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Charts and hot wax – December 9, 2024

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THIS WEEK

GENRE ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
Electronic Flying Lotus Spirit Box Warp
Electronic Gray, Zachary Trippin’ / In Arrears A Person Disguised As People
Electronic Phantoms Perpetual Motion Foreign Family Collective
Electronic Smith, Kaitlyn Aurelia & Joe Goddard Neptunes EP Smugglers Way/Domino
Electrronic Mac Cormack, Jesse Grip Secret City
Experimental/Ambient Drekka x [Hydzik + Trecka] Drekka x [Hydzik + Trecka] Orb Tapes
Folk Kylie V Crash Test Plane Royal Mountain
Folk Wheat Halo Initiation Well Self-Released
Hip-Hop/Rap Curry, Denzel King Of The Mischievous South Loma Vista/Concord
Hip-Hop/Rap Wahid THEY ALL GO MAD! Innovative Leisure
Jazz/Electronic/Holiday Eccleston, Anita Winter Gala Self-Released
Rock/Pop AloneKitty AloneKitty Mint 400
Rock/Pop Contrived Addicted To Sadness LHM
Rock/Pop Hard Quartet, The The Hard Quartet Matador
Rock/Pop Heavy Moss Dead Slow p(doom)
Rock/Pop Johns, Daryl Daryl Johns Mac’s Record Label
Rock/Pop Soap&Skin TORSO PIAS
Rock/Pop Towill, Kevin Slowly Becoming Myself Again Self-Released
Rock/Pop/Holiday Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom A Peace of Us Carpark
Soul/R&B Hall, Eramus Lost And Found Westbound/ORG
Soundtrack Morricone Youth Eight Eyes OST Country Club

LAST WEEK

GENRE ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
Electronic/Ambient Socool Becomes Music Bathurst
Folk Lucky, Zachary The Wind Wroxton
Folk Patterson, Amelie Napoleon Neon Moon
Folk Thompson, Ella Ripple on the Wing Hopestreet
Hip-Hop/Rap Dirty Sample, The Beats To Murder Rappers 2 Hand’Solo
Jazz Lee, Peggy & Cole Schmidt Forever Stories of : Moving Parties Earshift
Jazz Pitt, Dan Quitet Horizontal Depths Self-Released
Jazz Tovar, Luis Back To My Roots Chronograph
Punk Lawns Be A Better Man FatCat
Rock/Jazz Calibro 35 Jazzploitation Record Kicks
Rock/Pop His His Good Gold Cassette Victory Pool
Rock/Pop No Museums Lowways Self-Released
Rock/Pop Noamz Pandora’s Box Self-Released
Rock/Pop People Years The Last Cantina Cornelius Chapel
Rock/Pop PWNT Volumes i Acrophase
Rock/Pop Riches, The Kangaroo Self-Released
Rock/Pop Talking Heads 77 [Super Deluxe Edition] Rhino/Warner
Soul/R&B Annahstasia Surface Tension Drink Sum Wtr
Soul/R&B Secondhand Dreamcar Answer The Call Self-Released

Librarian’s Picks

 


Daryl Johns
Daryl Johns [Mac’s Record Label]
Los Angeles, CA          Rock/Pop
Dreamy 80s yacht tv theme urban pop from member of Mac Demarco’s band who is also some kind of modern jazz legend, recording with Pat Metheny, Martins, Vijay Iyer, The Lemon Twigs, Macy Gray, Immanuel Wilkins, and more


Heavy Moss
Dead Slow [p(doom)]
Geelong, Australia             Rock/Pop
Another new band from some other King Gizzard member (don’t forget about Pipe-Eye from a few weeks back!) but that just means another good album


Anita Eccleston
Winter Gala [Self-Released]
Vancouver, BC          Jazz/Electronic/Holiday
Lofi jazz beats. Xmas songs turned into Animal Crossing background music


Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard
Neptunes EP [Smugglers Way/Domino]
US          Electronic
Fun trance (I think) from synthster Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip


Eramus Hall
Lost And Found [Westbound/ORG]
Detroit, MI          Soul/R&B
Eramus Hall was a soul/funk group from Detroit, whose debut “Your Love Is My Desire” became one of the most sought-after records of the modern soul era. ORG Music and Westbound have teamed up to release a full LP worth of rare and previously unreleased tracks, including some of their earliest demos.


The Hard Quartet
The Hard Quartet [Matador]
New York, NY          Rock/Pop
Chad’s new favourite supergroup! Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Jim White, and Emmett Kelly

 

 

Local Adds


No Museums
Lowways [Self-Released]
Rock/Pop


Secondhand Dreamcar
Answer The Call [Self-Released]
Soul/R&B


Wheat Halo
Initiation Well [Self-Released]
Folk

 

CJSR CHARTS – December 9, 2024

* indicates a Canadian artist.
Artists in red are local!
Chart ranking reflects airplay during the week ending 12-09-2024.
 

