KCRW’s Top 30 chart: March 18–24, 2024

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Sunset dreams, Khruangbin style.

Sunset dreams, Khruangbin style. Photo by: David Black

Khruangbin’s latest single “Pon Pón” world premiered during Morning Becomes Eclectic last week and its strut-ready sonics keep hitting us just right during these first days of Spring. The Texan psych-funk trio’s new LP A LA SALA drops Friday, April 5 via Dead Oceans — just in time to spice up your Spring/Summer ‘24 playlists. We see many more weeks at number one in its future. 

New and notable: Erick the Architect’s expansive hip-hop palette finds a place on the KCRW Top 30 at last as DJs plumb the depths of his recent release I’ve Never Been Here Before. Plus, Tigers Blood, the latest feelings-forward Americana album from Waxahatchee, debuts in the top ten, as do the enveloping beats of Reyna Tropical’s forthcoming Malegría. Catch Reyna Tropical live on MBE Wednesday, April 3 at 11:15 a.m.

Top 30 Albums (3.26.2024)


1 Khruangbin “A LA SALA”
2 Justice “Hyperdrama”
3 Glass Beams “Mahal”
4 Tierra Whack “WORLD WIDE WHACK”
5 Waxahatchee “Tigers Blood”
6 Hermanos Gutiérrez “Sonido Cósmico”
7 Elbow “Audio Vertigo”
8 Porij “Teething”
9 Aili "Nandakke?"
10 Reyna Tropical “Malegría”
11 Empress Of “For Your Consideration”
12 Faye Webster “Underdressed at the Symphony”
13 Mildlife “Chorus”
14 The Marías “Submarine”
15 Mount Kimbie “The Sunset Violent”
16 St. Vincent "All Born Screaming"
17 Warpaint “Common Blue” b/w “Underneath” [Single]
18 IDLES “TANGK”
19 Brainstory “Sounds Good”
20 Shannon & The Clams “The Moon Is In The Wrong Place”
21 Lava La Rue “STARFACE”
22 Erick the Architect “I’ve Never Been Here Before”
23 Sofie Royer & Alexander Dexter Jones “Paris is Burning” [Single]
24 Baby Rose "Slow Burn"
25 MGMT “Loss Of Life”
26 Helado Negro “PHASOR”
27 Optometry “Parallel Distortion”
28 Machinedrum “3FOR82”
29 Chicano Batman “Notebook Fantasy”
30 Bleachers “Bleachers”