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Top 50 for the Week of 10/07/2024

  1. Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
  2. Cassie Ramone – Sweetheart (CD-R)
  3. Dummy – Free Energy (Trouble in Mind)
  4. Honeyglaze – Real Deal (Fat Possum)
  5. Sima Cunningham – High Roller (Ruination)
  6. The WAEVE – City Lights (Transgressive)
  7. Jamie xx – In Waves (Young)
  8. Tasha – All This and So Much More (Bayonet)
  9. Nubya Garcia – Odyssey (Concord)
  10. Wiseboy Jeremy – Pumpkin Seeds (Equity)
  11. Xiu Xiu – 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips (Polyvinyl)
  12. Fontaines D.C. – Romance (XL)
  13. PROBLEMS – Enter The Annals (The Record Machine)
  14. Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God (Subpop)
  15. The The – Ensoulment (earMUSIC)
  16. Plum – Can't Hold On To It (Eye Vybe Records)
  17. beastii – Follower (Dark Circles)
  18. Pulsars – Pulsars (Tiny Global)
  19. Velvetron – Something/Anything (self-released)
  20. Joan As Police Woman – Lemons, Limes and Orchids (Play It Again Sam)
  21. Beats y Bateria – Migratum (Stolen Mask)
  22. The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac)
  23. Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko – Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE)
  24. Shemekia Copeland – Blame It On Eve (Alligator)
  25. Claude Fontaine – La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  26. Ginger Root – SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
  27. Ezra Collective – Dance, No One's Watching (Partisan)
  28. Naima Bock – Below a Massive Dark Land (Sub Pop)
  29. Fcukers – Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  30. Oceanator – Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)
  31. Emily Haden Lee – The Woman I Would Be (self-released)
  32. Molchat Doma – Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
  33. Marquis Hill – Composers Collective: Beyond The Jukebox (Black Unlimited Music Group)
  34. Tension Pets – Cubey (self-released)
  35. Lunar Vacation – Everything Matters, Everything's Fire (Keeled Scales)
  36. Nada Surf – Moon Mirror (New West)
  37. The Bug Club – On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
  38. My Brightest Diamond – Fight The Real Terror (Western Vinyl)
  39. Two Fields Over – Grains of Verse (Self-Released)
  40. Seefeel – Everything Squared (Warp)
  41. The Feeders – The Feeders (self-released)
  42. Bounte – Three (Zen Dozer)
  43. Fig Dish – Feels Like the Very First Two Times (Forge Again)
  44. Katy J Pearson – Someday, Now (Heavenly/PIAS)
  45. Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading Room (Top Shelf)
  46. Jerry Paper – INBETWEEZER (Stones Throw)
  47. Ed Schrader's Music Beat – Orchestra Hits (Upset the Rhythm)
  48. Juniore – Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
  49. julie – my anti-aircraft friend (Atlantic)
  50. Los Bitchos – Talkie Talkie (City Slang)

This week's adds

  • A Place to Bury Strangers – Synthesizer (Dedstrange)
  • Anna Butterss – Mighty Vertebrate (International Anthem)
  • Balance and Composure – with you in spirit (Memory)
  • Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
  • Caribou – Honey (Merge)
  • Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn – Quiet in a World Full of Noise (Merge)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor – NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD (Constellation)
  • Half Waif – See You at the Maypole (Anti-)
  • Kate Bollinger – Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind (Ghostly International)
  • Maxx McGathey – Imaginary Eyes (Nudie)
  • MEMORIALS – Memorial Waterslides (Fire)
  • Merce Lemon – Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild (Darling)
  • Mustafa – Dunya (Jagjaguwar)
  • Otterlymusic – Corinthians 13 EP (self-released)
  • Pale Waves – Smitten (Dirty Hit)
  • Pharmakon – Maggot Mess (Sacred Bones)
  • SOPHIE – SOPHIE (Transgressive/Future Classic)
  • The Sensational Country Blues Wonders – If I Stop Moving, I'll Fall From The Sky (self-released)
  • The Smile – Cutouts (XL)
  • Thee Sacred Souls – Got A Story To Tell (Daptone)
  • TSHA – Sad Girl (Ninja Tune)
  • Various Artists – Jazz Is Dead 021 (Jazz Is Dead)
  • Wild Pink – Dulling the Horns (Fire Talk)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09/30/2024

