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Top 50 for the Week of 07/19/2021

  1. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)
  2. Arthhur – Occult Fractures (Self-Released)
  3. Pom Pom Squad – Death of a Cheerleader (City Slang)
  4. Tyler, The Creator – CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (Columbia)
  5. A Place To Bury Strangers – Hologram (Dedstrange)
  6. Mazes – PEACE BRIDGE (Sanzimat International)
  7. SPELLLING – The Turning Wheel (Sacred Bones)
  8. BassKase – Insects And Peppermints (SoundPoint)
  9. Sault – NINE' (Forever Living Originals)
  10. Snapped Ankles – Forest of Your Problems (The Leaf Label)
  11. Serengeti – Have a Summer (Self-Released)
  12. Liz Phair – Soberish (Chrysalis)
  13. Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (Third Man)
  14. Shungudzo – I'm not a mother, but I have children (BMG)
  15. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part One (Memphis Industries)
  16. Emily Jane Powers – Isometry (self-released)
  17. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – This Is a Mindfulness Drill (Jagjaguwar)
  18. Maple Glider – To Enjoy Is The Only Thing (Partisan)
  19. John Grant – Boy from Michigan (Bella Union)
  20. Tape Waves – Bright (Emotional Response)
  21. Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones – Here to Tell the Tale (SOWER)
  22. Spud Cannon – Good Kids Make Bad Apples (Good Eye)
  23. Meat Wave – Volcano Park (Big Scary Monsters)
  24. Damiana – Vines (Hausu Mountain)
  25. Ten City – Judgement (Ultra)
  26. Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Verve)
  27. Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness (Mom+Pop)
  28. The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Matador)
  29. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)
  30. The Mountain Goats – Dark in Here (Merge)
  31. Matthew Dear – Preacher's Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International)
  32. Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band – Tezeta (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
  33. Canal Irreal – Canal Irreal (Beach Impediment)
  34. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
  35. Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)
  36. Okuté – Okuté (Chulo)
  37. Dag – Pedestrian Life (Bedroom Suck)
  38. The Murlocs – Bittersweet Demons (ATO)
  39. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)
  40. Squirrel Flower – Planet (i) (Polyvinyl)
  41. Mind Maintenance – Mind Maintenance (Drag City)
  42. Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It (Merge)
  43. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder)
  44. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
  45. Wesley Joseph – ULTRAMARINE (EEVILTWINN / Transgressive)
  46. The Scientists – Negativity (In the Red)
  47. Anna Ash – Fire Season (self-released)
  48. Lou Barlow – Reason to Live (Joyful Noise)
  49. Fousheé – time machine (RCA)
  50. Compilation – Alligator Records—50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin' Music (Alligator)

This week's adds

  • Anushka – Yemaya (Tru Thoughts)
  • Clairo – Sling (Fader/Republic)
  • Cochemea – Vol. II Baca Sewa (Daptone)
  • Evidence – Unlearning Vol 1 (Rhymesayers)
  • Half Waif – Mythopoetics (Anti-)
  • Izzy True – Our Beautiful Baby World (Don Giovanni)
  • Jodi – Blue Heron (Sooper)
  • Massage – Still Life (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  • Meggie Lennon – Sounds From Your Lips (Mothland)
  • Midwife – Luminol (The Flenser)
  • MIKE – Disco! (10k)
  • Mike Lust – Demented Wings (Forge Again)
  • Peyton – PSA (Stones Throw)
  • Rodrigo Amarante – Drama (Polyvinyl)
  • Six Organs of Admittance – The Veiled Sea (Three Lobed)
  • Steve Dawson – At The Bottom Of A Canyon In The Branches Of A Tree (Pravda)
  • Thomas Comerford – Introverts (self-released)
  • Various Artists – Situation Chicago 2 (Quiet Pterodactyl)
  • Wavves – Hideaway (Fat Possum)
  • Wild Earp & the Free for Alls – Dyin' for Easy Livin' (Western Myth)
  • Yves Tumor – The Asymptotical World EP (Warp)

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Top 50 for the Week of 07/12/2021

