KEXP Staff, Volunteers & Interns Top 10 Albums of 2019

2019 Countdown
12/31/2019
KEXP
Brittany Howard // photo by Eric Tra (view set)

Throughout the month of December, KEXP has been counting down our top albums. From Top 10 lists from our DJs to the Top 90.3 of 2019 as voted by listeners, we’ve chronicled a wide array of some of this year’s most thrilling released. Now we’re turning the mic over to our behind the scenes staff, volunteers, and interns who help keep the station running. Here are their favorite albums of 2019. How do their lists line-up with yours?

Aarin Wright // Live Performances Booking Coordinator & Midday Show Assistant
rank artist album label
1 Julia Jacklin Crushing Polyvinyl
2 Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! Polydor/Interscope
3 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO
4 Faye Webster Atlanta Millionaires Club Secretly Canadian
5 Jay Som Anak Ko Polyvinyl
6 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
7 (Sandy) Alex G House of Sugar Domino
8 Stef Chura Midnight Saddle Creek
9 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
10 Nilüfer Yanya Miss Universe ATO
Katrina Harvie-Watt // Associate Director of Development, Major Giving
rank artist album label
1 Haelos Any Random Kindness Infectious Music
2 The National I Am Easy to Find 4AD
3 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life
4 Sault 5 Forever Living Originals
5 Lana Del Ray Norman Fucking Rockwell Polydor
6 Thom Yorke Anima XL Recordings
7 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
8 Local Natives Violet Street Loma Vista
9 Cigarettes After Sex Cry Partisan Records
10 Hot Chip Bathful of Ecstasy Domino Recording
Bailey Egan // Associate Content Producer, Afternoon Show
rank artist album label
1 Great Grandpa Four of Arrows Big Scary Monsters Recording Co.
2 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO Records
3 Vagabon Vagabon Barely Dressed Records
4 Big Thief Two Hands 4AD
5 Sudan Archives Athena Stones Throw
6 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
7 Black Pumas Black Pumas ATO Records
8 Durand Jones & the Indications American Love Call Colemine Records
9 The Highwomen The Highwomen Elektra Records
10 Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka Polydor
John Ware // Technical Program Manager & Scrum Master
rank artist album label
1 Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest Drag City
2 Jesca Hoop Stonechild Memphis Industries
3 Pedro the Lion Phoenix Polyvinyl
4 Tiny Ruins Olympic Girls Ba Da Bing!
5 Fontaines D.C. Dogrel Partisan Records
6 Ezra Furman Twelve Nudes Bella Union
7 Big Thief Two Hands 4AD
8 Great Grandpa Four of Arrows Double Double Whammy
9 Joan Shelley Like the River Loves the Sea No Quarter
10 Cataldo Literally Main Street self-released
Dusty Henry // Digital Content Manager
rank artist album label
1 Helado Negro This Is How You Smile RVNG Intl
2 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Bandana Keep Cool/RCA Records
3 Wand Laughing Matter Drag City
4 Big Thief U.F.O.F. 4AD
5 Chastity Belt Chastity Belt Hardly Art
6 Pedro The Lion Phoenix Polyvinyl
7 Y La Bamba Mujeres Tender Loving Empire
8 Girlpool What Chaos Is Imaginary ANTI-
9 JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs EQT Recordings
10 Jay Som Anak Ko Polyvinyl
Skyler Locatelli // Account Executive - Business Development
rank artist album label
1 Thom Yorke Anima XL Recordings
2 Hiss Golden Messenger Terms Of Surrender Merge
3 Michael Kiwanuka KIWANUKA Polydor
4 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
5 Tempers Private Life Dais
6 Moon Duo Stars are the Lights Sacred Bones
7 L'Epee Diabolique Cargo
8 Sturgill Simpson SOUND & FURY Elektra
9 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
10 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
Lisa LeClair // Guest Services Coordinator
rank artist album label
1 Sleater-Kinney The Center Won't Hold Mom + Pop Music
2 L7 Scatter The Rats Blackheart Records
3 Boy Harsher Careful Nude Club
4 Kim Gordon No Home Record Matador
5 Juliana Hatfield Weird American Laundromat
