New songs added to heavy & medium rotation! (2022, part 1)

A playlist of what songs get added to heavy & medium rotation is available on Spotify here: WXCI New Music Monthly
* updated at the end of every month, so save your faves! *

HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is our FIRST monthly post of 2022 to show what new songs we are digging and adding to heavy & medium rotation. Enjoy!

Week of 1/11/2022

HEAVY
Let’s Eat Grandma: “Happy New Year” (Transgressive/PIAS)
Mary Akpa: “Black Body” (Self-Released)
Bonobo: “From You [feat. Joji]” (Ninja Tune)
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard: “Shanghai Dub (The Scientist Remix)” (KGLW)
shame: “Baldur’s Gate” (Dead Oceans)
Kim Gordon & J Mascis: “Abstract Blues” (Sub-Pop)
Big Thief: “No Reason” (4AD)
Animal Collective: “Walker” (Domino)
The Vibrators: “Dance to the Music [Demo 1976]” (Cleopatra)
Father John Misty: “Funny Girl” (Sub-Pop)

MEDIUM
Sis: “Wooie” (Native Cat)
Lizzy McAlpine: “erase me [feat. Jacob Collier]” (AWAL)
Nightmares on Wax: “Wonder [Paul Woolford Remix]” (Warp)
Wah Together: “Sayonara” (Dedstrange Records)
Arguing With Hurricanes: “Lean Into It” (Joyful Noise Records)
Kevin Morby & Bill Fay: “I Hear You Calling” (Dead Oceans)
Pom Pom Squad: “Popular” (Nada Surf)
Elvis Costello: “Magnificent Hurt” (Capitol)
The Long Blondes: “Last Night on Northgate Street” (Rough Trade)
Twen: “HaHaHome” (Self-Released)
Fine Motor: “Sad Face” (Self-Released)
Tchotchke: “Dizzy” (Self-Released)
Ezra Cohen: “Just Like You” (Dead Broke Rekerds)
Oriel: “Scream” (A-Train)
Aeon Station: “Queens” (Sub-Pop)

Week of 1/18/2022

HEAVY
Robert Glasper: “Black Superhero (feat. Killer Mike, BJ The Chicago Kid & Big K.R.I.T.)” (Loma Vista / Concord)
Hippo Campus: “Ride or Die” (Grand Jury)
Elvis Costello & The Imposters: “The Death Of Magic Thinking” (EMI/Capitol)
Fleet Foxes: “Can I Believe You [Live]” (Anti-)
Fontaines D.C.: “Jackie Down The Line” (Partisan Records)
Lucius: “Next To Normal” (Mom + Pop)
Roddy Ricch: “everything you need” (Atlantic)
Envy Of None: “Liar” (Kscope)
Cheekface: “Featured Singer” (New Professor)
Sweat: “Hit & Run [Radio Edit]” (Pirate Press)

MEDIUM
Los Days: “Floating Against the Night Sky” (A-Train)
Frozen Inertia: “What Is This?” (Self-Released)
Marble Party: “GBGH” (Self-Released)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland: “Let’s Dance [Arca Remix]” (Transgressive/PIAS)
VTSS: “For your safety” (Technicolour)
Fly Anakin: “Ghost [feat. Nickelus F]” (Lex Records)
Grandaddy: “Blindness [Metric Cover]” (American Laundromat)
Spiritualized: “Crazy” (Fat Possum)
Broken Social Scene: “Not at My Best” (Arts & Crafts)
Sun June: “Easy” (Run for Cover Records)
Julie Doiron: “Cancel the Party” (You’ve Changed)
yarn.: “Weird Fishes [Radiohead Cover]” (Self-Released)
Metronomy: “Things will be fine” (Because Music)
The Simps: “Tesla” (Lex Records)
Gang of Youths: “In The Wake Of Your Leave [Radio Edit]” (Warner)
Jetstream Pony: “Behind the Eyes” (712550 Records DK)
SAVAK: “Cold Ocean” (Peculiar Works Music)
Blomst: “Ta Telefonen” (Indie Recordings)
Best Coast: “All Alone” (Concord Records)

Week of 1/25/2022

HEAVY
FKA Twigs: “meta angel” (Young/Atlantic)
Guerilla Toss: “Cannibal Capital” (Sub Pop)
Jazzanova “Creative Musicians” (BBE)
Cat Power: “These Days [Jackson Browne Cover]” (Domino)
Thee Sacred Souls: “Trade Of Hearts” (Penrose)
Japanese Breakfast: “Slide Tackle” (Dead Oceans)
Brandi Carlile: “Broken Horses” (Elektra)
Mitski: “Heat Lightning” (Dead Oceans)
Yard Act: “Quarantine The Sticks [Clean]” (Zen F.C.)
Vundabar: “Alien Blues (Redux) [feat. Indigo De Souza]” (Gawk Records)

MEDIUM
Makaya McCraven: “Mr. Jin” (Blue Note)
LIFE: “Friends Without Names” (The Liquid Label)
Geoffroy: “Strangers on a Train” (444%)
Fort Romeau: “Spotlights” (Ghostly International)
Moonchild: “Tell Him (feat. Lalah Hathaway)” (Tru Thoughts)
Bonobo: “Day by Day [feat. Kadhja Bonet]” (Ninja Tune)
ADOY: “Saint” (Angel House)
Eric Chenaux: “Say Laura [abridged]” (Constellation)
Bob Moses: “Love Brand New” (Domino)
Ibibio Sound Machine: “All That You Want” (Merge Records)
Hatchie: “Quicksand” – SINGLE (Secretly Canadian)
Flamango Bay: “LA” (Moshi Moshi Records)
Sofia Kourtesis: “Estación Esperanza (feat. Manu Chao)” (Ninja Tune)
Fly Anakin: “No Dough [Prod By Madlib]” (Lex Records)
Reptailiens: “Take It” (Sinderlyn)
Anxious: “More Than a Letter” (Run For Cover Records)
Daniel Rossen: “Shadow in the Frame [Radio Edit]” (Warp)
Alex The Astronaut: “Airport” (Nettwerk)
Deanna Petcoff: “Devastatingly Mediocre” (Royal Mountain)
Bodega: “Thrown” (What’s Your Rupture?)
Bruiser Queen: “Debutantes in Bondage” (Self-Released)
Peaness: “How I’m Feeling” (Self-Released)
Biznaga: “Contra Mi Generacion” (Montgrí)
Knuckle Pups: “Soft Attraction” (Self-Released)
English Teacher: “A55” (Nice Swan Recordings)

Tags: 2022, New Music

Category: New Music, Rotation Adds