Hey music fans, here’s what’s been in our players during mid-January. The latest from Charlotte Gainsbourg (pictured) tops our overall chart for the week. If you’re not familiar with her, Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is a British-French actress and singer, born in 1971 to English actress Jane Birkin and French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, and director Serge Gainsbourg. As an acclaimed singer and actress herself, Charlotte surely inherited such talents from her illustrious parents, and this is her fifth album released to critical and commercial success.
Watch for more new albums rising to the top in the next few weeks, as the fresh crop of 2018 releases starts coming in. You can always rely on WORT to bring you the best new music in all genres!!
TOP 30
Rank Artist Record Label
1 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Rest Because
2 ARIEL PINK Dedicated to Bobby Jameson Kemado
3 FALL, THE New Facts Emerge Cherry Red
4 NONA HENDRYX AND GARY LUCAS The World Of Captain Beefheart Knitting Factory
5 PACK A.D., THE Dollhouse Cadence
6 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Soul of a Woman Daptone
7 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Polygondwanaland ATO
8 GORD DOWNIE Introduce Yerself Arts and Crafts
9 WILCO A.M./Being There Reissue Sampler Rhino
10 ANGEL OLSEN Phases Jagjaguwar
11 OCS Memory Of A Cut Off Head Castle Face
12 FIRE HEADS Fire Heads Slovenly
13 BETTE SMITH Jetlagger Big Legal Mess
14 FEVER RAY Plunge Mute
15 FOX FACE Spoil + Destroy Dirtnap
16 COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE Lotta Sea Lice Matador
17 ALVVAYS Antisocialites Polyvinyl
18 BAD SIGNS, THE Black Magic Moments [EP] Number Nine Creative Cult
19 GIRAFFAGE Too Real Counter
20 JIM JAMES Tribute To 2 ATO
21 BJORK Utopia One Little Indian
22 WAR ON DRUGS, THE A Deeper Understanding Atlantic
23 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Who Built The Moon? Sourmash/Caroline
24 SPUD CANNON Next Time Read the Fine Print Self-Released
25 MAVIS STAPLES If All I Was Was Black Anti-
26 ST. VINCENT MASSEDUCTION Loma Vista
27 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM American Dream DFA/Columbia
28 DESTROYER Ken Merge
29 FRANZ FERDINAND Always Ascending Domino
30 MORRISSEY Low In High School BMG
WORLD
Rank Artist Record Label
1 3MA Anarouz Six Degrees
2 HENRI DIKONGUE Diaspora Jazz Out
3 TOOT ARD Laissez Passer Palmetto
4 BOUBACAR TRAORE Dounia Tabolo LusAfrica
5 TRIO DA KALI AND KRONOS QUARTET Ladilikan World Circuit
6 ANTIBALAS Where the Gods Are in Peace Daptone
7 ELEMOTHO Beautiful World ARC
8 STRICTLY THE BEST, VOL. 56 VARIOUS ARTISTS VP
9 JESSE ROYAL Lily of Da Valley Easy Star
10 SOJA Poetry In Motion ATO
JAZZ
Rank Artist Record Label
1 HIROMI AND EDMAR CASTANEDA Live in Montreal Concord
2 ANOUAR BRAHEM Blue Maqams ECM
3 CORY WEEDS Let’s Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire Cellar Live
4 CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE BIG BAND Bringin’ It Mack Avenue
5 VIJAY IYER SEXTET Far From Over ECM
6 STEVE SLAGLE Dedication Panorama 007
7 JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS Handful of Keys Blue Engine
8 BILL CHARLAP TRIO Uptown, Downtown Impulse
9 VINCENT HERRING Hard Times Smoke Sessions
10 SETH MACFARLANE In Full Swing Verve
HEAVY
Rank Artist Record Label
1 MORBID ANGEL Kingdoms Disdained Silver Lining
2 ANNIHILATOR For The Demented Silver Lining
3 IN-DEFILADE Elude Self-Released
4 CORROSION OF CONFORMITY No Cross No Crown Nuclear Blast
5 AVATAR Avatar Country Entertainment One
6 WHITE WIZZARD Infernal Overdrive M-Theory
7 SHINING X – Varg Utal Flock Season of Mist
8 MOONSPELL Seventeen Fifty-Five (1755) Napalm
9 OPERATION: MINDCRIME The New Reality Frontiers
10 FOLKODIA Battle of the Milvian Bridge Stygian Crypt