6 Tempers Private Life Dais
7 Mesa Luna Lash Afterlife Music
8 The National I Am Easy To Find 4AD
9 Amyl & The Sniffers Amyl & The Sniffers ATO Records
10 Chromatics Closer To Grey Italians Do It Better
Rob Bender // Associate Director, Business Support
rank artist album label
1 clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood Sub Pop
2 Fontaines D.C. Dogrel Partisan
3 Little Simz GREY Area AGE 101
4 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life/Atlantic
5 Queen Zee Queen Zee Sasstone
6 Sampa The Great The Return Ninja Tune
7 Sault 5 Forever Living Originals
8 The Shivas Dark Thoughts Tender Loving Empire
9 Shopping The Official Body FatCat
10 SONS Family Dinner Noisesome
Matthew Schmidt // Board Op/DJ Assistant
rank artist album label
1 Solange When I Get Home Columbia
2 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life/Atlantic
3 Rapsody Eve Jamla/Roc Nation
4 Jenny Lewis On The Line Warner Bros.
5 Sleater-Kinney The Center Won't Hold Mom + Pop
6 Buke & Gase Scholars Brassland
7 Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjaguwar
8 Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? 4AD
9 Lower Dens The Competition Ribbon Music
10 Sudan Archives Athena Stones Throw
Alex Mabery // Sales Representative
rank artist album label
1 Toro y Moi Outer Peace Carpark Records
2 The Chemical Brothers No Geography Virgin EMI Records
3 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
4 Cataldo Literally Main Street Self-released
5 Frankie Cosmos Close It Quietly Sub Pop
6 Great Grandpa Four Of Arrows Double Double Whammy
7 Bon Iver i,i Jagjaguwar
8 Caravan Palace Chronologic Le Plan Recordings
9 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Atlantic Records
10 Hobo Johnson The Fall of Hobo Johnson Reprise Records
Mae Gelbach // Sales Volunteer
rank artist album label
1 FKA Twigs Magdalene Young Turks Recordings
2 The Black Keys Let's Rock Nonesuch Records
3 Durand Jones and the Indications American Love Call Dead Oceans
4 Rainy Moon Place Gathered Ghosts Self-Released
5 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life / Atlantic
6 Faye Webster Atlanta Millionaires Club Secretly Canadian
7 The Raconteurs Help Me Stranger Third Man Records
8 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO Records
9 Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center Dead Oceans
10 Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? Dark Room / Interscope
Jim Beckmann // Video Manager
rank artist album label
1 Wand Laughing Matter Drag City
2 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Ghosteen Bad Seed Ltd
3 Tindersticks No Treasure But Hope Lucky Dog/City Slang
4 Bill Callahan Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest Drag City
5 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
6 Cigarettes After Sex Cry Partisan
7 Girl Band The Talkies Rough Trade
8 Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City
9 Sault 5 Rough Trade
10 Fontaines D.C. Dogrel Partisan
Stephanie Reisfeld Shafer // Stewardship Manager
rank artist album label
1 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life Recording Company and Atlantic Recording Corporation
2 Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Part 2) Warner Music UK Limited
3 The Black Keys Let's Rock Nonesuch Records Inc.
4 Terror/Cactus Impulsos self-released
5 Jungle Back to Mine: Jungle Back to Mine
6 Holy Ghost! Work Holy Ghost! under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
7 Caravan Palace Chronologic Le Plan Recordings under exclusive license from Lone Diggers
8 Black Pumas Black Pumas ATO Records
9 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop Records
10 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
Rischel Scrimgeour Granquist // Director of Facility Operations & Guest Services
rank artist album label
1 Tyler, the Creator IGOR Columbia
2 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life/Atlantic
3 Maren Morris Girl Columbia Nashville
4 Sault 5 Forever Living Originals
5 Anderson.Paak Ventura Aftermath
6 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
