Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 6 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 6
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 | Angélique Kidjo | Remain in Light | Kravenworks |
| 2 | Jorja Smith | Lost & Found | RCA |
| 3 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 4 | The Purge | The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds | Purge Music |
| 5 | Nickelus F | Stuck | AGM |
| 6 | Angelica Garcia | Karma the Knife – Single | self-released |
| 7 | Young Scum | Young Scum | Citrus City |
| 8 | Kanye West | ye | GOOD Music / Def Jam |
| 9 | Saw Black | Water Tower | Crystal Pistol |
| 10 | Snail Mail | Lush | Matador |
| 11 | Kids See Ghosts | Kids See Ghosts | GOOD Music / Def Jam |
| 12 | Neko Case | Hell-On | Anti/Epitaph |
| 13 | The Essex Green | Hardly Electronic | Merge |
| 14 | The Interrupters | Fight the Good Fight | Hellcat/Epitaph |
| 15 | Pusha T | DAYTONA | Def Jam |
| 16 | Marisa Anderson | Cloud Corner | Thrill Jockey |
| 17 | John Coltrane | Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album | Impulse |
| 18 | Nur Black | Appeal of the Void | Purge Music |
| 19 | Deathhouse Blues | The Beer Battered Boogies | self released |
| 20 | Andy Jenkins | Sweet Bunch | Liberator Music / Spacebomb |
| 21 | The Cemetery Boys | Small Town Witch Nitemare | self-released |
| 22 | Piranha Rama | Piranha Rama | Trrrash |
| 23 | Dumb Waiter | Heck | JUJU |
| 24 | Brunswick | Five Years | Papa Hotel |
| 25 | Opin | Drifters EP | Harding Street Assembly Lab |
| 26 | Jim James | Uniform Distortion | ATO |
| 27 | The Milk Carton Kids | All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do | Anti- |
| 28 | Weller | Weller | Tiny Engines |
| 29 | Gorillaz | The Now Now | Parlophone |
| 30 | The Rock*A*Teens | Sixth House | Merge |
Anna C. July 7th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Angélique Kidjo, Jorja Smith, Natalie Prass, Nickelus F, The purge
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 29 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 29
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 | Angélique Kidjo | Remain in Light | Kravenworks |
| 2 | Snail Mail | Lush | Matador |
| 3 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 4 | Big Kahuna OG | Sky Chryme | Mutant Academy |
| 5 | Lucy Dacus | Historian | Matador |
| 6 | Dumb Waiter | Heck | JUJU |
| 7 | Parquet Courts | Wide Awake! | Rough Trade |
| 8 | Ana Egge | White Tiger | StorySound |
| 9 | Bad Magic | What’s Wrong with My Eyes? | self-released |
| 10 | Arat Kilo, Mamani Keita & Mike Ladd | Visions of Selam | Accords Croisés |
| 11 | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel | Indie Rock |
| 12 | Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks | Sparkle Hard | Matador |
| 13 | Serpentwithfeet | soil | Secretly Canadian |
| 14 | Sudan Archives | Sink – EP | Stones Throw |
| 15 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Sex & Food | Jagjaguwar |
| 16 | Lithics | Mating Surfaces | Kill Rock Stars |
| 17 | MGMT | Little Dark Age | Columbia |
| 18 | Neko Case | Hell-On | Anti/Epitaph |
| 19 | Peach Kelli Pop | Gentle Leader | Mint |
| 20 | La Luz | Floating Features | Hardly Art |
| 21 | Kadhja Bonet | Childqueen | Fat Possum |
| 22 | Young Scum | Young Scum | Citrus City |
| 23 | Kenneka Cook | Moonchild | American Paradox |
| 24 | Nickelus F | Stuck | AGM |
| 25 | Red Baraat | Sound The People | Rhyme & Reason |
| 26 | The Rock*A*Teens | Sixth House | Merge |
| 27 | Dawes | Passwords | HUB |
| 28 | Let’s Eat Grandma | I’m All Ears | Transgressive / PIAS |
| 29 | Kamasi Washington | Heaven and Earth | Young Turks |
| 30 | MOURN | Sorpresa Familia | Captured Tracks |
Anna C. June 30th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Angélique Kidjo, Big Kahuna OG, Lucy Dacus, Natalie Prass, Snail Mail
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 15 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 15
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 | Young Scum | Young Scum | Citrus City |
