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Top 50 for the Week of 03/28/2022

  1. Mick Trouble – It's Mick Trouble's Second LP (Emotional Response)
  2. Kaina – It Was A Home (City Slang)
  3. Oso Oso – Sore Thumb (Triple Crown)
  4. Hamid El Shaeri – The SLAM! Years (1983-1988) (Habibi Funk)
  5. Drug Church – Hygiene (Pure Noise)
  6. Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (ATO)
  7. Bloodhype – Pictures of Our Dead Intercom System (self-released)
  8. DRAMA – Don't Wait Up (DRAMA Music)
  9. BassKase – For a Few Dubs More (Soundpoint)
  10. Lia Hide – The Missing Fourth Guest (Conch Town)
  11. Young Guv – GUV III (Run for Cover)
  12. Hurray for the Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH (Nonesuch)
  13. Sonic Youth – In/Out/In (Three Lobed)
  14. Jenny Hval – Classic Objects (4AD)
  15. Fly Anakin – Frank (Lex)
  16. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (DEEWEE / Because)
  17. Sprints – A Modern Job (Nice Swan)
  18. The Boo Radleys – Keep On With Falling (self-released)
  19. Raw Poetic and Damu The Fudgemunk – Laminated Skies (Def Presse)
  20. Andy Bell – Flicker (Sonic Cathedral)
  21. Uma Bloo – Don't Drive Into the Smoke (Earth Libraries)
  22. SASAMI – Squeeze (Domino)
  23. Raveena – Asha's Awakening (Warner)
  24. Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
  25. Bambara – Love on My Mind (Wharf Cat)
  26. Yumi Zouma – Present Tense (Polyvinyl)
  27. Basement Revolver – Embody (Sonic Unyon)
  28. Superchunk – Wild Loneliness (Merge)
  29. Chris Crack – Growthfully Developed (New Deal Collectives)
  30. Saba – Few Good Things (Pivot LLC)
  31. Heidi Serwer – Palm Tree on the Drywall (self-released)
  32. The Poison Arrows – War Regards (File 13)
  33. Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That's My Name (Delmark)
  34. Robert Glasper – Black Radio III (Loma Vista)
  35. BODEGA – Broken Equipment (What's Your Rupture?)
  36. Chief Cleopatra – Luna (Park the Van)
  37. Abiodun Oyewole – Gratitude (Fire)
  38. Claptrap – Adulting (Un Je-ne-sais-quoi)
  39. Cosmic Bull – 27x2 (self-released)
  40. Maylee Todd – Maloo (Stones Throw)
  41. Ziad Rahbani – Houdou Nisbi (We Want Sounds)
  42. caroline – caroline (Rough Trade)
  43. yeule – Glitch Princess (Bayonet)
  44. Midlake – For the Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO)
  45. Vein.fm – This World Is Going To Ruin You (Closed Casket Activities/Nuclear Blast)
  46. Midnight Oil – Resist (Sony Music Australia)
  47. Sally Shapiro – Sad Cities (Italians Do It Better)
  48. Snoozers – Snoozers EP Vol. 2 (self-released)
  49. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
  50. Lia Kohl – Too Small to be a Plain (Artist Pool)

This week's adds

  • Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
  • Ari Pappalardo – Minstrel Class (self-released)
  • Caracara – New Preoccupations (Memory Music)
  • Dangerous Chairs – Introducing Dangerous Chairs (self-released)
  • Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (Merge)
  • Dream Widow – Dream Widow (Roswell/RCA)
  • Ed Schrader's Music Beat – Nightclub Daydreaming (Carpark)
  • Ex-Vöid – Better Than Before (Don Giovanni)
  • Juanita Euka – Mabanzo (Strut)
  • orion sun – Getaway (Mom+Pop)
  • Pinch Points – Process (Exploding in Sound)
  • PLOSIVS – PLOSIVS (Swami)
  • Shaylee – Short-Sighted Security (Kill Rock Stars)
  • The Mysterines – Reeling (Fiction)
  • The Singleman Affair – 4 P.M. Sunlight (Cardboard Sangria)
  • Young Prisms – Drifter (Fire Talk)

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Top 50 for the Week of 3/21/2022

