Let the Record Spin: Top 30 & Staff Picks
Written by programdirector on 12/12/2013
To close out the fantastic music year that was 2013, CFUV’s Let The Record Spin feature is counting down the Top 30 albums from our airwaves. Plus each staff member has picked 5 albums for a feature night.
Tune in after our regular scheduled programming each evening to hear the top spun records in their entirety.
The countdown:
30. The Sadies – Internal Sounds (Outside) * // Mon Dec 9th 2013
29. Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love Is The Devil (Zoo Music) * // Tue Dec 10th 2013
28. UN – UNtitled (Self-Released) * // Wed Dec 11th 2013
27. Deltron 3030 – Event II (Bulk) // Thu Dec 12th 2013
26. Tim Hecker – Virgins (Paper Bag) * // Fri Dec 13th 2013
25. Capital Region – Meares (Self-Released) + // Sat Dec 14th 2013
24. Pillowfight – Pillowfight (Bulk) // Sun Dec 15th 2013 // Sun Dec 15th 2013
23. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against A Stone (Concord) // Mon Dec 16th 2013
22. The Courtneys – The Courtneys (Hockey Dad) * // Tue Dec 17th 2013
21. Lee Harvey Osmond – The Folk Sinner (Latent) * // Wed Dec 18th 2013
20. White Poppy – White Poppy (Not Not Fun) * // Thu Dec 19th 2013
19. Shad – Flying Colours (Black Box) * // Fri Dec 20th 2013
18. Dead Ghosts – Can’t Get No (Burger) * // Sat Dec 21st 2013
17. Charles Bradley – Victim Of Love (Daptone) // Sun Dec 22nd 2013
16. Solange – True (Terrible) // Mon Dec 23rd 2013
15. The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow (Blue Horizon) // Tue Dec 24th 2013
14. David Gogo – Come On Down (Cordova Bay) * // Wed Dec 25th 2013
13. Yamantaka//Sonic Titan – UZU (Paper Bag) * // Thu Dec 26th 2013
12. Lightning Dust – Fantasy (Jagjaguwar) * // Fri Dec 27th 2013
11. The Backhomes – Only Friend (Storyboard) + // Sat Dec 28th 2013
10. A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP (RCA) // Sun Dec 29th 2013
9. Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady (Bad Boy/Warner) // Mon Dec 30th 2013
8. Crosss – Obsidian Spectre (Telephone Explosion) * // Tue Dec 31st 2013
7. The Ketamines – You Can’t Serve Two Masters (Mammoth Cave) * // Wed Jan 1st 2014
6. A Tribe Called Red – Nation II Nation (Tribal Spirit) * // Thu Jan 2nd 2014
5. Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You (Anti-) // Fri Jan 3rd 2014
4. King Khan & The Shrines – Idle No More (Merge) * // Sat Jan 4th 2014
3. Suuns – Images Du Futur (Secret City) * // Sun Jan 5th 2014
2. Babysitter – Eye (Psychic Handshake) + // Mon Jan 6th 2014
1. Braids – Flourish//Perish (Flemish Eye) * // Tue Jan 7th 2014
Staff Picks:
Liz McArthur – CFUV News Director // Wed Jan 8th 2014
Lady – Lady (Truth & Soul)
Jerusalem in My Heart – Mo7it al-Mo7it (Constellation) *
Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle (Ribbon)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II (Jagjaguwar)
Serengeti – The Kenny Dennis LP (Anticon)
Johnnie Regalado – CFUV Program Director // Thu Jan 9th 2014
Hooded Fang – Gravez (Daps) *
Iceage – You’re Nothing (Matador)
Majical Cloudz – Impersonator (Matador) *
Sean Nicholas Savage – Other Life (Arbutus) *
Blackout Beach – Blues Trip (Soft Abuse) +
Michelle Macklem – CFUV Coordinator of Volunteers // Fri Jan 10th 2014
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd)
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (Columbia)
David Bowie – The Next Day (ISO/Columbia)
Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
Shotgun Jimmie – Everything Everything (You’ve Changed) *
Randy Gelling – CFUV Station Manager // Sat Jan 11th 2014
Laurel Halo – Chance of Rain (Hyperdub)
Califone – Stitches (Dead Oceans)
Russian Circles – Memorial (Sargent House)
Baths – Obsidian (Anticon)
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare, Vol. 3 (Constellation) *
Justin Lanoue – CFUV Music Director // Sun Jan 12th 2014
Phosphorescent – Muchacho (Dead Oceans)
Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap (Self-Released)
Coke Weed – Back To Soft (Self-Released)
Rhye – Woman (Universal) *
Scout Niblett – It’s Up To Emma (Drag City)