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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of August 1st, 2024

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  1. Newen Afrobeat | Grietas (Lichens Family)
  2. Brian Eno | ENO (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Verve)
  3. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  4. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  5. Loma | How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
  6. Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  7. Forest Swords | Bolted (Ninja Tune)
  8. Les Lullies | Mauvaise Foi (Slovenly )
  9. Brittany Howard | What Now (Island)
  10. NxWorries | Why Lawd? (Stones Throw)
  11. ATARASHII GAKKO! | AG! Calling (88rising)
  12. Richard Carr, Caleb Burhans, Clarice Jensen & Carrtoons | August Light (Neuma)
  13. Charli xcx | BRAT (Charli XCX Inc.)
  14. Amen Dunes | Death Jokes (Sub Pop)
  15. Habibi | Dreamachine (Kill Rock Stars)
  16. Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | Haunted by Eternity (Fractal)
  17. Peggy Gou | I Hear You (XL)
  18. Finom | Not God (Joyful Noise)
  19. Lunchbox | Pop and Circumstance (Slumberland)
  20. Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On The Corner)
  21. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomac)
  22. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion | Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch)
  23. Kim | Sir Kim (Death Maiden)
  24. Kane Pour | The Last Wave (Sound As Language)
  25. Dorothy Carter | Waillee Waillee (Palto Flats)
  26. Bryan Hayslett | Cello Unlocked (Neuma)
  27. Echo Specter | Level Never (Oakland Instruments)
  28. MIZU | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
  29. Sahra Halgan | Hiddo dhawr (DANAYA)
  30. ZA! & Perrate | Jolifanto (Lovemonk)
  31. Previous Industries | Service Merchandise (Merge)
  32. Fabiana Palladino | Fabiana Palladino (Paul Institute)
  33. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  34. Andrew Bird | Sunday Morning Put-On (Loma Vista)
  35. Actress | LXXXVIII (Ninja Tune)

Week of July 25th, 2024

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  1. Brian Eno | ENO (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Verve)
  2. Hermanos Gutiérrez | Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound)
  3. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  4. Chanel Beads | Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
  5. Newen Afrobeat | Grietas (Lichens Family)
  6. Loma | How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
  7. Kronos Quartet | Outer Spaceways Incorporated – Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra (Red Hot Organization)
  8. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion | Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch)
  9. Didje Doo | Vitalize It (Turntables on the Hudson)
  10. Shay Hazan | Wusul (Batov)
  11. Forest Swords | Bolted (Ninja Tune)
  12. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  13. Omar Souleyman | Erbil (Mad Decent)
  14. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  15. Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  16. Chappell Roan | The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island)
  17. Beak> | >>>> (INVADA )
  18. Nubiyan Twist | Find Your Flame (Strut)
  19. Mdou Moctar | Funeral for Justice (Matador)
  20. Peggy Gou | I Hear You (XL)
  21. Parlor Greens | In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  22. Kelley Stoltz | La Fleur (Agitated )
  23. Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown (Domino)
  24. Bruno Berle | No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Far Out )
  25. Chris Cohen | Paint a Room (Hardly Art)
  26. Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
  27. Mabe Fratti | Sentir Que No Sabes (Unheard Of Hope)
  28. Johnny Cash | Songwriter (Mercury Nashville)
  29. Bex Burch | There is only love and fear (International Anthem)
  30. Sierra Ferrell | Trail of Flowers (Rounder)
  31. Liza Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick | The Electronic Lover (Innova)
  32. Agness Twin | Turn to Gold (S/R)
  33. Various Artists | L’Etoile Filante (Original Soundtrack) (Le Label)
  34. Smokers | The Rat That Gnawed The Rope (Mouth)
  35. Various Artists | The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed (Light in the Attic)

Week of July 19th, 2024

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  1. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion | Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch)
  2. Hermanos Gutiérrez | Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound)
  3. Mabe Fratti | Sentir Que No Sabes (Unheard Of Hope)
  4. Various Artists | Showa Era Songstress Collection (King)
  5. Dorothy Carter | Waillee Waillee (Palto Flats)
  6. Loma | How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
  7. Peggy Gou | I Hear You (XL)
  8. Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
  9. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  10. Bruno Berle | No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Far Out )
  11. Johnny Cash | Songwriter (Mercury Nashville)
  12. The Decemberists | As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB)
  13. William Parker | Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity)
  14. David Nance | David Nance & Mowed Sound (Third Man)
  15. Kelley Stoltz | La Fleur (Agitated)
  16. Mdou Moctar | Funeral For Justice (Matador)
  17. Various Artists | Petty Country (A Country Music Celebration Of Tom Petty) (Big Machine)
  18. Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  19. Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
  20. XiaoWang | KACHAKACHA (Damnably)
  21. Various Artists | Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 (Soundway )
  22. Akini Jing | VILLAIN (88rising)
  23. Isrea Butler | Congo Lament (Vegas)
  24. Smokers | The Rat That Gnawed the Rope (Mouth Magazine)
  25. Bonny Light Horseman | Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)
  26. ni zheng | fetid things (Don’t Look Back)
  27. Tashi Wada | What Is Not Strange? (PLANCHA)
  28. RL Huber | Memories of Falling (S/R)
  29. Woo | Xylophonics (Independent Project)
  30. Lucidvox | That’s What Remained (Glitterbeat)
  31. naemi | Dust Devil (3XL)
  32. Van Morrison | Accentuate the Positive (Virgin)
  33. Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
  34. Sylvaine | Eg Er Framand (Season of Mist)
  35. Ben Frost | Scope Neglect (Mute)

