KCRW’s Top 30 chart: July 31 – Aug. 6, 2023

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Say She She are on a roll. Photo by Matt Holyoak.

In a (non)turn of events, this week’s top 4 remains exactly the same as the last. Say She She, Little Dragon, James Blake, and Pachyman all hold strong to their top posts — while last week’s number five artist, Nation of Language, falls precipitously to spot 23.

New and notable: Check on all of the hip dads in your life to make sure they know that Wilco have recently announced their 13th (!) LP Cousin. KCRW DJs are really digging the first single “Evicted.”  Plus, French duo Souleance flex their sampling chops ahead of new LP Beautiful to land in the Top 15, and LA psych-pop-maestro Art Feynman (aka Luke Temple of Here We Go Magic) gets us hyped for his new record, Be Good the Crazy Boys. How will our Top 30 Spotify playlist fare in the face of all this stability? We highly recommend that you find out. 

Top 30 Albums (8.8.2023)


1 Say She She Silver
2 Little Dragon Slugs of Love
3 James Blake Playing Robots Into Heaven
4 Pachyman Switched-On
5 Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band How We Do b​/​w Nuthin' But A G Thang [Single]
6 Blur The Ballad of Darren
7 Sofia Kourtesis Madres
8 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs & Moullinex So Alive [Single]
9 John Carroll Kirby Blowout
10 Novalima La Danza (Pt. 1)
11 Allah-Las Zuma 85
12 Captain Planet Sounds Like Home
13 Wilco Cousin
14 Souleance Beautiful
15 Panda Bear & Sonic Boom Reset In Dub
16 Jungle Volcano
17 ODESZA & Yellow House Flaws in Our Design
18 Farhot Nowroz 1401
19 Poolside Blame It All On Love
20 Girl Ray Prestige
21 Danger Mouse & Jemini Born Again
22 Art Feynman Be Good the Crazy Boys
23 Nation Of Language Strange Disciple
24 Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We
25 Róisín Murphy Hit Parade
26 Brontez Purnell No Jack Swing
27 Depeche Mode Wagging Tongue (Remixes)
28 Animal Collective Isn’t It Now?
29 Aphex Twin Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 [Single]
30 Meshell Ndegeocello The Omnichord Real Book