1. Zomby – Dedication

2. SBTRKT – SBTRKT

3. Yacht – Shangri-La

4. Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear

5. Com Truise – Galactic Melt

6. Wallpaper - #STUPiDFACEDD

7. Magnetic Man – Magnetic Man

8. Crookers - Dr. Gonzo: Bust Em Up

9. Borgore – Delicious

10. Glitch Mob - We Can Make the World Stop

The year 2009 has undoubtedly been a fantastic one for music, from the techno tones and spaced out beats of Animal Collective’s “Merriwether Post Pavilion” to the satisfying and deep “Tarpits and Canyonlands” from Bombadil. We were moved by new albums by old favorites like in Yeah Yeah Yeahs “It’s Blitz” and we were introduced to new acts that leave us wanting more like in Florence and the Machine’s beautiful “Lungs.” After knowing the huge amount of great releases that this year has left us with, I asked the daytime DJs at WKNC to complete a job that’s a lot easier said than done. Below is a list of the top five albums as completed by many of the DJs you know and love. Enjoy!

DJ Danger Tape

1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
2. Bowerbirds – Upper Air
3. M. Ward – Hold Time
4. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
5. Japandroids - Post-Nothing

Just John

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
2. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
3. A Sunny Day in Glasgow -Ashes Grammer
4. Yacht – See Mystery Lights
5. Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic

May Day

1. Bowerbirds – Upper Air
2. M. Ward- Hold Time
3. Discovery – LP
4. St. Vincent – Actor
5. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career/The Love Language - The Love Language

DJ Elly May

1. Luego – Taped-together Stories
2. Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club – The Beautiful Untrue
3. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
4. Lonnie Walker – These Times Old Times
5. Gossip – Music For Men

Hot Tamale

1. Florence and the Machine - Lungs
2. Passion Pit – Manners
3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Matt & Kim – Grand
5. Discovery - LP

DJ Kligz

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz
2. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
3. Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone

Riff Raff

1. Regina Spektor – Far
2. Passion Pit – Manners
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It’s Blitz
4. The Temper Trap – Conditions
5. You and Your Effects – Wire Sharks/Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard – One Fast Move Or I’m Gone

Audity

1. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
2. U.S.E – Loveworld
3. Regina Spektor – Far
4. Metric – Fantasies
5. Veelee – Three Sides/Various Artists – Here Here Compilation

DJ Ones

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It’s Blitz
2. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Animal Collective – Merriwether Post Pavilion
5. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

DJ Matticus Rex

1. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
2. Pelican – What We All Come to Need
3. Bon Iver – Blood Bank
4. Caspian – Tertia
5. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

Chuck

1. The Antlers – Hospice
2. Megafaun – Gather, Form & Fly
3. Various Artists – Dark Was The Night
4. Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
5. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)

Mick

1. Bombadil – Tarpits & Canyonlands
2. Cotton Jones - Paranoid Cocoon
3. Megafaun – Gather, Form, & Fly
4. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
5. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below

DJ Ray

1. Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
2. Brazos – Phosphorescent Blues
3. Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic
4. Grouper – Cover the Windows and the Walls
5. The Low Anthem – Oh My God Charlie Darwin

Tommyboy

1. The King Khan and BBQ Show – Invisible Girl
2. Megafaun - Gather Form and Fly
3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Telekinesis- Telekinesis
5. The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa

Spaceman Spiff

1. Bowerbirds - Upper Air
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
4. Harlem Shakes – Technicolor Health
5. The Temper Trap- Conditions

This week’s top 30 albums of Daytime rock, compiled by Daytime Music Director Jenna St. Pierre:

1. Various Artists - Hear Hear: The Triangle
2. Light Pines - The Light Pines EP
3. Generationals - Con Law
4. YACHT – See Mystery Lights
5. Motel Motel - New Denver
6. Antlers – Hospice
7. Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away
8. Holiday Shores – Columbus’d the Whim

9. Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
10. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
11. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
12. HEALTH – Get Color
13. Nomo – Invisible Cities
14. Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer [EP]
15. Liam Finn and Eliza Jane – Champagne in Seashells
16. Miike Snow - Miike Snow
17. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
18. Megafaun – Gather, Form and Fly
19. Portugal. The Man – The Satanic Satanists
20. You and Your Effects - Wire Sharks
21. Still Life Still – Girls Come Too
22. Fruit Bats – The Ruminant Band
23. Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies - EP II
24. Bowerbirds – Upper Air
25. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
26. Lightning Dust – Infinite Light
27. Dead Weather – Horehound
28. Darlings – Yeah, I Know
29. Bronzed Chorus – I’m The Spring
30. Timber Timbre- Timber Timbre

Albums added to our library this week:
1. Polvo - In Prism
2. Mew – No More Stories

This week’s top 30 Daytime albums, compiled by Daytime Music Director Jenna St. Pierre:

1.  Generationals - Con Law   
2. Light Pines – The Light Pines [EP]   
3 . Yacht – See Mystery Lights   
4. Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away   
5. Motel Motel – New Denver  
6. Antlers – Hospice   
7. Magnolia Electric Co. – Josephine   
8. Bibio – Ambivalance Avenue   
9. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains   
10. Holiday Shores – Columbus’d The Whim   
11. Bowerbirds – Upper Air   
12. Miike Snow - Miike Snow   
13. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes – Up From Below   
14. Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer [EP]   
15. Wilco - Wilco (the Album)   
16. Fruit Bats – The Ruminant Band  
17. Nomo – Invisible Cities   
18. Portugal. The Man – The Satanic Satanist   
19. Violet Vectors and the Lovely Lovelies - EP II [EP]   
20. You and Your Effects – Wire Sharks   
21 . Lightning Dust - Infinite Light   
22. Throw Me The Statue – Creaturesque   
23 . Megafaun – Gather, Form, And Fly   
24. Bronzed Chorus – I’m The Spring   
25. Sonic Youth - The Eternal   
26. Dead Weather - Horehound   
27. Health - Get Color   
28. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm   
29. Timber Timbre – Timber Timbre   
30. Vandaveer - Divide And Conquer   

Albums added to our library this week:
1. Hear Here: Local Music Compilation   
2. Darlings - Yeah, I Know   
3. Chores – The Subtle Politics Of The Public Hammock   
4. Liam Finn and Eliza Jane – Champagne In Seashells   
5. Still Life Still – Girls Come Too