  1. Kaina – It Was A Home (City Slang)
  2. SASAMI – Squeeze (Domino)
  3. BassKase – For a Few Dubs More (Soundpoint)
  4. Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (ATO)
  5. Hamid El Shaeri – The SLAM! Years (1983 - 1988) (Habibi Funk)
  6. Bloodhype – Pictures of Our Dead Intercom System (self-released)
  7. DRAMA – Don't Wait Up (DRAMA Music)
  8. Drug Church – Hygiene (Pure Noise)
  9. Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa (Matador)
  10. Emily Rose and the Rounders – Emily Rose and the Rounders (Mock)
  11. Midnight Oil – Resist (Sony Music Australia)
  12. Sally Shapiro – Sad Cities (Italians Do It Better)
  13. Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That's My Name (Delmark)
  14. Young Guv – III (Run for Cover)
  15. Fly Anakin – Frank (Lex)
  16. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (DEEWEE / Because)
  17. Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
  18. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
  19. Band of Horses – Things Are Great (BMG)
  20. Guided by Voices – Crystal Nuns Cathedral (GBV Inc.)
  21. Chief Cleopatra – Luna (Park the Van)
  22. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Moon (Dead Oceans)
  23. Crystal Murray – Twisted Bases (Because)
  24. Claptrap – Adulting (Un Je-ne-sais-quoi)
  25. Mitski – Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans)
  26. Heidi Serwer – Palm Tree on the Drywall (self-released)
  27. Saba – Few Good Things (Pivot LLC)
  28. Maylee Todd – Maloo (Stones Throw)
  29. Robert Glasper – Black Radio III (Loma Vista)
  30. Ziad Rahbani – Houdou Nisbi (We Want Sounds)
  31. Midnight – Let There Be Witchery (Metal Blade)
  32. Etran de L'Aïr – Agadez (Sahel Sounds)
  33. Dropper – Don't Talk to Me (Dirt Dog)
  34. Tears for Fears – The Tipping Point (Concord)
  35. Abiodun Oyewole – Gratitude (Fire)
  36. Hurray for the Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH (Nonesuch)
  37. The Poison Arrows – War Regards (File 13)
  38. Urge Overkill – Oui (Omnivore)
  39. Basement Revolver – Embody (Sonic Unyon)
  40. Andy Bell – Flicker (Sonic Cathedral)
  41. Compilation – Unity (606 Records)
  42. Pan American – The Patience Fader (Kranky)
  43. Compilation – Donne Che Corrono Coi Lupi (Osàre! Editions)
  44. Compilation – C91 (Cherry Red)
  45. Luna Li – Duality (In Real Life / AWAL)
  46. Cy Dune – Against Face (Lightning Studios)
  47. El Ten Eleven – New Year's Eve (Joyful Noise)
  48. Letting Up Despite Great Faults – IV (self-released)
  49. Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
  50. caroline – caroline (Rough Trade)

This week's adds

  • Bambara – Love on My Mind (Wharf Cat)
  • Cosmic Bull – 27x2 (self-released)
  • Folly Group – Human and Kind (Technicolour)
  • Ghost – Impera (Loma Vista)
  • Jenny Hval – Classic Objects (4AD)
  • Lia Hide – The Missing Fourth Guest (Conch Town)
  • Magic Shoppe – Mono Lake (Little Cloud/Cardinal Fuzz)
  • Mick Trouble – It's the Second Mick Trouble LP (Emotional Response)
  • Midlake – For the Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO)
  • Midnight – Let There Be Witchery (Metal Blade)
  • oso oso – Sore Thumb (Triple Crown)
  • Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk – Laminated Skies (Def Pressé)
  • Sonic Youth – In/Out/In (Three Lobed)
  • Sprints – A Modern Job (Nice Swan)
  • The Boo Radleys – Keep On With Falling (self-released)
  • Uma Bloo – Don't Drive Into the Smoke (Earth Libraries)
  • Yumi Zouma – Present Tense (Polyvinyl)

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Top 50 for the Week of 03/14/2022

