KCRW’s Top 30 chart: June 19–June 25, 2023

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Little Dragon’s “Tumbling Dice,” gamble is rewarded with a return to the top of KCRW’s Top 30 Chart. Photo by Delali Ayivi.

Well, well, well, look who’s number one again. That’s right, Little Dragon’s latest Slugs of Love single “Tumbling Dice” has arrived to send our favorite, funky Swedes rocketing back to the top. With Slugs of Love’s July 7 release date just around the corner, will this peak position hold? We’re off next week in observance of July 4th, and thinking that the odds of LD maintaining their lead once the album is out in full are very strong. Meet us back here on July 11 to find out.

New and notable: Fresh singles from heavy-hitters are the name of this week’s game across the board. Fire up our Top 30 Spotify playlist to enjoy indie rock quipster Faye Webster’s “But Not Kiss;” “Bending Hectic” via Radiohead’s jazz aficionado sibling act The Smile; and the disco dream collab of Beck + Phoenix on their aptly titled “Odyssey.”

Top 30 Albums (6.27.2023)


1 Little Dragon Slugs of Love
2 Killer Mike MICHAEL
3 Jungle Volcano
4 Peggy Gou (It Goes Like) Nanana [Single]
5 Beck & Phoenix Odyssey [Single]
6 Aphex Twin “Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760” [Single]
7 Jam City Jam City Presents EFM
8 Django Django Off Planet
9 Yuksek Dance’O’Drome
10 NEIL FRANCES Head Straight (Feat. St. Panther) [Single]
11 The Smile Bending Hectic [Single]
12 Faye Webster But Not Kiss [Single]
13 Nickodemus Soul & Science
14 Geese 3D Country
15 Rone L(oo)ping
16 Meshell Ndegeocello The Omnichord Real Book
17 Chenayder Blue Oblivion
18 Barry Can’t Swim When Will We Land?
19 Water From Your Eyes Everyone’s Crushed
20 The Blessed Madonna Mercy (Feat. Jacob Lusk) [Single]
21 Quantic Run (Feat. Andreya Triana) [Single]
22 yuné pinku Babylon IX
23 Kiltro Underbelly
24 Kali Uchis Red Moon in Venus
25 Say She She C’est Si Bon [Single]
26 King Krule Space Heavy
27 Sigur Rós ÁTTA
28 Gabriels Angels & Queens
29 The South Hill Experiment MOONSHOTS
30 Amaarae Fountain Baby