Charts and Hot Wax – August 18, 2025

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Listening to music and doing the charts at CJSR and then sending them to you feels just as beautiful as this photo of a building from the 70s. Charts for the period August 11 – August 18.

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GENRE ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
Electronic Bicep TAKKUUK (Original Soundtrack) EarthSonic/Ninja Tune
Electronic Fever Ray The Year Of The Radical Romantics Mute
Electronic Pharmax Vicious Self-Released
Electronic Posh, Johnny Life Subconscious Random Collective
Experimental Endlings + VNM Parallel03 Whited Sepulchre
Experimental Fetus Blasters Where are you? WRACA
Folk Levy, Ethan and Alex Stevens Two Silent Passengers Self-Released
Folk Meadowsweet The Sound of Coming Home Self-Released
Folk/Rock New Eves, The The New Eve Is Rising Transgressive
Hip-Hop/Rap 81355 Bad Dogs Joyful Noise
Hip-Hop/Rap Devisa, Mal Palimpsea Topshelf
Hip-Hop/Rap Jamaica Moana Bud & Deni Pointer/Remote Control
Hip-Hop/Rap Keyone Sayonara EP Below System
Hip-Hop/Rap Oddisee En Route Mello Music Group
Jazz Scree August Ruination
Jazz/Experimental Palmer, Holly Metamorphosis Colorfield
Punk Armed, The THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED Sargent House
Punk DC5, The Ruckus At The Checkout Self-Released
Punk MyHeartYourGlove No Maps For This Distance We’re Trying
Rock/Pop Area Resident Protanopia Self-Released
Rock/Pop Artichoke Artichoke Self-Released
Rock/Pop Aversions Empty Country Self-Released
Rock/Pop De’Wayne June Fearless/Concord
Rock/Pop dr.rift dr.rift Self-Released
Rock/Pop From The Ground Up FTGU EP (reissue) Self-Released
Rock/Pop Hardware, Scott Overpass Telephone Explosion
Rock/Pop Joyer On The Other End of the Line… Julia’s War
Rock/Pop Malled New-Clear Self-Released
Rock/Pop No Joy Bugland Hand Drawn Dracula
Rock/Pop Science of the Heart, The Night Drive Self-Released
Rock/Pop She’s Green Chrysalis Photo Finish
Rock/Pop Smut Tomorrow Comes Crashing Bayonet
Rock/Pop Tebby and the Heavy Heavy Afternoon Self-Released
Rock/Pop This House Is Creaking I Want to Feel at Home Here THiC

 


Librarian’s Picks


Keyone
Sayonara EP [Below System]
Almelo, The Netherlands         Hip-Hop/Rap
Cinematic hip-hop beats


Ethan Levy and Alex Stevens
Two Silent Passengers [Self-Released]
Calgary, AB         Folk
Pretty instrumental folk


No Joy
Bugland [Hand Drawn Dracula]
Montreal, QC        Rock/Pop
Indie shoegaze album made after moving to the forest

 


Local Adds


Tebby And The Heavy
Heavy Afternoon [Self-Released]
Rock/Pop


FTGU
From The Ground Up (reissue) [Self-Released]
Rock/Pop

 


CJSR CHARTS – August 18, 2025

* indicates a Canadian artist.
Artists in red are local!
Chart ranking reflects airplay during the week ending 08-18-2025.

 

Top 30

18-Aug-2025 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Smokey*    Bleak Heritage    Lonesome

2    Samwoy*    Even Sad Boys Like to Have Fun    Mothland

3    M(H)AOL    Something Soft    Merge

4    The Cavernous*    Please Hold    Beaverhill County

5    Cassia Hardy*    In Relation    Mint Records

6    Preoccupations*    Focus (Ill At Ease)    Self-Released

7    PUP*    Who Will Look After The Dogs?    Little Dipper

8    Jimmie Kilpatrick*    Jimmie    You’ve Changed

9    Butcher Brown    Letters From The Atlantic    Concord

10   Chadio & The Gumshoe Strut*    Root Sellers    Hand’Solo

11    Bells Larsen*    Blurring Time    Royal Mountain

12    Various*    Musicworks 151    MusicWorks Magazine

13    Quatuor Bozzini*    Owen Underhill: Songs and Quartets    Collection QB

14    Highwood Atlas*    June for Whales    Self-Released

15    Theo Croker    Dream Manifest    Dominator

16    Skullcap    Snakes of Albuquerque    Cuneiform

17    Frankie And The Witch Fingers    Trash Classic    Greenway

18    yeule    Evangelic Girl Is A Gun    Ninja Tune

19    Lael Neale    Altogether Stranger    Sub Pop

20    Calibro 35    Exploration    Record Kicks

21    Omar    Brighter The Days    BBE

22    Turnstile    Never Enough    Roadrunner

23    Flooding    Object 1    Self-Released

24    Triathlon    Funeral Music    Lex

25    Jose James    1978: Revenge Of The Dragon    Rainbow Blonde

26    Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto    Electric War    Easy Eye Sound

