Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2018. Our next list is from DJ Pete Zimmerman.

#1   Future Me Hates Me by The Beths (Carpark)
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#2   Years by Sarah Shook and the Disarmers (Bloodshot)
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#3   Foreign Affairs by Connections (Trouble in Mind)
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#4   Lush by Snail Mail (Matador)
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#5   Tell Me How You Really Feel by Courtney Barnett (Mom + Pop)
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#6   Clean by Soccer Mommy (Fat Possum)
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#7   Historian by Lucy Dacus (Matador)
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#8   Single Rider by Jenn Champion (Hardly Art)
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#9   Prom Queen by Beach Bunny (Self-Released)
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#10   How to Socialise & Make Friends by Camp Cope (Run for Cover)
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THE NEXT 40

Bad Moves "Tell No One" (Don Giovanni)

State Champion "Send Flowers" (Sophomore Lounge)

Superchunk "What a Time to Be Alive" (Merge)

Mitski "Be the Cowboy" (Dead Oceans)

The Love-Birds "In the Lover's Corner" (Trouble in Mind)

Emily Jane Powers "Restless" (self-released)

Cut Worms "Hollow Ground" (Jagjaguwar)

Tasha "Alone at Last" (Father/Daughter)

Amen Dunes "Freedom" (Sacred Bones)

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever "Hope Downs" (Sub Pop)

boygenius "boygenius" (Matador)

Saba "Care for Me" (Saba Pivot)

Hop Along "Bark Your Head Off, Dog" (Saddle Creek)

Dear Nora "Skulls Example" (Ordinal)

Noname "Room 25" (self-released)

Grapetooth "Grapetooth" (Polyvinyl)

Father John Misty "God's Favorite Customer" (Sub Pop)

Kurt Vile "Bottle it In" (Matador) Deeper "Deeper" (Fire Talk)

Clearance "At Your Leisure" (Topshelf)

Caroline Rose "LONER" (New West)

Anna Burch "Quit the Curse" (Polyvinyl)

Ravyn Lenae "Crush EP" (Atlantic)

Rhye "Blood" (Loma Vista)

Bonny Doon "Longwave" (Woodsist)

Neko Case "Hell-On" (ANTI-)

Eleanor Friedberger "Rebound" (Frenchkiss)

Jeremy Messersmith "Late Stage Capitalism" (Glassnote)

Tony Molina "Kill the Lights" (Slumberland)

The Love Language "Baby Grand" (Merge)

Sunflower Bean "Twentytwo in Blue" (Mom + Pop)

Lala Lala "The Lamb" (Hardly Art)

Parquet Courts "Wide Awake!" (Rough Trade)

Swearin' "Fall Into the Sun" (Merge)

Shy Boys "Bell House" (Polyvinyl)

Saintseneca "Pillar of Na" (ANTI-)

Post Animal "When I Think of You in a Castle" (Polyvinyl)

Phosphorescent "C'est La Vie" (Dead Oceans)

Courtney Marie Andrews "May Your Kindness Remain" (Fat Possum)

Ohmme "Parts" (Joyful Noise)