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Top 50 for the Week of 6-19-17

  1. Iverson – EP Blue (self-released)
  2. Panda Riot – Infinity Maps (self-released)
  3. House and Land – House and Land (Thrill Jockey)
  4. Phoenix – Ti Amo (Loyauté/Glassnote)
  5. Omar Souleyman – To Syria, With Love (Mad Decent)
  6. Serengeti – Dennehy (Fake Four Inc.)
  7. Various Artists – Saigon Super Sound 1965-1975 (INFRAcom)
  8. The Life and Times – The Life and Times (SlimStyle)
  9. Shamir – Hope (self-released)
  10. !!! – Shake the Shudder (Warp)
  11. Oister – 1973-74 (Hozac)
  12. Various Artists – Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984 (Analog Africa)
  13. Saint Etienne – Home Counties (Heavenly)
  14. Beach Fossils – Somersault (Bayonet)
  15. Feist – Pleasure (Interscope)
  16. The Clams – Gunslinger (1980)
  17. Woods – Love is Love (Woodsist)
  18. Palehound – A Place I'll Always Go (Polyvinyl)
  19. Helium – Ends With And (Matador)
  20. Guerilla Toss – GT Ultra (DFA)
  21. Chastity Belt – I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
  22. Aldous Harding – Party (4AD)
  23. The Como Mamas – Move Upstairs (Daptone)
  24. B Boys – Dada (Captured Tracks)
  25. alt-J – Relaxer (Canvasback/Atlantic)
  26. Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)
  27. Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa – Are Euphoria (Thrill Jockey)
  28. Planetarium – Planetarium (4AD)
  29. Kevin Morby – City Music (Dead Oceans)
  30. The Heliocentrics – A World Of Masks (Soundway)
  31. Girlpool – Powerplant (ANTI-)
  32. Pixx – Age of Anxiety (4AD)
  33. Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan )
  34. TALsounds – Love Sick (Ba Da Bing)
  35. Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology (Fire)
  36. Alouette – Psychomotor EP (self-released)
  37. The Holy Circle – The Holy Circle (Annihilvs Power Electronix)
  38. Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu)
  39. Nick Hakim – Green Twins (ATO)
  40. Woongi – Music for Prophet (self-released)
  41. Tiny Vipers – Laughter (Ba Da Bing)
  42. Nite Jewel – Real High (Gloriette)
  43. She-Devils – She-Devils (Secretly Canadian)
  44. Fur Coats – Gumballs in the Meritocracy (Hovercraft/Johann's Face)
  45. The Deslondes – Hurry Home (New West)
  46. Ho99o9 – United States of Horror (Caroline)
  47. Cafe Tacvba – Jei Beibi (Melotron)
  48. tricot – 3 (Topshelf)
  49. Andy Pratt – Horizon Disrupted (self-released)
  50. Pussy Foot – No Order EP (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Arto Lindsay – Cuidado Madame (Northern Spy)
  • Trombone Shorty – Parking Lot Symphony (Blue Note)
  • Ride – Weather Diaries (Wichita)
  • Kelly Lee Owens – self-titled (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Beth Ditto – Fake Sugar (Virgin)
  • The New Zeitgeist – Myths and Mortals (self-released)
  • Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die (International Anthem)
  • Dream Machine – The Illusion (Castle Face)
  • Boss Hog – Brood X (In the Red)
  • Palm – Shadow Export (Carpark)
  • Dream Version – Fight Fair (self-released)
  • Various Artists – As You Are (Original Motion Picture Score) (Votiv)
  • Circle – Terminal (Southern Lord)
  • Tombs – The Great Annihilation (Metal Blade)
  • Roya – Roya (Burger)
  • Arcadea – Arcadea (Relapse)
  • The Drums – Abysmal Thoughts (Anti-)
  • Lea Porcelain – Hymns to the Night (East City/Kobalt Music Recordings)
  • Com Truise – Iteration (Ghostly International)
  • The Thin Cherries – The Thin Cherries (self-released)
  • Rancid – Trouble Maker (Epitaph/Hellcat)
  • Hollow Everdaze – Cartoons (self-released)
  • Hightown Pirates – High and Dry (Strike-Back)

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Top 50 for the Week of 6/12/2017

