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. Yesterday, we shared Part 1, which you can viewhere. Today and tomorrow, you'll find even more! And be sure to check out what KEXP listeners voted as their Top 90.3 Albums of 2015 here).
Isaac Kaplan-Woolner
Production Assistant
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color
ATO
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Telekinesis
Ad Infinitum
Merge
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
Built To Spill
Untethered Moon
Warner Bros.
Kurt Vile
b'lieve i'm goin down
Matador
Deerhunter
Fading Frontier
4AD
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Sub Pop
FIDLAR
Too
Mom + Pop
Ken Tarleton
DJ Assistant; Front Desk Volunteer
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color
ATO
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Bob Dylan
The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12
Columbia
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
The Mountain Goats
Beat the Champ
Merge
Sleater-Kinney
No Cities to Love
Sub Pop
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
Asthmatic Kitty
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
Titus Andronicus
The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Merge
White Reaper
White Reaper Does It Again
Polyvinyl
Ben Holman
Traffic Intern
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
TDE/Interscope/Aftermath
Vince Staples
Summertime '06
ARTium/Def Jam
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
Destroyer
Poison Season
Merge/Dead Oceans
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Sub Pop
Dr. Dre
Compton
Aftermath/Interscope
D'Angelo & The Vanguard
Black Messiah
RCA
Lupe Fiasco
Tetsuo & Youth
Atlantic
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
Asthmatic Kitty
Florence + The Machine
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Island/Republic
Chastity Belt // photo by Allyce Andrew
John Gleason
DJ Assistant and Tabling Events
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
Pinkshinyultrablast
Everything Else Matters
Shelflife Records
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
Viet Cong
Viet Cong
Jagjaguwar
Jamie XX
In Colour
Young Turks
Beach House
Depression Cherry
Sub Pop
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
Asthmatic Kitty
Deerhunter
Fading Fontier
4AD
Chastity Belt
Time To Go Home
Hardly Art
Jacob Webb
Blog Writer
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
TDE/Interscope/Aftermath
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
Asthmatic Kitty
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Sub Pop
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Hop Along
Painted Shut
Saddle Creek
Sleater-Kinney
No Cities To Love
Sub Pop
Chvrches
Every Open Eye
Virgin/Glassnote
Beach House
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Sub Pop
Title Fight
Hyperview
ANTI-
Speedy Ortiz
Foil Deer
Carpark
Brandon Schoepf
Programming Volunteer & DJ Assistant
Belle and Sebastian
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Capitol
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Sub Pop
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
TDE/Interscope/Aftermath
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
Asthmatic Kitty
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color
ATO
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Multi-Love
Jagjaguwar
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
Low
Ones and Sixes
Sub Pop
Deerhunter
Fading Frontier
4AD
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Built to Spill // photo by Dave Lichterman
Ann Allen
DJ Assistant for Kevin Cole
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color
ATO
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
The Helio Sequence
The Helio Sequence
Sub Pop
Hot Chip
Why Make Sense?
Domino
Built to Spill
Untethered Moon
Warner
Lord Huron
Strange Trails
IAMSOUND
Grace Love and The True Loves
Grace Love and The True Loves
Self-Released
The Chemical Brothers
Born In Echoes
Capitol
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Stax
Darlingside
Bird Say
More Doug Records
Matthew Howland
DJ Assistant, Programming Intern
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Chastity Belt
Time To Go Home
Hardly Art
Deerhunter
Fading Frontier
4AD
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
Interscope
Julia Holter
Have You in My Wilderness
Domino
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
Asthmatic Kitty
Girl Band
Holding Hands with Jamie
Rough Trade
Sleater-Kinney
No Cities to Love
Sub Pop
Protomartyr
The Agent Intellect
Hardly Art
Childbirth
Women's Rights
Suicide Squeeze
Andy Klatt
Information Specialist
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
TDE/Interscope/Aftermath
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
A$AP Rocky
At. Long. Last. A$AP.
A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds/RCA
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Leon Bridges
Coming Home
Columbia
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color
ATO
Brandi Carlile
The Firewatcher's Daughter
ATO
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Sub Pop
Houndmouth
Little Neon Limelight
Rough Trade
Jason Isbell
Something More Than Free
Southeastern
Michael Cronin // photo by Amber Knecht
Jon Hamilton
DJ Assistant for Kevin Cole
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Fuzz
II
In the Red
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Sub Pop
Paul Orwell
Blowing Your Mind Away
Heavy Soul Records
Mikal Cronin
MCIII
Merge
Lonna Kelley
Take Me Home Spiderman
Self-Released
The Mountain Goats
Beat the Champ
Merge
Thee Oh Sees
Mutilator Defeated At Last
Castle Face
Desaparecidos
Payola
Epitaph
The Dead Weather
Dodge and Burn
Third Man Records
Elise Hirschi
Major Giving Intern
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
TDE/Interscope/Aftermath
Blackalicious
Imani Vol. 1
OGM Records
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
Christine and the Queens
Christine and the Queens
Because Music
Speedy Ortiz
Foil Deer
Carpark
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Natasha Kmeto
Inevitable
Dropping Gems
TV Ugly
UCLA Yankee Cola
Alarum
Waxahatchee
Ivy Tripp
Merge
US Girls
Half Free
4AD
Kari Stark
Gift Processor
METZ
II
Sub Pop
Desaparecidos
Payola
Epitaph
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
Sleater-Kinney
No Cities to Love
Sub Pop
Wimps
Suitcase
Kill Rock Stars
FIDLAR
Too
Mom + Pop
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Django Django
Born Under Saturn
Ribbon Music
Bully
Feels Like
Columbia/Startime
Mikal Cronin
Mcii
Merge
Leon Bridges // photo by Amber Knecht
AJ Howard
DJ Assistant
Leon Bridges
Coming Home
Columbia
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color
ATO
Foals
What Went Down
Warner Bros.
