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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of July 17th, 2023

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  1. Nabihah Iqbal | Dreamer (Ninja Tune)
  2. Various Artists | Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa)
  3. Kara Jackson | Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? (September)
  4. Oval | Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)
  5. Various Artists | Once Again We Are the Children of the Sun (BBE Music)
  6. Meshell Ndegeocello | The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
  7. Beach House | Become (Subpop)
  8. The Free Music | Free Music (Part 1) (HABIBI Funk)
  9. Altin Gün | Ask (ATO)
  10. Faten Kanaan | Afterpoem (Fire)
  11. Various Artists | Jukebox Mambo IV (Jazzman)
  12. Tiny Ruins | Ceremony (Ba Da Bing)
  13. Yan Tregger | Space Oddities (1974-1991) (Born Bad)
  14. SUSS | Suss (Northern Spy)
  15. Gemma Ray | Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang (Bronze Rat)
  16. Various Artists | Studio One Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz)
  17. bar italia | Tracey Denim (Matador)
  18. Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine (Transgressive)
  19. The Movers | The Movers – Vol. 1 – 1970-1976 (Analog Africa)
  20. Frank Schultz | Blots (Stickfigure)
  21. Marlene Ribeiro | Toquei No Sol (Rocket)
  22. Various Artists | The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake (Chrysalis)
  23. Protomartyr | Formal Growth in the Desert (Domino)
  24. Disintegration | Time Moves for Me (Feel It)
  25. Peter Barclay | I'm Not Your Toy (Numero Group)
  26. Jeb Loy Nichols | The United States Of The Broken Hearted (On-U Sound)
  27. Meg Baird | Furling (Drag City)
  28. Sun Ra Arkestra | Living Sky (Omni Sound)
  29. Fruit Bats | A River Running to Your Heart (Merge)
  30. Helen Money / Will Thomas | Trace (Thrill Jockey)
  31. Emily King | Special Occasion (ATO)
  32. Josie Cotton | Day of the Gun (Kitten Robot)
  33. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek | Dost 1 & 2 (Bongo Joe)
  34. Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily | Love In Exile (Verve)
  35. Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams | Live At Levon's! (Royal Potato Family)

Week of July 10th, 2023

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  1. schroothoop | MACADAM (Sdban Ultra)
  2. Cable Ties | All Her Plans (Merge)
  3. The Free Music | Free Music (Part 1) (HABIBI Funk)
  4. Meshell Ndegeocello | The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
  5. Takashi Kokubo | Music For A Cosmic Garden (WRWTFWW)
  6. Dead Air Fresheners | Unfriended (Personal Archives)
  7. Yan Tregger | Space Oddities (1974-1991) (Born Bad)
  8. Various Artists | Studio One Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz)
  9. Buzz Kull | Fascination (Avant!)
  10. Adrian Quesada | Jaguar Sound (ATO)
  11. Kate NV | WOW (RVNG Intl.)
  12. Horse Lords | Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
  13. Disintegration | Time Moves For Me (Feel It)
  14. bar italia | Tracey Denim (Matador)
  15. Meg Baird | Furling (Drag City)
  16. Various Artists | Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955 – 69) (Soundway)
  17. Kendra Morris | Babble (Karma Chief)
  18. TEKE::TEKE | Hagata (Kill Rock Stars)
  19. Arooj Aftab | Love In Exile (Verve)
  20. Maud The Moth | Bordando El Manto Terrestre (Time Released Sound)
  21. Miesha and the Spanks | Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi (Mint)
  22. The Damned | Darkadelic (earMUSIC)
  23. Lael Neale | Star Eaters Delight (Subpop)
  24. The Mauskovic Dance Band | Bukaroo Bank (Bongo Joe)
  25. Dave Okumu | I Came From Love (Transgressive)
  26. The Surf Piranhas | Diver's Cove (Y&T Music)
  27. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek | Dost 2 (Bongo Joe)
  28. Ak'Chamel | A Mournful Kingdom of Sand (Akuphone)
  29. The Comet Is Coming | Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)
  30. Flock | Flock (Strut)
  31. Peter Barclay | I'm Not Your Toy (Numero Group)
  32. Josie Cotton | Day of the Gun (Kitten Robot)
  33. Rancid | Tomorrow Never Comes (Epitaph)
  34. Romance & Dean Hurley | River of Dreams (Ecstatic Recordings)
  35. Moriah Bailey | I Tried Words (Keeled Scales)