7 Redd Kross Beyond The Door Merge
8 Guided By Voices Zeppelin Over China Guided By Voices, Inc.
9 Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? Interscope
10 Brockhampton Ginger Question Everything/RCA
Philip LaRose // Tour docent and multi-purpose volunteer
rank artist album label
1 NAVVI 2502 Hush Hush
2 Hatchie Keepsake Double Double Whammy
3 Octo Octa Resonant Body T4T LUV NRG
4 Blue Hawaii Open Reduction Internal Fixation Arbutus Records
5 Trentemøller Obverse HFN Music
6 Sault 5 Forever Living Originals
7 The Hecks My Star Trouble In Mind
8 Julian Zyklus Four Dimensional Waves Hush Hush
9 Squid Town Centre EP Speedy Wunderground
10 Christelle Bofale Swim Team EP Father/Daughter Records
Isabel Khalili // Licensing & Podcasting Coordinator
rank artist album label
1 Julia Jacklin Crushing Polyvinyl
2 (Sandy) Alex G House of Sugar Domino
3 Blood Orange Angel's Pulse Domino
4 SAULT 7 Forever Living Originals
5 Altin Gün Gece ATO
6 FKA Twigs MAGDALENE Young Turks
7 Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjaguwar
8 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
9 Flying Lotus Flamagra Warp
10 Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs Mexican Summer
Matthew Howland // Contributing Writer, KEXP Website
rank artist album label
1 Cate Le Bon Reward Mexican Summer
2 Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City
3 Angel Bat Dawid The Oracle International Anthem
4 Joni Void Mise En Abyme Constellation
5 Moor Mother Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes Don Giovanni
6 Xiu Xiu Girl With Basket of Fruit Polyvinyl
7 CVN I.C. Orange Milk
8 Jenny Hval The Practice of Love Sacred Bones
9 Olivia Neutron-John EP Sister Polygon
10 Jun Chikuma Les Archives Freedom to Spend
Lizzy Rose Flores // Business & Marketing Traffic Manager
rank artist album label
1 Oozing Wound High Anxiety Thrill Jockey Records
2 Uzeda Quocumque jeceris stabit Temporary Residence
3 Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel Thrill Jockey Records
4 FKA Twigs MAGDALENE Young Turks
5 Thom Yorke Anima XL
6 East Forest Ram Dass Aquilo Records
7 Wilson Trouvé Malam Hush Hush Records
8 Mathbonus Evening Machine Repost Network
9 Operators Radiant Dawn Last Gang Records
10 Sidewalks and Skeletons Entity Self Released
Chris Kellogg // Programming Group Director
rank artist album label
1 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets And Now for the Whatchamacallit What Reality?
2 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
3 Sampa The Great The Return Ninja Tune
4 Shana Cleveland Night of the Worm Moon Hardly Art
5 Altin Gün Gece ATO
6 Solange When I Get Home Columbia
7 Snapped Ankles Stunning Luxery The Tea Leaf Label
8 Ex Hex It's Real Merge
9 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
10 Fontaines DC Dogrel Partisan
Taylor Westerlund // Development Coordinator
rank artist album label
1 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
2 Big Thief UFOF 4AD
3 Aldous Harding Designer 4AD
4 Bedouine Bird Songs of a Killjoy Spacebomb Records
5 The Mountain Goats In League With Dragons Merge Records
6 Kevin Morby Oh My God Dead Oceans
7 Daniel Norgren Wooh Dang Superpuma Records
8 WHY? AOKOHIO Joyful Noise Recordings
9 Great Grandpa Four of Arrows Big Scary Monsters Recording Company
10 Calexico / Iron & Wine Years to Burn Sub Pop
Kim Coyne // Executive Assistant
rank artist album label
1 Trentemøller Obverse In My Room
2 HTRK Venus in Leo Ghostly International
3 Holy Fawn Death Spells Whelmed Records
4 Black Pumas Black Pumas Colemine Records
5 RY X Unfurl Infectious Music
6 Little People Landlooper Youth and Progress Recordings
7 Loscil Equivalents Kranky
8 TR/ST The Destroyer - 2 Royal Mountain Records
9 Is Bliss Strange Communication Club AC30
10 Chkbns Autwik self-released
Andrea Friedman // Events Producer
rank artist album label
1 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
2 Pelada Movimiento Para Cambio PAN
3 Shanti Celeste Tangerine Peach Discs
4 Sasami Sasami Domino
5 JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs self-released
