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Top 50 for the Week of 6-3-2014

  1. Kishi Bashi - Lighght (Joyful Noise)
  2. Hot Bagels - Soft (self-released)
  3. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband (Republic)
  4. City States - Geography (self-released)
  5. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)
  6. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
  7. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Day of Abandon (Yebo)
  8. Various Artists - The Sound of Siam Volume 2 - Molam & Luk Thung Isan from North-East Thailand 1970-1982 (Soundway)
  9. Wussy - Attica! (Shake It)
  10. Sage Francis - Copper Gone (Strange Famous)
  11. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
  12. Trans Am - Volume X (Thrill Jockey)
  13. Atmosphere - Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
  14. Earth Girls - Earth Girls EP (self-released)
  15. Geronimo! - Cheap Trick (Exploding in Sound)
  16. Gold-Bears - Dalliance (Slumberland)
  17. Herzog - Boys (Exit Stencil)
  18. La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  19. Mirah - Changing Light (Absolute Magnitude)
  20. Popstrangers - Fortuna (Carpark)
  21. Ragged Claws - More Imagined Kings EP (self-released)
  22. Ramona Lisa - Arcadia (Terrible)
  23. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - A Long Way to the Beginning (Knitting Factory)
  24. Verma - Sunrunner (Trouble in Mind)
  25. Archie Bronson Outfit - Wild Crush (Domino)
  26. Chromeo - White Women (Atlantic)
  27. Lykke Li - I Never Learn (Atlantic)
  28. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions (self-released)
  29. Son Lux - Alternate Worlds EP (Joyful Noise)
  30. Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
  31. Tobacco - Ultima II Massage (Ghostly International)
  32. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch)
  33. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
  34. Ex-Cult - Midnight Passenger (Goner)
  35. Guided By Voices - Cool Planet (GBV Inc.)
  36. Jesse W. Johnson - Cannon Rows EP (self-released)
  37. Paws - Youth Culture Forever (FatCat)
  38. Young Widows - Easy Pain (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
  39. BADBADNOTGOOD - III (Innovative Leisure)
  40. Baths - Ocean Death EP (Anticon.)
  41. Eno + Hyde - Someday World (Warp)
  42. Fear of Men - Loom (Kanine)
  43. Old 97's - Most Messed Up (ATO)
  44. Plaid - Peachy Prints (Warp)
  45. Purling Hiss - Dizzy Polizzy (Drag City)
  46. Sonny Knight & The Lakers - I'm Still Here (Secret Stash)
  47. Swans - To Be Kind (Young God)
  48. The Hive Dwellers - Moanin' (K)
  49. Amen Dunes - Love (Sacred Bones)
  50. Leisure Cruise - Leisure Cruise (Last Gang)

This week's adds

  • Arto Lindsay - The Encyclopedia of Arto (Northern Spy)
  • Ben Frost - A U R O R A (Mute)
  • Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
  • Cherub - Year of the Caprese (Columbia)
  • Devon Williams - Gilding the Lily (Slumberland)
  • Down - Down IV - Part II (Down)
  • Eyehategod - Eyehategod (Housecore)
  • Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours (Ribbon)
  • Jeffertitti's Nile - The Electric Hour (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
  • Kan Wakan - Moving On (Verve)
  • Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Domino)
  • Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (What's Your Rupture?)
  • Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (Interscope)
  • Stu Mindeman - In Your Waking Eyes: Poems by Langston Hughes (self-released)
  • The Orwells - Disgraceland (Atlantic)
  • The Swan King - Last So Long (War Crime)
  • Thomas Comerford - II (self-released)
  • Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.1 (Hyperdub)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5-27-2014

