish | Nail Polish | Help Yourself |
| Molly Nillson | Zenith | Night School |
| Wimps | Suitcase | Kill Rock Stars |
| Pure Bathing Culture | Pray For Rain | Partisan |
| youryoungbody | betrayer | Self Released |
| Soft Kill | Heresy | No Sun Recordings |
| G.L.O.S.S. | Demo | Self Released |
| iji | whatever will happen | Team Love |
| LUNCH | Let Us Have Madness Openly | Mass Media Records |
| Tom Wiebe a.k.a yacht rock tom | DJ assistant to Kevin Cole | |
| Midday Veil | This Wilderness | Beyond Beyond is Beyond |
| Alabama Shakes | Sound and Color | ATO |
| Beach House | Depression Cherry | Sub Pop |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp A Butterfly | TDE/Aftermath/Interscope |
| Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and think, Sometimes I just Sit | Mom+Pop Music |
| Ought | Sun Coming Down | Constellation |
| Destroyer | Poison Season | Merge |
| Deerhunter | Fading Frontier | 4AD |
| Thee Oh Sees | Mutilator Defeated At Last | Castle Face |
| Father John Misty | I Love You, Honeybear | Sub Pop |
| Todd Hochradel | DJ Assistant, Podcast & Licensing Intern | |
| DJ Richard | Grind | Dial |
| Steve Hauschildt | Where All Is Fled | Kranky |
| Oneohtrix Point Never | Garden of Delete | Warp |
| Grimes | Art Angels | 4AD |
| M.E.S.H. | Pietous Gate | PAN |
| Julien Baker | Sprained Ankle | 6131 Records |
| Deafheaven | New Bermuda | ANTI- |
| Jamie XX | In Colour | Young Turks |
| Childbirth | Women’s Rights | Suicide Squeeze |
| Björk | Vulnicura | One Little Indian |
Young Fathers // photo by Amber Knecht
| Alaia D’Alessandro | Board Operator, Production Intern | |
| Destroyer | Poison Season | Merge |
| Tame Impala | Currents | Interscope |
| Young Fathers | White Men Are Black Men Too | BIG Dada |
| Ezra Furman | Perpetual Motion People | Bella Union |
| Shamir | Ratchet | XL |
| My Morning Jacket | Waterfall | Capitol |
| Royal Headache | High | What’s Your Rupture |
| Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Mom + Pop |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp A Butterfly | TDE/Aftermath/Interscope |
| Bomba Estereo | Amanecer | Sony |
| William James Brown | Production Intern | |
| Thee Oh Sees | Mutilator Defeated at Last | Castle Face |
| Mike Krol | Turkey | Merge |
| Deerhunter | Fading Frontier | 4AD |
| Broncho | Just Hip Enough To Be Woman | Dine Alone |
| Viet Cong | Viet Cong | Jagjaguwar |
| Blood Drugs | Blood Drugs | Good To Die |
| Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Mom + Pop |
| Miley Cyrus + The Flaming Lips | Miley Cyrus And Her Dead Petz | Smiley Miley Inc. |
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Paper Mâché Dream Balloon | ATO |
| Lightning Bolt | Fantasy Empire | Thrill Jockey |
| Dylan Flesch | Librarian / Licensing & Podcasting Coordinator | |
| Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit | Mom + Pop |
| Alabama Shakes | Sound & Color | ATO |
| Grimes | Art Angels | 4AD |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp A Butterfly | TDE/Aftermath/Interscope |
| Tame Impala | Currents | Interscope |
| Wilco | Star Wars | Self-released |
| Kurt Vile | b’lieve i’m goin down | Matador |
| Happyness | Weird Little Birthday | Bar/None |
| Torres | Sprinter | Partisan |
| Mac Demarco | Another One | Captured Tracks |
Mommy Long Legs // photo by Greg Stonebraker
| Dylan Flesch | Librarian / Licensing & Podcasting Coordinator | |
| Mommy Long Legs | Life Rips | Self-released |
| Built To Spill | Untethered Moon | Warner Bros. |
| THEESatisfaction | EarthEE | Sub Pop |
| Car Seat Headrest | Teens Of Style | Matador |
| Sick Sad World | Fear and Lies | Help Yourself |
