Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 6 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 6
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 | Angélique Kidjo | Remain in Light | Kravenworks |
| 2 | Jorja Smith | Lost & Found | RCA |
| 3 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 4 | The Purge | The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds | Purge Music |
| 5 | Nickelus F | Stuck | AGM |
| 6 | Angelica Garcia | Karma the Knife – Single | self-released |
| 7 | Young Scum | Young Scum | Citrus City |
| 8 | Kanye West | ye | GOOD Music / Def Jam |
| 9 | Saw Black | Water Tower | Crystal Pistol |
| 10 | Snail Mail | Lush | Matador |
| 11 | Kids See Ghosts | Kids See Ghosts | GOOD Music / Def Jam |
| 12 | Neko Case | Hell-On | Anti/Epitaph |
| 13 | The Essex Green | Hardly Electronic | Merge |
| 14 | The Interrupters | Fight the Good Fight | Hellcat/Epitaph |
| 15 | Pusha T | DAYTONA | Def Jam |
| 16 | Marisa Anderson | Cloud Corner | Thrill Jockey |
| 17 | John Coltrane | Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album | Impulse |
| 18 | Nur Black | Appeal of the Void | Purge Music |
| 19 | Deathhouse Blues | The Beer Battered Boogies | self released |
| 20 | Andy Jenkins | Sweet Bunch | Liberator Music / Spacebomb |
| 21 | The Cemetery Boys | Small Town Witch Nitemare | self-released |
| 22 | Piranha Rama | Piranha Rama | Trrrash |
| 23 | Dumb Waiter | Heck | JUJU |
| 24 | Brunswick | Five Years | Papa Hotel |
| 25 | Opin | Drifters EP | Harding Street Assembly Lab |
| 26 | Jim James | Uniform Distortion | ATO |
| 27 | The Milk Carton Kids | All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do | Anti- |
| 28 | Weller | Weller | Tiny Engines |
| 29 | Gorillaz | The Now Now | Parlophone |
| 30 | The Rock*A*Teens | Sixth House | Merge |
New Albums Added:
A Shoreline Dream – Waitout (Latenight Weeknight, 2018)
Alarm, The – Equals (Twenty First Century, 2018)
Appel, Henrik – Burning Bodies (PNKSLM, 2018)
Bodies Obtained, The – Breakneck & Jubilee (Finding You Attractive, 2018)
Cannons – In a Heartbeat (self-released, 2018)
Cohen, Jackie – Tacoma Night Terror Part 1 (I’ve Got the Blues) (Spacebomb, 2018)
courtship. – Denial in Paradise (self-released, 2018)
Didirri – Measurements (Unified, 2018)
Douglas, Mo – Breakfast at the Continental (Ten Dollar Recording Co., 2018)
Elephante – Glass Mansion (self-released, 2018)
Field Division – Dark Matter Dreams (Bella Union / PIAS, 2018)
Fink, Marxer, and Gleaves – Shout and Shine (Community Music, Inc., 2018)
Givant, Paul – Fashion District Adjacent (RPS, 2018)
Goon – Dusk of Punk / Happy Omen (Partisan, 2018)
Gorillaz – The Now Now (Parlophone / Warner Bros., 2018)
Guts Club – Trench Foot (self-released, 2018)
Hernandez, Carlos – On Folly (Gravesend, 2018)
Hologram Teen – Between the Funk and the Fear (Polytechnic Youth, 2018)
Interrupters, The – Fight the Good Fight (Hellcat, 2018)
James, Jim – Uniform Distortion (ATO, 2018)
League of Space Pirates – Quantum Entanglement (self-released, 2018)
Milk Carton Kids, The – All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do (Anti-, 2018)
Morales, Claire – All That Wanting (self-released, 2018)
Ophelias, The – Almost (Joyful Noise, 2018)
Paper Jackets – Don’t Lose Your Head (Selma, 2018)
Pretty Flowers, The – Why Trains Crash (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Ramengvrl – CA$HMERE (Underground Bizniz Club / Juni, 2018)
Record Company, The – All of This Life (Concord, 2018)
Rubens, The – Lo La Ru (self-released, 2018)
Searmanas – s/t (Cleopatra, 2018)
Silhouette Era, The – s/t (self-released, 2018)
Simpson, A.P. – Newly Almost Fearless (self-released, 2018)
Tanukichan – Sundays (Company, 2018)
Them Are Us Too – Amends (Dais, 2018)
Träden – s/t (Subliminal Sounds, 2018)
Trü – Growing Pains (Sniffling Indie Kids / Mint 400, 2018)
Virginia Wing – Ecstatic Arrow (Fire, 2018)
Weller – s/t (Tiny Engines, 2018)
Wimps – Garbage People (Kill Rock Stars, 2018)
Yuno – Moodie (Sub Pop, 2018)
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Anna C. July 7th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Angélique Kidjo, Jorja Smith, Natalie Prass, Nickelus F, The purge