Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2017. Our next list is from volunteer Eddie Sayago.

To put it in the most family-friendly way possible: $#@&! What a year. It's finally over. As a few fellow CHIRP-folk already mentioned, Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. is a masterpiece, so this list will feature some lesser-known acts that helped me tolerate the year straight outta hell, including a Sicangu Lakota rapper, a Mexican singer songwriter, and a NYU student/musician who is despite her stage name is definitely not a soccer mom.

#1   Ctrl by SZA (Top Dawg)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Broken Clocks", "Prom", "Drew Barrymore", "The Weekend", "20 Something"

#2   Musas by Natalia Lafourcade (Sony Music Mexico)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Soledad y el Mar", "Soy lo Prohibido", "Son Amores (That's Amore)", "Qué He Sacado Con Quererte"

#3   Jardín by Gabriel Garzón-Montano (Stones Throw)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Sour Mango", "Cantiga", "The Game"

#4   Season High by Little Dragon (Loma Vista)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Sweet", "Celebrate", "Push", "Butterflies"

#5   Stranger In the Alps by Phoebe Bridgers (Dead Oceans)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Smoke Signals", "Motion Sickness", "Would You Rather"

#6   Collection by Soccer Mommy (Fat Possum)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Try", "Benadryl Dreams", "3am at a Party"

#7   Omnion by Hercules & Love Affair (Andy Butler/Big Beat)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Omnion", "Rejoice", "Lies"

#8   The Autobiography by Vic Mensa (Roc Nation)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Say I Didn't", "Coffee & Cigarettes"

#9   The Bridge by Frank Waln (FDW Entertainment)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "What Made The Red Man Red", "Back to the Beginning"

#10   Silver Eye by Goldfrapp (Mute Artists)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Favorite songs: "Anymore", "Systemagic"

Honorable Mentions

Baths, Romaplasm
Chicano Batman, Freedom is Free
Charli XCX, Pop 2
Daniel Caesar, Freudian
Kendrick Lamar, DAMN.
LCD Soundsystem, American Dream
Lorde, Melodrama
Miguel, War & Leisure
Soulwax, FROM DEEWEE
Washed Out, Mister Mellow