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Top 50 for the Week of 09/07/2020

  1. Half Gringa – Force to Reckon (self-released)
  2. Aluna – Renaissance (Mad Decent)
  3. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)
  4. Spun Out – Touch the Sound (Shuga)
  5. Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt (Cutters)
  6. DOTS – Dust on the Stylus (Eargasmic)
  7. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – Shaman! (Strut)
  8. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking Vinyl Limited)
  9. Marlowe – Marlowe 2 (Mello Music Group)
  10. Floodlights – From a View (Woo Me!)
  11. Bully – SUGAREGG (Sub Pop)
  12. The Chamber Strings – Gospel Morning (Pravda Archives)
  13. Sam Prekop – Comma (Thrill Jockey)
  14. Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom (Dualtone)
  15. Sneaks – Happy Birthday (Merge)
  16. No Joy – Motherhood (Hand Drawn Dracula/Joyful Noise)
  17. Disclosure – Energy (Capitol)
  18. Busty and the Bass – Eddie (Arts and Crafts)
  19. Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)
  20. Whitney – Candid (Secretly Canadian)
  21. Cold Beaches – Drifter (self-released)
  22. Advance Base – Live at Home (self-released)
  23. L.A. Witch – Play With Fire (Suicide Squeeze)
  24. BassKase – Rocker Bars (Leftfield)
  25. Ganser – Just Look at That Sky (Felte)
  26. Various Artists – situationchicago (Quiet Pterodactyl)
  27. The Flatmates – The Flatmates (Happy Happy Birthday to Me)
  28. Moscoman – Time Slips Away (Moshi Moshi)
  29. Body Double – Milk Fed (Zum)
  30. Renegade Connection – Renegade Connection (The Sound of Silence)
  31. Widowspeak – Plum (Captured Tracks)
  32. Chris Crack – Good Cops Don't Exist (New Deal Collectives)
  33. Nubya Garcia – Source (Concord Jazz)
  34. Young Jesus – Welcome to Conceptual Beach (Saddle Creek)
  35. Jessy Lanza – All the Time (Hyperdub)
  36. Old 97's – Twelfth (ATO)
  37. Dent May – Late Checkout (Car Park)
  38. Mestizo Beat – Canoga Madness (California Soul)
  39. Black Marble – I Must Be Living Twice (Sacred Bones)
  40. Various Artists – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1973-1995 (Strut)
  41. Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death (Partisan)
  42. Harry the Nightgown – Harry the Nightgown (Wiggle World/Topshelf)
  43. Bent Arcana – Bent Arcana (Castle Face)
  44. Becky and the Birds – Trasslig (4AD)
  45. Gordon Koang – Unity (Light in the Attic)
  46. The Lemon Twigs – Songs For The General Public (4AD)
  47. Crack Cloud – Pain Olympics (Meat Machine)
  48. Boldy James & Sterling Toles – Manger on McNichols (Sector 7-G)
  49. illuminati hotties – FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For (self-released)
  50. Duval Timothy – Help (Carrying Colour)

This week's adds

  • Reptoid – WORSHIP FALSE GODS (Learning Curve)
  • Samia – The Baby (Grand Jury)
  • Sally Anne Morgan – Thread (Thrill Jockey)
  • Pekoe Cat – Menace (Light Organ)
  • Fred Thomas – Dream Erosion (Synthesizer Songs) (Life Like)
  • Tricky – Fall to Pieces (False Idols)
  • Corey Flood – Hanging Garden (Fire Talk)
  • Kestrels – Dream or Don't Dreamn (Darla)
  • St. Panther – These Days (Nice Life)
  • Throwing Muses – Sun Racket (Fire)
  • Bill Callahan – Gold Record (Drag City)
  • Naked Roommate – Do the Duvet (Trouble in Mind)
  • Thibault – Or Not Thibault (Chapter Music)
  • Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet! (eOne Music / SomeOthaShip Connect)
  • Lomelda – Hannah (Double Double Whammy)
  • Dosh – Summertime Time EP (self-released)
  • Serengeti – The Gentle Fall (self-released)
  • Marques Martin – Brave & Afraid (Operator)

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Top 50 for the Week of 08/31/2020