6 Cate le Bon Reward Mexican Summer
7 Crumb Jinx self-released
8 Hannah Diamond Reflections PC Music
9 Violet Bed of Roses Dark Entries
10 MoMa Ready SOFT, HARD, BODY HAUS of ALTR
M Escotto // DJ Assistant for Sonic Reducer and Seek and Destroy
rank artist album label
1 Gazm Heavy Vibe Music 11PM Records
2 Lingua Ignota Caligula Profound Lore
3 Flor de Toloache Indestructible Flor de Toloache
4 Vanum Ageless Fire Profound Lore
5 Ossuarium Living Tomb 20 Buck Spin
6 Amyl and the Sniffers Amyl and the Sniffers Flightless
7 Nox Novacula The Beginning Bat Cave Productions
8 Hide Hell is Here Dais Records
9 Vastum Orificial Purge 20 Buck Spin
10 Guayaba Fantasmagoría 950425 Records DK2
Matthew Belt // Digital Content Producer
rank artist album label
1 The National I Am Easy to Find 4AD
2 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest Flightless
3 Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjaguwar
4 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
5 Hot Chip A Bath Full of Ecstasy Domino
6 Nilufer Yanya Miss Universe Universal
7 Tei Shi La Linda Downtown
8 Africa Express EGOLI Africa Express Records
9 Clairo Immunity Fader Label
10 Girl In Red Chapter 2 AWAL
Ann Allen // Lead DJ Assistant & DJ Assistant on The Afternoon Show
rank artist album label
1 Hot Chip A Bath Full of Ecstasy Domino
2 Sault 5 Forever Living Originals
3 Black Pumas Black Pumas ATO Records
4 Jay Som Anak Ko Polyvinyl Record Co.
5 Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center Dead Oceans
6 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Atlantic/Nice Life Records
7 Rudy Willingham Dunk Reactions Rudy Willingham
8 American Football American Football (LP3) Polyvinyl
9 Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka Polydor
10 Big Thief UFOF 4AD
Taylor Kesler // Live Events Tabling Volunteer
rank artist album label
1 Oso Oso basking in the glow Triple Crown Records
2 Big Thief U.F.O.F. 4AD
3 The National I Am Easy To Find 4AD
4 Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center Dead Oceans
5 Macseal Super Enthusiast 6131 Records
6 Thom Yorke Anima XL Recordings LTD
7 Charly Bliss Capacity Barsuk Records
8 Pedro The Lion Phoenix Polyvinyl Record Co.
9 Mannequin Pussy Patience Epitaph
10 Bon Iver i,i Jagjaguwar
Christine Walsh Rogers // Tabling, events and DJ Assistant fill in
rank artist album label
1 Sharon van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
2 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life
3 Sampa The Great The Return Ninja Tune
4 Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka Interscope
5 Bruce Springsteen Western Stars Columbia
6 Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center Dead Oceans
7 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO
8 Durand Jones and the Indications American Love Call Dead Oceans
9 Jamila Woods Legacy! Legacy! Dead Oceans
10 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
Brittany Ward // DJ Assistant for Street Sounds
rank artist album label
1 Young Thug So Much Fun 300 Entertainment
2 Lil Nas X 7 EP Columbia Records
3 The Highwomen The Highwomen Elektra Records
4 Steve Lacy Apollo XXI 3qtr
5 Doja Cat Hot Pink RCA Records
6 Megan Thee Stallion Fever 300 Entertainment
7 Stella Donnelly Beware Of The Dogs Secretly Canadian
8 Channel Tres Black Moses EP GODMODE
9 DaBaby KIRK Interscope Records
10 Sigrid Sucker Punch Island Records
Bebe Labree // Photographer
rank artist album label
1 Charli XCX Charli Atlantic
2 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
3 Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center Dead Oceans
4 FKA Twigs Magdalene Young Turks
5 Dorian Electra Flamboyant Self-released
6 Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Part 1) Warner Bros/Transgressive
7 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
8 Kim Petras Clarity BunHead
9 Noah Gundersen Lover Cooking Vinyl
10 Slayyyter Slayyyter Self-released
Nikhil Sarma // Audio technician
rank artist album label
1 Harry Partch, Partch Ensemble Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 3: Sonata Dementia Bridge Records
