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.
After only one week in the top spot, Thee Oh Sees fall to #2, as the latest effort from Hot Chip (pictured) takes over at #1. Three new albums make their debut in the Top 20 including the sophomore release from the Omaha, Nebraska electro pop trio Icky Blossoms. The other two new entries are from Montreal shoegazers No Joy and the Columbus, Ohio alt rock duo Twenty One Pilots. Add No Joy to my Coachella 2016 Perfect Poster Wish List
My new #1 compact disc is the debut full length from North London’s Wolf Alice. Listen to them now while it’s still cool, they’re going to take over alt radio soon, you heard it here first. Conor Oberst has his old EMO band Desaparecidos back together, his other band Bright Eyes released I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning ten years ago. It was the first of three albums released by Bright Eyes in 2005. Enjoy the album track “First Day Of My Life.”
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of June 23, 2015:
1. HOT CHIP Why Make Sense?
2. THEE OH SEES Mutilator Defeated At Last
3. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Multi-Love
4. MY MORNING JACKET The Waterfall
5. ALABAMA SHAKES Sound And Color
6. GIRLPOOL Before The World Was Big
7. BEST COAST California Nights
8. SHARON VAN ETTEN I Don’t Want To Let You Down (EP)
9. JAMIE XX In Colour
10. DJANGO DJANGO Born Under Saturn
11. BLUR The Magic Whip
12. SURFER BLOOD 1000 Palms
13. HEARTLESS BASTARDS Restless Ones
14. TWENTY ONE PILOTS Blurryface
15. COURTNEY BARNETT Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
16. HOP ALONG Painted Shut
17. NO JOY More Faithful
18. ICKY BLOSSOMS Mask
19. SHAMIR Ratchet
20. JOANNA GRUESOME Peanut Butter
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. WOLF ALICE My Love Is Cool
2. LORD HURON Strange Trails
3. MEW + -
4. BULLY Feels Like
5. COURTNEY BARNETT Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Dust this one off, it turns 10 in 2015!
6. BRIGHT EYES I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
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