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Top 50 for the Week of 2-1-16

  1. Ringo Deathstarr – Pure Mood (Reverb Appreciation Society)
  2. Savages – Adore Life (Matador)
  3. Freakwater – Scheherazade (Bloodshot)
  4. Tindersticks – The Waiting Room (City Slang)
  5. Ty Segall – Emotional Mugger (Drag City)
  6. Milk Lines – Ceramic (In The Red)
  7. Chairlift – Moth (Columbia)
  8. Eleanor Friedberger – New View (Frenchkiss)
  9. The James Hunter Six – HOLD ON! (Daptone)
  10. Shearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow (Sub Pop)
  11. David Bowie – Blackstar (Columbia)
  12. You Beauty – Illywhacka (Bedroom Suck)
  13. Dressy Bessy – Kingsized (Yep Roc)
  14. Charlie Hilton – Palana (Captured Tracks)
  15. The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum (Jagjaguwar)
  16. The Bevis Frond – Example 22 (Woronzow)
  17. Leaf Peeper & Vesper Chimes – God's Country (Lungbasket)
  18. Half Japanese – Perfect (Joyful Noise)
  19. Tortoise – The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey)
  20. Plates of Cake – Becoming Double (self-released)
  21. De Staat – O (Caroline International)
  22. The Shrine – Rare Breed (Century Media)
  23. Terrible Truths – Terrible Truths (Bedroom Suck)
  24. Octagrape – Aura Obelisk (Sounds Familyre)
  25. Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions – Istanbul Underground (Nublu)
  26. Hinds – Leave Me Alone (Mom + Pop)
  27. Running – Wake Up Applauding (Castle Face)
  28. Night Beats – Who Sold My Generation (Heavenly)
  29. Various Artists – 30th Century Records Compilation Volume I (30th Century / Columbia)
  30. Pillar Point – Marble Mouth (Polyvinyl)
  31. Cian Nugent – Night Fiction (Woodsist)
  32. Krisp – Sonic Monarch (gummdrops)
  33. C Joynes / Nick Jonah Davis – Split Electric (Thread Recordings)
  34. Bloodiest – Bloodiest (Relapse)
  35. Drawing Water – Drawing Water EP (Lauren)
  36. Javier Escovedo – Kicked Out of Eden (Saustex)
  37. Etti/Etta – Refrains (Mint 400)
  38. Skin Tags – Skin Tags EP (self-released)
  39. Tow'rs – The Great Minimum (self-released)
  40. Coldair – The Provider (Twelves)
  41. Spacin' – Total Freedom (Richie)
  42. Norman Westberg – 13 (Room40)
  43. TV Freaks – Bad Luck Charms (Deranged)
  44. Grand Banks – QB4: 1877-1896 (Oxtail Recordings)
  45. Reversing Falls – Reversing Falls 2 (self-released)
  46. Bambi Kino Duo – See Heat (International Anthem)
  47. Udüsic – self-titled EP (Painkiller)
  48. Sabbatical – Sundown (Love All Day)
  49. Pusha T – King Push: Darkest Before Dawn - The Prelude (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)
  50. Gate – Saturday Night Fever (MIE Music)

This week's adds

  • The Lavender Flu – Heavy Air (MEDS)
  • Naked – Pink Quartz (Tenth Court)
  • Woo – Awaawaa (Palto Flats)
  • Nathaniel Bellows – The Old Illusions (Harmon Blunt Music)
  • Luther Dickinson – Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook) Vol. I & II (New West)
  • Emily Wells – Promise (Thesis & Instinct)
  • Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale (Paradise of Bachelors)
  • Black Tusk – Pillars of Ash (Relapse)
  • Oscillator Bug – ZP (self-released)
  • DIIV – Is The Is Are (Captured Tracks)
  • Brimstone Coven – Black Magic (Metal Blade)
  • Nevermen – Nevermen (Ipecac)
  • Cross Record – Wabi-Sabi (Ba Da Bing!)
  • Fat White Family – Songs For Our Mothers (Fat Possum)
  • The Skull – The Skull EP (Tee Pee)
  • Boolean Knife – Astrid and the Killer Penguin EP (Aquariphone)

