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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of April 11th, 2025

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  1. Sharon Van Etten | Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)
  2. Ammar 808 | Live at Another Sky Festival (Glitterbeat)
  3. Fake Fruit | Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
  4. above me | above me (Dandy Boy)
  5. Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block | I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea (Room40)
  6. Various Artists | Akasaka Soul Funk 1969-1977 (180g)
  7. W4RP Trio + LiKWUiD | Sermon of the Matriark (Phenotypic)
  8. Yu Ching | The Crystal Hum (Night School)
  9. Japanese Breakfast | For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Dead Oceans)
  10. Infinite Body | my bright abyss (S/R)
  11. Ella Fitzgerald | The Moment Of Truth: Ella At The Coliseum (Live) (The Moment of Truth)
  12. Yetsuby | 4EVA (Pink Oyster)
  13. Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
  14. Throwing Muses | Moonlight Concessions (Fire)
  15. Tim Hecker | Shards (kranky)
  16. Various Artists | Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop)
  17. Dub Syndicate | Obscured by Version (On-U Sound)
  18. Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  19. Soma Holiday | Microdose (Tapestry)
  20. Ryli | I Think I Need You Around b/w When I Fall (Dandy Boy)
  21. Adviser on Shade Trees | Adviser on Shade Trees (S/R)
  22. lay / lie | finders / keepers (JAG LAB)
  23. Annie and the Caldwells | Can’t Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop)
  24. ultrabonus | El Casino De La Muerte (S/R)
  25. Mike Beck | Mike Beck (S/R)
  26. Cat Mountain | Life on Lazy Heart (Store Brand)
  27. Babe Rainbow | Slipper imp and shakaerator (pdoom)
  28. Evan Nicole Bell | Shades of Blue (Hummingbird)
  29. Yama Uba | Silhouettes (Psychic Eye / Ratskin)
  30. Cassie Ramone | Sweetheart (CD-R)
  31. Toma Kami | Speed Oddity Vol. III (Man Band)
  32. Teini-Pää | Mietin Minne Meet (Vague Absolutes)
  33. The Sound | Jeopardy (Warner UK)
  34. Vinkepeezer | everything is a frequency (Kazemat)
  35. Theresa Wong | Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)

Week of April 4th, 2025

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  1. Juniore | Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
  2. Amadou & Mariam | La Vie Est Belle (Because)
  3. Ibibio Sound Machine | Black Notes (Merge)
  4. Sharon Van Etten | Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)
  5. Ilinx | Flipperen (Futura Resistenza)
  6. The Chills | Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
  7. Ki! | Yong-Gwanglo Part Two (Crunchy Frog)
  8. Mulatu Astatke | Tension (Batov)
  9. Los Pirañas | Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida (Glitterbeat)
  10. Le Motel | Odd Numbers / Số Lẻ (Balmat)
  11. Various Artists | Akasaka Soul Funk 1969-1977 (180g)
  12. New Order | Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) (Rhino)
  13. Dub Syndicate | Obscured by Version (On-U)
  14. Oklou | choke enough (True Panther)
  15. Yu Ching | The Crystal Hum (Night School)
  16. Eiko Ishibashi | Antigone (Drag City)
  17. Moin | You Never End (AD 93)
  18. Ichiko Aoba | Luminescent Creatures (Hermine)
  19. Various Artists | Sweet Rebels – The Golden Era of Alerian Pop-Rai 1986-1991 (WeWantSounds)
  20. Maribou State | Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune)
  21. Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
  22. clipping. | Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop)
  23. Andy Bell | Pinball Wanderer (Sonic Cathedral)
  24. Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
  25. Theresa Wong | Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
  26. Marina Zispin | Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (Scenic Route)
  27. Park Jiha | All Living Things (Glitterbeat)
  28. Sho-Nuff | Body Pressure (WeWantSounds)
  29. Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
  30. The Glass Hours | The Glass Hours (Cornelius Chapel)
  31. mercury | Together We Are One, You and I (Big Loud)
  32. Carl Allen | Tippin’ (Cellar Live)
  33. The Marías | Submarine (Nice Life)
  34. Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (Silver Current)
  35. Flora Hibberd | Swirl (22TWENTY)

