If you listen to Radio Milwaukee regularly, you know that the end of the year list season is one of our favorite times of the year. This year we're going all out and trying something different: We'll be counting down our top 100 albums of the year all week on the air from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, playing a full five or six songs from each album. You won't find a deeper dive into the year's best music; you're bound to hear something you've never heard before.
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You can find a complete list of our top 100 albums below, but you'll have to listen next week to see how they're ranked.
Here are this year's albums
Abby Jeanne Music Box Dancer
Aldous Harding Designer
Amyl and The Sniffers Amyl and The Sniffers
Anderson .Paak Ventura
Angel Olsen All Mirrors
Ariana Grande thank u, next
Bag Raiders Horizons
Beirut Gallipoli
Better Oblivion Community Better Oblivion Community
Center Center
Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T. IZ HERE
Big Thief U.F.O.F.
Big Thief Two Hands
Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Billie Eilish WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP,
WHERE DO WE GO?
Bleached Don't You Think You've Had
Enough?
Bon Iver i,i
Brittany Howard Jaime
Brutus Nest
Burna Boy African Giant
Chance the Rapper The Big Day
Cherry Glazerr Stuffed & Ready
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Ancestral Recall
Clairo Immunity
Common Let Love
David Gray Gold in a Brass Age
Denzel Curry ZUU
Devendra Banhart Ma
DJ Shadow Our Pathetic Age
Dramatic Lovers You Talk Loud
EARTHGANG Mirrorland
Electric Guest KIN
Ex Hex It's Real
FKA twigs MAGDALENE
Flying Lotus Flamagra
FONTAINES D.C. Dogrel
Fuzzysurf Fuzzy & the Surfs
Gang Starr One Of The Best Yet
GoldLink Diaspora
Great Grandpa Four of Arrows
H.E.R. I Used To Know Her
Helado Negro This Is How You Smile
Holly Herndon PROTO
Hot Chip A Bath Full of Ecstasy
India.Arie Worthy
J Balvin OASIS
James Blake Assume Form
Jamila Woods LEGACY! LEGACY!
Jidenna 85 to Africa
Julia Jacklin Crushing
Karen O & Danger Mouse Lux Prima
Kendra Amalie Intuition
Kevin Morby Oh My God
King Gizzard & Infest The Rats' Nest
The Lizard Wizard
King Princess Cheap Queen
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Little Brother May the Lord Watch
Little Simz GREY Area
Lizzo Cuz I Love You
Maggie Rogers Heard It In A Past Life
Mahalia LOVE AND COMPROMISE
Marika Hackman Any Human Friend
Maverick Sabre When I Wake Up
Maxo Kream Brandon Banks
Michael Kiwanuka KIWANUKA
Mike Krol Power Chords
Mourning BLKstar Reckoning Nicole Bus KAIROS Nilüfer Yanya Miss Universe Oso Oso basking in the glow Polo G Die A Legend PUP Morbid Stuff Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Raphael Saadiq Jimmy Lee Rapsody Eve Rodrigo y Gabriela Mettavolution Sampa the Great The Return Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Shura forevher Sleater-Kinney The Center Won't Hold Solange When I Get Home Spielbergs This is Not the End Swindle No More Normal Tank and The Bangas Green Balloon Tayla Parx We Need To Talk Tegan and Sara Hey, I'm Just like You The Black Keys "Let's Rock" The Coathangers The Devil You Know The Faint Egowerk The National I Am Easy to Find Seratones POWER The Whiffs Another Whiff Tobe Nwigwe THREE ORIGINALS Toro y Moi Outer Peace Tyler, The Creator IGOR Vampire Weekend Father of the Bride Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Whitney Forever Turned Around Wild Belle Everybody One of a Kind Ximena Sariñana ¿Dónde Bailarán Las Niñas? Yola Walk Through Fire