JD McPherson
Let the Good Times Roll
Rounder
Grimes
Art Angels
4AD
Beirut
No No No
4AD
Jamie xx
In Colour
Young Turks
Kurt Vile
b'lieve i'm goin down...
Matador Records
The Arcs
Yours, Dreamily
Nonesuch
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Multi-Love
Jagjaguwar
William Barcelona
DJ Assistant & Morning Show Programming Volunteer
Carly Rae Jepsen
Emotion
Interscope
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Multi-Love
Jagjaguwar
Low
Ones & Sixes
Sub Pop
Dam-Funk
Invite the Light
Stones Throw
Death Grips
The Powers That B
Harvest
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Sub Pop
Lou Barlow
Brace the Wave
Joyful Noise
Sleater-Kinney
No Cities To Love
Sub Pop
Chimurenga Renaissance
Kudada Nekuva Munhu Mutema
Brick Lane Records
Atticus George-Andrijeski
DJ Assistant
Viet Cong
Viet Cong
Jagjaguwar
Thee Oh Sees
Mutilator Defeated at Last
Castle Face
Kurt Vile
b'lieve i'm goin down...
Matador
METZ
II
Sub Pop
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
Chastity Belt
Time to Go Home
Hardy Art
Protomartyr
The Agent Intellect
Hardly Art
Fuzz
II
In the Red
Shlohmo
Dark Red
True Panther
Yppah
Tiny Pause
Ninja Tune
Ryley Walker // photo by Dana Pleasant
Roxy Boggio
Programming Assistant
Shannon & the Clams
Gone by the Dawn
Hardly Art
Future Fridays
From Fun-zo to Done-zo
Self-Released
Wimps
Suitcase
Kill Rock Stars
Childbirth
Women's Rights
Suicide Squeeze
The Dagoes
Supreme (rerelease)
Sinister Torch / Light in the Attic
Ryley Walker
Primrose Green
Dead Oceans
Deerhunter
Fading Frontier
4AD
The Space Lady / Burnt Ones
Split
Castle Face
Larry Gus
I Need New Eyes
DFA
Fauna Shade
Baton Rouge
Self-Released
Lizzy Rose Flores
Traffic Assistant
Ludovico Einaudi
Elements (Deluxe Edition)
Ponderosa Music & Art
Michaël Bijker
Be Here Now
Self-Released
Lulacruza
Orcas
Uji Music
Yppah
Tiny Pause
Counter
Helios
Yume
Unseen
Lightning Bolt
Fantasy Empire
Thrill Jockey
Kanoi
Buru Haze
Gasstation Rainbow
Bob Holroyd
Blueprint
Self-Released
Fuzz
II
In The Red
Low
Ones and Sixes
Sub Pop
Anna Alter
Charts Intern, DJ Assistant, misc. volunteer
Born Ruffians
Ruff
Yep Roc
Lord Huron
Strange Trails
Iamsound
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Beirut
No No No
4AD
The Districts
A Flourish and A Spoil
Fat Possum
Chastity Belt
Time to Go Home
Hardly Art
Blitzen Trapper
All Across This Land
Lojinx
Built to Spill
Untethered Moon
Warner Bros.
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Sub Pop
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
Bully // photo by Tori Dickson
Dashel Schueler
Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations Manager
All Dogs
Kicking Every Day
Salinas
Car Seat Headrest
Teens of Style
Matador
Sick Sad World
Fear and Lies
Help Yourself Records
Chastity Belt
Time to Go Home
Hardly Art
Saintseneca
Such Things
Anti-
Vince Staples
Summertime '06
Def Jam
Bully
Feels Like
Columbia
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Mom + Pop
Upset
76
Lauren Records
Colleen Green
I Want To Grow Up
Hardly Art
Blake Madden
Front Desk/ DJ Assistant Fill-in
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
Interscope
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
John Carpenter
Lost Themes
Sacred Bones
Connan Mockasin and Devonte Hynes
Marfa Myths 001
Mexican Summer
FFS (Franz Ferdinand/ Sparks)
FFS
Domino
Kayo Dot
Coffins on lo
The Flenser
Stern
Bone Turquoise
New Atlantis Records
Viet Cong
Viet Cong
Jagjaguwar
Thundercat
The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam
Brainfeeder
John Grant
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Bella Union
Jeff Vetting
Events and Outreach Manager
Tame Impala
Currents
Interscope
Vince Staples
Summertime '06
Def Jam
Beach Slang
The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
Tiny Engines
Future
DS2
Epic
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
Surf
Self-Released
Ought
Sun Coming Down
Constellation Records
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
Speedy Ortiz
Foil Deer
Carpark
Earl Sweatshirt
I Don't Like Sh#t, I Don't Go Outside
Columbia
Foals
What Went Down
Warner Bros.
Algiers // photo by Dave Lichterman
Jim Beckmann
Online Content Manager & Senior Video Producer
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2015. Click here to check out other lists from our DJs, staff, volunteers, and interns, and click here to see the Top 90.3 Albums of 2015, as voted on by KEXP listeners!
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2015. Click here to check out other lists from our DJs, staff, volunteers, and interns, and click here to see the Top 90.3 Albums of 2015, as voted on by KEXP listeners!
