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Top 50 for the Week of 04/05/2021

  1. Floatie – Voyage Out (Exploding in Sound)
  2. Vic Mensa – I TAPE (Roc Nation)
  3. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)
  4. tUnE-yArDs – sketchy. (4AD)
  5. L’Impératrice – Tako Tsubo (microqlima)
  6. Anna Fox Rochinski – Cherry (Don Giovanni)
  7. Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Rock Action)
  8. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
  9. Minor Moon – Tethers (Ruination)
  10. Diagonal – DIAGONAL (Little Cloud)
  11. Liquid Soul – Lost Soul Vol. 1 (Soul What)
  12. Sequoyah Murray – Skin Needs Skin (Self-released)
  13. The Sueves – Tears of Joy (Magicatalog)
  14. OK Cool – Drivers (Take A Hike)
  15. Citrus Clouds – Collider (Lolipop)
  16. Valerie June – The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Fantasy/Concord)
  17. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (Matador)
  18. 파란노을 (Parannoul) – To See the Next Part of the Dream (self-released)
  19. serpentwithfeet – DEACON (Jagjaguwar)
  20. Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (LITA)
  21. Fruit Bats – The Pet Parade (Merge)
  22. Azita – Glen Echo (Drag City)
  23. Fimber Bravo – Lunar Tredd (Moshi Moshi)
  24. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (House Anxiety/Ourness)
  25. Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz is Dead)
  26. Bernice – Eau De Bonjourno (Telephone Explosion)
  27. Real Estate – Half a Human (Domino)
  28. The Purcells – Landscape Listens (self-released)
  29. Harry James – Buy The Numbers (Potions)
  30. Altin Gün – Yol (ATO)
  31. Alice Phoebe Lou – Glow (Self-released)
  32. Antonioni – S/T (Lauren)
  33. Xiu Xiu – OH NO (Polyvinyl)
  34. Nubiyan Twist – Freedom Fables (Strut)
  35. BassKase – The Good, The Bad And The Dubby (Soundpoint)
  36. Crown Vic Royal – Cosmic Nights (self-released)
  37. Dolph Chaney – This Is Dolph Chaney (Big Stir)
  38. Brijean – Feelings (Ghostly International)
  39. Prequel – Love Or (I Heard You Like Heartbreak) (Rhythm Section International)
  40. Noga Erez – KIDS (City Slang)
  41. Yeek – Valencia (AWAL)
  42. Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
  43. Lava La Rue – Butter-Fly (Marathon)
  44. GG King – Remain Intact (Total Punk)
  45. Ian Sweet – Show Me How You Disappear (Polyvinyl)
  46. Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band (Daptone)
  47. Teno Afrika – Amapiano Selections (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
  48. Go Time! – Eight Ball (Sound Gypsy)
  49. Seasurfer – Zombies (Reptile)
  50. Tindersticks – Distractions (Lucky Dog/City Slang)

This week's adds

  • Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt – Made Out of Sound (Pailalia)
  • Dominique Fils-Aimé – Three Little Words (Ensoul)
  • Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (4AD)
  • Dvne – Etemen Ænka (Metal Blade)
  • Fake Fruit – Fake Fruit (Rocks in Your Head)
  • Fauvely – Beautiful Places (self-released)
  • Figueroa – The World as We Know It (NOMARK)
  • Flock of Dimes – Head of Roses (Sub Pop)
  • Gary Bartz, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Gary Bartz JID006 (Jazz Is Dead)
  • Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon (Relapse)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! (Constellation)
  • Jackson Scribner – Jackson Scribner (We Know Better)
  • Kishi Bashi – Emigrant (Joyful Noise)
  • Man Made Mountain – Average Man (self-released)
  • Moontype – Bodies of Water (Born Yesterday)
  • Perfume Genius – IMMEDIATELY Remixes (Matador)
  • Ratboys – Happy Birthday, Ratboy (Topshelf)
  • Slow Planes – Superterrestrial (self-released)
  • Sofia Kourtesis – Fresia Magdalena (Werkdiscs)
  • Sunny War – Simple Syrup (Hen House Studios/ORG)
  • The Orielles – La Vita Olistica (Heavenly / PIAS)
  • Vanessa Peters – Modern Age (Idol)

