KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2023

2023 Countdown
12/04/2023
KEXP

2023 is coming to a close, and it's time for the KEXP DJs to share their Top Albums of the year. And don't forget to tune in this Friday, December 15th as KEXP counts down the Top 90.3 Albums of 2023, as voted on by our listeners! Will your favorites — or theirs! — make the list? Vote now!


Abbie // Variety Mix  // Wednesdays 1-5 AM
artist album label
Sofia Kourtesis Madres Ninja Tune
Dream Wife Social Lubrication Lucky Number
Devours Homecoming Queen surviving the game
Nuovo Testamento Love Lines Discoteca Italia
Jayda G Guy Ninja Tune
Dark Chisme Yo Puedo Vivir Sin Ti  self-released
Medejin  The Garden Den Tapes
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Turn Into You Perpetual Novice
Sextile Push Sacred Bones Records
Beverly Glenn-Copeland The Ones Ahead Transgressive
 

Albina Cabrera // El Sonido  // Mondays 7-10PM
artist album label
Tainy Data NEON16
Karol G Karol G Universal Music Latino
Diego Raposo YO NO ERA ASÍ PERO DE AHORA EN ADELANTE, SÍ GRAN VAINA 
Evlay  333 Caraza Records
Melenas Ahora Trouble In Mind
Amor Muere A time to love, a time to die Scrawl (formerly known as SA Recordings)
Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado Súper terror Nacional Records
Mon Laferte Autopoiética Universal Music
Luzmila Carpio Inti Watana - El Retorno del Sol ZZK RECORDS
Peso Pluma Génesis Double P Records

 


DJ Alex  // Midnight In a Perfect World // Sundays 12-1 AM

rank artist album label
1 Jim Legxacy homeless n**** pop music (!)
2 ML Buch Suntub 15 love
3 Melenas Ahora Trouble In Mind
4 Yves Tumor Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) Warp
5 Noname Sundial self-released
6 Ruby Haunt Between Heavens self-released
7 Say She She Silver Karma Chief/Colemine
8 Jam City Jam City Presents EFM Earthly/Mad Decent
9 Sofia Kourtesis Madres Ninja Tune
10 dreamTX living in memory of something sweet Memorials of Distinction
 

DJ Alex // Pacific Notions  // Sundays 6-9 AM
artist album label
Gia Margaret Romantic Piano Jagjaguwar
Green-House A Host for All Kinds of Life Leaving
Hania Rani Ghosts Gondwana
Lemon Quartet ArtsFest Last Resort
Jonny Nash Point Of Entry Melody As Truth
Linda Rum Friede Moderna
marine eyes & IKSRE Nurture Past Inside the Present
Niecy Blues Exit Simulation Kranky
Omni Gardens Golden Pear Moon Glyph
Purelink Signs peak oil
 

Atticus George-Andrijeski // Variety Mix // Fridays 1-5 AM

rank artist album label
1 En Attendant Ana Principia Trouble in Mind Records
2 Blonde Redhead Sit Down for Dinner section1
3 Yo La Tengo This Stupid World Matador Records
4 Sextile Push Sacred Bones
5 Kassi Valazza Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing Fluff and Gravy 
6 DAIISTAR Good Time Fuzz Club
7 Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You Perpetual Novice
8 Jorja Smith falling or flying FAMM
9 Nation of Language Strange Disciple PIAS
10 Spirit Award The Fear Share It Music

 


DJ Miss Ashley // Variety Mix  // Sundays 12-3 PM

artist album label
Kassa Overall  ANIMALS Warp
Little Dragon Slugs of Love Ninja Tune
James Blake Playing Robots into Heaven Polydor
Meshell Ndegeocello The Omnichord Real Book  Blue Note
Janelle Monae Age of Pleasure Bad Boy Records
NAVVI  V Hush Hush
Sofia Kourtesis Madres Ninja Tune
Arlo Parks My Soft Machine Transgressive Records
Lil Yachty  Let's Start Here. Quality Control Music
El Michels Affair & Black Thought Glorious Game  Big Crown Records
 