  1. Verma - Sunrunner (Trouble in Mind)
  2. Baths - Ocean Death EP (Anticon.)
  3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Day of Abandon (Yebo)
  4. La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  5. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
  6. Atmosphere - Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
  7. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions (self-released)
  8. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband (Republic)
  9. Trans Am - Volume X (Thrill Jockey)
  10. Old 97's - Most Messed Up (ATO)
  11. BADBADNOTGOOD - III (Innovative Leisure)
  12. Herzog - Boys (Exit Stencil)
  13. Chromeo - White Women (Atlantic)
  14. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch)
  15. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
  16. Guided By Voices - Cool Planet (GBV Inc.)
  17. Geronimo! - Cheap Trick (Exploding in Sound)
  18. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - A Long Way to the Beginning (Knitting Factory)
  19. Son Lux - Alternate Worlds EP (Joyful Noise)
  20. Eno + Hyde - Someday World (Warp)
  21. City States - Geography (self-released)
  22. Bailiff - Remise (self-released)
  23. PUJOL - KLUDGE (Saddle Creek)
  24. Tobacco - Ultima II Massage (Ghostly International)
  25. Trick Mammoth - Floristry (Fishrider)
  26. Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
  27. Mirah - Changing Light (Absolute Magnitude)
  28. Purling Hiss - Dizzy Polizzy (Drag City)
  29. Rodrigo Amarante - Cavalo (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  30. Earth Girls - Earth Girls EP (self-released)
  31. Lykke Li - I Never Learn (Atlantic)
  32. Orcas - Yearling (Morr Music)
  33. The Hive Dwellers - Moanin' (K)
  34. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
  35. Sonny Knight & The Lakers - I'm Still Here (Secret Stash)
  36. Archie Powell & The Exports - Back in Black (Team Cool)
  37. Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - Here Be Monsters (In De Goot)
  38. Leisure Cruise - Leisure Cruise (Last Gang)
  39. Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Three (Asthmatic Kitty)
  40. The Horrors - Luminous (XL)
  41. Wussy - Attica! (Shake It)
  42. Papercuts - Life Among the Savages (Easy Sound)
  43. Paws - Youth Culture Forever (FatCat)
  44. Swans - To Be Kind (Young God)
  45. Asher Roth - RetroHash (Federal Prism)
  46. Floor - Oblation (Season of Mist)
  47. Ramona Lisa - Arcadia (Terrible)
  48. Young Magic - Breathing Statues (Carpark)
  49. School of Language - Old Fears (Memphis Industries)
  50. Tourist - Patterns (Monday)

This week's adds

  • Archie Bronson Outfit - Wild Crush (Domino)
  • Gold-Bears - Dalliance (Slumberland)
  • Hot Bagels - Soft (self-released)
  • Jesse W. Johnson - Cannon Rows EP (self-released)
  • Kishi Bashi - Lighght (Joyful Noise)
  • Plaid - Peachy Prints (Warp)
  • Popstrangers - Fortuna (Carpark)
  • Ragged Claws - More Imagined Kings EP (self-released)
  • Sage Francis - Copper Gone (Strange Famous)
  • Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)
  • Various Artists - The Sound of Siam Volume 2 - Molam & Luk Thung Isan from North-East Thailand 1970-1982 (Soundway)
  • Young Widows - Easy Pain (Temporary Residence Ltd.)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5-20-2014

  1. Old 97's - Most Messed Up (ATO)
  2. Chromeo - White Women (Atlantic)
  3. Baths - Ocean Death EP (Anticon.)
  4. Tobacco - Ultima II Massage (Ghostly International)
  5. Earth Girls - Earth Girls EP (self-released)
  6. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions (self-released)
  7. Atmosphere - Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
  8. Mirah - Changing Light (Absolute Magnitude)
  9. City States - Geography (self-released)
  10. Eno + Hyde - Someday World (Warp)
  11. Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - Here Be Monsters (In De Goot)
  12. De La Soul - Smell the DA.I.S.Y. (self-released)
  13. Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
  14. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
  15. Lykke Li - I Never Learn (Atlantic)
  16. Wussy - Attica! (Shake It)
  17. Sonny Knight & The Lakers - I'm Still Here (Secret Stash)
  18. Paws - Youth Culture Forever (FatCat)
  19. The Hive Dwellers - Moanin' (K)
  20. The Horrors - Luminous (XL)
  21. Purling Hiss - Dizzy Polizzy (Drag City)
  22. Son Lux - Alternate Worlds EP (Joyful Noise)
  23. Geronimo! - Cheap Trick (Exploding in Sound)
  24. Trick Mammoth - Floristry (Fishrider)
  25. Amen Dunes - Love (Sacred Bones)
  26. White Mystery - Dubble Dragon (self-released)
  27. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
  28. Orcas - Yearling (Morr Music)
  29. Floor - Oblation (Season of Mist)
  30. Ramona Lisa - Arcadia (Terrible)
  31. Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Three (Asthmatic Kitty)
  32. Woods - With Light and with Love (Woodsist)
  33. Pink Mountaintops - Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
  34. Kelis - Food (Ninja Tune)
  35. Woodrow Hart & The Haymaker - Woodrow Hart and the Haymaker (self-released)
  36. Ex-Cult - Midnight Passenger (Goner)
  37. TEEN - The Way and Color (Carpark)
  38. Jack Ruby - Hit and Run (Saint Cecilia Knows)
  39. Papercuts - Life Among the Savages (Easy Sound)
  40. Swans - To Be Kind (Young God)
  41. Ought - More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
  42. Paul Cary & the Small Scarys - Coyote (Candy Dinner)
  43. Bailiff - Remise (self-released)
  44. Rodrigo Amarante - Cavalo (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  45. The Main Chance - Lunagraphy (Pandarosa)
  46. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - A Long Way to the Beginning (Knitting Factory)
  47. Young Magic - Breathing Statues (Carpark)
  48. Archie Powell & The Exports - Back in Black (Team Cool)
  49. Asher Roth - RetroHash (Federal Prism)
  50. Doe Eye - Television (self-released)

