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Top 89 Staff Picks: David Safar, music director and host

by David Safar

December 01, 2015

Top 89 of 2015
The Current's music director David Safar shares his top songs and albums of 2015
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Top 10 Albums of 2015

1. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
3. Disclosure, Caracal
4. Kurt Vile, b'lieve i'm goin down...
5. Laura Marling, Short Movie
6. D'Angelo and the Vanguard, Black Messiah
7. Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love
8. Tame Impala, Currents
9. Kamasi Washington, The Epic
10. Hot Chip, Why Make Sense?

Top 20 Songs of 2015

1. Kendrick Lamar - "King Kunta"
2. CHVRCHES - "Leave A Trace"
3. Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best"
4. Tame Impala - "Let It Happen"
5. Sleater-Kinney - "A New Wave"
6. Jamie xx - "Loud Places" feat. Romy
7. Sufjan Stevens - "Should Have Known Better"
8. Alabama Shakes - "Don't Wanna Fight"
9. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - "Sugah Daddy"
10. Father John Misty - "The Ideal Husband"
11. Joanna Newsom - "Leaving the City"
12. Tobias Jesso Jr. - "How Could You Babe"
13. Hot Chip - "Why Make Sense?"
14. Wolf Alice - "Moaning Lisa Smile"
15. Wilco - "Random Name Generator"
16. Beach House - "Sparks"
17. Thundercat - "Them Changes"
18. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - "Sunday Candy"
19. Natalie Prass - "My Baby Don't Understand Me"
20. Alessia Cara - "Here"

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