- Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
- Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
- Leyla McCalla | Sun Without the Heat (Anti/Epitaph)
- Kee Avil | Spine (Constellation)
- Abdallah Oumbadougou | AMGHAR The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (Petaluma)
- The Helltones | Medusa (Self-Released)
- Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
- Various Artists | My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
- Woo | Xylophonics + Robot X (Independent Project)
- Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Drag City)
- Avi C. Engel | Too Many Souls (Somnimage)
- LFZ | Raveled Veiled Known (Gnome Life)
- Ben Frost | Scope Neglect (Mute)
- Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
- The Black Keys | Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
- Juicebumps | JUMBO (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
- Khruangbin | A LA SALA (Dead Oceans)
- Force + Jarboe | Embrace (Diamond Cutter)
- Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG INTL.)
- Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
- dBridge | Vemödalen – EP (Exit)
- Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
- ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
- Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
- Erika Angell | The Obsession With Her Voice (Constellation)
- Thomas Carnacki | Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
- Fire Trail | One of the Two (Self-Released)
- yeule | Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl (From “I Saw the TV Glow”) (A24 )
- Vera Sola | Peacemaker (Spectraphonic)
- Anthony Gatto | Anthony Gatto: Small Subversions (Gold Bolus)
- Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
- Lil Flower Nasti | Sticky (Noble House)
- Leitmotiv Limbo | Superior State (De La Catessen)
- The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
- Normal: Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari | Moving Parts (Fo’c’scle)
Top 35 Albums of the Week
Week of April 19th, 2024
- Drahla | Angeltape (Captured Tracks)
- Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
- Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
- Abdallah Oumbadougou | AMGHAR The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (PETALUMA)
- Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
- Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
- Juicebumps | Jumbo (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
- Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
- Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Drag City)
- Erika Angell | The Obsession with Her Voice (Constellation)
- Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
- Nouvelle Vague | Should I Stay or Should I Go? ([PIAS])
- yeule | softscars (Ninja Tune)
- Kamasi Washington | Dream State (Young)
- Normal: Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari | Moving Parts (Fo’c’sle)
- Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
- Gumby’s Junk | Demo 2023 (Self-Released)
- The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
- The Reds, Pinks and Purples | Unwishing Well (Slumberland)
- Force + Jarboe | Embrace (Diamond Cutter)
- Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On the Corner)
- Rosali | Bite Down (Merge Records)
- Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
- Clarissa Connelly | World of Work (Warp)
- Bixiga 70 | Vapor (Glitterbeat)
- Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
- Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
- Pylon Reenactment Society | Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)
- Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) | Where The River Bends Is Only the Beginning (Glitterbeat)
- Les Rallizes Dénudés | CITTA’ ’93 (The Last One Musique / Tuff Beats)
- Jenny Conlee | Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano (Jealous Butcher)
- Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
- Pissed Jeans | Half Divorced (Sub Pop)
- Charles Mingus | Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
- bar italia | The Twits (Matador)
Week of April 12th, 2024
- Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
- Cautious Clay | KARPEH (Blue Note)
- Los Guapos Sensibles | Gatita (Discos Mas)
- Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
- Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
- Various Artists | Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación! (Bongo Joe)
- Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
- Thomas Carnacki | Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
- Juicebumps | Jumbo (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
- The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
- Laetitia Sadier | Rooting For Love (Drag City)
- Marlov Barrios | Manjar Profano (Identidata)
- Drahla | angeltape (Captured Tracks)
- Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
- Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
- Bixiga 70 | Vapor (Glitterbeat)
- Hartle Road | Maxx II (Perennial / K Records)
- Various Artists | Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants – Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 (Anthology)
- Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
- Dina Ögon | Orion (Playground Music)
- Caroline Polachek | Butterfly Net (feat. Weyes Blood) (Perpetual Novice)
- Nouvelle Vague | Should I Stay or Should I Go? ([PIAS])
- Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
- Allison Russell | The Returner (Fantasy)
- Clarissa Connelly | World of Work (Warp)
- Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
- Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
- Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
- Torrey | Torrey (Slumberland)
- TORRES | What an enormous room (Merge)
- Sheer Mag | Playing Favorites (Third Man Records)
- Caroline Julia Cabading | Sugilanon (Patois Records)
- G’s Us | What Them Dogs Don’t Know They Know (Alpha Pup)
- Barbara Manning | Charm of Yesterday…Convenience of Tomorrow (Ba Da Bing!)
