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Top 50 for the Week of 01/13/2020

  1. Space Gators – Intergalactic Swamp Songs (Midwest Action)
  2. DJ Shadow – Our Pathetic Age (Mass Appeal)
  3. Various Artists – Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) (Analog Africa)
  4. Kaytranada – Bubba (RCA)
  5. Atmosphere – Whenever (Rhymesayers)
  6. The Springfields – Singles 1986-1991 (Slumberland)
  7. Plates of Cake – Decline and Fall (self-released)
  8. CAPE – CAPE (self-released)
  9. Fitness Womxn – New Age Record (Sorry State)
  10. Gavilán Rayna Russom – The Envoy (Ecstatic)
  11. Sally Haze – Dining Room (Maximum Pelt)
  12. The Dentals – ATTENTION! (self-released)
  13. Noxeema – Noxeema (Dotx3)
  14. The Prefects – Going Through the Motions (Call of the Void)
  15. The Wedding Present – Tommy 30 (HHBTM)
  16. Deliluh – Beneath the Floors (Tin Angel)
  17. P.P. Rebel – P.P. Is Peeping Piebald Past the Night! (Anti Fade)
  18. The Shivas – Dark Thoughts (Tender Loving Empire)
  19. Duster – Duster (Muddguts)
  20. Dadamah – This is Not a Dream (Grapefruit)
  21. Junius Paul – Ism (International Anthem)
  22. Blues Lawyer – Something Different (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  23. BassKase – Once upon a Time in the Midwest (SoundPoint)
  24. Tindersticks – No Treasure But Hope (City Slang)
  25. Fern Mayo – Week of Charm (self-released)
  26. Girl Ray – Girl (Moshi Moshi)
  27. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I Made a Place (Drag City)
  28. Omar Souleyman – Shlon (Mad Decent)
  29. Waldo Witt – Randall (self-released)
  30. Burial – Tunes 2011-2019 (Hyperdub)
  31. Skiftande Enheter – Snubblar Genom Drömmar (Appetite)
  32. Fir Cone Children – Fog Surrounds Us (Blackjack Illuminist)
  33. Fred Anderson Quartet – Live Volume V (FPE)
  34. Various Artists – So Many Singing Vol. 2 (Ruination)
  35. Adnan Othman – "Bershukor" A Retrospective of Hits by a Malayasian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend (Sublime Frequencies)
  36. Hiro Kone – A Fossil Begins to Bray (Dais)
  37. DRAMA – Dance Without Me (Ghostly International)
  38. Sefi Zisling – Expanse (Tru Thoughts)
  39. Mamadou Kelly – Les Bateaux (Clermont Music)
  40. Friendship – Dreamin' (Orindal)
  41. Various Artists – Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976 (Sublime Frequencies)
  42. Various Artists – No Other Love: Midwest Gospel 1965-1978 (Tompkins Square)
  43. Alien Nosejob – HC45 (Iron Lung)
  44. Squirrel Flower – I Was Born Swimming (Polyvinyl)
  45. Jeff Parker & The New Breed – "Max Brown (pt 1)" Single (International Anthem)
  46. Various Artists – Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots (Bloodshot)
  47. Caribou – "Home" Single (Merge)
  48. Sasha Bell – Love is Alright (Both Sides Now)
  49. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – All in Good Time (Castle Face)
  50. Shopping – All or Nothing [Advance Tracks] (Fat Cat)

This week's adds

  • En Attendant Ana – Juillet (Trouble in Mind)
  • Stormzy – Heavy Is the Head (Atlantic)
  • Square Peg Round Hole – Branches (National Sawdust Tracks)
  • Celestial Shore – Sunnyland (self-released)
  • Rose City Band – Rose City Band (Thrill Jockey)
  • The Haskels – The Haskels (Splunge Communications)
  • OOIOO – Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
  • Oval – Scis (Thrill Jockey)
  • Mick Jenkins – The Circus EP (Cinematic Music Group)
  • The Gonks – Five Things You Didn't Know About The Gonks (Rocks in Your Head)
  • Pale Saints – The Comforts of Madness (30th Anniversary Remaster) (4AD)
  • of Montreal – UR FUN (Polyvinyl)
  • Laumė – Waterbirth (Carpark)