Top 30

09-Dec-2024 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Amyl and the Sniffers    Cartoon Darkness    Rough Trade

2    The Secret Beach*    We Were Born Here, What’s Your Excuse?    Victory Pool

3    Blind Mule*    Night Visions    Self-Released

4    Open Eyes*    ILLUMINATED    Self-Released

5    Japandroids*    Fate and Alcohol    Anti-

6    The Mystery Lights    Purgatory    Wick

7    Sean Davis Newton*    Bird Brain    Self-Released

8    Blue Moon Marquee*    New Orleans Sessions    Self-Released

9    Devarrow*    Heart Shaped Rock    Paper Bag

10    Pearl & The Oysters    Planet Pearl    Stones Throw

11    The Hard Quartet    The Hard Quartet    Matador

12    Juniore    Trois, Deux, Un    Le Phonographe

13    Local Mystic*    Ego Machine    Self-Released

14    Electric Bench Hoop*    Hilarious Heathenry    Slacker Tape Group

15    Joel Jeschke*    Time & Place    Self-Released

16    Chloe Doucet*    Sincerely,    Self-Released

17    Leathers*    Ultraviolet    Artofact

18    Atomis*    The Void Box Set    Self-Released

19    Astrocolor*    Stargazing – AstroJazz Vol. 2    Self-Released

20    Les Hay Babies*    Tintamarre    Simone Records

21    Nala Sinephro    Endlessness    Warp

22    Nilufer Yanya    My Method Actor    Ninja Tune

23    Peel Dream Magazine    Rose Main Reading Room    Topshelf Records

24    Peder    The Coldest Man Alive    Lizardshakedown

25    Calling All Captains*    (e)motion sickness    New Damage

26    Martin Kerr*    After the Apocalypse    Nettwerk

27    knitting*    Heaven    Mint Records

28    Klo Pelgag*    Abracadabra    Secret City

29    Ghostkeeper*    Cipayak Joy    Victory Pool

30    Anita Eccleston*    Winter Gala    Self-Released

 

 

Electronic

09-Dec-2024 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Electric Bench Hoop*    Hilarious Heathenry    Slacker Tape Group

2    Leathers*    Ultraviolet    Artofact

3    Nala Sinephro    Endlessness    Warp

4    Anita Eccleston*    Winter Gala    Self-Released

5    Hansom Eli*    Sip    The Vault

6    Sean Beaver*    The Temperance    Self-Released

7    Paul Cousins    Oxide Manifesto    Castles In Space

8    Suuns*    The Breaks    Joyful Noise

9    Caribou    Honey    Merge Records

10    Virginie B    Astral 2000    Bonsound

 

 

Hip Hop

09-Dec-2024 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    J Shiltz*    Forever The Artist    Urbnet

2    Snotty Nose Rez Kids*    Red Future    Self-Released

3    MaLLY & Last Word    The Sweetest Of It All    Self-Released

4    Jae Skeese    Ground Level    Drumwork Music Group

5    Shad*    Reel Speakers    Secret City Records

6    Killer Mike*    Micheal & The Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs For Sinners and Saints    Loma Vista/Concord

7    COOLETHAN    You Can Never Go Back    Self-Released

8    Planet Giza*    The Sky Is Recording Me: 100 Years Later, Vol. 1 [EP]    Quiet Note

9    Stephen Hero & Uncle Fester*    The Squeeze    Self-Released

10    K-Rec x Checkmate x Moka Only*    Inference And Hearsay    Urbnet

 

 

International

09-Dec-2024 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Emad Armoush’s Rayhan*    Distilled Extractions    afterday

2    Ahmed Moneka*    Kanzafula    Lulaworld Records

3    Locarno*    Colibri Caliope    Self-Released

4    Lemon Bucket Orkestra*    Cuckoo    Self-Released

5    Kit Sebastian    New Internationale    Brainfeeder

6    Soweto Gospel Choir x Groove Terminator    History of House    Music is Fun / House of Latroit

7    Bizhiki    Unbound    Jagjaguwar

8    Oonga*    Cracher le feu    MTL Sauce Piquante

9    Orquesta Akokan    Caracoles    Daptone

10    Meridian Brothers    Mi Latinoamérica sufre    Ansonia/Bongo Joe

 

 

Jazz

09-Dec-2024 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Joel Jeschke*    Time & Place    Self-Released

2    Astrocolor*    Stargazing – AstroJazz Vol. 2    Self-Released

3    Nala Sinephro    Endlessness    Warp

4    Anita Eccleston*    Winter Gala    Self-Released

5    Carn Davidson 9*    Reverence    Self-Released

6    Luis Tovar*    Back To My Roots    Chronograph

7    Ezra Collective    Dance, No One’s Watching    Partisan

8    Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad    Jazz Is Dead 021    Jazz Is Dead

9    Christopher Parnis*    Everything You Could Be    Self-Released

10    The Dirty Sample*    Beats To Murder Rappers 2    Hand’Solo

 

 

Loud

09-Dec-2024 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Amyl and the Sniffers    Cartoon Darkness    Rough Trade

2    Open Eyes*    ILLUMINATED    Self-Released

3    Atomis*    The Void Box Set    Self-Released

4    Calling All Captains*    (e)motion sickness    New Damage

5    Gurriers    Des Goblin    Self-Released

6    DVTR*    BONJOUR (Deluxe)    Lisbon Lux

7    Chastity*    Chastity    Dine Alone

8    Art of Attrition*    …And It Will All End Forever    Self-Released

9    Kayas*    By the Moon and the Stars    Self-Released

10    Burner*    Become Nothing    zBTFD

 

 

Folk/Roots/Blues

09-Dec-2024 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Blue Moon Marquee*    New Orleans Sessions    Self-Released

2    Les Hay Babies*    Tintamarre    Simone Records

3    Martin Kerr*    After the Apocalypse    Nettwerk

4    The Orvald Wayne Show*    The Orvald Wayne Show    Self-Released

5    Perrin & Co.*    Patina EP    Eamons Soundcraft

6    Spencer Jo*    The Water    Moments Fest

7    Raven Reid*    Waiting For Change    Merilainen Music

8    David Gogo*    Yeah!    Cordova Bay

9    Naima Bock    Below a Massive Dark Land    Sub Pop

10    Bon Iver    SABLE,    Jagjaguwar

 

 

courtesy earshot-online.com

CJSR Charts and Hot Wax – November 25, 2024

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