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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of May 10th, 2024

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  1. Various Artists | The Soul of Congo – Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga)
  2. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
  3. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  4. Pauline Anna Strom | Trans-Millenia Consort (RVNG Intl.)
  5. Ana Lua Caiano | Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (Glitterbeat)
  6. Sote | Ministry of Tall Tales (SVBKVLT)
  7. Bloodshot Bill | Psyche-O-Billy (Goner)
  8. Luxury Skin | It’s All Over (Luxury Skin)
  9. Meril Wubslin | Faire ça (Bongo Joe)
  10. Various Artists | Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (Light in the Attic)
  11. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Drag City)
  12. Drahla | angeltape (Captured Tracks)
  13. Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
  14. The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
  15. Amen Dunes | Death Jokes (Sub Pop)
  16. De Mar Y Rio | Bailen y Gocen (Palenque)
  17. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin | Ghosted II (Drag City)
  18. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  19. Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  20. Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  21. Clarissa Connelly | World of Work (Warp)
  22. Khruangbin | A LA SALA (Dead Oceans)
  23. Victims Family & Nasalrod | In The Modern Meatspace (Nadine)
  24. Leitmotiv Limbo | Superior State (de la Catessen)
  25. Mercer Hassy Orchestra | Duke’s Place (Self-Released)
  26. Ruth Goller | SKYLLUMINA (International Anthem)
  27. Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On The Corner)
  28. Various Artists | Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985 (Time Capsule)
  29. Kee Avil | Spine (Constellation)
  30. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  31. Can | LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (Mute)
  32. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals | The 1970s Dub Albums Collection (Doctor Bird)
  33. Cadence Weapon | ROLLERCOASTER (MNRK)
  34. Rykarda Parasol | Tuesday Morning (Self-Released)
  35. Karate Boogaloo | Hold Your Horses (Colemine)

Week of May 3rd, 2024

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  1. Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Self-Released)
  2. Khruangbin | A LA SALA (Dead Oceans)
  3. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  4. Drahla | angeltape (Captured Tracks)
  5. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  6. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
  7. The Helltones | Medusa (The Helltones)
  8. Various Artists | Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985 (Time Capsule)
  9. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
  10. Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
  11. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  12. Luxury Skin | It’s All Over (Self-Released)
  13. Somesurprises | Perseids (Doom Trip)
  14. SAICOBAB | NRTYA (Thrill Jockey)
  15. Pauline Anna Strom | Trans-Millenia Consort (RVNG Intl.)
  16. Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
  17. Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
  18. Chastity Belt | Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  19. Sote | Ministry of Tall Tales (SVBKVLT)
  20. Various Artists | The Soul of Congo – Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga)
  21. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin | Ghosted II (Drag City)
  22. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Drag City)
  23. Love Child | Never Meant to Be : 1988-1993 (12XU)
  24. Kee Avil | Spine (Constellation)
  25. Hurray for the Riff Raff | The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  26. Cleo Sol | Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  27. Magic Tuber Stringband | Needlefall (Thrill Jockey)
  28. Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
  29. Christie Dashiell | Journey In Black (Self-Released)
  30. ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
  31. En Attendant Ana | Principia (Trouble In Mind)
  32. Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  33. The Japanese House | In the End It Always Does (Dirty Hit)
  34. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals | The 1970s Dub Albums Collection (Doctor Bird)
  35. Allison Russell | The Returner (Fantasy)

Week of April 26th, 2024

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  1. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  2. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  3. Leyla McCalla | Sun Without the Heat (Anti/Epitaph)
  4. Kee Avil | Spine (Constellation)
  5. Abdallah Oumbadougou | AMGHAR The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (Petaluma)
  6. The Helltones | Medusa (Self-Released)
  7. Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
  8. Various Artists | My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
  9. Woo | Xylophonics + Robot X (Independent Project)
  10. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Drag City)
  11. Avi C. Engel | Too Many Souls (Somnimage)
  12. LFZ | Raveled Veiled Known (Gnome Life)
  13. Ben Frost | Scope Neglect (Mute)
  14. Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
  15. The Black Keys | Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
  16. Juicebumps | JUMBO (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
  17. Khruangbin | A LA SALA (Dead Oceans)
  18. Force + Jarboe | Embrace (Diamond Cutter)
  19. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG INTL.)
  20. Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
  21. dBridge | Vemödalen – EP (Exit)
  22. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
  23. ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
  24. Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
  25. Erika Angell | The Obsession With Her Voice (Constellation)
  26. Thomas Carnacki | Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
  27. Fire Trail | One of the Two (Self-Released)
  28. yeule | Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl (From “I Saw the TV Glow”) (A24 )
  29. Vera Sola | Peacemaker (Spectraphonic)
  30. Anthony Gatto | Anthony Gatto: Small Subversions (Gold Bolus)
  31. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  32. Lil Flower Nasti | Sticky (Noble House)
  33. Leitmotiv Limbo | Superior State (De La Catessen)
  34. The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
  35. Normal: Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari | Moving Parts (Fo’c’scle)