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Top 50 for the Week of 01/06/2020

  1. Kaytranada – Bubba (RCA)
  2. Atmosphere – Whenever (Rhymesayers)
  3. Michael Kiwanuka – KIWANUKA (Polydor)
  4. FKA Twigs – MAGDALENE (Young Turks)
  5. Sally Haze – Dining Room (Maximum Pelt)
  6. BassKase – Once upon a Time in the Midwest (SoundPoint)
  7. Fern Mayo – Week of Charm (self-released)
  8. The Springfields – Singles 1986-1991 (Slumberland)
  9. The Shivas – Dark Thoughts (Tender Loving Empire)
  10. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I Made a Place (Drag City)
  11. Panda Bear – a day with the homies (Domino)
  12. Gavilán Rayna Russom – The Envoy (Ecstatic)
  13. Beck – Hyperspace (Capitol)
  14. Gang Starr – One of the Best Yet (Gang Starr Enterprises)
  15. Omar Souleyman – Shlon (Mad Decent)
  16. Woolen Men – Human to Human (Dog's Table)
  17. Patrick Cowley – Mechanical Fantasy Box (Dark Entries)
  18. Various Artists – Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots (Bloodshot)
  19. Gene Clark – No Other (Deluxe Edition) (4AD)
  20. The Lemons – At Home (We Are Busy Bodies)
  21. Girl Ray – Girl (Moshi Moshi)
  22. Caribou – "Home" Single (Merge)
  23. Scott & Charlene's Wedding – When in Rome, Carpe Diem EP (Bedroom Suck)
  24. Junius Paul – Ism (International Anthem)
  25. Fran – A Private Picture (Fire Talk)
  26. Andy Stott – It Should Be Us (Modern Love)
  27. Plates of Cake – Decline and Fall (self-released)
  28. Sasha Bell – Love is Alright (Both Sides Now)
  29. Italia 90 – Italia 90 III EP (self-released)
  30. Mamadou Kelly – Les Bateaux (Clermont Music)
  31. Ice Cream – FED UP (self-released)
  32. Fir Cone Children – Fog Surrounds Us (Blackjack Illuminist)
  33. Luggage – Shift (Corpse Flower)
  34. Arthur Russell – Iowa Dream (Audika)
  35. Friendship – Dreamin' (Orindal)
  36. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – All in Good Time (Castle Face)
  37. Tindersticks – No Treasure But Hope (City Slang)
  38. Sefi Zisling – Expanse (Tru Thoughts)
  39. Varsity – The Basement Takes (Run for Cover)
  40. Brother Ali – Secrets & Escapes (Rhymesayers)
  41. Waldo Witt – Randall (self-released)
  42. Hannah Diamond – Reflections (PC Music)
  43. Erin Anne – Tough Love (Carpark)
  44. Fred Anderson Quartet – Live Volume V (FPE)
  45. The Prefects – Going Through the Motions (Call of the Void)
  46. TSHA – Moonlight EP (Counter)
  47. Richard Youngs & Raül Refree – All Hands Around the Moment (Soft Abuse)
  48. No Swoon – No Swoon (Substitute Scene)
  49. Blues Lawyer – Something Different (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  50. Various Artists – Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976 (Sublime Frequencies)

This week's adds

  • CAPE – CAPE (self-released)
  • Dadamah – This is Not a Dream (Grapefruit)
  • Deliluh – Beneath the Floors (Tin Angel)
  • DJ Shadow – Our Pathetic Age (Mass Appeal)
  • Duster – Duster (Muddguts)
  • Fitness Womxn – New Age Record (Sorry State)
  • Noxeema – Noxeema (Dotx3)
  • P.P. Rebel – P.P. Is Peeping Piebald Past the Night! (Anti Fade)
  • Skiftande Enheter – Snubblar Genom Drömmar (Appetite)
  • Space Gators – Intergalactic Swamp Songs (Midwest Action)
  • The Dentals – ATTENTION! (self-released)
  • The Limiñanas – La Bel Ete OST (Because)
  • Various Artists – Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) (Analog Africa)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12/16/2019

