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Top 50 for the Week of 08/15/2022

  1. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)
  2. Pool Kids – Pool Kids (Skeletal Lightning)
  3. Beach Bunny – Emotional Creature (Mom+Pop)
  4. Phantasia – Ghost Stories (Beach Impediment)
  5. Lifeguard – Crowd Can Talk (Born Yesterday)
  6. Katie Alice Greer – Barbarism (FourFour)
  7. Florist – Florist (Double Double Whammy)
  8. The Movers – The Movers Vol. 1 - 1970-1976 (Analog Africa)
  9. Orchestre Massako – Orchestre Massako (Analog Africa)
  10. Zenizen – P.O.C. (Proof of Concept) (Topshelf)
  11. Working Men's Club – Fear Fear (Heavenly/PIAS)
  12. Cheekface – Too Much to Ask (self-released)
  13. Death Bells – Between Here & Everywhere (Dais)
  14. Of Montreal – Freewave Lucifer (Polyvinyl)
  15. JayWood – Slingshot (Captured Tracks)
  16. Gamblers – When We Exit (Self-Released)
  17. Lava La Rue – Hi-Fidelity (Marathon)
  18. CB Radio Gorgeous – Tour Tape '22 (Trouble In Mind)
  19. Post Office Winter – Music Box (self released)
  20. Emily Jane Powers – Always (self-released)
  21. Ron Trent presents WARM – What Do the Stars Say to You (Night Time Stories)
  22. NoSo – Stay Proud of Me (Partisan)
  23. Marci – Marci (Arbutus)
  24. I AM – Beyond (Division 81)
  25. Twen – One Stop Shop (self-released)
  26. Lil Silva – Yesterday Is Heavy (Nowhere)
  27. The Wheel Workers – Harbor (Sinkhole Texas Inc )
  28. Tallies – Patina ( Kanine)
  29. Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights (RCA)
  30. Sam Prekop and John McEntire – Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)
  31. Chat Pile – God's Country (Flenser)
  32. black midi – Hellfire (Rough Trade)
  33. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)
  34. Fado Bicha – OCUPAÇÃO (self-released)
  35. Wombo – Fairy Rust (Fire Talk)
  36. Beyoncé – RENAISSANCE (Columbia/Parkwood)
  37. Spacemoth – No Past No Future (Carpark/Wax Nine)
  38. Superorganism – World Wide Pop (Domino)
  39. Katy J Pearson – Sound of the Morning (Heavenly/PIAS)
  40. Wu-Lu – LOGGERHEAD (Warp)
  41. Interpol – The Other Side of Make-Believe (Matador)
  42. Momma – Household Name (Polyvinyl)
  43. Stephen Mallinder – Tick Tick Tick (Dais)
  44. Lincoln – Repair and Reward (Temporary Residence)
  45. Friendship – Love The Stranger (Merge)
  46. Sarah Bethe Nelson – Mental Picture (Speakeasy Studios SF)
  47. Ty Segall – Hello, Hi (Drag City)
  48. Delicate Steve – After Hours (ANTI-)
  49. Launder – Happening (Ghostly International)
  50. Gwenno – Tresor (Heavenly)

This week's adds

  • 8-bit crEEps – Dress For The Future (self-released)
  • Bobby Would – STYX (Kashual Plastik)
  • Boris – Heavy Rocks (2022) (Relapse)
  • Brijean – Angelo (Ghostly International)
  • Celestine Ukwu – No Condition Is Permanent (Mississippi)
  • Claude – a lot's gotta change (American Dreams)
  • Conjunto Primitivo – Morir y Renacer (Chicago Research)
  • CURLEYS – CURLEYS (Total Punk)
  • Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)
  • Golomb – Golomb (self-released)
  • Kiwi Jr – Chopper (Sub Pop)
  • Kyle Kidd – Soothsayer (American Dreams)
  • Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento – Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento (Ansonia)
  • Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Reset (Domino)
  • Primordial Undermind – An Imaginal Abydos (Sunrise Ocean Bender)
  • Rich Ruth – I Survived, It's Over (Third Man)
  • Sylvan Esso – No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista / Concord)
  • Tall Dwarfs – Unravelled: 1981-2002 (Merge)
  • The Frowning Clouds – Gospel Sounds & More from the Church of Scientology (Anti Fade)
  • The Valery Trails – The Sky Is Blue (self-released)
  • Tony Molina – In the Fade (Run for Cover)

