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 today, 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.
Erin Waters
Individual Giving Manager
Savages
Silence Yourself
Matador
King Krule
6 Feet Beneath the Moon
XL
Kurt Vile
Wakin' on a Pretty Daze
Matador
Austra
Olympia
Domino
Jagwar Ma
Howlin'
Marathon Artists
Polica
Shulamith
Mom & Pop
Portugal. the Man
Evil Friends
Atlantic
Kanye West
Yeezus
Def Jam
Courtney Barnett
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Marathon Artists
Still Corners
Strange Pleasures
Sub Pop
Jon Hamilton
DJ Assistant for The Afternoon Show every Monday
Los Campesinos!
No Blues
Wichita
Mikal Cronin
MCII
MERGE
Warm Soda
Someone For You
Castleface
Kanye West
Yeezus
Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam
Frightened Rabbit
Pedestrian Verse
Atlantic
The Dirtbombs
Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey!
In the Red
Phosphorescent
Muchacho
Dead Oceans
Yo La Tengo
Fade
Matador
Fuzz
Fuzz
In the Red
Hanni El Khatib
Head In the Dirt
Innovative Leisure
Amber Zbitnoff
Photographer
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
4AD
Daughter
If You Leave
4AD
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge Records
Portugal. The Man
Evil Friends
Atlantic Records
Jordan Klassen
Repentance
Nevado Music
Typhoon
White Lighter
Roll Call Records
On An On
Give In
Roll Call Records
Junip
Junip
Mute
Death Cab For Cutie
Transatlanticism (10th Anniversary Edition)
Barsuk Records
Lucius
Wildewoman
Mom + Pop
Jim James // photo by Jim Bennett
Bryan Kraus
Software Engineer for KEXP Online
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
Bad Seed Ltd.
Dessa
Parts of Speech
Doomtree
Arctic Monkeys
AM
Domino
Foals
Holy Fire
Warner Bros.
Atoms for Peace
Amok
XL
Phantogram
Phantogram EP
Republic
Pixies
EP1
self-released
Jim James
Regions of Light and Sound of God
ATO Records
Nine Inch Nails
Hesitation Marks
Columbia
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Daft Life/Columbia
Bebe Besch
Photographer
Foals
Holy Fire
Warner Bros
Jai Paul
demos
N/A
Blood Orange
Cupid Delux
Domino
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Columbia
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
II
Jagjaguwar
Jagwar Ma
Howlin'
Mom + Pop
Okkervil River
The Silver Gymnasium
ATO Records
St. Lucia
When the Night
Columbia
Suuns
Images Du Futur
Secretly Canadian
Disclosure
Settle
Cherrytree Records
Okkervil River // photo by Bebe Besch
John Gleason
DJ Assistant for the Mid Day Show
James Blake
Overgrown
ATLAS Records
Savages
Silence Yourself
Matador Records
Deerhunter
Monomania
4AD
Arcade Fire
Refektor
Merge
The Besnard Lakes
Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO
Jagjaguwar
Los Campesinos!
No Blues
Wichita
Wavves
Afraid of Heights
Mom + Pop Music
Local Natives
Hummingbird
French Kiss Records
M.I.A.
Matangi
N.E.E.T.
Run The Jewels
Run The Jewels
Fool's Gold
Dylan Flesch
Licensing & Podcasting Coordinator
Parquet Courts
Light Up Gold and Tally All The Things That You Broke
What's Your Rupture?
Foxygen
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Jagjaguwar
Night Beats
Sonic Bloom
Reverberation Appreciation Society
Yo La Tengo
Fade (Deluxe Edition)
Matador
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
Bad Seeds Ltd.
