This year I asked notable Charlotte music fans, musicians, promoters, and other folks that work in arts and entertainment to submit their own Top 10 albums of the year. Each day this week I'll post a handful of these.
Wilson, TV and radio personality, WCCBNews
Rising
Paul
McCartney "New"
David
Bowie "The Next Day"
The
Avett Brothers "Magpie and the Dandelion"
Haim
"Days Are Gone"
Savages
"Silence Yourself"
King
Krule "6 Feet Below the Moon"
Parquet
Courts "Light Up Gold"
Lorde
"Pure Heroine"
Melt
Yourself Down "Melt Yourself Down"
M.I.A
"Matangi"
Garrett Leister, bassist,
HRVRD
Savages
"Silence Yourself"
Chelsea
Wolfe "Pain is Beauty"
The
National "Trouble Will Find Me"
Thee
Oh Sees "Floating Coffin"
Atoms
for Peace "AMOK"
Nick
Cave and the Bad Seeds "Push the Sky Away"
Arcade
Fire "Reflektor"
Sigur
Ros "Kveikur"
Still
Corners "Strange Pleasures"
Cult
of Luna "Vertikal"
Laurie Koster, Independent
bookings and promotions
Both Koster and her husband Don
were so enthusiastic they picked 20 top albums each as well as favorite EPs.
Here’s ten each.
Junip "Junip"
Jake
Troth "Double
Black Diamond"Tauk "Homunculus"
Yes the Raven "Love is Covered in Dust"
Tom McBride "Morning in Glen Burnie"
Gregory Alan Isakov "The Weatherman"
Escondido "The Ghost of Escondido"
Humble Tripe "The Giving"
Paul Speer "Ax Inferno"
Trent Dabbs "The Way We Look at Horses"
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