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Top 50 for the Week of 09/27/2021

  1. RP Boo – Established! (Planet Mu)
  2. Native Soul – Teenage Dreams (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
  3. BassKase – A Fist Full of Dubs (SoundPoint)
  4. José González – Local Valley (Mute)
  5. Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)
  6. The Toms – Tomplicated (Western Vinyl)
  7. Central Heat Exchange – Central Heat Exchange (Birthday Cake/Citrus City/Sunroom)
  8. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (AGE 101)
  9. Saint Etienne – I've Been Trying To Tell You (Heavenly)
  10. Wingtips – Cutting Room Floor (Artoffact)
  11. Girl K – Girl K Is For The People (Take This To Heart)
  12. Calicoco – Underneath (Dadstache)
  13. Bomba Estéreo – Deja (Sony Music Latin)
  14. Mild High Club – Going Going Gone (Stones Throw)
  15. Liam Kazar – Due North (Woodsist/Mare)
  16. Stuck – Content That Makes You Feel Good (Exploding in Sound)
  17. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin – Before I Die (Ninja Tune)
  18. Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals)
  19. Kacey Musgraves – star-crossed (MCA Nashville/Interscope)
  20. The William Loveday Intention – They Wanted the Devil But I Sang of God (Hangman)
  21. Alicia Walter – I Am Alicia (Sooper)
  22. Badge Epoch – Scroll (Television Explosion)
  23. The Bug – Fire (Ninja Tune)
  24. Chvrches – Screen Violence (Glassnote)
  25. Wednesday – Twin Plagues (Orindal)
  26. Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)
  27. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (Sargent House)
  28. Yvette – How the Garden Grows (Western Vinyl)
  29. Lady Blackbird – Black Acid Soul (Foundation Music/BMG)
  30. Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort to Me (ATO)
  31. Angel Olsen – Aisles EP (somethingscosmic)
  32. LowDown Brass Band – The Reel Sessions (Dibs)
  33. Spirits Having Fun – Two (Born Yesterday)
  34. Nite Jewel – No Sun (Gloriette)
  35. Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray – Leave the Bones (Anjunadeep)
  36. Smoke Bellow – Open for Business (Trouble in Mind)
  37. Colleen Green – Cool (Hardly Art)
  38. Space Afrika – Honest Labour (Dais)
  39. Big Red Machine – How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? (Jagjaguwar/37d03d)
  40. A Great Big Pile Of Leaves – Pono (Topshelf)
  41. Bnny – Everything (Fire Talk)
  42. Air Credits – BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE HERE (Wasteland Radio New Archives)
  43. Boldy James & The Alchemist – Bo Jackson (ALC)
  44. Sarah Davachi – Antiphonals (Late Music)
  45. Ashley Shadow – Only The End (Felte)
  46. HTRK – Rhinestones (N&J Blueberries)
  47. The Shadracks – From Human Like Forms (Damaged Goods)
  48. Sonny And The Sunsets – New Day with New Possibilities (Rocks in Your Head)
  49. Tobacco City – Tobacco City, USA (Scissor Tail)
  50. Greenlights Music – Eye In Team (Self-Released)

This week's adds

  • Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic (Atlantic)
  • The Bevis Frond – Little Eden (Fire)
  • The Connells – Steadman's Wake (Black Park)
  • Cheekface – Emphatically Mo' EP (New Professor)
  • Common – A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 2 (Loma Vista)
  • Damu The Fudgemunk – Conversation Peace (Def Pressé)
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission (Astral Spirits/Sophomore Lounge)
  • Eric Hilton – Ceremony (Montserrat House)
  • Film School – We Weren't Here (Sonic Ritual)
  • Florry – Big Fall (12XU)
  • Gerycz/Powers/Rolin – Lamplighter (American Dreams)
  • Laura Jane Grace – At War with the Silverfish EP (Polyvinyl)
  • Macie Stewart – Mouth Full of Glass (Ordinal)
  • Mako Sica Featuring Tatsu Aoki, Thymme Jones & Jacob Fawcett – Garland of Heads (Astral Spirits)
  • Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Anti-)
  • Neptune's Core – Evolving (self-released)
  • Press A – Press A (self-released)
  • Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine – A Beginner's Mind (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • The Greeting Committee – Dandelion (Harvest)
  • The Ophelias – Crocus (Joyful Noise)
  • The Shivas – Feels So Good Feels So Bad (Tender Loving Empire)
  • William – Listen Every Day (Aquariphone)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09/20/2021

