top 30 new albums for Jan 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 Holiday Ghosts North Street Air FatCat
2 Cate Le Bon Pompeii Mexican Summer
3 Bedouine Waysides Bedouine Music
4 The Umbrellas The Umbrellas Slumberland
5 Marissa Nadler The Path of the Clouds Bella Union
6 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats The Future Stax
7 Beex The Early Years: 1979-1982 Beach Impediment
8 Roxy Girls Roxy Girls Are in the Drink – EP Moshi Moshi
9 The Exbats Now Where Were We Goner
10 Ducks Ltd. Modern Fiction Carpark
11 La Luz La Luz Hardly Art
12 Mary J. Blige Good Morning Gorgeous – Single 300 Entertainment
13 Black Country, New Road For the first time Ninja Tune
14 Aloa Input Devil’s Diamond Memory Collection Siluh
15 gnawing You Freak Me Out Refresh
16 Tinsley Ellis Devil May Care Alligator
17 Nell & The Flaming Lips Where the Viaduct Looms Bella Union
18 Rod Gator For Louisiana Blue Élan
19 Ana Egge Between Us StorySound
20 Catbells Same As You – EP SQFT
21 Ladyhawke Time Flies BMG
22 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise The Roof Rounder
23 girlhouse the second ep Secret Road
24 David James Allen The Architect Garment District
25 Suntitle In a Dream Know Hope
26 Hush Club Fingerprints & Stains Full Send
27 Julia Daigle Un singe sur l’épaule Lisbon Lux
28 Curtis Harding If Words Were Flowers Anti-
29 Lizzie and the Makers Dear Onda Wahl self-released
30 Dummy Mandatory Enjoyment Trouble In Mind

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    January 25th, 2022

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top 30 new albums for Aug 17 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 Atmosphere Word? Rhymesayers
2 Prince Welcome 2 America Legacy
3 Cochemea Vol. 2: Baca Sewa Daptone
4 The Umbrellas The Umbrellas Slumberland
5 Lingua Ignota Sinner Get Ready Sargent House
6 Ledisi Ledisi Sings Nina BMG
7 Nas King’s Disease II Def Jam
8 Tyler, the Creator CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Columbia
9 gnawing You Freak Me Out Refresh
10 LJ & the Sleeze Put Something Sleezy Between Your Legs – EP Eight Ball Record$
11 Book of Wyrms Occult New Age Desert
12 ohbliv LewseJoints9 self-released
13 Elizabeth Owens Knock Knock Grimalkin
14 Benét Game Over! – EP Bayonet
15 Dead Billionaires Dead Billionaires EP Clay Street
16 Gusher Bleed Out Gusher1312
17 Gutterwall Birds Aren’t Real Etching Tin
18 koleżanka place is Bar/None
19 The Halluci Nation One More Saturday Night Radicalized
20 Brittany Howard Jaime Reimagined ATO / Fontana North
21 Peyton PSA Stones Throw
22 Evidence Unlearning Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
23 Molly Lewis The Forgotten Edge – EP Jagjaguwar
24 Toussaint Morrison Social Science Club Urban Home Companion
25 Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant Brainfeeder
26 Lanterna Hidden Drives Badman
27 Amythyst Kiah Wary + Strange Rounder
28 Lightning Bug A Color of the Sky Fat Possum
29 Bachelor Doomin’ Sun Polyvinyl
30 Gruff Rhys Seeking New Gods Rough Trade

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    August 17th, 2021

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