We love a good game of musical chairs, and this week’s Top 30 is just that. James Blake holds strong at number one, Cleo Sol and The Chemical Brothers swap places, and Wajatta bounces back to the top tier with their full EP — Waiting For The Get Down — out now.
New and notable: Little Dragon strengthens their case for KCRW’s most played artist of 2023 by dropping the new EP Slipping Into Color with DC underground production duo April + VISTA. And LA’s Mndsgn teases trippy new treats via forthcoming LP Snaxxx. Speaking of tasty treats, have you sampled our Top 30 Spotify playlist yet?
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Top 30 Albums (9.26.2023)
| 1 | James Blake | Playing Robots Into Heaven |
| 2 | Cleo Sol | Heaven |
| 3 | The Chemical Brothers | For That Beautiful Feeling |
| 4 | Wajatta | Waiting For The Get Down |
| 5 | Little Dragon & April + VISTA | Slipping Into Color |
| 6 | Black Pumas | Chronicles of a Diamond |
| 7 | Mndsgn | Snaxxx |
| 8 | Nation Of Language | Strange Disciple |
| 9 | Jungle | Volcano |
| 10 | Romy | Mid Air |
| 11 | Say She She | Silver |
| 12 | Slowdive | everything is alive |
| 13 | NEIL FRANCES | It’s All a Bit Fuzzy |
| 14 | Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music |
| 15 | Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows |
| 16 | Devendra Banhart | Flying Wig |
| 17 | Roosevelt | Embrace |
| 18 | Genesis Owusu | STRUGGLER |
| 19 | Mildlife | Chorus |
| 20 | Kiefer | It’s Ok, B U |
| 21 | Animal Collective | Isn’t It Now? |
| 22 | Jamila Woods | Water Made Us |
| 23 | Yard Act | The Trench Coat Museum [Single] |
| 24 | Sampha | Lahai |
| 25 | Jalen Ngonda | Come Around and Love Me |
| 26 | Sufjan Stevens | Javelin |
| 27 | Karen Y Los Remedios | Silencio |
| 28 | Sofia Kourtesis | Madres |
| 29 | Sweatson Klank | A Free Mind |
| 30 | Joel Culpepper | Free (Feat. Tom Misch) [Single] |