Top 50 for the Week of 5/19/15

1. Nosaj Thing – Fated (Innovative Leisure)
2. Blur – The Magic Whip (Warner Bros.)
3. The Sonics – This is the Sonics (Revox)
4. Spaces of Disappearance – Passionate Electronics (Walk-In)
5. Various Artists – 50 Bands and a Cat for Indiana Equality (Joyful Noise)
6. Delia Gonzalez – In Remembrance (DFA)
7. Mac McCaughan – Non-Believers (Merge)
8. The Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home (Dead Oceans)
9. Circuit des Yeux – In Plain Speech (Thrill Jockey)
10. The Helio Sequence – The Helio Sequence (Sub Pop)
11. Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms (Joyful Noise)
12. Django Django – Born Under Saturn (Ribbon)
13. Best Coast – California Nights (Harvest)
14. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
15. William Steffey – Accidents and Melodies (Aquariphone)
16. Squarepusher – Damogen Furies (Warp)
17. Palma Violets – Danger in the Club (Rough Trade)
18. Giant Sand – Heartbreak Pass (New West)
19. Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
20. Colleen – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
21. Braids – Deep In the Iris (Arbutus)
22. Tyondai Braxton – HIVE1 (Nonesuch)
23. Westkust – Last Forever (Run for Cover/Luxury)
24. Hop Along – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
25. Rose Windows – Rose Windows (Sub Pop)
26. Tei Shi – Verde EP (Mom+Pop)
27. Wire – Wire (Pink Flag)
28. East India Youth – Culture of Volume (XL)
29. George FitzGerald – Fading Love (Double Six)
30. Passion Pit – Kindred (Columbia)
31. White Manna – Pan (Captcha)
32. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
33. Various Artists – The Alchemist and Oh No Present: Welcome to Los Santos (Mass Appeal)
34. Girl Band – The Early Years EP (Rough Trade)
35. Pale Blue – The Past We Leave Behind (2MR)
36. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada)
37. Banditos – Banditos (Bloodshot)
38. Chui Wan – Chui Wan (Maybe Mars)
39. They Might Be Giants – Glean (Idlewild)
40. METZ – II (Sub Pop)
41. Elvis Depressedly – New Alhambra (Run for Cover)
42. Slug – Ripe (Memphis Industries)
43. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
44. Swearwords – Solar Vortex (self-released)
45. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (ATO)
46. Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
47. Coliseum – Anxiety's Kiss (Deathwish Inc.)
48. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
49. Razorhouse – Codex Du EP (Heat Shield)
50. Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Carpark)

This week's adds

• Guantanamo Baywatch – Darling...It's Too Late (Suicide Squeeze)
• Legowelt – Anaconda Flow EP (Technicolour)
• Towkio – .Wav Theory (self-released)
• Patrick Watson – Love Songs for Robots (Domino)
• Reina del Cid – The Cooling (self-released)
• Bossa IV – Fuga Azzurri (self-released)
• Icky Blossoms – Mask (Saddle Creek)
• Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls (Profound Lore)
• Jad Fair & Norman Blake – Yes (Joyful Noise)
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar)
• Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter (Slumberland)
• Daniel Bachman – River (Three Lobed Recordings)
• Shilpa Ray – Last Year's Savage (Northern Spy)
• Hot Chip – Why Make Sense? (Domino)
• Gold Star – Dark Days (Starfish)
• Crocodiles – Boys (Zoo Music)
• Knxwledge – Hud Dreems (Stones Throw)
• White Eyes – White Eyes (Numero Group)
• And So I Watch You From Afar – Heirs (Sargent House)

Top 50 for the Week of 5/12/15

1. Circuit des Yeux – In Plain Speech (Thrill Jockey)
2. Best Coast – California Nights (Harvest)
3. Blur – The Magic Whip (Warner Bros.)
4. Girl Band – The Early Years EP (Rough Trade)
5. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
6. Saun & Starr – Look Closer (Daptone)
7. Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Carpark)
8. Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
9. Westkust – Last Forever (Run for Cover/Luxury)
10. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (ATO)
11. Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
12. Squarepusher – Damogen Furies (Warp)
13. Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms (Joyful Noise)
14. Various Artists – The Alchemist and Oh No Present: Welcome to Los Santos (Mass Appeal)
15. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
16. Django Django – Born Under Saturn (Ribbon)
17. Hop Along – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
18. METZ – II (Sub Pop)
19. Passion Pit – Kindred (Columbia)
20. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
21. William Steffey – Accidents and Melodies (Aquariphone)
22. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada)
23. Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
24. Colleen – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
25. d. stine – Putting Orphans to Bed (self-released)
26. Leggy – Nice Try (self-released)
27. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
28. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
29. Banditos – Banditos (Bloodshot)
30. Braids – Deep In the Iris (Arbutus)
31. Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti-)
32. Chui Wan – Chui Wan (Maybe Mars)
33. Giant Sand – Heartbreak Pass (New West)
34. Rose Windows – Rose Windows (Sub Pop)
35. Slug – Ripe (Memphis Industries)
36. Stealing Sheep – Not Real (Heavenly)
37. Swearwords – Solar Vortex (self-released)
38. MG – MG (Mute)
39. Sacred Paws – Six Songs EP (Rock Action)
40. Tal National – Zoy Zoy (FatCat)
41. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
42. White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
43. Winter – Supreme Blue Dream (Lolipop)
44. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
45. Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (Flie Under: Music)
46. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)
47. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
48. Tei Shi – Verde EP (Mom+Pop)
49. The Variable Why – Looking at the Triangles (Patient Sounds)
50. East India Youth – Culture of Volume (XL)

