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Top 100 Albums of the Month

June 2024

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  1. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  2. Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
  3. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  4. Sahra Halgan | Hiddo Dhawr (DANAYA)
  5. Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  6. Tashi Wada | What Is Not Strange? (RVNG Intl.)
  7. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  8. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Self-Released)
  9. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  10. Emel | MRA (Little Human)
  11. Arushi Jain | Delight (Leaving)
  12. Various Artists | Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980 (Time Capsule)
  13. Mizu | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
  14. Beak> | >>>> (Invada)
  15. ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
  16. Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown (Domino)
  17. Heavee | Unleash (Hyperdub)
  18. Meklit | Ethio Blue (Self Released)
  19. Maria Chiara Argirò | Closer (Innovative Leisure)
  20. Brittany Howard | What Now (Island)
  21. Barry Can’t Swim | When Will We Land? (Ninja Tune)
  22. Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
  23. Zoe Boekbinder | Wildflower (Are and Be)
  24. Bagus Shidqi | Digital Indigenous 06: Njondhal Njondhil (1000 HZ)
  25. Sonya Cohen Cramer | You’ve Been A Friend To Me (Smithsonian Folkways)
  26. Various Artists | My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
  27. Michelle Moeller | Late Morning (AKP)
  28. Oren Ambarchi | Ghosted II (Drag City)
  29. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
  30. Bullion | Affection (Ghostly International)
  31. Chicano Batman | Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  32. Ghost Funk Orchestra | A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)
  33. Various Artists | Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (Light in the Attic)
  34. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals | The 1970s Dub Albums Collection (Doctor Bird)
  35. Flung | All Heartbeat (Get Better)
  36. Howie Lee | At the Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery (Mais Um)
  37. Arooj Aftab | Night Reign (Verve)
  38. Mdou Moctar | Funeral for Justice (Matador)
  39. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  40. Karate Boogaloo | Hold Your Horses (Colemine)
  41. Vegyn | The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (PLZ Make It Ruins)
  42. La Sécurité | Stay Safe! (Mothland)
  43. Various Artists | Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985 (Time Capsule)
  44. Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | Haunted by Eternity (Fractal; Fractal Music)
  45. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  46. Leyla McCalla | Sun Without the Heat (Anti/Epitaph)
  47. Avi C Engel | Too Many Souls (Somnimage)
  48. Nourished by Time | Catching Chickens EP (XL)
  49. St. Vincent | All Born Screaming (Self-Released)
  50. Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
  51. Chappell Roan | The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island)
  52. Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
  53. Crumb | AMAMA (Self-Released)
  54. Bruno Berle | No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Psychic Hotline)
  55. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  56. Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
  57. Kamasi Washington | Fearless Movement (Young)
  58. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
  59. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting For Love (Drag City)
  60. Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER (Remixes) (Ninja Tune)
  61. Erika de Casier | Still (4AD)
  62. Various Artists | The Soul of Congo – Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga)
  63. Phillip Greenlief & Scott Amendola | Stay With It (Clean Feed)
  64. Akini Jing | VILLAIN (88rising)
  65. Natascha Rogers | Onaida (No Format!)
  66. Ana Lua Caiano | Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (Glitterbeat)
  67. Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
  68. Coral Morphologic | Projections of a Coral City (Balmat)
  69. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  70. Various Artists | Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (A24)
  71. Grazia | In Poor Taste – EP (Feel It)
  72. Various Artists | European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987) (NTS)
  73. Various Artists | Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants – Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 (Anthology)
  74. Various Artists | 15 Years of Gondwana Records (Gondwana)
  75. Erika Angell | The Obsession With Her Voice (Constellation)
  76. Bloodshot Bill | Psyche-O-Billy (Goner)
  77. Hurray For The Riff Raff | The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  78. Fatima | Love On Acid EP (Eglo Records)
  79. Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
  80. Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
  81. Khruangbin | A La Sala (Dead Oceans)
  82. OBJECT AS SUBJECT | Heretic (Lost Future)
  83. Wet Dip | Smell of Money (Feel It; Feel It Records)
  84. LFZ | Raveled Veiled Known (Gnome Life)
  85. Ride | Interplay (Wichita)
  86. Sheer Mag | Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  87. Xylouris White | The Forest In Me (Drag City)
  88. Soft Science | Lines (Shelflife)
  89. Woo | Xylophonics + Robot X (Independent Project)
  90. Sote | Ministry of Tall Tales (SVBKVLT)
  91. The Mutilations | It Won’t Take Long (Sausage King)
  92. Bill Frisell | Orchestras (Blue Note)
  93. Amyl and The Sniffers | U Should Not Be Doing That / Facts (Virgin)
  94. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  95. Irreversible Entanglements | Protect Your Light (Impulse!)