  1. Spun Out – Touch the Sound (Shuga)
  2. Marlowe – Marlowe 2 (Mello Music Group)
  3. Bully – SUGAREGG (Sub Pop)
  4. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking Vinyl Limited)
  5. Whitney – Candid (Secretly Canadian)
  6. Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom (Dualtone)
  7. Advance Base – Live at Home (self-released)
  8. Floodlights – From a View (Woo Me!)
  9. Nubya Garcia – Source (Concord Jazz)
  10. L.A. Witch – Play With Fire (Suicide Squeeze)
  11. Various Artists – situationchicago (Quiet Pterodactyl)
  12. Sweeping Promises – Hunger for a Way Out (Feel It)
  13. Half Gringa – Force to Reckon (self-released)
  14. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2 (4AD)
  15. Romare – Home (Ninja Tune)
  16. Old 97's – Twelfth (ATO)
  17. Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was (Dead Oceans)
  18. DOTS – Dust on the Stylus (Eargasmic)
  19. Duval Timothy – Help (Carrying Colour)
  20. Lupe Fiasco + Kaelin Ellis – HOUSE (1st and 15th too)
  21. The Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)
  22. Cold Beaches – Drifter (self-released)
  23. Washed Out – Purple Noon (Sub Pop)
  24. Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death (Partisan)
  25. Genevieve Artadi – Dizzy Strange Summer (Brainfeeder)
  26. Open Mike Eagle – Anime, Trauma and Divorce (Auto Reverse)
  27. Jamila Woods – "Sula (Paperback)" (Jagjaguwar)
  28. Okay Kaya – Surviving Is the New Living (Jagjaguwar)
  29. Various Artists – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1973-1995 (Strut)
  30. Tough Age – Which Way Am I? (Mint)
  31. Lean Left – Medemer (PNL)
  32. Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt (Cutters)
  33. Sneaks – Happy Birthday (Merge)
  34. Thanya Iyer – KIND (Topshelf)
  35. Ganser – Just Look at That Sky (Felte)
  36. Sparkle Division – To Feel Embraced (Temporary Residence)
  37. Greenlights Music – Space Craft (self-released)
  38. Fat Night – Live for Each Other (Acrophase)
  39. Black Marble – I Must Be Living Twice (Sacred Bones)
  40. Endless Boogie – The Gathered and Scattered (No Quarter)
  41. Boldy James & Sterling Toles – Manger on McNichols (Sector 7-G)
  42. Eels – "Baby Let's Make it Real" (E-Works/PIAS)
  43. DEHD – Flower of Devotion (Fire Talk)
  44. Max Subar – Max Subar EP (self-released)
  45. Bent Arcana – Bent Arcana (Castle Face)
  46. The Lemon Twigs – Songs For The General Public (4AD)
  47. Chris Crack – Good Cops Don't Exist (New Deal Collectives)
  48. Jessy Lanza – All the Time (Hyperdub)
  49. Quicksails – Blue Rise (Hausu Mountain)
  50. The Streets – None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive (Island)

This week's adds

  • Aluna – Renaissance (Mad Decent)
  • Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)
  • BassKase – Rocker Bars (Leftfield)
  • Body Double – Milk Fed (Zum)
  • Busty and the Bass – Eddie (Arts and Crafts)
  • Dent May – Late Checkout (Carpark)
  • Disclosure – Energy (Capitol)
  • Gordon Koang – Unity (Music in Exile)
  • Half Gringa – Force to Reckon (self-released)
  • Hannah Georgas – All That Emotion (Brassland)
  • Harry the Nightgown – Wiggle World/Topshelf (Pirate)
  • Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids – Shaman! (Strut)
  • Jaye Jayle – Prisyn (Sargent House)
  • Juni Ata – Saudade (Flying on Fire)
  • Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Less Bells – Mourning Jewelry (Kranky)
  • Mestizo Beat – Canoga Madness (California Soul)
  • Moscoman – Time Slips Away (Moshi Moshi)
  • Musica Transonic – Musica Transonic (Black Editions)
  • No Joy – Motherhood (Hand Drawn Dracula/Joyful Noise)
  • Raphael Futura – Riviera (self-released)
  • Renegade Connection – Renegade Connection EP (The Sound of Sinners)
  • Ricky Reed – The Room (Nice Life)
  • Sam Prekop – Comma (Thrill Jockey)
  • The Chamber Strings – Gospel Morning (Pravda Archive)
  • The Flatmates – The Flatmates (Happy Happy Birthday to Me)
  • Theyrgy – Exit Strategies EP (Dead Sage)
  • Widowspeak – Plum (Captured Tracks)
  • Young Jesus – Welcome to Conceptual Beach (Saddle Creek)

