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Top 50 for the Week of 01/02/2023

  1. 1 – SZA (SOS)
  2. 2 – The Cool Greenhouse (Sod's Toastie)
  3. 3 – Eggs (A Glitter Year)
  4. 4 – Smut (How the Light Felt)
  5. 5 – Frank Okay (Escape from Chicago)
  6. 6 – beastii (B.E.A.S.T.I.I.)
  7. 7 – Breanna Barbara (Nothin' But Time)
  8. 8 – dreamcastmoe (Sound Is Like Water)
  9. 9 – Gold Panda (The Work)
  10. 10 – Compilation (Typical Girls Volume 6)
  11. 11 – Smirk (Material)
  12. 12 – Compilation (Rare Global Pop 1980s (Crammed Archives 2))
  13. 13 – White Lung (Premonition)
  14. 14 – Fousheé (softCORE)
  15. 15 – Rattlesnake Milk (Chicken Fried Snake)
  16. 16 – Adrian Quesada (Jaguar Sound)
  17. 17 – Peace Regime (Spell Bloody)
  18. 18 – Brother Derek (Parade Rest)
  19. 19 – Sarathy Korwar (Kalak)
  20. 20 – Fievel Is Glauque (Flaming Swords)
  21. 21 – Blessed (Circuitous)
  22. 22 – Joseph Decosimo (While You Were Slumbering)
  23. 23 – Ben LaMar Gay (Certain Reveries)
  24. 24 – MINISKIRT (Miniskirt S/T EP)
  25. 25 – Maku Sica with Hamid Drake, Thymme Jones, Tatsu Aoki (Formless)
  26. 26 – Doleful Lions (Caramel Electric)
  27. 27 – Mykki Blanco (Stay Close To Music)
  28. 28 – Flex TMG (Whisper Swish)
  29. 29 – Marlowe (Marlowe 3)
  30. 30 – Nervous Eaters (Monsters + Angels)
  31. 31 – Compilation (Saigon Supersound Vol. 3)
  32. 32 – The Orielles (Tableau)
  33. 33 – Dalibor Cruz (Deviance EP)
  34. 34 – Obe (EP)
  35. 35 – Bow & Spear (Way Vivid)
  36. 36 – Gay Meat (Bed of Every)
  37. 37 – Gaye Su Akyol (Anadolu Ejderi)
  38. 38 – Dana Buoy (Experiments in Plant-Based Music: Vol. 1)
  39. 39 – Dezron Douglas (ATALAYA)
  40. 40 – Drowse (Wane Into It)
  41. 41 – Shells (Outside)
  42. 42 – Nightshift (Made of the Earth)
  43. 43 – Röyksopp (Profound Mysteries III)
  44. 44 – Spaces of Disappearance (Virtue)
  45. 45 – Children Maybe Later (What A Flash Kick!)
  46. 46 – Shake Chain (Snake Chain)
  47. 47 – Hallelujahs (Eat Meat, Swear an Oath)
  48. 48 – Mount Kimbie (MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning)
  49. 49 – Aoife Nessa Frances (Protector)
  50. 50 – Swearwords (No Place in America)

This week's adds

  • Ready for Death – Ready for Death (Translation Loss)
  • Almond Joy – Oh Henry! (Perennial/K)
  • Galore – Blush (Paisley Shirt)
  • The Holy Circle – Don't Disturb My Waking Dream (Deathbomb Arc)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12/19/2022


  1. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA)

  2. Eggs – A Glitter Year (Prefect/Howlin' Banana)

  3. The Cool Greenhouse – Sod's Toastie (Melodic)

  4. dreamcastmoe – Sound Is Like Water (Ghostly International/Spectral Sound )

  5. Smut – How the Light Felt (Bayonet)

  6. Breanna Barbara – Nothin' But Time (Fuzz Club)

  7. Fousheé – softCORE (RCA)

  8. Peace Regime – Spell Bloody (Chicago Research)

  9. Flex TMG – Whisper Swish (Domestic Departure)

  10. Fievel Is Glauque – Flaming Swords (Math Interactive)

  11. Mykki Blanco – Stay Close To Music (Transgressive/PIAS)

  12. Marlowe – Marlowe 3 (Mello Music Group)

  13. Swearwords – No Place in America (self-released)

  14. Bow & Spear – Way Vivid (Triple Hammer)

  15. MINISKIRT – Miniskirt S/T EP (self-released)

  16. Doleful Lions – Caramel Electric (self-released)

  17. Smirk – Material (Feel It)

  18. Gay Meat – Bed of Every (Self Aware)

  19. Gaye Su Akyol – Anadolu Ejderi (Glitterbeat)

  20. Various Artists – Saigon Supersound Vol. 3 (Saigon Supersound)

  21. Sarathy Korwar – Kalak (The Leaf Label)

  22. Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries III (Dog Triumph / PIAS )