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Top 50 for the week of 08/08/2022

  1. Beach Bunny – Emotional Creature (Mom+Pop)
  2. Of Montreal – Freewave Lucifer (Polyvinyl)
  3. Lil Silva – Yesterday Is Heavy (Nowhere)
  4. Zenizen – P.O.C. (Proof of Concept) (Topshelf)
  5. JayWood – Slingshot (Captured Tracks)
  6. Working Men's Club – Fear Fear (Heavenly/PIAS)
  7. Florist – Florist (Double Double Whammy)
  8. NoSo – Stay Proud of Me (Partisan)
  9. Lava La Rue – Hi-Fidelity (Marathon)
  10. Beyoncé – RENAISSANCE (Columbia/Parkwood)
  11. Interpol – The Other Side of Make-Believe (Matador)
  12. Wombo – Fairy Rust (Fire Talk)
  13. Ron Trent presents WARM – What Do the Stars Say to You (Night Time Stories)
  14. Twen – One Stop Shop (self-released)
  15. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)
  16. Maggie Rogers – Surrender (Capitol)
  17. Wu-Lu – LOGGERHEAD (Warp)
  18. Petrol Girls – Baby (Hassle)
  19. Beabadoobee – beatopia (Dirty Hit )
  20. CB Radio Gorgeous – Tour Tape '22 (Trouble In Mind)
  21. Chat Pile – God's Country (The Flenser)
  22. black midi – Hellfire (Rough Trade)
  23. Sun's Signature – Sun's Signature (Partisan)
  24. Ty Segall – Hello, Hi (Drag City)
  25. Spacemoth – No Past No Future (Carpark/Wax Nine)
  26. Superorganism – World Wide Pop (Domino)
  27. Katy J Pearson – Sound of the Morning (Heavenly/PIAS)
  28. Sam Prekop and John McEntire – Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)
  29. Katalyst, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Katalyst JID013 (Jazz is Dead)
  30. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)
  31. The Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club – Please Stand By (Big Blast)
  32. Oogbogo – Plastic (God?)
  33. Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights (RCA)
  34. Post Office Winter – Music Box (self-released)
  35. Phil Yates & the Affiliates – A Thin Thread (Futureman)
  36. Cult Objects – Secrets of Pain-Free Living (World Gone Mad)
  37. Joan Shelley – The Spur (No Quarter)
  38. Ahmer – AZLI (Azadi)
  39. Minami Deutsch – Fortune Goodies (Guruguru Brain)
  40. Delicate Steve – After Hours (ANTI-)
  41. Gwenno – Tresor (Heavenly)
  42. Viagra Boys – Cave World (Year 0001)
  43. MUNA – MUNA (Saddest Factory)
  44. Guided by Voices – Tremblers and Goggles By Rank (Guided By Voices Inc.)
  45. Lollygagger – Total Party Kill (What's for Breakfast)
  46. Sammy Cannillo – A Letter to Send (self-released)
  47. Sarah Bethe Nelson – Mental Picture (Speakeasy Studios SF)
  48. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  49. Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain (Nuclear Blast)
  50. Left at London – Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 3 (Fourth Strike)

This week's adds

  1. Cheekface – Too Much to Ask (self-released)
  2. Death Bells – Between Here & Everywhere (Dais)
  3. Double Wig – Double Wig (Carbon/Feeding Tube)
  4. Emily Jane Powers – Always (self-released)
  5. Friendship – Love The Stranger (Merge)
  6. Gamblers – When We Exit (self-released)
  7. I AM – Beyond (Division 81)
  8. Katie Alice Greer – Barbarism (FourFour)
  9. Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)
  10. Lifeguard – Crowd Can Talk (Born Yesterday)
  11. Lincoln – Repair and Reward (Temporary Residence)
  12. Marci – Marci (Arbutus)
  13. Orchestre Massako – Orchestre Massako (Analog Africa)
  14. Phantasia – Ghost Stories (Beach Impediment)
  15. Pool Kids – Pool Kids (Skeletal Lightning)
  16. Stephen Mallinder – Tick Tick Tick (Dais)
  17. Tallies – Patina ( Kanine / Hand Drawn Dracula)
  18. The Movers – The Movers Vol. 1 - 1970-1976 (Analog Africa)
  19. The Wheel Workers – Harbor (Sinkhole Texas Inc)