27    Pan Amsterdam    Confines    Heavenly

28    Aesop Rock    Black Hole Superette    Rhymesayers

29    The Bitter Chills    Young Time Rock N’ Roll    Mint 400

30    Light Blending In, Plains Apparition, and Haunted Ghost*    Cold Flame    Self-Released

 

 

Electronic

18-Aug-2025 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    The Cavernous*    Please Hold    Beaverhill County

2    Draemus*    Draemus Origins    Self-Released

3    Kerub*    APHANTASIA    Kopi

4    New Chance*    A Rock Unsteady    We Are Time

5    Slime Ring    Slime Ring EP2    The Slime Foundation

6    Vegyn, Air    Blue Moon Safari    Parlophone

7    Royksopp    True Electric    Dog Triumph

8    Eli Keszler    Eli Keszler    LuckyMe

9    Debby Friday*    The Starr of the Queen of Life    Royal Mountain

10    Ultra Far*    For Music is Alive and Well    Not So Gifted

 

 

Hip Hop

18-Aug-2025 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Chadio & The Gumshoe Strut*    Root Sellers    Hand’Solo

2    Pan Amsterdam    Confines    Heavenly

3    Aesop Rock    Black Hole Superette    Rhymesayers

4    Moonshine*    SMS for Location Vol. 6    Moonshine

5    Lammping*    Never Never    We Are Busy Bodies

6    AJ Tracey    Don’t Die Before You’re Dead    Revenge

7    Potatohead People and Slippery Elm*    Emerald Tablet    Mysterybox

8    Kimmortal*    Sunniest of Days    Odd Dolls

9    The Church Of All Due Respect    Mission    Self-Released

10    Various*    On the Road – Wemotaci    Musique nomade

 

 

International

18-Aug-2025 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Adrian Quesada    Boleros Psicodélicos II    Electric Deluxe

2    Tropa Magica    Para Bailar y Tripear    Self-Released

3    Juan Wauters    MVD LUV    Captured Tracks

4    PIQSIQ*    Legends    Self-Released

5    Various*    On the Road – Wemotaci    Musique nomade

6    George Crotty Trio*    Heart Music    Self-Released

7    Empanadas Ilegales*    Sancocho Trifásico    We Are Time

8    WITCH    SOGOLO    Partisan

9    IMMY OWUSU    Spiritual War [EP]    HopeStreet

10    Fairuz    Chat Iskandaria    WeWantSounds

 

 

Jazz

18-Aug-2025 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Butcher Brown    Letters From The Atlantic    Concord

2    Theo Croker    Dream Manifest    Dominator

3    Skullcap    Snakes of Albuquerque    Cuneiform

4    The Misery Mountain Boys*    Somebody Stole My Peaches    Self-Released

5    Thanya Iyer*    TIDE/TIED    Topshelf

6    Mei Semones    Animaru    Bayonet

7    Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus    The Children and the Warlock    Cellar

8    Dana and Alden    Speedo    Concord

9    Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad    Dom Salvador JID024    Jazz Is Dead

10    Joshua Banks*    Para Sayo    Self-Released

 

 

Loud

18-Aug-2025 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    M(H)AOL    Something Soft    Merge

2    PUP*    Who Will Look After The Dogs?    Little Dipper

3    Frankie And The Witch Fingers    Trash Classic    Greenway

4    Turnstile    Never Enough    Roadrunner

5    Flooding    Object 1    Self-Released

6    SUMAC & Moor Mother    The Film    Thrill Jockey

7    Elder Caius*    Elder Caius    Self-Released

8    Rye Coalition    Paid In Full EP    Ernest Jenning Recording Co.

9    Suzi Moon    Turbulent Hearts: All Out    Pirates Press

10    Various*    D.O.A.: No Escape from What You Are    Sudden Death

 

 

Folk/Roots/Blues

18-Aug-2025 

RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Smokey*    Bleak Heritage    Lonesome

2    Bells Larsen*    Blurring Time    Royal Mountain

3    Highwood Atlas*    June for Whales    Self-Released

4    The Western Thistles*    The Western Thistles    Self-Released

5    Dave Soroka*    Dale Avenue    Self-Released

6    Dave Soroka*    Off-Leash Heaven    Self-Released

7    Annahstasia    Tether    Drink sum wtr

8    Hilary Hawke    Lift Up This Old World    Free Dirt

9    GA-20    EP Volume 2    Self-Released

10    Loud in the Pines*    Every Colour Left    Self-Released

 

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