  96. Various Artists | I Saw the TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) (A24)
  97. Magic Tuber Stringband | Needlefall (Thrill Jockey)
  98. Sticklerphonics | Technicolor Ghost Parade (Jealous Butcher)
  99. Cleo Sol | Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  100. Seafood Sam | Standing on Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)

May 2024

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  1. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)
  2. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  3. Khruangbin | A LA SALA (Dead Oceans)
  4. Drahla | angeltape (Captured Tracks)
  5. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  6. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  7. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  8. Kee Avil | Spine (Constellation)
  9. Sote | Ministry of Tall Tales (SVBKVLT)
  10. Pauline Anna Strom | Trans-Millenia Consort (RVNG Intl.)
  11. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  12. Various Artists | The Soul of Congo – Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga)
  13. SAICOBAB | NRTYA (Thrill Jockey)
  14. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  15. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
  16. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  17. Ana Lua Caiano | Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (Glitterbeat)
  18. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
  19. Various Artists | Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985 (Time Capsule)
  20. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals | The 1970s Dub Albums Collection (Doctor Bird)
  21. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Drag City)
  22. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
  23. Zoe Boekbinder | Wildflower (Are and Be)
  24. The Helltones | Medusa (Self-Released)
  25. Chicano Batman | Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  26. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin | Ghosted II (Drag City)
  27. Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
  28. Amen Dunes | Death Jokes (Sub Pop)
  29. Somesurprises | Perseids (Doom Trip)
  30. ML BUCH | Suntub (15 love)
  31. Luxury Skin | It’s All Over (Self-Released)
  32. Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On The Corner)
  33. Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
  34. MIZU | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
  35. Meril Wubslin | Faire ça (Bongo Joe)
  36. Chastity Belt | Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  37. Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
  38. Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  39. Magic Tuber Stringband | Needlefall (Thrill Jockey)
  40. Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
  41. Various Artists | Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (Light in the Attic)
  42. Rykarda Parasol | Tuesday Morning (Self-Released)
  43. Woo | Xylophonics + Robot X (Independent Project)
  44. LFZ | Raveled Veiled Known (Gnome Life)
  45. Erika Angell | The Obsession With Her Voice (Constellation)
  46. Bloodshot Bill | Psyche-O-Billy (Goner)
  47. Various Artists | The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed (Light in the Attic)
  48. Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  49. Chemtrails | The Joy of Sects (PNKSLM)
  50. Meklit | Ethio Blue (Self Released)
  51. Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
  52. Karate Boogaloo | Hold Your Horses (Colemine)
  53. IE | Junk Body (Ish)
  54. Hurray For The Riff Raff | The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  55. Leitmotiv Limbo | Superior State (de la Catessen)
  56. The Umbrellas | Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
  57. Abdallah Oumbadougou | AMGHAR The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (Petaluma)
  58. Matthew Shipp | New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP Disk’)
  59. brabrabra | Mangooona (Absolutely Kosher)
  60. Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
  61. CAN | LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (Mute)
  62. Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER (Remixes) (Ninja Tune)
  63. La Sécurité | Stay Safe! (Mothland)
  64. Various Artists | 15 Years of Gondwana Records (Gondwana)
  65. Juicebumps | Jumbo (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
  66. Avi C. Engel | Too Many Souls (Somnimage)
  67. Potatohead People | Eat Your Heart Out (Bastard Jazz)
  68. Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
  69. Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
  70. Victim’s Family & Nasalrod | In The Modern Meatspace (Nadine)
  71. The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective | Fiesta at Caroga (Self-Released)
  72. De Mar Y Rio | Bailen y Gocen (Palenque)
  73. Michelle Moeller | Late Morning (AKP)
  74. Les Lullies | Mauvaise Foi (Slovenly)
  75. Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
  76. Charles Mingus | Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
  77. Thomas Carnacki | Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
  78. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 | These Things Remain Unassigned (Bulbous Monocle)
  79. Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
  80. Thandi Ntuli | Rainbow Revisited (International Anthem)
  81. Force + Jarboe | The Embrace (Diamond Cutter)
  82. Thee Sinseers | Sinseerly Yours (Colemine)
  83. Clarissa Connelly | World of Work (Warp)
  84. Cleo Sol | Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  85. Otis Sandsjö | Y-OTIS TRE (We Jazz)
  86. Yorn’s Apostles | Festivities In Your Native Language (YORNCORE)
  87. Eric Chenaux Trio | Delights of My Life (Constellation)
  88. Brittany Howard | What Now (Brittany Howard PS/ Island)
  89. Seafood Sam | Standing on Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  90. dBridge | Vemödalen (Exit)
  91. Various Artists | Nippon Acid Folk 1970​-​1980 (Time Capsule)
  92. Fabiana Palladino | Fabiana Palladino (XL)
  93. Bixiga 70 | Vapor (Glitterbeat)
  94. yeule | softscars (Ninja Tune)
  95. Allison Russell | The Returner (Fantasy)
  96. The Black Keys | Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
  97. Blonde Redhead | Sit Down for Dinner (section1)
  98. Birds on a Wire | L’Étoile Filante (Original Soundtrack) ([PIAS] Le Label)
  99. Voice of Baceprot | RETAS (12WIRED)
  100. Leyla McCalla | Sun Without The Heat (Anti/Epitaph)

April 2024

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  1. Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
  2. Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
  3. Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
  4. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  5. The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
  6. Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
  7. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  8. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
  9. Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  10. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
  11. Dina Ögon | Orion (Playground Music)
  12. Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On The Corner)
  13. Sheer Mag | Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  14. Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER (Remixes) (Ninja Tune)
  15. Cautious Clay | KARPEH (Blue Note)
  16. dBridge | Vemödalen – EP (Exit)
  17. Bixiga 70 | Vapor (Glitterbeat)
  18. Various Artists | Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación! (Bongo Joe)
  19. Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
  20. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Drag City)
  21. Mary Halvorson | Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  22. Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
  23. Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
  24. Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
  25. Charming Hostess | Feast (!aNGRr!)
  26. Surplus 1980 | Illusion of Consistency (Surplus Industries)
  27. Juicebumps | JUMBO (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
  28. Drahla | angeltape (Captured Tracks)
  29. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  30. Nouvelle Vague | Should I Stay or Should I Go? ([PIAS])
  31. Allison Russell | The Returner (Fantasy)
  32. Abdallah Oumbadougou | AMGHAR The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (Petaluma)
  33. Pylon Reenactment Society | Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)
  34. Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  35. Can | LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (Mute)
  36. bar italia | The Twits (Matador)
  37. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  38. Kali Malone | All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
  39. Clarissa Connelly | World of Work (Warp)
  40. Fatima | Love on Acid EP (Eglo)
  41. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
  42. Marlov Barrios | Manjar Profano (Identidata)
  43. Co-Pilot | Rotate (Dell’Orso)
  44. Thomas Carnacki | Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
  45. Gumby’s Junk | Demo 2023 (self released)
  46. AUNTY RAYZOR | Viral Wreckage (Hakuna Kulala)
  47. Los Guapos Sensibles | Gatita (Discos Mas)
  48. Various Artists | European Primitive Guitar (1974​-​1987) (NTS)
  49. Rosali | Bite Down (Merge)
  50. Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows)
