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Top 50 for the Week of 7-8-2014

  1. How to Dress Well - What Is This Heart? (Weird World)
  2. Lightfoils - Hierarchy (Saint Marie)
  3. Lust For Youth - International (Sacred Bones)
  4. Black Bananas - Electric Black Wall (Drag City)
  5. Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits (Mexican Summer)
  6. Eno / Hyde - High Life (Warp)
  7. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent (Lefse)
  8. The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (Def Jam)
  9. Rabble Rabble - Brain Hole (Logan Hardware)
  10. Kimekai - Coral Dreams (Hush Hush)
  11. Jad Fair & Danielson - Solid Gold Heart (Sounds Familyre)
  12. Young Liars - Tidal Wave (Nettwerk)
  13. Tom Vek - Luck (Moshi Moshi)
  14. Slushy - Pastime Gardens (Grabbing Clouds)
  15. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run (self-released)
  16. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (What's Your Rupture?)
  17. Mimicking Birds - Eons (Glacial Pace)
  18. Say Hi - Endless Wonder (barsuk)
  19. The Donkeys - Ride the Black Wave (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  20. The Orwells - Disgraceland (Atlantic)
  21. Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Hunger (Castle Face)
  22. The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (HopeStreet)
  23. Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (Interscope)
  24. Clipping. - CLPPNG (Sub Pop)
  25. Circles - Shadowgraph (Diminished Arc)
  26. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestite (Artemisia)
  27. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)
  28. Bob Mould - Beauty and Ruin (Merge)
  29. Jack White - Lazaretto (Columbia)
  30. Beverly - Careers (Kanine)
  31. The Atlas Moth - The Old Believer (Profound Lore)
  32. Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
  33. AroarA - AroarA EP (Club Roll)
  34. Jar'd Loose - Turns 13 (The Path Less Traveled)
  35. Sadistik - Ultraviolet (Fake Four Inc.)
  36. Nightmares on Wax - N.O.W. Is the Time (Warp)
  37. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Columbia)
  38. Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo - Force Majeure (Delmark)
  39. The Antlers - Familiars (ANTI-)
  40. Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun (Reprise)
  41. Many Places - Plurals (self-released)
  42. OOIOO - Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
  43. Devon Williams - Gilding the Lily (Slumberland)
  44. Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.1 (Hyperdub)
  45. Hot Bagels - Soft (self-released)
  46. Guides - Guides 7" EP (self-released)
  47. The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)
  48. Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate (Deathwish Inc.)
  49. Mean Creek - Local Losers (Old Flame)
  50. Jesse W. Johnson - Cannon Rows (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Braid - No Coast (Topshelf)
  • Douglas Dare - Whelm (Erased Tapes)
  • Drenge - Drenge (Infectious)
  • Flashlights - Bummer Summer (Hard Rock)
  • Johanna Samuels - Double Bind (self-released)
  • Kasai Allstars - Beware the Fetish (Crammed Discs)
  • My Brightest Diamond - None More than You (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • The Phenomenauts - Escape Velocity (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club)
  • Secret Cities - Walk Me Home (Western Vinyl)
  • Venetian Snares - My Love is a Bulldozer (Planet Mu)

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Top 50 for the Week of 7-1-2014