  1. Bomba Estéreo – Deja (Sony Music Latin)
  2. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (AGE 101)
  3. Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)
  4. Girl K – Girl K Is For The People (Take This To Heart)
  5. Nite Jewel – No Sun (Gloriette)
  6. Chvrches – Screen Violence (Glassnote)
  7. Yola – Stand For Myself (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  8. Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort to Me (ATO)
  9. Wingtips – Cutting Room Floor (Artoffact)
  10. Tobacco City – Tobacco City, USA (Scissor Tail)
  11. Naked Raygun – Over the Overlords (Wax Trax!)
  12. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Candyman OST (Waxwork)
  13. Jungle – Loving In Stereo (AWAL)
  14. ORISUN – THIS IS ORISUN (self-released)
  15. Spirits Having Fun – Two (Born Yesterday)
  16. Jana Rush – Painful Enlightenment (Planet Mu)
  17. Wednesday – Twin Plagues (Orindal)
  18. Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)
  19. Water from Your Eyes – Structure (Wharf Cat)
  20. The Shadracks – From Human Like Forms (Damaged Goods)
  21. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
  22. Saint Etienne – I've Been Trying To Tell You (Heavenly)
  23. LowDown Brass Band – The Reel Sessions (Dibs)
  24. Bnny – Everything (Fire Talk)
  25. The Bug – Fire (Ninja Tune)
  26. Boldy James & The Alchemist – Bo Jackson (ALC)
  27. Liam Kazar – Due North (Woodsist/Mare)
  28. Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals)
  29. Bad Bad Hats – Walkman (Don Giovanni)
  30. Lady Blackbird – Black Acid Soul (Foundation Music/BMG)
  31. Orla Gartland – Woman on the Internet (New Friends)
  32. Space Afrika – Honest Labour (Dais)
  33. Big Red Machine – How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? (Jagjaguwar/37d03d)
  34. Emma-Jean Thackray – Yellow (Movementt)
  35. Greenlights Music – Eye In Team (Self-Released)
  36. Air Credits – BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE HERE (Wasteland Radio New Archives)
  37. Turnstile – Glow On (Roadrunner)
  38. Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray – Leave the Bones (Anjunadeep)
  39. Colleen Green – Cool (Hardly Art)
  40. Badge Epoch – Scroll (Television Explosion)
  41. Marisa Anderson/William Tyler – Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey)
  42. Joon Moon – Chrysalis (LDDC/Musique Sauvage)
  43. Shannon And The Clams – Year Of The Spider (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  44. The Joy Formidable – Into the Blue (Enci)
  45. Burr Oak – Late Bloomer (Self-Released)
  46. Dalibor Cruz – Realizing Requisites (Chicago Research)
  47. Gary Camaro – In The Direction Of Travel (self-released)
  48. Jackie Hayes – There's Always Going to be Something (self-released)
  49. G. Brenner – Brushfire (Very Jazzed)
  50. Wolves in the Throne Room – Primordial Arcana (Relapse)

This week's adds

  • Alicia Walter – I Am Alicia (Sooper)
  • Ashley Shadow – Only the End (Felte)
  • BassKase – A Fist Full of Dubs (Soundpoint)
  • Calicoco – Underneath (Dadstache)
  • Central Heat Exchange – Central Heat Exchange (Birthday Cake/Citrus City /Sunroom)
  • HTRK – Rhinestones (N&J Blueberries)
  • José González – Local Valley (Mute)
  • Kacey Musgraves – star-crossed (MCA Nashville / Interscope)
  • Mild High Club – Going Going Gone (Stones Throw)
  • Native Soul – Teenage Dreams (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
  • RP Boo – Established! (Planet Mu)
  • Sarah Davachi – Antiphonals (Late Music)
  • Smoke Bellow – Open for Business (Trouble in Mind)
  • The Toms – Tomplicated (Western Vinyl)
  • The William Loveday Intention – They Wanted the Devil But I Sang of God (Hangman)
  • YVETTE – How the Garden Grows (Western Vinyl)
  • 박혜진 Park Hye Jin – Before I Die (Ninja Tune)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09/13/2021