  51. Cleo Sol | Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  52. Salamanda | In Parallel (Wisdom Teeth)
  53. Anna St. Louis | In the Air (Woodsist / Mare)
  54. Holy Tongue | Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare (Amidah)
  55. Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) | Where The River Bends Is Only the Beginning (Glitterbeat)
  56. The Mutilations | It Won’t Take Long (Sausage King)
  57. Mary Timony | Untame the Tiger (Merge)
  58. Elena Setien | Moonlit Reveries (Thrill Jockey)
  59. Princ€ss | Princ€ss (wherethetimegoes)
  60. Erika Angell | The Obsession With Her Voice (Constellation)
  61. Charles Mingus | Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
  62. cacophony (카코포니) | DIPUC (Enchanter)
  63. The Helltones | Medusa (Self-Released)
  64. Various Artists | My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
  65. The Umbrellas | Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
  66. Shaina Hayes | Kindergarten Heart (Bonsound)
  67. Sylvaine | Eg Er Framand (Season of Mist)
  68. Novalima | La Danza (Pt. 1) (Six Degrees)
  69. Resavoir | Resavoir (International Anthem)
  70. Bas Jan | Back to the Swamp (Fire)
  71. Vince Clarke | Songs of Silence (Mute)
  72. Nihiloxica | Source of Denial (Crammed Discs)
  73. Coco | 2 (FCA)
  74. ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
  75. Kacey Musgraves | Deeper Well (Interscope)
  76. Flowertown | Tourist Language (Paisley Shirt Records)
  77. Ana Tijoux | Vida (Victoria Producciones, SPA)
  78. The Smile | Wall Of Eyes (XL)
  79. Chuck Strangers | A Forsaken Lover’s Plea (Lex)
  80. Normal: Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari | Moving Parts (Fo’c’scle)
  81. Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey | Compassion (ECM)
  82. Thee Sinseers | Sinseerly Yours (Colemine)
  83. Leyla McCalla | Sun Without the Heat (Anti/Epitaph)
  84. Various Artists | Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
  85. Avi C. Engel | Too Many Souls (Somnimage)
  86. Various Artists | Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants – Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 (Anthology)
  87. Torrey | Torrey (Slumberland)
  88. Glasser | Crux (One Little Independent)
  89. Thandi Ntuli | Rainbow Revisited (International Anthem)
  90. Hania Rani | Ghosts (Gondwana)
  91. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG INTL.)
  92. Cornelius | Dream in Dream (WM Japan)
  93. Anthony Gatto | Anthony Gatto: Small Subversions (Gold Bolus)
  94. MC Yallah | Yallah Beibe (Hakuna Kulala)
  95. Bobby Lee | Endless Skyways (Tompkins Square)
  96. Ruth Goller | SKYLLUMINA (International Anthem)
  97. Lime Garden | One More Thing (So Young)
  98. Kee Avil | Spine (Constellation)
  99. Blonde Redhead | Sit Down for Dinner (section1)
  100. Kurt Vile | Back to Moon Beach (Verve Forecast)

March 2024

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  1. Kali Malone | All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
  2. Say She She | Silver (Karma Chief)
  3. Martina Bertoni | Hypnagogia (Karlrecords)
  4. Cleo Sol | Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  5. MC Yallah | Yallah Beibe (Hakuna Kulala)
  6. Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  7. Various Artists | European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987) (NTS)
  8. Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows)
  9. Various Artists | Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants – Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 (Anthology)
  10. Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
  11. Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
  12. Philip Glass | Philip Glass Solo (Orange Mountain)
  13. Hania Rani | Ghosts (Gondwana)
  14. Lankum | False Lankum (Rough Trade)
  15. Novalima | La Danza (Pt. 1) (Six Degrees)
  16. Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
  17. Pylon Reenactment Society | Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)
  18. Ollella | Back Back Back (The Lalalalalabel)
  19. Rahill | Flowers At Your Feet (Big Dada)
  20. Blonde Redhead | Sit Down for Dinner (section1)
  21. Thee Sinseers | Sinseerly Yours (Colemine)
  22. Sofia Kourtesis | Madres (Ninja Tune)
  23. V/Z | Suono Assente (AD 93)
  24. Nídia | 95 MINDJERES (Príncipe)
  25. Nihiloxica | Source of Denial (Crammed Discs)
  26. Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
  27. The Umbrellas | Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
  28. Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  29. Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
  30. Sleater-Kinney | Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  31. Surplus 1980 | Illusion of Consistency (Surplus Industries)
