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Top 50 for the Week of 05/02/2022

  1. Winged Wheel – No Island (12XU)
  2. Cisco Swank X Luke Titus – Some Things Take Time (Sooper)
  3. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (Partisan)
  4. Congotronics International – Where's The One? (Crammed Discs)
  5. King Hannah – I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
  6. Hatchie – Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian)
  7. Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)
  8. Axons – I Object to Everything (Impossible Colors)
  9. Jerry Paper – Free Time (Stones Throw)
  10. Renata Zeiguer – Picnic in the Dark (Northern Spy)
  11. Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
  12. Julmud – Tuqoos (Bilna'es)
  13. The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
  14. Alabaster DePlume – GOLD (International Anthem)
  15. Axel Boman – LUZ (Studio Barnhus)
  16. Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve)
  17. Defcee and BoatHouse – For All Debts Public And Private (Closed Sessions)
  18. Sault – AIR (Forever Living Originals)
  19. Tombstones In Their Eyes – A Higher Place (Kitten Robot)
  20. Lucius – Second Nature (Mom+Pop)
  21. Compilation – Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962 - 1983 (Analog Africa)
  22. Father John Misty РChloë and the Next 20th Century (Sub Pop)
  23. Bambara – Love on My Mind (Wharf Cat)
  24. The Singleman Affair – 4pm Sunlight (Cardboard Sangria)
  25. Calexico – El Mirador (ANTI-)
  26. Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive (Sub Pop)
  27. Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
  28. Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (Merge)
  29. Vicky Farewell – Sweet Company (Mac's)
  30. SAVAK – Human Error / Human Delight (Ernest Jenning Record Co./Peculiar Works)
  31. Rose Mercie – ¬øKieres Agua? (Celluloid Lunch)
  32. Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)
  33. HEALTH – DISCO 4 :: PART II (Loma Vista/Concord)
  34. Sly5thAve & Roberto Ver√°stegui – Agua de Jamaica (Tru Thoughts)
  35. Oso Oso – Sore Thumb (Triple Crown)
  36. Rob Clearfield & Quin Kirchner – Concentric Orbits (Astral Spirits)
  37. Dangerous Chairs – Introducing Dangerous Chairs (self-released)
  38. Loop – Sonancy (Cooking Vinyl)
  39. Red Pants – When We Were Dancing (Paisley Shirt)
  40. Axel Boman – Quest For Fire (Studio Barnhus)
  41. Kate Bollinger – Look at It in the Light (Ghostly International)
  42. Bailey Bigger – Coyote Red (Madjack)
  43. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Room at the Top (CYHSY/Secretky Distribution)
  44. Catherine Campbell – Leave No Trace (self-released)
  45. Romero – Turn it On! (Feel It)
  46. Tempers – New Meaning (Dais)
  47. Neutrals – Bus Stop Nights (Static Shock)
  48. Kilo Kish – AMERICAN GURL (Independent)
  49. Jenny Hval – Classic Objects (4AD)
  50. Sonic Youth – In/Out/In (Three Lobed)

This week's adds

  • 50 Foot Wave – Black Pearl (Fire)
  • Angela James – Now That I Have You (self-released)
  • Astrel K – Flickering i (Duophonic)
  • The Body Electric – Presentation and Reality (Propeller/Flying Nun)
  • Crime of Passing – Crime of Passing (Feel It)
  • Deer Scout – Woodpecker (Carpark)
  • Ebi Soda – Honk If You're Sad (Tru Thoughts)
  • Ghost Power – Ghost Power (Duophonic)
  • Girlpool – Forgiveness (ANTI-)
  • 春ねむり Haru Nemuri – 春火燎原 Shunka Ryougen (TO3S)
  • Jeanines – Don't Wait for a Sign (Slumberland)
  • Kehlani – blue water road (Atlantic)
  • Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Let's Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons (Transgressive.[PIAS])
  • Limousine Beach – Limousine Beach (Tee Pee)
  • Lovelock – Someone (Italians Do It Better)
  • Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal (Domino)
  • Nequient – Darker Than Death Or Night (Nefarious Industries)
  • Papercuts – Past Life Regression (Slumberland)
  • Tomberlin – i don't know who needs to hear this... (Saddle Creek)
  • Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather (Ghostly International)