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Top 50 for the Week of 08/24/2020

  1. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking Vinyl Limited)
  2. Various Artists – situationchicago (Quiet Pterodactyl)
  3. Duval Timothy – Help (Carrying Colour)
  4. Sneaks – Happy Birthday (Merge)
  5. Cold Beaches – Drifter (self-released)
  6. Thanya Iyer – KIND (Topshelf)
  7. DOTS – Dust on the Stylus (Eargasmic)
  8. Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death (Partisan)
  9. A Shoreline Dream – Melting (Latenight Weekend)
  10. Sweeping Promises – Hunger for a Way Out (Feel It)
  11. shishi – Mafitishei (The state51 Conspiracy)
  12. David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels – A Gateway to a Lifetime of Disappointment (Parkfield)
  13. Custard Flux – Oxygen (self-released)
  14. Margo Price – That's How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista)
  15. Loyal Lobos – Everlasting (AWAL)
  16. Sam Rae – Ten Thousand Years (self-released)
  17. oui ennui – œurve d'isolement (self-released)
  18. DEHD – Flower of Devotion (Fire Talk)
  19. Greenlights Music – Space Craft (self-released)
  20. Fat Night – Live for Each Other (Acrophase)
  21. Ethan Daniel Davidson – Come Down Lonesome (Blue Arrow)
  22. SWiiMS – Through Waves (Mint 400)
  23. Ganser – Just Look at That Sky (Felte)
  24. Chris Crack – Good Cops Don't Exist (New Deal Collectives)
  25. Liza Anne – Bad Vacation (Hardly Art)
  26. Lonnie Holley – National Freedom (Jagjaguwar)
  27. Madeline Kenney – Sucker's Lunch (Carpark)
  28. Video Age – Pleasure Line (Winspear)
  29. Blu & Exile – Miles (Dirty Science)
  30. Kamaal Williams – Wu Hen (Black Focus)
  31. Washed Out – Purple Noon (Sub Pop)
  32. The Streets – None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive (Island)
  33. Guided by Voices – Mirrored Aztec (GBV Inc.)
  34. Gary Camaro – Wolf Ryot Star (self-released)
  35. Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings E & F Sides (International Anthem)
  36. Lupe Fiasco + Kaelin Ellis – HOUSE (1st and 15th too)
  37. The Lawrence Arms – Skeleton Coast (Epitaph)
  38. Jonathan Bree – After the Curtains Close (Lil Chief)
  39. JARV IS... – Beyond the Pale (Rough Trade)
  40. The Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)
  41. Honey Radar – Sing the Snow Away: The Chunklet Years (Chunklet)
  42. Shehehe – Pet Songs (Say 10)
  43. Helvetia – This Devastating Map (Joyful Noise)
  44. illuminati hotties – FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For (self-released)
  45. Genevieve Artadi – Dizzy Strange Summer (Brainfeeder)
  46. Brick Briscoe – My Favorite Los Angeles Restaurant (self-released)
  47. Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Chicago Waves (International Anthem)
  48. Stirrup+6 – The Avondale Addition (Cuneiform)
  49. Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle (Ninja Tune)
  50. Boldy James & Sterling Toles – Manger on McNichols (Sector 7-G)

This week's adds

  • Advance Base – Live at Home (Orindal)
  • Bent Arcana – Bent Arcana (Castle Face)
  • Black Marble – I Must Be Living Twice EP (Sacred Bones)
  • Brick Head – Thick as Bricks (self-released)
  • Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was (Dead Oceans)
  • Bully – SUGAREGG (Sub Pop)
  • Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt (Cutters)
  • Endless Boogie – The Gathered and Scattered (No Quarter)
  • Floodlights – From a View (Woo Me)
  • Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom (Dualtone)
  • L.A. Witch – Play With Fire (Suicide Squeeze)
  • Lean Left – Medemer (PNL)
  • Marcos Valle, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – Marcos Valle JID 003 (Jazz Is Dead)
  • Marlowe – Marlowe 2 (Mello Music Group)
  • Max Subar – Max Subar EP (self-released)
  • Nubya Garcia – Source (Concord Jazz)
  • Okay Kaya – Surviving Is the New Living (Jagjaguwar)
  • Old 97's – Twelfth (ATO)
  • Otis Sandsjö – Y-OTIS 2 (We Jazz)
  • Romare – Home (Ninja Tune)
  • Spun Out – Touch the Sound (Shuga)
  • The Lemon Twigs – Songs for the General Public (4AD)
  • Thou – A Primer of Holy Words (Robotic Empire)
  • Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2 EP (4AD)
  • Tough Age – Which Way Am I? (Mint)
  • Various Artists – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1973-1995 (Strut)
  • Whitney – Candid (Secretly Canadian)