  1. Jamie xx – In Waves (Young)
  2. Pulsars – Pulsars (Tiny Globe)
  3. Ginger Root – SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
  4. The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac)
  5. Plum – Can't Hold On To It (Eye Vybe Records)
  6. Katy J Pearson – Someday, Now (Heavenly/PIAS)
  7. Dummy – Free Energy (Trouble in Mind)
  8. Fontaines D.C. – Romance (XL)
  9. Nada Surf – Moon Mirror (New West)
  10. Tasha – All This and So Much More (Bayonet)
  11. Beats y Bateria – Migratum (Stolen Mask)
  12. Nicole Mitchell and Ballak̩ Sissoko РBamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE)
  13. Fig Dish – Feels Like the Very First Two Times (Forge Again)
  14. Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
  15. Juniore – Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
  16. Clickbait – At Your Leisure (self-released)
  17. The The – Ensoulment (earMUSIC)
  18. Spirit of the Beehive – YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING (Saddle Creek)
  19. Bright Eyes – Five Dice, All Threes (Dead Oceans)
  20. The Bug Club – On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
  21. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti-)
  22. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild God (PIAS)
  23. Emily Haden Lee – The Woman I Would Be (self-released)
  24. Shredded Sun – Wilding (Self-Released)
  25. Girl K – My Future (Take This To Heart)
  26. Velvetron – Something/Anything (self-released)
  27. Fake Fruit – Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
  28. Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading Room (Top Shelf)
  29. Wishy – Triple Seven (Winspear)
  30. Los Bitchos – Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  31. Fat Dog – WOOF. (Domino)
  32. Jack White – NO NAME (Third Man)
  33. Sima Cunningham – High Roller (Ruination)
  34. beastii – Follower (Dark Circles)
  35. Tension Pets – Cubey (self-released)
  36. Shemekia Copeland – Blame It On Eve (Alligator)
  37. Claude Fontaine – La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  38. Hinds – VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
  39. Foxing – Foxing (Grand Paradise)
  40. Fcukers – Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  41. Official Claire – Midnight Dickbiter (self-released)
  42. Oceanator – Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)
  43. Tindersticks – Soft Tissue (City Slang)
  44. Porches – Shirt (Domino)
  45. Toro Y Moi – Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)
  46. Molchat doma – Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
  47. Sofi Tukker – BREAD (Virgin)
  48. Beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
  49. PROBLEMS – Enter The Annals (The Record Machine)
  50. The Feeders – The Feeders (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God (Sub Pop)
  • Cassie Ramone – Sweetheart (CD-R)
  • Ed Schrader's Music Beat – Orchestra Hits (Upset The Rhythm)
  • Jerry Paper – INBETWEEZER (Stones Throw)
  • Joan As Police Woman – Lemons, Limes and Orchids (Play It Again Sam)
  • Lunar Vacation – Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire (Keeled Scales)
  • Marquis Hill – Composers Collective: Beyond The JukeBox (Black Unlimited Group)
  • Naima Bock – Below A Massive Dark Land (Sub Pop)
  • The WAEVE – City Lights (Transgressive)
  • Trace Mountains – Into the Burning Blue (Lame-O)
  • Wiseboy Jeremy – Pumpkin Seeds (Equity)
  • Ben Böhmer – Bloom (Ninja Tune)
  • Cool Band – Cool Band (self-released)
  • Ezra Collective – Dance, No One's Watching (Partisan)
  • Honeyglaze – Real Deal (Fat Possum)
  • marie-noëlle Of The Record – 2 est égal à 3 (totallyrealprobablynotfake)
  • Nala Sinephro – Endlessness (Warp)
  • Neva Dinova – Canary (Saddle Creek)
  • Nubya Garcia – Odysessy (Concord)
  • Two Fields Over – Grains of Verse (self-released)
  • Unto Others – Never, Neverland (Century Media)
  • Xiu Xiu – 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips (Polyvinyl)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09/23/2024