Brian Foss // Sonic Reducer // Saturdays 9 PM-12 AM

artist album label
Dream Nails Doom Loop Marshall Records
Erik Nervous Immaturity Feel It
Dead Bob Life Like Wrong Records
Problem Patterns Blouse Club Alcopop!
Jean Mignon AN/AL Metal Postcard
Strange Attractor Good Boy Bad Boy Drunken Sailor Records
Heartbeeps Cum Together Slovenly
Maggot House How to Talk to Extraterrestrials Self
Civic Taken By Force ATO Records
Tyvek Overground Ginko Records

 


Brit Hansen // Expansions // Sundays 9 PM-12 AM

artist album label
Dutch Uncles True Entertainment Memphis Industries
Object Heavy Love & Gravity Color Red
Cameron Graham Becoming a Beach Angel Phantom Limb
Hemlock Ernst & Height Keech The Fall Collection Alpha Pup
Erik Hall Canto Ostinato Western Vinyl
MADMADMAD Behavioural Sink Delirium Bad Vibrations Records
Mario Diaz de Leon Spark and Earth Denovali Records
When Saints Go Machine Rosy WSGM
Current Value Beneath the Sonics Beneath the Sonics
Warmth Mourning Ghost Archives

 


Cheryl Waters // The Midday Show // Mondays-Fridays 10 AM-1 PM

artist album label
Jungle Volcano Caiola Records
Black Belt Eagle Scout The Land, The Water, The Sky Saddle Creek Records
Yves Tumor Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply: Hot Between Worlds) Warp
Young Fathers Heavy Heavy  Ninja Tune
Algiers Shook Matador
Black Pumas Chronicles of a Diamond ATO Records
Indigo De Souza All of This Will End Saddle Creek
Genesis Owusu  Struggler (Ourness/AWAL) 
Miss Grit Follow the Cyborg Mute
Cable Ties All Her Plans Merge
Bully Lucky For You Sub Pop
Blonde Redhead Sit Down for Dinne section 1
Caroline Rose The Art of Forgetting New West
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard The Silver Cord KGLW
Sufjan Stevens Javelin Asthmatic Kitty
Melenas Ahora Trouble In Mind
Slowdive Everything Is Alive Dead Oceans
Quasi  Breaking the Balls of History Sub Pop
Flyying Colours You Never Know Poison City
WITCH Zango Desert Daze Sound/Partisan

 


Darek Mazzone // Wo'Pop // Tuesdays 7-10 PM

artist album label
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood  Jarak Qaribak World Circuit
Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté  The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere  Real World
Altin Gün aşk ATO Records
Kultur Shock Acoustic Live Old Age Recording Co.
Gaye Su Akyol Anadolu Ejderi Glitterbeat
Wesli Tradisyon Cumbancha
Souad Massi Sequana Backingtrack Production
Angelique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf Queen of Sheba Mister Ibé
Lucas Santtana O Paraíso Nø Førmat!
Damir Imamović The World and All That It Holds Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

 


Dr. West // Sonic Reducer // Saturdays 9 PM-12 AM

rank artist album label
1 Protomartyr Formal Growth in the Desert Domino
2 Death Cab For Cutie Asphalt Meadows Atlantic
3 Slow Pulp Yard Anti-
4 Brain Tourniquet ...An Expression of Pain Iron Lung
5 Lydia Loveless Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again Bloodshot
6 The Pretty Flowers A Company Sleeve Double Helix
7 Olivia Rodrigo GUTS Geffen
8 Föllakzoid V Sacred Bones
9 boygenius the record + the rest ep Interscope
10 HIRS Collective We're Still Here Get Better

 


Eva Walker // Early // Monday - Friday 5-7 AM

artist album label
WITCH Zango Desert Daze Sound
Black Pumas Chronicles of a Diamond ATO
Nation of Language Strange Disciple PIAS
Lil Yatchy Let's Start Here. Quality Control/ Motown
African Head Charge A Trip to Bolgatanga On-U Sound
Killer Mike Michael Loma Vista
Say She She Silver Karma Chief/Colemine
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse KGLW
Death Valley Girls Islands in the Sky Suicide Squeeze
Little Dragon Slugs of Love Ninja Tune

 