  1. Serengeti – Have a Summer (Self-Released)
  2. Mazes – PEACE BRIDGE (Sanzimat International)
  3. SPELLLING – The Turning Wheel (Sacred Bones)
  4. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part One (Memphis Industries)
  5. BassKase – Insects And Peppermints (SoundPoint)
  6. Sault – NINE' (Forever Living Originals)
  7. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)
  8. Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (Third Man)
  9. Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)
  10. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
  11. Squirrel Flower – Planet (i) (Polyvinyl)
  12. Meat Wave – Volcano Park (Big Scary Monsters)
  13. ULNA – OEA (Born Yesterday)
  14. Shungudzo – I'm not a mother, but I have children (BMG)
  15. The Mountain Goats – Dark in Here (Merge)
  16. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)
  17. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder)
  18. Lily Konigsberg – The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now (Wharf Cat)
  19. Hélène Barbier – Regulus (Celluloid Lunch)
  20. Greentea Peng – MAN MADE (EMI)
  21. L'Rain – Fatigue (Mexican Summer)
  22. Lightning Bug – A Color of the Sky (Fat Possum)
  23. Faye Webster – I Know I'm Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
  24. Shawn Maxwell – Expectation & Experience (Self-Released)
  25. Liz Phair – Soberish (Chrysalis)
  26. Ten City – Judgement (Ultra)
  27. Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Verve)
  28. Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones – Here to Tell the Tale (SOWER)
  29. Turnstile – Turnstile Love Connection (Roadrunner)
  30. Matthew Dear – Preacher's Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International)
  31. Dani and Lizzy – The Opening (604)
  32. Balkan Taksim – Disko Telegraf (Buda Musique)
  33. Natalie Bergman – Mercy (Third Man)
  34. Course – A Late Hour (self-released)
  35. Sons of the Never Wrong – Undertaker's Songbook (Sons 3)
  36. Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness (Mom+Pop)
  37. Okuté – Okuté (Chulo)
  38. Loraine James – Reflection (Hyperdub)
  39. Gary Numan – Intruder (BMG)
  40. Emily Jane Powers – Isometry (self-released)
  41. Sonic45 – SPACE AND TIME (Pravda)
  42. Mind Maintenance – Mind Maintenance (Drag City)
  43. Spectacular Diagnostics – Natural Mechanics (Group BraCil)
  44. Woody & Jeremy – Gravy in My Coffee (Strange Satisfaction)
  45. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – This Is a Mindfulness Drill (Jagjaguwar)
  46. Love of Everything – Echo Frenz (Joyful Noise)
  47. Compilation РAlligator Records—50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin' Music (Alligator)
  48. Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It (Merge)
  49. Olivia Kaplan – Tonight Turns to Nothing (Top Shelf)
  50. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Fourth Strike)

This week's adds

  • A Place To Bury Strangers – Hologram (Dedstrange)
  • Arthhur – Occult Fractures (self-released)
  • Canal Irreal – Canal Irreal (Beach Impediment)
  • Dag – Pedestrian Life (Bedroom Suck)
  • Damiana – Vines (Hausu Mountain)
  • Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)
  • John Grant – Boy From Michigan (Partisan)
  • Maple Glider – To Enjoy is the Only Thing (Partisan)
  • Pom Pom Squad – Death of a Cheerleader (City Slang)
  • Shrapnel – Alasitas (Tenth Court)
  • Snapped Ankles – Forest of Your Problems (The Leaf Label)
  • Tape Waves – Bright (Emotional Response)
  • The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Matador)
  • The Murlocs – Bittersweet Demons (ATO)
  • Tyler, The Creator – CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (Columbia)

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Top 50 for the Week of 07/05/2021

  1. Sault – 'NINE' (Forever Living Originals)
  2. Meat Wave – Volcano Park (Big Scary Monsters)
  3. Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Verve)
  4. Squirrel Flower – Planet (i) (Polyvinyl )
  5. Emily Jane Powers – Isometry (self-released)
  6. Shungudzo – I'm not a mother, but I have children (BMG)
  7. Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It (Merge)
  8. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
  9. Liz Phair – Soberish (Chrysalis)
  10. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
  11. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)
  12. Ten City – Judgement (Ultra)
  13. Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)
  14. Lou Barlow – Reason to Live (Joyful Noise)
  15. Devin Shaffer – In My Dreams I'm There (American Dreams)
  16. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – This Is a Mindfulness Drill (Jagjaguwar)
  17. Love of Everything – Echo Frenz (Joyful Noise)
  18. The Mountain Goats – Dark in Here (Merge)
  19. Garbage – No Gods No Masters (Stunvolume)
  20. ULNA – OEA (Born Yesterday)
  21. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder)
  22. Loraine James – Reflection (Hyperdub)
  23. Spud Cannon – Good Kids Make Bad Apples (Good Eye)
  24. The Scientists – Negativity (In the Red)
  25. Matthew Dear – Preacher's Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International)
  26. Natalie Bergman – Mercy (Third Man)
  27. Various Artists – Alligator Records—50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin' Music (Alligator)
  28. Lily Konigsberg – The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now (Wharf Cat)
  29. Tristen – Aquatic Flowers (Mama Bird)
  30. João Donato, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – João Donato JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)
  31. Greentea Peng – MAN MADE (EMI)
  32. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)
  33. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
  34. Birds of Maya – Valdez (Drag City)
  35. Faye Webster – I Know I'm Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
  36. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl)
  37. black midi – Cavalcade (Rough Trade)
  38. Mark Shippy and Alex Cunningham – Ghost Note (Personal Archives)
  39. Fucked Up – Year of the Horse (self-released/Tankcrimes)
  40. Okuté – Okuté (Chulo)
  41. Lightning Bug – A Color of the Sky (Fat Possum)
  42. Fousheé – time machine (RCA)
  43. Georgia Anne Muldrow – VWETO III (Foreseen)
  44. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)
  45. Sonic45 – SPACE AND TIME (Pravda)
  46. Woody & Jeremy – Gravy in My Coffee (Strange Satisfaction )
  47. Luggage – Happiness (Husky Pants)
  48. Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness (Mom+Pop)
  49. Dani and Lizzy – The Opening (604)
  50. Helvetia – Essential Aliens (Joyful Noise)