  1. Serengeti – Dennehy (Fake Four Inc.)
  2. Panda Riot – Infinity Maps (self-released)
  3. Guerilla Toss – GT Ultra (DFA)
  4. Perfume Genius – No Shape (Matador)
  5. Various Artists – Saigon Super Sound 1965-1975 (INFRAcom)
  6. The Como Mamas – Move Upstairs (Daptone)
  7. TOPS – Sugar at the Gate (Arbutus)
  8. Saint Etienne – Home Counties (Heavenly)
  9. Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan )
  10. Aldous Harding – Party (4AD)
  11. alt-J – Relaxer (Canvasback/Atlantic)
  12. TALsounds – Love Sick (Ba Da Bing)
  13. Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu)
  14. Obnox – Niggative Approach (12XU)
  15. Shamir – Hope (self-released)
  16. Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)
  17. Nick Hakim – Green Twins (ATO)
  18. Various Artists – Inner Peace: Rare Spiritual Funk And Jazz Gems (The Supreme Sound Of Producer Bob Shad) (WeWantSounds)
  19. Elf Power – Twitching in Time (Orange Twin)
  20. Chastity Belt – I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
  21. !!! – Shake the Shudder (Warp)
  22. The Life and Times – The Life and Times (SlimStyle)
  23. Alouette – Psychomotor EP (self-released)
  24. The Clams – Gunslinger (1980)
  25. Woongi – Music for Prophet (self-released)
  26. Helium – Ends With And (Matador)
  27. The Heliocentrics – A World Of Masks (Soundway)
  28. Woods – Love is Love (Woodsist)
  29. She-Devils – She-Devils (Secretly Canadian)
  30. Ho99o9 – United States of Horror (Caroline)
  31. Wavves – You're Welcome (Ghost Ramp)
  32. Beach Fossils – Somersault (Bayonet)
  33. Feist – Pleasure (Interscope)
  34. BNQT – Volume 1 (Dualtone)
  35. Kevin Morby – City Music (Dead Oceans)
  36. Lord RAJA – Amadeus EP (Ghostly International)
  37. Wire – Silver/Lead (Pinkflag)
  38. Ellen Allien – Nost (BPitch Control)
  39. Celebration – Wounded Healer (Bella Union)
  40. Sam Amidon – The Following Mountain (Nonesuch)
  41. Nite Jewel – Real High (Gloriette)
  42. Mountain Goats – Goths (Merge)
  43. Andy Pratt – Horizon Disrupted (self-released)
  44. Gorillaz – Humanz (Parlophone/Warner Bros.)
  45. Girlpool – Powerplant (ANTI-)
  46. Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog (Captured Tracks)
  47. Feature – Banishing Ritual (Upset the Rhythm)
  48. Xetas – The Tower (12XU)
  49. The Raveonettes – 2016 Atomized (The Beat Dies)
  50. Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology (Fire)

This week's adds

  • Anthony Pasquarosa – Abbandonato Da Dio Nazione (VDSQ)
  • B Boys – Dada (Captured Tracks)
  • Bill Orcutt – Bill Orcutt (Pailalia)
  • Dauwd – Theory of Colours (Technicolour)
  • Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa – Are Euphoria (Thrill Jockey)
  • Fur Coats – Gumballs in the Meritocracy (Hovercraft/Johann's Face)
  • Holy Oak – Second Son (self-released)
  • House and Land – House and Land (Thrill Jockey)
  • Iverson – EP Blue (self-released)
  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – On the Echoing Green (Mexican Summer)
  • Mat Maneri / Evan Parker / Lucian Ban – Sounding Tears (Clean Feed)
  • Oister – 1973-74 (Hozac)
  • Omar Souleyman – To Syria, With Love (Mad Decent)
  • Palehound – A Place I'll Always Go (Polyvinyl)
  • Phoenix – Ti Amo (Loyauté/Glassnote)
  • Pixx – Age of Anxiety (4AD)
  • Planetarium – Planetarium (4AD)
  • The Deslondes – Hurry Home (New West)
  • The Peacers – Introducing the Crimsmen (Drag City)
  • Various Artists – Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984 (Analog Africa)

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Top 50 for the Week of 6-5-17