Week of July 3rd, 2023

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  1. Yan Tregger | Space Oddities (1974-1991) (Born Bad)
  2. Emily King | Special Occasion (ATO)
  3. Various Artists | Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa)
  4. Whatitdo Archive Group | Palace of a Thousand Sounds (Record Kicks)
  5. Jon Hassell | Further Fictions (Ndeya)
  6. The Free Music | The Free Music, Part 1 (Habibi Funk)
  7. Asha Puthli | The Essential Asha Puthli (Mr Bongo)
  8. Meshell Ndegeocello | The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
  9. Tiny Ruins | Ceremony (Ba Da Bing!)
  10. Various Artists | Studio One Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz)
  11. White Lung | Premonition (Domino)
  12. Bully | Lucky For You (Sub Pop)
  13. schroothoop | Macadam (Sdban Ultra)
  14. Nuovo Testamento | Love Lines (Self Released)
  15. Black Belt Eagle Scout | The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)
  16. John Cale | MERCY (Double Six)
  17. bar italia | Tracey Denim (Matador)
  18. The Comet Is Coming | Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)
  19. Death Valley Girls | Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)
  20. Aksak Maboul | Une aventure de VV (Crammed Discs)
  21. Altin Gün | Aşk (Glitterbeat)
  22. Sam Bush | Radio John: Songs of John Hartford (Smithsonian Folkways)
  23. Sylvan Esso | No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista)
  24. Cruel Diagonals | Fractured Whole (Beacon Sound)
  25. Kate NV | WOW (RVNG Intl.)
  26. Iris DeMent | Workin' On A World (Flariella)
  27. Yalla Miku | Yalla Miku (Bongo Joe)
  28. Helen Money & Will Thomas | Trace (Thrill Jockey)
  29. Various Artists | Once Again We Are the Children of the Sun (BBE Music)
  30. White Hills | The Revenge of Heads on Fire (Heads On Fire)
  31. Brian Eno | FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (UMC)
  32. Nick Waterhouse | The Fooler (Innovative Leisure)
  33. Green/Blue | Paper Thin (Feel It Records)
  34. Hvozd | Krehkou krajinou (Slnko)
  35. Sun Ra Arkestra | Living Sky (Omni Sound)

Week of June 26th, 2023

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  1. Helen Money | Trace (Thrill Jockey)
  2. Horse Lords | Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
  3. Aksak Maboul | Une aventure de VV (Crammed Discs)
  4. Liturgy | 93696 (Thrill Jockey)
  5. Dub Specialist | Studio One Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz)
  6. Various Artists | Peru Selvatico (Analog Africa)
  7. Various Artists | Jukebox Mambo IV (Jazzman)
  8. The Free Music | Free Music (Part 1) (HABIBI Funk)
  9. schroothoop | MACADAM (Sdban Ultra)
  10. Yan Tregger | Space Oddities (1974-1991) (Born Bad)
  11. Arooj Aftab, Shahzad Ismaily, and Vijay Iyer | Love in Exile (Verve)
  12. Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries | Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (Related)
  13. Cruel Diagonals | Fractured Whole (Beacon Sound)
  14. DJ Female Convict Scorpion | Confucius, Milton Berle (S/R)
  15. Maud the moth + trajedesaliva | Bordando El Manto Terrestre (Time Released Sound)
  16. Faten Kanaan | Afterpoem (Fire)
  17. Timmy's Organism | Lone Lizard (Sweet Time)
  18. Various Artists | Once Again We Are the Children of the Sun (BBE Music)
  19. Oval | Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)
  20. bar italia | Tracey Denim (Matador)
  21. Whatitdo Archive Group | Palace of A Thousand Sounds (Record Kicks)
  22. Discos Resaca Collective | East Side San Jose (Discos Resaca)
  23. Brian Eno | FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Universal)
  24. Los Disco Duro | La Inconforme (Discos Mas)
  25. Neo Archē | Pearls (Edgetone)
  26. Wye Oak | Every Day Like this Last: Collected Singles (Merge)
  27. Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti | Music For A Cosmic Garden (WRWTFWW)
  28. Rocket 808 | House of Jackpots (12XU)
  29. Iftin Band | Mogadishu's Finest: The Al-Uruba Sessions (Ostinato)
  30. Various Artists | Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955 – 69) (Soundway)
  31. Josie Cotton | Day of the Gun (Kitten Robot)
  32. Steve Gunn & David Moore | Reflections (RVNG Intl.)
  33. JFDR | Museum (Houndstooth)
  34. Ak'Chamel | A Mournful Kingdom of Sand (Akuphone)
  35. Joanne Robertson | Blue Car (AD 93)