  1. Sasha Bell – Love is Alright (Both Sides Now)
  2. Fern Mayo – Week of Charm (self-released)
  3. The Springfields – Singles 1986-1991 (Slumberland)
  4. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – All in Good Time (Castle Face)
  5. Tindersticks – No Treasure But Hope (City Slang)
  6. No Swoon – No Swoon (Substitute Scene)
  7. Various Artists – Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots (Bloodshot)
  8. Sefi Zisling – Expanse (Tru Thoughts)
  9. Blues Lawyer – Something Different (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  10. Gang Starr – One of the Best Yet (Gang Starr Enterprises)
  11. Beck – Hyperspace (Capitol)
  12. Hiro Kone – A Fossil Begins to Bray (Dais)
  13. The Shivas – Dark Thoughts (Tender Loving Empire)
  14. Gene Clark – No Other (Deluxe Edition) (4AD)
  15. The Wedding Present – Tommy 30 (HHBTM)
  16. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I Made a Place (Drag City)
  17. The Lemons – At Home (We Are Busy Bodies)
  18. Girl Ray – Girl (Moshi Moshi)
  19. Caribou – "Home" Single (Merge)
  20. Of Montreal – UR Fun [Advance Tracks] (Polyvinyl)
  21. Galcher Lustwerk – Information (Ghostly International)
  22. Italia 90 – Italia 90 III EP (self-released)
  23. Omar Souleyman – Shlon (Mad Decent)
  24. Scott & Charlene's Wedding – When in Rome, Carpe Diem EP (Bedroom Suck)
  25. Junius Paul – Ism (International Anthem)
  26. Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist (Thrill Jockey)
  27. Mamadou Kelly – Les Bateaux (Clermont Music)
  28. Various Artists – Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976 (Sublime Frequencies)
  29. Panda Bear – a day with the homies (Domino)
  30. Ice Cream – FED UP (self-released)
  31. Varsity – The Basement Takes (Run for Cover)
  32. Jeff Parker & The New Breed – "Max Brown (pt 1)" Single (International Anthem)
  33. Burial – Tunes 2011-2019 (Hyperdub)
  34. Fir Cone Children – Fog Surrounds Us (Blackjack Illuminist)
  35. Luggage – Shift (Corpse Flower)
  36. Djunah – Ex Voto (Triple Eye Industries)
  37. Ganser – You Must Be New Here EP (self-released)
  38. Shopping – All or Nothing [Advance Tracks] (Fat Cat)
  39. Various Artists – So Many Singing Vol. 2 (Ruination)
  40. Adnan Othman – "Bershukor" A Retrospective of Hits by a Malayasian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend (Sublime Frequencies)
  41. Arthur Russell – Iowa Dream (Audika)
  42. Tombstones In Their Eyes – Maybe Someday (Somewherecold)
  43. Michael Kiwanuka – KIWANUKA (Polydor)
  44. Charly Bliss – Supermoon (Barsuk)
  45. Alexis Gideon – Upgrade Soul (FPE)
  46. Destroyer – Have We Met [Advance Tracks] (Merge)
  47. Friendship – Dreamin' (Orindal)
  48. Fran – A Private Picture (Fire Talk)
  49. Woolen Men – Human to Human (Dog's Table)
  50. Andy Stott – It Should Be Us (Modern Love)

This week's adds

  • Fred Anderson Quartet – Live Volume V (FPE)
  • The Prefects – Going Through the Motions (Call of the Void)
  • TSHA – Moonlight EP (Counter)
  • Sally Haze – Dining Room (Maximum Pelt)
  • Marijannah – Istanah (Cursed Tongue)
  • Richard Youngs & Raül Refree – All Hands Around the Moment (Soft Abuse)
  • BassKase – Once upon a Time in the Midwest (SoundPoint)
  • 100 gecs – 1000 gecs (Dog Show)
  • SuperKnova – American Queers (Midwest Action / Worry Records)
  • Reiko Kudo – Rice Field Silently Riping in the Night (TAL)
  • The Reds, Pinks and Purples – Anxiety Art (Pretty Olivia)
  • Joe Henry – The Gospel According to Water (Earmusic)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12/09/2019