  1. Sima Cunningham – High Roller (Ruination)

  2. The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac)

  3. The The – Ensoulment (earMUSIC)

  4. Plum – Can't Hold On To It (Eye Vybe Records)

  5. Hinds – VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)

  6. beastii – Follower (Dark Circles)

  7. Velvetron – Something/Anything (self-released)

  8. Tension Pets – Cubey (self-released)

  9. Nicole Mitchell and Ballak̩ Sissoko РBamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE)

  10. Ginger Root – SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)

  11. Dummy – Free Energy (Trouble in Mind)

  12. Fontaines D.C. – Romance (XL)

  13. Fat Dog – WOOF. (Domino)

  14. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti-)

  15. Beats y Bateria – Migratum (Stolen Mask)

  16. Fig Dish – Feels Like the Very First Two Times (Forge Again)

  17. Claude Fontaine – La Mer (Innovative Leisure)

  18. Fcukers – Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)

  19. Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading Room (Top Shelf)

  20. Seefeel – Everything Squared (Warp)

  21. Oceanator – Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)

  22. Wishy – Triple Seven (Winspear)

  23. Cursive – Devourer (Run For Cover)

  24. Molchat doma – Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)

  25. Shemekia Copeland – Blame It On Eve (Alligator)

  26. Fake Fruit – Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)

  27. Spirit of the Beehive – YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING (Saddle Creek)

  28. Beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)

  29. Los Bitchos – Talkie Talkie (City Slang)

  30. Dale Crover – Glossolalia (Joyful Noise)

  31. Toro Y Moi – Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)

  32. Jack White – NO NAME (Third Man)

  33. Sofi Tukker – BREAD (Virgin)

  34. Emily Haden Lee – The Woman I Would Be (self-released)

  35. The Feeders – The Feeders (self-released)

  36. Girl K – My Future (Take This To Heart)

  37. Quivers – Oyster Cuts (Merge)

  38. Dark Chisme – Dark Chisme (self-released)

  39. julie – my anti-aircraft friend (Atlantic)

  40. Gift – Illuminator (Captured Tracks)

  41. ASHRR – Sunshine Low (2020 Vision)

  42. Hello Mary – Emita Ox (Frenchkiss)

  43. Compilation – No Occupation: Another Benefit for Mutual Aid in Gaza (self-released)

  44. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741 (p(doom)

  45. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild God (PIAS)

  46. Kishi Bashi – Kantos (Joyful Noise)

  47. Killer Mike – Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival - Songs For Sinners And Saints (Loma Vista/Concord)

  48. PROBLEMS – Enter The Annals (The Record Machine)

  49. Klaus Johann Grobe – Io tu il loro (Trouble in Mind)

  50. BONES UK – SOFT (Sumerian)


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This week's adds


  • Bathe – Inside Voice(s): Side A EP (MNRK)

  • Bright Eyes – Five Dice, All Threes (Dead Oceans)

  • Cool Band – Cool Band (self-released)

  • Jamie xx – In Waves (Young)

  • Juniore – Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)

  • Katy J Pearson – Someday, Now (Heavenly / PIAS)

  • Nada Surf – Moon Mirror (New West)

  • Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)

  • Peddler's French – Trail Angels (self-released)

  • Pulsars – Pulsars (Tiny Global)

  • Shredded Sun – Wilding (self-released)

  • Tasha – All This and So Much More (Bayonette)


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Top 50 For The Week Of 09/16/2024

