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Top 50 for the Week of 11-19-2013

  1. Blasted Diplomats - Blasted Diplomats (BLVD)
  2. Los Campesinos! - No Blues (Wichita)
  3. Cults - Static (Columbia)
  4. La Luz - It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  5. M.I.A. - Matangi (N.E.E.T.)
  6. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
  7. Seacats - Seacats (Fin)
  8. Tennis - Small Sound EP (Communion)
  9. Elf Power - Sunlight on the Moon (Orange Twin)
  10. Wooden Shjips - Back to Land (Thrill Jockey)
  11. Crown Larks - Catalytic Conversion (self-released)
  12. Gringo Star - Floating Out to Sea (My Anxious Mouth Inc.)
  13. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum (Wichita)
  14. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris (Tan Cressida)
  15. Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals (Mom+Pop)
  16. Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday (FatCat)
  17. DJ Rashad - Double Cup (Hyperdub)
  18. Melt-Banana - fetch (A-Zap)
  19. Pelican - Forever Becoming (Southern Lord)
  20. Minor Alps - Get There (Barsuk)
  21. Mickey & The Soul Generation - Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & The Soul Generation (Cali-Tex)
  22. Son Lux - Lanterns (Joyful Noise)
  23. The Martha's Vineyard Ferries - Mass. Grave (Kiam)
  24. Diane Coffee - My Friend Fish (Western Vinyl)
  25. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
  26. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge)
  27. Son of a Gun_/Gross Pointe - Son of a Gun/Gross Pointe (Dumpster Tapes)
  28. Cave - Threace (Drag City)
  29. Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind (Text)
  30. The Devil Makes Three - I'm A Stranger Here (New West)
  31. Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81 (Hozac)
  32. Audacity - Butter Knife (Suicide Squeeze)
  33. Cameron McGill - Gallows Etiquette (Post-Important)
  34. Fabie Anstee Trio - Home (self-released)
  35. Moonface - Julia with Blue Jeans On (Jagjaguwar)
  36. of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (Polyvinyl)
  37. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - The Speed of Things (Warner Bros)
  38. The Stargazer Lilies - We are the Dreamers (Graveface)
  39. Juana Molina - Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
  40. William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop)
  41. Boardwalk - Boardwalk (Stones Throw)
  42. Frog Eyes - Carey's Cold Spring (self-released)
  43. Beastmilk - Climax (Magic Bullet)
  44. White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)
  45. Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band - Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band EP (ZNA)
  46. ERAAS - Initiation (Felte)
  47. Tal National - Kaani (Fat Cat)
  48. R.A. The Rugged Man - Legends Never Die (Nature Sounds)
  49. Boldy James - My 1st Chemistry Set (Decon)
  50. Darkside - Psychic (Other People)

This week's adds

  • Aaron Freeman - Gener's Gone: The Final Demo Recordings of Gene Ween (2009-2011) (self-released)
  • Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus (Fire)
  • Black Milk - No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats)
  • Blurry - Lulls (Butterscotch)
  • Bottomless Pit - Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
  • Cut Copy - Free Your Mind (Loma Vista)
  • Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
  • Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs EP (Merge)
  • Fake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing (BLVD)
  • Mutual Benefit - Love's Crushing Diamond (Other Music)
  • Robert Pollard - Blazing Gentlemen (GBV Inc.)
  • Sebastien Tellier - Confection (Record Makers)
  • Shearwater - Fellow Travelers (Sub Pop)
  • The Lemons - Hello, We're The Lemons (Tripp Tapes)
  • The Symposium - Brain Jail EP (self-released)
  • Throwing Muses - Purgatory/Paradise (IT Books)
  • Zigtebra - The Pink Line (FPE)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11-12-2013

