At a station where each DJ forms and shapes their own free-form show, Radio Boise never dictates what anyone plays. So when we see a lot of plays in certain areas, it indicates where an album has touched many DJs and has gotten a good number of spins over the year.
Below, you’ll find the top 40 albums that graced the airwaves of Radio Boise.
What do you think? Things you’ve enjoyed? Surprises?
1 Khruangbin – Mordechai (Dead Oceans)
2 Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge Records)
3 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways To New Italy(Ivy League Records)
4 Hazel English – Wake Up! (Polyvinyl)
5 Dirty Projectors – 5 EPs (Domino)
6 Monophonics – It’s Only Us (Colemine)
7 Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans)
8 Caribou – Suddenly (City Slang)
9 Future Islands – As Long As You Are (4AD/Beggars)
10 Sault – Untitled (Rise) (Forever Living Originals)
11 Yumi Zouma – Truth Or Consequences (Polyvinyl)
12 Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Epic)
13 Death Valley Girls – Under The Spell of Joy (Suicide Squeeze)
14 Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open (Matador/Beggars)
15 Best Coast – Always Tomorrow (Concord)
16 Haim – Women In Music Pt. III (Columbia)
17 Hinds – The Prettiest Curse (Mom+Pop)
18 Sylvan Esso – Free Love (Loma Vista)
19 The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark)
20 Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (Interscope)
21 Fleet Foxes – Shore (Anti-)
22 Washed Out – Purple Noon (Sub Pop)
23 Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)
24 Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG)
25 Charlie Sutton – Primitive Songs For Modern Times (Junkerdash Records)
26 Chicano Batman – Invisible People (ATO)
27 Little Dragon – New Me, Same Us (Ninja Tune)
28 Joe Wong – Nite Creatures (Decca)
29 Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp)
30 Caroline Rose – Superstar (New West)
31 Algiers – There Is No Year (Matador/Beggars)
32 Disclosure – Energy (Island/Universal)
33 Shabaka & The Ancestors – We Are Sent Here By History (Impulse!)
34 Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Fo Sho/Inner City Blues (Colemine)
35 Soccer Mommy – Color Theory (Loma Vista)
36 Kevin Morby – Sundowner (Dead Oceans)
37 Ghost Funk Orchestra – An Ode to Escapism (Karma Chief)
38 Nubya Garcia – Source (Concord Jazz)
39 Deep Sea Diver – Impossible Weight (High Beam/ATO)
40 Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure (Virgin EMI)
