Each week I post the Top 20 College Radio Albums courtesy of CMJ (College Media Journal). Below are also 5 discs that I have in heavy rotation and an album that amazingly turns 10 years old in 2015, I call it my Spicy 6.
Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear, holds down the #1 spot on the College Radio Album Chart for a second straight week. There are six new albums that debut in the Top 20 this week, including a couple of big movers. British electronic act Until The Ribbon Breaks comes in at #19 with their full-length debut. UTRB is playing the 2015 Coachella Festival in April. Other new entries are from San Francisco singer-songwriter Hanni El Khatib, Boston based alt-rockers Guster, and the third full-length release from the British duo The Ting Tings (pictured). San Francisco indie rockers The Dodos jump 106 spot to #10, while the ninth studio album from Glasgow’s Belle and Sebastian comes in at #8. The final new addition is from the Portland based band The Decemberist, their latest release debuts at #4, and is currently #1 on my Spicy Six countdown. Speaking of The Decemberists, their 2005 release Picaresque turn 10 years old next month. Enjoy 16 Military Wives.
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of January 27, 2015:
1. PANDA BEAR Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
2. SLEATER-KINNEY No Cities To Love
3. VIET CONG Viet Cong
4. THE DECEMBERISTS What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
5. TY SEGALL Mr. Face (EP)
6. TV ON THE RADIO Seeds
7. PARKAY QUARTS Content Nausea
8. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
9. ARIEL PINK Pom Pom
10. THE DODOS Individ
11. THE TING TINGS Super Critical
12. AQUADOLLS Stoked On You
13. GIRLPOOL Girlpool
14. GUSTER Evermotion
15. HANNI EL KHATIB Moonlight
16. THE PREATURES Blue Planet Eyes
17. DEERHOOF La Isla Bonita
18. THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES Lost On The River
19. UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS A Lesson Unlearnt
20. LES SINS Michael
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. THE DECEMBERISTS What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
2. PANDA BEAR Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
3. TV ON THE RADIO Seeds
4. 2:54 The Other I
5. PARKAY QUARTS Content Nausea
Dust this one off, it turns 10 in 2015!
6. THE DECEMBERISTS Picaresque
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