  1. La Luz - It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  2. M.I.A. - Matangi (N.E.E.T.)
  3. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
  4. Tennis - Small Sound EP (Communion)
  5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge)
  6. Pelican - Forever Becoming (Southern Lord)
  7. Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals (Mom+Pop)
  8. Best Coast - Fade Away (Jewel City)
  9. of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (Polyvinyl)
  10. Juana Molina - Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
  11. Russian Circles - Memorial (Sargent House)
  12. Darkside - Psychic (Other People)
  13. Julie Meckler - Queenshead (self-released)
  14. Son of a Gun/Gross Pointe - Son of a Gun/Gross Pointe (Dumpster Tapes)
  15. Cults - Static (Columbia)
  16. Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81 (Hozac)
  17. Midlake - Antiphon (ATO)
  18. White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)
  19. Various Artists - Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label (Numero)
  20. Slushy - Five Little Leaves EP (Tripp Tapes)
  21. Minor Alps - Get There (Barsuk)
  22. Kwes. - ilp (Warp)
  23. Mickey & The Soul Generation - Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & The Soul Generation (Cali-Tex)
  24. Tar - 1988 - 1995 (Chunklet)
  25. Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind (Text)
  26. DJ Rashad - Double Cup (Hyperdub)
  27. Fabie Anstee Trio - Home (Self-released)
  28. Diane Coffee - My Friend Fish (Western Vinyl)
  29. Nobunny - Secret Songs: Reflections from the Ear Mirror (Goner)
  30. The Stargazer Lilies - We are the Dreamers (Graveface)
  31. Wooden Shjips - Back to Land (Thrill Jockey)
  32. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris (Tan Cressida)
  33. Dean Wareham - Emancipated Hearts (Sonic Cathedral)
  34. Cameron McGill - Gallows Etiquette (Post-Important)
  35. Ryan Hemsworth - Guilt Trips (Last Gang)
  36. Glasser - Interiors (True Panther Sounds)
  37. Various Artists - Kill Yourself Dancing The Story of Sunset Records Inc. Chicago 1985-88 (Still Music)
  38. R.A. The Rugged Man - Legends Never Die (Nature Sounds)
  39. Dosh - Milk Money (Graveface)
  40. Velcro Lewis Group - Open the Sky (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
  41. Elsinore - Push / Pull (Parasol)
  42. VV Brown - Samson & Delilah (YOY)
  43. Polia - Shulamith (Mom+Pop)
  44. Cave - Threace (Drag City)
  45. Advance Base - Tomorrow's Homes Today EP (Orindal)
  46. The Electric Peanut Butter Company - Trans-Atlantic Psych Classics Vol. 2 (Ubiquity)
  47. Sidi Toure_ - Alafia (Thrill Jockey)
  48. Dr. Dog - B-Room (ANTI-)
  49. Frog Eyes - Carey's Cold Spring (self-released)
  50. Gringo Star - Floating Out to Sea (My Anxious Mouth Inc.)

This week's adds

  • Alarms & Controls - Clovis Points (Dischord)
  • Beastmilk - Climax (Magic Bullet)
  • Big Business - Battlefields Forever (Gold Metal)
  • Blasted Diplomats - Blasted Diplomats (BLVD)
  • Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
  • Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum (Wichita)
  • Corrections House - Last City Zero (Neurot)
  • Crown Larks - Catalytic Conversion (self-released)
  • Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday (FatCat)
  • Elf Power - Sunlight on the Moon (Orange Twin)
  • ERAAS - Initiation (Felte)
  • KILN - meadow:watt (Ghostly International)
  • Los Campesinos! - No Blues (Wichita)
  • Melt-Banana - fetch (A-Zap)
  • Mutoid Man - Helium Head (Magic Bullet)
  • Sandrider - Godhead (Good to Die)
  • The Devil Makes Three - I'm A Stranger Here (New West)
  • Tidal Arms - Tidal Arms (Black Numbers)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11-5-2013