Week of June 19th, 2023

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  1. Discos Resaca Collective | East Side San Jose (Discos Resaca)
  2. Black Belt Eagle Scout | The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)
  3. Peter Barclay | I'm Not Your Toy (Numero Group)
  4. Pamela Z | Echolocation (Freedom To Spend)
  5. Death and Vanilla | Flicker (Fire)
  6. The Free Music | Free Music (Part 1) (Habibi Funk)
  7. Rent Romus | Itkuja Suite, Invocations on Lament (Edgetone)
  8. Buzz Kull | Fascination (Avant! Records)
  9. Forever Pavot | L'idiophone (Born Bad)
  10. Petite Noir | MotherFather (Roya)
  11. Lael Neale | Star Eaters Delight (Subpop Record Group)
  12. Ryuichi Sakamoto | 12 (Milan)
  13. Liturgy | 93696 (Thrill Jockey)
  14. Helen Money / Will Thomas | Trace (Thrill Jockey)
  15. Fruit Bats | A River Running to Your Heart (Merge)
  16. George Coleman | Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar Live)
  17. Spacemoth | No Past No Future (Wax Nine)
  18. Oval | Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)
  19. Dream Dolphin | Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996​-​2003) (Music from Memory)
  20. bar italia | Tracey Denim (Matador)
  21. Nick Waterhouse | The Fooler (Innovative Leisure)
  22. Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine (Transgressive)
  23. Pusaka Sunda | Utama Tembang Sunda And Kacapi Suling Music Of West Java (Sakti Records)
  24. Miesha and the Spanks | Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi (Mint)
  25. Andrew Gabbard | Cedar City Sweetheart (Karma Chief)
  26. Marlene Ribeiro | Toquei no Sol (Rocket Recordings)
  27. Kelela | Raven (Warp Records)
  28. Mat Ball | Amplified Guitar (The Garrote)
  29. Screaming Females | Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)
  30. Jockstrap | I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
  31. Aksak Maboul | Une aventure de VV (Crammed Discs)
  32. Martin Gore | The Third Chimpanzee E​.​P. (Mute)
  33. Brian Eno | FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Opal)
  34. Yalla Miku | Yalla Miku (Bongo Joe)
  35. Maud the moth + trajedesaliva | Bordando el Manto Terrestre (Time Released Sound)

Week of June 12th, 2023

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  1. Aksak Maboul | Une aventure de VV (Crammed Discs)
  2. Various Artists | Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955 – 69) (Soundway)
  3. Nabihah Iqbal | Dreamer (Ninja Tune)
  4. Marlene Ribeiro | Toquei No Sol (Rocket)
  5. Rent Romus | Itkuja Suite, Invocations on Lament (Edgetone)
  6. SUSS | Suss (Northern Spy)
  7. Cruel Diagonals | Fractured Whole (Beacon Sound)
  8. Jon Hassell | Further Fictions (Ndeye)
  9. Horse Lords | Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
  10. Discos Resaca Collective | East Side San Jose (Discos Resaca)
  11. AK'CHAMEL | A Mournful Kingdom of Sand (Akuphone)
  12. Illogic & Odd Nosdam | Right the Ship (2023 Remaster) – EP (Burnco Recs)
  13. A Produce | The Clearing (Independent Project)
  14. Daddy Long Legs | Street Sermons (Yep Roc)
  15. Sun Ra Arkestra | Living Sky (Omni)
  16. Various Artists | Spirit of France (Spiritmuse)
  17. Buddy Guy | The Blues Don't Lie (Silvertone)
  18. Petite Noir | MotherFather (Roya)
  19. The Mauskovic Dance Band | Bukaroo Bank (Bongo Joe)
  20. Dorothy Moskowitz & The United States of Alchemy | Under an Endless Sky (Tompkins Square)
  21. Wau Wau Collectif | Mariage (Sahel Sounds)
  22. Various Artists | Soul Jazz Records Presents Disco Reggae Rockers (Soul Jazz Records)
  23. Jeb Loy Nichols | The United States Of The Broken Hearted (On-U Sound)
  24. Screaming Females | Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni Records)
  25. Batida | Neon Colonialismo (Crammed Discs)
  26. Arthur King | Changing Landscapes (Minas las Pintadas) (AKP)
  27. Au Suisse | Au Suisse (City Slang)
  28. Ryuichi Sakamoto | 12 (Commmons)
  29. Steve Gunn & David Moore | Let the Moon Be a Planet (RVNG Intl.)
  30. Miesha and the Spanks | Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi (Mint Records)
  31. Jason Bajada | Crushed Grapes (Audiogram)
  32. Iris DeMent | Workin' On A World (FlariElla)
  33. Negativland | Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television (Seeland)
  34. Yalla Miku | Yalla Miku (Bongo Joe)
  35. Forever Pavot | L'idiophone (Born Bad)