Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2024. Our next list is from DJ and Programming Committee Member Matt Garman.

#1 Valebol by Valebol (Otherly Love)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#2 To All Trains by Shellac (Touch and Go)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#3 A La Sala by Khruangbin (Dead Oceans)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#4 Memorial Waterslides by MEMORIALS (Fire)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#5 Package Pt. 2 by Gustaf (Royal Mountain)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#6 NO NAME by Jack White (Third Man)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#7 Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend (Columbia)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#8 OUI, LSF by Les Savy Fav (Frenchkiss)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#9 Pull the Rope by Ibibio Sound Machine (Merge)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#10 Chain of Light by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Real World)

BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Honorable Mentions

Here's 11-20:
11. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
12. Marika Hackman - Big Sigh
13. toe - Now I See the Light
14. METZ - Up On Gravity Hill
15. Babe Report* - Did You Get Better
16. Friko* - Where we've been, Where we go from here
17. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
18. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
19. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme
20. Mount Eerie - Night Palace

Top 10 Live Shows I Attended in 2024:
Stevie Wonder at the United Center, 11/2
Spoon at the Metro, 9/20
Meat Wave* at the Empty Bottle, 2/3
Ibibio Sound Machine at Outset, 9/26
ILLINOISE! at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, 2/8
Mclusky at The Vic Theatre, 3/15
Lazzaro at Piazza degli Antinori (Florence, Italy), 9/7
Otoboke Beaver and Ovef Ow* at Thalia Hall, 3/9
Sleater-Kinney and Black Belt Eagle Scout at Brooklyn Bowl (Las Vegas), 2/29
Jamila Woods* at The Vic Theatre, 2/23

Top 10 Vinyl Purchases of 2024:
Gal E Caetano Veloso - Domingo [1967]
Psyché - Psyché [2023]
Nara Leão - Coisas Do Mundo [1969]
Veruca Salt - Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt [1996]
Screamers - Demo Hollywood 1977 [2021]
Sade - Love Deluxe [1992]
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra [1978]
Chrisma - Chinese Restaurant [1977]
Massimo Guantini - Dispositive [1977]
DA* - Dark Rooms b/w White Castles 7" [1981]
*Chicago artist!