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Top 50 for the Week of 4-11-16

  1. Tacocat – Lost Time (Hardly Art)
  2. Bibio – A Mineral Love (Warp)
  3. Parquet Courts – Human Performance (Rough Trade)
  4. Yeasayer – Amen & Goodbye (Mute)
  5. Andrew Bird – Are You Serious (Loma Vista)
  6. Horse Lords – Interventions (Northern Spy)
  7. Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing (Bayonet)
  8. Comfort Food – Waffle Frolic (Already Dead Tapes)
  9. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive (Ribbon)
  10. My Gold Mask – Anxious Utopia (Moon Sounds)
  11. Sexy Fights – Too Far Out (self-released)
  12. Cullen Omori – New Misery (Sub Pop)
  13. Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit EP (Melankolic)
  14. The Thermals – We Disappear (Saddle Creek)
  15. Zaid Maxwell – Dorcas (Rad Cult)
  16. Foul Tip – Forever Driftin' (Captcha)
  17. White Mystery – OUTTA CONTROL (self-released)
  18. Dinner – Psychic Lovers (Captured Tracks)
  19. Impulsive Hearts – Sorry in the Summer (Beautiful Strange)
  20. Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want (Slumberland)
  21. Underworld – Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future (Astralwerks)
  22. Charles Bradley – Changes (Daptone)
  23. Amanar – Tumastin (Sahel Sounds)
  24. Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories (Bloodshot)
  25. Bombino – Azel (Partisan)
  26. Wussy – Forever Sounds (Shake It)
  27. Open Mike Eagle & Paul Smith – Hella Personal Film Festival (Mello Music Group)
  28. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression (Concord)
  29. Lushlife + CSLSX – Ritualize (Western Vinyl)
  30. Kevin Morby – Singing Saw (Dead Oceans)
  31. Into It. Over It. – Standards (Triple Crown)
  32. Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered. (Aftermath/Interscope)
  33. Santigold – 99¢ (Atlantic)
  34. Hælos – Full Circle (Matador)
  35. La Sera – Music for Listening to Music To (Polyvinyl)
  36. Icicle – Reverie (self-released)
  37. Lucinda Williams – The Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)
  38. Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness (Temporary Residence Ltd)
  39. Prince Rama – Xtreme Now (Carpark)
  40. The Gary Wilson Trio – Another Galaxy (Feeding Tube)
  41. Big Ups – Before a Million Universes (Exploding in Sound)
  42. Glenn Jones – Fleeting (Thrill Jockey)
  43. Anderson .Paak – Malibu (EMPIRE / OBE / Steel Wool / Art Club)
  44. Piney Gir – Mr. Hyde's Wild Ride (Greyday)
  45. Bob Mould – Patch the Sky (Merge)
  46. Fire Hot Opera – Test Market Fresh (self-released)
  47. Fir Cone Children – The Age of Blastbeatles EP (Blackjack Illuminist)
  48. Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band – The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter)
  49. Bleached – Welcome the Worms (Dead Oceans)
  50. Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are (Barsuk)

This week's adds

  • Autolux – Pussy's Dead (30th Century)
  • Chris Abrahams – Fluid to the Influence (Room40)
  • Debo Band – Ere Gobez (FPE)
  • DJ Rashad – Afterlife (Teklife)
  • John Congleton and the Nighty Nite – Until The Horror Goes (Fat Possum)
  • M83 – Junk (Mute)
  • RJD2 – Dame Fortune (RJ's Electrical Connections)
  • Music Band – Wake Up Laughing (Infinity Cat)
  • Tombs – All Empires Fall EP (Relapse)
  • Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop – Love Letter for Fire (Sub Pop)
  • Terrace Martin – Velvet Portraits (Sounds of Crenshaw)
  • Woods – City Sun Eater In The River Of Light (Woodsist)
  • The Heligoats – Back to the Lake (Greyday)
  • Suuns – Hold/Still (Secretly Canadian)
  • Plague Vendor – Bloodsweat (Epitaph)
  • The Veldt – The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur EP (Leonard Skully Records)

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Top 50 for the week of 4/4/16

