photo by James Bailey
This week, as we continue to post KEXP DJs’ Top 10 Albums of 2015 lists, we also want to share the favorites of KEXP's extremely talented and dedicated volunteer photographers, who generously donate so much of their time and talent to give everyone direct access to the hundreds of live sessions, concerts and events at and around KEXP. Their passion is truly what drives them, and, like all KEXP listeners, they care deeply about music. Check out their picks for Top 10 albums of 2015 below, and be sure to see what KEXP listeners voted as their Top 90.3 Albums of 2015 here .
East India Youth // photo by Charina Pitzel
Charina Pitzel (more photos) New Order Music Complete Mute Foals What Went Down Warner Bros. Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Asthmatic Kitty Samaris Silkidranger Sessions One Little Indian Caspian Dust and Disquiet Triple Crown East India Youth Culture of Volume XL Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Mom + Pop The Away Days THIS [EP] self-released Public Service Broadcasting The Race for Space Test Card Vaadat Charigim Sinking as a Stone Burger
HEALTH // photo by Dave Lichterman
Dave Lichterman (more photos) Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly TDE/Aftermath/Interscope Grimes Art Angels 4AD Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Asthmatic Kitty Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Mom + Pop Jamie xx In Colour Young Turks Foals What Went Down Transgressive Dan Deacon Gliss Riffer Domino Vince Staples Summertime '06 Def Jam HEALTH Death Magic Loma Vista Nicolas Jaar Pomegranates Other People
METZ // photo by Amber Knecht
Amber Knecht (more photos) Will Butler Policy Merge Lord Huron Strange Trails Iamsound Patrick Watson Love Songs For Robots Domino FIDLAR Too Mom + Pop Music EL VY Return To The Moon 4AD METZ II Sub Pop Rocky Votolato Hospital Handshakes No Sleep Records Ryan Adams 1989 Blue Note Mikal Cronin MCIII Merge Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Asthmatic Kitty
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard // photo by Jim Bennett
Jim Bennett (more photos) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Quarters! Flightless Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Mom + Pop St Germain St Germain Nonesuch Mbongwana Star From Kinshasa World Circuit Tame Impala Currents Interscope Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm going down... Matador Alabama Shakes Sound & Color ATO Leon Bridges Coming Home Columbia El Vy Return To The Moon 4AD Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love Jagjaguwar
Unknown Mortal Orchestra // photo by Bebe Besch
Bebe Besch (more photos) Father John Misty I Love You, Honeyear Sub Pop The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness XO/Republic Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Asthmatic Kitty HEALTH Death Magic Lima Vista Mas Ysa Seraph Downtown Records Tame Impala Currents Interscope Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love Jagjaguwar Foals What Went Down Warner Bros. Superhumanoids Do You Feel OK? Innovative Leisure Ludvig Forssell / Various Artists Metal Gear Solid V Original Sountrack Sony Music
El Vy // photo by Brittany Brassell
Brittany Brassell (more photos) Brandon Flowers The Desired Effect Island Records Tame Impala Currents Interscope Hot Chip Why Make Sense? Domino El Vy Return to the Moon 4AD Will Butler Policy Merge Jamie xx In Colour Young Turks Ty Segall Ty Rex Goner Carly Rae Jepsen EMOTION Interscope The Vaccines English Graffiti Columbia New Order Music Complete Mute
Summer Cannibals // photo by Tori Dickson
Tori Dickson (more photos) Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Mom + Pop Ezra Furman Perpetual Motion People Bella Union The Grizzled Mighty Close Knuckled Jaw Self-Released Fauna Shade Baton Rouge Self-Released Summer Cannibals Show Us Your Mind New Moss Records Hanni El Khatib Moonlight Self-Released Shannon and the Clams Gone By the Dawn Hardly Art Leon Bridges Coming Home Columbia Alabama Shakes Sound & Color ATO JD McPherson Let the Good Times Roll Rounder
Lemolo // photo by Melissa Wax
Melissa Wax (more photos) Foals What Went Down Warner Bros. Lemolo Red Right Return Self-Released Beirut No No No 4AD Chrvches Every Open Eye Glassnote Sleater-Kinney No Cities To Love Sub Pop Destroyer Poison Season Merge Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves Epic Wolf Alice My Love is Cool RCA Grimes Art Angels 4AD Deerhunter Fading Frontier 4AD
Kurt Vile // photo by Alan Lawrence
Alan Lawrence (more photos) Kurt Vile b'lieve I'm Goin Down Matador Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear Sub Pop Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly TDE/Aftermath/Interscope Steven Wilson Hand.Cannot.Erase K-Scope Blur The Magic Whip Parlophone Beach House Depression Candy Sub Pop Tame Impala Currents Interscope Jamie xx In Colour Young Turks Deerhunter Fading Frontier 4AD Jason Isbell Something More Than Free Southeastern
Car Seat Headrest // photo by Niffer Calderwood
Niffer Calderwood (more photos) Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool RCA Bully Feels Like Columbia Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Mom + Pop JEFF the Brotherhood Wasted on the Dream Infinity Cat Maniac Demimonde latidarecords Tame Impala Currents Interscope Car Seat Headrest Teens of Fashion Matador The Sonics This Is the Sonics Revox THEESatisfaction EarthEE Sub Pop Rose Windows Rose Windows Sub Pop
Wilco // photo by Matthew B. Thompson
Matthew B. Thompson (more photos) Tame Impala Currents Interscope Wilco Star Wars dBpm Records Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Mom + Pop Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear Sub Pop Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly TDE/Aftermath/Interscope José González Vestiges and Claws Mute Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard Django & Jimmie Sony Legacy Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Asthmatic Kitty Alabama Shakes Sound and Color ATO Motopony Welcome You eOne Music
Eric Gonzalez Alfaro (more photos) Kamasi Washington The Epic Brainfeeder Leon Bridges Coming Home Columbia Tame Impala Currents Interscope Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly TDE/Aftermath/Interscope Low Ones and Sixes Sub Pop The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home Dead Oceans Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down Matador Sharon Van Etten I Don't Want to Let You Down (EP) Jagjaguwar THEESatisfaction EarthEE Sub Pop Grimes Art Angels 4AD
La Luz (in 2013) // photo by Greg Stonebraker
Greg Stonebraker (more photos) Brett Netson & Snakes Scavenger Cult EP Self-Released Wimps Suitcase Kill Rock Stars Kurt Vile b’lieve i’m goin down Matador Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Mom + Pop Fuzz II In the Red Built To Spill Untethered Moon Warner Bros. La Luz Weirdo Shrine Hardly Art Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly TDE/Aftermath/Interscope Leon Bridges Coming Home Columbia Shana Cleveland & the Sandcastles Oh Man, Cover the Ground Suicide Squeeze