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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of June 21st, 2024

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  1. Arooj Aftab | Night Reign (Verve)
  2. Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
  3. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  4. Beak> | >>>> (Invada)
  5. Mdou Moctar | Funeral for Justice (Matador)
  6. Kamasi Washington | Fearless Movement (Young)
  7. Various Artists | Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980 (Time Capsule)
  8. Howie Lee | At The Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery (Mais Um)
  9. Emel | MRA (Little Human)
  10. Various Artists | My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
  11. Jembaa Groove | Ye Ankasa | We Ourselves (Agogo)
  12. Sheer Mag | Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  13. Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown (Domino)
  14. Sahra Halgan | Hiddo dhawr (DANAYA)
  15. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  16. Zoe Boekbinder | Wildflower (Are and Be)
  17. Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | Haunted by Eternity (Fractal Music)
  18. Marbled Eye | Read the Air (Summer Shade)
  19. Soft Science | Lines (Shelflife)
  20. Various Artists | I Saw The TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) (A24)
  21. Heavee | Unleash (Hyperdub)
  22. Irreversible Entanglements | Protect Your Light (Impulse!)
  23. Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) | Where The River Bends Is Only the Beginning (Glitterbeat)
  24. Lankum | False Lankum (Rough Trade)
  25. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  26. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  27. Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
  28. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Self-Released)
  29. Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER (Remixes) (Ninja Tune)
  30. Yea-Ming and The Rumours | I Can’t Have It All (Dandy Boy)
  31. WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA | Pop Delivery (WM Japan)
  32. Yi-Ting Lu | An Unopened Seashell (New Focus)
  33. Jackson Greenberg | The Things We Pass On Through Our Genes (Cmntx)
  34. The Mutilations | It Won’t Take Long (Sausage King )
  35. ITZY | Ringo (WM Japan)

Week of June 14th, 2024

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  1. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  3. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  4. Tashi Wada | What Is Not Strange? (RVNG Intl.)
  5. Various Artists | Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980 (Time Capsule)
  6. Flung | All Heartbeat (Get Better)
  7. Meklit | Ethio Blue (Self Released)
  8. Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  9. Sahra Halgan | Hiddo dhawr (DANAYA)
  10. Brittany Howard | What Now (Island)
  11. Karate Boogaloo | Hold Your Horses (Colemine)
  12. Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
  13. Sticklerphonics | Technicolor Ghost Parade (Jealous Butcher)
  14. Beak> | >>>> (INVADA)
  15. Ana Lua Caiano | Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (Glitterbeat)
  16. Emel | MRA (Little Human)
  17. Akini Jing | VILLAIN (88rising)
  18. Arushi Jain | Delight (Leaving)
  19. Otis Sandsjö | Y-OTIS TRE (We Jazz)
  20. Various Artists | My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
  21. Natascha Rogers | Onaida (No Format!)
  22. Various Artists | The Soul of Congo – Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga)
  23. Co-Pilot | Rotate (Dell’Orso Records)
  24. Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
  25. Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
  26. Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
  27. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)
  28. Various Artists | Middle Eastern Grooves (Selected by DJ Kobayashi) (Batov)
  29. Howie Lee | At the Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery (Mais Um)
  30. Laura Jane Grace | Hole In My Head (Polyvinyl)
  31. Crumb | AMAMA (Self-Released)
  32. Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | Haunted by Eternity (Fractal Music)
  33. Sonya Cohen Cramer | You’ve Been A Friend To Me (Smithsonian Folkways)
  34. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  35. Mdou Moctar | Funeral for Justice (Matador)

Week of June 7th, 2024

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  1. Sahra Halgan | Hiddo Dhawr (DANAYA)
  2. Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  3. Arushi Jain | Delight (Leaving)
  4. Mizu | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
  5. Tashi Wada | What Is Not Strange? (RVNG Intl.)
  6. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin | Ghosted II (Drag City)
  7. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  8. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  9. Barry Can’t Swim | When Will We Land? (Ninja Tune)
  10. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  11. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Self-Released)
  12. Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
  13. Emel | MRA (Little Human)
  14. Heavee | Unleash (Hyperdub)
  15. Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown (Domino)
  16. Maria Chiara Argirò | Closer (Innovative Leisure)
  17. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  18. Chicano Batman | Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  19. Erika Angell | The Obsession With Her Voice (Constellation)
  20. Ghost Funk Orchestra | A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)
  21. Sonya Cohen Cramer | You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)
  22. Pauline Anna Strom | Trans-Millenia Consort (RVNG Intl.)
  23. Bill Frisell | Orchestras (Blue Note)
  24. ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
  25. Various Artists | European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987) (NTS)
  26. Bullion | Affection (Ghostly International)
  27. Various Artists | Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (Light In The Attic)
  28. Akini Jing | VILLAIN (88rising)
  29. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  30. 33EMYBW | Holes of Sinian (SVBKVLT)
  31. Various Artists | My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy Records)
  32. Vegyn | The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions (PLZ Make It Ruins)
  33. Leyla McCalla | Sun Without the Heat (Anti/Epitaph)
  34. Flung | All Heartbeat (Get Better)
  35. Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)