  1. Kaina – It Was A Home (City Slang)
  2. Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (ATO)
  3. DRAMA – Don't Wait Up (DRAMA Music)
  4. SASAMI – Squeeze (Domino)
  5. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (DEEWEE / Because)
  6. Bloodhype – Pictures of Our Dead Intercom System (self-released)
  7. Saba – Few Good Things (Pivot LLC)
  8. Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
  9. Robert Glasper – Black Radio III (Loma Vista)
  10. Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa (Matador)
  11. Superchunk – Wild Loneliness (Merge)
  12. Mitski – Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans)
  13. Guided by Voices – Crystal Nuns Cathedral (GBV Inc.)
  14. Chris Crack – Growthfully Developed (New Deal Collectives)
  15. Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That's My Name (Delmark)
  16. Hurray for the Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH (Nonesuch)
  17. Band of Horses – Things Are Great (BMG)
  18. Charlie Gabriel – 89 (Sub Pop)
  19. Sally Shapiro – Sad Cities (Italians Do It Better)
  20. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Moon (Dead Oceans)
  21. The Poison Arrows – War Regards (File 13 )
  22. Urge Overkill – Oui (Omnivore)
  23. Ziad Rahbani – Houdou Nisbi (We Want Sounds)
  24. caroline – caroline (Rough Trade)
  25. Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
  26. Etran de L'Aïr – Agadez (Sahel Sounds)
  27. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
  28. Dropper – Don't Talk to Me (Dirt Dog)
  29. Basement Revolver – Embody (Sonic Unyon)
  30. Andy Bell – Flicker (Sonic Cathedral)
  31. Midnight Oil – Resist (Sony Music Australia)
  32. Big K.R.I.T. – Digital Roses Don't Die (Multi Alumni)
  33. Various Artists – Covers of Covers (American Laundromat)
  34. The Birthday Massacre – Fascination (Metropolis)
  35. Los Bitchos – Let The Festivities Begin! (City Slang)
  36. Various Artists – Unity (606 Records )
  37. Pan American – The Patience Fader (Kranky)
  38. Raveena – Asha's Awakening (Warner)
  39. Shamir – Heterosexuality (Anti Fragile Music)
  40. Various Artists – Mainstream Funk (We Want Sounds)
  41. Animal Collective – Time Skiffs (Domino)
  42. Heiko Voss – 3:30 Minutes to Live (Imara)
  43. Various Artists – Donne Che Corrono Coi Lupi (Osàre! Editions)
  44. Wah Together – Let's Wah Together (Dedstrange)
  45. Sunset Honor Unit – Sunset Honor Unit (Marching Banana)
  46. Modern Studies – We Are There (Fire)
  47. Molly Nilsson – Extreme (Night School)
  48. Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep (PMR/Interscope)
  49. Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (E-Works/PIAS)
  50. Stander – Vulnerable (The Garotte)

This week's adds

  • BassKase – For a Few Dubs More (Soundpoint)
  • Bodega – Broken Equipment (What's Your Rupture?)
  • Cy Dune – Against Face (Lightning Studios)
  • Drug Church – Hygiene (Pure Noise)
  • El Ten Eleven – New Year's Eve (Joyful Noise)
  • Fly Anakin – Frank (Lex)
  • Hamid El Shaeri – The SLAM! Years (1983 - 1988) (Habibi Funk)
  • Heidi Serwer – Palm Tree on the Drywall (self-released)
  • Letting Up Despite Great Faults – IV (self-released)
  • Lia Kohl – Too Small to be a Plain (Artist Pool)
  • Maylee Todd – Maloo (Stones Throw)
  • Midnight – Let There Be Witchery (Metal Blade)
  • Richard Papiercuts – Reunion (Ever/Never)
  • System Exclusive – System Exclusive (Castle Face)
  • Vein.fm – This World Is Going to Ruin You (Closed Casket Activities/Nuclear Blast)
  • Widowspeak – The Jacket (Captured Tracks)
  • Young Guv – III (Run for Cover)

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Top 50 for the Week of 03/07/2022