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Top 50 for the Week of 1/25/16

  1. Tortoise – The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey)
  2. Hinds – Leave Me Alone (Mom + Pop)
  3. Dressy Bessy – Kingsized (Yep Roc)
  4. Various Artists – 30th Century Records Compilation Volume I (30th Century / Columbia)
  5. jennylee – right on! (Rough Trade)
  6. The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum (Jagjaguwar)
  7. David Bowie – Blackstar (Columbia)
  8. Cian Nugent – Night Fiction (Woodsist)
  9. Running – Wake Up Applauding (Castle Face)
  10. Leaf Peeper & Vesper Chimes – God's Country (Lungbasket)
  11. Various Artists – Bloodshot Six Pack to Go: Working Songs for the Drinking Class (Bloodshot)
  12. Erykah Badu – But You Caint Use My Phone (self-released)
  13. Sabbatical – Sundown (Love All Day)
  14. Spacin' – Total Freedom (Richie)
  15. Bloodiest – Bloodiest (Relapse)
  16. Drawing Water – Drawing Water EP (Lauren)
  17. Etti/Etta – Refrains (Mint 400)
  18. Krisp – Sonic Monarch (gummdrops)
  19. Terrible Truths – Terrible Truths (Bedroom Suck)
  20. Coldair – The Provider (Twelves)
  21. Bambi Kino Duo – See Heat (International Anthem)
  22. Pusha T – King Push: Darkest Before Dawn - The Prelude (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)
  23. The Most Serene Republic – Mediac (Maplemusic)
  24. Violet Mice – Neither//Nor (Athletic Tapes)
  25. Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle (6131)
  26. Bloom – Adoration (self-released)
  27. Plates of Cake – Becoming Double (self-released)
  28. Ego – Best of Chapters 5-8 (Maximum Pelt)
  29. Skin Tags – Skin Tags EP (self-released)
  30. Tow'rs – The Great Minimum (self-released)
  31. diNMachine – The Opposites of Unity (Greedy Dilettante)
  32. Savage Beliefs – Big Big Sky (Alona's Dream)
  33. Javier Escovedo – Kicked Out of Eden (Saustex)
  34. Witchcraft – Nucleus (Nuclear Blast)
  35. Howlish – Outer (Sniffling Indie Kids)
  36. Robert Stillman – Rainbow (Orindal)
  37. Reversing Falls – Reversing Falls 2 (self-released)
  38. Lil Bub – Science & Magic: A Soundtrack to the Universe (Joyful Noise)
  39. d.stine – the pinwheel (self-released)
  40. Baroness – Purple (Abraxan Hymns)
  41. Udüsic – self-titled EP (Painkiller)
  42. Sumrra – 5 Viajes / 5 Journeys (Clermont)
  43. Scientist – 10100||00101 (Hell Comes Home)
  44. Indian Handcrafts – Creeps (Sargent House)
  45. Leif Elggren – Das Baank (Rekem)
  46. Pale Horseman – Bless the Destroyer (Bullet City)
  47. Craw – Craw (Northern Spy)
  48. Chicos de Nazca – Fire Ride (HoZac)
  49. Sunn O))) – Kannon (Southern Lord)
  50. C Joynes / Nick Jonah Davis – Split Electric (Thread Recordings)

This week's adds

  • C Joynes / Nick Jonah Davis – Split Electric (Thread Recordings)
  • Chairlift – Moth (Columbia)
  • Charlie Hilton – Palana (Captured Tracks)
  • De Staat – O (Caroline International)
  • Eleanor Friedberger – New View (Frenchkiss)
  • Freakwater – Scheherazade (Bloodshot)
  • Gate – Saturday Night Fever (MIE Music)
  • Grand Banks – QB4: 1877-1896 (Oxtail Recordings)
  • Half Japanese – Perfect (Joyful Noise)
  • Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions – Istanbul Underground (Nublu)
  • Milk Lines – Ceramic (In The Red)
  • Night Beats – Who Sold My Generation (Heavenly)
  • Norman Westberg – 13 (Room40)
  • Octagrape – Aura Obelisk (Sounds Familyre)
  • Pillar Point – Marble Mouth (Polyvinyl)
  • Ringo Deathstarr – Pure Mood (Reverb Appreciation Society)
  • Savages – Adore Life (Matador)
  • Shearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow (Sub Pop)
  • The Bevis Frond – Example 22 (Woronzow)
  • The James Hunter Six – HOLD ON! (Daptone)
  • The Shrine – Rare Breed (Century Media)
  • Tindersticks – The Waiting Room (City Slang)
  • TV Freaks – Bad Luck Charms (Deranged)
  • Ty Segall – Emotional Mugger (Drag City)
  • You Beauty – Illywhacka (Bedroom Suck)

