- Sharon Van Etten | Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)
- Ammar 808 | Live at Another Sky Festival (Glitterbeat)
- Fake Fruit | Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
- above me | above me (Dandy Boy)
- Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block | I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea (Room40)
- Various Artists | Akasaka Soul Funk 1969-1977 (180g)
- W4RP Trio + LiKWUiD | Sermon of the Matriark (Phenotypic)
- Yu Ching | The Crystal Hum (Night School)
- Japanese Breakfast | For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Dead Oceans)
- Infinite Body | my bright abyss (S/R)
- Ella Fitzgerald | The Moment Of Truth: Ella At The Coliseum (Live) (The Moment of Truth)
- Yetsuby | 4EVA (Pink Oyster)
- Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
- Throwing Muses | Moonlight Concessions (Fire)
- Tim Hecker | Shards (kranky)
- Various Artists | Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop)
- Dub Syndicate | Obscured by Version (On-U Sound)
- Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
- Soma Holiday | Microdose (Tapestry)
- Ryli | I Think I Need You Around b/w When I Fall (Dandy Boy)
- Adviser on Shade Trees | Adviser on Shade Trees (S/R)
- lay / lie | finders / keepers (JAG LAB)
- Annie and the Caldwells | Can’t Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop)
- ultrabonus | El Casino De La Muerte (S/R)
- Mike Beck | Mike Beck (S/R)
- Cat Mountain | Life on Lazy Heart (Store Brand)
- Babe Rainbow | Slipper imp and shakaerator (pdoom)
- Evan Nicole Bell | Shades of Blue (Hummingbird)
- Yama Uba | Silhouettes (Psychic Eye / Ratskin)
- Cassie Ramone | Sweetheart (CD-R)
- Toma Kami | Speed Oddity Vol. III (Man Band)
- Teini-Pää | Mietin Minne Meet (Vague Absolutes)
- The Sound | Jeopardy (Warner UK)
- Vinkepeezer | everything is a frequency (Kazemat)
- Theresa Wong | Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
Top 35 Albums of the Week
Week of April 4th, 2025
- Juniore | Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
- Amadou & Mariam | La Vie Est Belle (Because)
- Ibibio Sound Machine | Black Notes (Merge)
- Sharon Van Etten | Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)
- Ilinx | Flipperen (Futura Resistenza)
- The Chills | Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
- Ki! | Yong-Gwanglo Part Two (Crunchy Frog)
- Mulatu Astatke | Tension (Batov)
- Los Pirañas | Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida (Glitterbeat)
- Le Motel | Odd Numbers / Số Lẻ (Balmat)
- Various Artists | Akasaka Soul Funk 1969-1977 (180g)
- New Order | Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) (Rhino)
- Dub Syndicate | Obscured by Version (On-U)
- Oklou | choke enough (True Panther)
- Yu Ching | The Crystal Hum (Night School)
- Eiko Ishibashi | Antigone (Drag City)
- Moin | You Never End (AD 93)
- Ichiko Aoba | Luminescent Creatures (Hermine)
- Various Artists | Sweet Rebels – The Golden Era of Alerian Pop-Rai 1986-1991 (WeWantSounds)
- Maribou State | Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune)
- Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- clipping. | Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop)
- Andy Bell | Pinball Wanderer (Sonic Cathedral)
- Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
- Theresa Wong | Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
- Marina Zispin | Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (Scenic Route)
- Park Jiha | All Living Things (Glitterbeat)
- Sho-Nuff | Body Pressure (WeWantSounds)
- Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
- The Glass Hours | The Glass Hours (Cornelius Chapel)
- mercury | Together We Are One, You and I (Big Loud)
- Carl Allen | Tippin’ (Cellar Live)
- The Marías | Submarine (Nice Life)
- Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (Silver Current)
- Flora Hibberd | Swirl (22TWENTY)
Week of March 28th, 2025
- Dub Syndicate | Obscured by Version (On-U Sound)
- Los Pirañas | Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida (Glitterbeat)
- Juniore | Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
- Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer / Week-End)
- Andy Bell | pinball wanderer (Sonic Cathedral)
- ALVILDA | C’est Déjà L’heure (Static Shock)
- Tim Hecker | Shards (kranky)
- Oliver Coates | Throb, shiver, arrow of time (PLANCHA)
- Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
- Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra | Tension (Batov)
- Nappy Nina & Swarvy | Nothing Is My Favorite Thing (Stimulated / LucidHaus)
- Yaeji & E Wata | Pondeggi (XL)
- Fontaines D.C. | Romance (XL )
- Being Dead | EELS (Bayonet)
- Nice Biscuit | SOS (Bad Vibrations / Greenway)
- PyPy | Sacred Times (Goner)
- John Davis | Landlines (Students Of Decay)
- Various Artists | Tokyo Riddim Vol. 2 1979-1986 (WM Japan)
- Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
- Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer | Defiant Life (ECM)
- Fines Double | Espejismo (Fines Double)
- Various Artists | DJ Notoya Presents Tokyo Bliss – Japanese Funk, Boogie and City Pop From King Records 1974-88 (KING)
- Benjamin Fulwood | The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This (Room40)
- Yuma Abe | Hotel New Yuma (Thaian / SPACE SHOWER)
- Pearl & The Oysters | Planet Pearl (Stones Throw)
- FKA twigs | EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
- Jeff Parker | The Way Out of Easy (Nonesuch / International Anthem)
- Kolonel Djafaar | Getaway (Batov)
- BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
- The Chills | Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
- Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (20/20/20 / Silver Current)
- lay / lie | finders / keepers (JAG LAB)
- Mytron & Zongamin | Congregate (Multi Culti)
- Ilinx | Flipperen (Futura Resistenza)
Week of March 21st, 2025
- Helen Ganya | Share Your Care (Bella Union / Whited Sepulchre)
- LI YILEI | NONAGE (Métron)
- ALVILDA | C’est déjà l’heure (Static Shock)
- Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
- Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
- Samba Touré | Baarakelaw (Glitterbeat)
- Yama Uba | Silhouettes (Psychic Eye / Ratskin)
- Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege)
- Fontaines D.C. | Romance (XL)
- The Okmoniks | Afterparty Fever!!! (Slovenly)
- Yuma Abe | Hotel New Yuma (Thaian / SPACE SHOWER)
- Dub Syndicate | Obscured By Vision (On-U Sound)
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson | Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
- Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Penrose / Daptone)
- IC3PEAK | Coming Home (S/R)
- Kolonel Djafaar | Getaway (Batov)
- João Selva | Onda (Underdog)
- SML | Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
- Various Artists | Metro Subterranean (Hyperspace Communications)
- BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
- Traxman | Da Mind Of Traxman Vol.3 (Planet Mu)
- Squid | Cowards (Warp)
- Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (Silver Current)
- Ebo Taylor | JID022 (Jazz Is Dead)
- 400 Lonely Things | Children of Eidolon (Room40)
- Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
- The Chills | Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
- Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because)
- Nels Cline | Concentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
- Shabaka | Possession (Impulse!)