  1. Bloodhype – Pictures of Our Dead Intercom System (self-released)
  2. Saba – Few Good Things (Pivot LLC)
  3. DRAMA – Don't Wait Up (DRAMA Music)
  4. Urge Overkill – Oui (Omnivore)
  5. Hurray for the Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH (Nonesuch)
  6. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
  7. Superchunk – Wild Lonliness (Merge)
  8. Mitski – Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans)
  9. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Moon (Dead Oceans)
  10. Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
  11. Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
  12. The Birthday Massacre – Fascination (Metropolis)
  13. Dowdelin – Lanmou Lanmou (Underdog)
  14. Shamir – Heterosexuality (Anti Fragile Music)
  15. Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa (Matador)
  16. Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That's My Name (Delmark)
  17. The Poison Arrows – War Regards (File 13)
  18. Ziad Rahbani – Houdou Nisbi (We Want Sounds)
  19. Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point (Concord)
  20. A Place To Bury Strangers – See Through You (Dedstrange)
  21. The Growth Eternal – PARASAiL​-​18 (Leaving)
  22. Various Artists – C91 (Cherry Red)
  23. Josephine Foster – Godmother (Fire)
  24. yeule – Glitch Princess (Bayonet)
  25. caroline – caroline (Rough Trade)
  26. The Serfs – Primal Matter (Dream Recordings)
  27. Raveena – Asha's Awakening (Warner)
  28. Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep (PMR/Interscope)
  29. Etran de L'Aïr – Agadez (Sahel Sounds)
  30. Metronomy – Small World (Because)
  31. Shout Out Louds – House (Budfox/Integral)
  32. The Reds, Pinks and Purples – Summer at Land's End (Slumberland)
  33. Various Artists – Covers of Covers (American Laundromat)
  34. Vic Spencer – Spencer for Higher 4 (Old Fart Luggage)
  35. Emily Blue – The Afterlove (self-released)
  36. LowDown Brass Band – LowDown Nights (Dibs)
  37. Crystal Murray – Twisted Bases (Because)
  38. Combo Chimbita – IRÉ (ANTI-)
  39. Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune)
  40. St. Paul and the Broken Bones – The Alien Coast (ATO)
  41. Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave (Relapse)
  42. Alt-J – The Dream (Atlantic)
  43. Justin Sconza – Maps (self-released)
  44. Yard Act – The Overload (Zen F.C.)
  45. Claude Cooper – Myriad Sounds (Friendly)
  46. Compilation – Mainstream Funk (We Want Sounds)
  47. Skiftande Enheter – Öppna Handskap (Happiest Place)
  48. Dalibor Cruz – 21 de Agosto, Macayuri (Chicago Research)
  49. The Marbled Page – Some Siren's Set List (self-released)
  50. Dropper – Don't Talk to Me (Dirt Dog)

This week's adds

  • Andy Bell – Flicker (Sonic Cathedral)
  • Band of Horses – Things Are Great (BMG)
  • Basement Revolver – Embody (Sonic Unyon)
  • Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero (Century Media)
  • Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Tropical Dancer (DEEWEE / Because)
  • Charlie Gabriel – 89 (Sub Pop)
  • Chief Cleopatra – Luna (Park the Van)
  • Chris Crack – Growthfully Developed (New Deal Collectives)
  • David West – Jolly in the Bush (Tough Love)
  • Die! Die! Die! – This Is Not an Island Anymore (self-released)
  • Emily Rose and the Rounders – Emily Rose and the Rounders (Mock)
  • Guided By Voices – Crystal Nuns Cathedral (GBV Inc.)
  • Heiko Voss – 3:30 Minutes to Live (Imara)
  • Huerco S. – Plonk (Incienso)
  • KAINA – It Was a Home (City Slang)
  • Luna Li – Duality (In Real Life / AWAL)
  • Midnight Oil – Resist (Sony)
  • Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (ATO)
  • Pan•American – The Patience Fader (Kranky)
  • Pike Vs the Automaton – Pike Vs the Automaton (MNRK Heavy)
  • Tha Retail Simps – Reverberant Scratch: 9 Shots in tha Dark (Total Punk)
  • Robert Glasper – Black Radio III (Loma Vista)
  • Sally Shapiro – Sad Cities (Italians Do It Better)
  • SASAMI – Squeeze (Domino)
  • Star Party – Meadow Flower (Feel It)
  • Stander – Vulnerable (The Garotte)
  • Various Artists – Unity (606 Records)
  • Various Artists – Donne Che Corrono Coi Lupi (Osàre! Editions)
  • Wah Together – Let's Wah Together (Dedstrange)
  • The Weather Station – How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars (Fat Possum)