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Top 50 for the Week of 1-18-16

  1. Tortoise – The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey)
  2. Leaf Peeper & Vesper Chimes – God's Country (Lungbasket)
  3. Terrible Truths – Terrible Truths (Bedroom Suck)
  4. David Bowie – Blackstar (Columbia)
  5. Josh Berman Trio – A Dance and a Hop (Delmark)
  6. Plates of Cake – Becoming Double (self-released)
  7. Violet Mice – Neither//Nor (Athletic Tapes)
  8. Brother Starrace – Passion Prayers EP (self-released)
  9. Etti/Etta – Refrains (Mint 400)
  10. jennylee – right on! (Rough Trade)
  11. Various Artists – 30th Century Records Compilation Volume I (30th Century / Columbia)
  12. The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum (Jagjaguwar)
  13. Javier Escovedo – Kicked Out of Eden (Saustex)
  14. Howlish – Outer (Sniffling Indie Kids)
  15. Bambi Kino Duo – See Heat (International Anthem)
  16. Coldair – The Provider (Twelves)
  17. Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle (6131)
  18. Savage Beliefs – Big Big Sky (Alona's Dream)
  19. Erykah Badu – But You Caint Use My Phone (self-released)
  20. Pusha T – King Push: Darkest Before Dawn - The Prelude (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)
  21. Sabbatical – Sundown (Love All Day)
  22. Noun – Throw Your Body on the Gears and Stop the Machine with Your Blood (Don Giovanni)
  23. Various Artists – Bloodshot Six Pack to Go: Working Songs for the Drinking Class (Bloodshot)
  24. Mooner – Masterpiece (Aerial Ballet)
  25. Robert Stillman – Rainbow (Orindal)
  26. Le1f – Riot Boi (Warner Bros)
  27. Traams – Modern Dancing (FatCat)
  28. W-X – W-X (Castle Face)
  29. Bloom – Adoration (self-released)
  30. Drawing Water – Drawing Water EP (Lauren)
  31. The Most Serene Republic – Mediac (Maplemusic)
  32. Krisp – Sonic Monarch (gummdrops)
  33. Wonky Tonk – Stuff We Leave Behind (self-released)
  34. Reversing Falls – Reversing Falls 2 (self-released)
  35. Spacin' – Total Freedom (Richie)
  36. Perfecto – You Can't Run from the Rhythm EP (Joyful Noise)
  37. Ego – Best of Chapters 5-8 (Maximum Pelt)
  38. Ian William Craig – Cradle for the Wanting (Recital)
  39. Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete (Warp)
  40. Baroness – Purple (Abraxan Hymns)
  41. diNMachine – The Opposites of Unity (Greedy Dilettante)
  42. Indian Handcrafts – Creeps (Sargent House)
  43. Dog & Wolf – Filler for the Vacancies (self-released)
  44. Sunn O))) – Kannon (Southern Lord)
  45. Lil Bub – Science & Magic: A Soundtrack to the Universe (Joyful Noise)
  46. Sumrra – 5 Viajes / 5 Journeys (Clermont)
  47. Niche – Heading East (Retro Futurist)
  48. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch)
  49. Dave Segedy – Lay Up (Old Flame)
  50. Philosophical Zombie – Loneliness is Blue and Not Blue (Killer Wall)

