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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 11/14/2022

  1. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
  2. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)
  3. Charlotte Dos Santos – Morfo (Because)
  4. BassKase – The Bassman Cometh (Soundpoint)
  5. The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
  6. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)
  7. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)
  8. Shemekia Copeland – Done Come Too Far (Alligator)
  9. James Marlon Magas – Confusion Is My Name (Midwich)
  10. Ezra Collective – Where I'm Meant To Be (Partisan)
  11. Nick Hakim – COMETA (ATO)
  12. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)
  13. Plains – I Walked With You A Ways (ANTI-)
  14. BARBAЯA – is it just a dream (self-released)
  15. FURY – FURY REVOLUTION (self-released)
  16. The Claudettes – The Claudettes Go Out! (Forty Below)
  17. Junior Boys – Waiting Game (City Slang)
  18. Sorry – Anywhere But Here (Domino)
  19. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)
  20. La Femme – Teatro Lucido (Disque Pointu)
  21. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)
  22. The Reds, Pinks and Purples – They Only Wanted Your Soul (Slumberland)
  23. Arctic Monkeys – The Car (Domino)
  24. NNAMDï – Please Have A Seat (SOOPER/Secretly Canadian)
  25. Jared Rabin – Chasing the Light (self-released)
  26. Nora O'Connor – My Heart (Pravda)
  27. Pinkshift – Love Me Forever (Hopeless)
  28. Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
  29. Courtney Marie Andrews – Loose Future (Fat Possum)
  30. Tegan and Sara – Crybaby (Mom + Pop)
  31. Disq – Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet (Saddle Creek)
  32. Douglas Andrew McCombs – VMAK (Thrill Jockey)
  33. Pink Frost – Until the Summer Comes (Under Road)
  34. Meat Wave – Malign Hex (Swami)
  35. Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn – Pigments (Merge)
  36. Winter – What Kind Of Blue Are You? (Bar/None)
  37. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)
  38. Palm – Nicks and Grazes (Saddle Creek)
  39. Daphni – Cherry (Jiaolong)
  40. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl/Transgressive)
  41. Tenci – A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing (Keeled Scales)
  42. Nice Motor – Superior Street Sessions (self-released)
  43. Jeff Parker – Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (Eremite)
  44. Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band – Sonbonbela (Sublime Frequencies)
  45. Brutus – Unison Life (Sargent House)
  46. Various Artists – Ghost Riders (Efficient Space)
  47. zzzahara – liminal spaces (Lex)
  48. The Jack Moves – Cruiserweight (Everloving)
  49. Aoife Nessa Frances – Protector (Partisan)
  50. Dungen – En Är För Mycket Och Tusen Aldrig Nog (Mexican Summer)

This week's adds

  • Ariel Zetina – Cyclorama (Local Action)
  • Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Black Cross Hotel – Hex (self-released)
  • Cakes da Killa – Svengali (Young Arts)
  • Carla dal Forno – Come Around (Kallista)
  • Chad Taylor Trio – The Reel (Astral Spirits)
  • Christine and The Queens – Redcar les adorables etoiles (Because)
  • CLASS – Epoca de los Vaqueros (Feel It)
  • Darkthrone – Astral Fortress (Peaceville)
  • Duval Timothy – Meeting With A Judas Tree (Carrying Colour)
  • Dumb – Pray 4 Tomorrow (Mint)
  • Fenella – The Metallic Index (Fire)
  • Goat – Oh Death (Rocket)
  • Ghost Orchard – Rainbow Music (Winspear)
  • Hans Pucket – No Drama (Carpark)
  • Horse Lords – Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
  • Jordana – I'm Doing Well, Thanks For Asking (Grand Jury)
  • Non Plus Temps – Desire Choir (PPM)
  • Phoenix – Alpha Zulu (Loyauté/Glassnote)
  • The Rabbits – The Rabbits (Mesh-Key)
  • Rahill – Sun Songs (Big Dada)
  • Rubblebucket – Earth Worship (Grand Jury)
  • Sea Moss – SEAMOSS2 (Ramp Local)
  • SJD – Sweetheart (Fried Oyster)
  • Sweet Cobra – Threes (Hawthorne Street)
  • Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, (Sub Pop)
  • Various Artists – Daniel Vangarde: The Vaults of Zagora Records Mastermind (1971-1984) (Because)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11/07/2022