  1. Tacocat – Lost Time (Hardly Art)
  2. Andrew Bird – Are You Serious (Loma Vista)
  3. My Gold Mask – Anxious Utopia (Moon Sounds)
  4. The Thermals – We Disappear (Saddle Creek)
  5. Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness (Temporary Residence Ltd)
  6. White Mystery – OUTTA CONTROL (self-released)
  7. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression (Concord)
  8. Sexy Fights – Too Far Out (self-released)
  9. Charles Bradley – Changes (Daptone)
  10. Cullen Omori – New Misery (Sub Pop)
  11. Underworld – Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future (Astralwerks)
  12. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive (Ribbon)
  13. Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories (Bloodshot)
  14. Prince Rama – Xtreme Now (Carpark)
  15. Bleached – Welcome the Worms (Dead Oceans)
  16. Comfort Food – Waffle Frolic (Already Dead Tapes)
  17. Lucinda Williams – The Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)
  18. Impulsive Hearts – Sorry in the Summer (Beautiful Strange)
  19. Junior Boys – Big Black Coat (City Slang)
  20. Operators – Blue Wave (Last Gang)
  21. Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit EP (Melankolic)
  22. Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy – Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties (Drag City)
  23. Black Mountain – IV (Jagjaguwar)
  24. Mavis Staples – Livin' on a High Note (ANTI-)
  25. Lushlife + CSLSX – Ritualize (Western Vinyl)
  26. Jan St. Werner – Felder (Thrill Jockey)
  27. Open Mike Eagle & Paul Smith – Hella Personal Film Festival (Mello Music Group)
  28. Foul Tip – Forever Driftin' (Captcha)
  29. Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered. (Aftermath/Interscope)
  30. Summer Twins – Limbo (Burger)
  31. Bob Mould – Patch the Sky (Merge)
  32. Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are (Barsuk)
  33. Hælos – Full Circle (Matador)
  34. Robert Pollard – Of Course You Are (Fire)
  35. Lucius – Good Grief [Deluxe] (Mom+Pop)
  36. Amanar – Tumastin (Sahel Sounds)
  37. Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want (Slumberland)
  38. Pezband – Women & Politics EP (Frodis)
  39. Anderson .Paak – Malibu (EMPIRE / OBE / Steel Wool / Art Club)
  40. Maks The Fox – From the Deer Forest (self-released)
  41. the black watch – Highs and Lows (Pop Culture Press)
  42. Guerilla Toss – Eraser Stargazer (DFA)
  43. Fire Hot Opera – Test Market Fresh (self-released)
  44. Into It. Over It. – Standards (Triple Crown)
  45. BJ the Chicago Kid – In My Mind (Motown)
  46. The I Don't Cares – Wild Stab (Dry Wood)
  47. Jealousy – Paid for It (Moniker)
  48. Primal Scream – Chaosmosis (First International)
  49. Ryan Keberle & Catharsis – Azul Infinito (Greenleaf Music)
  50. Mothers – When You Walk a Long Way You Are Tired (Fat Possum/Grand Jury)

This week's adds

  • Bibio – A Mineral Love (Warp)
  • Blood Ceremony – Lord of Misrule (Rise Above)
  • Bombino – Azel (Partisan)
  • Cobalt – Slow Forever (Profound Lore)
  • Dinner – Psychic Lovers (Captured Tracks)
  • Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing (Bayonet)
  • Horse Lords – Interventions (Northern Spy)
  • Kevin Morby – Singing Saw (Dead Oceans)
  • Mamiffer – The World Unseen (SIGE)
  • Mike & The Melvins – Three Men and a Baby (Sub Pop)
  • New Madrid – magnetkingmagnetqueen (Normaltown)
  • Parquet Courts – Human Performance (Rough Trade)
  • Roxy Swain – Beneath Full Moonlight (Spade Kitty)
  • The Gary Wilson Trio – Another Galaxy (Feeding Tube)
  • Yeasayer – Amen & Goodbye (Mute)
  • Zaid Maxwell – Dorcas (Rad Cult)
  • Child Bite – Negative Noise (Housecore)

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Top 50 for the Week of 3-28-16