  1. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge)
  2. Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81 (Hozac)
  3. Various Artists - Kill Yourself Dancing The Story of Sunset Records Inc. Chicago 1985-88 (Still Music)
  4. of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (Polyvinyl)
  5. Poliça - Shulamith (Mom+Pop)
  6. Cameron McGill - Gallows Etiquette (Post-Important)
  7. Tar - 1988 - 1995 (Chunklet)
  8. Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others (Domino)
  9. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris (Tan Cressida)
  10. Dean Wareham - Emancipated Hearts (Sonic Cathedral)
  11. Gringo Star - Floating Out to Sea (My Anxious Mouth Inc.)
  12. Mickey & The Soul Generation - Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & The Soul Generation (Cali-Tex)
  13. The Martha's Vineyard Ferries - Mass. Grave (Kiam)
  14. The Blow - The Blow (Kanine)
  15. Janelle Mon‡e - The Electric Lady (Bad Boy)
  16. Yuck - Glow & Behold (Fat Possum)
  17. Julie Meckler - Queenshead (self-released)
  18. Advance Base - Tomorrow's Homes Today EP (Orindal)
  19. Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu (Ribbon Music)
  20. DJ Rashad - Double Cup (Hyperdub)
  21. US Girls - Free Advice Column EP (Last Gang)
  22. Darkside - Psychic (Other People)
  23. Frog Eyes - Carey's Cold Spring (self-released)
  24. Ezra Furman - Day of the Dog (Bar/None)
  25. Dosh - Milk Money (Graveface)
  26. Quasi - Mole City (Kill Rock Stars)
  27. Nobunny - Secret Songs: Reflections from the Ear Mirror (Goner)
  28. Cults - Static (Columbia)
  29. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - The Speed of Things (Warner Bros)
  30. Cave - Threace (Drag City)
  31. Midlake - Antiphon (ATO)
  32. Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals (Mom+Pop)
  33. Boardwalk - Boardwalk (Stones Throw)
  34. Hank 3 - Brothers of the 4x4 (Hank 3)
  35. TV Ghost - Disconnect (In the Red)
  36. Best Coast - Fade Away (Jewel City)
  37. Ryan Hemsworth - Guilt Trips (Last Gang)
  38. Glasser - Interiors (True Panther Sounds)
  39. Arp - More (Smalltown Supersound)
  40. Pusha T - My Name is My Name (GOOD Music)
  41. Crystal Antlers - Nothing is Real (Innovative Leisure)
  42. Circuit des Yeux - Overdue (Ba Da Bing)
  43. Elsinore - Push / Pull (Parasol)
  44. The Electric Peanut Butter Company - Trans-Atlantic Psych Classics Vol. 2 (Ubiquity)
  45. Wooden Rings - Twisted & Tangled EP (self-released)
  46. Goblin - 2013 Tour EP (Death Waltz)
  47. The Noise FM - Attraction (The Record Machine)
  48. Dr. Dog - B-Room (ANTI-)
  49. Wooden Shjips - Back to Land (Thrill Jockey)
  50. Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind (Text)

This week's adds

  • Audacity - Butter Knife (Suicide Squeeze)
  • Diane Coffee - My Friend Fish (Western Vinyl)
  • Fabie Anstee Trio - Home (self-released)
  • Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band - Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band EP (ZNA)
  • Howe Gelb - The Coincidentalist (New West)
  • Juana Molina - Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
  • La Luz - It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  • M.I.A. - Matangi (N.E.E.T.)
  • Minor Alps - Get There (Barsuk)
  • Pelican - Forever Becoming (Southern Lord)
  • Psapp - What Makes Us Glow (State51 Conspiracy)
  • R.A. The Rugged Man - Legends Never Die (Nature Sounds)
  • Russian Circles - Memorial (Sargent House)
  • Seacats - Seacats (Fin)
  • Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
  • Son Lux - Lanterns (Joyful Noise)
  • Son of a Gun/Gross Pointe - Son of a Gun/Gross Pointe (Dumpster Tapes)
  • Tal National - Kaani (Fat Cat)
  • Tennis - Small Sound EP (Communion)
  • Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU (Suicide Squeeze)

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Top 50 for the Week of 10-29-2013