| 2 | Yeni Nostalji | Yeni Nostalji | Ropeadope |
| 3 | Saw Black | Water Tower | Crystal Pistol |
| 4 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 5 | Nickelus F | Stuck | AGM |
| 6 | Kanye West | ye | GOOD Music / Def Jam |
| 7 | Wooden Shjips | V. | Thrill Jockey |
| 8 | Arctic Monkeys | Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino | Domino |
| 9 | Allan Harris | The Genius of Eddie Jefferson (feat. Eric Reed, George DeLancey, Willie Jones III, Ralph Moore) | Resilience Music Alliance |
| 10 | Angelique Kidjo | Remain In Light | Kravenworks |
| 11 | Simian Mobile Disco | Murmurations | Wichita |
| 12 | Sam Lewis | Loversity | self-released |
| 13 | Jorja Smith | Lost & Found | FAMM Limited |
| 14 | Anna Calvi | Hunter | Domino |
| 15 | Sound VVitch | Hide – Single | self-released |
| 16 | The Pendletons | Funk Forever – EP | Bastard Jazz |
| 17 | Eternal Summers | Every Day It Feels Like I’m Dying… | Nevado |
| 18 | Tia Fuller | Diamond Cut | Mack Avenue |
| 19 | Melody’s Echo Chamber | Bon Voyage | Fat Possum |
| 20 | Andy Jenkins | Sweet Bunch | Liberator Music / Spacebomb |
| 21 | Tuamie | Emergency Raps, Vol. 2 | Mutant Academy |
| 22 | Scott Clark | ToNow | Clean Feed |
| 23 | Desert Altar | Desert Altar | self-released |
| 24 | John Morand | Scott’s Addiction | Sound of Music |
| 25 | I Am the Liquor | Feed on My Sorrow – EP | self-released |
| 26 | Love Roses | What Doesn’t Thrill You | self-released |
| 27 | Opin | Drifters EP | Harding Street Assembly Lab |
| 28 | Lunger | Hell is coming with us. – EP | self-released |
| 29 | Anthony Curtis | Lyrebird | Field of Sound |
| 30 | DJ Williams | Live From Over Where | Projekt |
Anna C. June 16th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Natalie Prass, Nickelus F, Saw Black, Yeni Nostalji, Young Scum
Top 30 new albums for week ending Apr 20 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Apr 20
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 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 2 | Frankie Cosmos | Vessel | Sub Pop |
| 3 | Kenneka Cook | Moonchild | American Paradox |
| 4 | Doll Baby | Hell Block – EP | EggHunt |
| 5 | Speedy Ortiz | Twerp Verse | Carpark |
| 6 | PRhyme | PRhyme 2 | PRhyme 2 |
| 7 | Dr. Octagon | Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation | Bulk / Caroline |
| 8 | Caroline Rose | LONER | New West |
| 9 | Hank Wood and the Hammerheads | Hank Wood and the Hammerheads | Toxic State |
| 10 | Kyle Craft | Full Circle Nightmare | Sub Pop |
| 11 | Ty Segall | Freedom’s Goblin | Drag City |
| 12 | David Byrne | American Utopia | Nonesuch |
| 13 | The Ex | 27 passports | Rough Trade |
| 14 | St. Vincent | Masseduction | Loma Vista |
| 15 | Imagine Dragons | Evolve | Interscope |
| 16 | Ms. Jaylin Brown | Vulnerable | self-released |
| 17 | The Purge | The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds | self-released |
| 18 | Saw Black | Water Tower | Crystal Pistol |
| 19 | Koncept Jack$on | The Tale of the Mutant Root | Mutant Academy |
| 20 | Millz | The NorthFace, Vol 1. | self-released |
| 21 | Gumming | Human Values | self-released |
| 22 | Yeni Nostalji | Yeni Nostalji | self-released |
| 23 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Sex & Food | Jagjaguwar |
| 24 | Hop Along | Bark Your Head Off, Dog | Saddle Creek |
| 25 | Brazilian Girls | Let’s Make Love | Six Degrees |
| 26 | Drinks | Hippo Lite | Drag City |
| 27 | The Damned | Evil Spirits | Search and Destroy / Spinefarm |
| 28 | The Aces | When My Heart Felt Volcanic | Red Bull |
| 29 | Prof | Pookie Baby | Rhymesayers |
| 30 | MIEN | MIEN | Rocket |
Anna C. April 21st, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Doll Baby, Frankie Cosmos, Kenneka Cook, Natalie Prass, Speedy Ortiz
Top 30 new albums for week ending Mar 2 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Mar 2
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
Anna C. March 3rd, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Lucy Dacus, Natalie Prass, Screaming Females, Shannon and the Clams, Superchunk