Top 10 records spun from May 12 to May 18 at KUCI FM-88.9, (949) 824-KUCI; www.kuci.org. Now in its 32nd year of operation, the volunteer-run public station broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week from the UC Irvine campus.
1 Islands, Return to the Sea (Equator)
2 Dudley Perkins, Expressions (Stones Throw)
3 Elf Power, Back to the Web (Rykodisk)
4 Fort Knox Five, Gold Standard (Fort Knox)
5 Kimya Dawson, Remember That I Love You(K)
6 The Coup, Pick a Bigger Weapon (Epitaph)
7Various artists, Rewind! 5 (Ubiquity)
8 Fiery Furnaces, Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
9Spankrock, YoYoYoYoYo (Big Dada)
10Danielson, Ships (Secretly Canadian)
STAFF PICK: Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge): “Best album of all time, hands down. Beautiful, unique, spiritual and catchy—songs about Anne Frank over music that includes a singing saw. Genius.” (Kyle Olson, music director/training director)