The moment that “No More Lies,” the new one off (for now) collaboration between Thundercat and Tame Impala, appeared in the KCRW inbox, this week’s number one record was a foregone conclusion. This dream team of vibes is also one of our 5 Songs to Hear this Week. What can we say? Sometimes a song just HITS, and must be shared across all platforms, as often as possible.
New and notable: French-psych darlings La Femme are feeling the Hawaiian spirit in the ramp-up to their forthcoming LP Paris-Hawï (due May 17 via Disque Pointu); Quadron’s Coco O. drops the über-sultry new single “Many Ways;” and goddess PJ Harvey shares the reflective “A Child’s Question, August,” ahead of her new album I Inside the Old Year Dying (due July 7 via Partisan Records).
Top 30 Albums (5.2.2023)
| 1 | Thundercat | No More Lies (Feat. Tame Impala) [Single] |
| 2 | Pearl & The Oysters | Coast 2 Coast |
| 3 | Avalon Emerson | & The Charm |
| 4 | Nation Of Language | Strange Disciple |
| 5 | Four Tet | Three Drums [Single] |
| 6 | SBTRKT | The Rat Road |
| 7 | Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine |
| 8 | Silvana Estrada | Tom’s Diner [Single] |
| 9 | La Femme | Paris-Hawaï |
| 10 | Django Django | Off Planet |
| 11 | Gum & Ambrose Kenny-Smith | Minor Setback / Old Transistor Radio [Single] |
| 12 | Sudan Archives | Selfish Soul (ODESZA Remix) [Single] |
| 13 | Everything But The Girl | Fuse |
| 14 | Crumb | Dust Bunny [Single] |
| 15 | El Michels Affair & Black Thought | Glorious Game |
| 16 | Daft Punk | Random Access Memories [10th Anniversary Edition] |
| 17 | Yaeji | With a Hammer |
| 18 | Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER |
| 19 | 79.5 | 79.5 |
| 20 | Madison McFerrin | I Hope You Can Forgive Me |
| 21 | St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Angels in Science Fiction |
| 22 | Y La Bamba | Lucha |
| 23 | PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying |
| 24 | Coco O. | Many Ways |
| 25 | Killer Mike | Michael |
| 26 | Underground System | Looking In |
| 27 | Jungle | Volcano |
| 28 | Little Dragon | Slugs of Love [Single] |
| 29 | DRAMA | Tighten It Up [Single] |
| 30 | YACHT | Manic Panic [Single] |