Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 7 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 7
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 | Shadow Age | Shadow Age – EP | Native Of The North |
| 2 | Murder by Death | The Other Shore | Bloodshot |
| 3 | Manatree | Engines | self-released |
| 4 | Oh Sees | Smote Reverser | Castle Face |
| 5 | Ought | Room Inside the World | Merge |
| 6 | Saintseneca | Pillar of Na | Anti- |
| 7 | Orquesta Akokán | Orquesta Akokán | Daptone |
| 8 | Hozier | Nina Cried Power – EP | Universal-Island |
| 9 | Ava Luna | Moon 2 | Western Vinyl |
| 10 | Anna Calvi | Hunter | Domino |
| 11 | Amen Dunes | Freedom | Sacred Bones / Hostess |
| 12 | Swearin’ | Fall into the Sun | Merge |
| 13 | Colleen Green | Casey’s Tape / Harmontown Loops | Infinity Cat |
| 14 | Mitski | Be the Cowboy | Dead Oceans |
| 15 | Piranha Rama | Piranha Rama | Trrrash |
| 16 | Angel Metro | Dark Days Bright Lights | self-released |
| 17 | Widow Rings | All the Angels Have Left – EP | self-released |
| 18 | Young Scum | Young Scum | Citrus City |
| 19 | Fullscreen | UltraZone – EP | self-released |
| 20 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 21 | Andy Jenkins | Sweet Bunch | Liberator Music / Spacebomb |
| 22 | Manzara | Hello My Name Is … Friend | Nosy Pants |
| 23 | Toward Space | Gently With a Chainsaw | Cult 45 |
| 24 | Elizabeth Owens | Coming of Age | self-released |
| 25 | Nur Black | Appeal of the Void | Purge Music |
| 26 | The Brutalists | The Brutalists | Cleopatra |
| 27 | Sumac | Love in Shadow | Thrill Jockey |
| 28 | Dead Now | Dead Now | Brutal Panda |
| 29 | Neil & Liam Finn | Lightsleeper | Inertia / PIAS |
| 30 | Beach Goons | hoodratscumbags | GRNDVW |
New Albums Added:
Active Bird Community – Amends (Barsuk, 2018)
Alien Boy – Sleeping Lessons (Tiny Engines, 2018)
Bachmann, Eric – No Recover (Merge, 2018)
Beat Armada, The – Slept On Vol. 1 (self-released, 2018)
Bijou Noir – We Are Alone Together (GIVE/TAKE, 2018)
Butler, Chris & Ralph Carney – Songs for Unsung Holidays (Smog Veil, 2018)
Callas With Lee Ranaldo, The – Trouble and Desire (Inner Ear / Dirty Water, 2018)
Capital Punishment – Roadkill [reissue] (Captured Tracks, 2018)
Clark, Steven A. – Where Neon Goes to Die (Secretly Canadian, 2018)
Deez, Darwin – 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart (Lucky Number, 2018)
Delgres – Mo Jodi (Jazz Village, 2018)
Demob Happy – Holy Doom (SO, 2018)
Detroit Rebellion – See You Next Year (Bodan Kuma, 2018)
Dilly Dally – Heaven (Partisan, 2018)
Dirtiest, The – Cento Shot (Slovenly, 2018)
Drift Mouth – Little Patch of Sky (Wild Frontier, 2018)
Ellerman, Lyman – I Wish I Was a Train (Woodshed Resistance, 2018)
Escape-ism – The Lost Record (Merge, 2018)
Gaika – Basic Volume (Warp, 2018)
Handsome Jack – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (Alive Naturalsound, 2018)
Holydrug Couple, The – Hyper Super Mega (Sacred Bones, 2018)
Immersion – Sleepless (SWiM, 2018)
JEFF The Brotherhood – Magick Songs (Dine Alone, 2018)
Jenner, Brandon – Face the World (Ear Fetish, 2018)
Jeremiah, Jonah – Good Day (PIAS, 2018)
Kan Wakan – Phantasmagoria Vol. 1 (Murmur, 2018)
Knife Knights – 1 Time Mirage (Sub Pop, 2018)
Landry, Yvette & The Jukes – Louisiana Lovin’ (self-released, 2018)
Lavender Flu, The – Mow the Glass (In the Red, 2018)
Lay, Aimee – The Other Side of You (Respectful Lust, 2018)
Le Shok – We Are Electrocution (Burger, 2018)
LIP TALK – D A Y S (Northern Spy, 2019)
Maribou State – Kingdoms in Colour (Counter, 2018)
McCartney, Paul – Egypt Station (Capitol, 2018)
Mirah – Understanding (Absolute Magnitude, 2018)
Modern Scribblers, The – The Golden Age of Distraction (self-released, 2017)
Mommyheads, The – Soundtrack to the World’s End (self-released, 2018)
Mothers – Render Another Ugly Method (Anti-, 2018)
Musta Paraati – Black Parade (Cleopatra, 2018)
NHK yx Koyxen – Reflexes (DFA, 2018)
Ol’ Dirty Bathtub – Pack Mule (Bee Hive, 2018)
Paupière – À jamais privé de réponses (Lisbon Lux, 2018)
Power – Turned On (In the Red, 2018)
Psychic Rites – Cult_Memo (Waxploitation, 2018)
Puppy and the Hand Jobs – I Eat Abortions (Slovenly, 2018)
Rad Trads, The – On Tap (Hornblow, 2018)
Radiant Children – Tryin’ (self-released, 2018)
Rose, Maggie – Change the Whole Thing (Starstruck, 2018)
Say Hi – Caterpillar Centipede (Euphobia, 2018)
Skegss – My Own Mess (self-released, 2018)
Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt (Fat Possum, 2018)
Swamp Dogg – Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune (Joyful Noise, 2018)
Uji – Alborada (ZZK, 2018)
Wainwright III, Loudon – Years in the Making (StorySound Records, 2018)
Whitmore, William Elliott – Kilonova (Bloodshot, 2018)
Wyves – R U OK? (self-released, 2018)
Zedek Band, Thalia – Fighting Season (Thrill Jockey, 2018)
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Anna C. September 8th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Manatree, Murder by Death, Oh Sees, Ought, Shadow Age