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Top 50 for the Week of 08/17/2020

  1. Cold Beaches – Drifter (self-released)
  2. DEHD – Flower of Devotion (Fire Talk)
  3. Chris Crack – Good Cops Don't Exist (New Deal Collectives)
  4. Various Artists – situationchicago (Quiet Pterodactyl)
  5. SWiiMS – Through Waves (Mint 400)
  6. Video Age – Pleasure Line (Winspear)
  7. Jessy Lanza – All the Time (Hyperdub)
  8. Loyal Lobos – Everlasting (AWAL)
  9. Madeline Kenney – Sucker's Lunch (Carpark)
  10. Lupe Fiasco + Kaelin Ellis – HOUSE (1st and 15th too)
  11. The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark)
  12. Blu & Exile – Miles (Dirty Science)
  13. Jamila Woods – (/Jagjaguwar)
  14. Liza Anne – Bad Vacation (Hardly Art)
  15. Ganser – Just Look at That Sky (Felte)
  16. Greenlights Music – Space Craft (self-released)
  17. Genevieve Artadi – Dizzy Strange Summer (Brainfeeder)
  18. Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings E & F Sides (International Anthem)
  19. Boldy James & Sterling Toles – Manger on McNichols (Sector 7-G)
  20. illuminati hotties – FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For (self-released)
  21. Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death (Partisan)
  22. Sparkle Division – To Feel Embraced (Temporary Residence)
  23. Snowgoose – The Making of You (Ba Da Bing)
  24. Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience – To Know Without Knowing (Agogo)
  25. LADAMA – Oye Mujer (Six Degrees)
  26. Wyatt Waddell – "You" (self-released)
  27. The Microphones – The Microphones in 2020 (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  28. Thanya Iyer – KIND (Topshelf)
  29. Helvetia – This Devastating Map (Joyful Noise)
  30. The Streets – None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive (Island)
  31. Washed Out – Purple Noon (Sub Pop)
  32. Bananagun – The True Story of Bananagun (Full Time Hobby)
  33. Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (Warner)
  34. Vanessa Worm – VANESSA 77 (Optimo Music)
  35. Half Gringa – Force to Reckon (self-released)
  36. Jon Langford & Skull Orchard – Jon's Lucky Seven Singles (self-released)
  37. Guided by Voices – Mirrored Aztec (GBV Inc.)
  38. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (Fat Possum)
  39. Becky and the Birds – Trasslig (4AD)
  40. The Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)
  41. Crack Cloud – Pain Olympics (Meat Machine)
  42. Cloud Nothings – The Black Hole Understands (self-released)
  43. Apollo Brown & Ché Noir РAs God Intended (Mello Music Group)
  44. Dream Wife – So When You Gonna... (Lucky Number)
  45. Sam Prekop – "Sula (Paperback)" (Thrill Jockey)
  46. Tasha + Sen Morimoto – Tasha and Sen Morimoto Live Sessions (self-released)
  47. Home Blitz – All Through the Year (Sophomore Lounge)
  48. Ego Ella May – Honey for Wounds (UpperRoom)
  49. Special Interest – The Passion Of (Thrilling Living/Night School)
  50. Fat Night – Live for Each Other (Acrophase)

This week's adds

  • A Shoreline Dream – Melting (Latenight Weeknight)
  • Brick Briscoe – My Favorite Los Angeles Restaurant (self-released)
  • David Newton And Thee Mighty Angels – A Gateway To A LifeTime Of Disappointment (Parkfield)
  • DOTS – Dust on the Stylus (Eargasmic)
  • Duval Timothy – Help (Carrying Colour)
  • Ethan Daniel Davidson – Come Down Lonesome (Blue Arrow)
  • Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Blackball Universe / Cooking Vinyl)
  • Sam Rae – Ten Thousand Years (self-released)
  • Sneaks – Happy Birthday (Merge)
  • Sweeping Promises – Hunger for a Way Out (Feel It)

