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Top 50 for the Week of 5/12/15

  1. Circuit des Yeux – In Plain Speech (Thrill Jockey)
  2. Best Coast – California Nights (Harvest)
  3. Blur – The Magic Whip (Warner Bros.)
  4. Girl Band – The Early Years EP (Rough Trade)
  5. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
  6. Saun & Starr – Look Closer (Daptone)
  7. Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Carpark)
  8. Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
  9. Westkust – Last Forever (Run for Cover/Luxury)
  10. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (ATO)
  11. Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
  12. Squarepusher – Damogen Furies (Warp)
  13. Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms (Joyful Noise)
  14. Various Artists – The Alchemist and Oh No Present: Welcome to Los Santos (Mass Appeal)
  15. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
  16. Django Django – Born Under Saturn (Ribbon)
  17. Hop Along – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
  18. METZ – II (Sub Pop)
  19. Passion Pit – Kindred (Columbia)
  20. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
  21. William Steffey – Accidents and Melodies (Aquariphone)
  22. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada)
  23. Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
  24. Colleen – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
  25. d. stine – Putting Orphans to Bed (self-released)
  26. Leggy – Nice Try (self-released)
  27. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
  28. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
  29. Banditos – Banditos (Bloodshot)
  30. Braids – Deep In the Iris (Arbutus)
  31. Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti-)
  32. Chui Wan – Chui Wan (Maybe Mars)
  33. Giant Sand – Heartbreak Pass (New West)
  34. Rose Windows – Rose Windows (Sub Pop)
  35. Slug – Ripe (Memphis Industries)
  36. Stealing Sheep – Not Real (Heavenly)
  37. Swearwords – Solar Vortex (self-released)
  38. MG – MG (Mute)
  39. Sacred Paws – Six Songs EP (Rock Action)
  40. Tal National – Zoy Zoy (FatCat)
  41. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
  42. White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
  43. Winter – Supreme Blue Dream (Lolipop)
  44. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
  45. Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (Flie Under: Music)
  46. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)
  47. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
  48. Tei Shi – Verde EP (Mom+Pop)
  49. The Variable Why – Looking at the Triangles (Patient Sounds)
  50. East India Youth – Culture of Volume (XL)

This week's adds

  • Dane Terry – Color Movies (Tonk)
  • Implodes – Reverser (Gilead Media)
  • Tica Douglas – Joey (self-released)
  • Twin Shadow – Eclipse (Warner Bros.)
  • Wino & Conny Ochs – Freedom Conspiracy (Exile On Mainstream)
  • Mac McCaughan – Non-Believers (Merge)
  • Nosaj Thing – Fated (Innovative Leisure)
  • Palma Violets – Danger in the Club (Rough Trade)
  • Pyramids – A Northern Meadow (Profound Lore)
  • Spaces of Disappearance – Passionate Electronics (Walk-In)
  • The Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home (Dead Oceans)
  • Various Artists – 50 Bands and a Cat for Indiana Equality (3-Disc) (Joyful Noise)
  • Obsequiae – Aria of Vernal Tombs (20 Buck Spin)
  • Brave the Waters – Chapter 1 - Dawn of Days EP (Independent)
  • Coliseum – Anxiety's Kiss (Deathwish Inc.)
  • Tyondai Braxton – HIVE1 (Nonesuch)
  • Elvis Depressedly – New Alhambra (Run for Cover)
  • The Helio Sequence – The Helio Sequence (Sub Pop)
  • Delia Gonzalez – In Remembrance (DFA)
  • George FitzGerald – Fading Love (Double Six)
  • The Sonics – This is the Sonics (Revox)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5/5/15

