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Top 50 for the Week of 03/01/2021

  1. The Purcells – Landscape Listens (self-released)
  2. BassKase – The Good, The Bad And The Dubby (Soundpoint)
  3. Lava La Rue – Butter-Fly (Marathon)
  4. The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy (Positive Jams)
  5. HLDAY MAGIK – MUSIC 4 UR EARS (self-released)
  6. Waltzer – Time Traveler (Side Hustle)
  7. Styrofoam Winos – Styrofoam Winos (Sophomore Lounge)
  8. Mogwai – As The Love Continues (Rock Action)
  9. Blind Moon – Honolulu (self-released)
  10. Django Django – Glowing in the Dark (Because)
  11. Madlib – Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
  12. Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
  13. Claude – Enactor (Side Hustle)
  14. Greenlights Music – The Art of Poise (Self-released)
  15. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
  16. Mouse On Mars – AAI (Thrill Jockey)
  17. Tobe Nwigwe – CINCORIGINALS (self-released)
  18. Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing)
  19. Katy Kirby – Cool Dry Place (Keeled Scales)
  20. David Nance – Duty Now for the Future (self-released)
  21. Caution – Caution (Born Yesterday)
  22. Jen and the Dots – Jen and the Dots EP (self-released)
  23. Shame – Drunk Tank Pink (Dead Oceans)
  24. Claud – Super Monster (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans)
  25. Bodies Of Water – Is This What It's Like (Thousand Tongues)
  26. Rhye – Home (Loma Vista)
  27. Sincere Gifts – Ghost of America (Self-released)
  28. Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol. 2 (Kabul Fire)
  29. Freelove Fenner – The Punishment Zone (Moone)
  30. Still Corners – The Last Exit (Wrecking Light)
  31. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (CYHSY/Secretly Distribution)
  32. The Fleshtones – Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Yep Roc)
  33. Virginia Wing – private LIFE (Fire)
  34. Midnight Sister – Painting the Roses (Jagjaguwar)
  35. TV Priest – Uppers (Sub Pop)
  36. Tamar Aphek – All Bets Are Off (Kill Rock Stars)
  37. The Notwist – Vertigo Days (Morr Music)
  38. Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
  39. Lia Ices – Family Album (Natural)
  40. Black Country, New Road – For the first time (Ninja Tune)
  41. Cheekface – Emphatically No. (New Professor)
  42. Indigo Sparke – Echo (Sacred Bones)
  43. Yu Su – Yellow River Blue (bié/Music From Memory)
  44. Rats on Rafts – Excerpts from Chapter 3: The Mind Runs a Net of Rabbit Paths (Fire)
  45. Mike Viola – Godmuffin (Good Morning Monkey/Grand Phony)
  46. Rat Columns – Pacific Kiss (Tough Love)
  47. Femi Kuti – Stop the Hate (Partisan)
  48. Paul Jacks – Foolish Pride (Tritone)
  49. Bill Jr. Jr. – Homebody (Bush League)
  50. cinchel – Arcane Object (Arcane Object)

This week's adds

  • Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz Is Dead)
  • Altin Gun – Yol (ATO)
  • Bijean – Feelings (Ghostly International)
  • Cal Fish – Plastic Flag (Fire Talk)
  • Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember (Carpark)
  • Cobalt Chapel – Orange Synthetic (Klove)
  • Dom La Nena – Tempo (Six Degrees)
  • Fire! – Defeat (Rune Grammofone)
  • for your health – In Spite Of (Twelve Gauge)
  • Freak Genes – Power Station (Feel It)
  • Jane Weaver – Flock (Fire)
  • Jeff Schaller and the Long Way Home – Reckless Life (self-released)
  • Joni – Orchid Room (Olive Eyes)
  • Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (Matador)
  • Lael Neale – Acquainted with Night (Sub Pop)
  • Maraudeur – PUISSANCE 4 (Autoproduct)
  • Nightshift – Zoe (Trouble in Mind)
  • Rosa – Not Your Good Girl (self-released)
  • Silicone Prairie – My Life on the Silicone Prairie (Feel It)
  • Smerz – Believer (XL)
  • Sydney Sprague – maybe i will see you at the end of the world (Rude)
  • Stereolab – Electrically Possessed (Switched On Vol. 4) (Warp)
  • Tindersticks – Distractions (Lucky Dog/City Slang)
  • Toledo – Jockeys of Love (Telefono)
  • Vapour Theories – Celestial Scuzz (Fire)