Week of April 5th, 2024
- Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
- Charming Hostess | Feast (!aNGRr!)
- Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER (Remixes) (Ninja Tune)
- Sheer Mag | Playing Favorites (Third Man)
- Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
- Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
- Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
- Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On The Corner)
- Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
- Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
- Surplus 1980 | Illusion of Consistency (Surplus Industries)
- The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
- dBridge | Vemödalen – EP (Exit)
- Can | LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (Mute)
- Kali Malone | All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
- Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
- Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
- Co-Pilot | Rotate (Dell’Orso)
- Shaina Hayes | Kindergarten Heart (Bonsound)
- Bixiga 70 | Vapor (Glitterbeat)
- Fatima | Love On Acid EP (Eglo Records)
- Elena Setien | Moonlit Reveries (Thrill Jockey)
- Dina Ögon | Orion (Playground Music)
- The Mutilations | It Won’t Take Long (Sausage King)
- Cautious Clay | KARPEH (Blue Note)
- AUNTY RAYZOR | Viral Wreckage (Hakuna Kulala)
- Pylon Reenactment Society | Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)
- Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
- Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
- Cleo Sol | Gold (Forever Living Originals)
- Melenas | Ahora (Trouble In Mind)
- 33emybw | Holes of Sinian (SVBKVLT)
- Rubber Blanket | Our Fault (Mt.St.Mtn.)
- Mary Halvorson | Cloudward (Nonesuch)
Week of March 29th, 2024
- Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
- Mary Halvorson | Cloudward (Nonesuch)
- Various Artists | European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987) (NTS)
- Dina Ögon | Orion (Playground Music)
- Surplus 1980 | Illusion of Consistency (Surplus Industries)
- Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
- Anna St. Louis | In the Air (Woodsist / Mare)
- Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
- Princ€ss | Princ€ss (wherethetimegoes)
- Nihiloxica | Source of Denial (Crammed Discs)
- V/Z | Suono Assente (AD 93)
- Novalima | La Danza (Pt. 1) (Six Degrees)
- cacophony (카코포니) | DIPUC (Enchanter)
- Gumby’s Junk | Demo 2023 (self released)
- Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
- Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER (Remixes) (Ninja Tune)
- CAN | LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (Mute)
- Various Artists | Merengue Tipico ; Nueva Generacion! (Bongo Joe)
- Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
- Hania Rani | Ghosts (Gondwana)
- Salamanda | In Parallel (Wisdom Teeth)
- Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
- Fatima | Love on Acid EP (Eglo)
- Jungle | Volcano (Caiola)
- Charming Hostess | Feast (!aNGRr!)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
- Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey | Compassion (ECM)
- The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
- Ana Tijoux | Vida (Victoria Producciones, SPA)
- Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
- Philip Glass | Philip Glass Solo (Orange Mountain)
- Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
- dBridge | Vemödalen – EP (Exit)
- Mary Timony | Untame the Tiger (Merge)
- Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
Week of March 22nd, 2024
- Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
- Aunty Rayzor | Viral Wreckage (Hakuna Kulala)
- Princ€ss | Princ€ss (wherethetimegoes)
- Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
- Dina Ögon | Orion (Playground Music)
- Nouvelle Vague | Should I Stay or Should I Go? ([PIAS])
- cacophony (카코포니) | DIPUC (Enchanter)
- Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
- Nídia | 95 MINDJERES (Príncipe)
- Kali Malone | All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
- Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows)
- Say She She | Silver (Karma Chief)
- Acid Arab | ٣ (Trois) (Crammed Discs)
- Charming Hostess | Feast (!aNGRr!)
- Surplus 1980 | Illusion of Consistency (Surplus Industries)
- Anna St. Louis | In The Air (Woodsist)
- Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
- Can | Live In Paris 1973 (Mute)
- Pylon Reenactment Society | Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)
- Mary Timony | Untame the Tiger (Merge)
- Ollella | Back Back Back (The Lalalalalabel)
- The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
- Sylvaine | Eg Er Framand (Season of Mist)
- Erika de Casier | Still (4AD)
- Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
- Hania Rani | Ghosts (Gondwana)
- Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
- Ducks Ltd. | Harm’s Way (Carpark)
- Vince Clarke | Songs of Silence (Mute)
- Coco | 2 (FCA)
- Marta Del Grandi | Selva (Fire)
- Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
- Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey | Compassion (ECM)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
- Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)