  1. Naked Raygun – Over the Overlords (Wax Trax!)

  2. Greenlights Music – Eye In Team (Self-Released)

  3. Angel Olsen – Aisles EP (Jagjaguwar)

  4. CHVRCHES – Screen Violence (Glassnote)

  5. Wednesday – Twin Plagues (Orindal)

  6. Shannon And The Clams – Year Of The Spider (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)

  7. Turnstile – Glow On (Roadrunner)

  8. Ty Segall – Harmonizer (Drag City)

  9. ORISUN – THIS IS ORISUN (self-released)

  10. The Bug – Fire (Ninja Tune)

  11. Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals)

  12. The Shadracks – From Human Like Forms (Damaged Goods)

  13. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)

  14. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)

  15. Nite Jewel – No Sun (Gloriette)

  16. Jana Rush – Painful Enlightenment (Planet Mu)

  17. Sycco – Sycco's First EP (Future Classic)

  18. Liam Kazar – Due North (Woodsist/Mare)

  19. Jungle – Loving In Stereo (AWAL)

  20. Bnny – Everything (Fire Talk)

  21. Dream Version – Dream Version (Self-released)

  22. LowDown Brass Band – The Reel Sessions (Dibs)

  23. Jackie Hayes – There's Always Going to be Something (self-released)

  24. Obe – Lag (Chicago Research)

  25. Stuck – Content That Makes You Feel Good EP (Exploding in Sound)

  26. Joon Moon – Chrysalis (LDDC/Musique Sauvage)

  27. Damon & Naomi – A Sky Record (20|20|20)

  28. Marisa Anderson/William Tyler – Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey)

  29. quickly, quickly – The Long and Short of It (Ghostly International)

  30. Big Red Machine – How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? (Jagjaguar/37d03d (pron. "people"))

  31. Yola – Stand For Myself (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)

  32. Sonny & The Sunsets – New Day with New Possibilities (Rocks in Your Head)

  33. Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood and Juanita (High Top Mountain)

  34. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)

  35. Emma-Jean Thackray – Yellow (Movementt)

  36. Famous Mammals – Famous Mammals (Self-Released)

  37. Tobacco City – Tobacco City, USA (Scissor Tail)

  38. Badge Epoch – Scroll (Telephone Explosion)

  39. Steve Gunn – Other You (Matador)

  40. Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)

  41. The Joy Formidable – Into the Blue (Enci)

  42. Liars – The Apple Drop (Mute)

  43. Gary Camaro – In the Direction of Travel (self-released)

  44. Navy – BLEU (Pretty Boy Worldwide)

  45. Yellow Pills – Machines That Go Beep (Mint 400)

  46. The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas (Slumberland)

  47. Kiefer – When There's Love Around (Stones Throw)

  48. Pachyman – The Return of Pachyman (ATO)

  49. Son Volt – Electro Melodier (Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers)

  50. Burr Oak – Late Bloomer (Self-Released)


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This week's adds


  • Bad Bad Hats – Walkman (Don Giovanni)

  • Colleen Green – Cool (Hardly Art)

  • Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)

  • Spirits Having Fun – Two (Born Yesterday)

  • GIRL K – Girl K is For the People (Take This To Heart)

  • Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)

  • Saint Etienne – I've Been Trying to Tell You (Heavenly)

  • WINGTIPS – Cutting Room Floor (Artoffact)

  • Amyl and the Sniffers – Comfort to Me (ATO)

  • Bomba Estéreo – Deja (Sony Music Latin)

  • Lady Blackbird – Black Acid Soul (BMG)

  • Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Candyman OST (Waxwork)


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Top 50 for the Week of 09/06/2021

  1. Liam Kazar – Due North (Woodsist/Mare)
  2. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
  3. Greenlights Music – Eye In Team (Self-Released)
  4. Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)
  5. Bnny – Everything (Fire Talk)
  6. Air Credits – BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE HERE (Wasteland Radio New Archives)
  7. Jana Rush – Painful Enlightenment (Planet Mu)
  8. Boldy James & The Alchemist – Bo Jackson (ALC)
  9. Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals)
  10. Angel Olsen – Aisles EP (Jagjaguwar)
  11. Naked Raygun – Over the Overlords (Wax Trax!)
  12. Joon Moon – Chrysalis (LDDC/Musique Sauvage)
  13. LowDown Brass Band – The Reel Sessions (Dibs)
  14. Dream Version – Dream Version (Self-released)
  15. Yola – Stand For Myself (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  16. Sonny & The Sunsets – New Day with New Possibilities (Rocks in Your Head)
  17. Headless Chickens – Stunt Clown (Flying Nun)
  18. Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood and Juanita (High Top Mountain)
  19. Shannon And The Clams – Year Of The Spider (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  20. The Joy Formidable – Into the Blue (Enci)
  21. ORISUN – THIS IS ORISUN (self-released)
  22. G. Brenner – Brushfire (Very Jazzed)
  23. Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Motown)
  24. Wolves in the Throne Room – Primordial Arcana (Relapse)
  25. Anthonie Tonnon – Leave Love Out Of This (Slow Time)
  26. Fashion Pimps & the Glamazons – Jazz 4 Johnny (Feel It)
  27. 26 BATS! – Portal Party (Kremblems)
  28. Liars – The Apple Drop (Mute)
  29. Dalibor Cruz – Realizing Requisites (Chicago Research)
  30. Gary Camaro – In the Direction of Travel (self-released)
  31. Arthhur – Occult Fractures (self-released)
  32. Turnstile – Glow On (Roadrunner)
  33. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (Sargent House)
  34. Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray – Leave the Bones (Anjunadeep)
  35. Arushi Jain – Under the Lilac Sky (Leaving)
  36. Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes – Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar More Songs (Leaving)
  37. Desire Marea – Desire (Mute)
  38. Navy – BLEU (Pretty Boy Worldwide)
  39. Kississippi – Mood Ring (Triple Crown)
  40. Pony Hunt – VAR! (Wing and Wing)
  41. Wavves – Hideaway (Fat Possum)
  42. Yellow Pills – Machines That Go Beep (Mint 400)
  43. Wild Earp & The Free for Alls – Dyin' for Easy Livin' (Western Myth)
  44. Thomas Comerford – Introverts (self-released)
  45. Sycco – Sycco's First EP (Future Classic)
  46. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)
  47. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)
  48. The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas (Slumberland)
  49. Kiefer – When There's Love Around (Stones Throw)
  50. Jungle – Loving In Stereo (AWAL)

This week's adds

  • Badge Epoch – Scroll (Telephone Explosion)
  • Big Red Machine – How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? (Jagjaguar/37d03d (pron. "people"))
  • CHVRCHES – Screen Violence (Glassnote)
  • Damon & Naomi – A Sky Record (20|20|20)
  • Marisa Anderson/William Tyler – Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey)
  • Nite Jewel – No Sun (Gloriette)
  • Obe – Lag (Chicago Research)
  • quickly, quickly – The Long and Short of It (Ghostly International)
  • Space Afrika – Honest Labour (Dais)
  • Steve Gunn – Other You (Matador)
  • Stuck – Content That Makes You Feel Good EP (Exploding in Sound)
  • SUUNS – The Witness (Joyful Noise)
  • The Bug – Fire (Ninja Tune)
  • The Shadracks – From Human Like Forms (Damaged Goods)
  • Tobacco City – Tobacco City, USA (Scissor Tail)
  • Wednesday – Twin Plagues (Orindal)

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Top 50 for the Week of 08/30/2021