2 People's Plus Third Space Mood Hut
3 The Westerlies Robert Henry (single) The Westerlies Music Inc.
4 Clever Austin Ark (single) Touching Bass
5 N/a N/a N/a
6 N/a N/a N/a
7 N/a N/a N/a
8 Van Halen 1984 Geffen
9 N/a N/an N/a
10 N/a N/a N/a
Amber Marie Simon // In-Studio Hospitality & Events
rank artist album label
1 Jamila Woods LEGACY! LEGACY! Jagjaguwar/Closed Sessions
2 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO
3 Sault 5 Forever Living Originals
4 Durand Jones & The Indications American Love Story Dead Oceans
5 Fontaines D.C. Dogrel Partisan
6 Big Thief U.F.O.F. 4AD
7 Toro y Moi Outer Places Carpark
8 Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet Loma Vista Recordings
9 Lee Fields & The Expressions It Rains Love Big Crown
10 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
Bella Schilling // Youth Resonance Chair
rank artist album label
1 Sam Fender Hypersonic Missiles Polydor Records
2 Lucky Daye Painted RCA
3 BROCKHAMPTON GINGER RCA
4 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
5 Harry Styles Fine Line Columbia Records
6 Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjaguwar
7 Doja Cat Hot Pink RCA
8 Bon Iver i,i Jagjaguwar
9 Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! Polydor Records
10 Free Nationals Free Nationals Empire
Mandi Kimes // Volunteer
rank artist album label
1 The Japanese House Good at Falling Interscope Records
2 Bon Iver i,i Jagjaguwar
3 Bayonne Drastic Measures Mom + Pop
4 Barrie Happy to Be Here Winspear
5 Caroline Polachek Pang Perpetual Novice
6 Tycho Weather Mom + Pop
7 The National I Am Easy to Find 4AD
8 Jay Som Anak Ko Polyvinyl
9 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO Records
10 Pedro the Lion Phoenix Polyvinyl
David Schilling // Lead Events Volunteer, Viewing Gallery, Hospitality, DJ Assistant
rank artist album label
1 SONS Family Dinner Caroline Benelux
2 Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell Interscope
3 Gary Clark Jr. This Land Warner Bros.
4 Brett Benton You Got To Pray Knick Knack
5 New Age Healers Debris Self Released
6 The Black Tones Cobain and Cornbread Self Released
7 Koffee Rapture Promised Land Recordings
8 HAELOS Any Random Kindness Infectious Music
9 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO
10 Harry Styles Fine Line Columbia
Miina Beyreis // Volunteer! DJ Assistant for the Midday Show, Tabling Lead, Hospitality, Viewing Gallery, Tour Docent, Fund Drives +++
rank artist album label
1 The Chemical Brothers No Geography Virgin EMI Records, Astralwerks
2 TR/ST The Destroyer Part 1 & Part 2 Royal Mountain Records, Grouch
3 DJ Shadow Our Pathetic Age Mass Appeal Records
4 Octo Octa Resonant Body T4T LUV NRG
5 clipping. There Existed An Addiction To Blood Sub Pop
6 SAULT 5 Forever Living Originals
7 Fontaines D.C. Dogrel Partisan Records
8 HÆLOS Any Random Kindness Infectious Music
9 The Black Tones Cobain and Cornbread Reptar Records
10 Toro Y Moi Outer Peace Carpark Records
Dusty Backlund // event tabling/promotions and pledge drive volunteer
rank artist album label
1 Test Dept. Disturbance One Little Indian
2 The Gloaming 3 Real World
3 These New Puritans Inside the Rose Infectious
4 Modern Studies and Tommy Perman Emergent Slow Arcs Fire
5 Meat Beat Manifesto Opaque couché Flexidisc
6 Le Butcherettes bi/MENTAL Rise
7 Lankum The Livelong Day Rough Trade
8 Jenny Hval The Practice of Love Sacred Bones
9 Mono Nowhere Now Here Temporary Residence
10 The Specials Encore Island
Stacy McCauslin // Band Hospitality, DJ Assistant, Show Stickering, and Events
rank artist album label
1 Operators Radiant Dawn Last Gang Records
2 Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center Dead Oceans
3 Kyle Craft Showboat Honey Sub Pop Records
4 Fruit Bats Gold Past Life Merge Records
5 Mikal Cronin Seeker Merge Records
6 Zebra Hunt Trade Desire Tenorio Cotobade
7 The New Pornographers In the Morse Code of Brake Lights Concord Records
8 Telekinesis Effluxion Merge Records
9 Sonny & The Sunsets Hairdressers from Heaven Rocks In Your Head
10 Elbow Giants of All Sizes Polydor Records

