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.
Alabama Shakes remain at #1 on the College Radio Album Chart for a third straight week. Three albums debut in the Top 20 countdown, including the third studio effort from New Zealand / Portland, Oregon band Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Also new to the countdown are the Beaverton, Oregon duo The Helio Sequence (pictured) and British electronic extraordinaires Hot Chip. Add The Helio Sequence to my Coachella 2016 Perfect Poster Wish List.
The sophomore effort from Lord Huron is still my #1 compact disc. The latest album from the Danish band MEW is this in my Spicy Six. This September their fourth studio album And The Glass Handed Kites turns 10 years old. Let’s enjoy “The Zookeeper’s Boy.”
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of May 26, 2015:
1. ALABAMA SHAKES Sound And Color
2. BEST COAST California Nights
3. MY MORNING JACKET The Waterfall
4. BLUR The Magic Whip
5. SPEEDY ORTIZ Foil Deer
6. MIKAL CRONIN MCIII
7. BUILT TO SPILL Untethered Moon
8. METZ II
9. COURTNEY BARNETT Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
10. WAXAHATCHEE Ivy Tripp
11. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Dark Bird Is Home
12. DJANGO DJANGO Born Under Saturn
13. SURFER BLOOD 1000 Palms
14. HOT CHIP Why Make Sense?
15. TORO Y MOI What For?
16. HOP ALONG Painted Shut
17. TORRES Sprinter
18. THE HELIO SEQUENCE The Helio Sequence
19. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Multi-Love
20. SUFJAN STEVENS Carrie And Lowell
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. LORD HURON Strange Trails
2. BEST COAST California Nights
3. MEW + –
4. COURTNEY BARNETT Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
5. PURITY RING Another Eternity
Dust this one off, it turns 10 in 2015!
6. MEW And The Glass Handed Kites
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