top 30 new albums for May 31 presents:
top 30 new albums for May 31
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 | Rikki Rakki | Quarantine Sessions – EP | self-released |
| 2 | Kendrick Lamar | Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers | pgLang / Top Dawg / Aftermath / Interscope |
| 3 | Quelle Chris | Deathfame | Mello Music Group |
| 4 | Porridge Radio | Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To the Sky | Secretly Canadian |
| 5 | Noah-O | Trillipino – Single | Charged Up |
| 6 | Til Infinity. | ROOT + FLOW | self-released |
| 7 | Plunky | Juju Jazz Poetics | N.A.M.E. Brand |
| 8 | Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves | Hurricane Clarice | Free Dirt |
| 9 | Justin Golden | Hard Times and a Woman | self-released |
| 10 | Fly Anakin | Frank | Lex |
| 11 | Armagideon Time | Crime As Theatre | self-released |
| 12 | Rough Age | Blank Eyes – EP | self-released |
| 13 | Kevin Morby | This Is a Photograph | Dead Oceans |
| 14 | Mama’s Broke | Narrow Line | Free Dirt |
| 15 | They Hate Change | Finally, New | Jagjaguwar |
| 16 | Sister Cookie | In the Blue Corner | The Liquid Label |
| 17 | Leyla McCalla | Breaking the Thermometer | Anti- |
| 18 | Caroline Spence | True North | Rounder |
| 19 | Coco Méliès | Nothing Goes to Waste | Big in the Garden |
| 20 | Izaak Opatz | Extra Medium | Mama Bird |
| 21 | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Dirt Does Dylan | MRI |
| 22 | Grant-Lee Phillips | All That You Can Dream | Yep Roc |
| 23 | Congotronics International | Where’s the One? | Crammed Discs |
| 24 | Tamar Berk | Start at the End | self-released |
| 25 | Linqua Franqa | Bellringer | Ernest Jenning |
| 26 | Defcee & BoatHouse | For All Debts Public and Private | Closed Sessions |
| 27 | Calexico | El Mirador | City Slang |
| 28 | El Valerie | Tender Ardor | Mint 400 |
| 29 | Wallows | Tell Me That It’s Over | Atlantic |
| 30 | Tess Parks | And Those Who Were Seen Dancing | Fuzz Club |
Anna C. May 31st, 2022
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Kendrick Lamar, Noah-O, Porridge Radio, Quelle Chris, Rikki Rakki
top 100 new albums for WRIR in 2020 presents:
top 100 new albums for WRIR in 2020
The chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 unique albums (and EPs and singles).
| 1 | Butcher Brown | #KingButch | Concord Jazz |
| 2 | Sa-Roc | The Sharecropper’s Daughter | Rhymesayers |
| 3 | Positive No | Kyanite | Little Black Cloud |
| 4 | En Attendant Ana | Juillet | Trouble in Mind |
| 5 | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | Dead Oceans |
| 6 | Keleketla! | Keleketla! | Ahead Of Our Time |
| 7 | Addy | Eclipse | Topshelf |
| 8 | Deau Eyes | Let It Leave | Egghunt |
| 9 | Porridge Radio | Every Bad | Secretly Canadian |
| 10 | Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin | FlySiifu’s | Lex |
| 11 | Chloe x Halle | Ungodly Hour | Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia |
| 12 | Big No | Big No | self-released |
| 13 | Nas | King’s Disease | Mass Appeal |
| 14 | Moses Sumney | græ | Jagjaguwar |
| 15 | Johnny Ciggs | Lighters and Lightbulbs | Gritty City |
| 16 | Algiers | There Is No Year | Matador |
| 17 | Sneeze | Self-Titled | self-released |
| 18 | SAULT | UNTITLED (Black Is) | Forever Living Originals |
| 19 | Run The Jewels | RTJ4 | Jewel Runners / BMG |
| 20 | Melenas | Días Raros | Trouble in Mind |
| 21 | Horse Lords | The Common Task | Northern Spy |
| 22 | Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| 23 | Waxahatchee | Saint Cloud | Merge |
| 24 | True Body | Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated | Funeral Party |
| 25 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero’s Death | Partisan / Fontana North |
| 26 | Angelica Garcia | Cha Cha Palace | Spacebomb |
| 27 | Thundercat | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder |
| 28 | Shabaka and the Ancestors | We Are Sent Here By History | Impulse! |
| 29 | Moaning | Uneasy Laughter | Sub Pop |
| 30 | Megan Thee Stallion | Good News | 300 Entertainment |
| 31 | gnawing | Shaky – EP | Refresh |
| 32 | Coriky | Coriky | Dischord |