  1. The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
  2. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
  3. Junior Boys – Waiting Game (City Slang)
  4. Winter – What Kind Of Blue Are You? (Bar/None)
  5. Shemekia Copeland – Done Come Too Far (Alligator)
  6. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl/Transgressive)
  7. FURY – FURY REVOLUTION (self-released)
  8. Nora O'Connor – My Heart (Pravda)
  9. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)
  10. NNAMDï – Please Have A Seat (SOOPER/Secretly Canadian)
  11. Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn – Pigments (Merge)
  12. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)
  13. Meat Wave – Malign Hex (Swami)
  14. Jeff Parker – Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (Eremite)
  15. Nick Hakim – COMETA (ATO)
  16. Daphni – Cherry (Jiaolong)
  17. Tegan and Sara – Crybaby (Mom+Pop)
  18. Dungen – En Är För Mycket Och Tusen Aldrig Nog (Mexican Summer)
  19. Drugdealer – Hiding In Plain Sight (Mexican Summer)
  20. Sick Day – Love is a State of Mind (self-released)
  21. Nice Motor – Superior Street Sessions (self-released)
  22. Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band – Sonbonbela (Sublime Frequencies)
  23. Plains – I Walked With You A Ways (Anti)
  24. Archers Of Loaf – Reason in Decline (Merge)
  25. Arctic Monkeys – The Car (Domino)
  26. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
  27. Pink Frost – Until the Summer Comes (Under Road)
  28. The Claudettes – The Claudettes Go Out! (Forty Below)
  29. Buddy Guy – The Blues Don't Lie (RCA)
  30. Pinkshift – Love Me Forever (Hopeless)
  31. Sorry – Anywhere But Here (Domino)
  32. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)
  33. The Jack Moves – Cruiserweight (Everloving)
  34. Sobs – Air Guitar (Topshelf)
  35. Tin-ear – Cadastral Maps (Gentle Reminder)
  36. Jon Brion – Meaningless (Jealous Butcher)
  37. The Orielles – Tableau (Clouds Hill)
  38. BARBAЯA – is it just a dream (self-released)
  39. Jared Rabin – Chasing the Light (Self-released)
  40. Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
  41. Courtney Marie Andrews – Loose Future (Fat Possum)
  42. Aoife Nessa Frances – Protector (Partisan)
  43. The Reds, Pinks and Purples – They Only Wanted Your Soul (Slumberland)
  44. Guerilla Welfare – Evidence I Was Here (Soundpoint)
  45. Rina Sawayama – Hold the Girl (Dirty Hit)
  46. Sloan – Steady (Yep Roc)
  47. Plates Of Cake – Got a Feeling That I Live Here (Western Revisions)
  48. Indigo Sparke – Hysteria (Sacred Bones)
  49. Soft and Dumb – Soft and Dumb (self-released)
  50. Say She She – Prism (Colemine)

This week's adds

  • Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)
  • BassKase – The Bassman Cometh (SoundPoint)
  • Brutus – Unison Life (Sargent House)
  • Charlotte Dos Santos – Morfo (Because)
  • Delivery – Forever Giving Handshakes (Feel It)
  • Dion Lunadon – Beyond Everything (In the Red)
  • Douglas Andrew McCombs – VMAK KOMBS DUGLAS 6NDR7 (Thrill Jockey)
  • Dream Unending – Song of Salvation (20 Buck Spin)
  • Ezra Collective – Where I'm Meant To Be (Partisan)
  • Ibises – In The Swim (American Dreams)
  • James Marlon Magas – Confusion Is My Name (Midwich)
  • L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation – W.A.R. in the Digital Realm (Toxic State)
  • La Femme – Teatro Lucido (Disque Pointu)
  • Microwaves – Discomfiture Atlas (Three One G)
  • The Orchids – Dreaming Kind (Skep Wax)
  • Private Lives – Private Lives (Feel It)
  • Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)
  • Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)
  • Scout Gillett – no roof no floor (Captured Tracks)
  • Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)
  • Tenci – A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing (Keeled Scales)
  • Various Artists – Ghost Riders (Efficient Space)
  • zzzahara – liminal spaces (Lex)

