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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of August 19th, 2019

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  1. Various Artists | Unusual Sounds (Anthology)
  2. Trash Kit | Horizon (Upset the Rhythm)
  3. Erik Wollo | Sources (Early Works 1986-1992) (Smalltown Supersound)
  4. Barbara Howard | On the Rise (Remined)
  5. Laurence Pike | Spring (Leaf)
  6. Jesca Hoop | Stonechild (Memphis Industries)
  7. Girl Friday | Fashion Conman (Hardly Art)
  8. Julia Shapiro | Perfect Version (Hardly Art)
  9. Seablite | Grass Stains and Novacaine (Emotional Response)
  10. Prince | Originals (Warner Bros.)
  11. Quantic | Atlantic Oscillations (Tru Thoughts)
  12. Cari Cari | Anaana (S/R)
  13. Mattiel | Satis Factory (ATO)
  14. Black Keys | Let's Rock (Easy Eye)
  15. Various Artists | Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996 (Music From Memory)
  16. French Vanilla | How Am I Not Myself? (Danger Collective)
  17. Mavis Staples | We Get By (Anti-)
  18. Kamaal Williams | The Return (Black Focus)
  19. Clairo | Immunity (Fader)
  20. Jane Weaver | Loops in the Secret Society (Fire)
  21. Sacred Paws | Run Around the Sun (Merge)
  22. Keb' Mo' | Oklahoma (Concord)
  23. Eyal Vilner Big Band | Swing Out! (S/R)
  24. Summer Cannibals | Can't Tell Me No (Tiny Engines)
  25. Jeanines | S/T (Slumberland)
  26. Stan Getz Quartet | Getz At The Gate: The Stan Getz Quartet Live At The Village Gate Nov. 26 1961 ()
  27. Dehd | Water (Fire Talk)
  28. Gauche | A People's History of Gauche (Merge)
  29. Sarchasm | Beach Blanket Bummer Pop (Asian Man)
  30. Grupo Jejeje | Grupo Jejeje (Discos Rolas)
  31. Black Midi | Schlagenheim (Rough Trad)
  32. Steel Pulse | Mass Manipulation (Rootfire Cooperative)
  33. DJ Yoda | Homecooking (Lewis)
  34. Cactus Blossoms | Easy Way (S/R)
  35. Black Mountain | Destroyer (Jagjaguwar)

Week of August 12th, 2019

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  1. Various Artists | Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996 (Music From Memory)
  2. Jesca Hoop | Stonechild (Memphis Industries)
  3. Erik Wollo | Sources (Early Works 1986-1992) (Smalltown Supersound)
  4. Sarah Bethe Nelson | Weird Glow (Burger)
  5. Prince | Originals (Warner Bros.)
  6. Jeanines | S/T (Slumberland)
  7. Briefs | Platinum Rats (Burger)
  8. Various Artists | Wound: A Guitar-Centric Compilation (Carbon)
  9. Keb' Mo' | Oklahoma (Concord)
  10. Girl Friday | Fashion Conman (Hardly Art)
  11. Meernaa | Heart Hunger (Native Cat)
  12. Seablite | Grass Stains and Novacaine (Emotional Response)
  13. Dream Syndicate | These Times (Anti)
  14. Breathe Blow Burn | Breathe Blow Burn (Super Invincible)
  15. Sacred Paws | Run Around the Sun (Merge)
  16. Cari Cari | Anaana (S/R)
  17. Chelique Sarabia | Revolucion 'Electronica' en Musica Venezolana (Pharaway Sounds)
  18. Eyal Vilner Big Band | Swing Out! (S/R)
  19. Summer Cannibals | Can't Tell Me No (Tiny Engines)
  20. Various Artists | Volume 1 Hot Sick Vile & Fun: New Sounds From San Francisco (Rocks In Your Head)
  21. Tuxedo | Tuxedo III (Funk On Sight)
  22. Aymee Nuviola | A Journey Through Cuban Music (Sony Music)
  23. Calexico/Iron & Wine | Years to Burn (Sub Pop)
  24. Bill Callahan | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (Drag City)
  25. Lust For Youth | Lust For Youth (Sacred Bones)
  26. Daona | The Secret Assembly (Faustus)
  27. Steel Pulse | Mass Manipulation (Rootfire Cooperative)
  28. Quantic | Atlantic Oscillations (Tru Thoughts)
  29. Eric McFadden | Eric McFadden does AC/DC (Bad Reputation)
  30. Nazamba | Nazamba (Dub Quake)
  31. Pip Blom | Boat (Heavenly Recordings/Pias)
  32. French Vanilla | How Am I Not Myself? (Danger Collective)
  33. Amyl & the Sniffers | Amyl & the Sniffers (ATO)
  34. Various Artists | Unusual Sounds (Anthology)
  35. Esperanza Spalding | 12 Little Spells (Concord)

