For the past few weeks, we’ve been sharing with you KEXP DJs’ Top 10 Albums of 2016 lists in anticipation of KEXP Listener's Top 90.3 Albums of 2016, which we will reveal, and countdown on air, this Friday starting at 6AM.
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 are their favorite albums of 2016. How many of their choices are yours?
Tim Johnstone
Financial Coordinator
Car Seat Headrest
Teens of Denial
Matador
Drive-By Truckers
American Band
ATO
Kate Tempest
Let Them Eat Chaos
Lex
The FRIGHTNRS
Nothing more to say
Daptone
A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Epic
Quilt
Plaza
Mexican Summer
Lvl Up
Return to Love
Sub Pop
Bueno
Illuminate Your Room
Babe City Records
Hiss Golden Messenger
Heart Like a Levee
Merge
Arbor Labor Union
I Hear You
Sub Pop
Ann Allen
DJ Assistant-Afternoon Show/Lead DJ Assistant
Poliça
United Crushers
MOM+POP
Manatee Commune
Manatee Commune
Bastard Jazz Recordings
Beyoncé
Lemonade
Parkwood Entertainment
A Giant Dog
Pile
Merge Records
Moderat
lll
Monkeytown Records
Phantogram
Three
Republic Records
Navvi
Omni
Hush Hush Records
Car Seat Headrest
Teens of Denial
Matador
A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
Epic
Miike Snow
iii
Atlantic
Jacob Webb
Licensing & Podcasting Coordinator
Japanese Breakfast
Psychopomp
Yellow K / Dead Oceans
David Bowie
★
Columbia
Bon Iver
22 A Million
Jagjaguwar
Mitski
Puberty 2
Dead Oceans
A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Epic
Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
XL Recordings
Jessy Lanza
Oh No
Hyperdub
Angel Olsen
My Woman
Jagjaguwar
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker
Columbia
Sturgill Simpson
A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Atlantic
Japanese Breakfast // photo by Patrick Luhrs
Kari Stark
Gift Processing Coordinator
PUP
The Dream Is Over
SideOneDummy
Greys
Outer Heaven
Carpark
So So Glos
Kamikaze
Votiv
Ty Segall & The Muggers
Emotional Mugger
Drag City
Diarrhea Planet
Turn To Gold
Infinity Cat
Tacocat
Lost Time
Hardly Art
Martha
Blisters In the Pit of My Heart
Dirtnap
Weaves
Weaves
Kanine
Beyoncé
Lemonade
Parkwood/Columbia
The Hotelier
Goodness
Tiny Engines
Caitlin Klask
DJ Assistant for Tuesday night variety show
Benoît Pioulard
The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter
kranky
Infinite Body
Avolition
Isounderscore
Miserable
Uncontrollable
The Native Sound
Good Willsmith
Things Out Bodies Used to Have
Hausu Mountain
Indoor Voices
Auratic
Häxrummet Records
Dominic Coppola
Beloved
Sequel
Owen
The King of Whys
Polyvinyl
Cerise
Smoke Screen Dreams
Psychic Cats
Savage Sister
Speechless
Wild Patterns
Wray
Hypatia
Communicating Vessels
Charina Pitzel
DJ Assistant for the Afternoon Show | Photographer
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