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Top 50 for the Week of 03/29/2021

  1. Fimber Bravo – Lunar Tredd (Moshi Moshi)
  2. Diagonal – DIAGONAL (Little Cloud)
  3. Liquid Soul – Lost Soul Vol. 1 (Soul What)
  4. Crown Vic Royal – Cosmic Nights (self-released)
  5. Yeek – Valencia (AWAL)
  6. Azita – Glen Echo (Drag City)
  7. Citrus Clouds – Collider (Lolipop)
  8. The Sueves – Tears of Joy (Magicatalog)
  9. Teno Afrika – Amapiano Selections (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
  10. Miho Hatori – Between Isekai and Slice of Life (self-released)
  11. Adult Mom – Driver (Epitaph)
  12. Michael Beach – Dream Violence (Goner)
  13. Tash Sultana – Terra Firma (Mom + Pop)
  14. Bernice – Eau De Bonjourno (Telephone Explosion)
  15. Nubiyan Twist – Freedom Fables (Strut)
  16. Valerie June – The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Fantasy/Concord)
  17. Chad VanGaalen – World's Most Stressed Out Gardener (Sub Pop)
  18. Middle Kids – Today We're the Greatest (Domino)
  19. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (House Anxiety/Ourness)
  20. Lushlife – Redamancy (Fortune Teller)
  21. HLDAY MAGIK – MUSIC 4 UR EARS (self-released)
  22. Dolph Chaney – This Is Dolph Chaney (Big Stir)
  23. Really From – Really From (Topshelf)
  24. Corvair – Corvair (Paper Walls)
  25. Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
  26. Lava La Rue – Butter-Fly (Marathon)
  27. Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Rock Action)
  28. Altin Gün – Yol (ATO)
  29. The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy (Positive Jams)
  30. The Purcells – Landscape Listens (self-released)
  31. Fruit Bats – The Pet Parade (Merge)
  32. Josh Caterer – The Hideout Sessions (Pravda)
  33. Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band (Daptone)
  34. Ola Sweet – Carnation (Younger Dryas)
  35. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Theory of Ice (You've Changed)
  36. Nightshift – Zoe (Trouble in Mind)
  37. Virginia Wing – private LIFE (Fire)
  38. Tone Chop and Frost Gamble – underestimated (self-released)
  39. Rat Columns – Pacific Kiss (Tough Love)
  40. Rosa – Not Your Good Girl (Self-released)
  41. Kuzu – The Glass Delusion (Astral Spirits)
  42. Roscoe Mitchell & Mike Reed – the Ritual and the Dance (Astral Spirits)
  43. Brijean – Feelings (Ghostly International)
  44. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (Matador)
  45. Ian Sweet – Show Me How You Disappear (Polyvinyl)
  46. Lost Horizons – In Quiet Moments (Bella Union/PIAS)
  47. IKOQWE – The Beginning, the Medium, the End and the Infinite (Crammed Discs)
  48. Indigo Sparke – Echo (Sacred Bones)
  49. Cal Fish – Plastic Flag (Fire Talk)
  50. Styrofoam Winos – Styrofoam Winos (Sophomore Lounge)

