Neko Case // photo by Autumn Andel
For the last two weeks, we've been sharing with you KEXP DJs' Top Ten Albums of 2013 lists, but KEXP is also supported by many dedicated people who work behind the scenes as staff, volunteers and interns, and who are all passionate music fans themselves. Here’s what they chose for their Top Ten Albums of 2013:
Be sure to tune in tomorrow, Thursday, December 19, for KEXP’s One-Day Radio Rally as we countdown the top albums of the year, as voted on by KEXP listeners.
Anna McClain
Blog Contributer/DJ Assistant
Toro y Moi
Anything in Return
Carpark
Washed Out
Paracosm
Sub Pop
Neko Case
The Worse Things Get...
Anti-
Typhoon
White Lighter
Tender Loving Empire
Cloud Control
Dream Cave
Votiv
Glasser
Interiors
True Panther Sounds
Junip
Junip
Mute
Radiation City
Animals in the Median
Tender Loving Empire
Local Natives
Hummingbird
Frenchkiss
The Besnard Lakes
Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
Jagjaguwar
Jacob Uitti
Blog Writer
Industrial Revelation
Oak Head
Self-released
Shelby Earl
Swift Arrows
Self-released
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
Untamed Beast
Partison Records
La Luz
It's Alive
Hardly Art
Pickwick
Can't Talk Medicine
Self-released
Spekulation
Doc Watson
Self-released
The Growlers
Gilded Pleasures
Everloving Records
The Moondoggies
Adios I'm A Ghost
Hardly Art
Polyrhythmics
Libra Stripes
Kept Records
Campfire Ok
When You Have Arrived
Self-released
Dashel Schueler
CFGRM (Grants Guy), KEXP
Volcano Choir
Repave
Jagjaguar
La Luz
It's Alive
Hardly Art
Phosphorescent
Muchacho
Dead Oceans
Kacey Musgraves
Same Trailer Different Park
Mercury Nashville
ILLFIGHTYOU
S/T
Self-released
The Lonely Forest
Adding Up the Wasted Hours
Trans/Chop Shop
Neko Case
The Worse Things Get...
Anti-
Weekend
Jinx
Slumberland
Superchunk
I Hate Music
Merge
Courtney Barnett
The Double EP
Milk Records
Savages // photo by Brittney Bollay
Gerrit Feenstra
KEXP Blogger
Factory Floor
Factory Floor
DFA
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge
Savages
Silence Yourself
Matador
M.I.A.
Matangi
Interscope
Rhye
Woman
Polydor
Cut Copy
Free Your Mind
Modular
Nine Inch Nails
Hesitation Marks
Columbia
DJ Koze
Amygdala
Pampa
Haim
Days Are Gone
Polydor
Run The Jewels
Run The Jewels
Fool's Gold
Matthew Howland
Midday Show DJ Assistant
Julianna Barwick
Nepenthe
Dead Oceans
Julia Holter
Loud City Song
Domino Records
Oneohtrix Point Never
R Plus Seven
Warp Records
Rokia Traore
Beautiful Africa
Nonesuch
Foxygen
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Jagjaguwar
Colin Stetson
New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Constellation
Kurt Vile
Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Matador Records
Neko Case
The Worse Things Get...
ANTI-
Zola Jesus
Versions
Sacred Bones
The Knife
Shaking the Habitual
Rabid Records
Brennan Pierides
DJ Assistant for The Morning Show
Kanye West
Yeezus
Def Jam
Gregory Alan Isakov
The Weatherman
Suitcase Town Music
Blood Orange
Cupid Deluxe
Domino
Young Dreams
Between Places
Modular
Kurt Vile
Walkin' On A Pretty Daze
Matador
Kissaway Trail
Breach
Yep Roc
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
4AD
Justin Timberlake
The 20/20 Experience Part 1
RCA
Deerhunter
Monomania
4AD
Sin Fang
Flowers
Morr Music
Carol DuPuis
Business Support - A.E.
Jonathan Wilson
Fanfare
Downtown
Bill Callahan
Dream River
Drag City
Palma Violets
180
Rough Trade Records
Savages
Silence Yourself
Matador
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge
Yo La Tengo
Fade
Matador
Courtney Barnett
Avant Gardener
Milk!
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Daft Life/Columbia
Nine Inch Nails
Hesitation
Columbia
Atoms For Peace
Amok
XL
Brian Hill
Music & Business Support
Kanye West
Yeezus
Roc-A-Fella Records / Def Jam Recordings
Savages
Silence Yourself
Matador Records / Pop Noire
Drake
Nothing was the Same
OVO Sound, etc.
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Daft Life
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge Records
Disclosure
Settle
Island Records
Kurt Vile
Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Matador Records
Moonface
Julia with Blue Jeans On
Jagjaguwar
Chrvches
The Bones of What you Believe
Virgin Records
Polica
Shulamith
Mom + Pop Music
Bailey Kitka
Traffic Assistant
Typhoon
White Lighter
Roll Call
Foals
Holy Fire
Warner Bros.
Lorde
Pure Heroine
Lava/Republic
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge
Phoenix
Bankrupt!