  1. Various Artists - Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label (Numero Group)
  2. Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81 (Hozac)
  3. Cults - Static (Columbia)
  4. Tar - 1988 - 1995 (Chunklet)
  5. Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others (Domino)
  6. Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals (Mom+Pop)
  7. Best Coast - Fade Away (Jewel City)
  8. Frankie Rose - Herein Wild (Fat Possum)
  9. Moonface - Julia with Blue Jeans On (Jagjaguwar)
  10. Crystal Stilts - Nature Noir (Sacred Bones)
  11. Circuit des Yeux - Overdue (Ba Da Bing)
  12. Julie Meckler - Queenshead (self-released)
  13. Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind (Text)
  14. Frog Eyes - Carey's Cold Spring (self-released)
  15. Cave - Threace (Drag City)
  16. Ezra Furman - Day of the Dog (Bar/None)
  17. Haim - Days Are Gone (Columbia)
  18. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris (Tan Cressida)
  19. Cameron McGill - Gallows Etiquette (Post-Important)
  20. Various Artists - Kill Yourself Dancing The Story of Sunset Records Inc. Chicago 1985-88 (Still Music)
  21. Dosh - Milk Money (Graveface)
  22. Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day (Rhymes of an Hour)
  23. Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady (Bad Boy)
  24. Slushy - Five Little Leaves EP (Tripp Tapes)
  25. Quasi - Mole City (Kill Rock Stars)
  26. Willis Earl Beal - Nobody knows. (XL)
  27. Velcro Lewis Group - Open the Sky (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
  28. Darkside - Psychic (Other People)
  29. Pink Frost - Sundowning (BLVD)
  30. Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things That You Broke EP (What's Your Rupture?)
  31. Traxman - Teklife 3: The Architek [2-disc] (Lit City Trax)
  32. Tim Hecker - Virgins (kranky)
  33. Elvis Costello & The Roots - Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs (Blue Note)
  34. Dr. Dog - B-Room (ANTI-)
  35. Sebadoh - Defend Yourself (Joyful Noise)
  36. TV Ghost - Disconnect (In the Red)
  37. Bill Callahan - Dream River (Drag City)
  38. Dean Wareham - Emancipated Hearts (Sonic Cathedral)
  39. Nightmares on Wax - Feelin' Good (Warp)
  40. Gringo Star - Floating Out to Sea (My Anxious Mouth Inc.)
  41. US Girls - Free Advice Column EP (Last Gang)
  42. Au Revoir Simone - Move in Spectrums (Instant)
  43. Boldy James - My 1st Chemistry Set (Decon)
  44. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe (Glassnote)
  45. todayshits - The Boy Can't Help It (Tripp Tapes)
  46. The Electric Peanut Butter Company - Trans-Atlantic Psych Classics Vol. 2 (Ubiquity)
  47. Red Fang - Whales and Leeches (Relapse)
  48. Goblin - 2013 Tour EP (Death Waltz)
  49. Boardwalk - Boardwalk (Stones Throw)
  50. Hank 3 - Brothers of the 4x4 (Hank 3)

This week's adds

  • Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge)
  • Arp - More (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Glasser - Interiors (True Panther Sounds)
  • Harm Wülf - There's Honey In the Soil So We Wait for the Till (Deathwish Inc)
  • His Clancyness - Vicious (FatCat)
  • Jonwayne - Rap Album One (Stones Throw)
  • Latryx - The Second Album (Latryamid)
  • Mickey & The Soul Generation - Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & The Soul Generation (Cali-Tex)
  • Midlake - Antiphon (ATO)
  • Nobunny - Secret Songs: Reflections from the Ear Mirror (Goner)
  • of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (Polyvinyl)
  • Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu (Ribbon Music)
  • Oozing Wound - Retrash (Thrill Jockey)
  • Poliça - Shulamith (Mom+Pop)
  • Ryan Hemsworth - Guilt Trips (Last Gang)
  • Sara Savery - The Diver (DPC)
  • The Martha's Vineyard Ferries - Mass. Grave (Kiam)
  • The Stargazer Lilies - We are the Dreamers (Graveface)
  • White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)
  • Wooden Shjips - Back to Land (Thrill Jockey)