- Aux Meadows | Draw Near (Eiderdown)
- Lara Sarkissian | Remnants (btwn Earth+Sky)
- Phoebe White | Cowgirl’s Delight (PoetMan)
- A Moving Sound | The Wheel of Life (ARC)
- Talking Heads | Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition) (Rhino)
Week of March 14th, 2025
- The Mommyheads | Acorn “Remastered” (Mommyhead)
- Fontaines D.C. | Romance (XL)
- FKA twigs | EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
- Juniore | Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
- Various Artists | Metro Subterranean (Dark Entries / Hyperspace Communications)
- Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad | JID022 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Nice Biscuit | SOS (The Reverberation Appeciation Society)
- PyPy | Sacred Times (Goner)
- Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra | Tension (Batov)
- Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
- The Chills | Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
- A Moving Sound & Ethel | The Wheel of Life (ARC)
- citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
- Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Traxman | Da Mind Of Traxman Vol.3 (Planet Mu)
- Morton Feldman & Tobias Hume | Feldman and Hume: Intermissions (Sawyer Editions)
- Brother Ali | Satisfied Soul (Mello)
- Yama Uba | Silhouettes (Psychic Eye / Ratskin)
- Tim Hecker | Shards (kranky)
- Xeno & Oaklander | Via Negativa (in the doorway light) (Dais)
- Various Artists | Alley of the Sun (Not Not Fun)
- Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
- Soccer Mommy | Evergreen (Loma Vista)
- Ken Ikeda | Sacred Offering (Room 40)
- Robber Robber | Wild Guess (S/R)
- Aux Meadows | Draw Near (Eiderdown)
- Erik Klinga | Elusive Shimmer (Thanatosis)
- Various Artists | DJ Notoya Presents Tokyo Bliss (WeWantSounds)
- Adrian Younge | Adrian Younge Presents Linear Labs: São Paulo (Linear Labs)
- Maya Beiser & Terry Riley | Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C (Islandia)
- Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
- Dub Syndicate | Obscured By Version (On-U Sound)
- Various Artists | Noise Forest (Cold Spring)
Week of March 7th, 2025
- Third Coast Percussion | Glass: Aguas da Amazonia (Rockwell)
- Various Artists | DJ Notoya Presents: Tokyo Bliss (WeWantSounds)
- Ken Ikeda | Sacred Offering (Room 40)
- Kelly Lee Owens | Dreamstate (dh2)
- Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
- Being Dead | EELS (Bayonet)
- The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
- Liana Flores | Flower of the Soul (Verve)
- Rainbow Girls | HAUNTING (Rainbow Girls)
- Juniore | Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
- Peace De Résistance | Lullaby For the Debris (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
- Nice Biscuit | SOS (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
- Immanuel Wilkins | Blues Blood (Blue Note)
- Nala Sinephro | Endlessness (Warp)
- Vinkepeezer | everything is a frequency (Kazemat)
- Eric Alexander & Mike LeDonne | Together (Cellar Live)
- PyPy | Sacred Times (Goner)
- Sholeh Asgary | آبـان (Aban) (Crystalline Morphologies)
- MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti/Epitaph)
- The Bongo Hop | La Pata Coja (Underdog)
- Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
- Various Artists | Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop)
- Songhoy Blues | Héritage (Transgressive)
- Mulatu Astatke | Tension (Batov)
- Xeno & Oaklander | Via Negativa (in the doorway light) (Dais; Dais Records)
- Manu Chao | Viva Tu (Because )
- Shellac | To All Trains (Touch and Go)
- Yuma Abe | Hotel New Yuma (Thaian / Space Shower)
- Lara Sarkissian | Remnants (btwn Earth+Sky)
- Linda Smith | Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured Tracks)
- Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer/Weekend)
- Fontaines D.C. | Romance (XL)
- Aux Meadows | Draw Near (Eiderdown)
- Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
- Various Artists | Even the Forest hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light in the Attic)