This week's adds

  • Alice Phoebe Lou – Glow (self-released)
  • Anna Fox Rochinski – Cherry (Don Giovanni)
  • Antonioni – S/T (Lauren)
  • El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)
  • Floatie – Voyage Out (Exploding in Sound)
  • Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
  • L’Impératrice – Tako Tsubo (microqlima)
  • Minor Moon – Tethers (self-released)
  • New Bums – Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City)
  • Noga Erez – KIDS (City Slang)
  • OK Cool – Drivers (Take A Hike)
  • Prequel – Love Or (I Heard You Like Heartbreak) (Rhythm Section International)
  • Real Estate – Half a Human EP (Domino)
  • Seasurfer – Zombies (Reptile)
  • serpentwithfeet – DEACON (Jagjaguwar)
  • The Antlers – Green to Gold (Anti-)
  • The Bones of J.R. Jones – A Celebration (Tone Tree)
  • tUnE-yArDs – sketchy. (4AD)
  • VIC MENSA – I TAPE (Roc Nation)
  • Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)
  • Writhing Squares – Chart for the Solution (Trouble in Mind)
  • Xiu Xiu – OH NO (Polyvinyl)
  • Zach Person – Zach Person (Black Denim)
  • 파란노을 (Parannoul) – To See the Next Part of the Dream (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 03/22/2021

  1. Nubiyan Twist – Freedom Fables (Strut)
  2. Diagonal – DIAGONAL (Little Cloud)
  3. Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Rock Action)
  4. Miho Hatori – Between Isekai and Slice of Life (Self-released)
  5. Dolph Chaney – This Is Dolph Chaney (Big Stir)
  6. Citrus Clouds – Collider (Lolipop)
  7. Azita – Glen Echo (Drag City)
  8. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – L.W. (KGLW / Flightless)
  9. Adult Mom – Driver (Epitaph)
  10. The Sueves – Tears of Joy (Magicatalog)
  11. Really From – Really From (Topshelf)
  12. Landlady – Landlady (Landladyland)
  13. Brijean – Feelings (Ghostly International)
  14. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (House Anxiety/Ourness)
  15. Valerie June – The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Fantasy/Concord)
  16. HLDAY MAGIK – MUSIC 4 UR EARS (self-released)
  17. Fruit Bats – The Pet Parade (Merge)
  18. Lava La Rue – Butter-Fly (Marathon)
  19. Stereolab – Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4) (Warp/Duophonic)
  20. Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band (Daptone)
  21. Waltzer – Time Traveler (Side Hustle)
  22. BassKase – The Good, The Bad And The Dubby (Soundpoint)
  23. Go Time! – Eight Ball (Sound Gypsy)
  24. Ian Sweet – Show Me How You Disappear (Polyvinyl)
  25. Ola Sweet – Carnation (Younger Dryas)
  26. Altin Gün – Yol (ATO)
  27. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (Matador)
  28. Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz is Dead)
  29. Freak Genes – Power Station (Feel It)
  30. Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember (Carpark)
  31. Virginia Wing – private LIFE (Fire)
  32. Josh Caterer – The Hideout Sessions (Pravda)
  33. Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol. 2 (Kabul Fire)
  34. Lost Horizons – In Quiet Moments (Bella Union/PIAS)
  35. Rat Columns – Pacific Kiss (Tough Love)
  36. Yu Su – Yellow River Blue (bié/Music From Memory)
  37. Linda Smith – Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured Tracks)
  38. Tamar Berk – The Restless Dreams of Youth (Self-released)
  39. Corvair – Corvair (Paper Walls)
  40. mfp – Natural Law (R2)
  41. Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
  42. The Deathray Davies – Time Well Wasted (State Fair)
  43. Caution – Caution (Born Yesterday)
  44. Django Django – Glowing in the Dark (Because)
  45. The Purcells – Landscape Listens (self-released)
  46. Mouse On Mars – AAI (Thrill Jockey)
  47. Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
  48. Madlib – Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
  49. Femi Kuti – Stop the Hate (Partisan)
  50. The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Full Time Hobby)

This week's adds

  • Bernice – Eau De Bonjourno (Telephone Explosion)
  • Chad VanGaalen – World's Most Stressed Out Garderner (Sub Pop)
  • Crown Vic Royal – Cosmic Nights EP (self-released)
  • Fimber Bravo – Lunar Tredd (Moshi Moshi)
  • Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Theory of Ice (You've Changed)
  • Liquid Soul – Lost Soul Vol. 1 (Soul What)
  • Lushlife – Redamancy EP (Fortune Tellers)
  • Michael Beach – Dream Violence (Goner)
  • Middle Kids – Today We're the Greatest (Domino)
  • Tash Sultana – Terra Firma (Mom+Pop)
  • Teno Afrika – Amapiano Selections (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
  • Tone Chop & Frost Gamble – underestimated EP (self-released)
  • Yeek – Valencia (AWAL)