  23. Ben LaMar Gay – Certain Reveries (International Anthem)

  24. Dalibor Cruz – Deviance EP (Chicago Research)

  25. Maku Sica with Hamid Drake, Thymme Jones, Tatsu Aoki – Formless (Feeding Tube)

  26. Various Artists – Rare Global Pop 1980s (Crammed Archives 2) (Crammed Discs)

  27. Gold Panda – The Work (City Slang)

  28. Holy Tongue – III (Amidah)

  29. White Lung – Premonition (Domino)

  30. Roy Montgomery – Camera Melancholia (Grapefruit)

  31. Dezron Douglas – ATALAYA (International Anthem)

  32. Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound (ATO)

  33. Nightshift – Made of the Earth (Trouble in Mind)

  34. Tomaga – Extended Play 1 & 2 (Hands in the Dark)

  35. Mary Halvorson – Belladonna (Nonesuch)

  36. Shake Chain – Snake Chain (Upset the Rhythm)

  37. Bret Koontz & Truancy Club – A Sparkle Road Cult (Earth Libraries)

  38. Spaces of Disappearance – Virtue (self-released)

  39. Children Maybe Later – What A Flash Kick! (Slothmate Productions)

  40. Dana Buoy – Experiments in Plant-Based Music: Vol. 1 (Everlong)

  41. Joseph Decosimo – While You Were Slumbering (Sleepy Cat)

  42. Drowse – Wane Into It (The Flenser)

  43. Tyondai Braxton – Telekinesis (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch)

  44. Mount Kimbie – MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning (Warp)

  45. Aoife Nessa Frances – Protector (Partisan)

  46. Rider/Horse – Feed 'Em Salt (Ever/Never)

  47. Nervous Eaters – Monsters + Angels (Wicked Cool)

  48. Massa Nera – Derramar | Querer | Borrar (Zegema Beach)

  49. Elder – Innate Passage (Stickman)

  50. Marcus Paquin – Our Love (Birthday Cake)

This week's adds

  1. Beastii – B.E.A.S.T.I.I. (What's For Breakfast)

  2. Rattlesnake Milk – Chicken Fried Snake (Feels So Good)

  3. Moriah Bailey – I Tried Words (Keeled Scales)

  4. Brother Derek – Parade Rest (Space Heater)

  5. Dead Meadow – Force Form Free (Blues Funeral)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12/12/2022

  1. Eggs – A Glitter Year (Prefect/Howlin' Banana)
  2. Smut – How the Light Felt (Bayonet)
  3. The Cool Greenhouse – Sod's Toastie (Melodic)
  4. Breanna Barbara – Nothin' But Time (Fuzz Club)
  5. Dalibor Cruz – Deviance EP (Chicago Research)
  6. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
  7. Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)
  8. Ben LaMar Gay – Certain Reveries (International Anthem)
  9. MINISKIRT – Miniskirt S/T EP (self-released)
  10. dreamcastmoe – Sound Is Like Water (Ghostly International/Spectral Sound)
  11. Horse Lords – Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
  12. Doleful Lions – Caramel Electric (self-released)
  13. Flex TMG – Whisper Swish (Domestic Departure)
  14. Christine and The Queens – Redcar les adorables etoiles (Because)
  15. Ariel Zetina – Cyclorama (Local Action)
  16. Mykki Blanco – Stay Close To Music (Transgressive/PIAS)
  17. Non Plus Temps – Desire Choir (PPM)
  18. Compilation – Rare Global Pop 1980s (Crammed Archives 2) (Crammed Discs)
  19. Ezra Collective – Where I'm Meant To Be (Partisan)
  20. Fievel Is Glauque – Flaming Swords (Math Interactive)
  21. Smirk – Material (Feel It)
  22. Fousheé – softCORE (RCA)
  23. Gaye Su Akyol – Anadolu Ejderi (Glitterbeat)
  24. Children Maybe Later – What A Flash Kick! (Slothmate Productions)
  25. White Lung – Premonition (Domino)
  26. Gold Panda – The Work (City Slang)
  27. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)
  28. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)
  29. Peace Regime – Spell Bloody (Chicago Research)
  30. Bret Koontz & Truancy Club – A Sparkle Road Cult (Earth Libraries)
  31. Bow & Spear – Way Vivid (Triple Hammer)
  32. Spaces of Disappearance – Virtue (self-released)
  33. Sweet Cobra – Threes (Hawthorne Street)
  34. James Marlon Magas – Confusion Is My Name (Midwich)
  35. Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound (ATO)
  36. Rubblebucket – Earth Worship (Grand Jury)
  37. Dumb – Pray 4 Tomorrow (Mint)
  38. Phoenix РAlpha Zulu (Loyauté/Glassnote)
  39. Cakes Da Killa – Svengali (Young Arts)
  40. Delivery – Forever Giving Handshakes (Feel It)
  41. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)
  42. BassKase – The Bassman Cometh (Soundpoint)
  43. Chad Taylor Trio – The Reel (Astral Spirits)
  44. Marlowe – Marlowe 3 (Mello Music Group)
  45. Nervous Eaters – Monsters + Angels (Wicked Cool)
  46. Elder – Innate Passage (Stickman)
  47. Roy Montgomery – Camera Melancholia (Grapefruit)
  48. Nagisa Ni Te – Newocean (Black Editions)
  49. Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis (Nonesuch)
  50. Compilation – Saigon Supersound Vol. 3 (Saigon Supersound)