Evie // Variety Mix // Sundays 3-6 PM

artist album label
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Perpetual Novice
Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) Warp
Say She She Silver Karma Chief Records
Little Dragon Slugs of Love Ninja Tune
L'Rain I Killed Your Dog Mexican Summer
M83 Fantasy Mute
Film School Field felte
Sea Lemon Stop At Nothing EP Luminelle Recordings
Benét Can I go again? Bayonet Records
Jungle Volcano Caiola Records

 


Greg Vandy  // The Roadhouse // Sundays 9-12 AM
rank artist album label
1 Dean Johnson Nothing For Me, Please Mama Bird
2 Margo Cilker Valley Of Heart's Delight Fluff & Gravy
3 Nude Party Rides On New West
4 Rose City Band Garden Party Thrill Jockey
5 Nat Myers Yellow Peril Easy Eye
6 Pink Stones You Know Who New West
7 Abraxas Monte Carlo Suicide Squeeze
8 Kassi Valazza Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing Fluff & Gravy
9 Nick Shoulders All Bad Gar-Hole
10 Muireann Bradley I Kept These Old Blues Tomkins Square

 


Greta Rose // Variety Mix // Saturdays 3-6 AM

artist album label
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Perpetual Novice
Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume Warp
Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer Ninja Tune
Sofia Kourtesis Madres Ninja Tune
Blonde Redhead Sit Down for Dinner section1
Emma Anderson Pearlies Sonic Cathedral Recordings
Melenas Ahora Trouble In Mind
Say She She Silver Karma Chief / Colemine
Spirit Award The Fear Share It Music
NOIA gisela Cascine

 


Hans // Variety Mix // Wednesdays 10 PM-1 AM

rank artist album label
1 boygenius The Record Interscope
2 Jungle Volcano Caiola
3 Elisapie Inuktitut Bonsound
4 Witch Zango Desert Daze Sound
5 Say She She Silver Karma Chief
6 Anohni And The Johnsons My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross Secretly Canadian
7 Yves Tumor Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) Warp
8 Dean Johnson Nothing For Me Please Mama Bird Recording Co.
9 Coral Grief Daydrops Den Tapes
10 Blonde Redhead Sit Down For Dinner section 1

 


Jenn Govola // Sonic Reducer // Saturdays 9 PM-12 AM

artist album label
Mary Jane Dunphe Stage of Love Pop Wig
Clarko Welcome to Clarko Iron Lung Records
Tozcos Infernal Toxic State Records
Mock Execution Circle Of Madness La Vida Es Un Mus
Cyberplsm Autogenesis Iron Lung Records
Belgrado Intra Apogeum La Vida Es Un Mus
Zorn Zorn Sorry State Records
Chalk Beat Session Vol 13 Shout Recordings
Skourge Torrential Torment Lookin' Out Records
Powerplant Grass Static Shock Records

 


DJ Jewel // Astral Plane // Wednesdays 7-10 PM

artist album label
Teal Pop Teal Pop Anxiety Blanket Records
John Carroll Kirby Blowout Stones Throw Records
Jonathan Wilson Eat the Worm BMG
Hooveriii Point Reverberation Appreciation Society
Goat Medicine Rocket Recordings
Daiistar Good Time Fuzz Club
Pearl & The Oysters Coast 2 Coast Stones Throw Records
WITCH Zango Desert Daze Sound
Altın Gün Aşk ATO Records
Ulrika Spacek Compact Trauma Tough Love

 


John Gilbreath // Jazz Theater // Mondays 1-3 AM

artist album label
Meshell Ndgeocello The Omnichord Real Book Blue Note
Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spaulding Alive at the Village Vanguard Palmetto
Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard Pryoclastic
Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet Hear the Light Singing RogueArt
Yuhan Su Liberated Gesture Sunnyside
James Brandon Lewis For Mahalia, With Love Tao Forms
Christian McBride's New Jawn Prime Mack Avenue
Kassa Overall Animals Warp
John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy Evenings at the Village Gate Impulse
Steve Lehman with Orchestre National de Jazz Ex Machina Pi Recordings

 


