Chicago singer-songwriter-poet Jamila Woods arranges every word, melody, and rhythm for maximum impact. And new LP Water Made Us finds her sharpening her skills. Her casually profound observations about relationships and the human condition stretch comfortably around R&B tunes — all vacillating between spare, gentle, and jaunty with (seeming) ease. Having circled the top of the chart for months now, it’s only fitting for her to finally arrive on the heels of the official release date for Water Made Us.
New and notable: Brittany Howard delivers an absolute funk-factory of a single in “What Now.” Plus, Eddington Again’s forthcoming LP Naomi9 makes a loud splash courtesy of the fiery bars and rhythmic free-for-all of its Boys Noize-produced lead single, “Cake Code.” Hear a little bit of all of it via our Top 30 Spotify playlist.
Top 30 Albums (10.17.2023)
| 1 | Jamila Woodsd | Water Made Us |
| 2 | Automatic | Venus Hour (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix) [Single] |
| 3 | Pachyman | Switched-On |
| 4 | DJ Shadow | Action Adventure |
| 5 | Brittany Howard | What Now [Single] |
| 6 | Eddington Again | Naomi9 |
| 7 | Souleance | Beautiful |
| 8 | CARRTOONS | Saturday Night |
| 9 | Say She She | Silver |
| 10 | Nation Of Language | Strange Disciple |
| 11 | James Blake | Playing Robots Into Heaven |
| 12 | Sirens Of Lesbos | Peace |
| 13 | Cleo Sol | Gold |
| 14 | Sweatson Klank | A Free Mind |
| 15 | PawPaw Rod | This Must Be a PawPaw Rod EP |
| 16 | Mndsgn | Snaxxx |
| 17 | Wilco | Cousin |
| 18 | The Chemical Brothers | For That Beautiful Feeling |
| 19 | Allah-Las | Zuma 85 |
| 20 | Art Feynman | Be Good the Crazy Boys |
| 21 | Cherry Glazerr | I Don’t Want You Anymore |
| 22 | Vagabon | Sorry I Haven’t Called |
| 23 | Little Dragon & April + VISTA | Slipping Into Color |
| 24 | Jungle | Volcano |
| 25 | Black Pumas | Chronicles of a Diamond |
| 26 | Cleo Sol | Heaven |
| 27 | Omar Apollo | Live For Me |
| 28 | Wajatta | Waiting For The Get Down |
| 29 | Sextile | Push |
| 30 | Corto.Alto | Bad With Names |