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.
Dan Deacon has the #1 album on the College Radio Album Chart for a second straight week. Once again, six new albums make their debut in the Top 20. The first two are from Brooklyn’s Mitski and Baltimore’s Lower Dens (pictured). The next two are from Los Angeles psych-rockers Wand and the Nashville duo Jeff The Brotherhood. And finally, there are new albums from indie stalwarts Death Cab For Cutie and Sufjan Stevens. I’m really diggin’ that new Courtney Barnett. Back in January the full-length self-titled debut from LCD Soundsystem turned 10. I honor of Daft Punk not playing Coachella again this year, let’s enjoy “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House.”
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of April 7, 2015:
1. DAN DEACON Gliss Riffer
2. COURTNEY BARNETT Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
3. MODEST MOUSE Strangers To Ourselves
4. PURITY RING Another Eternity
5. SUFJAN STEVENS Carrie And Lowell
6. FATHER JOHN MISTY I Love You, Honeybear
7. JOSE GONZALEZ Vestiges And Claws
8. SAN CISCO Gracetown
9. OF MONTREAL Aureate Gloom
10. CHASTITY BELT Time To Go Home
11. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Kintsugi
12. COLLEEN GREEN I Want To Grow Up
13. WILL BUTLER Policy
14. JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Wasted On The Dream
15. MATTHEW E.WHITE Fresh Blood
16. SLEATER-KINNEY No Cities To Love
17. WAND Golem
18. THE DECEMBERISTS What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
19. LOWER DENS Escape From Evil
20. MITSKI Bury Me A Makeout Creek
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. COURTNEY BARNETT Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
2. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Kintsugi
3. PURITY RING Another Eternity
4. LOWER DENS Escape From Evil
5. PEACE Happy People
Dust this one off, it turns 10 in 2015!
6. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem