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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 01/17/2022

  1. Jordanna – The Full Story (Self-Released)
  2. Claire Cronin – Bloodless (Orindal)
  3. Glad Rags – All of Them (Sinkhole Sounds)
  4. The Courettes – Back In Mono (Damaged Goods)
  5. NicFit – Fuse (Upset the Rhythm)
  6. Various Artists – Jon Langford's Lucky 7 Series, Part 2 (Tiny Global Productions)
  7. Rachel Manter – The piano is a concept and i am an album (self-released)
  8. Shredded Sun – SOS Phantoms (self-released)
  9. Alice Phoebe Lou – Child's Play (self-released)
  10. FPA – Princess Wiko (37d03d)
  11. Courtesy – Check the Milk (Seasick)
  12. Jeff Parker – Forfolks (International Anthem)
  13. Aeon Station – Observatory (Sub Pop)
  14. Various Artists – Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa)
  15. Ava Mendoza – New Spells (Astral Spirits)
  16. Garcia Peoples – Dodging Dues (No Quarter)
  17. MoogStar – Designed (Joyful Noise)
  18. Man-eaters – Twelve More Observations on Healthy Living (Feel It)
  19. Loney Hutchins – Buried Loot, Demos from the House of Cash and "Outlaw" Era, '73-'78 (Cleft)
  20. Theon Cross – Intra-I (New Soil/Marathon)
  21. Good Looking Son – Fantasy Weekend (Feel It)
  22. Sis – Gnani (Native Cat)
  23. Soursob – Soursob (Hozac)
  24. Melenas – Melenas (Trouble in Mind)
  25. Riki – Gold (Dais)
  26. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)
  27. Sick Day – Deja Vu (self-released)
  28. M Sage – Wants a Diamond Pivot Bright (Florabelle)
  29. J.R. Bohannon – Compulsions (Astral Spirits)
  30. Doug Hoyer – Getting Older (self-released)
  31. Various Artists – Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk and Soul (Ballads and Dirges 1970-1975) (Now-Again)
  32. Haviah Mighty – Stock Exchange (self-released)
  33. Swansea Sound – Live at the Rum Puncheon (HHBTM/Skep Wax)
  34. Alien Nosejob – Paint it Clear (Feel It)
  35. Aesop Rock & Blockhead – Garbology (Rhymesayers )
  36. Jamire Williams – But Only After You Have Suffered (International Anthem)
  37. wøunds – No Beauty In The World (Past Inside the Present)
  38. Charles Rumback – Seven Bridges (Astral Spirits)
  39. Unidad Ideológica – Unidad Ideológica (La Vida Es Un Mus)
  40. Various Artists – LANDBACK (NDN Collective)
  41. Julie Doiron – I Thought of You (You've Changed)
  42. DigDog – Homeless Theatre (self-released)
  43. Peter Joly – Easy Has Never Been the Way (self-released)
  44. Arca – KicK iii (XL)
  45. Mandy, Indiana – ...EP (Fire Talk)
  46. Majid Soula – Chant Amazigh (Habibi Funk)
  47. Elbow – Flying Dream 1 (Polydor)
  48. Gentleman Jesse – Lose Everything (Beach Impediment)
  49. Mike Adams At His Honest Weight – Oscillate Wisely (10th Anniversary Edition) (Joyful Noise)
  50. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group)

This week's adds

  • DJ Harrison – Tales From The Old Dominion (Stones Throw)
  • Earl Sweatshirt – SICK! (Tan Cressida)
  • Green / Blue – Offering (Hozac)
  • 75 Dollar Bill featuring Sue Garner, Cheryl Kingan & Chris Nelson – Social Music at Troost Vol. 3: (Other) People's Music (Social Music)
  • John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby, & Andres Renteria – Gong Splat (Castle Face)
  • Bonobo – Fragments (Ninja Tune)
  • Cat Power – Covers (Domino)
  • Elvis Costello & the Imposters – The Boy Named If (EMI / Universal)
  • FUSS – We're Not Alone (Phat 'n' Phunky)
  • Josh Caterer – The SPACE Sessions (Pravda)
  • Broken Social Scene – Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities (Arts & Crafts)
  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined (Transgressive / PIAS)
  • Tinsley Ellis – Devil May Care (Alligator)
  • foxtails – fawn (Skeletal Lightning)
  • Gabriels – Bloodline EP (Parlophone)
  • Hollow Frames – The Management of Forest Affairs (self-released)
  • Velcro – Te La Buscaste (self-released)
  • Frozen Inertia – After the Circus (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 01/10/2022

  1. Man-eaters – Twelve More Observations on Healthy Living (Feel It)
  2. Sick Day – Deja Vu (self-released)
  3. Courtesy – Check the Milk (Seasick)
  4. Charles Rumback – Seven Bridges (Astral Spirits)
  5. Loney Hutchins – Buried Loot, Demos from the House of Cash and "Outlaw Era '73-'78" (Cleft)
  6. Rachel Manter – The piano is a concept and i am an album (self-released)
  7. Jeff Parker – Forfolks (International Anthem)
  8. Aeon Station – Observatory (Sub Pop)
  9. Compilation – Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa)
  10. Aesop Rock & Blockhead – Garbology (Rhymesayers)
  11. Compilation – Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk and Soul (Ballads and Dirges 1970-1975) (Now-Again)
  12. Riki – Gold (Dais)
  13. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn (Reprise)
  14. Jordanna – The Full Story (Self-Released)
  15. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)
  16. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group)
  17. Melenas – Melenas (Trouble in Mind)
  18. Majid Soula – Chant Amazigh (Habibi Funk)
  19. Parcels – Day/Night (Because)
  20. Beach House – Once Twice Melody: Chapter 1 (Sub Pop)
  21. Nicholas Tremulis & The Prodigals – Rarified World (Immediate Family)
  22. Julie Doiron – I Thought of You (You've Changed)
  23. Peter Joly – Easy Has Never Been the Way (self-released)
  24. Constant Smiles – Paragons (Sacred Bones)
  25. Arguing with Hurricanes – Arguing with Hurricanes (Joyful Noise)
  26. Good Looking Son – Fantasy Weekend (Feel It)
  27. Jamire Williams – But Only After You Have Suffered (International Anthem)
  28. Desert Liminal – Glass Fate (Whited Sepulchre)
  29. Compilation – Throwdown At The No K Corral (Soundpoint)
  30. Dwaal Troupe – Lucky Dog (Self-released)
  31. megiapa – diddies vol. 1 (Self-released)
  32. Compilation – LANDBACK (NDN Collective)
  33. DigDog – Homeless Theatre (self-released)
  34. Mandy, Indiana – ...EP (Fire Talk)
  35. Aunt Sally – Aunt Sally (Mesh-key)
  36. Michael Hurley – The Time of the Foxgloves (No Quarter)
  37. Jlin – Embryo (Planet Mu)
  38. Elbow – Flying Dream 1 (Polydor)
  39. Emily Robb – How to Moonwalk (Petty Bunco)
  40. Gentleman Jesse – Lose Everything (Beach Impediment)
  41. Alien Nosejob – Paint it Clear (Feel It)
  42. Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki (Domino)
  43. Ben LaMar Gay – Open Arms to Open Us (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
  44. Makaya McCraven – Deciphering The Message (Blue Note)
  45. M Sage – Wants a Diamond Pivot Bright (Florabelle)
  46. Swansea Sound – Live at the Rum Puncheon (HHBTM/Skep Wax)
  47. Arca – KICK ii (XL)
  48. Versus – Let's Electrify! (Teenbeat)
  49. Cedric Noel – Hang Time (Joyful Noise)
  50. Unidad Ideológica – Unidad Ideol√≥gica (La Vida Es Un Mus)

