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Top 50 for the Week of 09/09/2019

  1. Ezra Furman – Twelve Nudes (Bella Union)
  2. Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won't Hold (Mom+Pop)
  3. Sheer Mag – A Distant Call (Wilsuns)
  4. Jay Som – Anak Ko (Polyvinyl)
  5. Lunch Lady – Angel (Upset the Rhythm)
  6. Shura – forevher (Secretly Canadian)
  7. Whitney – Forever Turned Around (Secretly Canadian)
  8. !!! – Wallop (Warp)
  9. Sequoyah Murray – Before You Begin (Thrill Jockey)
  10. Modern Nature – How to Live (Bella Union)
  11. Queen of Jeans – If you're not afraid, I'm not afraid (Topshelf)
  12. G&D – Black Love & War (SomeOthaShip Connect / Entertainment One)
  13. Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning Recording Co.)
  14. Rapsody – Eve (Roc Nation)
  15. Frankie Cosmos – Close it Quietly (Sub Pop)
  16. Velvet Negroni – NEON BROWN (4AD)
  17. Tropical Fuck Storm – Braindrops (Joyful Noise)
  18. Aweful – Me Me Me (Beercan)
  19. Ra Ra Riot – Superbloom (Rob the RIch / Caroline)
  20. Lever – Douse (Midwest Action)
  21. Nérija – Blume (Domino)
  22. Kit Sebastian – Mantra Moderne (Mr. Bongo)
  23. Field Mouse – Meaning (Topshelf)
  24. RIDE – This Is Not a Safe Place (Wichita)
  25. Club Music – Club Music Vol. 1 (Chicago Research)
  26. HIDE – Hell Is Here (Dais)
  27. Lunch Duchess – Crying for Fun (Heavy Meadow)
  28. The Futureheads – POWERS (Nul)
  29. Missy Elliott – ICONOLOGY EP (Atlantic)
  30. Parsnip – When the Tree Bears Fruit (Trouble in Mind)
  31. Khruangbin – Subete Ga KunKimi Ni Hohoemu (Late Night Tales/Beat)
  32. The Hold Steady – Thrashing thru the Passion (Frenchkiss)
  33. BJ The Chicago Kid – 1123 (Motown)
  34. The Art Ensemble of Chicago – We Are on the Edge: a 50th Anniverary Celebration (Erased Tapes)
  35. Violent Femmes – Hotel Last Resort ([PIAS])
  36. Wildhoney – Naive Castle (Slumberland)
  37. Shannon Lay – August (Sub Pop)
  38. Big Joanie – Sistahs (Daydream Library Series)
  39. Mope Grooves – Desire (See My Friends)
  40. Redd Kross – Beyond the Door (Merge)
  41. Ty Segall – First Taste (Drag City)
  42. Various Artists – Hot Sick Vile and Fun - New Sounds from San Francisco (Rocks in Your Head)
  43. Powerplant – People in the Sun (Erste Theke Tonträger)
  44. The Silence – Metaphysical Feedback (Drag City)
  45. Black Belt Eagle Scout – At the Party with My Brown Friends (Saddle Creek)
  46. Esther Rose – You Made It This Far (Father/Daughter)
  47. Ceremony – In the Spirit World Now (Relapse)
  48. Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Cage & Aviary (Tru Thoughts)
  49. Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend (Sub Pop)
  50. Clairo – Immunity (Fader Label)

This week's adds

  • Common – Let Love (Loma Vista)
  • Guaxe – Guaxe (OAR)
  • Lower Dens – The Competition (Ribbon Music)
  • Miss June – Bad Luck Party (Frenchkiss)
  • Tinariwen – Amadjar (ANTI-)
  • Twin Peaks – Lookout Low (Grand Jury)
  • Affront – A Demonstration of an ... Affront (self-released)
  • Bat for Lashes – Lost Girls (AWAL)
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Bryce Dessner, eighth blackbird – When We Are Inhuman (37d03d)
  • Dan Friel – Fanfare (Thrill Jockey)
  • Fire-Toolz – Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace) (Orange Milk)
  • HTRK – Venus in Leo (Ghostly International)
  • Husky Loops – I Can't Even Speak English (30th Century)
  • Joan Shelley – Like the River Loves the Sea (No Quarter)
  • Kindness – Something Like a War (Female Energy)
  • Lingua Ignota – CALIGULA (Profound Lore)
  • Marrow Thieves – Marrow Thieves (Underwear Factory Toy)
  • Ottoman Turks – Ottoman Turks (State Fair)
  • Pharmakon – Devour (Sacred Bones)
  • The Ascent of Everest – Is Not Defeated (Hammock)
  • Those Pretty Wrongs – Zed for Zulu (Burger)
  • YACHT – Chain Tripping (DFA)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09/02/2019

