The Aggie Radio team wouldn’t be the Aggie Radio team if they didn’t love music. From psych-rock to americana and everything in between, here’s what we were spinning on our personal playlists this year.
Zoey Marty
Real Estate – In Mind
Cults – Offering
Phoenix – Ti Amo
Peachtea – N. America
Girlpool – Powerplant
John Wheeler
Fleet Foxes – Crack-up
War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
The Ghost of Paul Revere – Monarch
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
Iron and Wine – Beast Epic
Kali Tuttle
Seaway – Vacation
Beck – Colors
The Front Bottoms – Going Grey
Towers Of London – Shot In The Dark EP
Sufjan Stevens – The Greatest Gift
Eden Withers
Alvvays – Antisocialites
Puzzle – Laying in the Sand
Florist – If Blue Could Be Happiness
Girlpool – Powerplant
Lorde – Melodrama
Cody Crofoot
Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
Mac Demarco – This Old Dog
The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
Chris Thile/Brad Mehldau – Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau
Sydney Dahle
Vinyl Theatre – Origami
Misterwives – Connect the Dots
Imagine Dragons – Evolve
Brand New – Science Fiction
The Killers – Wonderful, Wonderful
Daniel Butters
Dan Croll – Emerging Adulthood
Foster The People – Sacred Hearts Club
Alt-J – Relaxer
1982 – 1982
Grouplove – Big Mess
Lydia Velazquez
The Districts – Popular Manipulations
Lorde – Melodrama
Hippo Campus – Landmark
Girlpool – Powerplant
Surf Curse – Nothing Yet
Spencer Johnson
Pierre Kwenders – MAKANDA at the End of Space, the Beginning of Time
Daniel Caesar – Freudian
Rosalía – Los Angeles
Four Tet – New Energy
Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex
Daniel Hansen
I the Mighty – Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let It Go
The Front Bottoms – Going Grey
Vinyl Theatre – Origami
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – Zombies on Broadway
Knuckle Puck – Shapeshifter
Johnny Woodall
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid
Damien Dubrovnik – Great Many Arrows
Lorde – Melodrama
Havah – Contravveleno
Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent
Nic Renshaw
Upper Wilds – Guitar Module 2017
The Mountain Goats – Goths
Brand New – Science Fiction
death’s dynamic shroud – Heavy Black Heart
SUPER THIEF – Stuck
Byron Isaac Morales
All them witches – Sleeping Through the War
Tribal Seeds – Roots Party
Cisco Adler – Don’t Kill My Buzz EP
Gregory Porter – May King Cole and Me
Shpongle – Codex VI
Mckay Jensen
Alvvays – Antisocialites
Julien Baker – Turn off the Lights
Big Thief – Capacity
Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
Lorde – Melodrama
Jaden Johnson
Deca – The Way Through
Vulfpeck – Mr. Finish Line
The Classic Crime – How To Be Human
Theo Katzman – Heartbreak Hits
Mutemath – Play Dead
Juan Haro
Joey Bada$$ – All-Amerikkkan Bada$$
Ryan Adams – Prisoner
Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark
U2 – Songs of Experience
Sam Smith – The Thrill of it All
Ari Romo
Iron and wine – Beast epic
Illenium- Awake
Oh Wonder – Ultralife
FKJ – French Kiwi Juice
Breath Carolina – Coma/Sleepless EP
Wyatt Jones
DEAMN – Deamn
Cody Fry – Flying
Disco Fries – DF
Don Diablo – Take Her Place
Mura Masa – Mura Masa
Mekenna Malan
Homeshake – Fresh Air
Mac Demarco – This Old Dog
Knox Fortune – Paradise
Field Medic – Songs From the Sunroom
The Districts – Popular Manipulations
Nathan Laursen
Portugal.the Man – Woodstock
Pickwick – LoveJoys
Strange Familia – Strange Familia
The Young North – Passenger Seat
Foster The People – Sacred Hearts Club
Mikey Kettinger
Kendrick Lamar – D.A.M.N.
Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Fred Thomas – Changer
Earthworm – Flowers
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana
JD Herndon
All 5 albums by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released this year, in the order most enjoyed:
Flying Microtonal Banana
Polygondwanaland
Sketches of Brunswick East
Murder of the Universe
???? Only singles have been released for the last album they will release this year
ORB – Naturality
Palm – Shadow Expert
Here Lies Man – Here Lies Man
The Babe Rainbow – The Babe Rainbow