top 30 new albums for Jan 17 presents:
top 30 new albums for Jan 17
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 Black Angels | Wilderness of Mirrors | Partisan |
| 2 | Staples Jr. Singers | When Do We Get Paid | Luaka Bop |
| 3 | Ditz | The Great Regression | Alcopop! |
| 4 | Doechii | she / her / black bitch – EP | Top Dawg / Capitol |
| 5 | Beyoncé | RENAISSANCE | Parkwood / Columbia |
| 6 | Piranha Rama | Omniscient Cloud Cover | Brokers Tip |
| 7 | Dot Dash | Madman in the Rain | Beautiful Music |
| 8 | Spooky Cool | Existential Pie | self-released |
| 9 | Vibro Success Intercontinental Orchestra | Drunkard | Dig This Way |
| 10 | Shemekia Copeland | Done Come Too Far | Alligator |
| 11 | Alvvays | Blue Rev | Polyvinyl |
| 12 | Thunderchief | Dekk Meg | self-released |
| 13 | Winter | What Kind of Blue Are You? | Bar/None |
| 14 | Rodney Stith | The Soul Chronicles of Rodney Stith | Shockoe |
| 15 | Strange Cut | Strange As It Seems | Bear Fight |
| 16 | B4NK M4CHIN3 | Leisure, Recreation and Stability – EP | self-released |
| 17 | Flashlight Tag | Don’t Blink | self-released |
| 18 | Byzantine | Black Sea Codex – EP | Metal Blade |
| 19 | Rozi Plain | Prize | Memphis Industries |
| 20 | Fixtures | Hollywood Dog | Bobo Integral |
| 21 | SZA | SOS | Top Dawg / RCA |
| 22 | The Comet Is Coming | Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam | Impulse! |
| 23 | Seun Kuti & Black Thought | African Dreams – EP | SKE80 |
| 24 | Big Joanie | Back Home | Daydream Library |
| 25 | Lee Fields | Sentimental Fool | Daptone |
| 26 | Arctic Monkeys | The Car | Domino |
| 27 | Julianna Riolino | All Blue | You’ve Changed |
| 28 | The Orielles | Tableau | Heavenly |
| 29 | Wild Pink | ILYSM | Royal Mountain |
| 30 | Lucrecia Dalt | ¡Ay! | RVNG Intl. |
New Music:
Allergies, The – Reconcile (Jalapeno, 2023)
ANIMA! – Not at This Time (self-released, 2023)
Anti-Flag – Lies They Tell Our Children (Spinefarm, 2023)
Avataria – Let Go (Voidvast, 2023)
Bicycle Inn – Baldr the Beautiful is Dead, is Dead. (Thumbs Up, 2022)
Burnt Pines, The – Don’t Look Down (Adraela, 2023)
Carter, Jason – Lowdown Hoedown (Fiddleman, 2022)
Circa Waves – Never Going Under (Lower Third / PIAS, 2023)
Clamb – Glittering Watermelon Oracle (Live at the Midway Cafe, July 19, 2021) (Mint 400, 2023)
Clancy, Miriam – Black Heart (self-released, 2023)
Crooks & Nannies – No Fun (Grand Jury, 2023)
Darksoft – Beigeification (Look Up, 2023)
Davis, Sherie – My Heart Returns to Me (self-released, 2021)
Duckwrth – Chrome Bull (SuperGood / The Blind Youth, 2022)
Dwyer, Danny – Losers (Nettwerk, 2022)
Fetner, Ron – Down a Gravel Road (BayWater, 2023)
Fixtures – Hollywood Dog (Bobo Integral / Naturally, 2023)
Foubert, Casey – EP 1 (Zat-Samuelson, 2022)
Frazer, Aaron – Live From Easy Eye Sound (Dead Oceans, 2023)
Germein – Good For a Girl (MGM, 2022)
Gleich, Gerry – It’s About Time (self-released, 2022)
Hey Thanks! – Start/Living (Iodine, 2022)
Induce – Beautiful Distortion (Paradise City, 2023)
Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals / AWAL, 2022)
LOUD HOUND – It’s Okay to Be Lonely Part I (Pendant Music, 2022)
Louw, Steve – Thunder and Rain (self-released, 2022)
Marks, Linda – Everyday Legends (self-released, 2022)
Marlody – I’m Not Sure at All (Skep Wax, 2023)
Mayfly – Hideaway Vol. I (Duprince, 2023)
Middlefield, Mary – Thank You Alexander (Irascible, 2023)
Nomates, Billy – CACTI (Invada, 2023)
Oberon Rose – Purple, Blue & Crimson (ThouART, 2023)
Oh Bummer! – Losing Sunlight (If This Then, 2022)
Orchestra GOLD – Medicine (self-released, 2023)
Pelicans, The – London Crawling (Mint 400, 2022)
Plain, Rozi – Prize (Memphis Industries, 2023)
Potts, George – Ends & Odds (self-released, 2022)
Price, Gable & Friends – The Consequence of Being Alive (Capitol CMG, 2022)
Rocket Coma – vs. The End of the World (self-released, 2022)
Ruta Beggars, The – Ever-Changing (MLN, 2022)
Stone, Carleton – Papercut (turtlemusik, 2022)
Strawberry Fuzz – Strongs Dr. (Candyshop, 2023)
SZA – SOS (RCA, 2022)
Tea, Sara – Songs for Discarded Souls (Magic Guts Collective, 2023)
Thin Ears – Your Mind Walked Away (Silent Stereo, 2022)
Tivel, Anna – Outsiders (Mama Bird, 2022)
Tubs, The – Dead Meat (Trouble in Mind, 2023)
Tuomo & Markus – Game Changing (Grandpop, 2023)
UNI & The Urchins – SIMULATOR (Chimera, 2023)
Varmia – Prolog (M-Theory, 2023)
Vincent, Ernie – Original Dap King (Cornelius Chapel, 2023)
Ward, Lauren Ruth – Mindseye (Vero, 2022)
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Anna C. January 17th, 2023
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Beyoncé, Ditz, Doechii, Staples Jr. Singers, The Black Angels