  32. Salamanda | In Parallel (Wisdom Teeth)
  33. Sylvaine | Eg Er Framand (Season of Mist)
  34. Vince Clarke | Songs of Silence (Mute)
  35. Erika de Casier | Still (4AD)
  36. Yaeji | With A Hammer (XL)
  37. Jessica Pavone | Clamor (Out of Your Head)
  38. La Sécurité | Stay Safe! (Mothland)
  39. Dina Ögon | Orion (Playground Music)
  40. Acid Arab | ٣ (Trois) (Crammed Discs)
  41. Charming Hostess | Feast (!aNGRr!)
  42. cacophony (카코포니) | DIPUC (Enchanter)
  43. Princ€ss | Princ€ss (wherethetimegoes)
  44. Galya Bisengalieva | Polygon (One Little Independent)
  45. Ghost Funk Orchestra | A Trip to the Moon (Karma Chief)
  46. Glasser | Crux (One Little Independent)
  47. Loving | Any Light (Last Gang)
  48. Melenas | Ahora (Trouble In Mind)
  49. Various Artists | Middle Eastern Grooves (Selected by DJ Kobayashi) (Batov)
  50. Nouvelle Vague | Should I Stay or Should I Go? ([PIAS])
  51. Umeko Ando | Upopo Sanke (Pingipung)
  52. AUNTY RAYZOR | Viral Wreckage (Hakuna Kulala)
  53. Fire Trail | One of the Two (DISTROKID)
  54. Hauschka | Philanthropy (City Slang)
  55. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 | These Things Remain Unassigned (Bulbous Monocle)
  56. Anna St. Louis | In The Air (Woodsist / Mare)
  57. Irreversible Entanglements | Protect Your Light (Impulse!)
  58. Jenny Conlee | Tides: Pieces for Accordion and Piano (Jealous Butcher)
  59. FYEAR | Fyear (Constellation)
  60. Charles Mingus | Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
  61. En Attendant Ana | Principia (Trouble in Mind)
  62. Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
  63. L’Rain | I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
  64. Elisapie | Inuktitut (Bonsound)
  65. Jungle | Volcano (Caiola)
  66. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
  67. CZARFACE | CZARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Czarface)
  68. Ismay | Desert Pavement (Ismay)
  69. Lewsberg | Out And About (Self-Released)
  70. Kishi Bashi | Music from the Song Film: Omoiyari (Joyful Noise)
  71. Seablite | Lemon Lights (Mt.St.Mtn.)
  72. Anna Hillburg | Tired Girls (Speakeasy Studios SF)
  73. Tolerance | Complete Discography + Demos (Mesh-Key)
  74. William St Hugh | High Upon the Serpent Mound (Independent)
  75. Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
  76. Meernaa | So Far So Good (Keeled Scales)
  77. J Mascis | What Do We Do Now (Sub Pop)
  78. The Jack Rubies | Clocks Are Out Of Time (Big Stir)
  79. Applesauce Tears | Encounters (Black Cottage)
  80. Parquet | Sparkles & Mud (Carton)
  81. Aga Khan Master Musicians | Nowruz (Smithsonian Folkways)
  82. Real Estate | Daniel (Domino)
  83. Girl Ray | Prestige (Moshi Moshi)
  84. Barbara Manning | Charm of Yesterday…Convenience of Tomorrow (Ba Da Bing!)
  85. Various Artists | Zum Audio, Vol. 5 (Zum)
  86. Anthony Gatto | Anthony Gatto: Small Subversions (Gold Bolus)
  87. Morricone Youth | Battleship Potemkin (Country Club)
  88. Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Gwilym Simcock & LSO Percussion Ensemble | Ocean Floor (LSO Live)
