Top 30 new albums for week ending Nov 16 presents:

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 Bad Magic what’s wrong with my eyes? Bad Magic
2 Windhand Eternal Return Relapse
3 I’m With Her See You Around New Rounder
4 Anna St. Louis If Only There Was a River Woodsist / Mare
5 Nickelus F Stuck AGM
6 The Ar-Kaics In This Time Wick / Daptone
7 Boygenius Boygenius – EP Matador
8 Rhett Miller The Messenger ATO / Fontana North
9 Steve Forbert The Magic Tree Blue Rose Music
10 Bad Moves Tell No One Don Giovanni
11 Bob Dylan More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14 Legacy
12 Atmosphere Mi Vida Local Rhymesayers
13 Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth Young Turks
14 Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore Ghost Forests Three Lobed
15 Swearin’ Fall into the Sun Merge
16 BlackWater HolyLight BlackWater HolyLight RidingEasy
17 Roc Marciano Behold a Dark Horse Marci Enterprises
18 Julia Holter Aviary Domino
19 All Them Witches ATW New West
20 Various artists 9th Wonder Presents: Jamla Is the Squad II Jamla
21 Beak> >>> Invada / Temporary Residence
22 Sports Bar Stranger in My Head Mister Falcon
23 Addy Rose Eyes – EP self-released
24 Druglord New Day Dying Sludgelord
25 Liza Drook self-released
26 Namebrand Chatham Grove Purple Republic / AGM
27 Big Kahuna Og & Fly Anakin Big Fly 2 – EP Mutant Academy
28 Butcher Brown Camden Session Gearbox
29 Charles Bradley Black Velvet Daptone
30 SRSQ Unreality Dais

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    November 17th, 2018

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Genre charts for week ending Nov 9 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ANNA ST LOUIS If Only There Was A River Woodsist
2 MIPSO Edges Run Antifragile
3 DOM FLEMONS Black Cowboys Smithsonian Folkways
4 COREY HARRIS Free Water Way Self-Released
5 LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE Little Beast Self-Released
6 SALIM NOURALLAH Somewhere South of Sane Palo Santo
7 ZOE SPEAKS Wings Redbird
8 SAW BLACK Water Tower Crystal Pistol
9 ADDY Rose Eyes [EP] Self-Released
10 NATHAN BOWLES Plainly Mistaken Paradise Of Bachelors

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BIG KAHUNA OG Weapon OX Mutant Academy
2 SCHEME TEAM Big Bluntz DVD Mutant Academy
3 BLOOD ORANGE Negro Swan Domino
4 DENZEL CURRY TA1300 Loma Vista/Concord
5 MASTA ACE AND MARCO POLO A Breukelen Story Fat Beats
6 DOGFUCK Violent Headjerk Self-Released
7 OHBLIV AND BEN FM Give it Uuup Problematica
8 CURREN$Y, FREDDIE GIBBS, AND THE ALCHEMIST Fetti ESGN / Jet Life / ALC / EMPIRE
9 LINA SYMONE “Need That” [Single] Self-Released
10 CALVIN PRESENTS “Dream” [Single] Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 WINDHAND Eternal Return Relapse
2 BLACK ACID RITUAL Resin Self-Released
3 VNV NATION Noire Metropolis
4 BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT Blackwater Holylight Ridingeasy
5 BODEGA Endless Scroll What’s Your Rupture?
6 DESERT MOUNTAIN TRIBE Om Parvat Mystery Metropolis
7 OCTOPUS Supernatural Alliance Rise Above
8 GRITTER Nobody Cares Self-Released
9 PIG DESTROYER Head Cage Relapse
10 SUPER UNISON Stella Deathwish Inc

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DEAD CAN DANCE Dionysus PIAS
2 MARIBOU STATE Kingdoms Of Colour Counter
3 A CERTAIN RATIO acr:set Mute
4 GOST Possessor Blood
5 IAN WILLIAM CRAIG Thresholder 130701
6 JOHN MAUS Addendum Ribbon
7 ORB, THE No Sounds Out Of Bounds Cooking Vinyl
8 RIVAL CONSOLES Persona Erased Tapes
9 RENE HELL AND REWARRP Depression Original Traxx
10 U96 REBOOT UNLTD

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND Siri Ba Kele Sublime Frequencies
2 SUPERFONICOS Suelta [EP] Discos Fonicos
3 DEAD CAN DANCE Dionysus PIAS
4 DUR DUR BAND Dur Dur Band of Somalia, Volume 1, Volume 2 Analog Africa
5 PEREGOYO Y SU COMBO VACANA Mi Buenaventura Vampisoul
6 ALBA GRIOT ENSEMBLE The Darkness Between The Leaves Riverboat
7 BICICLETAS POR LA PAZ Surfeando Un Cometa Self-Released
8 JR THOMAS AND THE VOLCANOS Rockstone Colemine
9 HOLLIE COOK “Sweet Like Chocolate” [Single] Merge
10 CAZ GARDINER AND THE BADASONICS Caz Gardiner & The Badasonics Badasonic

    November 10th, 2018

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