Week of August 5th, 2019

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  1. Quantic | Atlantic Oscillations (Tru Thoughts)
  2. Janelle Monae | Dirty Computer (Bad Boy)
  3. Julie Coker | A Life In The Limelight (Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife 1976-1981) (Kalita Records)
  4. Steel Pulse | Mass Manipulation (Rootfire Cooperative)
  5. Calexico/Iron & Wine | Years to Burn (Sub Pop)
  6. Black Keys | Let's Rock (Easy Eye)
  7. Eddy Senay | Step by Step (Modern Harmonic)
  8. Mavis Staples | We Get By (Anti-)
  9. Jesca Hoop | Stonechild (Memphis Industries)
  10. Bill Baird | Owl (Dangerbird)
  11. Jeanines | S/T (Slumberland)
  12. Dream Syndicate | These Times (Anti)
  13. Gauche | A People's History of Gauche (Merge)
  14. Breathe Blow Burn | Breathe Blow Burn (Super Invincible)
  15. Prince | Originals (Warner Bros.)
  16. Death and Vanilla | Are You A Dreamer? (Fire)
  17. Cactus Blossoms | Easy Way (S/R)
  18. Various Artists | Unusual Sounds (Anthology)
  19. The Cranberries | In The End (Curtain Call Ltd.)
  20. Pow! | Shift (Castle Face)
  21. Altin Gun | Gece (ATO)
  22. Tycho | Weather (Mom + Pop)
  23. Coloured Balls | The First Supper Last or Scenes We Didn't Get To See (Just Add Water)
  24. Various Artists | Volume 1 Hot Sick Vile & Fun: New Sounds From San Francisco (Rocks In Your Head)
  25. Meernaa | Heart Hunger (Native Cat)
  26. Bedouine | Bird Songs of a Killjoy (Spacebomb)
  27. Vicious Cycles | Motorcycho (Pirates Press)
  28. Julia Shapiro | Perfect Version (Hardly Art)
  29. Gotobeds | Debt Begins at 30 (Sub Pop)
  30. Peter Perrett | Humanworld (Domino)
  31. The Woodland Hunters | The Thoughts of Chairman Jim ()
  32. Darts | I Like You But Not Like That (Alternative Tentacles)
  33. Boogarins | Sombrou Duvida (OAR)
  34. Nazamba | Nazamba (Dub Quake)
  35. Sunn O))) | Life Metal (Southern Lord)

Week of July 22nd, 2019

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  1. Bill Callahan | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (Drag City)
  2. Calexico/Iron & Wine | Years to Burn (Sub Pop)
  3. Prince | Originals (Warner Bros.)
  4. Black Midi | Schlagenheim (Rough Trad)
  5. Julie Coker | A Life In The Limelight (Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife 1976-1981) (Kalita Records)
  6. Rakta | Falha Comun (Nada Discos)
  7. Karen Gwyer | Man On Mountain (Don't Be Afraid)
  8. Black Keys | Let's Rock (Easy Eye)
  9. Steel Pulse | Mass Manipulation (Rootfire Cooperative)
  10. Quantic | Atlantic Oscillations (Tru Thoughts)
  11. Various Artists | Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996 (Music From Memory)
  12. Tacocat | This Mess Is A Place (Sub Pop)
  13. Lee Fields & The Expressions | It Rains Love (Big Crown)
  14. Fruit Bats | Gold Past Life (Merge)
  15. aymee nuviola | A Journey Through Cuban Music (Sony Music)
  16. Daona | The Secret Assembly (Faustus)
  17. Peter Perrett | Humanworld (Domino)
  18. Plaid | Polymer (Warp)
  19. Darts | I Like You But Not Like That (Alternative Tentacles)
  20. Death and Vanilla | Are You A Dreamer? (Fire)
  21. Choosey & Exile | Black Beans (Dirty Science)
  22. Dressy Bessy | Fast Faster Disaster (Yep Roc)
  23. Black Mountain | Destroyer (Jagjaguwar)
  24. Saba Alizadeh | Scattered Memories (Karlrecords)
  25. Daddy Long Legs | Lowdown Ways (Yep Roc)
  26. Ondo Fudd | Eyes Glide Through The Oxide (The Trilogy Tapes)
  27. Dream Syndicate | These Times (Anti)
  28. Sarchasm | Beach Blanket Bummer Pop (Asian Man)
  29. Nazamba | Nazamba (Dub Quake)
  30. Tim Hecker | Anoyo (Kranky)
  31. Laura Cannell | The Sky Untuned (Brawl)
  32. Altin Gun | Gece (ATO)
  33. Fat White Family | Serfs Up! (Domino)
  34. Various Artists | Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR And Boogie 1976-1986 (Light In The Attic)
  35. Allison DeGroot and Tatiana Hargreeves | Allison DeGroot and Tatiana Hargreeves (Free Dirt)