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top 50 for the Week of 08/01/2022

  1. Working Men's Club – Fear Fear (Heavenly/PIAS)
  2. Beach Bunny – Emotional Creature (Mom+Pop)
  3. JayWood – Slingshot (Captured Tracks)
  4. Lil Silva – Yesterday Is Heavy (Nowhere)
  5. Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  6. Twen – One Stop Shop (self-released)
  7. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)
  8. Petrol Girls – Baby (Hassle)
  9. NoSo – Stay Proud of Me (Partisan)
  10. Post Office Winter – Music Box (self released)
  11. Ty Segall – Hello, Hi (Drag City)
  12. Interpol – The Other Side of Make-Believe (Matador)
  13. Sam Prekop and John McEntire – Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)
  14. black midi – Hellfire (Rough Trade)
  15. Momma – Household Name (Polyvinyl)
  16. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)
  17. Sessa – Estrela Acesa (Mexican Summer)
  18. Ahmer – AZLI (Azadi)
  19. Katy J Pearson – Sound of the Morning (Heavenly/PIAS)
  20. Launder – Happening (Ghostly International)
  21. Phil Yates & the Affiliates – A Thin Thread (Futureman)
  22. Ron Trent presents WARM – What Do the Stars Say to You (Night Time Stories)
  23. Fado Bicha – OCUPAÇÃO (self-released)
  24. Katalyst, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Katalyst JID013 (Jazz is Dead)
  25. Left at London – Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 3 (Fourth Strike)
  26. MUNA – MUNA (Saddest Factory)
  27. CB Radio Gorgeous – Tour Tape '22 (Trouble In Mind)
  28. Sammy Cannillo – A Letter to Send (self-released)
  29. Zola Jesus – Arkhon (Sacred Bones)
  30. Hollie Cook – Happy Hour (Merge)
  31. Horsegirl – Rough Trade Super-Disc (Matador)
  32. Spacemoth – No Past No Future (Carpark/Wax Nine)
  33. Superorganism – World Wide Pop (Domino)
  34. Minami Deutsch – Fortune Goodies (Guruguru Brain)
  35. Delicate Steve – After Hours (ANTI-)
  36. Wu-Lu – LOGGERHEAD (Warp)
  37. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – XI: Bleed Here Now (Dine Alone)
  38. Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights (RCA)
  39. Tami Neilson – KINGMAKER (Neilson Records)
  40. Cult Objects – Secrets of Pain-Free Living (World Gone Mad)
  41. Joan Shelley – The Spur (No Quarter)
  42. Wailin Storms – The Silver Snake Unfolds (Gilead Media)
  43. The A's – Fruit (Psychic Hotline)
  44. Girlsperm – The Muse Ascends (Thrilling Living)
  45. Judy and the Jerks – Music to Go Nuts (Thrilling Living)
  46. Al Rose – Again the Beginner (Monkey Holding Peach)
  47. Civic Center – Settlements (Chicago Research)
  48. Lollygagger – Total Party Kill (What's for Breakfast)
  49. Annie Fish – It Would Be Nice (self-released)
  50. The Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club – Please Stand By (Big Blast)

This week's adds

  • Beyoncé – RENAISSANCE (Parkwood/Columbia)
  • Chat Pile – God's Country (The Flenser)
  • Florist – Florist (Double Double Whammy)
  • Lava La Rue – Hi-Fidelity (Marathon)
  • Maggie Rogers – Surrender (Capitol)
  • Of Montreal – Freewave Lucifer (Polyvinyl)
  • Only Child Tyrant – Time to Run (Nomark)
  • Sarah Bethe Nelson – Mental Picture (Speakeasy Studios SF)
  • Sun's Signature – Sun's Signature (Partisan)
  • Wombo – Fairy Rust (Fire Talk)
  • Zenizen – P.O.C. (Proof of Concept) (Topshelf)

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Top 50 for the Week of 07/25/2022