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Top 50 for the Week of 02/22/2021

  1. HLDAY MAGIK – MUSIC 4 UR EARS (self-released)
  2. Django Django – Glowing in the Dark (Because)
  3. Femi Kuti – Stop the Hate (Partisan)
  4. Madlib – Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
  5. Virginia Wing – private LIFE (Fire)
  6. Waltzer – Time Traveler (Side Hustle)
  7. Rat Columns – Pacific Kiss (Tough Love)
  8. Greenlights Music – The Art of Poise (Self-released)
  9. Tamar Aphek – All Bets Are Off (Kill Rock Stars)
  10. Sun June – Somewhere (Run for Cover)
  11. Claud – Super Monster (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans)
  12. Bodies Of Water – Is This What It's Like (Thousand Tongues)
  13. Jen and the Dots – Jen and the Dots EP (self-released)
  14. Claude – Enactor (Side Hustle)
  15. The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Full Time Hobby)
  16. Blind Moon – Honolulu (self-released)
  17. Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol. 2 (Kabul Fire)
  18. The Fleshtones – Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Yep Roc)
  19. Rhye – Home (Loma Vista)
  20. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
  21. Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns (Sub Pop)
  22. Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
  23. Yu Su РYellow River Blue (bié/Music From Memory)
  24. Lia Ices – Family Album (Natural)
  25. Rats on Rafts – Excerpts from Chapter 3: The Mind Runs a Net of Rabbit Paths (Fire)
  26. God Is An Astronaut – Ghost Tapes #10 (Napalm)
  27. Midnight Sister – Painting the Roses (Jagjaguwar)
  28. Mike Viola – Godmuffin (Good Morning Monkey/Grand Phony)
  29. Muriel Grossmann – Quiet Earth (RR Gems)
  30. Bicep – Isles (Ninja Tune)
  31. Freelove Fenner – The Punishment Zone (Moone)
  32. Bravais Lattice – Aqua Glisten (Chicago Research)
  33. The Scissor Girls – Demo (JABS)
  34. The Notwist – Vertigo Days (Morr Music)
  35. Sincere Gifts – Ghost of America (Self-released)
  36. Paul Jacks – Foolish Pride (Tritone)
  37. Made Kuti – For(e)ward (Partisan)
  38. Tele Novella – Merlynn Belle (Kill Rock Stars)
  39. Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales (RCA)
  40. TV Priest – Uppers (Sub Pop)
  41. Albertine Sarges – The Sticky Fingers (Moshi Moshi)
  42. Four Tet – Parallel (Text)
  43. Bill Jr. Jr. – Homebody (Bush League)
  44. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (CYHSY/Secretly Distribution)
  45. Lucero – When You Found Me (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)
  46. Cheekface – Emphatically No. (New Professor)
  47. Sarah Mary Chadwick – Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby (Ba Da Bing)
  48. Black Country, New Road – For the first time (Ninja Tune)
  49. Wax Tailor – The Shadow of Their Suns (LAB'ORATOIRE)
  50. Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)

This week's adds

  • Aerial East – Try Harder (Partisan)
  • BassKase – The Good, The Bad and the Dubby (Soundpoint)
  • Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing!)
  • Caution – Caution EP (Born Yesterday)
  • David Nance – Duty Now for the Future (self-released)
  • Indigo Sparke – Echo (Sacred Bones)
  • Katy Kirby – Cool Dry Place (Keeled Scales)
  • Lava La Rue – Butter-Fly (Marathon)
  • Mogwai – As the Love Continues (Rock Actions)
  • Mouse on Mars – AAI (Thrill Jockey)
  • Roscoe Mitchell & Mike Reed – The Ritual and the Dance (Astral Spirits)
  • Sloping – Completed Songs (Sound as Language)
  • Styrofoam Winos – Styrofoam Winos (Sophomore Lounge)
  • The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy (Positive Jams)
  • The Purcells – Landscape Listens (self-released)
  • Tobe Nwigwe – CINCORIGINALS (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 02/15/2021