John Richards  // The Morning Show // Weekdays 7-10 AM

rank artist album label
1 James Be Opened By the Wonderful: 40 Years Orchestrated Nothing But Love Music
2 Depeche Mode Memento Mori Columbia
3 Nation of Language Strange Disciple Pias
4 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee Los Angeles Play It Again Sam
5 Bully Lucky For You Sub Pop
6 boygenius The Record Interscope
7 Ill Peach This is Not an Exit Hardly Art
8 The Chemical Brothers For that Beautiful Feeling Republic
9 Genesis Owusu Struggler Ourness
10 The Hives The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons Disques Hives

 


Kennady Quille // Audioasis // Saturdays 6-9 PM

artist album label
NONBINARY GIRLFRIEND BIG AND KIND self-released
Black Belt Eagle Scout The Land, The Water, The Sky Saddle Creek Records
Oblé Reed LINDENAVE! self-released
Y La Bamba Lucha Tender Loving Empire Records
Roman Norfleet and Be Present Art Group Roman Norfleet and Be Present Art Group Mississppi Records / Time Longer Than Rope Records
La Fonda We Are Infinite self-released
Medejin The Garden Icy Cold Records / Den Tapes
Swamp Wife Swamp Wife EP LACE Records
Dean Johnson Nothing For Me, Please Mama Bird Recording Co.
Quasi Breaking the Balls of History Sub Pop Records

 


KEvin Cole // Drive Time // Tuesday - Friday 4-7 PM

artist album label
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Perpetual Novice
Chemical Brothers For That Beautiful Feeling EMI
Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer Ninja Tune
Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! EMI
Sofia Kourtesis Madres Ninja Tune
Melenas Ahora Trouble In Mind
Sigur Rós ÁTTA Krúnk
James And The Cold Gun James And The Cold Gun Loosegroove
Kassa Overall Animals Warp
freekind. Since Always and Forever Légère

 


DJ Kevin Sur // Sounds of Survivance // Mondays 3-5 AM

artist album label
T H R O N E Toxic Jungle Hidden Renaissance
Dead Pioneers Dead Pioneers Take 5 Records
Fontine Yarrow Lover Good Buddy Records
Y La Bamba Lucha Tender Loving Empire Records
Coro Qom Chelaalapi & Lagartijeando Campo De Cielo Shika Shika
Def-i Blue Hour Def-i Music & Clothing LLC
Zoon Bekka Ma'iingan Paper Bag Records
Pássaro Antes De Existir o Mundo Shika Shika
Drew Martin Where's My Feet n/a
Mapochoe Valle Mapocho Mapochoe

 


Kid Hops  // Positive Vibrations // Saturdays 9 AM - 12 PM

rank artist album label
1 Ginjah Bashan Iconic Azul
2 Cedric Myton  Humanity Inna de Yard / Chapter Two
3 Aleighcia Scott  Do You Rorystonelove / Black Dub
4 Samory I  Outside (feat. Lila Ike) Easy Star
5 Khalia  No Answer (feat. Tanya Stephens)  Ineffable
6 Prince Fatty & Cornel Campbell & The Aggrovators  Press The Dub Along   17 North Parade
7 Hempress Sativa Sound the Trumpet  Conquering Lion
8 Askala Selassie & Ariwa Posse  Survivor   Ariwa
9 Popcaan  We Caa Done (feat. Drake)  OVO Sound
10 Kumar  My Time

VP

 

Kid Hops // Expansions // Sundays 9 PM-12 AM
artist album label
Calibre  Cousin  Signature
The North Quarter All Stars  Everything Nice  The North Quarter
Doktor  Why You Waiting? (feat. Serum & Agent Sasco)   Hospital
Lally  Blue Razz Lemonade (feat. Askel & Elere)  Soulvent
Pola & Bryson Too Shy (feat. Iyamah)  Shogun Audio
Boogie Vice & Deep Aztec   Promises (N-You-Up dub)  Get Physical Music
Philippa  Hold  Freerange
Sofia Kourtesis   Si Te Portas Bonito   Ninja Tune
Kuna Maze  I Told U (feat. Steve Spacek)  Tru Thoughts
AINT ABOUT ME Rothko Bleeds  self-released / bandcamp
 