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Top 50 for the Week of 10/31/2022

  1. The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
  2. Sorry – Anywhere But Here (Domino)
  3. Winter – What Kind Of Blue Are You? (Bar/None)
  4. Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band – Sonbonbela (Sublime Frequencies)
  5. Nora O'Connor – My Heart (Pravda)
  6. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)
  7. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Verve)
  8. Daphni – Cherry (Jiaolong)
  9. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl/Transgressive)
  10. Rina Sawayama – Hold the Girl (Dirty Hit)
  11. NNAMDï – Please Have A Seat (SOOPER/Secretly Canadian)
  12. BARBAЯA – is it just a dream (self-released)
  13. FURY – FURY REVOLUTION (self-released)
  14. Pink Frost – Until the Summer Comes (Under Road)
  15. Pinkshift – Love Me Forever (Hopeless)
  16. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)
  17. Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
  18. Plains – I Walked With You A Ways (Anti)
  19. Titus Andronicus – The Will To Live (Merge)
  20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
  21. Eerie Wanda – Internal Radio (Joyful Noise)
  22. Pixies – Doggerel (BMG)
  23. LYZZA – MOSQUITO (Big Dada)
  24. Lambchop – The Bible (Merge)
  25. Meat Wave – Malign Hex (Swami)
  26. Push Puppets – Allegory Gray (Waterweight)
  27. Arctic Monkeys – The Car (Domino)
  28. Sloan – Steady (Yep Roc)
  29. Beth Orton – Weather Alive (Partisan)
  30. Skullcrusher – Quiet the Room (Secretly Canadian)
  31. Dangüs Tarküs – Concrete Hearts (self-released)
  32. Archers Of Loaf – Reason in Decline (Merge)
  33. The Orielles – Tableau (Clouds Hill)
  34. The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
  35. Björk – Fossora (One Little Independent)
  36. A Shoreline Dream – Loveblind (Latenight Weeknight)
  37. Nice Motor – Superior Street Sessions (self-released)
  38. Soft and Dumb – Soft and Dumb (self-released)
  39. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem)
  40. Divino Niño – Last Spa on Earth (Winspear)
  41. Courtney Marie Andrews – Loose Future (Fat Possum)
  42. Jon Brion – Meaningless (Jealous Butcher)
  43. Mightmare – Cruel Liars (Kill Rock Stars)
  44. Pete Astor – Time on Earth (Tapete)
  45. Say She She – Prism (Colemine)
  46. Indigo Sparke – Hysteria (Sacred Bones)
  47. Melody's Echo Chamber – Unfold (Fat Possum)
  48. The London Suede – Autofiction (BMG)
  49. Butcher Brown – Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz)
  50. The Claudettes – The Claudettes Go Out! (Forty Below)

This week's adds

  • Aoife Nessa Frances – Protector (Partisan)
  • Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn – Pigments (Merge)
  • Drugdealer – Hiding in Plain Sight (Mexican Summer)
  • Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
  • Dungen – En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog (One is Too Much and a Thousand is Never Enough) (Mexican Summer)
  • Guerilla Welfare – Evidence I Was Here (Soundpoint)
  • Hammered Hulls – Careening (Dischord)
  • Jared Rabin – Chasing the Light (self-released)
  • Jeff Parker – Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (Eremite)
  • Junior Boys – Waiting Game (City Slang)
  • Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)
  • Nick Hakim – Cometa (ATO)
  • Shemekia Copeland – Done Come Too Far (Alligator)
  • Show Me the Body – Trouble the Water (Loma Vista/Concord)
  • Sobs – Air Guitar (Topshelf)
  • Status/Non-Status – Surely Travel (You've Changed)
  • Tegan & Sara – Crybaby (Mom+Pop)
  • The Jack Moves – Cruiserweight (Everloving)
  • Tin-Ear – Cadastral Maps (Gentle Reminder)