This week's adds

  • d.stine – the pinwheel (self-released)
  • Skin Tags – Skin Tags EP (self-released)
  • Tow'rs – The Great Minimum (self-released)
  • Witchcraft – Nucleus (Nuclear Blast)
  • Dressy Bessy – Kingsized (Yep Roc)
  • Leif Elggren – Das Baank (Rekem)
  • Udüsic – self-titled EP (Painkiller)
  • Cian Nugent – Night Fiction (Woodsist)
  • Running – Wake Up Applauding (Castle Face)
  • Bloodiest – Bloodiest (Relapse)
  • Hinds – Leave Me Alone (Mom + Pop)

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Top 50 for the Week of 1/11/15

  1. Pusha T – King Push: Darkest Before Dawn - The Prelude (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)
  2. Krisp – Sonic Monarch (gummdrops)
  3. Howlish – Outer (Sniffling Indie Kids)
  4. Various Artists – Bloodshot Six Pack to Go: Working Songs for the Drinking Class (Bloodshot)
  5. jennylee – right on! (Rough Trade)
  6. Violet Mice – Neither//Nor (Athletic Tapes)
  7. Grimes – Art Angels (4AD)
  8. Reversing Falls – Reversing Falls 2 (self-released)
  9. Josh Berman Trio – A Dance and a Hop (Delmark)
  10. Various Artists – 30th Century Records Compilation Volume I (30th Century / Columbia)
  11. Savage Beliefs – Big Big Sky (Alona's Dream)
  12. Etti/Etta – Refrains (Mint 400)
  13. Sumrra – 5 Viajes / 5 Journeys (Clermont)
  14. Erykah Badu – But You Caint Use My Phone (self-released)
  15. Traams – Modern Dancing (FatCat)
  16. Lanterns on the Lake – Beings (Bella Union)
  17. Black Ships – Dead Empires (self-released)
  18. Verma – Mul.Apin (Trouble in Mind)
  19. Bloom – Adoration (self-released)
  20. Ego – Best of Chapters 5-8 (Maximum Pelt)
  21. Mooner – Masterpiece (Aerial Ballet)
  22. Arca – Mutant (Mute)
  23. Kode9 – Nothing (Hyperdub)
  24. Baroness – Purple (Abraxan Hymns)
  25. Le1f – Riot Boi (Warner Bros)
  26. Kishi Bashi – String Quartet Live! (Joyful Noise)
  27. Wailin Storms – One Foot in the Flesh Grave (Magic Bullet)
  28. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Style (Matador)
  29. Perfecto – You Can't Run from the Rhythm EP (Joyful Noise)
  30. The Most Serene Republic – Mediac (Maplemusic)
  31. Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete (Warp)
  32. W-X – W-X (Castle Face)
  33. BOOTS – Aquaria (Columbia)
  34. diNMachine – The Opposites of Unity (Greedy Dilettante)
  35. Lil Bub – Science & Magic: A Soundtrack to the Universe (Joyful Noise)
  36. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch)
  37. Dave Segedy – Lay Up (Old Flame)
  38. Philosophical Zombie – Loneliness is Blue and Not Blue (Killer Wall)
  39. Noun – Throw Your Body on the Gears and Stop the Machine with Your Blood (Don Giovanni)
  40. Doug Hream Blunt – My Name is Doug Hream Blunt (Luaka Bop)
  41. Scientist – 10100||00101 (Hell Comes Home)
  42. Ben Millburn – Strange Love & Consequence (Sunglass Moustache)
  43. Wonky Tonk – Stuff We Leave Behind (self-released)
  44. Brian Jonestown Massacre – Mini Album Thingy Wingy (A Recordings)
  45. Ian William Craig – Cradle for the Wanting (Recital)
  46. Dog & Wolf – Filler for the Vacancies (self-released)
  47. Niche – Heading East (Retro Futurist)
  48. Brother Starrace – Passion Prayers EP (self-released)
  49. X___X – Albert Ayler's Ghosts live at the Yellow Ghetto (Smog Veil)
  50. Aquila Young – Distance Echoes (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Coldair – The Provider (Twelves)
  • David Bowie – Blackstar (Columbia)
  • Drawing Water – Drawing Water EP (Lauren)
  • Javier Escovedo – Kicked Out of Eden (Saustex)
  • Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle (6131)
  • Leaf Peeper & Vesper Chimes – God's Country (Lungbasket)
  • Plates of Cake – Becoming Double (self-released)
  • Robert Stillman – Rainbow (Orindal)
  • Sabbatical – Sundown (Love All Day)
  • Spacin' – Total Freedom (Richie)
  • Terrible Truths – Terrible Truths (Bedroom Suck)
  • The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum (Jagjaguwar)
  • Tortoise – The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey)
  • Bambi Kino Duo – See Heat (International Anthem)