  1. Dummy – Free Energy (Trouble in Mind )
  2. Fontaines D.C. – Romance (XL)
  3. Sima Cunningham – High Roller (Ruination)
  4. Fig Dish – Feels Like the Very First Two Times (Forge Again)
  5. Shemekia Copeland – Blame It On Eve (Alligator)
  6. Hinds – VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number )
  7. Oceanator – Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)
  8. Soweto Gospel Choir and Groove Terminator – History of House (Umculo House)
  9. Molchat doma – Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
  10. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti-)
  11. Laurie Anderson – Amelia (Nonesuch)
  12. Fake Fruit – Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
  13. Jae Skeese – Ground Level (Drumwork Music Group/Equity)
  14. Seefeel – Everything Squared (Warp)
  15. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741 (p(doom)
  16. PROBLEMS – Enter The Annals (The Record Machine)
  17. Plum – Can't Hold On To It (Eye Vybe Records)
  18. Killer Mike – Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival - Songs For Sinners And Saints (Loma Vista/Concord)
  19. Girl K – My Future (Take This To Heart)
  20. Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading Room (Top Shelf)
  21. Dark Chisme – Dark Chisme (self-released)
  22. Toro Y Moi – Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)
  23. Suuns – The Breaks (Joyful Noise )
  24. Jack White – NO NAME (Third Man)
  25. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild God (PIAS)
  26. Kishi Bashi – Kantos (Joyful Noise)
  27. Brigitte Calls Me Baby – The Future Is Our Way Out (ATO)
  28. Marian Runk – Two Wires and a Spark (self-released)
  29. Tension Pets – Cubey (self-released)
  30. Clickbait – At Your Leisure (self-released)
  31. Mediavolo – Away Within (AtHome)
  32. Wishy – Triple Seven (Winspear)
  33. Google Earth – Street View (Tiny Telephone)
  34. Keep for Cheap – Big Grass (self-released)
  35. New Strangers – New Strangers (Spirit Research )
  36. Sofi Tukker – BREAD (Virgin)
  37. Yannis & The Yaw and Tony Allen – Lagos Paris London (Transgressive PIAS)
  38. The Softies – The Bed I Made (Father/Daughter)
  39. Charly Bliss – Forever (Lucky Number)
  40. Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding – Milton & esperanza (Concord)
  41. Official Claire – Midnight Dickbiter (self-released)
  42. Morays – Vol. 1 (RoosterCow)
  43. Interlay – Hunting Jacket EP (Pleasure Tapes)
  44. Willie Buck and The Delmark All-Stars – Live At Buddy Guy's Legends (Delmark)
  45. Spirit of the Beehive – YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING (Saddle Creek)
  46. Quivers – Oyster Cuts (Merge)
  47. Tall Juan – Raccoon Nights (self-released)
  48. Hataałii – Waiting For A Sign (Dangerbird)
  49. Various Artists – Red Scare Industries: 20 Years of Dreaming and Scheming (Red Scare)
  50. dog eyes – holy friend (Grand Jury)

This week's adds

  • ASHRR – Sunshine Low (2020 Vision)
  • Beastii – Follower (Dark Circles)
  • Beats y Bateria – Migratum (Stolen Mask)
  • BONES UK – SOFT (Sumerian)
  • Bounte – Three (Zen Dozer)
  • Chastity – Chastity (Deathwish Inc)
  • Claude Fontaine – La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  • Cursive – Devourer (Run For Cover)
  • Dale Crover – Glossolalia (Joyful Noise)
  • Emily Haden Lee – The Woman I Would Be (self-released)
  • Faces of the Bog – Animals (self-released)
  • Fat Dog – WOOF (Domino)
  • Fcukers – Baggy$$ (Technicolour)
  • Foxing – Foxing (Grand Paradise)
  • GIFT – Illuminator (Captured Tracks)
  • Ginger Root – SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
  • Hello Mary – Emita Ox (Frenchkiss)
  • knitting – Some Kind of Heaven (Mint)
  • julie – my anti-aircraft friend (Atlantic)
  • Los Bitchos – Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  • My Brightest Diamond – Fight the Terror (Western Vinyl)
  • Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko – Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE)
  • Peddler's French – Trail Angels (self-released)
  • Porches – Shirt (Domino)
  • The Bug Club – On the Intricate Workings Of The System (Sub Pop)
  • The Feeders – The Feeders EP (self-released)
  • The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac)
  • The The – Ensoulment (earMUSIC)
  • Tindersticks – Soft Tissue (City Slang)
  • Velvetron – Something/Anything (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09/09/2024