  1. Ezra Furman – Twelve Nudes (Bella Union)
  2. Jay Som – Anak Ko (Polyvinyl)
  3. Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won't Hold (Mom+Pop)
  4. Shura – forevher (Secretly Canadian)
  5. BJ The Chicago Kid – 1123 (Motown)
  6. Sheer Mag – A Distant Call (Wilsuns)
  7. RIDE – This Is Not a Safe Place (Wichita)
  8. Bodywash – Comforter (Luminelle)
  9. Missy Elliott – ICONOLOGY EP (Atlantic)
  10. Ra Ra Riot – Superbloom (Rob the RIch / Caroline)
  11. Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend (Sub Pop)
  12. Redd Kross – Beyond the Door (Merge)
  13. Field Mouse – Meaning (Topshelf)
  14. Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning Recording Co.)
  15. Clairo – Immunity (Fader Label)
  16. G&D – Black Love & War (SomeOthaShip Connect / Entertainment One)
  17. Tropical Fuck Storm – Braindrops (Joyful Noise)
  18. Esther Rose – You Made It This Far (Father/Daughter)
  19. Aweful – Me Me Me (Beercan)
  20. Lunch Lady – Angel (Upset the Rhythm)
  21. Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Cage & Aviary (Tru Thoughts)
  22. Lever – Douse (Midwest Action)
  23. Nérija – Blume (Domino)
  24. Fashion Brigade – Fvck the Heartache (Gentle Reminder)
  25. Ceremony – In the Spirit World Now (Relapse)
  26. Bridal Party – Too Much (Kingfisher Bluez)
  27. Ty Segall – First Taste (Drag City)
  28. Powerplant – People in the Sun (Erste Theke Tonträger)
  29. The Hold Steady – Thrashing thru the Passion (Frenchkiss)
  30. Khruangbin – Subete Ga KunKimi Ni Hohoemu (Late Night Tales/Beat)
  31. Jordan Reyes – Close (American Dreams)
  32. Bringers – Summer Drone (self-released)
  33. Chance the Rapper – The Big Day (self-released)
  34. Black Belt Eagle Scout – At the Party with My Brown Friends (Saddle Creek)
  35. Parsnip – When the Tree Bears Fruit (Trouble in Mind)
  36. Russian Circles – Blood Year (Sargent House)
  37. Cross Record – Cross Record (Ba Da Bing)
  38. Generationals – Reader As Detective (Polyvinyl)
  39. Various Artists – Hot Sick Vile and Fun - New Sounds from San Francisco (Rocks in Your Head)
  40. Johnny & the Whatnots – To Live and Die in Kankakee (self-released)
  41. The Art Ensemble of Chicago – We Are on the Edge: a 50th Anniverary Celebration (Erased Tapes)
  42. Alexander Tucker – Guild of the Asbestos Weaver (Thrill Jockey)
  43. Lost System – Left Behind (Neck Chop)
  44. 4LF – Cave Paintings (self-released)
  45. Major Stars – Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy (Drag City)
  46. OH SEES – Face Stabber (Castle Face)
  47. Pere Ubu – The Long Goodbye (Cherry Red)
  48. Tonio Sagan – In the Garden (self-released)
  49. Dude York – Falling (Hardly Art)
  50. Mt. Pocono – Fear of the Savanna, Terror of the Suburbs EP (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Lunch Duchess – Crying for Fun (Heavy Meadow)
  • Various Artists – Strain, Crack and Break: Music from the Nurse with Wound List Volume 1 (France) (Finders Keepers)
  • Mope Grooves – Desire (See My Friends)
  • Shannon Lay – August (Sub Pop)
  • Oso Oso – Basking in the Glow (Triple Crown)
  • Sequoyah Murray – Before You Begin (Thrill Jockey)
  • Frankie Cosmos – Close it Quietly (Sub Pop)
  • Rapsody – Eve (Roc Nation)
  • Whitney – Forever Turned Around (Secretly Canadian)
  • Big Joanie – Sistahs (Daydream Library Series)
  • Joyero – Release the Dogs (Merge)
  • Velvet Negroni – NEON BROWN (4AD)
  • HIDE – Hell Is Here (Dais)
  • Club Music – Club Music Vol. 1 (Chicago Research)
  • Dylan Moon – Only the Blues (RVNG Intl.)
  • Kit Sebastian – Mantra Moderne (Mr. Bongo)
  • Pardon Us – Wait (Johann's Face )
  • The Silence – Metaphysical Feedback (Drag City)
  • Modern Nature – How to Live (Bella Union)
  • !!! – Wallop (Warp)
  • The Futureheads – POWERS (Nul)
  • Boy Scouts – Free Company (Anti-)
  • Queen of Jeans – If you're not afraid, I'm not afraid (Topshelf)