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Top 50 for the Week of 03/15/2021

  1. The Sueves – Tears of Joy (Magicatalog)
  2. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (House Anxiety/Ourness)
  3. Diagonal – DIAGONAL (Little Cloud)
  4. Azita – Glen Echo (Drag City)
  5. Fruit Bats – The Pet Parade (Merge)
  6. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (Matador)
  7. Har Mar Superstar – Roseville (self-released)
  8. Jane Weaver – Flock (Fire)
  9. Stereolab – Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4) (Warp/Duophonic)
  10. Lava La Rue – Butter-Fly (Marathon)
  11. IKOQWE – The Beginning, the Medium, the End and the Infinite (Crammed Discs)
  12. Ian Sweet – Show Me How You Disappear (Polyvinyl)
  13. Go Time! – Eight Ball (Sound Gypsy)
  14. Josh Caterer – The Hideout Sessions (Pravda)
  15. Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band (Daptone)
  16. Harry James – Buy The Numbers (Potions)
  17. Brijean – Feelings (Secretly)
  18. Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember (Carpark)
  19. Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing)
  20. Femi Kuti – Stop the Hate (Partisan)
  21. Nightshift – Zoe (Trouble in Mind)
  22. Waltzer – Time Traveler (Side Hustle)
  23. Jen and the Dots – Jen and the Dots EP (self-released)
  24. Bodies Of Water – Is This What It's Like (Thousand Tongues)
  25. Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
  26. GG King – Remain Intact (Total Punk)
  27. The Purcells – Landscape Listens (self-released)
  28. The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Full Time Hobby)
  29. Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz is Dead)
  30. Django Django – Glowing in the Dark (Because)
  31. Rhye – Home (Loma Vista)
  32. HLDAY MAGIK – MUSIC 4 UR EARS (self-released)
  33. Rosa – Not Your Good Girl (Self-released)
  34. Dom La Nena – Tempo (Six Degrees)
  35. Altin Gün – Yol (ATO)
  36. Virginia Wing – private LIFE (Fire)
  37. Claud – Super Monster (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans)
  38. Cobalt Chapel – Orange Synthetic (Klove)
  39. Yu Su – Yellow River Blue (bié/Music From Memory)
  40. Lael Neale – Acquainted with Night (Sub Pop)
  41. Mogwai – As The Love Continues (Rock Action)
  42. Styrofoam Winos – Styrofoam Winos (Sophomore Lounge)
  43. Madlib – Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
  44. Black Country, New Road – For the first time (Ninja Tune)
  45. Blind Moon – Honolulu (self-released)
  46. BassKase – The Good, The Bad And The Dubby (Soundpoint)
  47. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (CYHSY/Secretly Distribution)
  48. Sun June – Somewhere (Run for Cover)
  49. Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
  50. Sarah Mary Chadwick – Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby (Ba Da Bing)

This week's adds

  • Adult Mom – Driver (Epitaph)
  • Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Rock Action)
  • Citrus Clouds – Collider (Lolipop)
  • Corvair – Corvair (Paperwalls)
  • Dolph Chaney – This is Dolph Chaney (Big Stir)
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – L.W. (KGLW / Flightless)
  • Landlady – Landlady (Landladyland)
  • Linda Smith – Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured Tracks)
  • Lost Horizons – In Quiet Moments (Bella Union / PIAS)
  • mfp – Natural Law (R2)
  • Miho Hatori – Between Isekai and Slice of Life (self-released)
  • Nubiyan Twist – Freedom Fabels (Strut)
  • Ola Sweet – Carnation (Younger Dryas)
  • Opposite Sex – High Drama (Spik & Span)
  • Plankton Wat – Future Times (Thrill Jockey)
  • Really From – Really From (Topshelf)
  • Tamar Berk – The Restless Dreams of Youth (self-released)
  • The Deathray Davies – Time Well Wasted (We Know Better / State Fair)
  • Valerie June – The Moon and Stars: Prescription for Dreamers (Fantasy / Concord)