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Top 50 for the Week of 04/25/2022

  1. Julmud جُلْمود – Tuqoos | طُقُوس (Bilna'es)
  2. Axons – I Object to Everything (Impossible Colors)
  3. Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)
  4. King Hannah – I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
  5. Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
  6. Jerry Paper – Free Time (Stones Throw)
  7. Defcee and BoatHouse – For All Debts Public And Private (Closed Sessions)
  8. Calexico – El Mirador (ANTI-)
  9. Sault – AIR (Forever Living Originals)
  10. The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
  11. Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)
  12. Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
  13. Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve)
  14. PLOSIVS – PLOSIVS (Swami)
  15. Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (Merge)
  16. Oceanator – Nothing's Ever Fine (Polyvinyl)
  17. Renata Zeiguer – Picnic in the Dark (Northern Spy)
  18. Mick Trouble – It's Mick Trouble's Second LP (Emotional Response)
  19. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Room at the Top (CYHSY/Secretky Distribution)
  20. Catherine Campbell – Leave No Trace (self-released)
  21. The Minders – Psychedelic Blacktop (self-released)
  22. Pillow Queens – Leave the Light On (Royal Mountain)
  23. Caroline No – Caroline No (Grapefruit)
  24. Dangerous Chairs – Introducing Dangerous Chairs (self-released)
  25. The Avondale Ramblers – One for the Ditch (self-released)
  26. Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Loma Vista/Concord)
  27. Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive (Sub Pop)
  28. Orion Sun – Getaway (Mom+Pop)
  29. Lia Hide – The Missing Fourth Guest (Conch Town)
  30. Neutrals – Bus Stop Nights (Static Shock)
  31. Kilo Kish – AMERICAN GURL (Independent)
  32. Loop – Sonancy (Cooking Vinyl)
  33. Oso Oso – Sore Thumb (Triple Crown)
  34. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted (Drag City)
  35. Wednesday – Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up (Ordinal)
  36. The Dead Tongues – Dust (Psychic Hotline)
  37. Compilation – Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962 - 1983 (Analog Africa)
  38. Father John Misty – Chloë and the Next 20th Century (Sub Pop)
  39. Romero – Turn it On! (Feel It)
  40. VR SEX – Rough Dimension (Dais)
  41. Tempers – New Meaning (Dais)
  42. The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Rise (Paper Bag/Saddle Creek)
  43. Jon Spencer & the HITmakers – Spencer Gets It Lit (In The Red)
  44. Midlake – For the Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO)
  45. Hamid El Shaeri – The SLAM! Years (1983-1988) (Habibi Funk)
  46. Rob Clearfield & Quin Kirchner – Concentric Orbits (Astral Spirits)
  47. Lia Kohl – Too Small to be a Plain (Artist Pool)
  48. BassKase – For a Few Dubs More (Soundpoint)
  49. Heidi Serwer – Palm Tree on the Drywall (self-released)
  50. Uma Bloo – Don't Drive Into the Smoke (Earth Libraries)

This week's adds

  • Axel Boman – LUZ/Quest for Fire (Studio Barnhus)
  • Cisco Swank X Luke Titus – Some Things Take Time (Sooper)
  • Congotronics International – Where's the One? (Crammed Discs)
  • Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (Partisan)
  • Hatchie – Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian)
  • HOGG – Breaking at the Edge of the Frame (self-released)
  • Kate Bollinger – Look at It in the Light (Ghostly International)
  • Lucius – Second Nature (Mom+Pop)
  • Red Pants – When We Were Dancing (Paisley Shirt)
  • Rose Mercie – ¿Kieres Agua? (Celluloid Lunch)
  • S. Carey – Break Me Open (Jagjaguwar)
  • SAVAK – Human Error / Human Delight (Peculiar Works)
  • Straw Man Army – SOS (D4MT Labs)
  • Tombstones In Their Eyes – A Higher Place EP (Kitten Robot)
  • Vicky Farewell – Sweet Company (Mac's)
  • Winged Wheel – No Island (12XU)

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Top 50 for the Week of 04/18/2022

