Top 30 new albums for week ending May 25 presents:

Top 30 new albums for week ending May 25

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	Neko Case	Hell-On	Anti/Epitaph
2	Parquet Courts	Wide Awake!	Rough Trade
3	Tracyanne & Danny	Tracyanne & Danny	Merge
4	Courtney Barnett	Tell Me How You Really Feel	Mom+Pop
5	Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	Sparkle Hard	Matador
6	La Luz	Floating Features	Hardly Art
7	Speedy Ortiz	Twerp Verse	Carpark
8	The Lovely Eggs	This Is Eggland	The Lovely Eggs
9	The Skull Defekts	The Skull Defekts	Thrill Jockey
10	Superorganism	Superorganism	Domino
11	Now, Now	Saved	Trans-
12	Facs	Negative Houses	Trouble in Mind
13	Half Waif	Lavender	Cascine
14	Jennifer Castle	Angels of Death	Paradise of Bachelors
15	The Breeders	All Nerve	4AD
16	Beach House	7	Sub Pop
17	Various artists	African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa No. 26)	Analog Africa
18	Pharrell Williams x Camila Cabello	Sangria Wine – Single	Columbia
19	Yeni Nostalji	Yeni Nostalji	Ropeadope
20	Saw Black	Water Tower	Crystal Pistol
21	The Purge	The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds	Purge Music
22	Gumming	Human Values	self-released
23	Lucy Dacus	Historian	Matador
24	Magnus Lush	Hell Is Real – EP	Trrrash
25	Opin	Drifters EP	Harding Street Assembly Lab
26	Piranha Rama	Beach Body	Trrrash
27	The Dead Tongues	Unsung Passage	Psychic Hotline
28	Mary Lattimore	Hundreds of Days	Ghostly International
29	Peach Kelli Pop	Gentle Leader	Mint
30	Deeper	Deeper	Fire Talk

New Albums Added:
Bad Times – Streets of Iron (Goner)
Barnett, Courtney – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom+Pop / Marathon / Milk!)
Beach Skulls – Las Dunas (PNKSLM)
Biffy Clyro – MTV Unplugged: Live at Roundhouse London (Warner Bros.)
Blue Yonder – Rough and Ready Heart (NewSong)
Bluhm, Nicki – To Rise You Gotta Fall (Compass)
Brownout – Fear of a Brown Planet (Fat Beats)
Buck Meek – Buck Meek (Keeled Scales)
Bumpin’ Uglies – Beast From the East (Space Duck)
Cary, Meghan – Sing Louder (self-released)
Chad Valley – Imaginary Music (Cascine)
City Mouth – Hollows (Take This to Heart)
Clairo – diary 001 (Fader)
Dave Goddess Group – Last of the West Side Cowboys (self-released)
Dear Nora – Skulls Example (Orindal)
Driftmachine – Shunter (Umor-Rex)
Egge, Ana – White Tiger (Storysound)
Free Radicals – No State Solution (Free Rads)
Gill, Hannah – Lost in Words (Footnote)
Hinds – I Don’t Run (Mom + Pop)
Holt, Joe – Something Louder (self-released)
Jewel, Johnny – Themes for Television (Italians Do It Better)
Jo Passed – Their Prime (Sub Pop)
Kiku – The Parlor (Five Kill)
Kris the $pirit – Spirit Mode Vol. 1 (Make it Rain)
Kuwaisiana – Chapter 1 (self-released)
Lazyeyes – Echoes (EggHunt)
Leask, David – Six in 6/8 (self-released)
Lucius – Nudes (Mom + Pop)
Lucy and the Rats – Lucy and the Rats (Dirty Water)
Macintyre, Andy – Melomania (self-released)
Magic Numbers, The – Outsiders (Park the Van)
Major, Bruno – A Song for Every Moon (July)
Maps & Atlases – Lightlessness is Nothing New (self-released)
Meldau, Albin Lee – About You (Astralwerks)
Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices, The – BooCheeMish (feat. Lisa Gerrard) (Prophecy)
Nite Haus – Saturation (self-released)
Noble Son – Joy in Violence (self-released)
Noise Downstairs – Soul of a Rider (self-released)
Numb.er – Goodbye (Felte)
Ocean Hope – Rolling Days (Hush Hush)
Oceanship – Bella Blue (self-released)
Parliament – Medicaid Fraud Dogg (C Kunspyruhzy)
Pink Dust, The – Ming (self-released)
Plankenhorn, Jeff – Sleeping Dogs (Spike Steel)
Poptone – Poptone (Cleopatra)
Rocket 3 – What’s the Frequency? (self-released)
RVG – A Quality Of Mercy (Caroline)
Savilles, The – Something Strange (Gypsy Soul / Fontana North)
Scent – Roadside Cherry (Wichita)
Silverbeets, The – Stay Tuned (self-released)
Son of the Velvet Rat – The Late Show (Mint 400 / Fluff & Gravy)
Sons of an Illustrious Father – Deus Sex Machina: Or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla (self-released)
Starski, Ellen – The Days When Peonies Prayed for the Ants (Flying Machine)
Sudan Archives – Sink (Stones Throw)
Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo in Blue (Mom + Pop)
Sylmar – Sylmar (self-released)
Thunderpussy – Thunderpussy (Stardog / Republic)
Walker, Ryley – Deafman Glance (Dead Oceans)
White Summer – Soul Breaker (self-released)

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Anna C.    May 26th, 2018

Posted In: Charts

Tags: Courtney Barnett, Neko Case, Parquet Courts, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Tracyanne and Danny