Week of May 31st, 2024

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  1. Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
  2. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  3. Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  4. Bagus Shidqi | Digital Indigenous 06: Njondhal Njondhil (1000 HZ)
  5. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  6. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)
  7. Zoe Boekbinder | Wildflower (Are and Be)
  8. Arushi Jain | Delight (Leaving)
  9. Tashi Wada | What Is Not Strange? (RVNG Intl.)
  10. Michelle Moeller | Late Morning (AKP)
  11. Grazia | In Poor Taste – EP (Feel It)
  12. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  13. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  14. ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
  15. Chopper Franklin | Spaghetti Western Dub No. 1 (Ratchet Blade)
  16. MIZU | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
  17. Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
  18. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
  19. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
  20. Flung | All Heartbeat (Get Better)
  21. Amyl and The Sniffers | U Should Not Be Doing That / Facts – Single (Virgin)
  22. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting For Love (Drag City)
  23. Vegyn | The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions (PLZ Make It Ruins)
  24. Chicano Batman | Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  25. Hurray For The Riff Raff | The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  26. Barry Can’t Swim | When Will We Land? (Ninja Tune)
  27. Oren Ambarchi | Ghosted II (Drag City)
  28. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  29. Ghost Funk Orchestra | A Trip to the Moon (Karma Chief)
  30. Various Artists | Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985 (Time Capsule)
  31. Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
  32. Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
  33. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  34. Crumb | AMAMA (Self-Released)
  35. Sonya Cohen Cramer | You’ve Been A Friend To Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Week of May 24th, 2024

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  1. Meklit | Ethio Blue (Self-Released)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  3. Zoe Boekbinder | Wildflower (Are and Be)
  4. MIZU | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
  5. Various Artists | Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980 (Time Capsule)
  6. Potatohead People | Eat Your Heart Out (Bastard Jazz)
  7. Grazia | In Poor Taste (Feel It)
  8. La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  9. Sote | Ministry of Tall Tales (SVBKVLT)
  10. somesurprises | Perseids (Doom Trip)
  11. Khruangbin | A LA SALA (Dead Oceans)
  12. Various Artists | The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed (Light in the Attic)
  13. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  14. Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
  15. Thomas Carnacki | Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
  16. Magic Tuber Stringband | Needlefall (Thrill Jockey)
  17. Various Artists | The Soul of Congo – Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga)
  18. SAICOBAB | NRTYA (Thrill Jockey)
  19. Pauline Anna Strom | Trans-Millenia Consort (RVNG Intl.)
  20. Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On The Corner)
  21. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  22. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  23. Diane Birch | Flying on Abraham (Topanga Creek)
  24. Michelle Moeller | Late Morning (AKP)
  25. Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  26. The Mutilations | It Won’t Take Long (Sausage King)
  27. Les Lullies | Mauvaise Foi (Slovenly )
  28. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  29. Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows)
  30. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals | The 1970s Dub Albums Collection (Doctor Bird)
  31. Flung | All Heartbeat (Get Better)
  32. Peggy Gou | Lobster Telephone (XL)
  33. OBJECT AS SUBJECT | Heretic (Lost Future)
  34. Rykarda Parasol | Tuesday Morning (Self-Released)
  35. Ki! | Yong-Gwanglo Part One (Crunchy Frog)

Week of May 17th, 2024

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  1. Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)
  3. Chicano Batman | Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  4. Zoe Boekbinder | Wildflower (Are and Be)
  5. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  6. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  7. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  8. SAICOBAB | NRTYA (Thrill Jockey)
  9. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
  10. Various Artists | Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (Light in the Attic)
  11. Chemtrails | The Joy of Sects (PNKSLM)
  12. Various Artists | Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985 (Time Capsule)
  13. Ana Lua Caiano | Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (Glitterbeat)
  14. Brittany Howard | What Now (Island)
  15. Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
  16. La Sécurité | Stay Safe! (Mothland)
  17. Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
  18. MIZU | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
  19. Voice of Baceprot | RETAS (12WIRED)
  20. Rykarda Parasol | Tuesday Morning (Rykarda Parasol)
  21. Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
  22. Woo | Xylophonics + Robot X (Independent Project)
  23. Pauline Anna Strom | Trans-Millenia Consort (RVNG Intl.)
  24. Karate Boogaloo | Hold Your Horses (Colemine)
  25. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin | Ghosted II (Drag City)
  26. Chastity Belt | Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  27. Amen Dunes | Death Jokes (Sub Pop)
  28. Erika Angell | The Obsession With Her Voice (Constellation)
  29. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Duophonic Super 45s)
  30. ML BUCH | Suntub (15 love)
  31. Jackson Greenberg | The Things We Pass On Through Our Genes (Cmntx)
  32. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  33. Kee Avil | Spine (Constellation)
  34. Yorn’s Apostles | Festivities In Your Native Language (YORNCORE)
  35. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)