Larry Mizell Jr  // The Afternoon Show // Mondays - Fridays 1-4 PM

rank artist album label
1 Liv.e Girl in the Half Pearl In Real Life Music / AWAL
2 Yves Tumor Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) Warp
3 Me'Shell Ndegeocello Omnichord Real Book Blue Note
4 Nabihah Iqbal DREAMER Ninja Tune
5 Say She She Silver Karma Chief Records
6 Noname Sundial self-released
7 Navy Blue Ways of Knowing Freedom Sounds
8 Nappy Nina Mourning Due LucidHaus
9 L'Rain I Killed Your Dog Mexican Summer
10 Dina Ögon Oas Playground Music Scandinavia
 

Larry Rose  // Variety Mix // Fill-in Host

rank artist album label
1 Youth Lagoon Heaven is a Junkyard Fat Possum
2 Sufjan Stevens Javelin Asthmatic Kitty
3 Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! Interscope
4 Nation of Language Strange Disciple PIAS
5 Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Perpetual Novice
6 Little Dragon Slugs of Love Ninja Tune
7 Yaeji With a Hammer XL
8 Kelela Raven Warp
9 Claud Supermodels Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans
10 Sea Lemon Stop at Nothing Luminelle Recordings
 

Lisa LeClair // Variety Mix // Fill-In Host

artist album label
Debby Friday Good Luck Sub Pop
Everything But The Girl Fuse Buzzin' Fly Records
La Sécurité Stay Safe! Mothland
Louise Post Sleepwalker El Camino Media
Morgan and The Organ Donors M.O.D.s K Records
Slowdive Everything Is Alive Dead Oceans
Sweeping Promises Good Living Is Coming For You Feel It Records
Tele Novella Poet's Tooth Kill Rock Stars
The National Laugh Track 4AD
The Waeve The Waeve Transgressive Records

 


DJ Michele Myers // Variety Mix // Tuesdays 10 PM

artist album label
Kelela Raven Warp
Jungle Volcano Caiola Records
Sofia Kourtesis Madres Ninja Tune
Arlo Parks The Soft Machine Transgressive
Nation of Language Sightseer Pias Records
The Sextones Love Can't Be Borrowed Record Kicks
Little Dragon Slugs of Love Ninja Tune
Jessie Ware That Feels Good EMI
Fred Again, Brian Eno Secret Life Text
Jorja Smith Falling or Flying Sony

 


Mike Ramos // Overnight Variety Mix // Tuesdays 1-5 AM

artist album label
Overmono Good Lies XL
Swami Sound Back In The Day Self-Released / Notes By Design
Veeze Ganger Navy Wavy / Warner
Valee Virtuoso / VALEEDATION SRFSCHL / MVW / Fake Shore Drive
Cowgirl Clue Rodeo Star Vada Vada
Sofia Kourtesis Madres Ninja Tune
Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist VOIR DIRE Tan Cressida / ALC
Kelela Raven Warp
Natanael Cano Nata Montana Warner
100 gecs 10,000 gecs Dog Show / Atlantic

 


Morgan // Variety Mix // Saturdays 12-3 PM

artist album label
Say She She Silver Karma Chief/Colemine
Spirit Award The Fear Share It Music
Genesis Owusu Struggler Ourness/AWAL
The Budos Band Frontier's Edge Diamond West
Jalen Ngonda Come Around and Love Me Daptone
SIPHO. PRAYERS & PARANOIA Dirty Hit
Adwaith Mato Bato Liberation
No-no Boy Empire Electric Smithsonian Folkways
Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer Ninja Tune
DAIISTAR Good Time Fuzz Club

 


Noel Brass Jr. // Jazz Theater // 1-3 AM

artist album label
Eddie Chacon Sundown Stones Throw
Alabaster Deplume Come With Fierce Grace International Anthem
Kamaal Williams Stings Black Focus Records
Carlos Nino & Friends (I'm Just) Chillin',On Fire International Anthem
Yussef Dayes Black Classical Music Nonesuch/Brownswood
Alpha Mist Variables Anti
Greg Foat & Gigi Masin Dolphin Strut Records
Shabazz Palaces Robed in Rareness Sub Pop
Andre 3000 New Blue Sun Epic Records
Sven Wunder Late Again Piano Piano

 


