top 30 new albums for May 25 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 Goat Girl On All Fours Rough Trade
2 McKinley Dixon For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
3 Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy Superwolves Drag City
4 Natik Awayez Manbarani Sublime Frequencies
5 José Carlos Schwarz & Le Cobiana Djazz Lua Ki Di Nos Hot Mule
6 Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime Matador
7 Downhaul Proof Refresh
8 Castalia Blue Moon – EP self-released
9 Gusher Bleed Out Gusher1312
10 Gutterwall After The Fall Etching Tin
11 Current Joys Voyager Secretly Canadian
12 Five Mile Mountain Road Swingbilly Swagger Patuxent Music
13 FACS Present Tense Trouble In Mind
14 Lionel Boy Lionel Boy Innovative Leisure
15 Sarah Neufeld Detritus Paper Bag
16 The Black Keys Delta Kream Nonesuch
17 St. Vincent Daddy’s Home Loma Vista
18 Squid Bright Green Field Warp
19 Rae Isla Another Life INSRGNT ARTS
20 Colleen The Tunnel and the Clearing Thrill Jockey
21 TOR Oasis Sky self-released
22 Crumb Ice Melt self-released
23 Teenage Fanclub Endless Arcade Merge
24 Rochelle Jordan Play with the Changes self-released
25 Silver Synthetic Silver Synthetic Third Man
26 Dry Cleaning New Long Leg 4AD
27 Death from Above 1979 Is 4 Lovers Everything Eleven
28 Danny Burns Hurricane – EP Bonfire
29 Flock of Dimes Head of Roses Sub Pop
30 Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! Constellation

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    May 25th, 2021

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genre charts for May 25 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 NATIK AWAYEZ Manbarani Sublime Frequencies
2 CASTALIA Blue Moon [EP] Self-Released
3 FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN ROAD Swingbilly Swagger Self-Released
4 DANNY BURNS Hurricane [EP] Bonfire
5 FLOCK OF DIMES Head Of Roses Sub Pop
6 CHRIS PIERCE American Silence Self-Released
7 JP HARRIS’ DREADFUL WIND AND RAIN Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man Free Dirt
8 JOHN CRAIGIE Asterisk The Universe Thirty Tigers
9 LADY MAISERY Mayday Self-Released
10 CLEM SNIDE AND EEF BARZELAY “I Can’t Make You Love Me” [Single] Zahpwee

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MCKINLEY DIXON For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
2 LUSHLIFE Redamancy [EP] Fortune Tellers
3 ALCHEMIST, THE This Thing Of Ours [EP] ALC
4 DRAKE Scary Hours 2 [EP] Ovo/Republic
5 DJ MUGGS AND FLEE LORD Rammellzee Soul Assassins
6 CONWAY THE MACHINE La Maquina Griselda/Drumwork/EMPIRE
7 ARMAND HAMMER AND THE ALCHEMIST Haram Backwoodz
8 ICEROCKS Crossing The Rubicon Self-Released
9 PINK SIIFU AND FLY ANAKIN $mokebreak Lex
10 EVIDENCE “Pardon Me” [Single] Rhymesayers

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 CANNIBAL CORPSE Violence Unimagined Metal Blade
2 EMPYRIUM Über den Sternen Prophecy Productions
3 MORBIFIC Ominous Seep of Putridity Self-Released
4 STORTREGN Impermanence The Artisan Era
5 FORELUNAR Forlorn in Despair Self-Released
6 VALDAUDR Drapsdalen Soulseller
7 SOLSTICE Casting the Die Emanzipation Producitons
8 AT THE GATES “Spectre Of Extinction” [Single] Century Media
9 CURSE MACKEY Submerge Negative Gain Productions
10 KIRLIAN CAMERA Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak) Dependent

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 GUTTERWALL After The Fall Etching Tin
2 COLLEEN “Hidden In The Current” [Single] Thrill Jockey
3 ROCHELLE JORDAN Play With The Changes Young Art
4 YU SU Yellow River Blue Bie
5 DNTEL The Seas Trees See Morr
6 GARY NUMAN Intruder [Advance Tracks] BMG
7 BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS Cosmorama Ghost Box
8 UNKNOWN ME Bishintai Not Not Fun
9 BARA HARI Dark New Day Re:mission Entertainment
10 MOTH EFFECT Hovering Cue Dot