  1. Fig Dish – Feels Like the Very First Two Times (Forge Again)
  2. Sima Cunningham – High Roller (Ruination)
  3. Plum – Can't Hold On To It (Eye Vybe Records)
  4. Oceanator – Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)
  5. Jack White – NO NAME (Third Man)
  6. Fontaines D.C. – Romance (XL)
  7. Brigitte Calls Me Baby – The Future Is Our Way Out (ATO)
  8. Wishy – Triple Seven (Winspear)
  9. X-Ray Ted – Moving On (Bombing Strikes)
  10. Beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
  11. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741 (p(doom)
  12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild God (PIAS)
  13. Sofi Tukker – BREAD (Virgin)
  14. Red Spot Rhythm Section – Twilight (self-released)
  15. Seefeel – Everything Squared (Warp)
  16. Klaus Johann Grobe – Io tu il loro (Trouble in Mind)
  17. Oh, Rose – Dorothy (Antiquated Future)
  18. Tension Pets – Cubey (self-released)
  19. Clickbait – At Your Leisure (Self-Released)
  20. Spirit of the Beehive – YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING (Saddle Creek)
  21. Lava La Rue – STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  22. Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding – Milton & esperanza (Concord)
  23. Girl K – My Future (Take This To Heart)
  24. Morays – Vol. 1 (RoosterCow)
  25. Shemekia Copeland – Blame It On Eve (Alligator)
  26. Soweto Gospel Choir and Groove Terminator – History of House (Umculo House)
  27. Quivers – Oyster Cuts (Merge)
  28. Dark Chisme – Dark Chisme (self-released)
  29. Little Monarch – Plenty Of Time (self-released)
  30. Killer Mike – Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival - Songs For Sinners And Saints (Loma Vista/Concord)
  31. Compilation – The Bricktown Compilation (Bricktown)
  32. Mediavolo – Away Within (AtHome)
  33. Google Earth – Street View (Tiny Telephone)
  34. Pom Poko – Champion (Bella Union)
  35. Yannis & The Yaw and Tony Allen – Lagos Paris London (Transgressive PIAS)
  36. Enumclaw – Home in Another Life (Run For Cover)
  37. Miles Nautu – ALLUDE (Blak Label)
  38. Charly Bliss – Forever (Lucky Number)
  39. Osees – SORCS 80 (Castle Face)
  40. This House is Creaking – This House is Creaking (THiC)
  41. Willie Buck and The Delmark All-Stars – Live At Buddy Guy's Legends (Delmark)
  42. Jon Hopkins – RITUAL (Domino)
  43. Rosie Lowe – Lover, Other (Flowers/PIAS)
  44. illuminati hotties – POWER (Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless)
  45. Kishi Bashi – Kantos (Joyful Noise)
  46. Gilligan Moss – Speaking Across Time (Foreign Family Collective)
  47. Hazel English – Real Life (self-released)
  48. Metronomy – Posse EP Volume 2 (Ninja Tune)
  49. Los Campesinos! – All Hell (Heart Swells)
  50. Interlay – Hunting Jacket EP (Pleasure Tapes)

This week's adds

  • Dummy – Free Energy (Trouble in Mind)
  • Fake Fruit – Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
  • Hataałi – Waiting for a Sign (Dangerbird)
  • Hinds – VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
  • Icarus Phoenix – I Should Have Known the Things You Never Said (Telos Tapes)
  • Keep For Cheap – Big Grass (self-released)
  • Laurie Anderson – Amelia (Nonesuch)
  • Marian Runk – Two Wires and a Spark (self-released)
  • Molchat Doma – Belaya Pelosa (Sacred Bones)
  • MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti-)
  • New Strangers – New Strangers (Spirit Research)
  • Official Claire – Midnight Dickbiter [EP] (self-released)
  • Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
  • PROBLEMS – Enter the Annals (The Record Machine)
  • Tamar Berk – Good Times for a Change (self-released)
  • Scout Gillette – Imagination, MO. (self-released)
  • SMUSH – Passage EP (Forensic)
  • SUUNS – The Breaks (Joyful Noise)
  • Tall Juan – Raccoon Nights (self-released)
  • Toro y Moi – Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)
  • Various Artists – Red Scare Industries: 20 Years of Dreaming and Scheming (Red Scare)
  • Various Artists – No Occupation: Another Benefit for Mutual Aid in Gaza (self-released)

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