Reeves Richards // Variety Mix // Sundays 2-6 AM

artist album label
Home Is Where the whaler Wax Bodega
Geese 3D Country Partisan
Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit 20 Buck Spin
boygenius the record Interscope
Parannoul After the Magic Topshelf
Janelle Monae The Age of Pleasure Bad Boy/Wonderland
Black Belt Eagle Scout The Land, The Water, The Sky Saddle Creek
Wayfarer American Gothic Profound Lore
Screaming Females Desire Pathway Don Giovanni
Arlo Parks My Soft Machine Transgressive

 


Reverend Dollars // Variety Mix // Thursdays 1-5 AM

artist album label
Amaarae Fountain Baby Interscope
Beverly Glenn-Copeland The Ones Ahead Transgressive
DJ Manny Hypnotized Planet Mu
H31R HeadSpace Big Dada
Jlin Perspective Planet Mu
Kelela Raven Warp
Liv.e Girl in the Half Pearl In Real Life
Noname Sundial AWAL
twofold Black Armor theerobins
Victoria Monét Jaguar II RCA

 


Sean Morrow // Variety Mix // Mondays 10 PM-1 AM

artist album label
Maraschino  Hollywood Piano  Kiss Cafe
a.s.o. a.s.o. Low Lying
Maara The Ancient Truth Step Ball Chain
Dream Dolphin Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996​-​2003)  Music From Memory
Nourished by Time Erotic Probiotic 2  Scenic Route
Avalon Emerson & The Charm Another Dove
Salamanda In Parallel Wisdom Teeth
Loveshadow II Dark Entries
Decisive Pink Ticket to Fame Fire Records
ML Buch Suntub 15 Love

Stas THEE Boss // Street Sounds // Fridays 10 PM-1 AM

rank artist album label
1 Nappy Nina Mourning Due LucidHaus
2 MIKE Burning Desire 10K
3 B. Cool-Aid Leather Blvd Lex Records
4 Shabazz Palaces Robed In Rareness Sub Pop
5 Liv.e Girl In The Half Pearl In Real Life
6 L'Rain I Killed Your Dog Mexican Summer
7 h31r HeadSpace Big Dada
8 Teezo Touchdown How Do You Sleep At Night? Not Fit For Society
9 Travis Scott Utopia Cactus Jack
10 Ice Spice Like..? (Deluxe) Dolo Entertainment

 


Tanner Ellison // Seek & Destroy // Saturdays 12-2 AM

artist album label
HIRS Collective We're Still Here Get Better Records
Re-Buried Repulsive Nature Translation Loss Records
Gridlink  Coronet Jumper Willowtip Records
Crypta Shades of Sorrow Napalm Records
Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm Wolves of Hades
Suffocation  Hymns from the Apocrypha Nuclear Blast
Trespasser  Αποκάλυψισ Red Nebula
Morkera  Aggravations  self-released
Dryad  The Abyssal Plain Prosthetic Records
Hellripper  Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags Peaceville Records

 


Tory J // Sounds of Survivance // Mondays 3-5 am

rank artist album label
1 Haken Fauna Inside Out Music
2 Kurilpa Reach Our House on Home Street Kurilpa Reach
3 Def-i Blue Hour Def-i
4 Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden Spinefarm Records
5 Alliance Chapter 1: Let Go Alliance
6 TesseracT War of being Kscope Records
7 Jeremy Dutcher Motewolonuwok Secret City Records
8 Divide and Dissolve Systemic INVADA Records UK
9 Black Belt Eagle Scout The Land, The Water, The Sky Saddle Creek
10 Elisapie Inuktitut Bonsound
 

troy nelson // Variety Mix // Saturdays 3-6 pm

rank artist album label
1 Genesis Owusu Struggler Ourness/AWAL
2 Model/Actriz Dogsbody True Panther
3 El Michels Affair & Black Thought Glorious Game Big Crown
4 Spirit Award The Fear Share It Music
5 Telehealth Content Oscillator Very Famous
6 La Sécurité Stay Safe! Mothland
7 DEBBY FRIDAY GOOD LUCK Sub Pop
8 Red Axes One More City Fabric Records
9 Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer Ninja Tune
10 Being Dead When Horses Would Run Bayonet Records

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