top 30 new album for Feb 21 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 BlackLiq & ohbliv What Will It Take – EP Man Bites Dog
2 Kelela Raven Warp
3 Young Fathers Heavy Heavy Ninja Tune
4 De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising AOI
5 Monday Night & 3wayslim Good Company AllWeNeed
6 Troy A Nigga Might’ve Cared Too Much POVERTY LLC
7 Timothy Bailey & The Humans Timothy Bailey & The Humans self-released
8 Piranha Rama Omniscient Cloud Cover Brokers Tip
9 Strawberry Moon Habitual Creatures Sockhead
10 Hotspit Memory of a Mirror Image – EP self-released
11 Drook Life in Estates – EP Brat Daddy
12 Andy Shauf Norm Anti-
13 Black Belt Eagle Scout The Land, The Water, The Sky Saddle Creek
14 Guided By Voices La La Land Rockathon
15 Billy Nomates CACTI Invada
16 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava self-released
17 Oneida Success Joyful Noise
18 Heaven For Real Energy Bar Mint
19 Butcher Brown Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Concord Jazz
20 Braxton Cook Black Mona Lisa – EP Nettwerk
21 Why Bonnie 90 In November Keeled Scales
22 Keep Happy In Here Honey Suckle Sound
23 Pile All Fiction Exploding In Sound
24 Yo La Tengo This Stupid World Matador
25 Equipment Pointed Ankh From Inside the House Bruit Direct Disques
26 Lana Del Rey Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Polydor
27 Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You Perpetual Novice
28 U.S. Girls Bless This Mess 4AD
29 Andy’s Mints 03 self-released
30 Decimate Our Kind Thrillingly Dead self-released

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    February 21st, 2023

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top 30 new albums for Jan 31 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 De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising AOI
2 Deerhoof Miracle-Level Joyful Noise
3 BlackLiq & ohbliv What Will It Take – EP Man Bites Dog
4 Big Sty Angels – Single self-released
5 Monday Night & 3wayslim Good Company AllWeNeed
6 Nikki Lane Denim & Diamonds New West
7 Piranha Rama Omniscient Cloud Cover Brokers Tip
8 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down Secretly Canadian
9 Beyoncé RENAISSANCE Parkwood / Columbia
10 CK Johnson Fire Under Water Sir Johnson’s
11 DJ Mordecai Sir Snackums Files self-released
12 Dub T Panopticon self-released
13 IVRY_S ⇆ lith-512 〖LABELMAKER〗 self-released
14 MUDGEE Virgo Commercial 521 Productions
15 Petrified Entity B-Sides & Rarities Infinite Mirror
16 Pyramid Mass Monolith Ossein
17 Thunderchief Dekk Meg… self-released
18 Dave Rowntree Radio Songs Cooking Vinyl
19 Ladytron Time’s Arrow Cooking Vinyl
20 We Are Scientists Lobes Masterswan
21 The Williams Brothers Memories To Burn Regional
22 Billy Nomates CACTI Invada UK
23 Circa Waves Never Going Under Lower Third
24 Oberon Rose Purple, Blue & Crimson ThouART
25 Germein Good For a Girl MGM
26 Jason Carter Lowdown Hoedown Fiddleman
27 Steve Louw Thunder and Rain BFD
28 Marlody I’m Not Sure at All Skep Wax
29 Ron Fetner Down a Gravel Road BayWater
30 Little Simz NO THANK YOU Forever Living Originals

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    January 31st, 2023

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