Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 3 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 3
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 | Manzara | Hello My Name Is … Friend | Nosy Pants |
| 2 | The Internet | Hive Mind | Columbia |
| 3 | Tanukichan | Sundays | Company |
| 4 | Angelique Kidjo | Remain in Light | Kravenworks |
| 5 | Bodega | Endless Scroll | What’s Your Rupture? |
| 6 | Bad Magic | What’s Wrong with My Eyes? | self-released |
| 7 | Piranha Rama | Piranha Rama | Trrrash |
| 8 | Lucy Dacus | Historian | Matador |
| 9 | Parquet Courts | Wide Awake! | Rough Trade |
| 10 | The Sword | Used Future | Razor & Tie |
| 11 | Speedy Ortiz | Twerp Verse | Carpark |
| 12 | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel | Mom+Pop / Marathon / Milk! |
| 13 | Mourn | Sorpresa Familia | Captured Tracks |
| 14 | Kristin Hersh | Possible Dust Clouds | Fire |
| 15 | The Essex Green | Hardly Electronic | Merge |
| 16 | La Luz | Floating Features | Hardly Art |
| 17 | The Devil Makes Three | Chains Are Broken | New West |
| 18 | Yeni Nostalji | Yeni Nostalji | Ropeadope |
| 19 | Woody Woodworth & the Piners | Virginia | self-released |
| 20 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 21 | Cole Hicks | May Day | ANONYMOUS Genius / Purple Republic |
| 22 | Brunswick | Five Years | Papa Hotel |
| 23 | Spooky Cool | Every Thing Ever – EP | Citrus City |
| 24 | Windhand | Eternal Return | Relapse |
| 25 | Here Lies Man | You Will Know Nothing | RidingEasy |
| 26 | Zoe Speaks | Wings | RedBird |
| 27 | Kevin Gordon | Tilt and Shine | Crowville Media |
| 28 | Denzel Curry | TA13OO | Loma Vista |
| 29 | YOB | Our Raw Heart | Relapse |
| 30 | Thin Lips | Chosen Family | Lame-O |
New Albums Added:
Anne Malin – Fog Area (self-released, 2018)
Beta Band, The – The Best of the Beta Band [reissue] (Because Music, 2018)
Beta Band, The – The Three EPs [reissue] (Because Music, 2018)
Bilge Rat – Pal (Bee Side Cassettes, 2018)
Broken Baby – s/t (Poor Man / Palo Santo, 2018)
Caged Animals – Escape Artist (Nocturne, 2018)
Calicoco – Float (Dadstache, 2018)
Chance The Rapper – Four New Songs (self-released, 2018)
Chanti Darling – RNB Vol. 1 (Tender Loving Empire, 2018)
Collins, Wes – Welcome to the Ether (Nosy Dog, 2018)
Creux Lies – The Hearth (Cleopatra, 2018)
Defend the Rhino – Fabricated (Mint 400, 2018)
DENNIS – Alien Fantasy (self-released, 2018)
Eyebrows, The – Volume (self-released, 2018)
FOXTROTT – Meditations II (One Little Indian, 2018)
Free Cake For Every Creature – The Bluest Star (Double Double Whammy, 2018)
Fry, Dave – Troubadour (self-released, 2018)
Happy Fits, The – Concentrate (self-released, 2018)
Hauff, Helena – Qualm (Ninja Tune, 2018)
Hauschildt, Steve – Dissolvi (Ghostly International, 2018)
Hjalmarsson, Thrainn – Influence of Buildings on Musical Tone (Carrier, 2018)
Julietta – Smooth Sailing (+1, 2018)
Khan, Ben – s/t (Dirty Hit, 2018)
Lemon Bucket Orkestra – If I Had the Strength (Six Degrees, 2018)
Love Language, The – Baby Grand (Merge, 2018)
Lucero – Among the Ghosts (Thirty Tigers, 2018)
Mako Sica and Hamid Drake – Ronda (Feeding Tube / Astral Spirits, 2018)
ManDancing – Hands On 3 (Take This To Heart, 2018)
Nau, Michael & The Mighty Thread – s/t (Relearn To Boogie / Light In The Attic, 2018)
Nervous Exits – Get Out (Sonic Surgery, 2018)
Norty – The Years are Fleeting (Young Heavy Souls, 2018)
Phantastic Ferniture – s/t (Polyvinyl, 2018)
pluko – sixteen (Foreign Family Collective, 2018)
Pram – Across the Meridian (Domino, 2018)
Rainbow Star – Music From The Rainbow Sparkle Palace: Volume I (self-released, 2018)
Tomberlin – At Weddings (Saddle Creek, 2018)
Underworld & Iggy Pop – Teatime Dub Encounters (Caroline, 2018)
Winters End – DreamWalker (self-released, 2018)
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Anna C. August 4th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Angélique Kidjo, Bodega, Manzara, Tanukichan, The Internet