This week's adds

  • Turnstile – Turnstile Love Connection EP (Roadrunner)
  • Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones – Here to Tell the Tale (SOWER)
  • Darkthrone – Eternal Hails (Peaceville)
  • Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (Third Man)
  • The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part One (Memphis Industries)
  • Serengeti – Have a Summer (self-released)
  • SPELLLING – The Turning Wheel (Sacred Bones)
  • BassKase – Insects and Peppermint (SoundPoint)
  • Mazes – Peace Bridge (Sanzimat International)
  • L'Rain – Fatigue (Mexican Summer)

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Top 50 for the Week of 06/28/2021

  1. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
  2. Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)
  3. Meat Wave – Volcano Park EP (Big Scary Monsters)
  4. Love of Everything – Echo Frenz (Joyful Noise)
  5. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)
  6. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
  7. Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band – Tezeta (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
  8. Lily Konigsberg – The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now (Wharf Cat)
  9. Course – A Late Hour (self-released)
  10. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl)
  11. Greentea Peng – MAN MADE (EMI)
  12. Tristen – Aquatic Flowers (Mama Bird)
  13. Hélène Barbier – Regulus (Celluloid Lunch)
  14. Mereba – AZEB (Interscope)
  15. Left at London – t. i. a. p. f. y. h. (self-released)
  16. Various Artists – 50 Years of Genuine House Rockin' Music (Alligator)
  17. Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness (Mom+Pop)
  18. Woody & Jeremy – Gravy in My Coffee (Strange Satisfaction)
  19. FACS – Present Tense (Trouble In Mind)
  20. Sonic45 – Space and Time (Pravda)
  21. Gary Numan – Intruder (BMG)
  22. Pixel Grip – ARENA (Feeltrip)
  23. Guerilla Welfare – Guerilla Welfare (He Dead)
  24. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
  25. Lou Barlow – Reason to Live (Joyful Noise)
  26. Various Artists – Club Coco (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
  27. Spectacular Diagnostics – Natural Mechanics (Group BraCil)
  28. Erika de Casier – Sensational (4AD)
  29. CHAI – WINK (Sub Pop)
  30. Allison Russell – Outside Child (Fantasy/Concord)
  31. Push33 – Tales of Time (self-released)
  32. Dark Tea – Dark Tea (Fire Talk)
  33. Balkan Taksim – Disko Telegraf (Buda Musique)
  34. Patrick Paige II – If I Fail Are We Still Cool? (Fat Possum/Forward And Up)
  35. ULNA – OEA (Born Yesterday)
  36. Okuté – Okuté (Chulo)
  37. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)
  38. Sons of the Never Wrong – Undertaker's Songbook (Sons 3)
  39. Matt Berry – The Blue Elephant (Acid Jazz)
  40. Fousheé – time machine (RCA)
  41. Mndsgn – Rare Pleasure (Stones Throw)
  42. João Donato, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – João Donato JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)
  43. Marinero – Hella Love (Hardly Art)
  44. Wombo – Keesh Mountain (Fire Talk)
  45. E.R. Jurken – I Stand Corrected (Country Thyme)
  46. Anna Ash – Fire Season (self-released)
  47. Marina Allen – Candlepower (Fire)
  48. Shirese – Three Going on Four (C/Site)
  49. Mountain Movers – World What World (Trouble in Mind)
  50. Garbage – No Gods No Masters (Stunvolume)

