top 30 new albums for May 18 presents:
top 30 new albums for May 18
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 | Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall | The Marfa Tapes | Vanner / RCA |
| 2 | Dinosaur Jr. | Sweep It Into Space | Jagjaguwar |
| 3 | The Weather Station | Ignorance | Fat Possum |
| 4 | McKinley Dixon | For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her | Spacebomb |
| 5 | The Coral | Coral Island | Modern Sky UK |
| 6 | Nottz | Black Woman (feat. Rapsody, Ke Turner, Rah Digga & Nikki Grier) – Single | Raw Koncept |
| 7 | Dazy | The Crowded Mind | self-released |
| 8 | Downhaul | Proof | Refresh |
| 9 | Tennishu | Maybe | James Infinite |
| 10 | Prabir Trio | Haanji | self-released |
| 11 | Flying Lotus | Yasuke | Warp |
| 12 | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones | When God Was Great | Hellcat / Epitaph |
| 13 | Will Stratton | The Changing Wilderness | Bella Union / PIAS |
| 14 | Eamonn McCormack | Storyteller | Bem |
| 15 | Tony Joe White | Smoke From The Chimney | Easy Eye Sound |
| 16 | Blue Cactus | Stranger Again | Sleepy Cat |
| 17 | Remember Sports | Like a Stone | Father/Daughter |
| 18 | Mark Collie | Book of My Blues | self-released |
| 19 | Manchester Orchestra | The Million Masks Of God | Loma Vista |
| 20 | Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy | Superwolves | Drag City |
| 21 | Mark O’Connor | Markology II | OMAC |
| 22 | Cliff Eberhardt | Knew Things | Tin Pan Ally |
| 23 | Racquel Jones | IgnoRANT | Magnetic Moon |
| 24 | Bowerbirds | Becalmyounglovers | Psychic Hotline |
| 25 | Jeff Rosenstock | SKA DREAM | Polyvinyl |
| 26 | The Wallflowers | Exit Wounds | New West |
| 27 | Teenage Fanclub | Endless Arcade | Merge |
| 28 | BROCKHAMPTON | ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE | Question Everything / RCA |
| 29 | Lou Barlow | Reason to Live | Joyful Noise |
| 30 | La Femme | Paradigmes | Disque Pointu |
New Music:
456, The – Simple Songs (self-released, 2021)
Arsena – Dawn of the Second Sun (self-released, 2021)
Belvedere – Hindsight is the Sixth Sense (Thousand Islands, 2021)
Bielski, Shannon and Moonlight Drive – Tennessee Heart (Patuxent, 2021)
Black Keys, The – Delta Kream (Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch, 2021)
Blanton, Carsie – Love & Rage (So Ferocious, 2021)
Braun, Steve – Answers Floating Questions (self-released, 2021)
Camp David – Virus in the USA (self-released, 2021)
Carey, Grant – FUTURE FRIGHT (california sound hotel, 2021)
Chills, The – Scatterbrain (Fire, 2021)
Current Joys – Voyager (Secretly Canadian, 2021)
DJ Shub – War Club (Shub, 2020)
EDGAR – wHAT a HooT (22Twenty, 2021)
Em – Dear Life (The Sound of L.A., 2021)
Eugénie – Arrhythmia (self-released, 2021)
Evolfo – Site Out of Mind (Royal Potato Family, 2021)
FACS – Present Tense (Trouble in Mind, 2021)
Fiddlehead – Between the Richness (Run for Cover, 2021)
Five Mile Mountain Road – Swingbilly Swagger (Patuxent, 2021)
Flynn, Johnny & Robert Macfarlane – Lost in the Cedar Wood (Transgressive, 2021)
Foljahn, Tim – I Dreamed a Dream (Cart/Horse, 2021)
Fratellis, The – Half Drunk Under a Full Moon (Cooking Vinyl, 2021)
Hotel Life – Summer of Love (self-released, 2021)
Jaina, Nick – Credo (Fluff & Gravy, 2021)
Jordan, India – Watch Out! (Ninja Tune, 2021)
Kasten-Krause, Tristan – Potential Landscapes (Whatever’s Clever, 2021)
Laube, Anna Elizabeth – Annamania (Ahh…Pockets!, 2021)
Lieberum, Gretchen – This May Only Be a Dream (self-released, 2021)
Lionel Boy – s/t (Innovative Leisure, 2021)
LOSERS – EP 01 (61seconds, 2021)
Lovette, Shay Martin – Scatter & Gather (self-released, 2021)
LUMIÈRE – A.M.I.ES.A.M.O.U.R (Bonsound, 2021)
Mad Mesa – crev (Ennekay, 2021)
Mal Thursday Quintet, The – If 6 Was 5 (Chunk Archives, 2021)
MAN ON MAN – s/t (Polyvinyl, 2021)
Marinero – Hella Love (Hardly Art, 2021)
Mindrum, Jessica – Restart, Begin (self-released, 2021)
Missing Sons – s/t (Joyful Noise, 2021)
NEKER – Slower (Time To Kill, 2021)
Neufeld, Sarah – Detritus (Paper Bag, 2021)
Ottoman Turks – Ottoman Turks II (State Fair, 2021)
PACKS – Take the Cake (Fire Talk, 2021)
Paige II, Patrick – If I Fail Are We Still Cool (Fat Possum / Forward and Up Ent., 2021)
Pardoner – Came Down Different (Bar-None, 2021)
Prabir Trio – Haanji (self-released, 2021)
Redtenbacher’s Funkestra – Big Funk Band (RSB, 2021)
Schoepp, Trapper – May Day (Grand Phony, 2021)
Sharp, Graham – Truer Picture (Yep Roc, 2021)
Shock, Stefie – Godfree (self-released, 2021)
St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista, 2021)
Stone, Kipp – Faygo Baby (Closed Sessions, 2021)
Usurpers, The – Future Wars (Punks and Rogues, 2020)
Various Artists – Foundations (DEEWEE / Because, 2021)
Wiley, Ken – Brain Leak (Krug Park, 2021)
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Anna C. May 18th, 2021
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Dinosaur Jr., Jack Ingram, Jon Randall, McKinley Dixon, Miranda Lambert, The Coral, The Weather Station