Week of July 11th, 2024

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  1. Hermanos Gutiérrez | Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound)
  2. Arooj Aftab | Night Reign (Verve)
  3. Chris Cohen | Paint a Room (Hardly Art)
  4. Dorothy Carter | Waillee Waillee (Palto Flats)
  5. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  6. Various Artists | Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93 (Soundway )
  7. Johnny Cash | Songwriter (Mercury Nashville)
  8. Loma | How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
  9. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin | Ghosted II (Drag City)
  10. Troth | Idle Easel (Digital Regress)
  11. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  12. April Magazine | Wesley’s Convertible Tape For the South (Digital Regress)
  13. Babehoven | Water’s Here In You (Double Double Whammy)
  14. Beak> | >>>> (Invada)
  15. Bound By Endogamy | Bound By Endogamy (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
  16. Various Artists | Brown Acid “the Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  17. Howie Lee | At The Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery (Mais Um)
  18. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  19. Mary Halvorson | Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  20. Moon Diagrams | Cemetery Classics (Sonic Cathedral)
  21. Omar Souleyman | Erbil (Mad Decent)
  22. Peggy Gou | I Hear You (XL Recordings)
  23. pet wife | foam set (S/R)
  24. Raymond Richards | Sand Paintings (ESP Institute)
  25. Reverend Freakchild | Songs of Beauty For Ashes and Realization (Reverend Freakchild)
  26. Somesurprises | Perseids (Doom Trip)
  27. Takuya Kuroda | Rising Son (Blue Note)
  28. Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland | Ghost Moon (Edgetone)
  29. Magic Tuber Stringband | Needlefall (Thrill Jockey)
  30. Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion | Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch)
  31. Charles Mingus | Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
  32. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 | These Things Remain Unassigned (Bulbous Monocle)
  33. DJ Raff | Encontrar (Nacional)
  34. Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
  35. Forest Swords | Bolted (Ninja Tune)

Week of July 5th, 2024

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  1. Various Artists | Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 (Soundway)
  2. Forest Swords | Bolted (Ninja Tune)
  3. Arooj Aftab | Night Reign (Verve)
  4. Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye)
  5. Real Bad Man & Lukah | Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace. (Old Soul)
  6. Dorothy Carter | Waillee Waillee (Palto Flats)
  7. Nubiyan Twist | Find Your Flame (Strut)
  8. Yea-Ming and The Rumours | I Can’t Have It All (Dandy Boy)
  9. Peggy Gou | I Hear You (XL)
  10. Chicano Batman | Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  11. Raymond Richards | Sand Paintings (ESP Institute)
  12. Beak> | >>>> (INVADA )
  13. Lightheaded | Combustible Gems (Slumberland )
  14. Omar Souleyman | Erbil (Mad Decent)
  15. Slum Village | F.U.N. (FMG / Barak with Love)
  16. Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown (Domino)
  17. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  18. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  19. Hana Vu | Romanticism (Ghostly International)
  20. Kee Avil | Spine (Constellation)
  21. Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
  22. T Bone Burnett | The Other Side (Verve Forecast)
  23. Brittany Howard | What Now (Island)
  24. Khruangbin | A LA SALA (Dead Oceans)
  25. Ghost Funk Orchestra | A Trip To the Moon (Karma Chief)
  26. Various Arists | Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (A24 Music)
  27. Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
  28. Howie Lee | At The Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery (Mais Um)
  29. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
  30. Kamasi Washington | Fearless Movement (Young)
  31. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  32. Sahan Arzruni | By Women – piano works by Armenian Women Composers (Armenian General Benevolent Union)
  33. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  34. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)
  35. Force / Jarboe | Embrace (Diamond Cutter)

Week of June 28th, 2024

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  1. Beak> | >>>> (Invada)
  2. Howie Lee | At the Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery (Mais Um)
  3. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  4. Arooj Aftab | Night Reign (Verve)
  5. Various Artists | Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (A24)
  6. Forest Swords | Bolted (Ninja Tune)
  7. DJ Raff | Encontrar (Nacional)
  8. Mdou Moctar | Funeral for Justice (Matador)
  9. Lindsay Lou | Queen of Time (Kill Rock Stars)
  10. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Self-Released)
  11. Yea-Ming and The Rumours | I Can’t Have It All (Dandy Boy)
  12. Bound By Endogamy | Bound by Endogamy (Bongo Joe)
  13. Nourished by Time | Catching Chickens EP (XL)
  14. Nubiyan Twist | Find Your Flame (Strut)
  15. Soft Science | Lines (Shelflife)
  16. Various Artists | I Saw the TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) (A24)
  17. Brainstory | Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  18. ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
  19. Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
  20. Chappell Roan | The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island)
  21. Ki! | Yong-Gwanglo Part One (Crunchy Frog)
  22. Thomas Carnacki | Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
  23. Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | Haunted by Eternity (Fractal)
  24. Neutrals | New Town Dream (Slumberland)
  25. ITZY | RINGO (WM Japan)
  26. Heavee | Unleash (Hyperdub)
  27. Jackson Greenberg | The Things We Pass On Through Our Genes (Cmntx)
  28. The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire Records)
  29. Lara Sarkissian | Born of the Sea (Lower Grand Tapes)
  30. Kamasi Washington | Fearless Movement (Young)
  31. Kali Malone | All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
  32. Melissa Aldana | Echoes Of The Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
  33. Optic Sink | Glass Blocks (Feel It)
  34. Marlov Barrios | Manjar Profano (Identidata)
  35. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)