Week of March 28th, 2025

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  1. Dub Syndicate | Obscured by Version (On-U Sound)
  2. Los Pirañas | Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida (Glitterbeat)
  3. Juniore | Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
  4. Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer / Week-End)
  5. Andy Bell | pinball wanderer (Sonic Cathedral)
  6. ALVILDA | C’est Déjà L’heure (Static Shock)
  7. Tim Hecker | Shards (kranky)
  8. Oliver Coates | Throb, shiver, arrow of time (PLANCHA)
  9. Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
  10. Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra | Tension (Batov)
  11. Nappy Nina & Swarvy | Nothing Is My Favorite Thing (Stimulated / LucidHaus)
  12. Yaeji & E Wata | Pondeggi (XL)
  13. Fontaines D.C. | Romance (XL )
  14. Being Dead | EELS (Bayonet)
  15. Nice Biscuit | SOS (Bad Vibrations / Greenway)
  16. PyPy | Sacred Times (Goner)
  17. John Davis | Landlines (Students Of Decay)
  18. Various Artists | Tokyo Riddim Vol. 2 1979-1986 (WM Japan)
  19. Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  20. Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer | Defiant Life (ECM)
  21. Fines Double | Espejismo (Fines Double)
  22. Various Artists | DJ Notoya Presents Tokyo Bliss – Japanese Funk, Boogie and City Pop From King Records 1974-88 (KING)
  23. Benjamin Fulwood | The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This (Room40)
  24. Yuma Abe | Hotel New Yuma (Thaian / SPACE SHOWER)
  25. Pearl & The Oysters | Planet Pearl (Stones Throw)
  26. FKA twigs | EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
  27. Jeff Parker | The Way Out of Easy (Nonesuch / International Anthem)
  28. Kolonel Djafaar | Getaway (Batov)
  29. BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
  30. The Chills | Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
  31. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
  32. Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (20/20/20 / Silver Current)
  33. lay / lie | finders / keepers (JAG LAB)
  34. Mytron & Zongamin | Congregate (Multi Culti)
  35. Ilinx | Flipperen (Futura Resistenza)

Week of March 21st, 2025

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  1. Helen Ganya | Share Your Care (Bella Union / Whited Sepulchre)
  2. LI YILEI | NONAGE (Métron)
  3. ALVILDA | C’est déjà l’heure (Static Shock)
  4. Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
  5. Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  6. Samba Touré | Baarakelaw (Glitterbeat)
  7. Yama Uba | Silhouettes (Psychic Eye / Ratskin)
  8. Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege)
  9. Fontaines D.C. | Romance (XL)
  10. The Okmoniks | Afterparty Fever!!! (Slovenly)
  11. Yuma Abe | Hotel New Yuma (Thaian / SPACE SHOWER)
  12. Dub Syndicate | Obscured By Vision (On-U Sound)
  13. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson | Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  14. Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Penrose / Daptone)
  15. IC3PEAK | Coming Home (S/R)
  16. Kolonel Djafaar | Getaway (Batov)
  17. João Selva | Onda (Underdog)
  18. SML | Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
  19. Various Artists | Metro Subterranean (Hyperspace Communications)
  20. BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
  21. Traxman | Da Mind Of Traxman Vol.3 (Planet Mu)
  22. Squid | Cowards (Warp)
  23. Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (Silver Current)
  24. Ebo Taylor | JID022 (Jazz Is Dead)
  25. 400 Lonely Things | Children of Eidolon (Room40)
  26. Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  27. The Chills | Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
  28. Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because)
  29. Nels Cline | Concentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  30. Shabaka | Possession (Impulse!)
  31. Aux Meadows | Draw Near (Eiderdown)
  32. Lara Sarkissian | Remnants (btwn Earth+Sky)
  33. Phoebe White | Cowgirl’s Delight (PoetMan)
  34. A Moving Sound | The Wheel of Life (ARC)
  35. Talking Heads | Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition) (Rhino)

