top 30 new albums for Aug 11 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 The Vibrators We Vibrate – Single Warner / X5
2 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia
3 Zhé Aqueen The Hypnomonic Album Heye Vibez
4 Andre Abujamra Alma Nao Tem Cor – Multi 25 – single Tratore
5 Hoboknife Wig of Flies self-released
6 VV III self-released
7 Richmond Avant Improv Collective (RAIC) Häxan (Cinema Paradiso Vol. I) Thirsty Leaves Music
8 Big Baby Fizzy Cola EP Big Baby
9 Addy Eclipse Topshelf
10 The Beths Jump Rope Gazers Carpark
11 Bad Moves Untenable Don Giovanni
12 Pert Near Sandstone Rising Tide Pert Near Music
13 Night Glitter Night Glitter Nine Mile
14 Galore Galore Rocks In Your Head
15 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
16 Modern Nature Annual Bella Union
17 Denison Witmer American Foursquare Asthmatic Kitty
18 Alice Bag Sister Dynamite In The Red
19 Harrow Fair Sins We Made Roaring Girl / Fontana North
20 Big Loser Love You, Barely Living Black Numbers
21 Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves I Have Known Women: Songs by Si Kahn Celebrating Women’s Lives and Struggles Strictly Country
22 Moses Sumney græ Jagjaguwar
23 Melenas Días Raros Trouble In Mind
24 David Haerle Death Valley Edendale
25 Deante’ Hitchcock BETTER ByStorm Entertainment/RCA
26 X ALPHABETLAND Fat Possum
27 Melkbelly Pith Wax Nine
28 Yves Tumor Heaven To a Tortured Mind Warp
29 Six Organs of Admittance Companion Rises Drag City
30 Angelica Garcia Cha Cha Palace Spacebomb

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    August 11th, 2020

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genre charts for Aug 4 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 GILLIAN WELCH Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 [Advance Tracks] Acony
2 JAKE BLOUNT Spider Tales Free Dirt
3 DOC WATSON AND GAITHER CARLTON Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton Smithsonian Folkways
4 DAN BERN Quarantine Me Kababa
5 LOGAN LEDGER Logan Ledger Rounder/Concord
6 TEDDY THOMPSON Heartbreaker Please Self-Released
7 NATHANIEL RATELIFF And It’s Still Alright Stax/Concord
8 DANA GAVANSKI Yesterday Is Gone Flemish Eye
9 AARON JONAH LEWIS Mozart Of The Banjo Tiki Parlour
10 ELIZA MEYER Hello Stranger Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DJ HARRISON Vault Series 10 : Covered Self-Released
2 RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG
3 LITTLE SIMZ Drop 6 [EP] AGE 101/AWAL
4 MOEMAW NAEDON Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
5 RONNIE LUXE Rabbit Hole [EP] Self-Released
6 THUNDERCAT It Is What It Is Brainfeeder
7 RJD2 The Fun Ones RJ’s Electrical Connections
8 KENNY MASON Angelic Hoodrat Self-Released
9 DA BABY Baby On Baby Universal
10 YOUNG RJ AND MEGA RAN 2HANDSUP Ne’Astra

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INTER ARMA Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
2 BLACK CROWN INITIATE Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape [Advance Tracks] Century Media
3 PIG DESTROYER The Octagonal Stairway Relapse
4 ENSIFERUM Thalassic Metal Blade
5 BORIS No Self-Released
6 ORANSSI PAZUZU Mestarin Kynsi Nuclear Blast
7 VARG Zeichen Napalm
8 ENSLAVED Utgard Nuclear Blast
9 SEEDS IN BARREN FIELDS Sånger som rämnar Self-Released
10 FEMINAZGUL No Dawn for Men Birds Before the Storm

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JULIANNA BARWICK Healing Is A Miracle Ninja Tune
2 FAUCET Bitter Insane Melting Self-Released
3 BIBIO Sleep On The Wing Warp
4 KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH The Mosaic Of Transformation Ghostly
5 RONE Room With A View Infine
6 GREEN HOUSE Six Songs From Invisible Gardens [EP] Leaving
7 ROB BYRD Outerworld Del Chapel
8 VINCENZO RAMAGLIA La Parole Playground
9 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
10 SOFT PINK TRUTH, THE Am I Free To Go? Self-Released

    August 4th, 2020

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