  1. Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
  2. The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
  3. Renata Zeiguer – Picnic in the Dark (Northern Spy)
  4. Calexico – El Mirador (ANTI-)
  5. Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)
  6. The Avondale Ramblers – One for the Ditch (self-released)
  7. Alabaster DePlume – GOLD (International Anthem)
  8. Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Loma Vista/Concord)
  9. Loop – Sonancy (Cooking Vinyl)
  10. Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive (Sub Pop)
  11. Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
  12. The Minders – Psychedelic Blacktop (self-released)
  13. Kaina – It Was A Home (City Slang)
  14. Mick Trouble – It's Mick Trouble's Second LP (Emotional Response)
  15. Hamid El Shaeri – The SLAM! Years (1983-1988) (Habibi Funk)
  16. Father John Misty – Chloe and the Next 20th Century (Sub Pop)
  17. Dangerous Chairs – Introducing Dangerous Chairs (self-released)
  18. Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (Merge)
  19. Axons – I Object to Everything (Impossible Colors)
  20. Uma Bloo – Don't Drive Into the Smoke (Earth Libraries)
  21. PLOSIVS – PLOSIVS (Swami)
  22. HEALTH – DISCO 4 :: PART II (Loma Vista/Concord)
  23. BassKase – For a Few Dubs More (Soundpoint)
  24. Young Guv – GUV III (Run for Cover)
  25. Fly Anakin – Frank (Lex)
  26. Maylee Todd – Maloo (Stones Throw)
  27. Oceanator – Nothing's Ever Fine (Polyvinyl)
  28. Tempers – New Meaning (Dais)
  29. The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Rise (Paper Bag/Saddle Creek)
  30. Jon Spencer & the HITmakers – Spencer Gets It Lit (In The Red)
  31. Joys Union Group – Boredom Euphoria (Trouble in Mind)
  32. Mattiel – Georgia Gothic (ATO)
  33. Ed Schrader's Music Beat – Nightclub Daydreaming (Carpark)
  34. Bambara – Love on My Mind (Wharf Cat)
  35. Yumi Zouma – Present Tense (Polyvinyl)
  36. Pan American – The Patience Fader (Kranky)
  37. Oso Oso – Sore Thumb (Triple Crown)
  38. Catherine Campbell – Leave No Trace (self-released)
  39. Jess Scott – Modern Primitive (Winona)
  40. Neutrals – Bus Stop Nights (Static Shock)
  41. Kilo Kish – AMERICAN GURL (Independent)
  42. Magic Shoppe – Mono Lake (Little Cloud/Cardinal Fuzz)
  43. Guided by Voices – Crystal Nuns Cathedral (GBV Inc.)
  44. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (DEEWEE / Because)
  45. Sally Shapiro – Sad Cities (Italians Do It Better)
  46. Lia Hide – The Missing Fourth Guest (Conch Town)
  47. Jenny Hval – Classic Objects (4AD)
  48. Whimsical – Melt (Shelflife)
  49. The Boo Radleys – Keep On With Falling (self-released)
  50. Raw Poetic and Damu The Fudgemunk – Laminated Skies (Def Presse)

This week's adds

  • Bailey Bigger – Coyote Red (Madjack)
  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Room at the Top (CYHSY/Secretly Distribution)
  • Daniel Rossen – You Belong There (Warp)
  • The Dead Tongues – Dust (Psychic Hotline)
  • Defcee & BoatHouse – For All Debts Public and Private (Closed Sessions)
  • Earthen Sea – Ghost Poems (Kranky)
  • Georgia Harmer – Stay In Touch (Arts & Crafts)
  • Jerry Paper – Free Time (Stones Throw)
  • King Hannah – I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
  • Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve)
  • Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin – Ghosted (Drag City)
  • PENDANT – Harp (Saddle Creek)
  • SAULT – AIR (Forever Living Originals)
  • Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)
  • The Submissives – Wanna Be Your Thing (Bruit Direct)
  • Various Artists – Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962 - 1983 (Analog Africa)
  • Wednesday – Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up (Ordinal)

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Top 50 for the Week of 04/11/2022