| Wimps | Suitcase | Kill Rock Stars |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Multi-Love | Jagjaguwar |
| Chastity Belt | Time to Go Home | Hardly Art |
| Father John Misty | I Love You, Honeybear | Sub Pop |
| Grace Love and The True Loves | Grace Love and The True Loves | Self-released |
| Rischel Granquist | Manager of Administrative Services | |
| The Weeknd | Beauty Behind The Madness | XO/Republic |
| Björk | Vulnicura | One Little Indian |
| Major Lazer | Peace Is The Mission | Mad Decent |
| Grimes | Art Angels | 4AD |
| Tame Impala | Currents | Modular |
| Bomba Estereo | Amancer | Sony |
| Brandi Carlile | The Firewatcher’s Daughter | ATO |
| Kasey Musgraves | Pageant Material | Mercury |
| Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment | Surf | Self-Released |
| Jose Gonzales | Vestiges & Claws | Mute |
| Chris Kellogg | Operations Manager of Programming and Production | |
| Thee Oh Sees | Mutilator Defeated at Last | Castle Face |
| Ought | Sun Coming Down | Constellation Records |
| Best Coast | California Nights | Harvest |
| Ryan Adams | 1989 | Pax-Am |
| Kurt Vile | B’lieve I’m Going Down | Matador |
| Telekinesis | Ad Infinitum | Merge |
| La Luz | Weirdo Shrine | Hardly Art |
| Male Gaze | Gale Maze | Castle Face |
| Built to Spill | Untethered Moon | Warner Bros. |
| Ryan Adams | Ten Songs from Carnegie Hall | Pax-Am |
Viet Cong // photo by Brittney Bollay
| Cyrus Despres | Manager of Information Technology | |
| Father John Misty | I Love You, Honeybear | Sub Pop |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | TDE/Aftermath/Interscope |
| Wimps | Suitcase | Kill Rock Stars |
| Colleen | Captain of None | Thrill Jockey |
| Kamasi Washington | The Epic | Brainfeeder |
| Red Sea | In the Salon LP & Yardsticks for Human Intelligence EP | Bayonet Records |
| Viet Cong | Viet Cong | Jagjaguwar |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Multi-Love | Jagjaguwar |
| Royal Headache | High | What’s Your Rupture? |
| Charles Cohen | Brother I Prove You Wrong | Morphine Records |
| Rob Bender | Senior Account Executive, Business Support & Sponsorship | |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp A Butterfly | TDE/Interscope/Aftermath |
| Kurt Vile | b’lieve i’m goin down… | Matador |
| Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Mom + Pop |
| Fuzz | II | In the Red |
| Titus Andronicus | The Most Lamentable Tragedy | Merge |
| Ought | Sun Coming Down | Constellation Records |
| Thee Oh Sees | Mutilator Defeated at Last | Castle Face |
| Doomtree | All Hands | Doomtree Records |
| Desaparecidos | Payola | Epitaph |
| Big Grams | Big Grams | Epic |
| Jon Joslin | DJ Assistant | |
| Funkstörung | Funkstörung | Monkeytown |
| Miguel | Wildheart | RCA |
| Portico | Living Fields | Ninja Tune |
| Claptone | Charmer | Different Recordings |
| Blackalicious | Imani Vol. 1 | OGM Recordings |
| Low | Ones And Sixes | Sub Pop |
| A$AP Rocky | At. Long. Last. ASAP | RCA |
| Tame Impala | Currents | Interscope |
| Beach House | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Sub Pop |
| Nocturnal Sunshine | Nocturnal Sunshine | I/AM/ME |
The Tallest Man on Earth // photo by Dave Lichterman
| Scott Bell | Director of Licensing & Distribution | |
| Lord Huron | Strange Trails | Iamsound |
| Jose Gonzalez | Vestiges & Claws | Mute |
| Calexico | Edge of the Sun | City Slang / Anti- |
| El Vy | Return to the Moon | 4AD |
| Best Coast | California Nights | Harvest |
| Ryan Adams | 1989 | Pax-Am / Blue Note |
| The Tallest Man on Earth | Dark Bird is Home | Dead Oceans |
| Yo La Tengo | Stuff Like That There | Matador |
| Kurt Vile | b’lieve i’m goin down | Matador |
| Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit | Mom + Pop |
