At a station where there is no algorithm or suggested playlists, when our DJs gravitate towards certain albums over and over again, it’s a sign that they are really great. Below you’ll find the top 40 Albums played across all Radio Boise shows this year. Support your local independent record stores or online services that pay artists to get these into your own collection. Enjoy!!
1 The French Tips – All The Rage
2 Dehd – Blue Skies (Fat Possum)
3 Automatic – Excess (Stones Throw)
4 Widowspeak – The Jacket (Captured Tracks)
5 Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl)
6 Kevin Morby – This Is A Photograph (Dead Oceans)
7 Angel Olsen – Big Time (Jagjaguwar)
8 Monophonics – Sage Motel (Colemine)
9 Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
10 Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)
11 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
12 Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Reset (Domino)
13 Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
14 Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar)
15 Cat Power – Covers (Domino)
16 Sylvan Esso – No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista)
17 Magdalena Bay – Mercurial World (Deluxe) DELUXE issue came out 2022, but the regular version was 2021 and was number 24 on the list
18 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum (KGLW)
19 Built To Spill – When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
20 Toro Y Moi – MAHAL (Dead Oceans)
21 Mitski – Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans)
22 The Paranoyds – Talk Talk Talk (Third Man)
23 The Beths – Expert Dying In A Dying Field (Carpark)
24 Delicate Steve – After Hours (Anti-/Epitaph)
25 beabadoobee – Beatopia (Dirty Hit)
26 De Lux – Do You Need A Release? (Innovative Leisure)
27 Ghost Funk Orchestra – A New Kind Of Love (Karma Chief)
28 Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (ATO/Fontana North)
29 Barrie – Barbara (Winspear)
30 Hot Chip – Freakout / Release (Domino)
31 GA-20 – Crackdown (Karma Chief)
32 Cola – Deep In View (Next Door)
33 Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Bella Union)
34 Charli XCX – Crash (Atlantic)
35 Lucius – Second Nature (Mom+Pop)
36 Ty Segall – “Hello, Hi” (Drag City)
37 Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure (Polyvinyl)
38 Babe Rainbow – The Organic Band (Eureka)
39 Hovvdy – Billboard For My Feelings (EP) (Grand Jury)
40 Lady Wray – Piece of Me (Big Crown)