  1. Panda Riot – Infinity Maps (self-released)
  2. Woods – Love is Love (Woodsist)
  3. The Life and Times – The Life and Times (SlimStyle)
  4. Shamir – Hope (self-released)
  5. Aldous Harding – Party (4AD)
  6. The Clams – Gunslinger (1980)
  7. The Como Mamas – Move Upstairs (Daptone)
  8. Chastity Belt – I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
  9. Feist – Pleasure (Interscope)
  10. Nite Jewel – Real High (Gloriette)
  11. Look Blue Go Purple – Still Bewitched (Flying Nun/Captured Tracks)
  12. Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)
  13. Elf Power – Twitching in Time (Orange Twin)
  14. Andy Pratt – Horizon Disrupted (self-released)
  15. Afghan Whigs – In Spades (Sub Pop)
  16. Various Artists – Inner Peace: Rare Spiritual Funk And Jazz Gems (The Supreme Sound Of Producer Bob Shad) (WeWantSounds)
  17. Woongi – Music for Prophet (self-released)
  18. !!! – Shake the Shudder (Warp)
  19. Sun Cop – When You Hear the Drum You May Speak (Feeltrip)
  20. Wavves – You're Welcome (Ghost Ramp)
  21. Brother Ali – All the Beauty in This Whole Life (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
  22. Feature – Banishing Ritual (Upset the Rhythm)
  23. Cafe Tacvba – Jei Beibi (Melotron)
  24. Obnox – Niggative Approach (12XU)
  25. Alouette – Psychomotor EP (self-released)
  26. Wire – Silver/Lead (Pinkflag)
  27. Fauvely – Watch Me Overcomplicate This (self-released)
  28. Sylvan Esso – What Now (Loma Vista)
  29. The Raveonettes – 2016 Atomized (The Beat Dies)
  30. The Heliocentrics – A World Of Masks (Soundway)
  31. Animal Youth – Animal (Weyrd Son)
  32. Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu)
  33. Kevin Morby – City Music (Dead Oceans)
  34. Bill MacKay – Esker (Drag City)
  35. Blondie – Pollinator (BMG)
  36. Girlpool – Powerplant (ANTI-)
  37. She-Devils – She-Devils (Secretly Canadian)
  38. Endless Boogie – Vibe Killer (No Quarter)
  39. Jackal – Endorphins EP (self-released)
  40. Various Artists – Follow the Sun (Anthology Recordings)
  41. Mountain Goats – Goths (Merge)
  42. Nick Hakim – Green Twins (ATO)
  43. Kweku Collins – grey EP (Closed Sessions)
  44. Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley (No Quarter)
  45. Land of Talk – Life After Youth (Saddle Creek )
  46. Tara Jane O'Neil – Tara Jane O'Neil (Gnomonsong)
  47. BNQT – Volume 1 (Dualtone)
  48. tricot – 3 (Topshelf)
  49. Gothic Tropic – Fast or Feast (Old Flame)
  50. Pussy Foot – No Order EP (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Ho99o9 – United States of Horror (Caroline)
  • The Terminals – Antiseptic (Ba Da Bing)
  • TALsounds – Love Sick (Ba Da Bing)
  • alt-J – Relaxer (Canvasback/Atlantic)
  • Guerilla Toss – GT Ultra (DFA)
  • Sam Amidon – The Following Mountain (Nonesuch)
  • Saint Etienne – Home Counties (Heavenly)
  • Serengeti – Dennehy (Fake Four Inc.)
  • Various Artists – Saigon Super Sound 1965-1975 (INFRAcom)
  • Mutoid Man – War Moans (Sargent House)
  • Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology (Fire)
  • Mark McGuire – Ideas of Beginnings (VDSQ)
  • Elder – Reflections of a Floating World (Stickman)
  • Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan )
  • Celebration – Wounded Healer (Bella Union)
  • Beach Fossils – Somersault (Bayonet)
  • Thomas Andrew Doyle – Incineration Ceremony (Yuggoth)
  • Helium – Ends With And (Matador)
  • The Stevenson Ranch Davidians – Amerikana (Picture in My Ear)
  • Spirits Having Fun – Demo (self-released)
  • TOPS – Sugar at the Gate (Arbutus)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5/29/2017

