top 30 new albums for May 4 presents:
top 30 new albums for May 4
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.
| 1 | Dry Cleaning | New Long Leg | 4AD |
| 2 | JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind and Rain | Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man | Free Dirt |
| 3 | Beth Snapp | Something to Prove – Single | self-released |
| 4 | Downhaul | Proof | Refresh |
| 5 | JuJu | Live at 131 Prince Street | Strut |
| 6 | Lucy Dacus | Home Video | Matador |
| 7 | PJ Sykes | Fuzz | Cherub |
| 8 | Mary Greer Mudiku | Black Love Alive Again | Black Fire |
| 9 | Charles Owens Trio | 10 Years | La Reserve |
| 10 | Sour Widows | Crossing Over – EP | Exploding In Sound |
| 11 | Luminous Kid | at the end of the dream | The Satchi Six |
| 12 | Raf Rundell | O.M. Days | Heavenly |
| 13 | Flock of Dimes | Head of Roses | Sub Pop |
| 14 | Michael Beach | Dream Violence | Goner |
| 15 | Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats | UNLOCKED 1.5 | Loma Vista |
| 16 | Genesis Owusu | Smiling with No Teeth | House Anxiety / Ourness |
| 17 | Cloud Nothings | The Shadow I Remember | Carpark |
| 18 | Brijean | Feelings | Ghostly International |
| 19 | Goat Girl | On All Fours | Rough Trade |
| 20 | Tele Novella | Merlynn Belle | Kill Rock Stars |
| 21 | The Weather Station | Ignorance | Fat Possum |
| 22 | Black Country, New Road | For the First Time | Ninja Tune |
| 23 | Cheekface | Emphatically No. | New Professor Music |
| 24 | Cassandra Jenkins | An Overview on Phenomenal Nature | Ba Da Bing! |
| 25 | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio | I Told You So | Colemine |
| 26 | Cannibal Corpse | Violence Unimagined | Metal Blade |
| 27 | Rhiannon Giddens | They’re Calling Me Home (with Francesco Turrisi) | Nonesuch |
| 28 | Crypta | Echoes of the Soul | Napalm |
| 29 | Ayuune Sule | Putoo Katare Yire | Rebel Up |
| 30 | Jon Batiste | WE ARE | Verve |
New Music:
A Carousel Moon – Foxy Vol. 1 (Mint 400, 2021)
Axis: Sova – Fractal (God? / Drag City, 2021)
Barter, Ali – Chocolate Cake (Inertia / PIAS, 2021)
Black, Marc – Everybody Wants My Hat (Suma, 2021)
Bowerbirds – becalmyounglovers (Psychic Hotline, 2021)
Brutus VIII – Beyond (self-released, 2021)
Cartalk – Pass Like Pollen (Lame-O, 2021)
Chances – Connection (Quartier Général, 2021)
Cole, Paula – American Quilt (675, 2021)
Colleen – The Tunnel and the Clearing (Thrill Jockey, 2021)
Crumb – Ice Melt (self-released, 2021)
Dark Tea – s/t (Fire Talk, 2021)
Django Mack – Midnight Mission (self-released, 2021)
Eberhardt, Cliff – Knew Things (Tin Pan Ally, 2021)
Ex Olympic – XO (self-released, 2021)
Fashion Invasion – s/t (self-released, 2021)
Funke, Maxine – Séance (A Colourful Storm, 2021)
Gains, Conor – Three (Wax, 2021)
Gel Set – Tone Invasion (2MR, 2021)
Glüme – The Internet (Italians Do It Better, 2021)
Grave Flowers Bongo Band – Strength of Spring (Castle Face, 2021)
Hatfield, Juliana – Blood (American Laundromat, 2021)
Houston, Charlie – I Hate Spring (Arts & Crafts, 2021)
Inland Isle – Time Has Changed Us (self-released, 2021)
Jones, Racquel – IgnoRANT (Magnetic Moon, 2021)
Kevtones, The – Monkey Mind (self-released, 2021)
Kvikksand – Misantropia (Rob Mules, 2021)
Laurence-Anne – Musivision (Bonsound, 2021)
Leider – A Fog Like Liars Loving (Beacon Sound, 2021)
Los Retros – Looking Back (Stones Throw, 2021)
Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks of God (Loma Vista / Concord, 2021)
Metronomy – The English Riviera 10th Anniversary (Because Music, 2021)
O’Connor, Mark – Markology II (OMAC, 2021)
Purple Elephant – Adolescent Gaze (self-released, 2020)
Richard, Dawn – Second Line (Merge, 2021)
Seven Layer Piano Cakes – The Patriarch (self-released, 2021)
sleepmakeswaves – these are not your dreams (Bird’s Robe, 2020)
Stone, Julia – Sixty Summers (BMG, 2021)
Sweeney, Matt & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Superwolves (Drag City, 2021)
SYML – DIM (Nettwerk, 2021)
TEKE::TEKE – Shirushi (Kill Rock Stars, 2021)
Tor – Oasis Sky (Eleuthera Music, 2021)
Tōth – You and Me and Everything (Northern Spy, 2021)
Tucker, Rosie – Sucker Supreme (Epitaph, 2021)
Various Artists – Made to Measure, Vol. 1 (Remastered) (Crammed Discs, 2021)
Vynehall, Leon – Rare, Forever (Ninja Tune, 2021)
Wainwright, Sloan – Red Maple Tree (self-released, 2021)
Ya Tseen – Indian Yard (Sub Pop, 2021)
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Anna C. May 4th, 2021
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Beth Snapp, Downhaul, Dry Cleaning, JP Harris, JuJu