| 33 | Action Bronson | Only For Dolphins | Loma Vista |
| 34 | Og Illa | Richmond Renegade | HLGNLIFE / Gritty City |
| 35 | Jake Blount | Spider Tales | Free Dirt |
| 36 | Deerhoof | Future Teenage Cave Artists | Joyful Noise |
| 37 | Blu & Exile | Miles | Fat Beats |
| 38 | Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes | What Kinda Music | Beyond The Groove / Blue Note |
| 39 | OOIOO | nijimusi | Thrill Jockey |
| 40 | Mourn | Self Worth | Captured Tracks |
| 41 | Man Man | Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between | Sub Pop |
| 42 | Aesop Rock | Spirit World Field Guide | Rhymesayers |
| 43 | Westside Gunn | Pray for Paris | Griselda |
| 44 | Trapcry | Dangerous | 1986 |
| 45 | The Birthday Massacre | Diamonds | Metropolis |
| 46 | Smyth Knight | North Chesterfield | Kidz At Play |
| 47 | Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | Sideways to New Italy | Ivy League / Sub Pop |
| 48 | Protomartyr | Ultimate Success Today | Domino |
| 49 | OHMME | Fantasize Your Ghost | Joyful Noise |
| 50 | Julianna Barwick | Healing Is a Miracle | Ninja Tune |
| 51 | Inter Arma | Garbers Days Revisited | Relapse |
| 52 | Eliza Juno | Do Tree Lobsters Experience Love | Eliza Juno; self-released |
| 53 | Deradoorian | Find the Sun | Anti/Epitaph |
| 54 | Big Baby | Fizzy Cola – EP | self-released |
| 55 | Zhé Aqueen | The Hypnomonic Album | Heye Vibez |
| 56 | Yves Tumor | Heaven To a Tortured Mind | Warp |
| 57 | THICK | 5 Years Behind | Epitaph |
| 58 | Spectres | Nostalgia | Artoffact |
| 59 | Six Organs of Admittance | Companion Rises | Drag City |
| 60 | RVG | Feral | Fire |
| 61 | Prof | Powderhorn Suites | Ineffable |
| 62 | Moemaw Naedon | Dr. Deadhorse | Soul Slime |
| 63 | Homeboy Sandman | Don’t Feed the Monster | Mello Music Group |
| 64 | Hamerkop | Remote | Drag City |
| 65 | Flat Worms | Antarctica | GOD? |
| 66 | Christine and the Queens | La vita nuova – EP | Because Music |
| 67 | Chris Brown | Slime & B | Chris Brown Entertainment/300 Entertainment/RCA |
| 68 | Cable Ties | Far Enough | Poison City |
| 69 | Atmosphere | The Day Before Halloween | Rhymesayers |
| 70 | U.S. Girls | Heavy Light | 4AD |
| 71 | The Magnetic Fields | Quickies | Nonesuch |
| 72 | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | Island / Interscope / Fiction / Caroline |
| 73 | Sweeping Promises | Hunger for a Way Out | Feel It |
| 74 | Opin | Media & Memory | WarHen |
| 75 | Moses Boyd | Dark Matter | Exodus |
| 76 | Lomelda | Hannah | Double Double Whammy |
| 77 | Kosha Dillz | Nobody Cares Except You | Rapperfriends |
| 78 | Kenny Mason | Angelic Hoodrat | self-released |
| 79 | Jeff Parker | Suite for Max Brown | International Anthem |
| 80 | IDLES | Ultra Mono | PTKF; Partisan / Liberator Music |
| 81 | Holy Fuck | Deleter | Last Gang |
| 82 | Gumming | Overripe | Vinyl Conflict |
| 83 | FM Skyline | Liteware | 100% Electronica; Crystal Pistol |
| 84 | Fight Cloud | Thoughts Aligned | self-released |
| 85 | Colin Phils | Trust/Fall | Post. |
| 86 | Busta Rhymes | Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God | The Conglomerate Entertainment, Inc. / EMPIRE |
| 87 | Anjimile | Giver Taker | Father/Daughter |
| 88 | Adrianne Lenker | songs | 4AD |
| 89 | vv | III | self-released |
| 90 | The Beths | Jump Rope Gazers | Carpark |
| 91 | Testament | Titans of Creation | Nuclear Blast |
| 92 | Peel Dream Magazine | Agitprop Alterna | Slumberland |
| 93 | Open Mike Eagle | Anime, Trauma and Divorce | Auto Reverse |
| 94 | Lithics | Tower of Age | Trouble In Mind |
| 95 | Kelly Lee Owens | Inner Song | Smalltown Supersound |
| 96 | Isobel Campbell | There is No Other… | Cooking Vinyl Limited |
| 97 | FACS | Void Moments | Trouble In Mind |
| 98 | Evidence | Unlearning – Single | Rhymesayers |
| 99 | Justis Bratt | LHPS (Radio Edit) – Single | Hollywood Starstruck |
| 100 | BlackLiq x Ohbliv | The Best – Single | No Other Way |
Anna C. December 29th, 2020
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Addy, Butcher Brown, Deau Eyes, En Attendant Ana, Fly Anakin, Keleketla!, Phoebe Bridgers, Pink Siifu, Porridge Radio, Positive No, Sa-Roc