This week's adds

  • BADBADNOTGOOD - III (Innovative Leisure)
  • Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch)
  • Guided by Voices - Cool Planet (GBV Inc.)
  • Herzog - Boys (Exit Stencil)
  • La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  • Leisure Cruise - Leisure Cruise (Last Gang)
  • Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband (Republic)
  • Maria Minerva - Histrionic (Not Not Fun)
  • PUJOL - KLUDGE (Saddle Creek)
  • Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
  • Trans Am - Volume X (Thrill Jockey)
  • Verma - Sunrunner (Trouble in Mind)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5-13-2014

  1. The Hive Dwellers - Moanin' (K)
  2. City States - Geography (self-released)
  3. Lykke Li - I Never Learn (Atlantic)
  4. Earth Girls - Earth Girls EP (self-released)
  5. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions (self-released)
  6. TEEN - The Way and Color (Carpark)
  7. Woods - With Light and with Love (Woodsist)
  8. Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
  9. Eno + Hyde - Someday World (Warp)
  10. White Mystery - Dubble Dragon (self-released)
  11. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
  12. Doe Eye - Television (self-released)
  13. School of Language - Old Fears (Memphis Industries)
  14. Tourist - Patterns (Monday)
  15. Ramona Lisa - Arcadia (Terrible)
  16. De La Soul - Smell the DA.I.S.Y. (self-released)
  17. Paul Cary & the Small Scarys - Coyote (Candy Dinner)
  18. Metá Metá - MetaL MetaL (Mais Um Discos)
  19. Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - Here Be Monsters (In De Goot)
  20. Faint - Doom Abuse (SQE)
  21. Verbal Kent - Sound of the Weapon (Mello Music Group)
  22. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
  23. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Make My Head Sing (ATO)
  24. Sonny Knight & The Lakers - I'm Still Here (Secret Stash)
  25. Asher Roth - RetroHash (Federal Prism)
  26. The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun (Chimera)
  27. The Black Angels - Clear Lake Forest (Blue Horizon Ventures)
  28. Pink Mountaintops - Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
  29. The Main Chance - Lunagraphy (Pandarosa)
  30. Movement - Movement (self-released)
  31. Archie Powell & The Exports - Back in Black (Team Cool)
  32. Trick Mammoth - Floristry (Fishrider)
  33. Orcas - Yearling (Morr Music)
  34. Young Magic - Breathing Statues (Carpark)
  35. Todd Terje - It's Album Time (Olsen)
  36. Kelis - Food (Ninja Tune)
  37. Papercuts - Life Among the Savages (Easy Sound)
  38. Bailiff - Remise (self-released)
  39. Paws - Youth Culture Forever (FatCat)
  40. Fear of Men - Loom (Kanine)
  41. Death - III (Drag City)
  42. Spits - Kill the Kool (In the Red)
  43. Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust (Sub Pop)
  44. Dwellers - Pagan Fruit (Small Stone)
  45. Liam Finn - The Nihilist (Yep Roc)
  46. Ex-Cult - Midnight Passenger (Goner)
  47. Jackie Onassis - Holiday EP (Sony)
  48. Floor - Oblation (Season of Mist)
  49. Nat Baldwin - In the Hollows (Western Vinyl)
  50. Survival Knife - Loose Power (Glacial Pace)