  1. Sexy Fights – Too Far Out (self-released)
  2. Underworld – Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future (Astralwerks)
  3. Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit EP (Melankolic)
  4. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive (Ribbon)
  5. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression (Concord)
  6. Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy – Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties (Drag City)
  7. Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories (Bloodshot)
  8. Santigold – 99¢ (Atlantic)
  9. Impulsive Hearts – Sorry in the Summer (Beautiful Strange)
  10. My Gold Mask – Anxious Utopia (Moon Sounds)
  11. Junior Boys – Big Black Coat (City Slang)
  12. Charles Bradley – Changes (Daptone)
  13. Esperanza Spalding – Emily's D+Evolution (Concord)
  14. Waco Brothers – Going Down in History (Bloodshot)
  15. Cullen Omori – New Misery (Sub Pop)
  16. Primal Scream – Chaosmosis (First International)
  17. Black Mountain – IV (Jagjaguwar)
  18. Mavis Staples – Livin' on a High Note (ANTI-)
  19. Foul Tip – Forever Driftin' (Captcha)
  20. Eryn Allen Kane – Aviary: Act II EP (1552 Music)
  21. Ryan Keberle & Catharsis – Azul Infinito (Greenleaf Music)
  22. Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop)
  23. Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered. (Aftermath/Interscope)
  24. Damien Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land (Secretly Canadian)
  25. KING – We are KING (KING Creative)
  26. Prince Rama – Xtreme Now (Carpark)
  27. Mothers – When You Walk a Long Way You Are Tired (Fat Possum/Grand Jury)
  28. Summer Twins – Limbo (Burger)
  29. Piney Gir – Mr. Hyde's Wild Ride (Greyday)
  30. Robert Pollard – Of Course You Are (Fire)
  31. Violent Femmes – We Can Do Anything (PIAS/Add It Up)
  32. Lucius – Good Grief [Deluxe] (Mom+Pop)
  33. Disappears – Low: Live in Chicago (Maple Death)
  34. Bob Mould – Patch the Sky (Merge)
  35. Seth Bogart – Seth Bogart (Burger)
  36. Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band – The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter)
  37. Amanar – Tumastin (Sahel Sounds)
  38. Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want (Slumberland)
  39. Pezband – Women & Politics EP (Frodis)
  40. Ratboys – AOID (Topshelf)
  41. Lust for Youth – Compassion (Sacred Bones)
  42. Essaie Pas – Demain Est Une Autre Nuit (DFA)
  43. Wussy – Forever Sounds (Shake It)
  44. Anderson .Paak – Malibu (EMPIRE / OBE / Steel Wool / Art Club)
  45. M. Ward – More Rain (Merge)
  46. La Sera – Music for Listening to Music To (Polyvinyl)
  47. Methyl Ethel – Oh Inhuman Spectacle (4AD)
  48. Pete Astor – Spilt Milk (Slumberland)
  49. Into It. Over It. – Standards (Triple Crown)
  50. Various Artists – Star Wars Headspace (Hollywood Records/American Recordings)

This week's adds

  • Andrew Bird – Are You Serious (Loma Vista)
  • Bleached – Welcome the Worms (Dead Oceans)
  • Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness (Temporary Residence Ltd)
  • Jan St. Werner – Felder (Thrill Jockey)
  • Laura Gibson – Empire Builder (Barsuk)
  • Sunwatchers – Sunwatchers (Castle Face)
  • Tacocat – Lost Time (Hardly Art)
  • Big Ups – Before a Million Universes (Exploding in Sound)
  • Comfort Food – Waffle Frolic (Already Dead Tapes)
  • Fire Hot Opera – Test Market Fresh (self-released)
  • Hælos – Full Circle (Matador)
  • Left & Right – Snow Day EP (War Hen)
  • Lucinda Williams – The Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)
  • Open Mike Eagle & Paul Smith – Hella Personal Film Festival (Mello Music Group)
  • Operators – Blue Wave (Last Gang)
  • The Thermals – We Disappear (Saddle Creek)
  • White Mystery – OUTTA CONTROL (self-released)
  • Wilder Adkins – Hope & Sorrow (self-released)
  • Marco With Love – Smothered and Covered (Outright Rock)
  • Child Bite – Negative Noise (Housecore)

