Music Director’s Top 100 Albums of 2015 

2015 was another amazing year in college radio. Now that the year has come and gone, our Music Director decided to look back at all the albums that were played on the airwaves of RSU Radio. Beginning with his top ten, here’s a list of the 100 albums that made the most impact at RSU Radio over the past year. 

1) Other Lives – Rituals

2) Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last

3) Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love

4) Buxton – Half a Native

5) Pond – Man It Feels Like Space Again 

6) White Reaper – White Reaper Does It Again

7) Current Swell – Ulysses

8) Strange Wilds – Subjective Concepts

9) Belle & Sebastian – Girls In Peacetime Still Want To Dance

10) Banditos – Banditos

Shopping – Why Choose?

City and Colour – If I Should Go Before You

Wavves – V

Best Coast – California Nights

Damaged Bug – Cold Hot Plumbs

Metric – Pagans in Vegas

Go Betty Go – Reboot EP

The Helio Sequence – The Helio Sequence

The Bright Light Social Hour – Space Is Still The Place

The Dead Weather – Dodge and Burn

Diamond Rugs – Cosmetics

Mac Demarco – Another One

Pokey Lafarge – Something In The Water

Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

Tame Impala – Currents

Guster – Evermotion

Corners – Maxed Out On Distractions

Drug Cabin – Wiggle Room/Yard Work

Steve Earle and the Dukes – Terraplane

JD McPherson – Let The Good Times Roll

The Dodos – Individ

Will Butler – Policy

Bones & Beeker – Bones & Beeker

Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Going Down…

Twerps – Range Anxiety

Danny Kroha – Angels Watching Over Me

Andre St. James – The Shakes

Guantanamo Baywatch – Darling…It’s Too Late

Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP

Car Seat Headrest – Teens Of Style

Deerhunter – Fading Frontier

The Arcs – Fading Frontier

Laced – Laced

Mikal Cronin – MCIII

Passion Pit – Kindred

FUZZ – II

Bob Moses – All In All/Days Gone By

Claptone – Charmer

DMA’S – DMA’S EP

Fidlar – Too

Destroyer – Poison Season

Tuxedo – Tuxedo

Ducktails – St. Catherine

Various Artists – Dirtybird 10

Tijuana Panthers – Poster

Alabama Shakes – Sound and Color

Shannon and The Clams – Gone By The Dawn

San Cisco – Gracetown

Foals – What Went Down

The Decemberists – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World

Gang of Four – What Happens Next

Video – The Entertainers

Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy

Scotdrakula – Scotdrakula

The Sword – High Country

Useless Eaters – Live In San Francisco 

Bop English – Constant Bop 

Fool’s Gold – Flying Lessons

My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall

Jamie XX – In Colour

Leon Bridges – Coming Home

Of Montreal – Aureate of Gloom

Ty Segall – Mr. Face EP/Ty Rex/Live In San Francisco

Gardens & Villa – Music for Dogs

Wilco – Star Wars

Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mache Dream Balloon

La Luz – Weirdo Shrine

American Wrestlers – American Wrestlers

Turbo Fruits – No Control

Painted Palms – Horizons

Andy Shauf – The Bearer of Bad News

Gary Clark Jr. – The Story of Sonny Boy Slim

Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi

John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

The Libertines – Anthem for Doomed Youth

Lou Barlow – Brace the Wave

Neon Indian – VEGA INTL. Night School

!!! – As If

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday

Desaparecidos – Payola

A Place To Bury Strangers – Transfixiation 

Robert DeLong – In The Cards

Royal Headache – High

Kuroma – Kuromarama

Telekinesis – Ad Infinitum