  1. The Clams – Gunslinger (1980)
  2. Shamir – Hope (self-released)
  3. !!! – Shake the Shudder (Warp)
  4. Gorillaz – Humanz (Parlophone/Warner Bros.)
  5. Perfume Genius – No Shape (Matador)
  6. Nite Jewel – Real High (Gloriette)
  7. Woods – Love is Love (Woodsist)
  8. Kweku Collins – grey EP (Closed Sessions)
  9. Andy Pratt – Horizon Disrupted (self-released)
  10. The Como Mamas – Move Upstairs (Daptone)
  11. Trans Am – California Hotel (Thrill Jockey)
  12. Brother Ali – All the Beauty in This Whole Life (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
  13. Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu)
  14. Elf Power – Twitching in Time (Orange Twin)
  15. Sun Cop – When You Hear the Drum You May Speak (Feeltrip)
  16. Look Blue Go Purple – Still Bewitched (Flying Nun/Captured Tracks)
  17. Iguana Lovers – Surfing Caos (self-released)
  18. The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (Nonesuch)
  19. Girlpool – Powerplant (ANTI-)
  20. Wavves – You're Welcome (Ghost Ramp)
  21. tricot – 3 (Topshelf)
  22. Wire – Silver/Lead (Pinkflag)
  23. Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)
  24. Fauvely – Watch Me Overcomplicate This (self-released)
  25. Bill MacKay – Esker (Drag City)
  26. Black Lips – Satan’s graffiti or God’s art? (Vice)
  27. Juana Molina – Halo (Crammed Discs)
  28. Nick Hakim – Green Twins (ATO)
  29. Woongi – Music for Prophet (self-released)
  30. Pussy Foot – No Order EP (self-released)
  31. Ellen Allien – Nost (BPitch Control)
  32. Endless Boogie – Vibe Killer (No Quarter)
  33. Black Cube Marriage – Astral Cube (El Paraiso)
  34. The Stroppies – The Stroppies (Hobbies Galore)
  35. Tara Jane O'Neil – Tara Jane O'Neil (Gnomonsong)
  36. Don Bryant – Don't Give Up on Love (Fat Possum)
  37. Sylvan Esso – What Now (Loma Vista)
  38. Mountain Goats – Goths (Merge)
  39. Lord RAJA – Amadeus EP (Ghostly International)
  40. Land of Talk – Life After Youth (Saddle Creek )
  41. Tomorrow's People – Open Soul (Melodies International)
  42. Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley (No Quarter)
  43. Overcoats – Young (Arts & Crafts)
  44. Blondie – Pollinator (BMG)
  45. Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog (Captured Tracks)
  46. The Heliocentrics – A World Of Masks (Soundway)
  47. Clustersun – Surfacing To Breathe (self-released)
  48. Cindy Lee – Malenkost (Maple Death/Superior Viaduct)
  49. JC Brooks – The Neon Jungle (Rock Ridge)
  50. Fujiya & Miyagi – Fujiya & Miyagi (Impossible Objects of Desire)

This week's adds

  • Aldous Harding – Party (4AD)
  • Alouette – Psychomotor EP (self-released)
  • Animal Youth – Animal (Weyrd Son)
  • Cafe Tacvba – Jei Beibi (Melotron)
  • Chastity Belt – I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
  • Chuck Johnson – Balsams (VDSQ)
  • Dion Lunadon – Dion Lunadon (Agitated)
  • Feature – Banishing Ritual (Upset the Rhythm)
  • Feist – Pleasure (Interscope)
  • Gothic Tropic – Fast or Feast (Old Flame)
  • Higher Power – Soul Structure (Flatspot)
  • Jackal – Endorphins EP (self-released)
  • Kevin Morby – City Music (Dead Oceans)
  • Obnox – Niggative Approach (12XU)
  • Panda Riot – Infinity Maps (self-released)
  • The Holy Circle – The Holy Circle (Annihilvs Power Electronix)
  • The Life and Times – The Life and Times (SlimStyle)
  • Various Artists – Inner Peace: Rare Spiritual Funk And Jazz Gems (The Supreme Sound Of Producer Bob Shad) (WeWantSounds)
  • Xetas – The Tower (12XU)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5-22-17