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Top 50 for the Week of 10-22-2013

  1. Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals (Mom+Pop)
  2. Tar - 1988 - 1995 (Chunklet)
  3. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris (Tan Cressida)
  4. Various Artists - Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label (Numero)
  5. Best Coast - Fade Away (Jewel City)
  6. Various Artists - Kill Yourself Dancing The Story of Sunset Records Inc. Chicago 1985-88 (Still Music)
  7. Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81 (Hozac)
  8. Polvo - Siberia (Merge)
  9. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - The Speed of Things (Warner Bros)
  10. The Dismemberment Plan - Uncanney Valley (Partisan)
  11. Haim - Days Are Gone (Columbia)
  12. Deltron 3030 - Event II (Bulk)
  13. MGMT - MGMT (Columbia)
  14. Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind (Text)
  15. Ezra Furman - Day of the Dog (Bar/None)
  16. Pusha T - My Name is My Name (GOOD Music)
  17. Velcro Lewis Group - Open the Sky (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
  18. Darkside - Psychic (Other People)
  19. The Blow - The Blow (Kanine)
  20. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe (Glassnote)
  21. The Noise FM - Attraction (The Record Machine)
  22. Cameron McGill - Gallows Etiquette (Post-Important)
  23. Frankie Rose - Herein Wild (Fat Possum)
  24. The Sadies - Internal Sounds (Yep Roc)
  25. Volcano Choir - Repave (Jagjaguwar)
  26. The Fresh & Onlys - Soothsayer (Mexican Summer)
  27. Janelle Mon‡e - The Electric Lady (Bad Boy)
  28. Cave - Threace (Drag City)
  29. Dr. Dog - B-Room (ANTI-)
  30. TV Ghost - Disconnect (In the Red)
  31. DJ Rashad - Double Cup (Hyperdub)
  32. Fuzz - Fuzz (In the Red)
  33. Unwound - Kid is Gone (Numero)
  34. Au Revoir Simone - Move in Spectrums (Instant)
  35. The Dirtbombs - Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey! (In the Red)
  36. Elsinore - Push / Pull (Parasol)
  37. todayshits - The Boy Can't Help It (Tripp Tapes)
  38. Las Kellies - Total Exposure (Fire)
  39. Elvis Costello & The Roots - Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs (Blue Note)
  40. Nightmares on Wax - Feelin' Good (Warp)
  41. Slushy - Five Little Leaves EP (Tripp Tapes)
  42. Mountains for Clouds - Maybe It's Already Everywhere (Count Your Lucky Stars)
  43. Crystal Stilts - Nature Noir (Sacred Bones)
  44. Circuit des Yeux - Overdue (Ba Da Bing)
  45. Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day (Rhymes of an Hour)
  46. Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things That You Broke EP (What's Your Rupture?)
  47. Frog Eyes - Carey's Cold Spring (self-released)
  48. Holograms - Forever (Captured Tracks)
  49. US Girls - Free Advice Column EP (Last Gang)
  50. Yuck - Glow & Behold (Fat Possum)

This week's adds

  • Black Hearted Brother - Stars Are Our Home (Slumberland)
  • Boardwalk - Boardwalk (Stones Throw)
  • Boldy James - My 1st Chemistry Set (Decon)
  • Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others (Domino)
  • Cults - Static (Columbia)
  • Dean Wareham - Emancipated Hearts (Sonic Cathedral)
  • Dosh - Milk Money (Graveface)
  • Gringo Star - Floating Out to Sea (My Anxious Mouth Inc.)
  • Hank 3 - Brothers of the 4x4 (Hank 3)
  • Julie Meckler - Queenshead (self-released)
  • Kwes. - ilp (Warp)
  • Moonface - Julia with Blue Jeans On (Jagjaguwar)
  • Neo Boys - Sooner or Later (K)
  • The Body - Christs, Redeemers (Thrill Jockey)
  • Tim Hecker - Virgins (kranky)
  • William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop)

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