  1. black midi – Hellfire (Rough Trade)
  2. Momma – Household Name (Polyvinyl)
  3. CB Radio Gorgeous – Tour Tape '22 (Trouble In Mind)
  4. Greenlights Music – A Beautiful Mood (self-released)
  5. NoSo – Stay Proud of Me (Partisan)
  6. Ron Trent presents WARM – What Do the Stars Say to You (Night Time Stories)
  7. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)
  8. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table (4AD)
  9. Beabadoobee – beatopia (Dirty Hit)
  10. Fado Bicha – OCUPAÇÃO (self-released)
  11. Hercules and Love Affair – In Amber (BMG)
  12. Grace Ives – Janky Star (True Panther/Harvest)
  13. Phil Yates & the Affiliates – A Thin Thread (Futureman Records)
  14. The Curls – Smothered & Covered (Truth Zone)
  15. Petrol Girls – Baby (Hassle)
  16. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)
  17. Sessa – Estrela Acesa (Mexican Summer)
  18. Hollie Cook – Happy Hour (Merge)
  19. Katalyst, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Katalyst JID013 (Jazz is Dead)
  20. Viagra Boys – Cave World (Year 0001)
  21. Left at London – Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 3 (Fourth Strike)
  22. MUNA – MUNA (Saddest Factory)
  23. Flasher – Love Is Yours (Domino)
  24. Jasmyn – In The Wild (Anti-)
  25. Post Office Winter – Music Box (self released)
  26. Sam Prekop and John McEntire – Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)
  27. Joan Shelley – The Spur (No Quarter)
  28. Zola Jesus – Arkhon (Sacred Bones)
  29. Compilation – Rare SSR Electronica 1988-94 (Crammed Archives 1) (Crammed Discs)
  30. Sammy Cannillo – A Letter to Send (self released)
  31. Cult Objects – Secrets of Pain-Free Living (World Gone Mad)
  32. Medicine Singers – Medicine Singers (Joyful Noise)
  33. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – XI: Bleed Here Now (Dine Alone)
  34. Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights (RCA)
  35. VISION 3D – Hypnose (Six Tonnes de Chair)
  36. Goose – Dripfield (No Coincidence)
  37. Jukebox The Ghost – Cheers (This Fiction)
  38. Civic Center – Settlements (Chicago Research)
  39. The Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club – Please Stand By (Big Blast)
  40. The Slaps – Tomato Tree (self-released)
  41. Party Dozen – The Real Work (Temporary Resistance)
  42. Flowertown – Half Yesterday (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  43. Oogbogo – Plastic (God?)
  44. Girlsperm – The Muse Ascends (Thrilling Living)
  45. TRAAMS – Personal Best (Fat Cat)
  46. Young Guv – GUV IV (Run for Cover)
  47. Vintage Crop – Kibitzer (Upset The Rhythm)
  48. Σtella – Up and Away (Sub Pop)
  49. Horsegirl – Rough Trade Super-Disc (Matador)
  50. Yaya Bey – Remember Your North Star (Big Dada)

This week's adds

  • Ahmer – AZLI (Azadi)
  • Al Rose – Again the Beginner (Monkey Holding Peach)
  • Beach Bunny – Emotional Creature (Mom+Pop)
  • Delicate Steve – After Hours (Anti-)
  • Interpol – The Other Side of Make-Believe (Matador)
  • JayWood – Slingshot (Captured Tracks)
  • Katy J Pearson – Sound of the Morning (Heavenly / PIAS)
  • Launder – Happening (Ghostly International)
  • Lil Silva – Yesterday Is Heavy (Nowhere)
  • Lizzo – Special (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  • Minami Deutsch – Fortune Goodies (Guruguru Brain)
  • Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain (Nuclear Blast)
  • Nick Macri & Mono No Aware – Amache (Cuneiform)
  • Spacemoth – No Past No Future (Carpark/Wax Nine)
  • Superorganism – World Wide Pop (Domino)
  • The A's – Fruit (Psychic Hotline)
  • twen – One Stop Shop (self-released)
  • Ty Segall – Hello, Hi (Drag City)
  • Wailin Storms – The Silver Snake Unfolds (Gilead Media)
  • Working Men's Club – Fear Fear (Heavenly / PIAS)
  • Wu-Lu – LOGGERHEAD (Warp)

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Top 50 for the Week of 07/18/2022