  1. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent (Lefse)
  2. Rabble Rabble - Brain Hole (Logan Hardware)
  3. Circles - Shadowgraph (Diminished Arc)
  4. OOIOO - Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
  5. Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo - Force Majeure (Delmark)
  6. Slushy - Pastime Gardens (Grabbing Clouds)
  7. The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (Def Jam)
  8. The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (HopeStreet)
  9. Fucked Up - Glass Boys (Matador)
  10. The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits (Mexican Summer)
  11. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)
  12. Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Party Jail (Infinity Cat)
  13. Quantic - Magnetica (Tru Thoughts)
  14. The Orwells - Disgraceland (Atlantic)
  15. Tom Vek - Luck (Moshi Moshi)
  16. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run (self-released)
  17. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours (Ribbon)
  18. Jack White - Lazaretto (Columbia)
  19. White Lung - Deep Fantasy (Domino)
  20. Wooden Wand - Farmer's Corner (Fire)
  21. Bulbul - Hirn Fein Hacken (Exile on Mainstream)
  22. King Buzzo - This Machine Kills Artists (Ipecac)
  23. The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)
  24. Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
  25. Bry Webb - Free Will (Idee Fixe)
  26. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Columbia)
  27. Many Places - Plurals (self-released)
  28. Armand Margjeka - Hummingbird (Communicating Vessels)
  29. Clipping. - CLPPNG (Sub Pop)
  30. Driftmachine - Nocturnes (Umor Rex)
  31. Gold-Bears - Dalliance (Slumberland)
  32. Hot Bagels - Soft (self-released)
  33. Nightmares on Wax - N.O.W. Is the Time (Warp)
  34. Popstrangers - Fortuna (Carpark)
  35. The Antlers - Familiars (ANTI-)
  36. Young Widows - Easy Pain (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
  37. Arto Lindsay - The Encyclopedia of Arto (Northern Spy)
  38. Fu Manchu - Gigantoid (At the Dojo)
  39. Greys - If Anything (Carpark)
  40. Jar'd Loose - Turns 13 (The Path Less Traveled)
  41. Kan Wakan - Moving On (Verve)
  42. Kishi Bashi - Lighght (Joyful Noise)
  43. Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Domino)
  44. Stu Mindeman - In Your Waking Eyes: Poems by Langston Hughes (self-released)
  45. The Donkeys - Ride the Black Wave (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  46. Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.1 (Hyperdub)
  47. Various Artists - This T-Shirt is a Record: Seattle Noise Vol. 1 (Good to Die)
  48. Cherub - Year of the Caprese (Columbia)
  49. Current 93 - I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell (A Channel) (The Spheres Nine)
  50. Devon Williams - Gilding the Lily (Slumberland)

This week's adds

  • AroarA - AroarA EP (Club Roll)
  • Beverly - Careers (Kanine)
  • Black Bananas - Electric Black Wall (Drag City)
  • Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
  • Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Hunger (Castle Face)
  • Eno / Hyde - High Life (Warp)
  • Guides - Guides 7" EP (self-released)
  • How to Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?" (Weird World)
  • Jad Fair & Danielson - Solid Gold Heart (Sounds Familyre)
  • Kimekai - Coral Dreams (Hush Hush)
  • Lightfoils - Hierarchy (Saint Marie)
  • Lust for Youth - International (Sacred Bones)
  • Mimicking Birds - Eons (Glacial Pace)
  • Moab - Billow (Scion A/V)
  • OBN IIIs - Third Time To Harm (Tic Tac Totally)
  • Sadistik - Ultraviolet (Fake Four Inc.)
  • Say Hi - Endless Wonder (barsuk)
  • Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestite (Artemisia)
  • Young Liars - Tidal Wave (Nettwerk)

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Top 50 for the Week of 6-24-2014

  1. Slushy - Pastime Gardens (Grabbing Clouds)
  2. The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (Def Jam)
  3. The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits (Mexican Summer)
  4. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (What's Your Rupture?)
  5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run (self-released)
  6. Circles - Shadowgraph (Diminished Arc)
  7. Clipping. - CLPPNG (Sub Pop)
  8. Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
  9. The Orwells - Disgraceland (Atlantic)
  10. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)
  11. Hot Bagels - Soft (self-released)
  12. The Antlers - Familiars (ANTI-)
  13. Current 93 - I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell (A Channel) (The Spheres Nine)
  14. Jack White - Lazaretto (Columbia)
  15. The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)
  16. Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Party Jail (Infinity Cat)
  17. Many Places - Plurals (self-released)
  18. Strand of Oaks - Heal (Dead Oceans)
  19. Various Artists - The Sound of Siam Volume 2 - Molam & Luk Thung Isan from North-East Thailand 1970-1982 (Soundway)
  20. Bry Webb - Free Will (Idee Fixe)
  21. Bulbul - Hirn Fein Hacken (Exile on Mainstream)
  22. Jar'd Loose - Turns 13 (The Path Less Traveled)
  23. Quantic - Magnetica (Tru Thoughts)
  24. Sage Francis - Copper Gone (Strange Famous)
  25. White Lung - Deep Fantasy (Domino)
  26. Wooden Wand - Farmer's Corner (Fire)
  27. Fucked Up - Glass Boys (Matador)
  28. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours (Ribbon)
  29. La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  30. Nightmares on Wax - N.O.W. Is the Time (Warp)
  31. Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (Interscope)
  32. The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer - A Real Fine Mess (Tonic)
  33. Verma - Sunrunner (Trouble in Mind)
  34. Archie Bronson Outfit - Wild Crush (Domino)
  35. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Columbia)
  36. Gold-Bears - Dalliance (Slumberland)
  37. Kishi Bashi - Lighght (Joyful Noise)
  38. Popstrangers - Fortuna (Carpark)
  39. Ragged Claws - More Imagined Kings EP (self-released)
  40. Various Artists - Communicating Vessels: Cables to the Ace (Communicating Vessels)
  41. Corrosion of Conformity - IX (Candlelight)
  42. Fu Manchu - Gigantoid (At the Dojo)
  43. Guided By Voices - Cool Planet (GBV Inc.)
  44. Herzog - Boys (Exit Stencil)
  45. Kan Wakan - Moving On (Verve)
  46. People - 3xaWoman (Telegraph Harp)
  47. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
  48. The Atlas Moth - The Old Believer (Profound Lore)
  49. BADBADNOTGOOD - III (Innovative Leisure)
  50. Devon Williams - Gilding the Lily (Slumberland)

