Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 9 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 9
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 | The Mountain Goats | In League with Dragons | Merge |
| 2 | FONTAINES D.C. | Dogrel | Partisan / Fontana North |
| 3 | Piranha Rama | You’ve Earned It | Trrrash |
| 4 | Prettiest Eyes | Volume 3 | Castle Face |
| 5 | The Comet Is Coming | Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery | Impulse! |
| 6 | Cate Le Bon | Reward | Mexican Summer / MAGNIPH / Hostess |
| 7 | Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains | Drag City |
| 8 | Crumb | Jinx | self-released |
| 9 | Russian Circles | Blood Year | Sargent House |
| 10 | Cochemea | All My Relations | Daptone |
| 11 | Torche | Admission | Relapse |
| 12 | Charles Owens Trio | Three and Thirteen | Ropeadope |
| 13 | Minor Poet | The Good News – EP | Sub Pop |
| 14 | Super Doppler | Super Doppler | Sweet Brother |
| 15 | Jeromes Dream | LP | Level Plane |
| 16 | Illiterate Light | Illiterate Light | Atlantic |
| 17 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | self-released |
| 18 | Sleepwalkers | Ages | Spacebomb |
| 19 | Young Guv | GUV I | Run For Cover |
| 20 | Oh Sees | Face Stabber | Castle Face |
| 21 | Cross Record | Cross Record | Ba Da Bing! |
| 22 | Season Ammons | Steel Hearts | Cobalt Blue |
| 23 | Angie McMahon | Salt | Dualtone |
| 24 | Dude York | Falling | Hardly Art |
| 25 | B Boys | Dudu | Captured |
| 26 | Ariana and the Rose | Constellations Phase 1 – EP | Pookiebird Music |
| 27 | K.Flay | Solutions | Night Street / Interscope |
| 28 | StarBenders | Japanese Rooms – EP | Institution |
| 29 | Goon | Heaven is Humming | PTKF |
| 30 | Florist | Emily Alone | Double Double Whammy |
New Albums Added:
Baggage – Life in Misophonia (SmartPunk, 2019)
Bird and The Bee, The – Interpreting the Masters Volume 2: Van Halen (Release Me / No Expectations, 2019)
Capps, Garrett T. – All Right, All Night (Shotgun House, 2019)
Cej – Adobe Road (Gnosong, 2019)
CFM – Soundtrack to an Empty Room (In the Red, 2019)
Desert Line, The – s/t (self-released, 2019)
Egge, Ana – Is It the Kiss (Storysound, 2019)
Freeloader – The Path of Least Resistance (Rum Bar , 2019)
Gisto – Self Made (Historical, 2019)
Good Service – Please (self-released, 2019)
Hackman, Marika – Any Human Friend (Sub Pop, 2019)
Happy Just to See You – s/t (Midnight Werewolf, 2019)
Hēran Soun – Cambridge (self-released, 2019)
Infinity Crush – Virtual Heaven (Run for Cover, 2019)
Kazyak – Odyssey (self-released, 2019)
King of Foxes – Salt & Honey (self-released, 2019)
Laufer, Rob – The Floating World (self-released, 2019)
Lea Porcelain – Love Is Not An Empire (self-released, 2019)
Los Coast – Samsara (New West, 2019)
Louder Than Death – Stop Und Fick Dich! (In the Red, 2019)
Mommyheads, The – Bingham’s Hole [reissue] (self-released, 2019)
Monta, Matt & the Haymakers – Restless Disposition (self-released, 2019)
Nocturnal Blonde – Still Gushing (self-released, 2019)
Peaer – A Healthy Earth (Tiny Engines, 2019)
R.Y.E. – Love (Mint 400, 2019)
Russian Circles – Blood Year (Sargent House, 2019)
SAFIA – Story’s Start Or End (BMG, 2019)
Samuels, Harp – Even There (self-released, 2019)
Slum Sociable – L.I.F. (Liberation, 2019)
Softee – Slow Melt (Distrokid, 2019)
Spike Fuck – The Smackwave (Partisan, 2019)
Usbeck, Maria – Envejeciendo (Cascine, 2019)
Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning, 2019)
WHY? – AOKOHIO (Joyful Noise, 2019)
Playlist:
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Anna C. August 10th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: FONTAINES D.C., Piranha Rama, Prettiest Eyes, The Comet is Coming, The Mountain Goats