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TOP 50 FOR WEEK OF 03-22-16

  1. Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit EP (Melankolic)
  2. My Gold Mask – Anxious Utopia (Moon Sounds)
  3. Cullen Omori – New Misery (Sub Pop)
  4. Charles Bradley – Changes (Daptone)
  5. Wussy – Forever Sounds (Shake It)
  6. BJ the Chicago Kid – In My Mind (Motown)
  7. Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered. (Aftermath/Interscope)
  8. Foul Tip – Forever Driftin' (Captcha)
  9. Waco Brothers – Going Down in History (Bloodshot)
  10. Mavis Staples – Livin' on a High Note (ANTI-)
  11. La Sera – Music for Listening to Music To (Polyvinyl)
  12. Impulsive Hearts – Sorry in the Summer (Beautiful Strange)
  13. Into It. Over It. – Standards (Triple Crown)
  14. Santigold – 99¢ (Atlantic)
  15. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive (Ribbon)
  16. Lucius – Good Grief [Deluxe] (Mom+Pop)
  17. M. Ward – More Rain (Merge)
  18. Animal Collective – Painting With (Domino)
  19. Esperanza Spalding – Emily's D+Evolution (Concord)
  20. Glenn Jones – Fleeting (Thrill Jockey)
  21. Pezband – Women & Politics EP (Frodis)
  22. Eryn Allen Kane – Aviary: Act II EP (1552 Music)
  23. Junior Boys – Big Black Coat (City Slang)
  24. Lust for Youth – Compassion (Sacred Bones)
  25. Holy Wave – Freaks of Nurture (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  26. Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop)
  27. LIIMA – II (4AD)
  28. Miike Snow – iii (Atlantic)
  29. Damien Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land (Secretly Canadian)
  30. Dawnbringer – XX EP (Ektro)
  31. Ratboys – AOID (Topshelf)
  32. the black watch – Highs and Lows (Pop Culture Press)
  33. Mount Moriah – How to Dance (Merge)
  34. Disappears – Low: Live in Chicago (Maple Death)
  35. Anderson .Paak – Malibu (EMPIRE / OBE / Steel Wool / Art Club)
  36. Yuck – Stranger Things (MAME)
  37. Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are (Barsuk)
  38. Essaie Pas – Demain Est Une Autre Nuit (DFA)
  39. Lily & Madeleine – Keep it Together (New West)
  40. Ra Ra Riot – Need Your Light (Barsuk)
  41. Lushlife + CSLSX – Ritualize (Western Vinyl)
  42. Rangda – The Heretic's Bargain (Drag City)
  43. Jaimeo Brown Transcendence – Work Songs (Motema Music)
  44. Prince Rama – Xtreme Now (Carpark)
  45. Lifetones – For a Reason (Light in the Attic)
  46. Pinkshinyultrablast – Grandfeathered (Club AC 30)
  47. toe – Hear You (Topshelf)
  48. DMA's – Hills End (Mom + Pop)
  49. Doug Tuttle – It Calls on Me (Trouble in Mind)
  50. John Cale – M:FANS (Domino)

This week's adds

  • Amanar – Tumastin (Sahel Sounds)
  • B Boys – No Worry No Mind (Captured Tracks)
  • Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy – Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties (Drag City)
  • Black Mountain – IV (Jagjaguwar)
  • Charisma.com – Aidoro C (Warner)
  • Gun Outfit – Two Way Player EP (Wharf Cat)
  • Icicle – Reverie (self-released)
  • Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression (Concord)
  • Krrum – Evil Twin EP (37 Adventures)
  • Like Rats – II (Southern Lord)
  • Primal Scream – Chaosmosis (First International)
  • Bob Mould – Patch the Sky (Merge)
  • Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories (Bloodshot)
  • Robert Pollard – Of Course You Are (Fire)
  • Ryan Keberle & Catharsis – Azul Infinito (Greenleaf Music)
  • Sexy Fights – Too Far Out (self-released)
  • Summer Twins – Limbo (Burger)
  • Piney Gir – Mr. Hyde's Wild Ride (Greyday)
  • The I Don't Cares – Wild Stab (Dry Wood)
  • Underworld – Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future (Astralwerks)

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Top 50 for the Week of 3-14-16