Case Studies
This Is Another Life
Sacred Bones Records
Darkside
Psychic
Matador
Bill Callahan
Dream River
Drag City
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
II
Jagjaguwar
David Bowie
The Next Day
Columbia
London Grammar // photo by Dave Lichterman
Christopher Meister
Video Production Volunteer
Classixx
Hanging Gardens
Future Classic
London Grammar
If You Wait
Columbia
Rhye
Woman
Republic
Postiljonen
Skyer
Best Fit
Cut Copy
Free Your Mind
Modular
Small Black
Limits of Desire
Jagjaguwar
Julianna Barwick
Nepenthe
Dead Oceans
Washed Out
Paracosm
Sub Pop
Disclosure
Settle
Island
Ducktails
The Flower Lane
Domino
Dave Lichterman
Photographer
Ellery James Roberts
K ☰ R ✡ U'S LAMENT (犠牲)
None
Disclosure
Settle
Interscope
Darkside
Psychic
Matador / Other People
London Grammar
If You Wait
Columbia
Savages
Silence Yourself
Matador
Jagwar Ma
Howlin
Mom + Pop Music
Daughter
If You Leave
Glassnote
Moderat
II
Mute
Rhye
Woman
Universal Republic
Ka
The Night's Gambit
Iron Works Records
Brady Morrella
Volunteer Services Senior Coordinator
Foxygen
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Jagjaguwar
Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork
Matador Records
Arctic Monkeys
AM
Domino
Phosphorescent
Muchacho
Dead Oceans
Diane Coffee
My Friend Fish
Western Vinyl
The Love Language
Ruby Red
Merge Records
Paul McCartney
New
Hear Music
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge Records
MGMT
MGMT
Columbia
Atoms for Peace
Amok
XL Recordings
So So Glos // photo by Eric Gonzalez Alfaro
Reeves Richards
DJ Assistant for Cheryl Waters, Seek & Destroy
Skeletonwitch
Serpents Unleashed
Prosthetic Records
Parquet Courts
Light Up Gold
What's Your Rapture?
The So So Glos
Blowout
Shae Stadium
Deafheaven
Sunbather
Deathwish
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
4AD
Kvelertak
Meir
Roadrunner Records
Frightened Rabbit
Pedestrian Verse
Atlantic Records
Red Fang
Whales & Leeches
Relapse Records
VHÖL
VHÖL
Profound Lore
Lord Dying
Summon the Faithless
Relapse Records
Wolfgang E Ratzlaff
DJ Assistant for Troy Nelson
Run the Jewels
Jewels
Fool's Gold
My Bloody Valentine
m b v
self-released
Young Thug
1017 Thug
self released
Lil B
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thug)
self released
Blue Sky Black Death
Glaciers
Fake Four Inc.
Iron Lung
White Glove Test
Iron Lung Records
M.I.A.
Matangi
Interscope
Kanye West
Yeezus
Def Jam
No Joy
Wait To Pleasure
Mexican Summer
Pharmakon
Abandon
Sacred Bones
Superchunk // photo by Morgen Schuler
Kari Stark
Gift Processor/IT Help Desk Assistant
Five Iron Frenzy
Engine of A Million Plots
Self-Release
Less Than Jake
See The Light
Fat Wreck Chords
Surfer Blood
Pythons
Warner Bros.
Foals
Holy Fire
Warner Bros.
Hey! Hello!
Hey! Hello!
The End
Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires of the City
XL
Franz Ferdinand
Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions
Domino
Man Man
On Oni Pond
Anti-
Superchunk
I Hate Music
Merge
Jagwar Ma
Howlin
Mom + Pop
Ann Allen
DJ assistant for Kevin Cole
Savages
Silence Yourself
Matador
Jagwar Ma
Howl
Mom + Pop
Disclosure
Settle
Cherry Tree/Interscope
Bonobo
The North Borders
Ninja Tune
Atoms for Peace
Amok
XL
Washed Out
Paracosm
Sub Pop
Kurt Vile
Wakin On a Pretty Daze
Matador
Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork
Matador
Vox Mod
Syn-Aesthetic
Self released
Veronica Falls
Waiting for Something to Happen
Slumberland/Bella Union
Brandon Lorenz
Front Desk Volunteer
Courtney Barnett
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Milk!