This week's adds

  • Alice Phoebe Lou – Child's Play (self-released)
  • Ava Mendoza – New Spells (Astral Editions)
  • Claire Cronin – Bloodless (Orindal)
  • Doug Hoyer – Getting Older (Self-released)
  • Garcia Peoples – Dodging Dues (No Quarter)
  • Glad Rags – All of Them (Sinkhole Sounds)
  • J.R. Bohannon – Compulsions (Astral Spirits)
  • MoogStar – Designed (Joyful Noise)
  • NicFit – Fuse (Upset the Rhythm)
  • Shredded Sun – SOS Phantoms EP (Self-released)
  • Sis – Gnani (Native Cat)
  • Soursob – Soursob (Hozac)
  • The Courettes – Back in Mono (Damaged Goods)
  • wøunds – No Beauty in the World (Past Inside the Present)
  • Various Artists – Jon Langford's Lucky Seven Series, Part 2 (Tiny Global Productions)

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Top 50 for the Week of 01/03/2022

  1. Jordanna – The Full Story (self-released)
  2. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)
  3. Aesop Rock & Blockhead – Garbology (Rhymesayers)
  4. Compilation – Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa)
  5. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group)
  6. Makaya McCraven – Deciphering The Message (Blue Note)
  7. Aeon Station – Observatory (Sub Pop)
  8. Swansea Sound – Live at the Rum Puncheon (HHBTM/Skep Wax)
  9. Melenas – Melenas (Trouble in Mind)
  10. Damon Albarn – The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Transgressive)
  11. Nicholas Tremulis & The Prodigals – Rarified World (Immediate Family)
  12. IDLES – CRAWLER (Partisan)
  13. Courtesy – Check the Milk (Seasick)
  14. Ben LaMar Gay – Open Arms to Open Us (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
  15. Hushdrops – The Static (Pravda)
  16. Cedric Noel – Hang Time (Joyful Noise)
  17. Versus – Let's Electrify! (Teenbeat)
  18. Jamire Williams – But Only After You Have Suffered (International Anthem)
  19. megiapa – diddies vol. 1 (Self-released)
  20. Jeff Parker – Forfolks (International Anthem)
  21. Compilation – LANDBACK (NDN Collective)
  22. Loney Hutchins – Buried Loot, Demos from the House of Cash and Outlaw Era '73-'78 (Cleft)
  23. DigDog – Homeless Theatre (self-released)
  24. Riki – Gold (Dais)
  25. Majid Soula – Chant Amazigh (Habibi Funk)
  26. Beach House – Once Twice Melody: Chapter 1 (Sub Pop)
  27. Alien Nosejob – Paint it Clear (Feel It)
  28. Good Looking Son – Fantasy Weekend (Feel It)
  29. Irreversible Entanglements – Open the Gates (International Anthem/Don Giovanni)
  30. Makthaverskan – För Allting (Run For Cover)
  31. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)
  32. Desert Liminal – Glass Fate (Whited Sepulchre)
  33. Dwaal Troupe – Lucky Dog (Self-released)
  34. Compilation – Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk and Soul (Ballads and Dirges 1970-1975) (Now-Again)
  35. Peter Joly – Easy Has Never Been the Way (self-released)
  36. Aunt Sally – Aunt Sally (Mesh-key)
  37. Cynic – Ascension Codes (Season of Mist)
  38. Papercuts – Baxter's Bliss (Psychic Friends)
  39. Dakota Theim – Tangled Heart (Self-released)
  40. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raise The Roof (Rounder/Concord)
  41. Ladyhawke – Time Flies (Mid Century/BMG)
  42. Theon Cross – Intra-I (New Soil/Marathon)
  43. Compilation – Throwdown At The No K Corral (Soundpoint)
  44. DPCD – DPCD SINGS (Self-released)
  45. Charles Rumback – Seven Bridges (Astral Spirits)
  46. M Sage – Wants a Diamond Pivot Bright (Florabelle)
  47. Julie Doiron – I Thought of You (You've Changed)
  48. FPA – Princess Wiko (37d03d)
  49. Mandy, Indiana – ...EP (Fire Talk)
  50. Jlin – Embryo (Planet Mu)