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Top 50 for the Week of 10/24/2022

  1. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl/Transgressive)
  2. Divino Niño – Last Spa on Earth (Winspear)
  3. Meat Wave – Malign Hex (Swami)
  4. Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
  5. Nora O'Connor – My Heart (Pravda)
  6. Daphni – Cherry (Jiaolong)
  7. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)
  8. Titus Andronicus – The Will To Live (Merge)
  9. NNAMDï – Please Have A Seat (SOOPER/Secretly Canadian)
  10. Buddy Guy – The Blues Don't Lie (RCA)
  11. Sorry – Anywhere But Here (Domino)
  12. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Verve)
  13. Rina Sawayama – Hold the Girl (Dirty Hit)
  14. Plains – I Walked With You A Ways (Anti)
  15. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem)
  16. Whitney – Spark (Secretly Canadian)
  17. The Claudettes – The Claudettes Go Out! (Forty Below)
  18. Courtney Marie Andrews – Loose Future (Fat Possum)
  19. Fazerdaze – Break! (Section1)
  20. The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
  21. Soft and Dumb – Soft and Dumb (self-released)
  22. Peel Dream Magazine – Pad (Slumberland)
  23. Björk – Fossora (One Little Independent)
  24. Melody's Echo Chamber – Unfold (Fat Possum)
  25. Blood Orange – Four Songs (RCA)
  26. Annie Fish – Weird Like Me (self-released)
  27. Lambchop – The Bible (Merge)
  28. Danielle Ponder – Some Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)
  29. Vieux Farka Touré et Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)
  30. Bill Callahan – YTI⅃AƎЯ (Drag City)
  31. Alien Nosejob – Stained Glass (Total Punk)
  32. Mightmare – Cruel Liars (Kill Rock Stars)
  33. Sloan – Steady (Yep Roc)
  34. Pixies – Doggerel (BMG)
  35. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
  36. A Shoreline Dream – Loveblind (Latenight Weeknight)
  37. Beth Orton – Weather Alive (Partisan)
  38. Rhett Miller – The Misfit (ATO)
  39. Push Puppets – Allegory Gray (Waterweight)
  40. LYZZA – MOSQUITO (Big Dada)
  41. Jesca Hoop – Order of Romance (Memphis Industries)
  42. Palm – Nicks and Grazes (Saddle Creek)
  43. Sol Messiah – GOD CMPLX (Rhymesayers)
  44. Mamalarky – Pocket Fantasy (Fire Talk)
  45. Disq – Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet (Saddle Creek)
  46. Altered Images – Mascara Streakz (Cooking Vinyl)
  47. Alex G – God Save The Animals (Domino)
  48. The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors (Partisan)
  49. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
  50. Shygirl – Nymph (Because)

This week's adds

  • Archers of Loaf – Reason in Decline (Merge)
  • Arctic Monkeys – The Car (Domino)
  • Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Sonbonbela (Sublime Frequencies)
  • BARBAЯA – is it just a dream (self-released)
  • Dangüs Tarküs – Concrete Hearts (self-released)
  • Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)
  • FURY – REVOLUTION (self-released)
  • Maxine Funke – Pieces of Driftwood (Disciples)
  • Nice Motor – Superior Street Sessions (self-released)
  • Persher – Man with the Magic Soap (Thrill Jockey)
  • Pink Frost – Until the Summer Comes (Under Road)
  • Pinkshift – Love Me Forever (Hopeless)
  • Ribbon Stage – Hit With the Most (Perennial/K)
  • Sick Day – Love is a State of Mind (self-released)
  • The Drin – Down River in the Distance (Mangel)
  • The Orielles – Tableau (Heavenly / PIAS)
  • The Reds, Pinks & Purples – They Only Wanted Your Soul (Slumberland)
  • The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
  • Winter – What Kind of Blue Are You? (Bar/None)

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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 10/17/2022