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)
  2. Alabaster DePlume – GOLD (International Anthem)
  3. Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Loma Vista/Concord)
  4. Loop – Sonancy (Cooking Vinyl)
  5. Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (Merge)
  6. Young Guv – GUV III (Run for Cover)
  7. Kaina – It Was A Home (City Slang)
  8. Jenny Hval – Classic Objects (4AD)
  9. Dangerous Chairs – Introducing Dangerous Chairs (self-released)
  10. Oceanator – Nothing's Ever Fine (Polyvinyl)
  11. Tempers – New Meaning (Dais)
  12. Jon Spencer & the HITmakers – Spencer Gets It Lit (In The Red)
  13. Mattiel – Georgia Gothic (ATO)
  14. DRAMA – Don't Wait Up (DRAMA Music)
  15. Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive (Sub Pop)
  16. Mick Trouble – It's Mick Trouble's Second LP (Emotional Response)
  17. Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (ATO)
  18. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (DEEWEE / Because)
  19. Neutrals – Bus Stop Nights (Static Shock)
  20. Kilo Kish – AMERICAN GURL (Independent)
  21. Folly Group – Human and Kind (Technicolour)
  22. The Avondale Ramblers – One for the Ditch (self-released)
  23. Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
  24. Oso Oso – Sore Thumb (Triple Crown)
  25. Fly Anakin – Frank (Lex)
  26. Hamid El Shaeri – The SLAM! Years (1983-1988) (Habibi Funk)
  27. Geo Rip – Geo Rip EP (The Trilogy Tapes)
  28. The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Rise (Paper Bag/Saddle Creek)
  29. The Mysterines – Reeling (Fiction)
  30. PLOSIVS – PLOSIVS (Swami)
  31. BassKase – For a Few Dubs More (Soundpoint)
  32. Uma Bloo – Don't Drive Into the Smoke (Earth Libraries)
  33. Lia Hide – The Missing Fourth Guest (Conch Town)
  34. Robert Glasper – Black Radio III (Loma Vista)
  35. VR SEX – Rough Dimension (Dais)
  36. Whimsical – Melt (Shelflife)
  37. The Good Ones – Rwanda...you see ghosts, I see sky (Six Degrees)
  38. Joys Union Group – Boredom Euphoria (Trouble in Mind)
  39. Jonas Reinhardt – A Ragged Ghost (Trouble in Mind)
  40. Ari Pappalardo – Minstrel Class (self-released)
  41. Sonic Youth – In/Out/In (Three Lobed)
  42. Band of Horses – Things Are Great (BMG)
  43. Star Party – Meadow Flower (Feel It)
  44. Ziad Rahbani – Houdou Nisbi (We Want Sounds)
  45. Lia Kohl – Too Small to be a Plain (Artist Pool)
  46. Bloodhype – Pictures of Our Dead Intercom System (self-released)
  47. The Singleman Affair – 4pm Sunlight (Cardboard Sangria)
  48. Saba – Few Good Things (Pivot LLC)
  49. Orion Sun – Getaway (Mom+Pop)
  50. Maylee Todd – Maloo (Stones Throw)

This week's adds

  • Axons – I Object To Everything (Impossible Colors)
  • Calexico – El Mirador (Anti-)
  • Caroline No – Caroline No (Grapefruit)
  • Catherine Campbell – Leave No Trace (self-released)
  • Christian Lee Hutson – Quitters (ANTI-)
  • Father John Misty – Chloë and the Next 20th Century (Sub Pop)
  • HEALTH – DISCO 4 :: PART II (Loma Vista/Concord)
  • Jess Scott – Modern Primitive (Winona)
  • Pillow Queens – Leave the Light On (Royal Mountain)
  • Renata Zeiguer – Picnic in the Dark (Northern Spy)
  • Rob Clearfield & Quin Kirchner – Concentric Orbits (Astral Spirits)
  • Romero – Turn it On! (Feel It)
  • The Hellacopters – Eyes of Oblivion (Nuclear Blast)
  • The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
  • The Minders – Psychedelic Blacktop (self-released)
  • Weak Signal – War and War (self-released)
  • Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
  • Zachary Cale – Skywriting (ORG)

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Top 50 for the Week of 04/04/2022