This week's adds

  • Man-Eaters – Twelve More Observations on Healthy Living (Feel It)
  • Rachel Manter – The piano is a concept and i am an album (Self-released)
  • Sick Day – Deja Vu (Self-released)

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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 12/20/2021

  1. Jordanna – The Full Story (Self-Released)
  2. Aeon Station – Observatory (Sub Pop)
  3. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)
  4. Various Artists – Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk and Soul (Ballads and Dirges 1970-1975) (Now-Again)
  5. Various Artists – Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa)
  6. Makaya McCraven – Deciphering The Message (Blue Note)
  7. Hushdrops – The Static (Pravda)
  8. Aunt Sally – Aunt Sally (Mesh-key)
  9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn (Reprise)
  10. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop/Milk)
  11. Loney Hutchins – Buried Loot, Demos from the House of Cash and "Outlaw" Era, '73-'78 (Cleft)
  12. Aesop Rock & Blockhead – Garbology (Rhymesayers )
  13. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group)
  14. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)
  15. Melenas – Melenas (Trouble in Mind)
  16. Riki – Gold (Dais)
  17. Desert Liminal – Glass Fate (Whited Sepulchre)
  18. Ben LaMar Gay – Open Arms to Open Us (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
  19. Charles Rumback – Seven Bridges (Astral Spirits)
  20. Julie Doiron – I Thought of You (You've Changed)
  21. Damon Albarn – The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Transgressive)
  22. Snail Mail – Valentine (Matador)
  23. carter ward – New Plateau (Self-Released)
  24. Safety Town – Fake It (Earth Libraries)
  25. Jeff Parker – Forfolks (International Anthem)
  26. Nicholas Tremulis & The Prodigals – Rarified World (Immediate Family)
  27. Unidad Ideológica – Unidad Ideológica (La Vida Es Un Mus)
  28. Makthaverskan – För Allting (Run For Cover)
  29. IDLES – CRAWLER (Partisan)
  30. Lily Konigsberg – Lily We Need to Talk Now (Wharf Cat)
  31. Arca – KicK iii (XL)
  32. Mandy, Indiana – ...EP (Fire Talk)
  33. Michael Hurley – The Time of the Foxgloves (No Quarter)
  34. Jlin – Embryo (Planet Mu)
  35. Gentleman Jesse – Lose Everything (Beach Impediment)
  36. David Christian and the Pinecone Orchestra – For Those We Met on the Way (Tapete)
  37. Pip Blom – Welcome Break (Heavenly/PIAS)
  38. Nation of Language – A Way Forward (Play It Again Sam)
  39. megiapa – diddies vol. 1 (Self-released)
  40. Various Artists – Throwdown At The No K Corral (Soundpoint)
  41. Various Artists – LANDBACK (NDN Collective)
  42. Swansea Sound – Live at the Rum Puncheon (HHBTM/Skep Wax)
  43. MUNYA – Voyage to Mars (Luminelle)
  44. Constant Smiles – Paragons (Sacred Bones)
  45. Arguing with Hurricanes – Arguing with Hurricanes (Joyful Noise)
  46. Can – Live in Brighton 1975 (Mute)
  47. Good Looking Son – Fantasy Weekend (Feel It)
  48. NNAMDï – Are You Happy (Sooper)
  49. Tasha – Tell Me What You Miss The Most (Father/Daughter)
  50. Artifacts – ...and then there's this (Astral Spirits)

This week's adds

  • Digdog – Homeless Theater (self-released)
  • Courtesy – Check the Milk (Seasick)
  • Arca – KICK ii (XL)
  • Jamire Williams – But Only After You Have Suffered (International Anthem)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12/13/2021