  1. Sun Cop – When You Hear the Drum You May Speak (Feeltrip)
  2. The Heliocentrics – A World Of Masks (Soundway)
  3. Black Cube Marriage – Astral Cube (El Paraiso)
  4. Trans Am – California Hotel (Thrill Jockey)
  5. Don Bryant – Don't Give Up on Love (Fat Possum)
  6. Nite Jewel – Real High (Gloriette)
  7. Tara Jane O'Neil – Tara Jane O'Neil (Gnomonsong)
  8. Juana Molina – Halo (Crammed Discs)
  9. Gorillaz – Humanz (Parlophone/Warner Bros.)
  10. Perfume Genius – No Shape (Matador)
  11. Mountain Goats – Goths (Merge)
  12. Girlpool – Powerplant (ANTI-)
  13. Afghan Whigs – In Spades (Sub Pop)
  14. Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley (No Quarter)
  15. Tomorrow's People – Open Soul (Melodies International)
  16. Blank Statements – Signs Are Rampant (Hobbies Galore)
  17. Wavves – You're Welcome (Ghost Ramp)
  18. The Raveonettes – 2016 Atomized (The Beat Dies)
  19. Brother Ali – All the Beauty in This Whole Life (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
  20. Kendrick Lamar – Damn. (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
  21. Mark Lanegan Band – Gargoyles (Heavenly)
  22. Kweku Collins – grey EP (Closed Sessions)
  23. The Octopus Project – Memory Mirror (Robot High School)
  24. Mew – Visuals (Play It Again Sam)
  25. Sylvan Esso – What Now (Loma Vista)
  26. Fujiya & Miyagi – Fujiya & Miyagi (Impossible Objects of Desire)
  27. Thurston Moore – Rock N Roll Consciousness (Ecstatic Peace)
  28. Tim Daisy Michael Thieke Ken Vandermark – Triptych (Relay)
  29. Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda – World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
  30. LCD Soundsystem – "Call the Police" b/w "American Dream" (DFA/Columbia)
  31. Joe Goddard – Electric Lines (Greco-Roman/Domino)
  32. Bill MacKay – Esker (Drag City)
  33. Various Artists – Follow the Sun (Anthology Recordings)
  34. Blondie – Pollinator (BMG)
  35. El Michels Affair – Return to the 37th Chamber (Big Crown)
  36. Slowdive – Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
  37. The New Year – Snow (Undertow Music)
  38. JC Brooks – The Neon Jungle (Rock Ridge)
  39. Mazes – The Violent Tapes (Sanzimat International)
  40. Arca – Arca (XL)
  41. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Best Troubadour (Drag City)
  42. Chris Greene Quartet – Boundary Issues (Single Malt)
  43. Cupid Youth – CYEP (self-released)
  44. Bettie Serveert – Damaged Good (Schoolkids)
  45. Mountain Movers – Mountain Movers (Trouble in Mind)
  46. Doug Tuttle – Peace Potato (Trouble in Mind)
  47. Crown Larks – Population (Already Dead)
  48. Goldfrapp – Silver Eye (Mute)
  49. The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (Nonesuch)
  50. WVWHITE – House of the Spiritual Athletes (Anyway)

This week's adds

  • Nick Hakim – Green Twins (ATO)
  • Elf Power – Twitching in Time (Orange Twin)
  • BNQT – Volume 1 (Dualtone)
  • Andy Pratt – Horizon Disrupted (self-released)
  • The Como Mamas – Move Upstairs (Daptone)
  • Woods – Love is Love (Woodsist)
  • Norska – Too Many Winters (Brutal Panda)
  • Pussy Foot – No Order EP (self-released)
  • Demen – Nektyr (Kranky)
  • Endless Boogie – Vibe Killer (No Quarter)
  • Look Blue Go Purple – Still Bewitched (Flying Nun/Captured Tracks)
  • Aaron Dilloway – The Gag File (Dais)
  • Shamir – Hope (self-released)
  • Land of Talk – Life After Youth (Saddle Creek )
  • Lord RAJA – Amadeus EP (Ghostly International)
  • The Clams – Gunslinger (1980)
  • Iguana Lovers – Surfing Caos (self-released)
  • GOLD – Optimist (Ván)
  • Fauvely – Watch Me Overcomplicate This (self-released)
  • !!! – Shake the Shudder (Warp)
  • Wire – Silver/Lead (Pinkflag)
  • Clustersun – Surfacing To Breathe (self-released)
  • Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu)
  • Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)
  • tricot – 3 (Topshelf)
  • Ellen Allien – Nost (BPitch Control)
  • Woongi – Music for Prophet (self-released)

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