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The top 124 local releases of 2015

It's time for our annual countdown of the top local releases of the year, as determined by a count of spins by all of our WXDU DJs.

Numbers 68-36 are being counted down Sunday 12/27 from 4-6 p.m, and numbers 35-1 will be counted down on Sunday 1/3, again from 4-6 p.m.

Unfortunately, there isn't enough airtime to count down all 124 releases, so here are the lower 56:

69: Polyorchard: Color Theory in Black and White

70: Lowland Hum: Lowland Hum   

71: Patois Counselors: Patois Counselors 7"

72: No Love Dogs//Wolves 7"

73: Bandway: Buddies

74: Elephant Micah: Where in Our Woods

75: Steph Stewart and the Boyfriends: Nobody's Darlin'

76: Lack: Atemporal

77: American Aquarium: Wolves

78: Monologue Bombs: Single

79: Ruscha: 2015 EP

80: 6 String Drag: Roots Rock N Roll

81: Boneslinger: Boneless Cuts

82: Dogs Eyes: 2015 EP

83: Mandolin Orange: Such Jubilee

84: Terrace Heater: Harris Teeter

85: AL Riggs and The Inconveniences: And I You

86: Alpha Cop: Acid Cop

87: Magnolia Collective: Coldest Winter

88: Songs from the Road Band: Traveling Show

89: Tashi Dorji: Appa

90: Villages: Procession Acts

91: Canine Heart: Sounds Live on the Moon

92: Greg Hawks: What Goes Around

93: Weedeater: Goliathan

94: Lost Trail: One Day We'll All Walk Outside and Stare Up at the Blameless Sky and Wait for Something to Happen

95: Malcolm Holcombe: The RCA Sessions

96: Patrick Gallagher: Entomochore

97: Ugly Americans: Panopticon

98: Wes Tirey: Journeyer/Forward, Melancholy Dream

99: Family Bike: Everything You Own is Anagrammed

100: Honeycutters: Me oh My

101: Mac McCaughan: Non-Believers

102: Suppressive Fire: Hellwraith

103: The Bastages: Scavenger Birdsongs

104: Alright: 7"

105: Barrett Brooks: Solitary Americana

106: Eldritch Horror: Untouched by the Sun

107: Ella Bertram: Shiny & Brite

108: Eric + Erica: 7"

109: Irata: Sweet Loris

110: ISS: ISS

111: Noctomb: Obulus for Charon

112: Tellico: Relics and Roses

113: Michael Rank & Stag: Horsehair

114: Necrocosm: Damnation Doctrine

115: Raymond Fairchild: King of the Smoky Mountain Banjo Players

116: The Malpass Brothers: The Malpass Brothers

117: Dogbane: When Karma Comes Calling

118: Schooner/Can't Kids: Split 7"

119: Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow is My Turn

120: Temperance League: The Night Waits

121: The Old One-Two: Foxbones   

122: Rob Nance: Signal Fires

123: Josh Moore: Parted Ways

124: Sinfonietta Fukushima: Sinfonietta Fukushima