  1. Best Coast – California Nights (Harvest)
  2. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
  3. Colleen – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
  4. Passion Pit – Kindred (Columbia)
  5. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (ATO)
  6. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
  7. Wire – Wire (Pink Flag)
  8. William Steffey – Accidents and Melodies (Aquariphone)
  9. Squarepusher – Damogen Furies (Warp)
  10. Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti-)
  11. METZ – II (Sub Pop)
  12. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
  13. Westkust – Last Forever (Run for Cover/Luxury)
  14. Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
  15. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
  16. Swearwords – Solar Vortex (self-released)
  17. Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
  18. White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
  19. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
  20. Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Carpark)
  21. Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
  22. Varsity – Varsity (Jurassic Pop)
  23. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada)
  24. They Might Be Giants – Glean (Idlewild)
  25. Saun & Starr – Look Closer (Daptone)
  26. Rose Windows – Rose Windows (Sub Pop)
  27. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
  28. Razorhouse – Codex Du EP (Heat Shield)
  29. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil (Domino)
  30. Death – N.E.W. (Tryangle)
  31. Peach Kelli Pop – Peach Kelli Pop III (Burger)
  32. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
  33. Minsk – The Crash & the Draw (Relapse)
  34. Braids – Deep In the Iris (Arbutus)
  35. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
  36. Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight (Rough Trade)
  37. MG – MG (Mute)
  38. d. stine – Putting Orphans to Bed (self-released)
  39. Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recordings)
  40. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Ribbon)
  41. Sacred Paws – Six Songs EP (Rock Action)
  42. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
  43. Jimmy Whispers – Summer in Pain (Moniker)
  44. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
  45. Dinner – Three EPs 2012-2014 (Captured Tracks)
  46. Fred Thomas – All Are Saved (Polyvinyl)
  47. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation)
  48. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
  49. Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (Flie Under: Music)
  50. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Banditos – Banditos (Bloodshot)
  • Blur – The Magic Whip (Warner Bros.)
  • Chui Wan – Chui Wan (Maybe Mars)
  • Circuit des Yeux – In Plain Speech (Thrill Jockey)
  • Django Django – Born Under Saturn (Ribbon)
  • East India Youth – Culture of Volume (XL)
  • Giant Sand – Heartbreak Pass (New West)
  • Girl Band – The Early Years EP (Rough Trade)
  • Hop Along – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
  • Leggy – Nice Try (self-released)
  • Nai Harvest – Hairball (Topshelf)
  • Raein – Perpetuum EP (self-released)
  • Sam Cohen – Cool It (Easy Sound)
  • Slug – Ripe (Memphis Industries)
  • Stealing Sheep – Not Real (Heavenly)
  • Steve Von Till – A Life Unto Itself (Neurot)
  • Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms (Joyful Noise)
  • Various Artists – The Alchemist and Oh No Present: Welcome to Los Santos (Mass Appeal)
  • White Manna – Pan (Captcha)

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Top 50 for the Week of 4/28/15

  1. METZ – II (Sub Pop)
  2. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
  3. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
  4. Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer (Carpark)
  5. Wire – Wire (Pink Flag)
  6. Colleen – Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
  7. Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
  8. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
  9. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
  10. Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti-)
  11. Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
  12. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
  13. Tal National – Zoy Zoy (FatCat)
  14. King Khan & BBQ Show – Bad News Boys (In the Red)
  15. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
  16. Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)
  17. They Might Be Giants – Glean (Idlewild)
  18. Peach Kelli Pop – Peach Kelli Pop III (Burger)
  19. William Steffey – Accidents and Melodies (Aquariphone)
  20. Fred Thomas – All Are Saved (Polyvinyl)
  21. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
  22. The Variable Why – Looking at the Triangles (Patient Sounds)
  23. Death – N.E.W. (Tryangle)
  24. Passion Pit – Kindred (Columbia)
  25. Razorhouse – Codex Du EP (Heat Shield)
  26. Marriages – Salome (Sargent House)
  27. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Ribbon)
  28. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
  29. Jimmy Whispers – Summer in Pain (Moniker)
  30. Dinner – Three EPs 2012-2014 (Captured Tracks)
  31. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Interscope)
  32. Bill Fay – Who is the Sender? (Dead Oceans)
  33. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation)
  34. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
  35. Tica Douglas – Joey (self-released)
  36. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)
  37. Varsity – Varsity (Jurassic Pop)
  38. White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
  39. John Andrews & The Yawns – Bit By the Fang (Woodsist)
  40. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
  41. Jlin – Dark Energy (Planet Mu)
  42. Twin Shadow – Eclipse (Warner Bros.)
  43. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil (Domino)
  44. Reptar – Lurid Glow (Joyful Noise)
  45. Netorare Fan Club – Make Believe (Mint 400)
  46. Minsk – The Crash & the Draw (Relapse)
  47. Tei Shi – Verde EP (Mom+Pop)
  48. POW! – Fight Fire (Castle Face)
  49. Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (Flie Under: Music)
  50. Becca Stevens Band – Perfect Animal (Universal Music Classics)

This week's adds

  • d. stine – Putting Orphans to Bed (self-released)
  • Swearwords – Solar Vortex (self-released)
  • Best Coast – California Nights (Harvest)
  • Squarepusher – Damogen Furies (Warp)
  • Westkust – Last Forever (Luxury)
  • Saun & Starr – Look Closer (Daptone)
  • Braids – Deep in the Iris (Arbutus)
  • DTCV – Uptime! (Unsatisfied)
  • Tribulation – The Children of the Night (Century Media)
  • Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (ATO)
  • Rose Windows – Rose Windows (Sub Pop)
  • MG – MG (Mute)
  • Winter – Supreme Blue Dream (Lolipop)
  • Show Me the Body – SMTB EP (Letter Racer)

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Top 50 for the Week of 4/21/15