  1. The Springfields – Singles 1986-1991 (Slumberland)
  2. Mamadou Kelly – Les Bateaux (Clermont Music)
  3. Omar Souleyman – Shlon (Mad Decent)
  4. The Lemons – At Home (We Are Busy Bodies)
  5. Gang Starr – One of the Best Yet (Gang Starr Enterprises)
  6. The Shivas – Dark Thoughts (Tender Loving Empire)
  7. Beck – Hyperspace (Capitol)
  8. Junius Paul – Ism (International Anthem)
  9. Various Artists – Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots (Bloodshot)
  10. Plates of Cake – Decline and Fall (self-released)
  11. Fran – A Private Picture (Fire Talk)
  12. FKA Twigs – MAGDALENE (Young Turks)
  13. Girl Ray – Girl (Moshi Moshi)
  14. Hiro Kone – A Fossil Begins to Bray (Dais)
  15. The Wedding Present – Tommy 30 (HHBTM)
  16. No Swoon – No Swoon (Substitute Scene)
  17. Gene Clark – No Other (Deluxe Edition) (4AD)
  18. Waldo Witt – Randall (self-released)
  19. Djunah – Ex Voto (Triple Eye Industries)
  20. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I Made a Place (Drag City)
  21. Fir Cone Children – Fog Surrounds Us (Blackjack Illuminist)
  22. Scott & Charlene's Wedding – When in Rome, Carpe Diem EP (Bedroom Suck)
  23. Italia 90 – Italia 90 III EP (self-released)
  24. Michael Kiwanuka – KIWANUKA (Polydor)
  25. Various Artists – Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976 (Sublime Frequencies)
  26. Illuminati Hotties – ppl plzr (Tiny Engines)
  27. Arthur Russell – Iowa Dream (Audika)
  28. Adnan Othman – "Bershukor" A Retrospective of Hits by a Malayasian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend (Sublime Frequencies)
  29. Ganser – You Must Be New Here EP (self-released)
  30. Varsity – The Basement Takes (Run for Cover)
  31. Makaya McCraven – Sides E & F (International Anthem)
  32. Sasha Bell – Love is Alright (Both Sides Now)
  33. Hannah Diamond – Reflections (PC Music)
  34. Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist (Thrill Jockey)
  35. Club Music – Club Music Vol. II (Chicago Research)
  36. Toro Y Moi – Soul Trash (Carpark)
  37. Peabody & Sherman – Gasoline Rainbows (Soundpoint)
  38. Kreidler – Flood (Bureau B)
  39. Xylouris White – The Sisypheans (Drag City)
  40. The Muffs – No Holiday (Omnivore)
  41. Shana Falana – Darkest Light (Arrowhawk)
  42. Stereophonics – Kind (Elektra/Parlophone)
  43. Sunny Jain – Wild Wild East (Folkways)
  44. Various Artists – No Other Love: Midwest Gospel 1965-1978 (Tompkins Square)
  45. Anna Meredith – FIBS (Moshi Moshi)
  46. The Safes – Winning Combination (Action Weekend/Bickerton)
  47. Brother Ali – Secrets & Escapes (Rhymesayers)
  48. Vetiver – Up on High (Mama Bird)
  49. Live Skull – Saturday Night Massacre (Bronson Recordings)
  50. Erin Anne – Tough Love (Carpark)

This week's adds

  • Blues Lawyer – Something Different (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  • Burial – Tunes 2011-2019 (Hyperdub)
  • Eddy Current Suppression Ring – All in Good Time (Castle Face)
  • Fern Mayo – Week of Charm (self-released)
  • Friendship – Dreamin' (Orindal)
  • Galcher Lustwerk – Information (Ghostly International)
  • Sefi Zisling – Expanse (Tru Thoughts)
  • Tindersticks – No Treasure But Hope (City Slang)
  • Various Artists – So Many Singing Vol. 2 (Ruination)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12/02/2019

