RSU Radio’s Top 10 Countdown – 10/17/2025

We’ve got some returning faces and some shocking upsets this week, so let’s get right into it. Big Thief’s album Double Infinity takes a drop to #10, and Curtis Harding returns at #9 with Departures and Arrivals: The Adventures of Captain Curt. Pile may be #8 but they’re looking at the bright side with their album, Sunshine and Balance Beams. The Gilmore Girls make a come back this week, as The Beth’s album Straight Line was a Lie goes straight to #7. OK Cool loses their cool, as Chit Chat falls from #1 last week to #6 this week.

Up next, Stella and the Very Messed clean up their act, taking their album, Big Familiar, from #9 last all the way to #5. Blood Orange is back and they are preserving their spot at #4 with Essex Honey. Cut Copy loses a bit of footing, as they go from #3 to #2 this week with their album Moments. Meanwhile, Rocket is blasting off again, as their album, R is for Rocket, makes an emergency landing at #2. And at #1, it’s a surprising homecoming from Top 10 regular, Forth Wanderers, as they make their way to the tip of the top.

This week’s hall of the fallen – The Hallen – is decorated with the faces of some really great artists (nothing happened to them, they just didn’t make it to the Top 10). First, we say woodwye- I mean, “goodbye” to Wombo after their album, Danger in Fives, enjoyed a solid five-week run in the Top 10 – with two of those weeks spent at #1. Next, The Happy Fits decided they’d be a better fit elsewhere, as their album – Lovesick – leaves the Top 10. Dave Hause …and the Mermaid returned to the sea, as well, followed closely by Reverse Yr Curse’s Where are We Going and When Will We Get There? And last but not least, Bad Self Portraits’ album I Think I’m Going to Hell hit the highway like a bat out of… well…

If you keep up with our You May Also Like… series, then this week’s Artist to Keep an Eye Out For might look pretty familiar. This week, we featured New York synth-punk band Automatic and their latest album Is it Now? Hot off the presses, Automatic released this album just earlier this month and I have been loving it ever since. We played the album’s titular track as well as their single Mercury, both are available to stream anywhere dope tunes are found.

1. Forth Wanderers – The Longer This Goes On
2. Rocket – R is for Rocket
3. Cut Copy – Moments
4. Blood Orange – Essex Honey
5. Stella and the Very Messed – Big Familiar
6. OK Cool – Chit Chat
7. The Beths – Straight Line Was a Lie
8. Pile – Sunshine and Balance Beams
9. Curtis Harding – Departures and Arrivals: The Adventures of Captain Curt
10. Big Thief – Double Infinity

Artist to Keep an Eye Out For:
Automatic: Is it Now?

Honorable Mentions:
Wombo – Danger in Fives
The Happy Fits – Lovesick
Dave Hause – … and the Mermaid
Reverse Yr Curse – Where are We Going and When Will We Get There?
Bad Self Portraits – I Think I’m Going to Hell