Week of April 19th, 2024

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  1. Drahla | Angeltape (Captured Tracks)
  2. Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  3. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  4. Abdallah Oumbadougou | AMGHAR The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (PETALUMA)
  5. Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
  6. Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
  7. Juicebumps | Jumbo (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
  8. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
  9. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting for Love (Drag City)
  10. Erika Angell | The Obsession with Her Voice (Constellation)
  11. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
  12. Nouvelle Vague | Should I Stay or Should I Go? ([PIAS])
  13. yeule | softscars (Ninja Tune)
  14. Kamasi Washington | Dream State (Young)
  15. Normal: Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari | Moving Parts (Fo’c’sle)
  16. Ka Baird | Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
  17. Gumby’s Junk | Demo 2023 (Self-Released)
  18. The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
  19. The Reds, Pinks and Purples | Unwishing Well (Slumberland)
  20. Force + Jarboe | Embrace (Diamond Cutter)
  21. Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On the Corner)
  22. Rosali | Bite Down (Merge Records)
  23. Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
  24. Clarissa Connelly | World of Work (Warp)
  25. Bixiga 70 | Vapor (Glitterbeat)
  26. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  27. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  28. Pylon Reenactment Society | Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)
  29. Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) | Where The River Bends Is Only the Beginning (Glitterbeat)
  30. Les Rallizes Dénudés | CITTA’ ’93 (The Last One Musique / Tuff Beats)
  31. Jenny Conlee | Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano (Jealous Butcher)
  32. Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  33. Pissed Jeans | Half Divorced (Sub Pop)
  34. Charles Mingus | Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
  35. bar italia | The Twits (Matador)

Week of April 12th, 2024

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  1. Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
  2. Cautious Clay | KARPEH (Blue Note)
  3. Los Guapos Sensibles | Gatita (Discos Mas)
  4. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  5. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
  6. Various Artists | Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación! (Bongo Joe)
  7. Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
  8. Thomas Carnacki | Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
  9. Juicebumps | Jumbo (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
  10. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
  11. The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
  12. Laetitia Sadier | Rooting For Love (Drag City)
  13. Marlov Barrios | Manjar Profano (Identidata)
  14. Drahla | angeltape (Captured Tracks)
  15. Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  16. Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
  17. Bixiga 70 | Vapor (Glitterbeat)
  18. Hartle Road | Maxx II (Perennial / K Records)
  19. Various Artists | Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants – Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 (Anthology)
  20. Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
  21. Dina Ögon | Orion (Playground Music)
  22. Caroline Polachek | Butterfly Net (feat. Weyes Blood) (Perpetual Novice)
  23. Nouvelle Vague | Should I Stay or Should I Go? ([PIAS])
  24. Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
  25. Allison Russell | The Returner (Fantasy)
  26. Clarissa Connelly | World of Work (Warp)
  27. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
  28. Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  29. Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  30. Torrey | Torrey (Slumberland)
  31. TORRES | What an enormous room (Merge)
  32. Sheer Mag | Playing Favorites (Third Man Records)
  33. Caroline Julia Cabading | Sugilanon (Patois Records)
  34. G’s Us | What Them Dogs Don’t Know They Know (Alpha Pup)
  35. Barbara Manning | Charm of Yesterday…Convenience of Tomorrow (Ba Da Bing!)

Week of April 5th, 2024

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  1. Memotone | Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
  2. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
  3. Charming Hostess | Feast (!aNGRr!)
  4. Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER (Remixes) (Ninja Tune)
  5. Sheer Mag | Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  6. Helado Negro | PHASOR (4AD)
  7. Badiaa Bouhrizi | KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
  8. Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
  9. Champagne Dub | Rainbow (On The Corner)
  10. Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
  11. Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
  12. Surplus 1980 | Illusion of Consistency (Surplus Industries)
  13. The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
  14. dBridge | Vemödalen – EP (Exit)
  15. Can | LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (Mute)
  16. Kali Malone | All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
  17. Jlin | Akoma (Planet Mu)
  18. Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
  19. Co-Pilot | Rotate (Dell’Orso)
  20. Shaina Hayes | Kindergarten Heart (Bonsound)
  21. Bixiga 70 | Vapor (Glitterbeat)
  22. Fatima | Love On Acid EP (Eglo Records)
  23. Elena Setien | Moonlit Reveries (Thrill Jockey)
  24. Dina Ögon | Orion (Playground Music)
  25. The Mutilations | It Won’t Take Long (Sausage King)
  26. Cautious Clay | KARPEH (Blue Note)
  27. AUNTY RAYZOR | Viral Wreckage (Hakuna Kulala)
  28. Pylon Reenactment Society | Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)
  29. Yin Yin | Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
  30. Faye Webster | Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  31. Cleo Sol | Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  32. Melenas | Ahora (Trouble In Mind)
  33. 33emybw | Holes of Sinian (SVBKVLT)
  34. Rubber Blanket | Our Fault (Mt.St.Mtn.)
  35. Mary Halvorson | Cloudward (Nonesuch)