Top 30 new albums for week ending Feb 16 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Feb 16
The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).
To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.
Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled. Check back later if it’s not there yet
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenneka Cook | Moonchild | American Paradox |
| 2 | Superchunk | What a Time to Be Alive | Merge |
| 3 | Renata Zeiguer | Old Ghost | Northern Spy |
| 4 | Hookworms | Microshift | Domino |
| 5 | St. Vincent | Masseduction | Loma Vista |
| 6 | Michael Millions | Hard to Be King | Purple Republic Music Group |
| 7 | La Luz | Floating Features | Sub Pop |
| 8 | Rhye | Blood | Concord Loma Vista |
| 9 | Various artists | Black Panther: The Album | Interscope |
| 10 | Bat Fangs | Bat Fangs | Don Giovanni |
| 11 | Moses Sumney | Aromanticism | Jagjaguwar / Hostess |
| 12 | Various artists | American Folk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Thirty Tigers |
| 13 | Butcher Brown | Live at Vagabond | Gearbox |
| 14 | Fly Anakin, Koncept Jack$on & Tuamie | Panama Plus | Smallz World Management & Consulting LLC |
| 15 | HeadlessMantis | SCUMFY | Trrrash |
| 16 | Hector “El Coco” Barez | El Labarinto del Coco | Obi Musica |
| 17 | Madison Turner | A Comprehensive Guide to Burning Out | self-released |
| 18 | The Rain Within | Atomic Eyes | Negative Gain |
| 19 | Saw Black | Water Tower | Crystal Pistol |
| 20 | Car Seat Headrest | Twin Fantasy | Matador |
| 21 | Chemtrails | Calf of the Sacred Cow | PNKSLM |
| 22 | Franz Ferdinand | Always Ascending | Domino |
| 23 | MGMT | Little Dark Age | Columbia |
| 24 | No Age | Snares Like a Haircut | Drag City |
| 25 | Palm | Rock Island | Carpark / Hostess |
| 26 | Paul Luc | Bad Seed | self-released |
| 27 | Screaming Females | All at Once | Don Giovanni |
| 28 | Vundabar | Smell Smoke | self-released |
| 29 | The James Hunter Six | Whatever it Takes | Daptone |
| 30 | Tune-Yards | I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life | 4AD |
New Albums Added:
Altvater – Walking Creatures (self-released)
American Pleasure Club – A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This (Run for Cover)
ANMLS – ANMLS (Slovenly)
At Face Value – Ivy and Echo (self-released)
Beams – Teach Me to Love (Be My Sibling)
Belle & Sebastian – How to Solve Our Human Problems (Matador)
Bonnevilles, The – Dirty Photographs (Alive Naturalsound)
Buffalo Tom – Quiet & Peace (Schoolkid / Scrawny)
Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (Matador)
Cheap Tissue – Cheap Tissue (Lolipop)
Daktyl – Riyaaz (Counter)
Dana Buoy – Ice Glitter Gold (Everloving)
Dane, Barbara – Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)
Dragondeer – If You Got the Blues (VQ Creative / Kobalt)
Everything Is Recorded – Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell (XL)
Fine China – Not Thrilled (Velvet Blue Music)
Flyte – The Loved Ones (Island UK)
Furman, Ezra – Transangelic Exodus (Bella Union / PIAS)
Gisto – OMW (Historical)
Hot Club Sandwich – No Pressure (Acoustic Oasis)
Hurry – Every Little Thought (Lame-O)
Insecure Men – Insecure Men (Fat Possum)
Le Millipede – The Sun Has No Money (Alien Transistor)
Lovely Eggs, The – This is Eggland (Egg)
Monks of Doom – The Brontë Pin (Pitch-A-Tent)
Monophonics – Mirrors (Transistor Sound)
Moonlandingz, The – Interplanetary Class Classics (Deluxe Edition) (Chimera)
Newell, Martin – The Greatest Living Englishman (Captured Tracks)
Ought – Room Inside the World (Merge)
Pearls Before Swine – One Nation Underground (Drag City)
Penguin Prison – Turn it Up (Act Normal Music)
Perverts Again – Friday Night Light (Total Punk)
Red Black Red – Resettlement (self-released)
Rhye – Blood (Loma Vista)
RIDE – Tomorrow’s Shore (Wichita)
Roush, Curtis – Cosmic Campfire Music (Modern Outsider)
Screaming Females – All at Once (Don Giovanni)
Shannon & The Clams – Onion (Easy Eye / Nonesuch)
Sink Tapes – Secret Club (Mint 400 / Sniffling Indy Kids)
Starchild & The New Romantic – Language (Ghostly International)
Strange Names – Data (Frenchkiss)
U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited (4AD)
Vitalic – Voyager (Citizen)
Vundabar – Smell Smoke (Gawk)
War, Sunny – With the Sun (Hen House Studios)
Wild Beasts – Last Night All My Dreams Came True (Domino)
Yarley G – Vivid Echoes (self-released)
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Anna C. February 17th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Hookworms, Kenneka Cook, Renata Zeiguer, St. Vincent, Superchunk