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Top 50 for the Week of 08/26/2018

  1. Lever – Douse (Midwest Action)
  2. Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Cage & Aviary (Tru Thoughts)
  3. Lunch Lady – Angel (Upset the Rhythm)
  4. The Art Ensemble of Chicago – We Are on the Edge: a 50th Anniverary Celebration (Erased Tapes)
  5. Shura – forevher (Secretly Canadian)
  6. BJ The Chicago Kid – 1123 (Motown)
  7. Judy and the Jerks – Friendships Formed in the Pit (Neck Chop)
  8. Clairo – Immunity (Fader Label)
  9. Imperial Teen – Now We Are Timeless (Merge)
  10. The Hold Steady – Thrashing thru the Passion (Frenchkiss)
  11. Ty Segall – First Taste (Drag City)
  12. Nérija – Blume (Domino)
  13. Chance the Rapper – The Big Day (self-released)
  14. Cross Record – Cross Record (Ba Da Bing)
  15. Khruangbin – Subete Ga KunKimi Ni Hohoemu (Late Night Tales/Beat)
  16. Powerplant – People in the Sun (Erste Theke Tonträger)
  17. Johnny & the Whatnots – To Live and Die in Kankakee (self-released)
  18. Lina Tullgren – Free Cell (Captured Tracks)
  19. Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend (Sub Pop)
  20. Bon Iver – i,i (Jagjaguwar)
  21. Generationals – Reader As Detective (Polyvinyl)
  22. 4LF – Cave Paintings (self-released)
  23. L'Epee – Diabolique (A Recordings)
  24. Major Stars – Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy (Drag City)
  25. Pieces of a Man – Made in Pieces (Tru Thoughts)
  26. RIDE – This Is Not a Safe Place (Wichita)
  27. avery r. young – tubman. (FPE)
  28. Ela Orleans – Movies for Ears (Night School)
  29. Brat Curse – Brat Curse (Anyway)
  30. KAZYAK – Odyssey (self-released)
  31. The Curls – Bounce House (Diversion)
  32. OH SEES – Face Stabber (Castle Face)
  33. WHY? – AOKOHIO (JoyfulNoise)
  34. Fleeting Joys – Speeding Away to Someday (self-released)
  35. Dude York – Falling (Hardly Art)
  36. Jordan Reyes – Close (American Dreams)
  37. Ami Dang – Parted Plains (Leaving)
  38. Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning Recording Co.)
  39. Various Artists – Hot Sick Vile and Fun - New Sounds from San Francisco (Rocks in Your Head)
  40. Russian Circles – Blood Year (Sargent House)
  41. Bringers – Summer Drone (self-released)
  42. She Past Away – Disko Anskiyete (Metropolis)
  43. Deadbeat Beat – How Far (Arrowhawk/Crystal Palace)
  44. Mt. Pocono – Fear of the Savanna, Terror of the Suburbs EP (self-released)
  45. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)
  46. The Hecks – My Star (Trouble in Mind)
  47. Fashion Brigade – Fvck the Heartache (Gentle Reminder)
  48. Violent Femmes – Hotel Last Resort ([PIAS])
  49. Tonio Sagan – In the Garden (self-released)
  50. The Drippers – Action Rock (The Sign)

This week's adds

  • Bodywash – Comforter (Luminelle)
  • Bridal Party – Too Much (Kingfisher Bluez)
  • Esther Rose – You Made It This Far (Father/Daughter)
  • Ceremony – In the Spirit World Now (Relapse)
  • Black Belt Eagle Scout – At the Party with My Brown Friends (Saddle Creek)
  • Sunny War – Shell of a Girl (Hen House Studios/ ORG)
  • Alexander Tucker – Guild of the Asbestos Weaver (Thrill Jockey)
  • Parsnip – When the Tree Bears Fruit (Trouble in Mind)
  • G&D – Black Love & War (SomeOthaShip Connect / Entertainment One)
  • Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won't Hold (Mom+Pop)
  • Redd Kross – Beyond the Door (Merge)
  • Sheer Mag – A Distant Call (Wilsuns)
  • Close Talker – How Do We Stay Here? (Slow Weather)
  • Lost System – Left Behind (Neck Chop)
  • Black Swift – Desert Rain EP (Eisenbahn)
  • Ra Ra Riot – Superbloom (Rob the RIch / Caroline)
  • Field Mouse – Meaning (Topshelf)
  • Tropical Fuck Storm – Braindrops (Joyful Noise)
  • Jay Som – Anak Ko (Polyvinyl)
  • Matthew Squires – Visions of America (self-released)
  • Ezra Furman – Twelve Nudes (Bella Union)
  • Missy Elliott – ICONOLOGY EP (Atlantic)