  1. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
  2. Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti-)
  3. Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
  4. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
  5. Lili K. – Ruby (self-released)
  6. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Interscope)
  7. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil (Domino)
  8. King Khan & BBQ Show – Bad News Boys (In the Red)
  9. Implodes – Reverser (Gilead Media)
  10. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
  11. Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
  12. Jimmy Whispers – Summer in Pain (Moniker)
  13. Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
  14. White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
  15. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada)
  16. Tal National – Zoy Zoy (FatCat)
  17. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
  18. Tei Shi – Verde EP (Mom+Pop)
  19. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
  20. The Variable Why – Looking at the Triangles (Patient Sounds)
  21. Varsity – Varsity (Jurassic Pop)
  22. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
  23. Reptar – Lurid Glow (Joyful Noise)
  24. Marriages – Salome (Sargent House)
  25. Moon Duo – Shadow of the Sun (Sacred Bones)
  26. Via Tania – Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra (Narooma)
  27. American Wrestlers – American Wrestlers (Fat Possum)
  28. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
  29. Jlin – Dark Energy (Planet Mu)
  30. Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (Flie Under: Music)
  31. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)
  32. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
  33. The Bright Light Social Hour – Space is Still the Place (Frenchkiss)
  34. Pale Blue – The Past We Leave Behind (2MR)
  35. Dinner – Three EPs 2012-2014 (Captured Tracks)
  36. JEFF the Brotherhood – Wasted on the Dream (Infinity Cat)
  37. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation)
  38. Razorhouse – Codex Du EP (Heat Shield)
  39. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Ribbon)
  40. Chastity Belt – Time to Go Home (Hardly Art)
  41. Pile – You're Better than This (Exploding in Sound)
  42. Twin Shadow – Eclipse (Warner Bros.)
  43. LoneLady – Hinterland (Warp)
  44. Makaya McCraven – In the Moment (International Anthem)
  45. Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi (Atlantic)
  46. Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight (Rough Trade)
  47. Becca Stevens Band – Perfect Animal (Universal Music Classics)
  48. Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves (Epic)
  49. The Go! Team – The Scene Between (Memphis Industries)
  50. Faith Healer – Cosmic Troubles (Mint)

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Top 50 for the Week of 4/14/15

  1. Toro y Moi – What For? (Carpark)
  2. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge)
  3. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
  4. King Khan & BBQ Show – Bad News Boys (In the Red)
  5. The Soft Moon – Deeper (Captured Tracks)
  6. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (Record Machine)
  7. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Interscope)
  8. Varsity – Varsity (Jurassic Pop)
  9. Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves (Epic)
  10. Jlin – Dark Energy (Planet Mu)
  11. Twin Shadow – Eclipse (Warner Bros.)
  12. Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi (Atlantic)
  13. Jimmy Whispers – Summer in Pain (Moniker)
  14. Dinner – Three EPs 2012-2014 (Captured Tracks)
  15. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation)
  16. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
  17. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green (Dead Oceans)
  18. Implodes – Reverser (Gilead Media)
  19. American Wrestlers – American Wrestlers (Fat Possum)
  20. Razorhouse – Codex Du EP (Heat Shield)
  21. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 (Mom + Pop)
  22. Marriages – Salome (Sargent House)
  23. Laura Marling – Short Movie (Ribbon)
  24. Kywo – Pearl EP (self-released)
  25. Will Butler – Policy (Merge)
  26. Moon Duo – Shadow of the Sun (Sacred Bones)
  27. JEFF the Brotherhood – Wasted on the Dream (Infinity Cat)
  28. THEESatisfaction – EarthEE (Sub Pop)
  29. Lower Dens – Escape from Evil (Domino)
  30. BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul (Lex)
  31. Liturgy – The Ark Work (Thrill Jockey)
  32. The Go! Team – The Scene Between (Memphis Industries)
  33. Via Tania – Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra (Narooma)
  34. POW! – Fight Fire (Castle Face)
  35. Gateway Drugs – Magick Spells (Cobraside)
  36. Shana Falana – Set Your Lightning Fire Free (Team Love)
  37. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
  38. Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey)
  39. Minsk – The Crash & the Draw (Relapse)
  40. Petite Noir – The King of Anxiety EP (Domino)
  41. Drenge – Undertow (ADA)
  42. Marika Hackman – We Slept at Last (Dirty Hit)
  43. Crown Larks – Blood Dancer (Spacelung/Landbreathing)
  44. Vijay Iyer Trio – Break Stuff (ECM)
  45. Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recordings)
  46. Bombadil – Hold On (Ramseur)
  47. Swervedriver – I Wasn't Born to Lose You (Cobraside)
  48. Tica Douglas – Joey (self-released)
  49. The Prefab Messiahs – Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive (Burger)
  50. Raymond Abercrombie – Key, White (Posture)

This week's adds

  • Lili K. – Ruby (Freshly Baked)
  • The Variable Why – Looking at the Triangles (Patient Sounds)
  • Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men (Big Dada)
  • Tal National – Zoy Zoy (FatCat)
  • Calexico – Edge of the Sun (Anti- ‎)
  • The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (Merge)
  • Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
  • White Hills – Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
  • Mavis Staples – Your Good Fortune EP (Anti-)
  • Tei Shi – Verde EP (Mom+Pop)
  • Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (File Under: Music)
  • Monophonics – Sound of Sinning (Transistor Sound)
  • Pale Blue – The Past We Leave Behind (2MR)
  • Becca Stevens Band – Perfect Animal (UMG)

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