This week's adds

  • Blessed – Circuitous (Flemish Eye)
  • Holy Tongue – III (Amidah)
  • Maku Sica with Hamid Drake, Thymme Jones and Tatsu Aoki – Formless (Feeding Tube)
  • Rider/Horse – Feed 'Em Salt (Ever/Never)
  • Sarathy Korwar – Kalak (The Leaf Label)
  • Swearwords – No Place in America (self-released)
  • SZA – SOS (Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA)
  • Tomaga – Extended Play 1 & 2 (Hands in the Dark)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12/5/22

  1. Eggs – A Glitter Year (Prefect/Howlin' Banana)
  2. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
  3. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)
  4. Fousheé – softCORE (RCA)
  5. Flex TMG – Whisper Swish (Domestic Departure)
  6. Christine and The Queens – Redcar les adorables etoiles (Because)
  7. Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)
  8. Smut – How the Light Felt (Bayonet)
  9. Ariel Zetina – Cyclorama (Local Action)
  10. Bow & Spear – Way Vivid (Triple Hammer)
  11. MINISKIRT – Miniskirt S/T EP (self-released)
  12. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)
  13. Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries III (Dog Triumph / PIAS )
  14. James Marlon Magas – Confusion Is My Name (Midwich)
  15. Mykki Blanco – Stay Close To Music (Transgressive/PIAS)
  16. Ezra Collective – Where I'm Meant To Be (Partisan)
  17. Phoenix – Alpha Zulu (Loyauté/Glassnote)
  18. Ben LaMar Gay – Certain Reveries (International Anthem)
  19. Smirk – Material (Feel It)
  20. Marlowe – Marlowe 3 (Mello Music Group)
  21. Various Artists – Saigon Supersound Vol. 3 (Saigon Supersound)
  22. Chad Taylor Trio – The Reel (Astral Spirits)
  23. Horse Lords – Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
  24. Charlotte Dos Santos – Morfo (Because)
  25. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)
  26. Bret Koontz & Truancy Club – A Sparkle Road Cult (Earth Libraries)
  27. Doleful Lions – Caramel Electric (self-released)
  28. Sweet Cobra – Threes (Hawthorne Street)
  29. Non Plus Temps – Desire Choir (PPM)
  30. Dana Buoy – Experiments in Plant-Based Music: Vol. 1 (Everlong)
  31. Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound (ATO)
  32. Gold Panda – The Work (City Slang)
  33. Cakes Da Killa – Svengali (Young Arts)
  34. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)
  35. Sobs – Air Guitar (Topshelf)
  36. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)
  37. Douglas Andrew McCombs – VMAK (Thrill Jockey)
  38. Hallelujahs – Eat Meat, Swear an Oath (Black Editions)
  39. Nightshift – Made of the Earth (Trouble in Mind)
  40. Mount Kimbie – MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning (Warp)
  41. Rubblebucket – Earth Worship (Grand Jury)
  42. Tegan and Sara – Crybaby (Mom + Pop)
  43. The Jack Moves – Cruiserweight (Everloving)
  44. Tin-ear – Cadastral Maps (Gentle Reminder)
  45. Drugdealer – Hiding In Plain Sight (Mexican Summer)
  46. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
  47. Spaces of Disappearance – Virtue (self-released)
  48. BassKase – The Bassman Cometh (Soundpoint)
  49. Tenci – A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing (Keeled Scales)
  50. Rahill – Sun Songs (Big Dada)

