top 30 new albums for May 18 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.

1 Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall The Marfa Tapes Vanner / RCA
2 Dinosaur Jr. Sweep It Into Space Jagjaguwar
3 The Weather Station Ignorance Fat Possum
4 McKinley Dixon For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
5 The Coral Coral Island Modern Sky UK
6 Nottz Black Woman (feat. Rapsody, Ke Turner, Rah Digga & Nikki Grier) – Single Raw Koncept
7 Dazy The Crowded Mind self-released
8 Downhaul Proof Refresh
9 Tennishu Maybe James Infinite
10 Prabir Trio Haanji self-released
11 Flying Lotus Yasuke Warp
12 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones When God Was Great Hellcat / Epitaph
13 Will Stratton The Changing Wilderness Bella Union / PIAS
14 Eamonn McCormack Storyteller Bem
15 Tony Joe White Smoke From The Chimney Easy Eye Sound
16 Blue Cactus Stranger Again Sleepy Cat
17 Remember Sports Like a Stone Father/Daughter
18 Mark Collie Book of My Blues self-released
19 Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks Of God Loma Vista
20 Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy Superwolves Drag City
21 Mark O’Connor Markology II OMAC
22 Cliff Eberhardt Knew Things Tin Pan Ally
23 Racquel Jones IgnoRANT Magnetic Moon
24 Bowerbirds Becalmyounglovers Psychic Hotline
25 Jeff Rosenstock SKA DREAM Polyvinyl
26 The Wallflowers Exit Wounds New West
27 Teenage Fanclub Endless Arcade Merge
28 BROCKHAMPTON ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE Question Everything / RCA
29 Lou Barlow Reason to Live Joyful Noise
30 La Femme Paradigmes Disque Pointu


New Music:
456, The – Simple Songs (self-released, 2021)
Arsena – Dawn of the Second Sun (self-released, 2021)
Belvedere – Hindsight is the Sixth Sense (Thousand Islands, 2021)
Bielski, Shannon and Moonlight Drive – Tennessee Heart (Patuxent, 2021)
Black Keys, The – Delta Kream (Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch, 2021)
Blanton, Carsie – Love & Rage (So Ferocious, 2021)
Braun, Steve – Answers Floating Questions (self-released, 2021)
Camp David – Virus in the USA (self-released, 2021)
Carey, Grant – FUTURE FRIGHT (california sound hotel, 2021)
Chills, The – Scatterbrain (Fire, 2021)
Current Joys – Voyager (Secretly Canadian, 2021)
DJ Shub – War Club (Shub, 2020)
EDGAR – wHAT a HooT (22Twenty, 2021)
Em – Dear Life (The Sound of L.A., 2021)
Eugénie – Arrhythmia (self-released, 2021)
Evolfo – Site Out of Mind (Royal Potato Family, 2021)
FACS – Present Tense (Trouble in Mind, 2021)
Fiddlehead – Between the Richness (Run for Cover, 2021)
Five Mile Mountain Road – Swingbilly Swagger (Patuxent, 2021)
Flynn, Johnny & Robert Macfarlane – Lost in the Cedar Wood (Transgressive, 2021)
Foljahn, Tim – I Dreamed a Dream (Cart/Horse, 2021)
Fratellis, The – Half Drunk Under a Full Moon (Cooking Vinyl, 2021)
Hotel Life – Summer of Love (self-released, 2021)
Jaina, Nick – Credo (Fluff & Gravy, 2021)
Jordan, India – Watch Out! (Ninja Tune, 2021)
Kasten-Krause, Tristan – Potential Landscapes (Whatever’s Clever, 2021)
Laube, Anna Elizabeth – Annamania (Ahh…Pockets!, 2021)
Lieberum, Gretchen – This May Only Be a Dream (self-released, 2021)
Lionel Boy – s/t (Innovative Leisure, 2021)
LOSERS – EP 01 (61seconds, 2021)
Lovette, Shay Martin – Scatter & Gather (self-released, 2021)
LUMIÈRE – A.M.I.ES.A.M.O.U.R (Bonsound, 2021)
Mad Mesa – crev (Ennekay, 2021)
Mal Thursday Quintet, The – If 6 Was 5 (Chunk Archives, 2021)
MAN ON MAN – s/t (Polyvinyl, 2021)
Marinero – Hella Love (Hardly Art, 2021)
Mindrum, Jessica – Restart, Begin (self-released, 2021)
Missing Sons – s/t (Joyful Noise, 2021)
NEKER – Slower (Time To Kill, 2021)
Neufeld, Sarah – Detritus (Paper Bag, 2021)
Ottoman Turks – Ottoman Turks II (State Fair, 2021)
PACKS – Take the Cake (Fire Talk, 2021)
Paige II, Patrick – If I Fail Are We Still Cool (Fat Possum / Forward and Up Ent., 2021)
Pardoner – Came Down Different (Bar-None, 2021)
Prabir Trio – Haanji (self-released, 2021)
Redtenbacher’s Funkestra – Big Funk Band (RSB, 2021)
Schoepp, Trapper – May Day (Grand Phony, 2021)
Sharp, Graham – Truer Picture (Yep Roc, 2021)
Shock, Stefie – Godfree (self-released, 2021)
St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista, 2021)
Stone, Kipp – Faygo Baby (Closed Sessions, 2021)
Usurpers, The – Future Wars (Punks and Rogues, 2020)
Various Artists – Foundations (DEEWEE / Because, 2021)
Wiley, Ken – Brain Leak (Krug Park, 2021)

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    May 18th, 2021

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