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Top 50 for the Week of 08/19/2019

  1. Nérija – Blume (Domino)
  2. Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning Recording Co.)
  3. avery r. young – tubman. (FPE)
  4. Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend (Sub Pop)
  5. Pere Ubu – The Long Goodbye (Cherry Red)
  6. BJ The Chicago Kid – 1123 (Motown)
  7. The Curls – Bounce House (Diversion)
  8. OH SEES – Face Stabber (Castle Face)
  9. Clairo – Immunity (Fader Label)
  10. WHY? – AOKOHIO (JoyfulNoise)
  11. Bon Iver – i,i (Jagjaguwar)
  12. The New Pornographers – In the Morse Code of Brake Lights (Matador)
  13. Various Artists – Hot Sick Vile and Fun - New Sounds from San Francisco (Rocks in Your Head)
  14. Chance the Rapper – The Big Day (self-released)
  15. The Art Ensemble of Chicago – We Are on the Edge: a 50th Anniverary Celebration (Erased Tapes)
  16. Mick Trouble – It's the Mick Trouble LP (Emotional Response)
  17. Russian Circles – Blood Year (Sargent House)
  18. Fleeting Joys – Speeding Away to Someday (self-released)
  19. Bringers – Summer Drone (self-released)
  20. The Hecks – My Star (Trouble in Mind)
  21. Endless Column – Endless Column (Erste Theke Tonträger)
  22. KOKOKO! – Fongola (Transgressive / [PIAS])
  23. Cross Record – Cross Record (Ba Da Bing)
  24. Kaina – Next to the Sun (Sooper)
  25. Drab Majesty – Modern Mirror (DAIS)
  26. Dude York – Falling (Hardly Art)
  27. Fashion Brigade – Fvck the Heartache (Gentle Reminder)
  28. Jordan Reyes – Close (American Dreams)
  29. Dumb Chunks – SPLAT (self-released)
  30. Allah-Las – LAHS (Mexican Summer)
  31. Bleached – Don't You Think You've Had Enough? (Dead Oceans)
  32. Imperial Teen – Now We Are Timeless (Merge)
  33. Generationals – Reader As Detective (Polyvinyl)
  34. Violent Femmes – Hotel Last Resort ([PIAS])
  35. Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Iz Here (Multi Alumni)
  36. Tuxedo – Tuxedo III (Funk on Sight)
  37. Gisto – Self Made (Historical)
  38. Mauno – Really Well (Tin Angel)
  39. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)
  40. Tonio Sagan – In the Garden (self-released)
  41. Body of Light – Time to Kill (Dais)
  42. Deadbeat Beat – How Far (Arrowhawk/Crystal Palace)
  43. Modern Studies & Tommy Perman – Emergent Slow Arcs (Fire)
  44. She Past Away – Disko Anskiyete (Metropolis)
  45. Cherubs – Immaculada High (Relapse)
  46. Twin Peaks – Lookout Low (Grand Jury)
  47. Various Artists – all of god's money / a tribute to wilco's yankee hotel foxtrot (Better Yet Podcast)
  48. Leech – Data Horde (Peak Oil)
  49. The Pheromoans – County Lines (Alter)
  50. Hammered Hulls – Hammered Hulls EP (Dischord)

This week's adds

  • 4LF – Cave Paintings (self-released)
  • Ami Dang – Parted Plains (Leaving)
  • Bad Breeding – Exiled (One Little Indian/Iron Lung)
  • Brat Curse – Brat Curse (Anyway)
  • Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Cage & Aviary (Tru Thoughts)
  • Judy and the Jerks – Friendships Formed in the Pit (Neck Chop)
  • KAZYAK – Odyssey (self-released)
  • Khruangbin – Subete Ga KunKimi Ni Hohoemu (Late Night Tales/Beat)
  • L'Epee – Diabolique (A Recordings)
  • Lina Tullgren – Free Cell (Captured Tracks)
  • Lunch Lady – Angel (Upset the Rhythm)
  • Major Stars – Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy (Drag City)
  • Multicult – Simultaneity Now (Learning Curve/Reptilian)
  • Northern Liberties – Parallel Hell (self-released)
  • Pieces of a Man – Made in Pieces (Tru Thoughts)
  • Powerplant – People in the Sun (Erste Theke Tonträger)
  • RIDE – This Is Not a Safe Place (Wichita)
  • Shura – forevher (Secretly Canadian)
  • Lever – Douse (Midwest Action)
  • Susan Alcorn, Joe McPhee & Ken Vandermark – Invitation to a Dream (Astral Spirits)
  • The Hold Steady – Thrashing thru the Passion (Frenchkiss)
  • Ty Segall – First Taste (Drag City)
  • Uniform & The Body – Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back (Sacred Bones)