  89. H31R | HeadSpace (Big Dada)
  90. Eartheater | Powders (Chemical X)
  91. Sainkho Namtchylak | where water meets water: bird songs & lullabies (Ponderosa)
  92. Edinburgh School for the Deaf | New Youth Bible (Absolutely Kosher)
  93. The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
  94. Brabrabra | Mangooona (Absolutely Kosher)
  95. Azu Tiwaline | The Fifth Dream (I.O.T.)
  96. Funkwrench Blues | Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures (Need To Know)
  97. Dolly Parton | Rockstar (Butterfly)
  98. Joel Ross | nublues (Blue Note Records)
  99. Blues Lawyer | Sight Gags On The Radio (Dark Entries)
  100. Squirrel Flower | Tomorrow’s Fire (Polyvinyl)

February 2024

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  1. Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
  2. Robert Finley | Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound)
  3. Sampha | Lahai (Young)
  4. Creation Rebel | Hostile Environment (On-U Sound)
  5. Jalen Ngonda | Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
  6. Aziz Konkrite | Siba Sawt-System #1 (Shouka)
  7. Tolerance | Complete Discography + Demos (Mesh-Key)
  8. African Head Charge | A Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
  9. Niecy Blues | Exit Simulation (Kranky)
  10. Black Market Brass | Hox (Colemine)
  11. Nihiloxica | Source of Denial (Crammed Discs)
  12. Various Artists | Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
  13. Charles Mingus | Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
  14. The Umbrellas | Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
  15. Galya Bisengalieva | Polygon (One Little Independent)
  16. Ghost Funk Orchestra | A Trip To the Moon (Karma Chief)
  17. Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
  18. Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
  19. Say She She | Silver (Karma Chief)
  20. L’Rain | I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
  21. Hauschka | Philanthropy (City Slang)
  22. Noname | Sundial (Noname, Inc)
  23. Vince Clarke | Songs of Silence (Mute)
  24. Elisapie | Inuktitut (Bonsound)
  25. Armand Hammer | We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum)
  26. Emerald Suspension | Sounds to Hear Alone (Emerald Suspension)
  27. Salamanda | In Parallel (Wisdom Teeth)
  28. Substantial | Adultish (Substantial Art & Music)
  29. Jlin | Perspective (Planet Mu)
  30. Blonde Redhead | Sit Down for Dinner (section1)
  31. Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
  32. Irreversible Entanglements | Protect Your Light (Impulse!)
  33. Martina Bertoni | Hypnagogia (Karlrecords)
  34. Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
  35. Tirzah | trip9love…??? (Domino)
  36. La Sécurité | Stay Safe! (Mothland)
  37. A Beacon School | yoyo (Grind Select)
  38. Matmos | Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
  39. Pachyman | Switched-On (ATO)
  40. Ben Harper | Wide Open Light (Chrysalis)
  41. Various Artists | Mr Bongo Record Club, Vol. 6 (Mr Bongo)
  42. Lewsberg | Out And About (12XU)
  43. Anna St. Louis | In the Air (Woodsist / Mare)
  44. Bas Jan | Back to the Swamp (Fire)
  45. Various Artists | Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound) (Easy eye Sound)
  46. Glasser | Crux (One Little Independent)
  47. Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… (Constellation)
  48. Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood | Reset in Dub (Domino)
  49. Paramore | This Is Why (Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic)
  50. Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) (Rhino)
  51. Faizal Mostrixx | Mutations (Glitterbeat)
  52. Laurel Halo | Atlas (Awe)
  53. The Kills | God Games (Domino)
  54. Juicebumps | JUMBO (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
  55. Danny Brown | Quaranta (Warp)
  56. Yo La Tengo | This Stupid World (Matador)
  57. Parchman Prison Prayer | Some Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat)
  58. Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows)
  59. Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
  60. Hania Rani | Ghosts (Gondwana)
  61. Acid Arab | ٣ (Trois) (Crammed Discs)
  62. Jungle | Volcano (Caiola)
  63. Black Legacy Project | Vol. 1 (Music In Common)
  64. Gumby’s Junk | Demo 2023 (Self-Released)
  65. Jayda G | Guy (Ninja Tune)
  66. Umeko Ando | Upopo Sanke (Pingipung)
  67. G’s Us | What Them Dogs Don’t Know They Know (Alpha Pup)
  68. Xylouris White | The Forest in Me (Drag City)
  69. Guilherme Coutinho e o Grupo Stalo | Guilherme Coutinho e O Grupo Stalo (Mr Bongo)
  70. Killer Mike | MICHAEL (Loma Vista)
  71. Funkwrench Blues | Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures (Need To Know)
  72. Eartheater | Powders (Chemical X)
  73. bar italia | The Twits (Matador)
  74. Nicholas Payton | DRIP (Paytone Records)
  75. Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
  76. H31R | HeadSpace (Big Dada)
  77. Jackson Greenberg | The Things We Pass On Through Our Genes (cmtx)
  78. Lana Del Rey | Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Interscope)
  79. Current Affairs | Off the Tongue (Tough Love)
  80. Various Artists | Rocking On The G.G. Beat (Trojan Records)
  81. Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet | Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
  82. V/Z | Suono Assente (AD 93)
  83. Various Artists | Bear’s Sonic Journals: Sing Out! (Live at the Berkeley Community Theater, 4/25/1981) (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
  84. Kristin Hersh | Clear Pond Road (Fire)
  85. Lankum | False Lankum (Rough Trade)
  86. Mikaela Davis | And Southern Star (Kill Rock Stars)
  87. Wilco | Cousin (dBpm)
  88. Silkroad Ensemble | Phoenix Rising (Silkroad)
  89. Barry Can’t Swim | When Will We Land? (Ninja Tune)
  90. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson | Les Jardins Mystiques, Vol. 1 (Brainfeeder)
  91. Charm School | Finite Jest (sonaBLAST! Records)
  92. Various Artists | Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia Vol. 1 (Vampisoul)
  93. Sonny Rhodes | The Essential Sonny Rhodes – Songs and Stories (Need To Know)
  94. Observer All-Stars & King Tubby | Dubbing With the Observer (Doctor Bird)
  95. Nasiphi Booi & Sthamzen | Yenza Kwenzeke Make It Happen (Self-Released)
  96. Surplus 1980 | Illusion of Consistency (Self-Released)
  97. James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily Quintet | For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms)
  98. Otyken | Phenomenon (Aboriginal)
  99. Dead Moon | Going South (Mississippi Records)
  100. SPELLLING | SPELLLING & The Mystery School (Sacred Bones)

January 2024

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  1. abracadabra | shapes & colors (Melodic)
  2. bar italia | The Twits (Matador)
  3. Brabrabra | Mangooona (Absolutely Kosher)
  4. Melenas | Ahora (Trouble in Mind)
  5. Slowdive | everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
  6. CHAI | CHAI (Sub Pop)
  7. Matmos | Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
  8. Hauschka | Philanthropy (City Slang)
  9. Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
  10. Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
  11. Niecy Blues | Exit Simulation (kranky)
  12. Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
  13. The Serfs | Half Eaten by Dogs (Trouble in Mind)
  14. Jalen Ngonda | Come Around And Love Me (Daptone)
  15. Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
  16. Matthew Halsall | An Ever Changing View (Gondwana)
  17. En Attendant Ana | Principia (Trouble in Mind)
  18. Acid Arab | ٣ (Trois) (Crammed Discs)
  19. Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood | Reset in Dub (Domino)
  20. Juliana Hatfield | Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat)
  21. King Krule | Space Heavy (Matador)
  22. Otyken | Phenomenon (Aboriginal)
  23. Umeko Ando | Upopo Sanke (Pingipung)
  24. Martina Bertoni | Hypnagogia (Karlrecords)
  25. Kurt Vile | Back to Moon Beach (Verve Forecast)
  26. Pachyman | Switched-On (ATO)
  27. Elisapie | Inuktitut (Bonsound)
  28. Say She She | Silver (Karma Chief)
  29. Sufjan Stevens | Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
  30. Animal Collective | Isn’t It Now? (Domino)
  31. Thomas Carnacki | Cadavre Isolé (Alethiometer)
  32. Blue Ocean | Fertile State (Slumberland)
  33. Aga Khan Master Musicians | Nowruz (Smithsonian Folkways)
  34. Ricardo Dias Gomes | Muito Sol (Hive Mind)
  35. Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings (Ghostly International)
  36. Charif Megarbane | Marzipan (Habibi Funk 023) (Habibi Funk)
  37. Sampha | Lahai (Young)
  38. Sparklehorse | Bird Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
  39. Vanishing Twin | Afternoon X (Fire)
  40. African Head Charge | A Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
  41. Loretta Lynch | All The Right Regrets (Self-Released)
  42. Laurel Halo | Atlas (Awe)
  43. Sextile | Push (Sacred Bones)
  44. Tirzah | trip9love…??? (Domino)
  45. Seablite | Lemon Lights (Mt.St.Mtn.)
  46. Azu Tiwaline | The Fifth Dream (I.O.T.)
  47. La Sécurité | Stay Safe! (Mothland)
  48. Guilherme Coutinho | Guilherme Coutinho e O Grupo Stalo (Mr Bongo)
  49. Dengue Fever | Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
  50. Bala Desejo | SIM SIM SIM (Mr Bongo)
  51. Devendra Banhart | Flying Wig (Mexican Summer)
  52. Danny Brown | Quaranta (Warp)
  53. Girl Ray | Prestige (Moshi Moshi)
  54. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | City of Gold (Nonesuch)
  55. Wilco | Cousin (dBpm)
  56. Lana Del Rey | Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Interscope)
  57. Dead Moon | Going South (Mississippi)
  58. Viv & Riley | Imaginary People (Free Dirt)
  59. Cécile McLorin Salvant | Mélusine (Nonesuch)
  60. Jungle | Volcano (Caiola)
  61. Lewsberg | Out And About (12XU)
  62. Creation Rebel | Hostile Environment (On-U Sound)
  63. Rhiannon Giddens | You’re the One (Nonesuch)
  64. Current Affairs | Off the Tongue (Tough Love)
  65. Quantic | Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
  66. Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet | Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
  67. Osees | Intercepted Message (In The Red)
  68. Everyone Is Dirty | Caramels For Grandpa (Self-Released)
  69. San Kazakgascar | Too Many People (Lather)
  70. Colleen | Le jour et la nuit du réel (Thrill Jockey)
  71. Salami Rose Joe Louis | Akousmatikous (Brainfeeder)
  72. Guardian Singles | Feed Me To The Doves (Trouble in Mind)
  73. Aesop Rock | Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers)
  74. The HU | Rumble of Thunder (Deluxe Edition) (Better Noise)
  75. Sweeping Promises | Good Living Is Coming for You (Sub Pop)
  76. Squirrel Flower | Tomorrow’s Fire (Polyvinyl)
  77. Cheryl E. Leonard and Wobbly | Multiple Park (Gilgongo)
  78. Barbara Manning | Charm of Yesterday…Convenience of Tomorrow (Ba Da Bing!)
  79. Mikaela Davis | And Southern Star (Kill Rock Stars)
  80. Vince Clarke | Songs of Silence (Mute)
  81. Rahill | Flowers At Your Feet (Big Dada)
  82. Various Artists | Traces of Illusion (Compiled by Skyrager) (Spacetalk)
  83. Chino | Common Oddity (Pinkman)
  84. Robert Finley | Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound)
  85. Amaara | Child of Venus (Lady Moon)
  86. Noname | Sundial (Noname, Inc)
  87. Caterina Barbieri | Myuthafoo (light-years)
  88. L’Rain | I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
  89. Giulio Aldinucci | Real (Karlrecords)
  90. H31r | HeadSpace (Big Dada)
  91. Jenny Lewis | Joy’All (Blue Note)
  92. Will Bernard & Beth Custer | Sky (Dreck to Disk)
  93. Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
  94. Lucinda Williams | Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart (Highway 20)
  95. Molly Burch | Daydreamer (Captured Tracks)
  96. Sofia Kourtesis | Madres (Ninja Tune)
  97. Ni Zheng | body of immanence (Syrphe)
  98. Ladyybirdd (Gina Izzo) | Tomorrow’s Yesterday (Innova)
  99. The Replacements | Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) (Rhino/Warner Bros.)
  100. Jlin | Perspective (Planet Mu)