Week of July 15th, 2019

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  1. Prince | Originals (Warner Bros.)
  2. Death and Vanilla | Are You A Dreamer? (Fire)
  3. Various Artists | Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR And Boogie 1976-1986 (Light In The Attic)
  4. Pip Blom | Boat (Heavenly Recordings/Pias)
  5. Jackets | Queen of the Pill (Voodoo Rhythm)
  6. Various Artists | Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996 (Music From Memory)
  7. Briefs | Platinum Rats (Burger)
  8. Cactus Blossoms | Easy Way (S/R)
  9. Choosey & Exile | Black Beans (Dirty Science)
  10. Various Artists | Unusual Sounds (Anthology)
  11. Laura Cannell | The Sky Untuned (Brawl)
  12. Saba Alizadeh | Scattered Memories (Karlrecords)
  13. HRNS | Naomi (Warm Winters Ltd)
  14. Vanishing Twin | The Age of Immunology (Fire)
  15. ` Tadzio | The Sick Room (Blight Records)
  16. Quantic | Atlantic Oscillations (Tru Thoughts)
  17. The Oh Sees | Grave Blockers (Castle Face)
  18. Sunn O))) | Life Metal (Southern Lord)
  19. Earthen Sea | Grass and Trees (Kranky)
  20. Boogarins | Sombrou Duvida (OAR)
  21. DJ Yoda | Homecooking (Lewis)
  22. French Vanilla | How Am I Not Myself? (Danger Collective)
  23. Damien Jurado | In the Shape of a Storm (Mama Bird)
  24. Cold Beat | A Simple Reflection (Dark Entries)
  25. Mavis Staples | We Get By (Anti-)
  26. Cate Le Bon | Reward (Mexican Summer)
  27. Cucina Povera | Zoom (Night School)
  28. Rakta | Falha Comun (Nada Discos)
  29. Mystery Lights | Too Much Tension (Wick)
  30. Motoko and Myers | Basis Key (S/R)
  31. Simon Sammut & Omar Vazquez | Gravity (S/R)
  32. Bat! | Bat Music For Bat People (Cleopatra )
  33. Altin Gun | Gece (ATO)
  34. Spiral Electric | The Spiral Electric (S/R)
  35. Bibio | Ribbons (Warp)

Week of July 8th, 2019

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  1. Various Artists | Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996 (Music From Memory)
  2. Various Artists | Unusual Sounds (Anthology)
  3. Amyl & the Sniffers | Amyl & the Sniffers (ATO)
  4. Rakta | Falha Comun (Nada Discos)
  5. Earthen Sea | Grass and Trees (Kranky)
  6. Boogarins | Sombrou Duvida (OAR)
  7. Cate Le Bon | Reward (Mexican Summer)
  8. Saba Alizadeh | Scattered Memories (Karlrecords)
  9. Darts | I Like You But Not Like That (Alternative Tentacles)
  10. Mavis Staples | We Get By (Anti-)
  11. Barrett Martin Group | Songs of the Firebird (Sunyata)
  12. Arteries | Arteries (Nadine)
  13. Altin Gun | Gece (ATO)
  14. Lee Fields & The Expressions | It Rains Love (Big Crown)
  15. Pup | Morbid Stuff (Little Dipper)
  16. Wand | Laughing Matter (Drag City)
  17. Steel Pulse | Mass Manipulation (Rootfire Cooperative)
  18. Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano | Serenitatem (Rvng Intl.)
  19. Com Truise | Persuasion System (Ghostly)
  20. Death and Vanilla | Are You A Dreamer? (Fire)
  21. Graham Dunning | Music For Climbing Walls (LTR)
  22. Briefs | Platinum Rats (Burger)
  23. Aldous Harding | Designer (4AD)
  24. Areni Agbabian | Bloom (ECM)
  25. MJ Lallo | Take Me With You (Seance Centre)
  26. Various Artists | Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR And Boogie 1976-1986 (Light In The Attic)
  27. Fontaines DC | Dogrel (Partisan)
  28. Sea Urchin | Tahtib (Bokeh Versions)
  29. DJ Yoda | Homecooking (Lewis)
  30. Rising Appalachia | Leylines (Cometolife)
  31. Big Thief | U.F.O.F. (4AD)
  32. Mystery Lights | Too Much Tension (Wick)
  33. Field Medic | Fade Into The Dawn (Run For Cover)
  34. Layale Chaker & Sarafand | Inner Rhyme (In A Circle)
  35. Chai | Punk (Burger)