This week's adds

• Dane Terry – Color Movies (Tonk)
• Implodes – Reverser (Gilead Media)
• Tica Douglas – Joey (self-released)
• Twin Shadow – Eclipse (Warner Bros.)
• Wino & Conny Ochs – Freedom Conspiracy (Exile On Mainstream)
• Mac McCaughan – Non-Believers (Merge)
• Nosaj Thing – Fated (Innovative Leisure)
• Palma Violets – Danger in the Club (Rough Trade)
• Pyramids – A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore)
• Spaces of Disappearance – Passionate Electronics (Walk-In)
• The Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home (Dead Oceans)
• Various Artists – 50 Bands and a Cat for Indiana Equality (3-Disc) (Joyful Noise)
• Obsequiae – Aria of Vernal Tombs (20 Buck Spin)
• Brave the Waters – Chapter 1 - Dawn of Days EP (Independent)
• Coliseum – Anxiety's Kiss (Deathwish Inc.)
• Tyondai Braxton – HIVE1 (Nonesuch)
• Elvis Depressedly – New Alhambra (Run for Cover)
• The Helio Sequence – The Helio Sequence (Sub Pop)
• Delia Gonzalez – In Remembrance (DFA)
• George FitzGerald – Fading Love (Double Six)
• The Sonics – This is the Sonics (Revox)

Top 50 for the Week of 5/5/15

1. Best Coast – California Nights (Harvest)
2. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
3. Colleen – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
4. Passion Pit – Kindred (Columbia)
5. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (ATO)
6. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
7. Wire – Wire (Pink Flag)
8. William Steffey – Accidents and Melodies (Aquariphone)
9. Squarepusher – Damogen Furies (Warp)
10. Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti-)
11. METZ – II (Sub Pop)
12. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
13. Westkust – Last Forever (Run for Cover/Luxury)
14. Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
15. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
16. Swearwords – Solar Vortex (self-released)
17. Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
18. White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
19. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
20. Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Carpark)
21. Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
22. Varsity – Varsity (Jurassic Pop)
23. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada)
24. They Might Be Giants – Glean (Idlewild)
25. Saun & Starr – Look Closer (Daptone)
26. Rose Windows – Rose Windows (Sub Pop)
27. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
28. Razorhouse – Codex Du EP (Heat Shield)
29. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil (Domino)
30. Death – N.E.W. (Tryangle)
31. Peach Kelli Pop – Peach Kelli Pop III (Burger)
32. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
33. Minsk – The Crash & the Draw (Relapse)
34. Braids – Deep In the Iris (Arbutus)
35. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
36. Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight (Rough Trade)
37. MG – MG (Mute)
38. d. stine – Putting Orphans to Bed (self-released)
39. Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recordings)
40. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Ribbon)
41. Sacred Paws – Six Songs EP (Rock Action)
42. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
43. Jimmy Whispers – Summer in Pain (Moniker)
44. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
45. Dinner – Three EPs 2012-2014 (Captured Tracks)
46. Fred Thomas – All Are Saved (Polyvinyl)
47. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation)
48. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
49. Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (Flie Under: Music)
50. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)

This week's adds

• Banditos – Banditos (Bloodshot)
• Blur – The Magic Whip (Warner Bros.)
• Chui Wan – Chui Wan (Maybe Mars)
• Circuit des Yeux – In Plain Speech (Thrill Jockey)
• Django Django – Born Under Saturn (Ribbon)
• East India Youth – Culture of Volume (XL)
• Giant Sand – Heartbreak Pass (New West)
• Girl Band – The Early Years EP (Rough Trade)
• Hop Along – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
• Leggy – Nice Try (self-released)
• Nai Harvest – Hairball (Topshelf)
• Raein – Perpetuum EP (self-released)
• Sam Cohen – Cool It (Easy Sound)
• Slug – Ripe (Memphis Industries)
• Stealing Sheep – Not Real (Heavenly)
• Steve Von Till – A Life Unto Itself (Neurot)
• Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms (Joyful Noise)
• Various Artists – The Alchemist and Oh No Present: Welcome to Los Santos (Mass Appeal)
• White Manna – Pan (Captcha)