  1. Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered. (Aftermath/Interscope)
  2. Charles Bradley – Changes (Daptone)
  3. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive (Ribbon)
  4. Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit EP (Melankolic)
  5. Esperanza Spalding – Emily's D+Evolution (Concord)
  6. Impulsive Hearts – Sorry in the Summer (Beautiful Strange)
  7. Wussy – Forever Sounds (Shake It)
  8. M. Ward – More Rain (Merge)
  9. Mavis Staples – Livin' on a High Note (ANTI-)
  10. Miike Snow – iii (Atlantic)
  11. Anderson .Paak – Malibu (EMPIRE / OBE / Steel Wool / Art Club)
  12. Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are (Barsuk)
  13. Santigold – 99¢ (Atlantic)
  14. Ratboys – AOID (Topshelf)
  15. Junior Boys – Big Black Coat (City Slang)
  16. Guerilla Toss – Eraser Stargazer (DFA)
  17. Glenn Jones – Fleeting (Thrill Jockey)
  18. Lushlife + CSLSX – Ritualize (Western Vinyl)
  19. Vaya – Stay Rad Forever (Part 1) (self-released)
  20. Yuck – Stranger Things (MAME)
  21. Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want (Slumberland)
  22. Pezband – Women & Politics EP (Frodis)
  23. Waco Brothers – Going Down in History (Bloodshot)
  24. BJ the Chicago Kid – In My Mind (Motown)
  25. Disappears – Low: Live in Chicago (Maple Death)
  26. Fir Cone Children – The Age of Blastbeatles EP (Blackjack Illuminist)
  27. Dawnbringer – XX EP (Ektro)
  28. Cave Singers – Banshee (self-released)
  29. Saul Williams – MartyrLoserKing (FADER)
  30. Suede – Night Thoughts (Suede Ltd.)
  31. The Luxury Fever – Povera EP (self-released)
  32. Jaimeo Brown Transcendence – Work Songs (Motema Music)
  33. Daylight Robbery – Accumulated Error (Residue)
  34. Qluster – Echtzeit (Bureau B)
  35. Maks The Fox – From the Deer Forest (self-released)
  36. DMA's – Hills End (Mom + Pop)
  37. TEEN – Love Yes (Carpark)
  38. John Cale – M:FANS (Domino)
  39. Porches – Pool (Domino)
  40. Various Artists – Star Wars Headspace (Hollywood Records/American Recordings)
  41. Sidestepper – Supernatural Love (Real World)
  42. Prince Rama – Xtreme Now (Carpark)
  43. DEHD – DEHD (Maximum Pelt)
  44. the black watch – Highs and Lows (Pop Culture Press)
  45. Lily & Madeleine – Keep it Together (New West)
  46. Wild Nothing – Life of Pause (Captured Tracks)
  47. Ra Ra Riot – Need Your Light (Barsuk)
  48. The Body – No One Deserves Happiness (Thrill Jockey)
  49. Methyl Ethel – Oh Inhuman Spectacle (4AD)
  50. Animal Collective – Painting With (Domino)

This week's adds

  • Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band – The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter)
  • Cullen Omori – New Misery (Sub Pop)
  • Foul Tip – Forever Driftin' (Captcha)
  • My Gold Mask – Anxious Utopia (Moon Sounds)
  • Drab Majesty – Completely Careless (2012-2015) (Dais)
  • Holy Wave – Freaks of Nurture (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  • Into It. Over It. – Standards (Triple Crown)
  • Lifetones – For a Reason (Light in the Attic)
  • LIIMA – II (4AD)
  • Lucius – Good Grief [Deluxe] (Mom+Pop)
  • Lust for Youth – Compassion (Sacred Bones)
  • Say No! to Architecture – SN!TA (self-released)
  • Mirror Travel – Cruise Deal (Modern Outsider)
  • MMOTHS – Luneworks (Because/OYAE)
  • Noema – Former Selves and Future Void (1980)
  • Pete Astor – Spilt Milk (Slumberland)
  • Seth Bogart – Seth Bogart (Burger)
  • The Landlords – Fitzgerald's Paris (Feel It)
  • Damien Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land (Secretly Canadian)

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