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Top 50 for the Week of 02/28/2022

  1. DRAMA – Don't Wait Up (DRAMA Music)
  2. Urge Overkill – Oui (Omnivore)
  3. Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
  4. yeule – Glitch Princess (Bayonet)
  5. Shamir – Heterosexuality (Anti Fragile Music)
  6. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
  7. Saba – Few Good Things (Pivot LLC)
  8. Mitski – Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans)
  9. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Moon (Dead Oceans)
  10. Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
  11. Claptrap – Adulting (Un Je-ne-sais-quoi)
  12. Josephine Foster – Godmother (Fire)
  13. Raveena – Asha's Awakening (Warner)
  14. Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa (Matador)
  15. Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep (PMR/Interscope)
  16. Abiodun Oyewole – Gratitude (Fire)
  17. St. Paul and the Broken Bones – The Alien Coast (ATO)
  18. Etran de L'Aïr – Agadez (Sahel Sounds)
  19. Combo Chimbita – IRÉ (ANTI-)
  20. A Place To Bury Strangers – See Through You (Dedstrange)
  21. Mitra Mitra – Hands Remain (Polytechnic Youth)
  22. Moonchild – Starfruit (Tru Thoughts)
  23. The Marbled Page – Some Siren's Set List (self-released)
  24. Dropper – Don't Talk to Me (Dirt Dog)
  25. Animal Collective – Time Skiffs (Domino)
  26. Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave (Relapse)
  27. Metronomy – Small World (Because)
  28. Alice Glass – PREY//IV (Eating Glass)
  29. Come – Peel Sessions (Fire)
  30. Alt-J – The Dream (Atlantic)
  31. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss (Colemine)
  32. Tinsley Ellis – Devil May Care (Alligator)
  33. Justin Sconza – Maps (self-released)
  34. Cody Lee's Last Detail – Live at Fullerton Studios (Periscope)
  35. Yard Act – The Overload (Zen F.C.)
  36. Traps PS – Prim Dicer (Mock)
  37. Shout Out Louds – House (Budfox/Integral)
  38. Claude Cooper – Myriad Sounds (Friendly )
  39. Deserta – Every Moment, Everything You Need (Felte)
  40. MAITA – I Just Want to Be Wild for You (Kill Rock Stars)
  41. Modern Studies – We Are There (Fire)
  42. Future Kult – Future Kult (Action Wolf/AWAL)
  43. waveform* – Last Room (Run For Cover)
  44. LANNDS – Lotus Deluxe (Run For Cover)
  45. Molly Nilsson – Extreme (Night School)
  46. Artsick – Fingers Crossed (Slumberland)
  47. Pedro the Lion – Havasu (Polyvinyl)
  48. Broken Social Scene – Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities (Arts & Crafts)
  49. Emily Blue – The Afterlove (self-released)
  50. The Reds, Pinks and Purples – Summer at Land's End (Slumberland)

This week's adds

  • Big K.R.I.T. – Digital Roses Don't Die (Multi Alumni)
  • Bloodhype – Pictures of Our Dead Intercom System (self-released)
  • Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That's My Name (Delmark)
  • caroline – caroline (Rough Trade)
  • Hurray for the Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH (Nonesuch)
  • Matchess – Sonescent (Drag City)
  • Movietone – Peel Sessions 1994-97 (Textile)
  • Skiftande Enheter – Öppna Handskap (Happiest Place)
  • SOM – The Shape of Everything (Pelagic)
  • Sunset Honor Unit – Sunset Honor Unit (Marching Banana)
  • Superchunk – Wild Lonliness (Merge)
  • Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point (Concord)
  • The Birthday Massacre – Fascination (Metropolis)
  • The Growth Eternal – PARASAiL​-​18 (Leaving)
  • The Poison Arrows – War Regards (File 13)
  • The Serfs – Primal Matter (Dream Recordings)
  • Various Artists – Covers of Covers (American Laundromat)
  • Various Artists – C91 (Cherry Red)
  • Ziad Rahbani – Houdou Nisbi (We Want Sounds)

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