  1. Yu Su – Yellow River Blue (bié/Music From Memory)
  2. Jen and the Dots – Jen and the Dots EP (self-released)
  3. Waltzer – Time Traveler (Side Hustle)
  4. The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Full Time Hobby)
  5. Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
  6. Madlib – Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
  7. Rhye – Home (Loma Vista)
  8. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
  9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (CYHSY/Secretly Distribution)
  10. Albertine Sarges – The Sticky Fingers (Moshi Moshi)
  11. Shame – Drunk Tank Pink (Dead Oceans)
  12. Beach Bunny – Blame Game (Mom + Pop)
  13. Blind Moon – Honolulu (self-released)
  14. Freelove Fenner – The Punishment Zone (Moone)
  15. Black Country, New Road – For the first time (Ninja Tune)
  16. AJ Rosales – Manifestations (Novel-T)
  17. Daniel Knox – Won't You Take Me with You (self-released)
  18. The Scissor Girls – Demo (JABS)
  19. Femi Kuti – Stop the Hate (Partisan)
  20. Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol. 2 (Kabul Fire)
  21. Beautify Junkyards – Cosmorama (Ghost Box)
  22. Cheekface – Emphatically No. (New Professor)
  23. Jocelyn Mackenzie – PUSH (Righteous Babe)
  24. Made Kuti – For(e)ward (Partisan)
  25. Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales (RCA)
  26. Greenlights Music – The Art of Poise (Self-released)
  27. Aaron Frazer – Introducing... (Colemine)
  28. Guy Blakeslee – Postcards from the Edge (Entrance)
  29. Lia Ices – Family Album (Natural)
  30. Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
  31. Martin Gore – The Third Chimpanzee (Mute)
  32. Tele Novella – Merlynn Belle (Kill Rock Stars)
  33. Motorama – Before the Road (I'm Home)
  34. Landshapes – Contact (Bella Union/PIAS)
  35. The Notwist – Vertigo Days (Morr Music)
  36. Jordana – Something to Say to You (Grand Jury)
  37. Hali Palombo – Cylinder Loops (Astral Editions)
  38. Bravais Lattice – Aqua Glisten (Chicago Research)
  39. Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script – Cloud Script (Rouge Art)
  40. Bicep – Isles (Ninja Tune)
  41. Paul Jacks – Foolish Pride (Tritone)
  42. Wax Tailor – The Shadow of Their Suns (LAB'ORATOIRE)
  43. Midnight Sister – Painting the Roses (Jagjaguwar)
  44. Oberon Rose – Holographic Blues (ThouART)
  45. The Weather Station – Ignorance (Fat Possum)
  46. Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns (Sub Pop)
  47. Reality Anonymous – The Ghost Host Vol. 1 (Night World)
  48. Various Artists – Tokyo Dreaming (WEWANTSOUNDS)
  49. TV Priest – Uppers (Sub Pop)
  50. Still Corners – The Last Exit (Wrecking Light)

This week's adds

  • Tamar Aphek – All Bets Are Off (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Bodies of Water – Is This What It's Like (Thousand Tongues)
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick – Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby (Ba Da Bing)
  • Claud – Super Monster (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans)
  • Claude – Enactor EP (Side Hustle)
  • Divide & Dissolve – Gas Lit (Invida)
  • Django Django – Glowing in the Dark (Because Music)
  • The Fleshtones – Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Yep Roc)
  • God Is an Astronaut – Ghost Tapes #10 (Napalm)
  • Muriel Grossmann – Quiet Earth (RR Gems)
  • HLDAY MAGIK – MUSIC 4 UR EARS (self-released)
  • Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove (Vin du Select Qualitite)
  • Quietus – Volume Five (Ever/Never)
  • Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes (Vin du Select Qualitite)
  • Rat Columns – Pacific Kiss (Tough Love)
  • Rats on Rafts – Excerpts from Chapter 3: The Mind Runs a Net of Rabbit Paths (Fire)
  • Sincere Gifts – Ghost of America (self-released)
  • Sun June – Somewhere (Run For Cover)
  • Mike Viola – Godmuffin (Good Morning Monkey/Grand Phony)
  • Virginia Wing – private LIFE (Fire)

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Top 50 for the Week of 02/08/2021