Week of March 14th, 2025

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  1. The Mommyheads | Acorn “Remastered” (Mommyhead)
  2. Fontaines D.C. | Romance (XL)
  3. FKA twigs | EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
  4. Juniore | Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
  5. Various Artists | Metro Subterranean (Dark Entries / Hyperspace Communications)
  6. Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad | JID022 (Jazz Is Dead)
  7. Nice Biscuit | SOS (The Reverberation Appeciation Society)
  8. PyPy | Sacred Times (Goner)
  9. Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra | Tension (Batov)
  10. Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  11. The Chills | Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
  12. A Moving Sound & Ethel | The Wheel of Life (ARC)
  13. citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
  14. The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
  15. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
  16. Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
  17. Traxman | Da Mind Of Traxman Vol.3 (Planet Mu)
  18. Morton Feldman & Tobias Hume | Feldman and Hume: Intermissions (Sawyer Editions)
  19. Brother Ali | Satisfied Soul (Mello)
  20. Yama Uba | Silhouettes (Psychic Eye / Ratskin)
  21. Tim Hecker | Shards (kranky)
  22. Xeno & Oaklander | Via Negativa (in the doorway light) (Dais)
  23. Various Artists | Alley of the Sun (Not Not Fun)
  24. Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  25. Soccer Mommy | Evergreen (Loma Vista)
  26. Ken Ikeda | Sacred Offering (Room 40)
  27. Robber Robber | Wild Guess (S/R)
  28. Aux Meadows | Draw Near (Eiderdown)
  29. Erik Klinga | Elusive Shimmer (Thanatosis)
  30. Various Artists | DJ Notoya Presents Tokyo Bliss (WeWantSounds)
  31. Adrian Younge | Adrian Younge Presents Linear Labs: São Paulo (Linear Labs)
  32. Maya Beiser & Terry Riley | Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C (Islandia)
  33. Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
  34. Dub Syndicate | Obscured By Version (On-U Sound)
  35. Various Artists | Noise Forest (Cold Spring)

Week of March 7th, 2025

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  1. Third Coast Percussion | Glass: Aguas da Amazonia (Rockwell)
  2. Various Artists | DJ Notoya Presents: Tokyo Bliss (WeWantSounds)
  3. Ken Ikeda | Sacred Offering (Room 40)
  4. Kelly Lee Owens | Dreamstate (dh2)
  5. Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  6. Being Dead | EELS (Bayonet)
  7. The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
  8. Liana Flores | Flower of the Soul (Verve)
  9. Rainbow Girls | HAUNTING (Rainbow Girls)
  10. Juniore | Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
  11. Peace De Résistance | Lullaby For the Debris (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
  12. Nice Biscuit | SOS (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  13. Immanuel Wilkins | Blues Blood (Blue Note)
  14. Nala Sinephro | Endlessness (Warp)
  15. Vinkepeezer | everything is a frequency (Kazemat)
  16. Eric Alexander & Mike LeDonne | Together (Cellar Live)
  17. PyPy | Sacred Times (Goner)
  18. Sholeh Asgary | آبـان (Aban) (Crystalline Morphologies)
  19. MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti/Epitaph)
  20. The Bongo Hop | La Pata Coja (Underdog)
  21. Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  22. Various Artists | Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop)
  23. Songhoy Blues | Héritage (Transgressive)
  24. Mulatu Astatke | Tension (Batov)
  25. Xeno & Oaklander | Via Negativa (in the doorway light) (Dais; Dais Records)
  26. Manu Chao | Viva Tu (Because )
  27. Shellac | To All Trains (Touch and Go)
  28. Yuma Abe | Hotel New Yuma (Thaian / Space Shower)
  29. Lara Sarkissian | Remnants (btwn Earth+Sky)
  30. Linda Smith | Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured Tracks)
  31. Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Mexican Summer/Weekend)
  32. Fontaines D.C. | Romance (XL)
  33. Aux Meadows | Draw Near (Eiderdown)
  34. Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  35. Various Artists | Even the Forest hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light in the Attic)