  1. Kaina – It Was A Home (City Slang)
  2. Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
  3. Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (Merge)
  4. Jenny Hval – Classic Objects (4AD)
  5. Oso Oso – Sore Thumb (Triple Crown)
  6. Lia Hide – The Missing Fourth Guest (Conch Town)
  7. Juanita Euka – Mabanzo (Strut)
  8. Bloodhype – Pictures of Our Dead Intercom System (self-released)
  9. Heidi Serwer – Palm Tree on the Drywall (self-released)
  10. PLOSIVS – PLOSIVS (Swami)
  11. Mick Trouble – It's Mick Trouble's Second LP (Emotional Response)
  12. SASAMI – Squeeze (Domino)
  13. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (DEEWEE / Because)
  14. Young Prisms – Drifter (Fire Talk)
  15. BassKase – For a Few Dubs More (Soundpoint)
  16. Uma Bloo – Don't Drive Into the Smoke (Earth Libraries)
  17. Pan American – The Patience Fader (Kranky)
  18. Orion Sun – Getaway (Mom+Pop)
  19. Dream Widow – Dream Widow (Roswell/RCA)
  20. Midlake – For the Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO)
  21. Chief Cleopatra – Luna (Park the Van)
  22. Superchunk – Wild Loneliness (Merge)
  23. Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
  24. Chris Crack – Growthfully Developed (New Deal Collectives)
  25. Dangerous Chairs – Introducing Dangerous Chairs (self-released)
  26. DRAMA – Don't Wait Up (DRAMA Music)
  27. Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That's My Name (Delmark)
  28. Saba – Few Good Things (Pivot LLC)
  29. Fly Anakin – Frank (Lex)
  30. Hamid El Shaeri – The SLAM! Years (1983-1988) (Habibi Funk)
  31. Maylee Todd – Maloo (Stones Throw)
  32. Drug Church – Hygiene (Pure Noise)
  33. Robert Glasper – Black Radio III (Loma Vista)
  34. Shaylee – Short-Sighted Security (Kill Rock Stars)
  35. Ex-Vöid – Bigger Than Before (Don Giovanni)
  36. Ed Schrader's Music Beat – Nightclub Daydreaming (Carpark)
  37. Caracara – New Preoccupations (Memory Music)
  38. Folly Group – Human and Kind (Technicolour)
  39. Midnight Oil – Resist (Sony Music Australia)
  40. Tears for Fears – The Tipping Point (Concord)
  41. Lia Kohl – Too Small to be a Plain (Artist Pool)
  42. Stander – Vulnerable (The Garotte)
  43. The Poison Arrows – War Regards (File 13 )
  44. Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (ATO)
  45. Hurray for the Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH (Nonesuch)
  46. caroline – caroline (Rough Trade)
  47. Bambara – Love on My Mind (Wharf Cat)
  48. Magic Shoppe – Mono Lake (Little Cloud/Cardinal Fuzz)
  49. BODEGA – Broken Equipment (What's Your Rupture?)
  50. Charlie Gabriel – 89 (Sub Pop)

This week's adds

  • Alabaster DePlume – GOLD (International Anthem)
  • Comet Gain – The Misfit Jukebox Vol. 1: Somewhere to Belong (self-released)
  • David Nance – Wet Candles (Western)
  • Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Loma Vista/Concord)
  • Geo Rip – Geo Rip EP (The Trilogy Tapes)
  • Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive (Sub Pop)
  • Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)
  • Jon Spencer & the HITmakers – Spencer Gets It Lit (In the Red)
  • Jonas Reinhardt – A Ragged Ghost (Trouble in Mind)
  • Joys Union Group – Boredom Euphoria (Trouble in Mind)
  • Kilo Kish – AMERICAN GURL (Independent)
  • Loop – Sonancy (Cooking Vinyl)
  • Mattiel – Georgia Gothic (ATO)
  • Neutrals – Bus Stop Nights (Static Shock)
  • Oceanator – Nothing's Ever Fine (Polyvinyl)
  • Sly5thAve & Roberto Verástegui – Agua de Jamaica (Tru Thoughts)
  • Tempers – New Meaning (Dais)
  • The Avondale Ramblers – One for the Ditch (self-released)
  • The Good Ones – Rwanda .​.​. you see ghosts, I see sky (Six Degrees)
  • The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Rise EP (Paper Bag/Saddle Creek)
  • VR Sex – Rough Dimension (Dais)
  • Whimsical – Melt (Shelflife)

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