This week's adds

  1. Breanna Barbara – Nothin' But Time (Fuzz Club)
  2. Children Maybe Later – What A Flash Kick! (Slothmate Productions)
  3. Dalibor Cruz – Deviance EP (Chicago Research)
  4. dreamcastmoe – Sound Is Like Water (Ghostly International/Spectral Sound )
  5. Elder – Innate Passage (Stickman)
  6. Fievel Is Glauque – Flaming Swords (Math Interactive)
  7. Gay Meat – Bed of Every (Self Aware)
  8. Gaye Su Akyol – Anadolu Ejderi (Glitterbeat)
  9. Mary Halvorson – Belladonna (Nonesuch)
  10. Massa Nera – Derramar | Querer | Borrar (Zegema Beach)
  11. Nervous Eaters – Monsters + Angels (Wicked Cool)
  12. Obe – EP (Chicago Research)
  13. Peace Regime – Spell Bloody (Chicago Research)
  14. Roy Montgomery – Camera Melancholia (Grapefruit)
  15. The Cool Greenhouse – Sod's Toastie (Melodic)
  16. White Lung – Premonition (Domino)
  17. Various Artists – Rare Global Pop 1980s (Crammed Archives 2) (Crammed Discs)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11/28/2022

  1. Flex TMG – Whisper Swish (Domestic Departure)
  2. Christine and The Queens – Redcar les adorables etoiles (Because)
  3. Marlowe – Marlowe 3 (Mello Music Group)
  4. Ariel Zetina – Cyclorama (Local Action)
  5. Ben LaMar Gay – Certain Reveries (International Anthem)
  6. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)
  7. Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)
  8. Junior Boys – Waiting Game (City Slang)
  9. Shemekia Copeland – Done Come Too Far (Alligator)
  10. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (4AD)
  11. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)
  12. Phoenix РAlpha Zulu (Loyauté/Glassnote)
  13. Doleful Lions – Caramel Electric (self-released)
  14. Mykki Blanco – Stay Close To Music (Transgressive/PIAS)
  15. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
  16. Nick Hakim – COMETA (ATO)
  17. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)
  18. BARBAЯA – is it just a dream (self-released)
  19. FURY – FURY REVOLUTION (self-released)
  20. Compilation – Saigon Supersound Vol. 3 (Saigon Supersound)
  21. Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries III (Dog Triumph / PIAS)
  22. Goat – Oh Death (Rocket)
  23. The Reds, Pinks and Purples – They Only Wanted Your Soul (Slumberland)
  24. BassKase – The Bassman Cometh (Soundpoint)
  25. James Marlon Magas – Confusion Is My Name (Midwich)
  26. Ezra Collective – Where I'm Meant To Be (Partisan)
  27. Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn – Pigments (Merge)
  28. Gold Panda – The Work (City Slang)
  29. The Orchids – Dreaming Kind (Skep Wax)
  30. Tegan and Sara – Crybaby (Mom + Pop)
  31. Sobs – Air Guitar (Topshelf)
  32. Drugdealer – Hiding In Plain Sight (Mexican Summer)
  33. Jon Brion – Meaningless (Jealous Butcher)
  34. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)
  35. MINISKIRT – Miniskirt S/T EP (self-released)
  36. Spaces of Disappearance – Virtue (self-released)
  37. Nice Motor – Superior Street Sessions (self-released)
  38. Sweet Cobra – Threes (Hawthorne Street)
  39. Horse Lords – Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
  40. Non Plus Temps – Desire Choir (PPM)
  41. Charlotte Dos Santos – Morfo (Because)
  42. Nightshift – Made of the Earth (Trouble in Mind)
  43. Mount Kimbie – MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning (Warp)
  44. Duval Timothy – Meeting With A Judas Tree (Carrying Colour)
  45. Rubblebucket – Earth Worship (Grand Jury)
  46. Darkthrone – Astral Fortress (Peaceville)
  47. Compilation – Daniel Vangarde: The Vaults of Zagora Records Mastermind (1971-1984) (Because)
  48. Cakes Da Killa – Svengali (Young Arts)
  49. Carla dal Forno – Come Around (Kallista)
  50. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)

This week's adds

  • Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound (ATO)
  • Bow & Spear – Way Vivid (Triple Hammer Records)
  • Bret Koontz & Truancy Club – A Sparkle Road Club (Earth Libraries)
  • Dana Buoy – Experiments in Plant-Based Music: Vol. I (Everloving)
  • Dezron Douglas – ATALAYA (International Anthem)
  • EggS – A Glitter Year (Prefect/Howlin' Banana)
  • Fousheé – softCORE (RCA)
  • Garrett Saracho, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Garrett Saracho JID015 (Jazz Is Dead)
  • Joseph Decosimo – While You Were Slumbering (Sleepy Cat)
  • Marcus Paquin – Our Love (Birthday Cake)
  • Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis (Nonesuch)
  • Nagisa Ni Te – Newocean (Black Editions)
  • Shake Chain – Snake Chain (Upset the Rhythm)
  • Smirk – Material (Feel It)
  • Smut – How the Light Felt (Bayonet)

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