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For Your Consideration: On Quelle Chris, Flowers, and the Emotional Stakes of DEATHFAME

KEXP is counting down the best records of the year with our annual Best of 2022 Countdown. Ahead of the countdown, KEXP staff make the case for some of their favorite albums from 2022. Make sure to vote for your favorites by December 9 at 7 PM PT and tune in to hear what makes the list on December …


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For Your Consideration: Finding Peace on Melody's Echo Chamber's Emotional Eternal

KEXP is counting down the best records of the year with our annual Best of 2022 Countdown. Ahead of the countdown, KEXP staff make the case for some of their favorite albums from 2022. Make sure to vote for your favorites by December 9 at 7 PM PT and tune in to hear what makes the list on December …


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For Your Consideration: And So I Watch You From Afar Finds Post-Rock Euphoria on Jettison

KEXP is counting down the best records of the year with our annual Best of 2022 Countdown. Ahead of the countdown, KEXP staff make the case for some of their favorite albums from 2022. Make sure to vote for your favorites by December 9 at 7 PM PT and tune in to hear what makes the list on December …


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For Your Consideration: Soul-Searching with Sault's UNTITLED (God)

KEXP is counting down the best records of the year with our annual Best of 2022 Countdown. Ahead of the countdown, KEXP staff make the case for some of their favorite albums from 2022. Make sure to vote for your favorites by December 9 at 7 PM PT and tune in to hear what makes the list on December …


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For Your Consideration: Traversing the Multiverse Within Makaya McCraven’s Masterful In These Times

KEXP is counting down the best records of the year with our annual Top 90.3 Countdown. Ahead of the countdown, KEXP staff make the case for some of their favorite albums from 2022. Make sure to vote for your favorites by December 9 at 7 PM PT and tune in to hear what makes the list on December 16.


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For Your Consideration: Cantora I y II, los metaversos de Mercedes Sosa

KEXP is counting down our listeners top voted albums of the last 50 years in conjunction with our 2022 fall fundraising drive. In conjunction, KEXP's Editorial team is presenting 'For Your Consideration' some of their all-time favorite albums and what they mean to them. Today, Albina Cabrera explor…


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For Your Consideration: The Tenderness of Tirzah's Devotion

KEXP is counting down our listeners top voted albums of the last 50 years in conjunction with our 2022 fall fundraising drive. In conjunction, KEXP's Editorial team is presenting 'For Your Consideration' some of their all-time favorite albums and what they mean to them. Today, Isabel Khalili reflec…


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For Your Consideration: Angel Olsen's Burn Your Fire for No Witness Is the Underrated Self-Growth Record We All Need

KEXP is counting down our listeners top voted albums of the last 50 years in conjunction with our 2022 fall fundraising drive. In conjunction, KEXP's Editorial team is presenting 'For Your Consideration' some of their all-time favorite albums and what they mean to them. Today, Jasmine Albertson det…


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For Your Consideration: On TV on the Radio's Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, Magic Negroes, and Undervalued Classics

Martin Douglas argues for the Brooklyn band's full-length debut to be entered into the pantheon of classic albums from the early 21st Century, while exploring a controversial trope and the band's past and future critical acclaim.


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Sub Pop 30th Anniversary Count-Up

In 2018, KEXP celebrated the 30th anniversary of local record label Sub Pop with a four-month retrospective, "counting up" every catalog number in their vast discography of over 1,200 releases. Dig into the archives of our catalog coverage, featuring in-depth coverage on the history of their releases.


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