  1. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl/Transgressive)
  2. NNAMDï – Please Have A Seat (SOOPER/Secretly Canadian)
  3. Nora O'Connor – My Heart (Pravda)
  4. Meat Wave – Malign Hex (Swami)
  5. Titus Andronicus – The Will To Live (Merge)
  6. Daphni – Cherry (Jiaolong)
  7. Divino Niño – Last Spa on Earth (Winspear)
  8. Danielle Ponder – Some Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)
  9. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
  10. Pixies – Doggerel (BMG)
  11. The Claudettes – The Claudettes Go Out! (Forty Below)
  12. Disq – Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet (Saddle Creek)
  13. Buddy Guy – The Blues Don't Lie (RCA)
  14. Indigo Sparke – Hysteria (Sacred Bones)
  15. Annie Fish – Weird Like Me (self-released)
  16. The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Verve)
  17. LYZZA – MOSQUITO (Big Dada)
  18. Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
  19. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem)
  20. Kenny Beats – LOUIE (XL)
  21. Scone Cash Players – Brooklyn to Brooklin (Daptone)
  22. Say She She – Prism (Colemine)
  23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
  24. Suede – Autofiction (BMG)
  25. Blood Orange – Four Songs (RCA)
  26. Dendrons – 5-3-8 (Innovative Leisure)
  27. Lambchop – The Bible (Merge)
  28. No Age – People Helping People (Drag City)
  29. Courting – Guitar Music (Play It Again Sam)
  30. Air Waves – The Dance (Fire)
  31. Mamalarky – Pocket Fantasy (Fire Talk)
  32. The Murlocs – Rapscallion (ATO)
  33. Peel Dream Magazine – Pad (Slumberland)
  34. Björk – Fossora (One Little Independent)
  35. A Shoreline Dream – Loveblind (Latenight Weeknight)
  36. Butcher Brown – Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz)
  37. Built to Spill – When The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
  38. Soft and Dumb – Soft and Dumb (self-released)
  39. Whitney – Spark (Secretly Canadian)
  40. Vieux Farka Touré et Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)
  41. Jesca Hoop – Order of Romance (Memphis Industries)
  42. Plates Of Cake – Got a Feeling That I Live Here (Western Revisions )
  43. Katie Kim – Hour of the Ox (I Actually Like Music)
  44. Beth Orton – Weather Alive (Partisan)
  45. Sampa The Great – As Above, So Below (Loma Vista/Concord)
  46. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
  47. Bleach Party – Acrylic Blends (self-released)
  48. Aggi – Aggi Hates You (Completely) (Jigsaw)
  49. The Soft Moon – Exister (Sacred Bones)
  50. SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL – Dub Displacement Dynamite! (Notype)

This week's adds

  • 1-800-MIKEY – 1-800-MIKEY (Erste Theke Tontrager)
  • Alien Nosejob – Stained Glass (Total Punk)
  • Bill Callahan – YTI⅃AƎЯ (Drag City)
  • Black Lips – Apocalypse Love (Fire)
  • Comet Gain – The Misfit Jukebox Vol. 3: Museum of Snarling Flowers (self-released)
  • Courtney Marie Andrews – Loose Future (Fat Possum)
  • Eerie Wanda – Internal Radio (Joyful Noise)
  • Fazerdaze – Break! (section1)
  • Shabason & Krgovich – At Scaramouche (Idee Fixe)
  • Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
  • Marina Allen – Centrifics (Fire)
  • Mightmare – Cruel Liars (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Palm – Nicks and Grazes (Saddle Creek)
  • Pete Astor – Time on Earth (Tapete)
  • Plains – I Walked With You A Ways (Anti-)
  • Push Puppets – Allegory Grey (Waterweight)
  • Rina Sawayama – Hold the Girl (Dirty Hit)
  • Shygirl – Nymph (Because)
  • Skullcrusher – Quiet the Room (Secretly Canadian)
  • Sloan – Steady (Yep Roc)
  • Sol Messiah – GOD CMPLX (Rhymesayers)
  • Sorry – Anywhere But Here (Domino)
  • Sparta – Sparta (Dine Alone)
  • THUS LOVE – Memorial (Captured Tracks)
  • The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
  • TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)

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