  1. Various Artists – Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa)
  2. Jeff Parker – Forfolks (International Anthem)
  3. Hushdrops – The Static (Pravda)
  4. Ben LaMar Gay – Open Arms to Open Us (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
  5. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)
  6. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)
  7. Desert Liminal – Glass Fate (Whited Sepulchre)
  8. Makaya McCraven – Deciphering The Message (Blue Note)
  9. Artifacts – ...and then there's this (Astral Spirits)
  10. NNAMDï – Are You Happy (Sooper)
  11. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group)
  12. Makthaverskan – För Allting (Run For Cover)
  13. Robert Görl & Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft – Nur Noch Einer (Gronland)
  14. Versus – Let's Electrify! (Teenbeat)
  15. Tasha – Tell Me What You Miss The Most (Father/Daughter)
  16. Dwaal Troupe – Lucky Dog (Self-released)
  17. Charles Rumback – Seven Bridges (Astral Spirits)
  18. Loney Hutchins – Buried Loot, Demos from the House of Cash and "Outlaw Era (73-'78")
  19. FPA – Princess Wiko (37d03d)
  20. Aesop Rock & Blockhead – Garbology (Rhymesayers)
  21. Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy – SON (Carrying Color)
  22. Can – Live in Brighton 1975 (Mute)
  23. Massage – Lane Lines (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  24. Cynic – Ascension Codes (Season of Mist)
  25. Beach House – Once Twice Melody: Chapter 1 (Sub Pop)
  26. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop/Milk)
  27. Geese – Projector (Partisan)
  28. Eris Drew – Quivering In Time (T4T LUV)
  29. Mick Jenkins – Elephant In The Room (Cinematic Music)
  30. Nicholas Tremulis & The Prodigals – Rarified World (Immediate Family)
  31. MUNYA – Voyage to Mars (Luminelle)
  32. Parcels – Day/Night (Because)
  33. Alien Nosejob – Paint it Clear (Feel It)
  34. Damon Albarn – The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Transgressive)
  35. Irreversible Entanglements – Open the Gates (International Anthem/Don Giovanni)
  36. FUR – When You Walk Away (777)
  37. Clear History – Bad Advice Good People (Upset The Rhythm)
  38. Bat Fangs – Queen of My World (Don Giovanni)
  39. M Sage – Wants a Diamond Pivot Bright (Florabelle)
  40. Julie Doiron – I Thought of You (You've Changed)
  41. Swansea Sound – Live at the Rum Puncheon (HHBTM/Skep Wax)
  42. IDLES – CRAWLER (Partisan)
  43. Lily Konigsberg – Lily We Need to Talk Now (Wharf Cat)
  44. Theon Cross – Intra-I (New Soil/Marathon)
  45. Elbow – Flying Dream 1 (Polydor)
  46. Gentleman Jesse – Lose Everything (Beach Impediment)
  47. Papercuts – Baxter's Bliss (Psychic Friends)
  48. Pip Blom – Welcome Break (Heavenly/PIAS)
  49. Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, & Dave Okumu – The Solution is Restless (Play It Again Sam)
  50. The Dodos – Grizzly Peak (Polyvinyl)

This week's adds

  • Aeon Station – Observatory (Sub Pop)
  • Arca – KiCK iii (XL)
  • Arguing with Hurricanes – Arguing with Hurricanes (Joyful Noise)
  • Aunt Sally – Aunt Sally (Mesh-key)
  • Constant Smiles – Paragons (Sacred Bones)
  • Double Job – Ohne Tanzen Planen (Arvo Disques)
  • Jlin – Embryo (Planet Mu)
  • Jordanna – The Full Story (self-released)
  • Kate Fagan – Ho Ho Ho Holiday Party (self-released)
  • Majid Soula – Chant Amazigh (Habibi Funk)
  • Mandy, Indiana – ... EP (Fire Talk)
  • Melenas – Melenas (Trouble in Mind)
  • Michael Hurley – The Time of the Foxgloves (No Quarter)
  • Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Barn (Reprise)
  • Peter Joly – Easy Has Never Been the Way (self-released)
  • RIKI – Gold (Dais)
  • Unidad Ideológica – Unidad Ideológica (La Vida Es Un Mus)
  • Various Artists – Tickets for Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk and Soul (Ballads & Dirges 1970-1975) (Now-Again)
  • Various Artists – LANDBACK (NDN Collective)

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