Hot Wax
New Must Listens handpicked by CJSR
From all new releases for week of October 13 – 19, 2025
Geese – Getting Killed [Partisan]
New York, NY Rock/Pop
Wackily cool music by a weirdo savant
Jeff Tweedy – Twilight Override [dBPM]
Chicago, IL Rock/Pop
30 songs is too many but he’s a creative guy (I read his book) and his arrangements are good
Neko Case – Neon Grey Midnight Green [Anti-]
Seattle, WA Folk/Rock
This is a good Neko Case album. Strong songwriting and arrangements and her voice is good, of course
Sloan – Based on the Best Seller [Yep Roc]
Toronto, ON Rock/Po
Hey, a new Sloan album. Tight and happy rock and roll
Notable Local Adds
AV & The Inner City – AV & The Inner City [Self-Released]
Soul/R&B
Addison Wall – Somewhere In Between [Self-Released]
Folk
All the new music added to the CJSR library
(October 13 – October 19)
| GENRE | ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL |
| Electronic | Alley Goop | Empress | Self-Released |
| Electronic | Dolcevita Brothers | Sprezzatura | Self-Released |
| Electronic | Prekop, Sam | Open Close | Thrill Jockey |
| Electronic | Purity Ring | Purity Ring | The Fellowship |
| Electronic | Shima | Welcome to SHIMAJIMA | Young Art |
| Experimental/Ambient | Moss, Jessica | Unfolding | Constellation |
| Experimental/Ambient | Testen, Martin/Simon Šerc | Nokturno | Pharmafabrik |
| Folk | Great Lake Swimmers | Caught Light | Pheromone |
| Folk | Jolie Laide | In The Low Light EP | Victory Pool |
| Folk | Mappe Of | Afterglades | Paper Bag |
| Folk | Wall, Addison | Somewhere In Between | Self-Released |
| Folk | Watson, Patrick | Uh Oh | Secret City |
| Folk/Rock | Case, Neko | Neon Grey Midnight Green | Anti- |
| Hip-Hop/R&B | Carrtoons | Space Cadet | +1 |
| Hip-Hop/Rap | Ev. G | And Then I Go Up | Self-Released |
| Hip-Hop/Rap | Moon, Max | The Grand Howl | Hand’Solo |
| Jazz | Davis, Cole | Consider It! | Totally Gross National Product |
| Jazz | Jaffe, Max | You Want That Too! | Colorfield |
| Jazz | Muirhead, Al | Still Cookin’ at 90: The Canada Sessions Vol. 2 | Chronograph |
| Metal | Ancient Thrones | Melancholia | Self-Released |
| Punk | Die Spitz | Something To Consume | Third Man |
| Punk | Sprints | All That Is Over | Sub Pop |
| Rock/Pop | Absolute Losers | In The Crowd | We Are Busy Bodies |
| Rock/Pop | Anschütz, Rosa | Sabbatical | Heartworm |
| Rock/Pop | Automatic | Is It Now? | Stones Throw |
| Rock/Pop | Bright Eyes | Kids Table EP | Dead Oceans |
| Rock/Pop | By A Thread | Mirroed Life | Spartan |
| Rock/Pop | Frog | The Count | Audio Antihero |
| Rock/Pop | Geese | Getting Killed | Partisan |
| Rock/Pop | Lekman, Jens | Songs For Other People’s Weddings | Secretly Canadian |
| Rock/Pop | Platonic Sex | Face To The Flywire | Orchard |
| Rock/Pop | Pôt-pot | Warsaw 480km | Felte |
| Rock/Pop | Pure Carrière | Visions De L’Enfer | Les Disques Dure Vie Itee |
| Rock/Pop | Rec Centre | Squash | Self-Released |
| Rock/Pop | Sloan | Based on the Best Seller | Yep Roc |
| Rock/Pop | Tweedy, Jeff | Twilight Override | dBPM |
| Rock/Pop | Yacina, Emily | Veilfall | Self-Released |
| Soul/R&B | AV & The Inner City | AV & The Inner City | Self-Released |
Charts
Top 30
Chart ranking reflects airplay during the week ending October 10, 2025
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* indicates a Canadian artist
red indicates local artist
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RANK ARTIST TITLE LABEL
1 Tebby And The Heavy* Heavy Afternoon Self-Released
2 Crasher Odditi Populaire Mothland
3 Smokey* Bleak Heritage Lonesome
4 Scott Hardware* Overpass Telephone Explosion
5 Murs Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) Mello Music Group
6 WITCH SOGOLO Partisan
7 Flyte Between You and Me Nettwerk
8 Wednesday Bleeds Dead Oceans
9 Artichoke Artichoke Self-Released
10 Mo Lowda & The Humble Tailing The Ghost Workaround Records
11 Greg Freeman Burnover Transgressive
12 Oceanique Skylines Self-Released
13 The Western Thistles* The Western Thistles Self-Released
14 pseudo-antigone* Melancholic Melodrama Self-Released
15 Adam Johan Bergren* Circuit Traces Self-Released
16 Spool* Pasting the Post Dry Self-Released
17 bananahaus* grounders Mono Tapes
18 arid landscapes* arid landscapes signal chain
19 Buildings and Food* Provincial Park Self-Released
20 Samwoy* Even Sad Boys Like to Have Fun Mothland
21 Red Jacket* Rebarbeach Self-Released
22 COMPANDER* Vivianite Self-Released
23 Justin Gray* Immersed I.A.N.
24 Meadowsweet* The Sound of Coming Home Self-Released
25 The Science Of The Heart* Night Drive The Science of the Heart
26 The Dwarfs of East Agouza Sasquatch Landslide Constellation
27 Cass McCombs Interior Live Oak Domino
28 Far Caspian Autofiction Tiny Library
29 Shame Cutthroat Dead Oceans
30 Margo Price Hard Headed Woman Concord / Loma Vista