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Jeff’s Favorite BTC Albums of 2015

Our favorite SONGS of the year playlist runs about eight-and-a-half hours, but here are the tracks we played on the FM dial the last Tuesday of the year from our favorite ALBUMS of the year!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-29-15 (Favorite Albums of 2015)
{no particular order til the Top 10}

Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield – “Baby Britain”/Seth & JLM Sing Elliott Smith
Murder By Death – “Dream In Red”/Big Dark Love
DMA’s – “Laced”/s/t mini-album
Twin Shadow – “To The Top”/Eclipse

Adele – “Water Under The Bridge”/25
Blur – “Go Out”/The Magic Whip
Empress Of – “Standard”/Me
Low – “What Part of Me”/Ones and Sixes
My Morning Jacket – “Compound Fracture”/The Waterfall

Chvrches – “Leave A Trace”/Every Open Eye
Purity Ring – “Begin Again”/another eternity
GEMS – “Living As A Ghost”/Kill The One You Love

Big Grams – “Lights On”/s/t
Sufjan Stevens – “Blue Bucket of Gold”/remix of last track on Carrie & Lowell

10 (tie). Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – “Look It Here”/s/t
10 (tie). Leon Bridges – “Smooth Sailin’”/Coming Home

9) Wilco – “Random Name Generator”/Star Wars
8) Brandi Carlile – “The Things I Regret”/The Firewatcher’s Daughter
7) Dawes – “All Your Favorite Bands”/title track

6) Sally Rose Band – “Gotta Be Gold”/title track
5) Caroline Spence – “Trains Cry”/Somehow
4) Kacey Musgraves – “Pageant Material”/Corner Lounge version of title track!
3) Jason Isbell – “The Life You Chose”/Something More Than Free
2) Dead Professional – “You Heard What You Wanted”/Young Hardware EP (and check out his Hard Hard Hard EP from late 2014 too!)

1) Desaparecidos – “City on the Hill”/Payola

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