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Top 50 for the Week of 03/08/2021

  1. Stereolab – Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4) (Warp/Duophonic)
  2. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (Matador)
  3. Altin Gün – Yol (ATO)
  4. The Purcells – Landscape Listens (self-released)
  5. Jen and the Dots – Jen and the Dots EP (self-released)
  6. Fire! – Defeat (Rune Grammonfon)
  7. Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz is Dead)
  8. Brijean – Feelings (Secretly)
  9. Lava La Rue – Butter-Fly (Marathon)
  10. Waltzer – Time Traveler (Side Hustle)
  11. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
  12. Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember (Carpark)
  13. Vapour Theories – Celestial Scuzz (Fire)
  14. Jane Weaver – Flock (Fire)
  15. Styrofoam Winos – Styrofoam Winos (Sophomore Lounge)
  16. Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing)
  17. Virginia Wing – private LIFE (Fire)
  18. Claud – Super Monster (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans)
  19. The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Full Time Hobby)
  20. Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol. 2 (Kabul Fire)
  21. Tindersticks – Distractions (Lucky Dog/City Slang)
  22. Dom La Nena – Tempo (Six Degrees)
  23. Nightshift – Zoe (Trouble in Mind)
  24. Freak Genes – Power Station (Feel It)
  25. BassKase – The Good, The Bad And The Dubby (Soundpoint)
  26. Claude – Enactor (Side Hustle)
  27. The Fleshtones – Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Yep Roc)
  28. Django Django – Glowing in the Dark (Because)
  29. Femi Kuti – Stop the Hate (Partisan)
  30. Greenlights Music – The Art of Poise (Self-released)
  31. Sydney Sprague – maybe i will see you at the end of the world (Rude)
  32. Joni – Orchid Room (Olive Eyes)
  33. for your health – In Spite Of (Twelve Gauge)
  34. Lael Neale – Acquainted with Night (Sub Pop)
  35. Cal Fish – Plastic Flag (Fire Talk)
  36. The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy (Positive Jams)
  37. Mogwai – As The Love Continues (Rock Action)
  38. Bodies Of Water – Is This What It's Like (Thousand Tongues)
  39. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (CYHSY/Secretly Distribution)
  40. Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
  41. Freelove Fenner – The Punishment Zone (Moone)
  42. Cheekface – Emphatically No. (New Professor)
  43. Rosa – Not Your Good Girl (Self-released)
  44. Maraudeur – Puissance 4 (Autoproduct)
  45. Smerz – Believer (XL)
  46. Katy Kirby – Cool Dry Place (Keeled Scales)
  47. HLDAY MAGIK – MUSIC 4 UR EARS (self-released)
  48. Sun June – Somewhere (Run for Cover)
  49. Madlib – Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
  50. The Scissor Girls – Demo (JABS)

This week's adds

  • AZITA – Glen Echo (Drag City)
  • Diagonal – DIAGONAL (Little Cloud)
  • Fruit Bats – The Pet Parade (Merge)
  • Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (House Anxiety / Ourness)
  • GG KING – Remain Intact (Total Punk)
  • Go Time! – Eight Ball (Sound Gypsy)
  • Har Mar Superstar – Roseville (self-released)
  • Harry James – Buy the Numbers (Potions)
  • IAN SWEET – Show Me How You Disappear (Polyvinyl)
  • IKOQWE – The Beginning, the Medium, the End and the Infinite (Crammed Discs)
  • John Sharkey III – Shoot Out the Cameras (12XU)
  • Josh Caterer – The Hideout Sessions (Pravda)
  • Kuzu – The Glass Delusion (Astral Spirits)
  • Menahan Street Band – The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band (Daptone)
  • The Sueves – Tears of Joy (Magicatalog)

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