Glassnote
Wampire
Curiosity
Polyvinyl
Phantogram
Phantogram EP
Republic
Local Natives
Hummingbird
Frenchkiss
Savages
Silence Yourself
Matador
Crocodiles
Crimes of Passion
Frenchkiss
Phosphorescent // photo by Dominick Mastrangelo
Leigh Bezezekoff
Blog Contributor
The Ganges River Band
The Ganges River Band
Self-Released
The Moondoggies
Adios I'm A Ghost
Hardly Art
The Black Angels
Indigo Meadow
Blue Horizon
Phosphorescent
Muchacho
Dead Oceans
The Cave Singers
Naomi
Jagjaguwar
Rose Windows
The Sun Dogs
Sub Pop
The Swearengens
Waiting on the Sunrise
Self-released
Davidson Heart Kingsbery
DHK
Self-released
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo
Year of the Dragon
Fin Records
Various Artists
Give 2013
Caffe Vita
Jeff Vetting
Events and Outreach Manager
Earl Sweatshirt
Doris
Columbia
Speedy Ortiz
Major Arcana
Carpark Records
STRFKR
Miracle Mile
Polyvinyl
Deltron 3030
Event 2
Bulk Recordings
Jagwar Ma
Howlin
Mom + Pop Music
Danny Brown
Old
Fool's Gold Records
Smith Westerns
Soft Will
Mom + Pop Music
Los Campesinos!
No Blues
Wichita
Pusha T
My Name Is My Name
Def Jam
Chvrches
The Bones Of What You Believe
Glassnote
Roxy Boggio
DJ Assistant for Cheryl Waters
Youth Lagoon
Wondrous Bughouse
Fat Possum
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra II
Jagjaguwar
Thee Oh Sees
Floating Coffin
Castle Face Records
Dirty Art Club
Vermillion
Phonosaurus Records
La Luz
It's Alive
Hardly Art
Devendra Banhart
Mala
Nonesuch
Suuns
Images Du Futur
Secretly Canadian
David Lynch
The Big Dream
Sunday Best / Sacred Bones
Deerhunter
Monomania
4ad
Night Beats
Sonic Bloom
The Reverberation Appreciation Society
Parquet Courts // photo by Dave Lichterman
Chris Kellogg
Production Manager
Jonathan Wilson
Fanfare
Downtown
Thee Oh Sees
Floating Coffin
Castle Face
Bill Callahan
Dream River
Drag City
The Moondoggies
Adios I'm a Ghost
Hardly Art
Ty Segall
Sleeper
Drag City
Telekinesis
Dormarion
Merge
Howe Gelb
The Coincidentalist
New West
Minor Alps
Get There
Barsuk
Parquet Courts
Light Up Gold
What's Your Rupture?
Pond
Hobo Rocket
Modular
Trevor Crump
Volunteer Photographer
Pony Time
Go Find Your Own
Per Se Records
Thee Oh Sees
Floating Coffin
Castle Face Records
Ty Segall
Sleeper
Drag City
Bleached
Ride Your Heart
Dead Oceans
Mikal Cronin
MCII
Merge Records
The Growlers
Hung at Heart
FatCat Records
Shannon and the Clams
Dreams In the Rat House
Hardly Art
Veronica Falls
Waiting For Something To Happen
Bella Union
The Moondoggies
Adios I'm A Ghost
Hardly Art
Widowspeak
Almanac
Captured Tracks
Tyson Lynn
Board Op
Low
The Invisible Way
Sub Pop
Neko Case
The Worse Things Get...
Anti-
Hey Marseilles
Lines We Trace
Onto Entertainment/Thirty Tigers
The Moondoggies
Adios I'm a Ghost
Hardly Art
La Luz
It's Alive
Hardly Art
Phosphorescent
Muchacho
Dead Oceans
Mark Mulcahy
Dear Mark J Mulcahy, I Love You
Mezzotint
Midday Veil
The Current
TRANSLINGUISTIC OTHER
Bill Callahan
Dream River
Drag City
Jamie Lidell
Jamie Lidell
Warp
La Luz // photo by Greg Stonebraker
Beth Crook
Photographer
Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires of the City
XL
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
The Speed of Things
Warner Bros.
Typhoon
White Lighter
Roll Call
James Blake
Overgrown
Republic
The Lonely Forest
Adding Up the Wasted Hours
Trans/ Chop Shop
Frightened Rabbit
Pedestrian Verse
Canvasback
CHVRCHES
The Bones of What You Believe
Glassnote
Surfer Blood
Pythons
Warner Bros.
La Luz
It's Alive
Hardly Art
Daughter
If You Leave
Glassnote
Rachel Ewen
Front Desk Volunteer
M.I.A.
