The WMUH staff was asked the come up with their five favorite things they heard from this past year.
Click on a name to see a list and comments.
DJ Regular – Hedonistic Predilection
El Michels Affair – Yeti Season
La Femme – Paradigmes
Old Time Relijun – Musicking
Colleen – The Tunnel and the Clearing
The Allergies – Move On Baby (single)
Em – Spinning Wheel Radio
Doja Cat – Need to Know
Normani (feat. Cardi B) – Wild Side
Magdalena Bay – Chaeri
Tinashe – Pasendena
Charli XCX – Good Ones
Zeke – 2 Be Determined & The Download
St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
Best sitar in Rock since 1976.
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
Taking Jazz to soaring new heights
Injury Reserve – By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Unsettling meditations on grief. Hip-hop’s Blackstar
Silk Sonic – An Evening with Silk Sonic
BANGIN’ soul revivalism and pop balladry
Damon Albarn – The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
Not quite minimalist, not quite Plastic Beach
Radak – Rock with Radak
Nat Turner Rebellion – Laugh to Keep from Crying
Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers
Various Artists – Gritty 60’s Garage & Punk
The Stranglers – Dark Matters
Nick Waterhouse – Promenade Blue
Chris – Midday Melodies
Face to Face – No Way Out but Through
Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams
Ducks LTD – Get Bleak EP
Paul Weller – Fat Pop (Volume 1)
Teenage Bottlerocket – Sick Sesh!
Runner Up
Shannon Lay – Geist
Troy – Mornings with Marlena & Hardcore Hootenanny
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
Various Artists – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico
Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales
Lana Del Ray – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Paige Elizabeth – Passenger Seat
Silk Sonic – An Evening with Silk Sonic
Billie Eilish – Happier than Ever
Sammy Rae & the Friends – Let’s Throw a Party EP
The Driver Era – Girlfriend
Honorable Mentions (even though you absolutely did not ask for them)
Still Woozy – If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is
Sufjan Stevens – A Beginner’s Mind
Bo Burnham – Inside (The Songs)
Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant
Emma E. Ash – Your Dose of Nostalgia
Connan Gray – People Watching
Twenty One Pilots – Mulberry Street
Hippo Campus – Boys
Keir – Boys Will Be Girls
half.alive – Summerland
Luke Hemmings – Place in Me
Tommy Kelly – Vibetown, PA
Sammy Rae & the Friends – Jackie Onassis
Lawrence – Casualty
Ben Barnes – 11:11
Cody Fry – Underground
Vian Izak – Dreams
Hannah Rae – Soundtrack Mashup
HAIM – Don’t Wanna
Taylor Swift – tolerate it
WILLOW – Lipstick
Silk Sonic – Leve the Door Open
Durand Jones & The Indications – Witchoo
Paul – Sine Qua Non
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
Shannon and the Clams – Year of the Spider
Acid Dad – Take It from the Dead
DJ Kuruku – Gospel of the Bizarre
DJ Hell – House Musik Box (Past, present, no future)
Danny Elfman – Big Mess
Clan of Xymox – Limbo
Squid – Bright Green Field
Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon
