- People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
- Fantastic Negrito | Son of a Broken Man (Storefront)
- Various Artists | Alley of the Sun (Not Not Fun)
- Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
- Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
- Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
- Rəhman Məmmədli | Azerbaijani Gitarta Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- LA LOM | The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (Verve)
- Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
- Damu The Fudgemunk | Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
- Flower-Corsano Duo | The Chocolate Cities (C/Site)
- Molly Nilsson | Un-American Activities (Night School)
- Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because)
- Jenny Scheinman | All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
- Dummy | Free Energy (Trouble in Mind)
- N’golá (São Tomé) | Our Ancestors Swam to Shore (Free Dirt)
- Good Sad Happy Bad | All kinds of days (Textile)
- BraBraBra | Danger! Danger! Danger! (Kitchen Leg)
- Sholeh Asgary | Aban (Crystal Morphologies)
- Peace De Résistance | Lullaby For the Debris (La Vida Es Un Mus)
- Artificial Go | Hopscotch Fever (Feel It)
- DJ Female Convict Scorpion | Paradise Re-Lost (S/R)
- Dame Area | Toda la mentira sobre Dame Area (S/R)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
- The Bug Club | On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
- The Jesus Lizard | Rack (Ipecac)
- David Bowie | Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! (Rhino)
- Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose & Scott Amendola | Here to There (Secret Hatch)
- Molchat Doma | Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
- BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL Recordings)
- Nala Sinephro | Endlessness (Warp Records)
- Jon Batiste | Beethoven Blues (Verve)
- Winged Wheel | Big Hotel (12XU)
- citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Rogê | Curyman II (Diamond West Records)
Top 35 Albums of the Week
Week of January 3rd, 2025
- Rəhman Məmmədli | Azerbaijani Gitara, Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Mermaid Chunky | slif slaf slof (DFA)
- Damu The Fudgemunk | Peace of Action (Def Pressé )
- Various Artists | Alley of the Sun (Not Not Fun)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
- Blue Zero | colder shade blue (DISTROKID)
- Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
- People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
- Oï les Ox | Al les Axes (Constructive)
- Various Artists | Cardinals At the Window (Not On)
- MEMORIALS | Memorial Waterslides (Fire)
- Brabrabra | Danger! Danger! Danger! (Kitchen Leg)
- Anoice | Stories in White (Ricco)
- Flower-Corsano Duo | The Chocolate Cities (C/ Site)
- Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because)
- Lucinda Williams | Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road (Highway 20)
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- Talking Heads | Talking Heads ’77 (Deluxe Version) (Rhino/Warner)
- John Davis | Landlines (Students Of Decay)
- Matt Robidoux | Music for aluminum corn (Crash Symbols)
- Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose & Scott Amendola | Here to There (Secret Hatch)
- Richard Thompson | Ship To Shore (New West)
- Father John Misty | Mahashmashana (Sub Pop)
- Georgia Sea Island Singers | The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Live) (Smithsonian Folkways )
- Circles Around The Sun & Mikaela Davis | After Sunrise (Jealous Butcher)
- HANABIE. | Bucchigiri Tokyo (Sony Japan)
- Good Sad Happy Bad | All kinds of days (Textile)
- Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
- Manu Chao | Viva Tu (RADIO BEMBA)
- Fantastic Negrito | Son of a Broken Man (Storefront)
- David Bowie | Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! (Rhino)
- Dame Area | Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (Magia Roja)
- Bizhiki | Unbound (Jagjaguwar)
- Artificial Go | Hopscotch Fever (Feel It)
- Sleepbomb | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Koolarrow)
Week of December 20th, 2024
- Damu The Fudgemunk | Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
- People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
- Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
- Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because)
- Skyminds | Echoes On the Shore (Inner Islands)
- Lucinda Williams | Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road (Highway 20)
- Fantastic Negrito | Son of a Broken Man (Storefront)
- África Negra | Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
- Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
- Molly Nilsson | Un-American Activities (DARK SKIES)
- The Harlem Gospel Travelers | Rhapsody (Colemine)
- BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
- Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds | That Delicious Vice (In The Red)
- MEMORIALS | Memorial Waterslides (Fire)
- Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
- Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Eighteenth Trip” (Riding Easy)
- Dennis Bovell & The Fourth Street Orchestra | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Violence Gratuite | Baleine à Boss (Hakuna Kulala)
- Mermaid Chunky | slif slaf slof (DFA)
- Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
- Meridian Brothers | Mi Latinoamerica Sufre (Ansonia)
- Jon Batiste | Beethoven Blues (Verve)
- citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Claude Fontaine | La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
- John Davis | Landlines (Students Of Decay)
- Parlor Greens | In Green We Dream (Colemine)
- Onra | Nosthaigia (All City)
- Aux Meadows | Aux Meadows / Dust Kingdom (Shed)
- Matt Robidoux | Music For Aluminum Corn (Crash Symbols)
- Double Celled Organism | Strum and Drone (Oystertones)
- Jerron Paxton | Things Done Changed (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Clairo | Charm (Clairo)
- Melt-Banana | 3+5 (A-ZAP)
Week of December 13th, 2024
- People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
- Floating Points | Cascade (Ninja Tune)
- Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
- Adrian Younge | Linear Labs: Sao Paulo (Linear Labs)
- Jon Batiste | Beethoven Blues (Verve)
- Amadou & Mariam | La Vie Est Belle (Because)
- Angelo Outlaw | Axis of Time (Eraserhood Sound)
- Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Liberator / Partisan)
- Fantastic Negrito | Son of a Broken Man (Storefront)
- The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
- Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
- citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Charlotte Jacobs | a t l a s (New Amsterdam)
- Molly Nilsson | Un-American Activities (DARK SKIES ASSOCIATION)
- Damu the Fudgemunk | Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
- BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
- Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Eighteenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
- Various Artists | Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop )
- Unessential Oils | Unessential Oils (Secret City)
- Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham | Cunningham Bird (Loma Vista)
- KOKOKO! | BUTU (Transgressive)
- Camera Obscura | Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- Various Artists | Late Night Phone Call (Edgetone)
- N’golá (São Tomé) | Our Ancestors Swam to Shore (Free Dirt)
- KNEECAP | Fine Art (Heavenly)
- The Bookshop Band | Emerge, Return (Letterpress)
- Avi C. Engel | Strangling Vine (Elephant Shrew)
- Moe Staiano | Away Towards The Light (Edgetone)
- Wayne Shorter | Celebration, Volume 1 (Live) (Blue Note)
- Molchat Doma | Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding | Milton + esperanza (Concord)
- White Hills | Beyond This Fiction (Heads On Fire)
- Soccer Mommy | Evergreen (Loma Vista)
- Louis Armstrong | Louis In London (Live At The BBC) (Louis Armstrong)
Week of December 6th, 2024
- Artificial Go | Hopscotch Fever (Feel It)
- Melt-Banana | 3+5 (AZAP)
- Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
- Skyminds | Echoes On the Shore (Inner Islands)
- Freak Genes | Delirik (Feel It Records)
- Bizhiki | Unbound (Jagjaguwar)
- ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
- To End It All | Of Blood and Memory (Roman Numeral)
- The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
- MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti/Epitaph)
- Gillian Welch | Woodland (Acony)
- Clairo | Charm (Clairo)
- Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan )
- Aux Meadows | Aux Meadows / Dust Kingdom (Perpetual Doom)
- Molchat Doma | Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
- Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
- Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
- BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
- The Headhunters | The Stunt Man (Ropeadope)
- Greg Lisher | Underwater Detection Method (Independent Project)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor | “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” (Constellation)
- Brown Dog | Lucky Star Creek (River House)
- Lina Bahn | Axolotl (Neuma)
- Magic Fig | Magic Fig (Silver Current)
- Winged Wheel | Big Hotel (12XU)
- Cassandra Jenkins | My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
- Laraaji, Agnes Martian, Music for Connection, Hair and Space Museum | Coincidence (Centripetal Force)
- citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Rikuto Fujimoto | Distant Landscapes (Fat Cat / 130701)
- Blue Zero | colder shade blue (Lower Grand Tapes)
- Chime School | The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (Slumberland)
- beabadoobee | This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
- Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Eighteenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
- Glass Beams | Mahal (Ninja Tune)
- Bolis Pupul | Letter To Yu (DEE WEE)
Week of November 29th, 2024
- Dummy | Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
- Various Artists | Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light in the Attic)
- citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Alessandro Cortini | NATI INFINITI (Mute)
- The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
- Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone Records)
- Jabu | A Soft and Gatherable Star (do you have peace?)
- Various Artists | Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop )
- fantasy of a broken heart | Feats of Engineering (Dots Per Inch)
- Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
- África Negra | Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- Joan As Police Woman | Lemons, Limes and Orchids (Play It Again Sam)
- The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
- Ride | Interplay (Wichita)
- KOKOKO! | BUTU (Transgressive)
- Skyminds | Echoes On the Shore (Inner Islands)
- Jon Hopkins | RITUAL (Domino)
- XiaoWang | KACHAKACHA (Damnably)
- Unessential Oils | Unessential Oils (Secret City)
- Chanel Beads | Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor | “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” (Constellation)
- Ginger Root | SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
- Church Chords | elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
- Melt-Banana | 3+5 (A-ZAP)
- Parlor Greens | In Green We Dream (Colemine)
- MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti/Epitaph)
- Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin | symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Sarah Davachi | The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late)
- LA LOM | The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (Verve)
- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | Woodland (Acony)
- Aux Meadows | Aux Meadows / Dust Kingdom (Shed)
- Matt Robidoux | Music For Aluminum Corn (Crash Symbols)
- Warren Wolf | History Of The Vibraphone (Cellar Live)