  1. Girl Ray – Girl (Moshi Moshi)
  2. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I Made a Place (Drag City)
  3. Junius Paul – Ism (International Anthem)
  4. Sasha Bell – Love is Alright (Both Sides Now)
  5. The Lemons – At Home (We Are Busy Bodies)
  6. Ganser – You Must Be New Here EP (self-released)
  7. Fran – A Private Picture (Fire Talk)
  8. Beck – Hyperspace (Capitol)
  9. Gang Starr – One of the Best Yet (Gang Starr Enterprises)
  10. No Swoon – No Swoon (Substitute Scene)
  11. Sudan Archives – Athena (Stones Throw)
  12. Various Artists – Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots (Bloodshot)
  13. Ice Cream – FED UP (self-released)
  14. Charly Bliss – Supermoon (Barsuk)
  15. Arthur Russell – Iowa Dream (Audika)
  16. Djunah – Ex Voto (Triple Eye Industries)
  17. Chain Cult – Shallow Grave (La Vida Es Un Mus)
  18. Hannah Diamond – Reflections (PC Music)
  19. Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage – Bad Wiring (Don Giovanni)
  20. Patrick Cowley – Mechanical Fantasy Box (Dark Entries)
  21. Various Artists – No Other Love: Midwest Gospel 1965-1978 (Tompkins Square)
  22. Michael Kiwanuka – KIWANUKA (Polydor)
  23. Andy Stott – It Should Be Us (Modern Love)
  24. Luggage – Shift (Corpse Flower)
  25. FKA Twigs – MAGDALENE (Young Turks)
  26. Club Music – Club Music Vol. II (Chicago Research)
  27. Mutts – Stuck Together (8eat8)
  28. Jonathan Fire*Eater – Tremble Under Boom Lights (Third Man)
  29. Mark Lanegan Band – Somebody's Knocking (Heavenly)
  30. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – All in Good Times (Castle Face)
  31. Salvation – Year of the Fly (Forge Again)
  32. Varsity – The Basement Takes (Run for Cover)
  33. Pan•American – A Son (Kranky)
  34. Toro Y Moi – Soul Trash (Carpark)
  35. Peabody & Sherman – Gasoline Rainbows (Soundpoint)
  36. Anna Meredith – FIBS (Moshi Moshi)
  37. Makaya McCraven – Sides E & F (International Anthem)
  38. Ratboys – Printer's Devil (Topshelf)
  39. Woolen Men – Human to Human (Dog's Table)
  40. Tombstones In Their Eyes – Maybe Someday (Somewherecold)
  41. Kreidler – Flood (Bureau B)
  42. Floating Points – Crush (Ninja Tune)
  43. Dry Cleaning – Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP (It's OK)
  44. Panda Bear – a day with the homies (Domino)
  45. Xylouris White – The Sisypheans (Drag City)
  46. Josienne Clark – In All Weather (Rough Trade)
  47. TLA – New Language (Dowd)
  48. Gary Davenport – Scattered Thoughts (Numero Group)
  49. Itasca – Spring (Paradise of Bachelors)
  50. Peter Ivers – Becoming Peter Ivers (RVNG Intl.)

This week's adds

  • Gene Clark – No Other (Deluxe Edition) (4AD)
  • Various Artists – Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976 (Sublime Frequencies)
  • Scott & Charlene's Wedding – When in Rome, Carpe Diem EP (Bedroom Suck)
  • Fir Cone Children – Fog Surrounds Us (Blackjack Illuminist)
  • The Wraith – Gloom Ballet (Southern Lord)
  • Waldo Witt – Randall (self-released)
  • Alien Nosejob – HC45 (Iron Lung)
  • Mamadou Kelly – Les Bateaux (Clermont Music)
  • The Shivas – Dark Thoughts (Tender Loving Empire)
  • The Springfields – Singles 1986-1991 (Slumberland)
  • Plates of Cake – Decline and Fall (self-released)
  • Omar Souleyman – Shlon (Mad Decent)
  • The Wedding Present – Tommy 30 (HHBTM)
  • Hiro Kone – A Fossil Begins to Bray (Dais)
  • Adnan Othman – "Bershukor" A Retrospective of Hits by a Malayasian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend (Sublime Frequencies)
  • Italia 90 – Italia 90 III EP (self-released)

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