  1. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
  2. Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
  3. Blind Moon – Honolulu (self-released)
  4. Freelove Fenner – The Punishment Zone (Moone)
  5. Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
  6. Greenlights Music – The Art of Poise (Self-released)
  7. Midnight Sister – Painting the Roses (Jagjaguwar)
  8. Four Tet – Parallel (Text)
  9. The Scissor Girls – Demo (JABS)
  10. The Weather Station – Ignorance (Fat Possum)
  11. Albertine Sarges – The Sticky Fingers (Moshi Moshi)
  12. Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns (Sub Pop)
  13. Wax Tailor – The Shadow of Their Suns (LAB'ORATOIRE)
  14. The Notwist – Vertigo Days (Morr Music)
  15. Rosier – Légèrement (FAMgroup)
  16. Cheekface – Emphatically No. (New Professor)
  17. Beach Bunny – Blame Game (Mom + Pop)
  18. Daniel Knox – Won't You Take Me with You (self-released)
  19. Hali Palombo – Cylinder Loops (Astral Editions)
  20. Shame – Drunk Tank Pink (Dead Oceans)
  21. Pom Poko – Cheater (Bella Union/PIAS)
  22. Cub Scout Bowling Pins – Heaven Beats Iowa (GBV Inc.)
  23. Beautify Junkyards – Cosmorama (Ghost Box)
  24. Lia Ices – Family Album (Natural)
  25. Still Corners – The Last Exit (Wrecking Light)
  26. AJ Rosales – Manifestations (Novel-T)
  27. Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales (RCA)
  28. Various Artists – Tokyo Dreaming (WEWANTSOUNDS)
  29. Reality Anonymous – The Ghost Host Vol. 1 (Night World)
  30. TV Priest – Uppers (Sub Pop)
  31. Motorama – Before the Road (I'm Home)
  32. Widowspeak – Honeychurch (Captured Tracks)
  33. Selwyn Birchwood – Living In A Burning House (Alligator)
  34. Badge Époque Ensemble – Self Help (Telephone Explosion)
  35. Landshapes – Contact (Bella Union/PIAS)
  36. Aaron Frazer – Introducing... (Colemine)
  37. Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz (Year 0001)
  38. D'Lyfa Reilly – Time & Tide (Village Live)
  39. cinchel – Arcane Object (Arcade Object)
  40. Lucero – When You Found Me (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)
  41. R.A.P. Ferreira – Bob's Son (Ruby Yacht)
  42. Comatose – A Way Back (Transcending)
  43. Terry Gross – Soft Opening (Thrill Jockey)
  44. Bill Jr. Jr. – Homebody (Bush League)
  45. Buck Meek – Two Saviors (Keeled Scales)
  46. Oberon Rose – Holographic Blues (ThouART)
  47. The Body – I've Seen All I Need to See (Thrill Jockey)
  48. Tommy Guerrero – Sunshine Radio (Too Good)
  49. Jordana – Something to Say to You (Grand Jury)
  50. Scott H. Biram – Fever Dreams (Bloodshot)

This week's adds

  • Bicep – Isles (Ninja Tune)
  • Black Country, New Road – For the first time (Ninja Tune)
  • Bobby Would – World Wide World (Low Company)
  • Bravais Lattice – Aqua Glisten (Chicago Research)
  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (CYHSY/Secretly Distribution)
  • Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol. 2 (Kabul Fire)
  • Femi Kuti – Stop the Hate (Partisan)
  • Guy Blakeslee – Postcards from the Edge (Entrance)
  • Insides – Soft Bonds (Further Distractions)
  • Jen and the Dots – Jen and the Dots EP (self-released)
  • Jocelyn Mackenzie – PUSH (Righteous Babe)
  • Made Kuti – For(e)ward (Partisan)
  • Madlib – Sound Ancestors (Madlib Invazion)
  • Martin Gore – The Third Chimpanzee (Mute)
  • Rhye – Home (Loma Vista)
  • Tele Novella – Merlynn Belle (Kill Rock Stars)
  • The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (FatCat)
  • Waltzer – Time Traveler (Side Hustle)
  • Yu Su – Yellow River Blue (bié/Music From Memory)

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Top 50 for the Week of 02/01/2021