This week's adds

  • Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Verve)
  • Birds of Maya – Valdez (Drag City)
  • Dani & Lizzy – The Opening (604 Records)
  • Devin Shaffer – In My Dreams I'm There (American Dreams)
  • Emily Jane Powers – Isometry (self-released)
  • Faye Webster – I Know I'm Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
  • Fucked Up – Year of the Horse (self-released)
  • Helvetia – Essential Aliens (Joyful Noise)
  • Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It (Merge)
  • Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – This Is a Mindfulness Drill (Jagjaguwar)
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)
  • Lightning Bug – A Color of the Sky (Fat Possum)
  • Liz Phair – Soberish (Chrysalis)
  • Mark Shippy and Alex Cunningham – Ghost Note (Personal Archives)
  • Matthew Dear – Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International)
  • Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
  • Off Peak Arson – self-titled (self-released)
  • Olivia Kaplan – Tonight Turns to Nothing (Topshelf)
  • Powers/Rolin Duo – Strange Fortune (Astral Editions)
  • Sault – NINE (Forever Living Originals)
  • Shungudzo – I’m not a mother, but I have children (BMG)
  • Spud Cannon – Good Kids Make Bad Apples (Good Eye)
  • Squirrel Flower – Planet (i) (Polyvinyl)
  • Steph Wall – Wall Plays Hall (self-released)
  • Ten City – Judgement (Ultra)
  • The Mountain Goats – Dark in Here (Merge)
  • The Natvral – Tethers (Kanine)
  • The Scientists – Negativity (In the Red)
  • Wesley Joseph – ULTRAMARINE (EEVILTWINN / Transgressive)

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Top 50 for the Week of 06/21/2021

  1. Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness (Mom+Pop)
  2. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
  3. Lily Konigsberg – The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now (Wharf Cat)
  4. ULNA – OEA (Born Yesterday)
  5. Okuté – Okuté (Chulo)
  6. Various Artists – Club Coco (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
  7. Spectacular Diagnostics – Natural Mechanics (Group BraCil)
  8. Shawn Maxwell – Expectation & Experience (Self-Released)
  9. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)
  10. Gary Numan – Intruder (BMG)
  11. Garbage – No Gods No Masters (Stunvolume)
  12. Woody & Jeremy – Gravy in My Coffee (Strange Satisfaction )
  13. Course – A Late Hour (self-released)
  14. FACS – Present Tense (Trouble In Mind)
  15. Sons of the Never Wrong – Undertaker's Songbook (Sons 3)
  16. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl)
  17. Jorja Smith – Be Right Back (FAMM)
  18. Jeweler – Tiny Circles (self-released)
  19. Pixel Grip – ARENA (Feeltrip)
  20. Mind Maintenance – Mind Maintenance (Drag City)
  21. Matt Berry – The Blue Elephant (Acid Jazz)
  22. Fousheé – time machine (RCA)
  23. Guerilla Welfare – Guerilla Welfare (He Dead)
  24. Natalie Bergman – Mercy (Third Man)
  25. Push33 – Tales of Time (self-released)
  26. Wadada Leo Smith / Douglas R. Ewart / Mike Reed – Sun Beans of Shimmering Light (Astral Spirits)
  27. Mndsgn – Rare Pleasure (Stones Throw)
  28. Greentea Peng – MAN MADE (EMI)
  29. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
  30. João Donato, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – João Donato JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)
  31. black midi – Cavalcade (Rough Trade)
  32. L'Orange & Namir Blade – Imaginary Everything (Mello Music Group )
  33. Marinero – Hella Love (Hardly Art)
  34. Hide – Interior Terror (Dais)
  35. Mia Joy – Spirit Tamer (Fire Talk)
  36. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  37. Allison Russell – Outside Child (Fantasy/Concord)
  38. Wombo – Keesh Mountain (Fire Talk)
  39. Dark Tea – Dark Tea (Fire Talk)
  40. Tristen – Aquatic Flowers (Mama Bird)
  41. Loraine James – Reflection (Hyperdub)
  42. Tombstones In Their Eyes – Looking for a Light (Somewherecold)
  43. Luggage – Happiness (Husky Pants)
  44. Current Joys – Voyager (Secretly Canadian)
  45. The Chills – Scatterbrain (Fire)
  46. CHAI – WINK (Sub Pop)
  47. St. Vincent – Daddy's Home (Loma Vista)
  48. Can – LIVE IN STUTTGART 1975 (Mute)
  49. Hildegard – Hildegard (Section 1)
  50. Electric Looking Glass – Somewhere Flowers Grow (We Are Busy Bodies)

This week's adds

  • Anna Ash – Fire Season (self-released)
  • Lou Barlow – Reason to Live (Joyful Noise)
  • Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)
  • Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)
  • Marina Allen – Candlepower (Fire)
  • Various Artists – 50 Years of Genuine House Rockin' Music (Alligator)
  • Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
  • Meat Wave – Volcano Park EP (Big Scary Monsters)
  • Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band – Tezeta (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
  • Love of Everything – Echo Frenz (Joyful Noise)
  • Mereba – AZEB (Interscope)
  • VEPS – Open the Door (Kanine)
  • Left at London – t. i. a. p. f. y. h. (self-released)
  • Sonic45 – Space and Time (Pravda)
  • Shirese – Three Going on Four (C/Site)
  • Mountain Movers – World What World (Trouble in Mind)

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