Matangi
Interscope Records
Local Natives
Hummingbird
French Kiss Records
Au Revoir Simone
Move in Spectrums
Instant Records
Chvrches
Bones of What You Believe
Glassnote
Washed Out
Paracosm
Sub Pop
Sleigh Bells
Bitter Rivals
Mom & Pop Records
Cults
Static
Columbia
Justin Timberlake
The 20/20 Experience
RCA
Janelle Monae
The Electric Lady
Bad Boy
Blood Orange
Cupid Deluxe
Domino
Atticus George-Andrijeski
DJ Assistant
Atoms for Peace
Amok
XL
Phantogram
Phantogram
Barsuk
Tricky
False Idols
False Idols
Bonobo
The North Borders
Ninja Tune
Rose Windows
Native Dreams
Sub Pop
A$AP Rocky
Long Live A$AP
RCA/Polo Grounds Music
Palma Violets
180
Rough Trade
Sigur Ros
Kveikur
XL
The Joy Formidable
Wolf's Law
Atlantic
Wishbeard
It's All Gonna Break
Self-Released
James Blake // photo by Dave Lichterman
Eve Cooke
DJ Assistant & Sidekick to DJ Michele Myers
Disclosure
Settle
PMR Records
Classixx
Hanging Gardens
Kitsune
Toro y Moi
Anything In Return
Carpark
Justin Timberlake
The 20/20 Experience
RCA
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
4AD
Danny Brown
Old
Fool's Gold
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Columbia
James Blake
Overgrown
Polydor
Keep Shelly In Athens
At Home
Cascine
Greg Stonebraker
Photographer
La Luz
Its Alive
Hardly Art
No Age
An Object
Sub Pop
Fuzz
Fuzz
In the Red
Nacho Picasso
High & Mighty
Self-released
Summer Babes
King Tides
Self-released
Jacuzzi Boys
Jacuzzi Boys
Hardly Art
Iska Dhaaf
All The Kids/Two Ones
Brick Lane
Thee Oh Sees
Floating Coffin
Castle Face Records
Shannon and The Clams
Dreams in the Rat House
Hardly Art
Kurt Vile
Walkin on a Pretty Daze
Matador
Krissi Pearson
Photographer
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge Records
Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires of the City
XL Recording
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
4AD
Poliça
Shulamith
Mom & Pop Music
Chvrches
The Bones of What You Believe
Glassnote Records
The Head and the Heart
Let's Be Still
Sub Pop
Sleigh Bells
Bitter Rivals
Mom & Pop Music
Fitz and the Tantrums
More Than Just a Dream
Elektra Records
Tegan & Sara
Heartthrob
Warner Bros. Records
Hey Marseille
Lines We Trace
Onto Entertainment / Thirty Tigers
The Redwood Plan // photo by Dagmar Patterson
Philip LaRose
Blog Contributor
Vox Mod
SYN-ÆSTHETIC
Self-released
Wishbeard
It’s All Gonna Break
Self-released
The Redwood Plan
Green Light Go
Self-released
Hotels
Cinemascope III
Self-released
My Bloody Valentine
mbv
Self-released
The Julie Ruin
Run Fast
Dischord
Luxury Liners
They’re Flowers
Western Vinyl
Future Bible Heroes
Partygoing
Merge
Kinski
Cosy Moments
Kill Rock Stars
Annuals
Time Stamp
Self-released
Andy Klatt
Information Specialist
Chance The Rapper
Acid Rap
Self-released
Janelle Monáe
The Electric Lady
Bad Boy
James Blake
Overgrown
Republic
Valerie June
Pushin' Against a Stone
Sunday Best
Volcano Choir
Repave
Jagjaguwar
Foals
Holy Fire
Warner Bros.
Jake Bugg
Shangri La
Mercury
Houndmouth
From the Hills Below the City
Rough Trade
Kanye West
Yeezus
Def Jam
Graham Amsden
Financial Assistant
Toro y Moi
Anything in Return
Carpark
Youth Lagoon
Wondrous Bughouse
Fat Possum
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
II
Jagjaguwar
A$AP Rocky
LONG.LIVE.A$AP
A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds/RCA
Deerhunter
Monomania
4AD
Danny Brown
Old
Fools Gold
Foxygen
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Jagjaguwar
Ducktails
The Flower Lane
Domino
Crocodiles
Crimes of Passion
Frenchkiss
La Luz
It's Alive
Hardly Art
Sebadoh // photo by Travis Tyler
Brandon Schoepf
DJ Assistant for Morning Show
Girls Against Boys
The Ghost List
Epitonic
Dr. Dog
B-Room
Anti-
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Blue Record
Jagjaguwar
Foxygen
We Are the 21st Centrury Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Jagjaguwar
Savages
I Am Here
Hardly Art
Adam Green & Binki Shapiro
Adam Green & Binki Shapiro
Rounder
Bill Callahan
Dream River
Drag City
The Julie Ruin
Run Fast
TJR
Courtney Barnett
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Milk!
Girls Against Boys
The Ghost List
Epitonic
Sebahoh
Defend Yourself
Joyful Noise
Check back tomorrow for more Top Ten Albums of 2013 lists from KEXP staff, volunteers and interns!
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2013, leading up to our 2013 90.3 Top Album Countdown! Tune in on Thursday, December 19th for KEXP's One-Day Radio Rally as we countdown the top albums of the year, as voted on by KEXP listeners.
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2013, leading up to our 2013 90.3 Top Album Countdown! Tune in on Thursday, December 19th for KEXP's One-Day Radio Rally as we countdown the top albums of the year, as voted on by KEXP listeners.