This week's adds

  • Amen Dunes - Love (Sacred Bones)
  • Atmosphere - Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
  • Baths - Ocean Death EP (Anticon.)
  • Chromeo - White Women (Atlantic)
  • Enabler - La Fin Absolue du Monde (The Compound)
  • Geronimo! - Cheap Trick (Exploding in Sound)
  • Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Three (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Horrors - Luminous (XL)
  • Jack Ruby - Hit and Run (Saint Cecilia Knows)
  • Mirah - Changing Light (Absolute Magnitude)
  • Old 97's - Most Messed Up (ATO)
  • Ought - More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
  • Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Day of Abandon (Yebo)
  • Purling Hiss - Dizzy Polizzy (Drag City)
  • Rodrigo Amarante - Cavalo (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  • Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - A Long Way to the Beginning (Knitting Factory)
  • Son Lux - Alternate Worlds EP (Joyful Noise)
  • Swans - To Be Kind (Young God)
  • Tobacco - Ultima II Massage (Ghostly International)
  • Wussy - Attica! (Shake It)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5-6-2014

  1. Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
  2. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
  3. Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - Here Be Monsters (In De Goot)
  4. Sonny Knight & The Lakers - I'm Still Here (Secret Stash)
  5. Verbal Kent - Sound of the Weapon (Mello Music Group)
  6. De La Soul - Smell the DA.I.S.Y. (self-released)
  7. Kelis - Food (Ninja Tune)
  8. Metá Metá - MetaL MetaL (Mais Um Discos)
  9. White Mystery - Dubble Dragon (self-released)
  10. City States - Geography (self-released)
  11. The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun (Chimera)
  12. Death - III (Drag City)
  13. Woods - With Light and with Love (Woodsist)
  14. Archie Powell & The Exports - Back in Black (Team Cool)
  15. Todd Terje - It's Album Time (Olsen)
  16. Dwellers - Pagan Fruit (Small Stone)
  17. Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust (Sub Pop)
  18. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
  19. School of Language - Old Fears (Memphis Industries)
  20. Fear of Men - Loom (Kanine)
  21. Wye Oak - Shriek (Merge)
  22. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Intergalactic Beings (FPE)
  23. Fujiya & Miyagi - Artificial Sweeteners (Yep Roc)
  24. The Skull Defekts - Dances in the Dreams of the Known Unknown (Thrill Jockey)
  25. Main Chance - Lunagraphy (Pandarosa)
  26. Paul Cary & the Small Scarys - Coyote (Candy Dinner)
  27. Ex-Cult - Midnight Passenger (Goner)
  28. Tourist - Patterns (Monday)
  29. Bailiff - Remise (self-released)
  30. Pink Mountaintops - Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
  31. Liam Finn - The Nihilist (Yep Roc)
  32. Klaus Johann Grobe - Im Sinne der Zeit (Trouble in Mind)
  33. TEEN - The Way and Color (Carpark)
  34. Nat Baldwin - In the Hollows (Western Vinyl)
  35. Landmarks - Landmarks EP (Manic Static)
  36. Black Angels - Clear Lake Forest (Blue Horizon Ventures)
  37. Withered Hand - New Gods (Slumberland)
  38. Denney & the Jets - Mexican Coke (Burger)
  39. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Make My Head Sing (ATO)
  40. Survival Knife - Loose Power (Glacial Pace)
  41. NE-HI - Ne-Hi (Manic Static)
  42. Busman's Holiday - A Long Goodbye (Joyful Noise)
  43. Golden Retriever - Seer (Thrill Jockey)
  44. Jackie Onassis - Holiday EP (Sony)
  45. Teebs - E s t a r a (Brainfeeder)
  46. Dead Rider - Chills on Glass (Drag City)
  47. OFF! - Wasted Years (Vice)
  48. Dorval & Devereaux - Dorval and Devereaux (Moon Glyph)
  49. Adanowsky - ADA (Everloving)
  50. The Spits - Kill the Kool (In the Red)

This week's adds

  • Asher Roth - RetroHash (Federal Prism)
  • Doe Eye - Television (self-released)
  • Earth Girls - Earth Girls EP (self-released)
  • Eno + Hyde - Someday World (Warp)
  • Floor - Oblation (Season of Mist)
  • Hive Dwellers - Moanin' (K)
  • Lykke Li - I Never Learn (Atlantic)
  • Movement - Movement EP (self-released)
  • Obsequiae - Suspended in the Brume of Eos (20 Buck Spin)
  • Orcas - Yearling (Morr Music)
  • Papercuts - Life Among the Savages (Easy Sound)
  • Paws - Youth Culture Forever (FatCat)
  • Ramona Lisa - Arcadia (Terrible)
  • Secret Colours - Positive Distractions (self-released)
  • Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
  • Trick Mammoth - Floristry (Fishrider)
  • Young Magic - Breathing Statues (Carpark)

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