 

Albina Cabrera // Latin Content Producer of KEXP
rank artist album label
1 Helado Negro This Is How You Smile RVNG Intl
2 Boogarins Sombrou Dúvida Boogarins
3 Y La Bamba Mujeres Tender Loving Empire
4 iLe Almadura Sony Music
5 Daymé Arocena Sonocardiogram Brownswood Recordings
6 Wos Caravana Wos
7 Nicola Cruz Siku ZZK Records
8 Mi amigo invencible Dutsiland Mi amigo invencible
9 Combo Chimbita Ahomale ANTI
10 Yawners Just Calm Down La Castanya

 

Tanner Ellison // DJ and Host of Seek & Destroy
rank artist album label
1 Altarage The Approaching Roar Season of Mist Underground Activists
2 Fetid Steeping Corporeal Mess 20 Buck Spin
3 Krypts Cadaver Circulation Dark Descent Records
4 Lingua Ignota Caligula Profound Lore Records
5 Misþyrming Algleymi Norma Evangelium Diaboli
6 Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths Profound Lore Records
7 Nicola Cruz Siku ZZK Records
8 Serpent Column Mirror in Darkness Mystískaos
9 Sinmara Hvísl stjarnanna Ván Records
10 Teitanblood The Baneful Choir Norma Evangelium Diaboli

 

McKenna Haley // Events Producer
rank artist album label
1 Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjaguwar
2 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
3 SASAMI SASAMI Domino
4 Julia Jacklin Crushing Polyvinyl
5 Cate LeBon Reward Mexican Summer
6 NAVVI 25O2 Hush Hush Records
7 Guayaba Guayaba Presents: Fantasmagoría Self-Released
8 Carly Rae Jepsen Dedication Schoolboy/Interscope Records
9 Y La Bamba Mujeres Tender Loving Empire
10 Charli XCX Charli Asylum Records

 

Michael Tessier // Development Officer
rank artist album label
1 Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjaguwar
2 John Coltrane Blue World Impulse
3 Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! Polydor
4 Megan Thee Stallion Fever 300 Entertainment
5 SAULT 5 Forever Living Originals
6 Denzel Curry ZUU Loma Vista
7 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
8 Floating Points Crush Ninja Tune
9 Romeo Santos Utopia Sony
10 Telefon Tel Aviv Dreams Are Not Enough Ghostly International

 

Charina Pitzel //  DJ Assistant for the Afternoon Show, Photographer, Art Exhibit Producer
(No Rank) artist album label
  Chromatics Closer to Grey Italians Do It Better
  DIIV Deceiver Captured Tracks
  Fontaines D.C. Dogrel Partisan
  Hildur Guðnadóttir Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) WaterTower Music
  Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life/Atlantic
  Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka Polydor/Interscope
  Rudy Willingham Dunk Reactions self-released
  Thom Yorke ANIMA XL Recordings
  Trentemøller Obverse In My Room
  TR/ST The Destroyer [Part 1 & 2] Royal Mountain/Grouch