This week's adds

  • A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent (Lefse)
  • Armand Margjeka - Hummingbird (Communicating Vessels)
  • Driftmachine - Nocturnes (Umor Rex)
  • Greys - If Anything (Carpark)
  • King Buzzo - This Machine Kills Artists (Ipecac)
  • Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun (Reprise)
  • Mean Creek - Local Losers (Old Flame)
  • OOIOO - Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
  • Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo - Force Majeure (Delmark)
  • Rabble Rabble - Brain Hole (Logan Hardware)
  • The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (HopeStreet)
  • Tom Vek - Luck (Moshi Moshi)
  • Various Artists - This T-Shirt is a Record: Seattle Noise Vol. 1 (Good to Die)

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Top 50 for the Week of 6-17-2014

  1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run (self-released)
  2. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (What's Your Rupture?)
  3. Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
  4. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Columbia)
  5. Wooden Wand - Farmer's Corner (Fire)
  6. Gold-Bears - Dalliance (Slumberland)
  7. Hot Bagels - Soft (self-released)
  8. The Orwells - Disgraceland (Atlantic)
  9. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)
  10. Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Party Jail (Infinity Cat)
  11. Fucked Up - Glass Boys (Matador)
  12. Current 93 - I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell (A Channel) (The Spheres Nine)
  13. La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  14. Quantic - Magnetica (Tru Thoughts)
  15. Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (Interscope)
  16. Sage Francis - Copper Gone (Strange Famous)
  17. Thomas Comerford - II (self-released)
  18. Atmosphere - Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
  19. Bry Webb - Free Will (Idee Fixe)
  20. Bulbul - Hirn Fein Hacken (Exile on Mainstream)
  21. Geronimo! - Cheap Trick (Exploding in Sound)
  22. Kishi Bashi - Lighght (Joyful Noise)
  23. Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Domino)
  24. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
  25. The Donkeys - Ride the Black Wave (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  26. Tobacco - Ultima II Massage (Ghostly International)
  27. 555 - Nine Gates (Moon Glyph)
  28. Kan Wakan - Moving On (Verve)
  29. Leisure Cruise - Leisure Cruise (Last Gang)
  30. Stu Mindeman - In Your Waking Eyes: Poems by Langston Hughes (self-released)
  31. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Day of Abandon (Yebo)
  32. Young Widows - Easy Pain (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
  33. Arto Lindsay - The Encyclopedia of Arto (Northern Spy)
  34. Cherub - Year of the Caprese (Columbia)
  35. Devon Williams - Gilding the Lily (Slumberland)
  36. Fu Manchu - Gigantoid (At the Dojo)
  37. Guided By Voices - Cool Planet (GBV Inc.)
  38. Herzog - Boys (Exit Stencil)
  39. Plaid - Peachy Prints (Warp)
  40. Popstrangers - Fortuna (Carpark)
  41. The Swan King - Last So Long (War Crime)
  42. Verma - Sunrunner (Trouble in Mind)
  43. Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate (Deathwish Inc.)
  44. Wussy - Attica! (Shake It)
  45. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch)
  46. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours (Ribbon)
  47. Mirah - Changing Light (Absolute Magnitude)
  48. Old 97's - Most Messed Up (ATO)
  49. Purling Hiss - Dizzy Polizzy (Drag City)
  50. Ragged Claws - More Imagined Kings EP (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Circles - Shadowgraph (Diminished Arc)
  • Clipping. - CLPPNG (Sub Pop)
  • Corrosion of Conformity - IX (Candlelight)
  • Jack White - Lazaretto (Columbia)
  • Jar'd Loose - Turns 13 (The Path Less Traveled)
  • Many Places - Plurals (self-released)
  • Nightmares on Wax - N.O.W. Is the Time (Warp)
  • People - 3xaWoman (Telegraph Harp)
  • Slushy - Pastime Gardens (Grabbing Clouds)
  • Strand of Oaks - Heal (Dead Oceans)
  • The Antlers - Familiars (ANTI-)
  • The Atlas Moth - The Old Believer (Profound Lore)
  • The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits (Mexican Summer)
  • The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer - A Real Fine Mess (Tonic)
  • The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (Def Jam)
  • The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)
  • Various Artists - Communicating Vessels: Cables to the Ace (Communicating Vessels)
  • White Lung - Deep Fantasy (Domino)