  1. The Curls – Smothered & Covered (Truth Zone)
  2. Post Office Winter – Music Box (self released)
  3. Hollie Cook – Happy Hour (Merge)
  4. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table (4AD)
  5. Grace Ives – Janky Star (True Panther/Harvest)
  6. Sammy Cannillo – A Letter to Send (self released)
  7. Greenlights Music – A Beautiful Mood (self-released)
  8. Ron Trent presents WARM – What Do the Stars Say to You (Night Time Stories)
  9. Panda Riot – Extra Cosmic (self-released)
  10. The Handcuffs – Burn the Rails (Pravda)
  11. Momma – Household Name (Polyvinyl)
  12. Fado Bicha – OCUPAÇÃO (self released)
  13. Cult Objects – Secrets of Pain-Free Living (World Gone Mad)
  14. Zola Jesus – Arkhon (Sacred Bones)
  15. Gwenno – Tresor (Heavenly)
  16. Annie Fish – It Would Be Nice (self released)
  17. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)
  18. Sessa – Estrela Acesa (Mexican Summer)
  19. OLAN – Contra (Anjunadeep)
  20. Viagra Boys – Cave World (Year 0001)
  21. Lollygagger – Total Party Kill (What's for Breakfast)
  22. The Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club – Please Stand By (Big Blast)
  23. Petrol Girls – Baby (Hassle Records)
  24. Yaya Bey – Remember Your North Star (Big Dada)
  25. Jasmyn – In The Wild (Anti-)
  26. TRAAMS – Personal Best (Fat Cat)
  27. Angel Olsen – Big Time (Jagjaguwar)
  28. the temporarily hidden – 001 (Soundpoint)
  29. The Slaps – Tomato Tree (Tiger Bomb)
  30. Joan Shelley – The Spur (No Quarter)
  31. Left at London – Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 3 (Fourth Strike)
  32. Time Wharp – Spiro World (Leaving Records)
  33. MUNA – MUNA (Saddest Factory)
  34. Guided by Voices – Tremblers and Goggles By Rank (GBV Inc)
  35. Flasher – Love Is Yours (Domino)
  36. Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)
  37. Hercules and Love Affair – In Amber (BMG)
  38. Afrorack – The Afrorack (Hakuna Kulala)
  39. Ural Thomas & The Pain – Dancing Dimensions (Bella Union)
  40. Girlsperm – The Muse Ascends (Thrilling Living)
  41. Sally Anne Morgan – Cups (Thrill Jockey)
  42. Various Artists – Rare SSR Electronica 1988-94 (Crammed Archives 1) (Crammed Discs)
  43. Making Movies – XOPA (Cosmica Artists)
  44. Psychic Ills & Gibby Haynes – FRKWYS Vol. 4.5: Nowhere in the Night (RVNG Intl.)
  45. Σtella – Up and Away (Sub Pop)
  46. Hurry Up – Dismal Nitch (Comedy Minus One)
  47. Erin Anne – Do Your Worst (Carpark)
  48. Horsegirl – Rough Trade Super-Disc (Matador)
  49. Judy and the Jerks – Music to Go Nuts (Thrilling Living)
  50. Poison Ruin – Poison Ruin (Urge/Drunken Sailor)

This week's adds

  1. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – XI: Bleed Here Now (Dine Alone)
  2. Beabadoobee – beatopia (Dirty Hit )
  3. black midi – Hellfire (Rough Trade)
  4. CB Radio Gorgeous – Tour Tape '22 (Trouble In Mind)
  5. Civic Center – Settlements (Chicago Research)
  6. Flowertown – Half Yesterday (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  7. Katalyst, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Katalyst JID013 (Jazz is Dead)
  8. Medicine Singers – Medicine Singers (Joyful Noise)
  9. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)
  10. NoSo – Stay Proud of Me (Partisan)
  11. Oogbogo – Plastic (God?)
  12. Party Dozen – The Real Work (Temporary Resistance)
  13. Phil Yates & the Affiliates – A Thin Thread (Futureman Records)
  14. Sam Prekop and John McEntire – Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)
  15. Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights (RCA)
  16. Tami Neilson – KINGMAKER (Neilson Records)
  17. Tim Bernardes – Mil Coisas Invisíveis (Psychic Hotline)

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