Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 9 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 9
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 Mountain Goats | In League with Dragons | Merge |
| 2 | FONTAINES D.C. | Dogrel | Partisan / Fontana North |
| 3 | Piranha Rama | You’ve Earned It | Trrrash |
| 4 | Prettiest Eyes | Volume 3 | Castle Face |
| 5 | The Comet Is Coming | Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery | Impulse! |
| 6 | Cate Le Bon | Reward | Mexican Summer / MAGNIPH / Hostess |
| 7 | Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains | Drag City |
| 8 | Crumb | Jinx | self-released |
| 9 | Russian Circles | Blood Year | Sargent House |
| 10 | Cochemea | All My Relations | Daptone |
| 11 | Torche | Admission | Relapse |
| 12 | Charles Owens Trio | Three and Thirteen | Ropeadope |
| 13 | Minor Poet | The Good News – EP | Sub Pop |
| 14 | Super Doppler | Super Doppler | Sweet Brother |
| 15 | Jeromes Dream | LP | Level Plane |
| 16 | Illiterate Light | Illiterate Light | Atlantic |
| 17 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | self-released |
| 18 | Sleepwalkers | Ages | Spacebomb |
| 19 | Young Guv | GUV I | Run For Cover |
| 20 | Oh Sees | Face Stabber | Castle Face |
| 21 | Cross Record | Cross Record | Ba Da Bing! |
| 22 | Season Ammons | Steel Hearts | Cobalt Blue |
| 23 | Angie McMahon | Salt | Dualtone |
| 24 | Dude York | Falling | Hardly Art |
| 25 | B Boys | Dudu | Captured |
| 26 | Ariana and the Rose | Constellations Phase 1 – EP | Pookiebird Music |
| 27 | K.Flay | Solutions | Night Street / Interscope |
| 28 | StarBenders | Japanese Rooms – EP | Institution |
| 29 | Goon | Heaven is Humming | PTKF |
| 30 | Florist | Emily Alone | Double Double Whammy |
Anna C. August 10th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: FONTAINES D.C., Piranha Rama, Prettiest Eyes, The Comet is Coming, The Mountain Goats
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 19 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 19
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 | Jesca Hoop | Stonechild | Memphis Industries |
| 2 | Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains | Drag City |
| 3 | Prettiest Eyes | Volume 3 | Castle Face |
| 4 | Various Artists | Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit’s ‘the Midnight Organ Fight’ | Canvasback |
| 5 | Tacocat | This Mess Is a Place | Sub Pop |
| 6 | Joanna Sternberg | Then I Try Some More | Team Love |
| 7 | Snapped Ankles | Stunning Luxury | The Leaf Label |
| 8 | black midi | Schlagenheim | Rough Trade |
| 9 | Sharon Van Etten | Remind Me Tomorrow | Jagjaguwar |
| 10 | Mal Blum | Pity Boy | Don Giovanni |
| 11 | Julia Shapiro | Perfect Version | Hardly Art |
| 12 | MANNEQUIN PUSSY | Patience | Epitaph |
| 13 | Stef Chura | Midnight | Saddle Creek |
| 14 | Jillian Rae | I Can’t Be the One You Want Me to Be | theDIYteam |
| 15 | Westside Gunn | Flygod Is an Awesome God | Griselda |
| 16 | Oh Sees | Face Stabber | Castle Face |
| 17 | Gothic Lizard | Creeping Out of the Dark | Cold Vision |
| 18 | Tijuana Panthers | Carpet Denim | Innovative Leisure |
| 19 | Sebadoh | Act Surprised | Dangerbird |
| 20 | Angelica Garcia | It Don’t Hinder Me – Single | Spacebomb |
| 21 | Lucy Dacus | Forever Half Mast – Single | Matador |
| 22 | Minami Deutsch | Can’t Get There – Single | Höga Nord |
| 23 | Sleepwalkers | Ages | Spacebomb |
| 24 | Bigal Harrison | Bintage | CONTROL Ent. |
| 25 | Radio B | Kill The Dreamer Vol 1: New Independence | AGM / Purple Republic |
| 26 | Sea of Storms | Saddest Faction | Sound Era |
| 27 | Minor Poet | The Good News – EP | Sub Pop |
| 28 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | self-released |
| 29 | Shormey | Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP | Citrus City |
| 30 | BUTT | Bad Sex | self-released |
Anna C. July 20th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Frightened Rabbit, Jesca Hoop, Prettiest Eyes, Purple Mountains, TacocaT