It’s beginning to look a lot like a major American holiday revolving around shortened work weeks, food comas, and watching a big parade in one’s pajamas. But before we surrender to all of that, there’s a new Top 30 chart to explore.
You’ll find a lot of familiar material here as we start to lean into our forthcoming “Best Of” lists, while the wide variety of KCRW artists showing up for Grammy nominations have tended to split the difference across the airwaves. That said, late-breaking newcomers — experimental R&B songstress Liv.e and Patti-Smith-for-the-warehouse-party-set, Stella Explorer — are more than ready for the task of spicing things up.
And get extra-spicy by giving our Top 30 Spotify playlist a follow.
Top 30 Albums (11.22.2022)
| 1 | SAULT | 11 |
| 2 | Mount Kimbie | MK 3.5: Die Cuts / City Planning |
| 3 | Kelela | Raven |
| 4 | Adrian Quesada | Jaguar Sound |
| 5 | SAULT | Untitled (God) |
| 6 | Lee Fields | Sentimental Fool |
| 7 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Cool It Down |
| 8 | SAULT | Today & Tomorrow |
| 9 | Panda Bear & Sonic Boom | Reset (Expanded Edition) |
| 10 | The Blessed Madonna | Serotonin Moonbeams [Single] |
| 11 | DOMi & JD BECK | NOT TiGHT |
| 12 | Gorillaz | Cracker Island |
| 13 | Fever Ray | Radical Romantics |
| 14 | Flevans | A Short Distance to Fall |
| 15 | Thee Sacred Souls | Thee Sacred Souls |
| 16 | Rahill | Sun Songs |
| 17 | Robert Glasper | Black Radio III - Supreme Edition |
| 18 | Genesis Owusu | Get Inspired [Single] |
| 19 | Stella Explorer | Dorkay House |
| 20 | Andy Shauf | Norm |
| 21 | Rosalía | MOTOMAMI |
| 22 | Liv.e | Girl In The Half Pearl |
| 23 | Bad Colours | Always With U |
| 24 | La Femme | Teatro Lucido |
| 25 | Gabriels | Angels & Queens - Part 1 |
| 26 | Daniel Avery | Ultra Truth |
| 27 | Pearl & The Oysters | Pacific Ave [Single] |
| 28 | TSHA | Capricorn Sun |
| 29 | Tom Skinner | Voices of Bishara |
| 30 | Arctic Monkeys | The Car |