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Top 50 for the Week of 6-10-2014

  1. Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (Interscope)
  2. Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
  3. The Orwells - Disgraceland (Atlantic)
  4. Arto Lindsay - The Encyclopedia of Arto (Northern Spy)
  5. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
  6. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (What's Your Rupture?)
  7. Stu Mindeman - In Your Waking Eyes: Poems by Langston Hughes (self-released)
  8. Verma - Sunrunner (Trouble in Mind)
  9. Thomas Comerford - II (self-released)
  10. Gold-Bears - Dalliance (Slumberland)
  11. Hot Bagels - Soft (self-released)
  12. Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Domino)
  13. Trans Am - Volume X (Thrill Jockey)
  14. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)
  15. The Horrors - Luminous (XL)
  16. Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.1 (2-disc) (Hyperdub)
  17. Chromeo - White Women (Atlantic)
  18. Herzog - Boys (Exit Stencil)
  19. La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  20. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband (Republic)
  21. Lykke Li - I Never Learn (Atlantic)
  22. Popstrangers - Fortuna (Carpark)
  23. Sage Francis - Copper Gone (Strange Famous)
  24. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Day of Abandon (Yebo)
  25. Wussy - Attica! (Shake It)
  26. BADBADNOTGOOD - III (Innovative Leisure)
  27. Cherub - Year of the Caprese (Columbia)
  28. Earth Girls - Earth Girls EP (self-released)
  29. Tobacco - Ultima II Massage (Ghostly International)
  30. Various Artists - The Sound of Siam Volume 2 - Molam & Luk Thung Isan from North-East Thailand 1970-1982 (Soundway)
  31. Ben Frost - A U R O R A (Mute)
  32. Eno ¥ Hyde - Someday World (Warp)
  33. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours (Ribbon)
  34. Kan Wakan - Moving On (Verve)
  35. Kishi Bashi - Lighght (Joyful Noise)
  36. Leisure Cruise - Leisure Cruise (Last Gang)
  37. Ragged Claws - More Imagined Kings EP (self-released)
  38. Rodrigo Amarante - Cavalo (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  39. Asher Roth - RetroHash (Federal Prism)
  40. Atmosphere - Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
  41. Baths - Ocean Death EP (Anticon.)
  42. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch)
  43. Eyehategod - Eyehategod (Housecore)
  44. Plaid - Peachy Prints (Warp)
  45. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - A Long Way to the Beginning (Knitting Factory)
  46. Swans - To Be Kind (Young God)
  47. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
  48. Devon Williams - Gilding the Lily (Slumberland)
  49. Doe Eye - Television (self-released)
  50. Guided By Voices - Cool Planet (GBV Inc.)

This week's adds

  • 555 - Nine Gates (Moon Glyph)
  • Alice Boman - EP II (The Control Group)
  • Bry Webb - Free Will (Idee Fixe)
  • Bulbul - Hirn Fein Hacken (Exile on Mainstream)
  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run (self-released)
  • Current 93 - I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell (A Channel) (The Spheres Nine)
  • Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Party Jail (Infinity Cat)
  • First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Columbia)
  • Fu Manchu - Gigantoid (At the Dojo)
  • Fucked Up - Glass Boys (Matador)
  • Godflesh - Decline and Fall EP (Avalanche)
  • Guy Blakeslee - Ophelia Slowly (Everloving)
  • Quantic - Magnetica (Tru Thoughts)
  • Robert Francis & the Night Tide - Heaven (Aeronaut)
  • The Donkeys - Ride the Black Wave (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  • Tombs - Savage Gold (Relapse)
  • White Hex - Gold Nights (Felte)
  • Wooden Wand - Farmer's Corner (Fire)
  • Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate (Deathwish Inc.)

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