Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from Assistant Events Director and Substitute DJ Shelby Hagstrom.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from DJ, Programming Committee member, and ex-Music Director Matt Garman.

Big year; started one way, ended another. That's progress!

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from DJ (Thursdays 3-6pm) Mauricio Reyes.

Since it was released after my 2014 list was made...

Black Messiah by D'Angelo (RCA)

I'm gonna put this one in it's own special category due to its late release last year. And it deserves its own category. I spent most of 2014 listening to "Voodoo" over and over again, so it was an early Christmas present for me when D'Angelo dropped this gift on to the world. Though the release date was rushed, which sounds kinda funny cause it took 15 years in between albums, the timing was impeccable and truly captured the moment that America was going through (and still is). The chaos in the music of "1000 Deaths" is the sound of the unrest that Michael Brown's death brought to the U.S. and the line in "The Charade" All we wanted was a chance to talk, 'stead we only got outlined in chalk, tugs at the hearts strings but Trayvon Martin... Tamir Rice... Freddie Gray... Walter Scott... Eric Gardner... LaQuan McDonald... This is not an album that will be remembered by its placement on lists in 2014 or 2015 but an album that will remain timeless.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from volunteer Al Gabor.

In no special order--all of these have been my number one in 2015 for at least a week.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from DJ Cher Vincent.

I was more into actual singles this year, but these albums kept me cozy and away from my Netflix queue.