Top 50 for the Week of 4/28/15

1. METZ – II (Sub Pop)
2. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
3. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
4. Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Carpark)
5. Wire – Wire (Pink Flag)
6. Colleen – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
7. Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
8. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
9. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
10. Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti-)
11. Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
12. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
13. Tal National – Zoy Zoy (FatCat)
14. King Khan & BBQ Show – Bad News Boys (In the Red)
15. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
16. Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
17. They Might Be Giants – Glean (Idlewild)
18. Peach Kelli Pop – Peach Kelli Pop III (Burger)
19. William Steffey – Accidents and Melodies (Aquariphone)
20. Fred Thomas – All Are Saved (Polyvinyl)
21. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
22. The Variable Why – Looking at the Triangles (Patient Sounds)
23. Death – N.E.W. (Tryangle)
24. Passion Pit – Kindred (Columbia)
25. Razorhouse – Codex Du EP (Heat Shield)
26. Marriages – Salome (Sargent House)
27. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Ribbon)
28. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
29. Jimmy Whispers – Summer in Pain (Moniker)
30. Dinner – Three EPs 2012-2014 (Captured Tracks)
31. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Interscope)
32. Bill Fay – Who is the Sender? (Dead Oceans)
33. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation)
34. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
35. Tica Douglas – Joey (self-released)
36. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)
37. Varsity – Varsity (Jurassic Pop)
38. White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
39. John Andrews & The Yawns – Bit By the Fang (Woodsist)
40. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
41. Jlin – Dark Energy (Planet Mu)
42. Twin Shadow – Eclipse (Warner Bros.)
43. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil (Domino)
44. Reptar – Lurid Glow (Joyful Noise)
45. Netorare Fan Club – Make Believe (Mint 400)
46. Minsk – The Crash & the Draw (Relapse)
47. Tei Shi – Verde EP (Mom+Pop)
48. POW! – Fight Fire (Castle Face)
49. Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (Flie Under: Music)
50. Becca Stevens Band – Perfect Animal (Universal Music Classics)

This week's adds

• d. stine – Putting Orphans to Bed (self-released)
• Swearwords – Solar Vortex (self-released)
• Best Coast – California Nights (Harvest)
• Squarepusher – Damogen Furies (Warp)
• Westkust – Last Forever (Luxury)
• Saun & Starr – Look Closer (Daptone)
• Braids – Deep in the Iris (Arbutus)
• DTCV – Uptime! (Unsatisfied)
• Tribulation – The Children of the Night (Century Media)
• Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (ATO)
• Rose Windows – Rose Windows (Sub Pop)
• MG – MG (Mute)
• Winter – Supreme Blue Dream (Lolipop)
• Show Me the Body – SMTB EP (Letter Racer)

Top 50 for the Week of 4/21/15

1. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
2. Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti-)
3. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
4. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
5. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
6. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Interscope)
7. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil (Domino)
8. King Khan & BBQ Show – Bad News Boys (In the Red)
9. Implodes – Reverser (Gilead Media)
10. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
11. Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
12. Jimmy Whispers – Summer in Pain (Moniker)
13. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
14. White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
15. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada)
16. Tal National – Zoy Zoy (FatCat)
17. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
18. Tei Shi – Verde EP (Mom+Pop)
19. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
20. The Variable Why – Looking at the Triangles (Patient Sounds)
21. Varsity – Varsity (Jurassic Pop)
22. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
23. Reptar – Lurid Glow (Joyful Noise)
24. Marriages – Salome (Sargent House)
25. Moon Duo – Shadow of the Sun (Sacred Bones)
26. Via Tania – Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra (Narooma)
27. American Wrestlers – American Wrestlers (Fat Possum)
28. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
29. Jlin – Dark Energy (Planet Mu)
30. Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (Flie Under: Music)
31. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)
32. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
33. The Bright Light Social Hour – Space is Still the Place (Frenchkiss)
34. Pale Blue – The Past We Leave Behind (2MR)
35. Dinner – Three EPs 2012-2014 (Captured Tracks)
36. JEFF the Brotherhood – Wasted on the Dream (Infinity Cat)
37. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation)
38. Razorhouse – Codex Du EP (Heat Shield)
39. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Ribbon)
40. Chastity Belt – Time to Go Home (Hardly Art)
41. Pile – You're Better than This (Exploding in Sound)
42. Twin Shadow – Eclipse (Warner Bros.)
43. LoneLady – Hinterland (Warp)
44. Makaya McCraven – In the Moment (International Anthem)
45. Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi (Atlantic)
46. Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight (Rough Trade)
47. Becca Stevens Band – Perfect Animal (Universal Music Classics)
48. Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves (Epic)
49. The Go! Team – The Scene Between (Memphis Industries)
50. Faith Healer – Cosmic Troubles (Mint)