  1. LowDown Brass Band – The Reel Sessions (Dibs)
  2. Bnny – Everything (Fire Talk)
  3. Shannon And The Clams – Year Of The Spider (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  4. Jana Rush – Painful Enlightenment (Planet Mu)
  5. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (Sargent House)
  6. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)
  7. The Joy Formidable – Into the Blue (Enci)
  8. Dream Version – Dream Version (Self-released)
  9. Sycco – Sycco's First EP (Future Classic)
  10. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
  11. Naked Raygun – Over the Overlords (Wax Trax!)
  12. Yola – Stand For Myself (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  13. A Great Big Pile Of Leaves – Pono (Topshelf)
  14. Ty Segall – Harmonizer (Drag City)
  15. G. Brenner – Brushfire (Very Jazzed)
  16. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram – 662 (Alligator)
  17. Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood and Juanita (High Top Mountain)
  18. Jungle – Loving In Stereo (AWAL)
  19. Navy – BLEU (Pretty Boy Worldwide)
  20. Lingua Ignota – SINNER GET READY (Sargent House)
  21. Burr Oak – Late Bloomer (Self-Released)
  22. Air Credits – BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE HERE (Wasteland Radio New Archives)
  23. Charlotte Day Wilson – ALPHA (Stone Woman)
  24. The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas (Slumberland)
  25. Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Motown)
  26. Joy Orbison – Still Slipping Vol. 1 (XL)
  27. Altin Gün – Âlem (ATO)
  28. Various Artists – Modern Love (BBE)
  29. Piroshka – Love Drips & Gathers (Bella Union)
  30. Wild Earp & The Free for Alls – Dyin' for Easy Livin' (Western Myth)
  31. Arthhur – Occult Fractures (self-released)
  32. Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray – Leave the Bones (Anjunadeep)
  33. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)
  34. Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes – Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar More Songs (Leaving)
  35. Desire Marea – Desire (Mute)
  36. Fashion Pimps & the Glamazons – Jazz 4 Johnny (Feel It)
  37. Brian Jackson, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Brian Jackson JID008 (Jazz Is Dead)
  38. Yellow Pills – Machines That Go Beep (Mint 400)
  39. koleżanka – Place Is (Bar/None)
  40. Pachyman – The Return of Pachyman (ATO)
  41. Homeboy Sandman – Anjelitu (Mello Music Group)
  42. Emma-Jean Thackray – Yellow (Movementt)
  43. Kississippi – Mood Ring (Triple Crown)
  44. Descendents – 9th & Walnut (Epitaph)
  45. Liars – The Apple Drop (Mute)
  46. Pony Hunt – VAR! (Wing and Wing)
  47. Anushka – Yemaya (Tru Thoughts)
  48. Gary Camaro – In The Direction Of Travel (self-released)
  49. Jyroscope & Montana Macks – HAPPY MEDIUM (Self-released)
  50. Justice Hill – Room with a View (Miner Lake)

This week's adds

  • Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)
  • Cleo Sol – Mother (Forever Living Originals)
  • Boldy James & The Alchemist – Bo Jackson (ALC)
  • Liam Kazar – Due North (Woodsist/Mare)
  • Turnstile – Glow On (Roadrunner)
  • ORISUN – THIS IS ORISUN (self-released)
  • Greenlights Music – Eye In Team (self-released)
  • Kiefer – When There's Love Around (Stones Throw)
  • Joe Taylor Sutkowski – Of Wisdom and Folly (Danger Collective)
  • Joon Moon – Chyrsalis (LDDC/Musique Sauvage)
  • Angel Olsen – Aisles EP (Jagjaguwar)
  • Dalibor Cruz – Realizing Requisites (Chicago Research)
  • Famous Mammals – Famous Mammals (self-released)
  • Wolves in the Throne Room – Primordial Arcana (Relapse)
  • Sonny and the Sunsets – New Day with New Possibilities (Rocks in Your Head)
  • Anthonie Tonnon – Leave Love Out of This (Slow Time)
  • Headless Chickens – Stunt Clown (Flying Nun)

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