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MDOU MOCTAR Afrique Victime Matador/Beggars Group
2 COLOR DE TROPICO, VOL. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS El Palmas
3 U-ROY “Man Next Door (feat Santigold)” [Single] Trojan Jamaica/BMG
4 BAIUCA Embruxo Raso Estudio
5 NATIK AWAYEZ Manbarani Sublime Frequencies
6 INNOV GNAWA Lila Daptone
7 MARIA RAQUEL Y SUS MARAVILLAS “El Tiempo Se Acabo” [Single] Chulo
8 AYUUNE SULE Putoo Katare Tire Rebel Up
9 STRAIGHT FROM THE DECKS 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Pura Vida Sounds/Heavenly Sweetness
10 DOBET GNAHORE Couleur [Advance Tracks] Cumbancha

    May 25th, 2021

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genre charts for May 18 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JACK INGRAM, MIRANDA LAMBERT, AND JON RANDALL The Marfa Tapes Vanner/RCA
2 TONY JOE WHITE Smoke From The Chimney Swamp/Easy Eye Sound/Concord
3 BLUE CACTUS Stranger Again Sleepy Cat
4 MARK COLLIE Book Of My Blues Self-Released
5 MARK O’CONNOR Markology II OMAC
6 CLIFF EBERHARDT Knew Things Tin Pan Alley
7 SALLY ROSE Tread Light Self-Released
8 TOLEDO Jockeys Of Love [EP] Telefono
9 FLOCK OF DIMES Head Of Roses Sub Pop
10 BROTHER BROTHERS, THE Calla Lily Compass

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MCKINLEY DIXON For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
2 NOTTZ FT RAPSODY, KE TURNER, RAH DIGGA, NIKKI GRIER “Black Woman” [Single] Raw Koncept
3 TENNISHU Maybe James Infinite
4 RACQUEL JONES IgnoRANT Magnetic Moon
5 BROCKHAMPTON ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE Question Everything/RCA
6 GENESIS OWUSU Smiling With No Teeth House Anxiety/Ourness
7 ALCHEMIST, THE This Thing Of Ours [EP] ALC
8 LITTLE SIMZ Sometimes I Might Be Introvert [Advance Tracks] Age 101
9 PINK SIIFU Negro Field-Left
10 ICEROCKS Crossing The Rubicon Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ACCEPT Too Mean To Die Nuclear Blast
2 BIG BRAVE Vital [EP] Southern Lord
3 TOMAHAWK Tonic Immobility Ipecac
4 POLLY FAE Earthlight Projekt
5 CLIFF AND IVY Bring Us The Night [EP] Self-Released
6 SAVATAGE Monsters of the Universe Heavy Metal Heroes
7 BONGZILLA Weedsconsin Heavy Psych
8 CANNIBAL CORPSE Violence Unimagined Metal Blade
9 KNOLL Interstice Sludgelord
10 WIZARDTHRONE Hypercube Necrodimensions Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FLYING LOTUS Yasuke Warp
2 BRIJEAN Feelings Ghostly International
3 BUKE AND GASE WITH SO PERCUSSION A Record Of… Brassland
4 DNTEL The Seas Trees See Morr
5 I YA TOYAH Out Of Order [EP] Self-Released
6 REYMOUR Leviosa Knekelhuis
7 KAIDI TATHAM An Insight To All Minds First Word
8 KOWLOON “Hurt” [Single] Kitsune
9 HEIDI SABERTOOTH The Sleep of Reason Jacktone
10 ELDER ISLAND Swimming Static Self-Released

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 NATIK AWAYEZ Manbarani Sublime Frequencies
2 INNOV GNAWA Lila Daptone
3 KASAI ALLSTARS Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound Crammed
4 ELIDA ALMEIDA Gerasonobu LusAfrica
5 JOSE CARLOS SCHWARZ AND LE COBIANA DJAZZ Lua Ki Di Nos Hot Mule
6 ROGER FAKHR Fine Anyway Habibi Funk
7 FRENTE CUMBIERO Cera Perdida Biche
8 MARIA RAQUEL Y SUS MARAVILLAS “El Tiempo Se Acabo” [Single] Chulo
9 AYUUNE SULE Putoo Katare Tire Rebel Up
10 YAT-KHA “We Will Never Die” [Single] The Lollipoppe Shoppe

    May 18th, 2021

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