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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 01/04/2016

  1. jennylee – right on! (Rough Trade)
  2. Various Artists – Bloodshot Six Pack to Go: Working Songs for the Drinking Class (Bloodshot)
  3. Grimes – Art Angels (4AD)
  4. Erykah Badu – But You Caint Use My Phone (self-released)
  5. EL VY – Return to the Moon (4AD)
  6. Violet Mice – Neither//Nor (Athletic Tapes)
  7. Beach Slang – The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us (Polyvinyl)
  8. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Stretch Music (Ropeadope)
  9. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Style (Matador)
  10. Mooner – Masterpiece (Aerial Ballet)
  11. Lil Bub – Science & Magic: A Soundtrack to the Universe (Joyful Noise)
  12. Tiny Fireflies – The Space Between (EardrumsPop)
  13. J Dilla – Dillatronic (Vintage Vibez Music Group)
  14. A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Planning Weed Like It’s Acid / Life is Loss (self-released)
  15. Noun – Throw Your Body on the Gears and Stop the Machine with Your Blood (Don Giovanni)
  16. Ego – Best of Chapters 5-8 (Maximum Pelt)
  17. Howlish – Outer (Sniffling Indie Kids)
  18. Brother Starrace – Passion Prayers EP (self-released)
  19. W-X – W-X (Castle Face)
  20. Shigeto – Intermission (Ghostly International)
  21. Perfecto – You Can't Run from the Rhythm EP (Joyful Noise)
  22. Aquila Young – Distance Echoes (self-released)
  23. Josh Berman Trio – A Dance and a Hop (Delmark)
  24. Kishi Bashi – String Quartet Live! (Joyful Noise)
  25. Odetta Hartman – 222 (Northern Spy)
  26. Carlos Timón – Solar Rapé (Pueblo Records)
  27. Video – The Entertainers (Third Man)
  28. Verma – Mul.Apin (Trouble in Mind)
  29. Black Ships – Dead Empires (self-released)
  30. BOOTS – Aquaria (Columbia)
  31. Le1f – Riot Boi (Warner Bros)
  32. Ben Millburn – Strange Love & Consequence (Sunglass Moustache)
  33. Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete (Warp)
  34. Sumrra – 5 Viajes / 5 Journeys (Clermont)
  35. Savage Beliefs – Big Big Sky (Alona's Dream)
  36. Gloria Ann Taylor – Love is a Hurtin' Thing (Luv N Haight)
  37. Kelley Stoltz – In Triangle Time (Castle Face)
  38. Lanterns on the Lake – Beings (Bella Union)
  39. Timmy's Organism – Heartless Heathen (Third Man)
  40. Dog & Wolf – Filler for the Vacancies (self-released)
  41. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch)
  42. Ian William Craig – Cradle for the Wanting (Recital)
  43. Indian Handcrafts – Creeps (Sargent House)
  44. Pujol – Kisses EP (Bartertown Co-Op)
  45. Mark McGuire – Beyond Belief (Dead Oceans)
  46. Arca – Mutant (Mute)
  47. Doug Hream Blunt – My Name is Doug Hream Blunt (Luaka Bop)
  48. Brian Jonestown Massacre – Mini Album Thingy Wingy (A Recordings)
  49. Traams – Modern Dancing (FatCat)
  50. Philosophical Zombie – Loneliness is Blue and Not Blue (Killer Wall)

This week's adds

  • diNMachine – The Opposites of Unity (Greedy Dilettante)
  • Etti/Etta – Refrains (Mint 400)
  • Krisp – Sonic Monarch (gummdrops)
  • Reversing Falls – Reversing Falls 2 (self-released)
  • Various Artists – 30th Century Records Compilation Volume I (Columbia)

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