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
Merge
Daft Punk
Randomn Access Memories
EMI
Phosphorescent
Muchacho
Dead Oceans
Portugal. The Man
Evil Twin
Atlantic
Kacey Musgraves
Same Trailer Different Park
Mercury
Chvrches
The Bones Of What You Believe
Glassnote
Neko Case
The Worse Things Get...
Anti-
Rose Windows
Sun Dogs
Sub Pop
Chastity Belt
No Regerts
Help Yourself
Nils Frahm // photo by Beth Crook
Lizzy Rose Flores
Traffic Intern
Boards of Canada
Tomorrow's Harvest
Warp
Kitchens of Distinction
Folly
3 Loop Music
Forest Swords
Engravings
Tri Angle
Nils Frahm
Spaces
Erased Tapes
Deltron 3030
Event 2
Bulk
Femi Kuti
No Place for My Dream
Knitting Factory
Toro Y Moi
Anything in Return
Carpark
Low
The Invisible Way
Sub Pop
Mazzy Star
Seasons of Your Day
Rhymes of An Hour
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Daft Life/Columbia
Emma Danner
DJ Assistant for Audioasis
La Luz
It's Alive
Hardly Art
Deerhunter
Monomania
4AD
Thee Oh Sees
Singles Collection Volume 3
Castle Face
True Widow
Circumambulation
Relapse
Haunted Horses
Watcher
Self Released
Chelsea Wolfe
Pain is Beauty
Sargent House
Fuzz
Fuzz
In The Red
Rose Windows
The Sun Dogs
Sub Pop
Thee Oh Sees
Floating Coffin
Castle Face Records
Weed
Deserve
Couple Skate Records
Chad Syme
Volunteer/Designer
Sky Ferreira
Night Time, My Time
Capitol
Foxygen
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Jagjaguwar
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Rough Trade Records
Phosphorescent
Muchacho De Lujo
Dead Oceans
Billie Joe & Norah
Foreverly
Warner Brothers
Son Lux
Lanters
Joyful Noise
Deltron 3030
Event II
75 Ark
Andrew Bird
I Want to See Pulaski at Night
Grimsey Records
The Watson Twins
PIoneer Lane
The Watson Twins
Pickwick
Can't Talk Medicine
Small Press
Sleigh Bells // photo by James Bailey
Kat Metrovich
Events/Front Desk
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Daft Life/Columbia
Janelle Monae
Electric Lady
Bad Boy
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Push The Sky Away
Bad Seed Ltd
Ghostface Killah ft. Adrian Young
Twelve Ways To Die
Soul Temple
MIA
Matangi
N.E.E.T./Interscope
Sleigh Bells
Bitter Rivals
Mom+Pop
Run The Jewels
Run The Jewels
Fools Gold
Deltron 3030
Event 2
Bulk Recordings
Grayskul
Zenith
Fake Four
Major Lazer
Free The Universe
Secretly Canadian/Mad Descent
Rischel Granquist
Manager of Administrative Services
Daft Punk
Random Access Memory
Columbia
Major Lazer
Free The Universe
Secretly Canadian
Lucius
Wildewoman
Mom & Pop Music
HAIM
Days Are Gone
Columbia
Sleigh Bells
Bitter Rivals
Mom & Pop Music
Juana Molina
Wed 21
Crammed Discs
Laura Viers
Warp & Weft
Raven Marching Band Records
Arctic Monkeys
AM
Domino
Lorde
Pure Heroine
Motown/Universal
Mikal Cronin
MCII
Merge Records
Cyrus Despres
Manager of Information Technology
Foxygen
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2013. View all our DJ's favorite albums here, and see what KEXP listeners voted for in our 2013 Top 90.3 Albums Countdown here.
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 from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM today for KEXP's One-Day Radio Rally as we countdown the top albums of the year, as voted on by KEXP listeners.
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:
