Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2018. Our next list is from DJ and Board member emeritus Mike Bennett.

This is yet another year where I'm cognizant of how I simply don't have the time to listen to and absorb all of the music that I would like and love. And I listened to roughly 200 albums this year, at least once or twice through. These are the albums that I kept coming back to the most.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2018. Our next list is from DJ and Assistant Marketing Director Mel Marquez aka DJ Stranger Waves.

This has been my first full year on the air with CHIRP and hosting my show on Sunday mornings from 6-9 am. I said last year that my aim was to showcase as many women, LGBTQIA+ artists, and musicians of color as possible because I think they can be underrepresented and their voices deserve to be heard. Looking back, I think I can say that I've really tried to do that. It's been a pretty great year for music and my list definitely reflects the goal stated above. I had a hard time picking just ten albums, but here are my faves of 2018 in no particular order...

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2018. Our next list is from volunteer Al Gabor.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2018. Our next list is from DJ Nicole Oppenheim, host of Ear Candy.

This is a very Ear Candy Top 10 list. Like dream pop? Like shoegaze? How about hip hop? Post punk? Female singers with huge voices? Yep. Got 'em all right here. (And a bunch of Honorable Mentions because I can never narrow it down to just 10).

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2018. Our next list is from volunteer Michael Albert Musinski.