KRCL listeners top 100 albums revealed! It was a great year for music, and we here at KRCL are loving this list of favorite albums. We knew our community had good taste, and this list proves it.
1. Waxahatchee / Tigers Blood
2. Norah Jones / Visions
3. Jack White / No Name
4. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats / South of Here
5. Khruangbin / A La Sala
6. Ray LaMontagne / Long Way Home
7. Kacey Musgraves / Deeper Well
8. Vampire Weekend / Only God Was Above Us
9. The Cure / Songs of a Lost World
10. Lake Street Dive / Good Together
11. Leon Bridges / Leon
12. Thee Sacred Souls / Got a Story To Tell
13. Gary Clark Jr. / JPEG RAW
14. St. Vincent / All Born Screaming
15. Jon Batiste / Beethoven Blues
16. Lucinda Williams / Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles from Abbey Road
17. Willie Nelson / Last Leaf on the Tree + The Border
18. Michael Kiwanuka / Small Changes
19. Charley Crockett / $10 Cowboy
20. Father John Misty / Mahashmashana
21. Mark Knopfler / One Deep River
22. Billy Strings / Highway Prayers
23. Brittany Howard / What Now
24. Pearl Jam / Dark Matter
25. Sarah Jarosz / Polaroid Lovers
26. Beyonce / Cowboy Carter
27. The Black Keys / Ohio Players
28. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard / Flight b741
29. Bonny Light Horsemen / Keep Me On Your Mind – See You Free
30. The Decemberists / As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
31. Iron & Wine / Light Verse
32. Johnny Blue Skies / Passage du Desir
33. Billie Eillish / Hit Me Hard And Soft
34. Marcus King / Mood Swings
35. Sierra Ferrell / Trail of Flowers
36. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings / Woodland
37. Andrew Bird / Sunday Morning Put-On + Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham / Cunningham Bird
38. The Avett Brothers / The Avett Brothers
39. Fontaines D.C. / Romance
40. Hermanos Gutierraz / Sonido Cosmico
41. JD McPherson / Nite Owls
42. Laura Marling / Patterns in Repeat
43. MJ Lenderman / Manning Fireworks
44. The Smile / Wall of Eyes + Cutouts
45. Hurray for the Riff Raff / The Past Is Still Alive
46. Amos Lee / Transmissions
47. The Heavy Heavy / One of a Kind
48. Orville Peck / Stampede
49. Maggie Rogers / Don’t Forget Me
50. Sleater-Kinney / Little Rope
51. David Gilmour / Luck and Strange
52. Adrianne Lenker / Bright Future
53. Idles / Tangk
54. Warren Haynes / Million Voices Whisper
55. Future Islands / People Who Aren’t There Anymore
56. Kamasi Washington / Fearless Movement
57. MGMT / Loss of Life
58. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Wild God
59. Phantogram / Memory of a Day
60. T-Bone Burnett / The Other Side
61. The Black Crowes / Happiness Bastards
62. Bright Eyes / Five Dice, All Threes
63. Cage the Elephant / Neon Pill
64. Pixies / The Night the Zombies Came
65. Remi Wolf / Big Ideas
66. Soccer Mommy / Evergreen
67. Amy Helm / Silver City
68. Bleachers / Bleachers
69. John Craigie / Pagan Church
70. Childish Gambino / Bando Stone & The New World + Atavista
71. Al Di Meola / Twentyfour
72. Kim Deal / Nobody Loves You More
73. The Last Dinner Party / Prelude to Ecstasy
74. Nilufer Yanya / My Method Actor
75. Ty Segall / Three Bells
76. Aaron Frazer / Into the Blue
77. Clairo / Charm
78. Faye Webster / Underdressed at the Symphony
79. Real Estate / Daniel
80. Hiatus Kaiyote / Love Heart Cheat Code
81. Charlie Parr / Little Sun
82. Amyl and the Sniffers / Cartoon Darkness
83. Cigarettes After Sex / X’s
84. Dwight Yoakam / Brighter Days
85. Alejandro Escovedo / Echo Dancing
86. Phosphorescent / Revelator
87. Maya Hawke / Chaos Angel
88. Chuck Prophet / Wake the Dead
89. Moby / Always Centered At Night
90. Nick Lowe / Indoor Safari
91. Beabadoobee / This Is How Tomorrow Moves
92. Ezra Collective / Dance, No One’s Watching
93. Orgone / Chimera
94. La Luz / News of the Universe
95. Shannon & The Clams / The Moon Is In the Wrong Place
96. Beth Gibbons / Lives Outgrown
97. Elbow / Audio Vertigo
98. Toro Y Moi / Hole Earth
99. The Linda Linda’s / No Obligation
100. Willie Watson / Willie Watson