  1. Midnight Sister – Painting the Roses (Jagjaguwar)
  2. Shame – Drunk Tank Pink (Dead Oceans)
  3. Greenlights Music – The Art of Poise (Self-released)
  4. Beautify Junkyards – Cosmorama (Ghost Box)
  5. Beach Bunny – Blame Game (Mom + Pop)
  6. Landshapes – Contact (Bella Union/PIAS)
  7. AJ Rosales – Manifestations (Novel-T)
  8. Wax Tailor – The Shadow of Their Suns (LAB'ORATOIRE)
  9. Daniel Knox – Won't You Take Me with You (self-released)
  10. Still Corners – The Last Exit (Wrecking Light)
  11. Widowspeak – Honeychurch (Captured Tracks)
  12. Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns (Sub Pop)
  13. Gal Gun – Critical Hit (Human Instrumentality Project)
  14. Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz (Year 0001)
  15. Cub Scout Bowling Pins – Heaven Beats Iowa (GBV Inc.)
  16. Selwyn Birchwood – Living In A Burning House (Alligator)
  17. Pom Poko – Cheater (Bella Union/PIAS)
  18. Scott H. Biram – Fever Dreams (Bloodshot)
  19. Apifera – Overstand (Stones Throw)
  20. The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (Modular)
  21. Bill Jr. Jr. – Homebody (Bush League)
  22. Dale Crover – Rat-A-Tat-Tat! (Joyful Noise)
  23. Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales (RCA)
  24. Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script – Cloud Script (Rouge Art)
  25. Easter Island – Take All The Time You Think You Need (Frightened)
  26. Badge Époque Ensemble – Self Help (Telephone Explosion)
  27. R.A.P. Ferreira – Bob's Son (Ruby Yacht)
  28. M. Ward – Think of Spring (Anti-)
  29. Various Artists – Tokyo Dreaming (WEWANTSOUNDS)
  30. D'Lyfa Reilly – Time & Tide (Village Live)
  31. Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger – Force Majeure (International Anthem)
  32. Jordana – Something to Say to You (Grand Jury)
  33. Tommy Guerrero – Sunshine Radio (Too Good)
  34. Reality Anonymous – The Ghost Host Vol. 1 (Night World)
  35. p. a. pritchett – Victory At Sea! (self-released)
  36. The Twilite Tone – The Clearing (Stones Throw)
  37. Good Willsmith – HausLive 2: Good Willsmith at Sleeping Village 4/25/2019 (Hausu Mountain)
  38. Oberon Rose – Holographic Blues (ThouART)
  39. Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams – Plastic Bouquet (New West)
  40. Guided by Voices – Styles We Paid For (GBV Inc.)
  41. Alcian Blue – Collection (Anathema Editions)
  42. Aaron Frazer – Introducing... (Colemine)
  43. Monokultur – Ormens Väg (Ever/Never)
  44. Doug Carn, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Doug Carn JID005 (Jazz Is Dead)
  45. Señor Kaos & Illastrate – Kings Of Vice (Eyeless)
  46. Half Japanese – Crazy Hearts (Fire)
  47. Dirty Projectors – Ring Road (Domino)
  48. Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl – Recipe for a Boiled Egg (Astral Spirits)
  49. Hypervolume – Conceive (self-released)
  50. Astute Palate – Astute Palate (Petty Bunco)

This week's adds

  • Albertine Sarges – The Sticky Fingers (Moshi Moshi)
  • Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
  • Blind Moon – Honolulu (self-released)
  • Cheekface – Emphatically No. (New Professor)
  • cinchel – Arcane Object (Arcane Object)
  • Comatose – A Way Back (Transcending)
  • Four Tet – Parallel (Text)
  • Freelove Fenner – The Punishment Zone (Moone)
  • Goat Girl – On All Fours (Rough Trade)
  • Hali Palombo – Cylinder Loops (Astral Editions)
  • Lia Ices – Family Album (Natural)
  • Lucero – When You Found Me (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)
  • Motorama – Before the Road (I'm Home)
  • Palberta – Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat)
  • Rosier – Légèrement (FAMgroup)
  • Terry Gross – Soft Opening (Thrill Jockey)
  • The Body – I've Seen All I Need to See (Thrill Jockey)
  • The Notwist – Vertigo Days (Morr Music)
  • The Scissor Girls – Demo (JABS)
  • The Weather Station – Ignorance (Fat Possum)
  • TV Priest – Uppers (Sub Pop)

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