For the rest of the year, we’ll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2015. Click here to check out other lists from our DJs, staff, volunteers, and interns, and click here to see the Top 90.3 Albums of 2015, as voted on by KEXP listeners!
Pezzner // photo by Bebe Labree Besch (view set)
Kid Hops’ 2015 Top Ten Albums for Positive Vibrations
| rank | artist | album | label |
| 1 | Shuga, Lone Ranger & Horace Andy | Every Tongue Shall Tell | Penthouse Jamaica |
| 2 | Wrongtom meets… | Possessed EP | Tru Thoughts |
| 3 | Various Artists | The Midlands Roots Explosion Volume 1 | Reggae Archive |
| 4 | Steel Pulse | Handsworth Revolution (2015 Deluxe Edition) | Universal |
| 5 | Jimmy Riley | Live It To Know It: Self Productions, Protest Songs & Dub Plates 1975-1985 | Pressure Sounds |
| 6 | Bunny Striker Lee & Friends | Next Cut! | Pressure Sounds |
| 7 | Tiken Jah Fakoly | Racines | Universal |
| 8 | RSD | Dub Pride | Zam Zam |
| 9 | Protoje | Ancient Future | Overstand/Mr. Bongo |
| 10 | Capital Letters | Vinyard (2015 Deluxe Edition) | Greensleeves |
Kid Hops’ 2015 Top Ten Albums for Expansions
| rank | artist | album | label |
| 1 | Terranova | Restless | Kompakt |
| 2 | Quadrant, Kid Hops & Iris | 206 | Commercial Suicide |
| 3 | Need for Mirrors | Ethos 12″ | Blu Mar Ten Music |
| 4 | Calibre | Dreamz Dub EP | CIA |
| 5 | Artificial Intelligence | Timeline | Metalheadz |
| 6 | London Elektricity | Are We There Yet? | Hospital |
| 7 | Pezzner & Kid Hops | Scissor in Law | Get Physical |
| 8 | FD | Work It Out | Soul:R |
| 9 | Zero T | Golden Section | Dispatch |
| 10 | Citizenn | Human Interface | Crosstown Rebels |
Kid Hops is the host of Positive Vibrations, on the air Saturday mornings, 9AM-noon, and one of the hosts of Expansions, on the air Sunday nights, 9pm-midnight
