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Marites Velasquez writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2021: Marites Velasquez

CHIRP Radio Best of 2021

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2021. Our next list is from Outreach Director Marites Velasquez.

Oh, 2021. We did our best. At least we got to enjoy new music along the way. Here are my favorites:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#1 Volcano Park by Meat Wave (self-released)

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Meat Wave Volcano ParkEvery new release from Meat Wave seems to top the one before, and this EP did not disappoint. I know it's good if it's been on repeat. Favorite track: "Yell At The Moon"

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Val Woj writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2021: Val Stokowski

CHIRP Radio Best of 2021

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2021. Our next list is from DJ Val Stokowski.

With how much great music we’ve been gifted in 2021, I knew crafting this year’s best-of list would be an undertaking. I present to you the most excessive year-end list I’ve ever made: starting with overall top 10 albums, followed by 15 honorable mentions (in alphabetical order), favorite albums from Chicago-based artists, then top 10 EPs.

*Note: Arthhur’s Occult Fractures was in the top spot for my Chicago list, but anything less than #1 overall didn’t seem fair. It’s my favorite album of the year.

My 2021 resolution was to stay organized…2022 will be to simplify.

 

 

#1 Occult Fractures by Arthhur (self-released)

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Arthhur Occult Fractures

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Peter Zimmerman writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2021: Peter Zimmerman

CHIRP Radio Best of 2021

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2021. Our next list is from Saturday DJ, 2pm-4pm Peter Zimmerman.

It was another great year of music and here are my favorites:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#1 Sometimes I Might Be Introvert by Little Simz (AGE 101)

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Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be an Introvert

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DJ Mick writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2021: Mick R.

CHIRP Radio Best of 2021

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2021. Our next list is from Co-Director of Features Mick R.

I strongly disfavor year-end round-ups, ranked lists of any kind, and "Best of" s, but I do enjoy writing short album reviews… go figure. Instead of any of the above sorting and/or ranking index's that pretend that artist are specifically vying for my attention and require my validation- instead of, you know, expressing themselves or doing something intrinsically meaningful - I've instead written about five records that came into the station within the past twelve months that I simply enjoyed.

This list is to encourage you to check out these albums, if you haven't already. It's a very low-pressure situation- just one music fan to another - recommending something they think the other might like based on purely on the pleasure that it brought them. It's the most human thing any music lover can do, especially in the strange and ever more atomized world we find ourselves in. Anyway, I hope you will accept my invitation and enjoy…

T.O.N.T.O. by Robin Hatch (Ramp Global)

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Robin Hatch T.O.N.T.O.Toronto electronic artist Robin Hatch pulled together one of the more interesting technical albums of the year with her debut album T.O.N.T.O. A harmonic synthesizer experiment, it proceeds through an elaborate and beautifully realized colloquium of wordless dialogues, utilizing such rare instruments as the Yamaha CS-80 and a phaser player used by Nash the Slash, to name a few. Of course, the centerpiece of the album is The Original New Timbral Orchestra or TONTO, from which the album takes its name- an improbably assembled, one-of-a-kind, mega-modular synthesizer, that has supercharged albums by Devo, Gil-Scott Heron, and Stevie Wonder, and which requires special permission from the National Music Centre in Calgary to be in the same room and breathe air in its presence. Robin's album is the first in decades to so prominently feature the device and its unique sonic capabilities, yet the most alluring and memorable aspects of Robin’s album are the parts that directly bear her emotional imprint and the clear impressions of her intent. A powerful and impressively imaginative album and one of the few I felt compelled to purchase their year on vinyl.

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