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Top 50 for the Week of 08/10/2020

  1. Cold Beaches – Drifter (self-released)
  2. The Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)
  3. Jessy Lanza – All the Time (Hyperdub)
  4. Ganser – Just Look at That Sky (Felte)
  5. Lupe Fiasco + Kaelin Ellis – HOUSE (1st and 15th too)
  6. Becky and the Birds – Trasslig (4AD)
  7. illuminati hotties – FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For (self-released)
  8. Various Artists – situationchicago (Quiet Pterodactyl)
  9. Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death (Partisan)
  10. DEHD – Flower of Devotion (Fire Talk)
  11. Greenlights Music – Space Craft (self-released)
  12. The Streets – None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive (Island)
  13. Washed Out – Purple Noon (Sub Pop)
  14. Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle (Ninja Tune)
  15. Crack Cloud – Pain Olympics (Meat Machine)
  16. Quicksails – Blue Rise (Hausu Mountain)
  17. Hum – Inlet (Polyvinyl)
  18. The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark)
  19. Sparkle Division – To Feel Embraced (Temporary Residence)
  20. Apollo Brown & Ché Noir – As God Intended (Mello Music Group)
  21. Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (Warner)
  22. Cloud Nothings – The Black Hole Understands (self-released)
  23. Snowgoose – The Making of You (Ba Da Bing)
  24. Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings E & F Sides (International Anthem)
  25. Fat Night – Live for Each Other (Acrophase)
  26. Jake Wark Quartet – Scrawl (Amalgam)
  27. The Cool Kids – Volumes (Propelr)
  28. The Lawrence Arms – Skeleton Coast (Epitaph)
  29. LADAMA – Oye Mujer (Six Degrees)
  30. Land Of Talk – Indistinct Conversations (Saddle Creek)
  31. Dream Wife – So When You Gonna... (Lucky Number)
  32. Genevieve Artadi – Dizzy Strange Summer (Brainfeeder)
  33. NNAMDï – KRAZY KARL (self-released)
  34. oui ennui – œurve d'isolement (self-released)
  35. Naujawanan Baidar – Naujawanan Baidar (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)
  36. Seeking Madras – One Goes Forward (self-released)
  37. Nadine Shah – Kitchen Sink (Infectious)
  38. Night Glitter – Night Glitter (Nine Mile)
  39. Jonathan Bree – After the Curtains Close (Lil Chief)
  40. 100 gecs – 1000 gecs & The Tree of Clues (Dog Show/Big Beat/Atlantic)
  41. Quin Kirchner – The Shadows and The Light (Astral Spirits)
  42. Le Tour – S/T 2020 (self-released)
  43. Stirrup+6 – The Avondale Addition (Cuneiform)
  44. Howling – Colure (Counter)
  45. Gordi – Our Two Skins (Jagjaguwar)
  46. JARV IS... – Beyond the Pale (Rough Trade)
  47. Margo Price – That's How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista)
  48. shishi – Mafitishei (The state51 Conspiracy)
  49. Glorybots – Invisible (self-released)
  50. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (Fat Possum)

This week's adds

  • Daniel Blumberg – On&On (Mute)
  • Chris Crack – Good Cops Don't Exist (New Deal Collectives)
  • Guided by Voices – Mirrored Aztec (GBV Inc. )
  • Helvetia – This Devastating Map (Joyful Noise)
  • Home Blitz – All Through the Year (Sophomore Lounge)
  • Thanya Iyer – KIND (Topshelf)
  • Boldy James & Sterling Toles – Manger on McNichols (Sector 7-G)
  • Madeline Kenney – Suckers Lunch (Carpark)
  • Liza Anne – Bad Vacation (Arts & Crafts)
  • Loyal Lobos – Everlasting (AWAL)
  • The Microphones – The Microphones in 2020 (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  • Jason Molina – Eight Gates (Secretly Canadian)
  • SWiiMS – Through Waves (Mint 400)
  • Video Age – Pleasure Line (Winspear)

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