Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2016. Our next list is from DJ and Assistant Music Director Craig Reptile.

2016 was a horrible year for everything except for records, so after making some agonizing choices, here are my favorites as of now. Ask me tomorrow, I might tell you something different-- any of these Top 10 could be number one on any other day, and any of those Honorable Mentions could have cracked the Top 10 too.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2016. Our next list is from Substitute DJ/Assistant Events Director/Social Coordinator Shelby Hagstrom.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2016. Our next list is from DJ Andy Weber.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2016. Our next list is from DJ / Programming Committee member Matt Garman.

Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2016. Our next list is from volunteer Alex Borkowski.

2016 is an auspicious year, because although I thought nothing could top the pure I-Feel-Like-Shit-O-Meter like 2013–14, a year I spent getting screamed at by entitled dickheads at a Gold Coast Starbucks and pining after uninterested women, 2016 proved to me that things can always get worse. It was year marked by me earning zero dollars, the dissolution of most of my close post-graduate friendships and a long slow spiral into hopelessness with relation to my already atrophied writerly ambitions, but some good punk rock that got released this year, so what the hell! Who cares! Screw it! It bears keeping in mind that although I've requested this list to appear ranked it only really matters that Jeff Rosenstock's album appears as my number one pick. The rest of the albums on this list are so disparate that it seems preposterous to rank them objectively and it seemed inappropriate to purport otherwise.