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Top 50 for the Week of 08/12/2018

  1. Clairo – Immunity (Fader Label)
  2. Chance the Rapper – The Big Day (self-released)
  3. BJ The Chicago Kid – 1123 (Motown)
  4. Generationals – Reader As Detective (Polyvinyl)
  5. Fashion Brigade – Fvck the Heartache (Gentle Reminder)
  6. Drab Majesty – Modern Mirror (DAIS)
  7. Tonio Sagan – In the Garden (self-released)
  8. Imperial Teen – Now We Are Timeless (Merge)
  9. Fleeting Joys – Speeding Away to Someday (self-released)
  10. Cross Record – Cross Record (Ba Da Bing)
  11. The Art Ensemble of Chicago – We Are on the Edge: a 50th Anniverary Celebration (Erased Tapes)
  12. Mick Trouble – It's the Mick Trouble LP (Emotional Response)
  13. KOKOKO! – Fongola (Transgressive / [PIAS])
  14. Body of Light – Time to Kill (Dais)
  15. The Dollyrots – Daydream Explosion (Wicked Cool)
  16. Various Artists – Jambú e Os Míticos Sons Da Amazônia (Analog Africa)
  17. Peter Laughner – Peter Laughner (Smog Veil)
  18. Deadbeat Beat – How Far (Arrowhawk/Crystal Palace)
  19. Bringers – Summer Drone (self-released)
  20. The Curls – Bounce House (Diversion)
  21. avery r. young – tubman. (FPE)
  22. Flesh Panthers – Holy Roller (Dumpster Tapes)
  23. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (Drag City)
  24. Violent Femmes – Hotel Last Resort ([PIAS])
  25. Russian Circles – Blood Year (Sargent House)
  26. Bleached – Don't You Think You've Had Enough? (Dead Oceans)
  27. Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Iz Here (Multi Alumni)
  28. Blood Orange – Angel's Pulse (Domino)
  29. Trash Kit – Horizon (Upset the Rhythm)
  30. B Boys – Dudu (Captured Tracks)
  31. The Diamond Street Players – The Diamond Street Players (Gemco)
  32. Nick Mazzarella Trio – Counterbalance (Astral Spirits)
  33. Young Guv – GUV I (Run for Cover)
  34. Quantic – Atlantic Oscillations (Tru Thoughts)
  35. Gauche – A People's History of Gauche (Merge)
  36. Jesca Hoop – Stonechild (Memphis Industries)
  37. Dane Terry – Music from Dreamboy Vol. 1 (self-released)
  38. Johnny & the Whatnots – To Live and Die in Kankakee (self-released)
  39. Jordan Reyes – Close (American Dreams)
  40. Various Artists – all of god's money / a tribute to wilco's yankee hotel foxtrot (Better Yet Podcast)
  41. Ummagma – Compass (Leonard Skully)
  42. Hatchie – Keepsake (Double Double Whammy)
  43. Boca 45 – Forty Five (Mass Appeal)
  44. Dumb Chunks – SPLAT (self-released)
  45. Endless Column – Endless Column (Erste Theke Tonträger)
  46. Pinky Pinky – Turkey Dinner (Innovative Leisure)
  47. Dream Shanti – Music In Our Dreams (Ear Up)
  48. Femi – From Indiana with Love (self-released)
  49. Belle & Sebastian – "Sister Buddha" [Single] (Matador)
  50. Jordan Rakei – Origins (Ninja Tune)

This week's adds

  • Bon Iver – i,i (Jagjaguwar)
  • Gisto – Self Made (Historical)
  • His Name Is Alive – All the Mirrors in the House (Home Recordings 1979-1986) (Disciples)
  • Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend (Sub Pop)
  • Mauno – Really Well (Tin Angel)
  • Nérija – Blume (Domino)
  • OH SEES – Face Stabber (Castle Face)
  • Pere Ubu – The Long Goodbye (Cherry Red)
  • Various Artists – Hot Sick Vile and Fun - New Sounds from San Francisco (Rocks in Your Head)
  • Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning Recording Co.)
  • WHY? – AOKOHIO (JoyfulNoise)

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