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KCRW Top 30 Albums
Hi friends,
 
Melody's Echo Chamber - Photo by Diane Sagnier

 At the top:
  • Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unclouded  – The fourth album from French musician Melody Prochet, aka Melody's Echo Chamber, debuts at #1, and features an impressive cast of personnel including co-producer Sven Wunder (Danny Brown), Daniel Ögen (Dina Ögon) and Reine Feiske (Dungen) on guitar, British drummer Malcolm Catto (Madlib, DJ Shadow, The Heliocentrics), and super-producer Leon Michels (The Dap-Kings, Wu-Tang, Menahan Street Band, Clairo, etc), who assists on the album closer, "Daisy."
 
Trending Upwards: 
  • Geese – Getting Killed – Our #12 best album of the year jumps up eight spots to #7 thanks to a recent live version of "cobra" from the BBC. 
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  • Gabriel Garzón-Montano – “CHARIOTS & CHANDELIERS” [Single] – New York-based left-field soulful singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist jumps up 19 spots to #9 with his first new single in a few years. 

New & Notable (Debuts):

  • Reyna Tropical – “Tu Voz” [Single] – The new single from Fabiola Reyna aka Reyna Tropical debuts at #5 and is about gay long-distance love, deepening her exploration of the tropical desert diaspora, combining melodies of Mexico's ranchero music with rhythms and percussion of Brazil's samba. 

  • Confidence Man – Active Scenes Vol One [EP] –  The new EP of dance floor debauchery from Aussie clubbers Confidence Man debuts at #26. We are particularly loving "Damaged Goods" thanks to the tip from KCRW DJ Tyler Boogie Boudreaux, who cites them as the second coming of Dee-Lite. 
Top 30 sounds abound on a personal playlist! Check it out now.

– Nassir (KCRW Music)

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  1. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unclouded
  2. Khruangbin – The Universe Smiles Upon You ii
  3. Tame Impala – Deadbeat
  4. Helado Negro – "The Last Sound On Earth" [EP] 
  5. Reyna Tropical – “Tu Voz” [Single]
  6. Little Simz – "Don't Leave Too Soon" [Single]
  7. Geese – Getting Killed
  8. Poolside – "Otherside" [Single]
  9. Gabriel Garzón-Montano – “CHARIOTS & CHANDELIERS” [Single]
  10. RIO KOSTA – “It’s Starting - Jaime Rosso Remix)” [Single]
  11. De La Soul – Cabin In The Sky
  12. Twin Shadow – Cadet
  13. ROSALÍA – LUX
  14. Robyn – “Dopamine (Jamie xx Remix)” [Single]
  15. Charlotte Day Wilson – “Selfish” [Single]
  16. Toro y Moi – “Our House” [Single]
  17. Benny Sings – “Castle” [Single]
  18. Glyders – Forever
  19. Automatic – Is It Now?
  20. Kraak & Smaak – Velvet Seas
  21. TEED – Always With Me
  22. Obongjayar – Paradise Now & Forever
  23. Elbow – AUDIO VERTIGO (Deluxe)
  24. Oklou - choke enough (Deluxe)
  25. Captain Planet – DIG
  26. Confidence Man – Active Scenes Vol One [EP]
  27. Disclosure – “Deeper (feat. Leon Thomas” [Single]
  28. Cochemea – Vol III: Ancestros Futuros
  29. The Olympians – “California” [Single]
  30. Silvana Estrada – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias