Top 30 new albums for week ending Feb 2 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Feb 2
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 | Hollie Cook | Vessel of Love | Merge |
| 3 | Michael Millions | Hard to Be King | Purple Republic Music Group |
| 4 | Evidence | Weather or Not | Rhymesayers |
| 5 | Salad Boys | This Is Glue | Trouble In Mind |
| 6 | Shopping | The Official Body | Fat Cat |
| 7 | Freddie McGregor | Reggae Boom – Single | Big Ship |
| 8 | Fly Anakin, Koncept Jack$on & Tuamie | Panama Plus | Smallz World Management & Consulting LLC |
| 9 | Orquesta Akokán | Orquesta Akokán | Daptone |
| 10 | Renata Zeiguer | Old Ghost | Northern Spy |
| 11 | Sonido Gallo Negro | Mambo Cósmico | Glitterbeat |
| 12 | Dommengang | Love Jail | Thrill Jockey |
| 13 | Los Yetis | Los Yetis | Colored Vinyl |
| 14 | Ty Segall | Freedom’s Goblin | Drag City |
| 15 | Schlammpeitziger | Damenbartblick auf Pregnant Hill | Bureau B |
| 16 | Quelle Chris | Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often | Mello Music Group |
| 17 | Hop Along | Bark Your Head Off, Dog | Saddle Creek |
| 18 | Lucy Dacus | Historian | Matador |
| 19 | Mad Habit | Fear the Sun | Minimum Wage Recording |
| 20 | The Spook School | Could it be Different? | Slumberland |
| 21 | The Sufis | After Hours | Burger |
| 22 | Calexico | The Thread That Keeps Us | Anti- |
| 23 | Shame | Songs of Praise | Dead Oceans |
| 24 | Sunwatchers | II | Trouble in Mind |
| 25 | Tune-Yards | I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life | 4AD |
| 26 | Kyle Craft | Full Circle Nightmare | Sub Pop |
| 27 | Dream Wife | Dream Wife | Lucky Number |
| 28 | Various artists | Dr. Demento Covered in Punk | Demented Punk |
| 29 | The Fame-Beats | Don’t Tell No Lies / The Watford Stomp – Single | Daptone |
| 30 | Khruangbin | Con Todo El Mundo | Late Night Tales |
New Albums Added:
Applesauce Tears – Pastoral (Black Cottage)
Artichoke – Echoes (Greeen)
Avery, Daniel – Slow Fade (Mute)
Awolnation – Here Come the Runts (Red Bull)
Bahamas – Earthtones (Republic)
Bekon – Get with the Times (Candy and Promises)
Bonsai Universe – Moonstream (self-released)
Born Ruffians – Uncle, Duke & The Chief (Yep Roc)
Burch, Anna – Quit the Curse (Polyvinyl)
C.R. and the Degenerates – The World According to C.R. (Sniffling Indie Kids / Mint 400)
Charles, Pearl – Sleepless Dreamer (Kanine)
Cook, Hollie – Vessel of Love (Merge)
Darling West – While I Was Asleep (Jansen Plateproduksjon)
Darshan – Raza (Chant)
DeCicca, Jerry David – Time the Teacher (Impossible Ark)
Die Wilde Jagd – Uhrwald Orange (Bureau B)
Dondadi – ATMWorld (Green House)
Dubinsky, Eleanor – Soft Spot of My Heart (self-released)
El Otro Grupo – Rompecabezas (EM)
Field Music – Open Here (Memphis Industries)
Forest Bees – Forest Bees (Venerable Wax President)
Frena, Cecil – The Gridlock (Hovercraft)
Ghasper – Mima (Babygrande)
GoGo Penguin – A Humdrum Star (Blue Note / Capital)
Good Field – Surface Tension (self-released)
Good Sign – Demo (Reflective Tapes)
Honey Child – Honey Child (Aeronaut)
Hookworms – Microshift (Domino)
Hovvdy – Cranberry (Double Double Whammy)
Jackson, Alexandra – Legacy & Alchemy (self-released)
Jay, Stephen – So Do I Sadie (Ayarou)
Marmozets – Knowing What You Know Now (Roadrunner)
Rose, Caroline – LONER (New West)
Rubens, The – Million Man (self-released)
Running Touch – Equaliser (self-released)
Shred Kelly – Archipelago (DevilDuck)
Sly & Robbie meet Dubmatix – Overdubbed (Echo Beach)
Starcrawler – Starcrawler (Rough Trade)
STS x Khari Mateen – Better on a Sunday (Steel Wool / EMPIRE)
UNA – Noise of the Wing – An Apology For Annoyance (Cool Jewel)
West, Jim Kimo – Moku Maluhia – Peaceful Island (Westernmost Music)
WHY? – Moh Lhean Expanded (Joyful Noise)
Williams, Marlon – Make Way for Love (Dead Oceans)
Wing Vilma – Safe by Night (Young Heavy Souls)
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Anna C. February 3rd, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Evidence, Hollie Cook, Kenneka Cook, Michael Millions, Salad Boys