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WUTC Staff Picks: Top of 2023

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As we close out the year, we want to remind you about some of the great music released in 2023!

While these albums are host favorites from this year, they are not listed in any particular order of importance.

Listen to the whole playlist here!

Richard Winham's Top Albums

  • Black Pumas - "Chronicles of a Diamond"
  • boygenius - "The Record"
  • Tre Burt - "Traffic Fiction"
  • Rodney Crowell - "The Chicago Sessions"
  • Iris DeMent - "Working on a World"
  • EBTG - "Fuse"
  • Robert Finley - "Black Bayou"
  • Miss Grit - "Follow The Cyborg"
  • Ben Harper - "Wide Open Light"
  • P.J.Harvey - "Inside The Old Year Dying"
  • Jason Isbell -" Weathervanes"
  • The Japanese House - "In The End It Always Does"
  • Eilen Jewell - "Get Behind The Wheel"
  • Bettye Lavette - "Lavvette!"
  • H.C.McEntire - "Every Acre"
  • Natalie Merchant - "Keep Your Courage"
  • Buddy & Julie Miller - "In The Throes"
  • Mitski - "This Land is Inhospitable and So Are We"
  • Van Morrison - "Accentuate the Positive"
  • Queens of the Stone Age - "In Times New Roman"
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela - "In Between Thoughts"
  • The Rolling Stones - "Hackney Diamonds"
  • Alison Russell - "The Returner"
  • Say She She - "Silver"
  • Chris Stapleton - "Higher"
  • Jaime Wyatt - "Feel Good"
  • Yaeji - "With a Hammer"

Haley Solomon's Top Albums

  • Altın Gün - "Ask"
  • Aluna - "MYCELiUM"
  • Andy Shauf - "Norm"
  • Biig Piig - "Bubblegun"
  • Black Belt Eagle Scout - "The Land, The Water, The Sky"
  • boygenius - "The Record"
  • Caroline Polachek - "Desire, I Want To Turn Into You"
  • Caroline Rose - "The Art of Forgetting"
  • CloZee - "Microworlds"
  • Doja Cat - "Scarlet"
  • KAYTRAMINE, Aminé, KAYTRANADA - "Kaytraminé"
  • Lapsley - "Cautionary Tales of Youth"
  • LP Gobbi - "Light Places"
  • Mac DeMarco - "Five Easy Hot Dogs"
  • Masego - "Masego"
  • Miss Grit - "Follow The Cyborg"
  • Noname - "Sundial"
  • Palehound - "Eye On The Bat"
  • Say She She - "Silver"
  • Skrillex - "Quest For Fire"
  • slowthai - "UGLY"
  • SZA - "SOS"
  • Tennis - "Pollen"
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "V"
  • Y La Bamba - "Lucha"

Nessa Parrish's Top Albums

  • Molly Rocket - "Syrup"
  • Moon Walker - "Apocalypticism"
  • NOTHING MORE - "SPIRITS" (Deluxe)
  • Demi Lovato - "REVAMPED"
  • grandson - "I Love You, I'm trying"
  • Meet Me @ The Altar - "Past // Present // Future"
  • The Band CAMINO - "The Dark"
  • Bearings - "The Best Part About Being Human"
  • Circa Waves - "Never Going Under"
  • WSTR - " 'Til the Wheels Fall Off"
  • Nothing But Thieves - "Dead Club City"
  • Tigercub - "The Perfume of Decay"
  • Movements - "RUCKUS!"
  • Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - "I Love You"
  • Mouth Culture - "Mishaps of My Mid Twenties"
  • Paramore - "This Is Why"
  • Yam Haus - "Stupid and Famous"
  • Maneskin - "RUSH! (ARE U COMING?"
  • Heart Attack Man - "Freak of Nature"
  • PVRIS - "EVERGREEN"
  • Honey Revenge - "Retrovision"
  • The Menzingers - "Some Of It Was True"
  • Ultra Q - "My Guardian Angel"
  • Blink-182 - "ONE MORE TIME..."
  • can't swim - "Thanks But No Thanks"
  • Hot Milk - "A Call To The Void"

Brent Stott's Top Albums

  • Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - "SAVED!"
  • Slowdive - "everything is fine"
  • Chartreuse - "Morning Ritual"
  • Ulrike Spacek - "Compact Trauma"
  • GracieHorse - "L.A. Shit"
  • Being Dead - "When Horses Would Run"
  • bdrmm - "I Don't Know"
  • A Beacon School - "yoyo"
  • Lutalo - "Again"
  • Frog - "GROG"
  • bar italia - "Tracey Denim"
  • Surprise Chef "Friendship EP"
  • Parks, Squares, and Alleys - "Zero Division Error"
Richard Winham joined WUTC five years after the station began broadcasting to the Chattanooga area and the Tennessee Valley.
Production Director, Producer & Host at WUTC of The Haley Solomon Show, ElectroNights with Haley Solomon and Wild Woman Radio.
Nessa is a graduate of UTC, coordinates digital content for the station's social media and website, hosts and produces her own weekly music show for WUTC: The Rock Show, and acts as the station photographer at various events, including local and regional music festivals.
Brent Stott is host and producer of Louder Than Bombs.