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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of February 17th, 2014

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  1. Dom La Nena | Golondrina (Six Degrees)
  2. Cibo Matto | Hotel Valentine (Chimera)
  3. ANGOLA SOUNDTRACK 2 | Various Artists (Analog Africa)
  4. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings | Give the People What They Want (Daptone)
  5. Cheap Time | Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  6. Debruit & Alsarah | Aljawal (Sounway)
  7. Bubblegum Lemonade | Some Like It Pop (Matin)
  8. Dum Dum Girls | Too True (Sub Pop)
  9. La Luz | It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  10. Hospitality | Trouble (Merge)
  11. Angel Olsen | Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  12. Pow! | Hi-Tech Boom (Castle Face)
  13. Psycotic Pineapple | S/T (Psynotic)
  14. Lambchop | Nixon (Merge)
  15. Laura Cantrell | No Way There From Here (Thrift Shop)
  16. Mogwai | Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
  17. Ane Brun | Rarities (Balloon Ranger)
  18. Damien Jurado | Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (Secretly Canadian)
  19. Linnea Olsson | Ah! (G)
  20. Chastity Belt | No Regerts (Help Yourself)
  21. Inside Llewyn Davis | S/T (Nonesuch Records)
  22. Inf | Music for Crimes Scenes (Beats Broke)
  23. Nick Waterhouse | Holly (Innovative Leisure)
  24. Asheru | Sleepless In Soweto (Guerilla Arts)
  25. Amason | S/T (Ingrid)
  26. Warpaint | S/T (Rough Trade)
  27. Milosh | Jet Lag (Deadly)
  28. JD Wilkes and the Dirt Daubers | Wild Moon (Plowboy)
  29. CJ Ramone | Reconquista (The Raven and The Crow Inc.)
  30. Haden Triplets | S/T (Third Man Records)
  31. Darkside | Psychic (Matador)
  32. Shoko Hikage | Inishie No (Womens Work Recordings)
  33. KK Null & Israel Martinez & Lumen Lab | Incognita (Aagoo)
  34. Plateaus | Wasting Time (Mt. St. Mtn)
  35. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings | Give the People What They Want (Daptone)

Week of February 10th, 2014

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  1. Dum Dum Girls | Too True (Sub Pop)
  2. Hospitality | Trouble (Merge)
  3. Cibo Matto | Hotel Valentine (Chimera)
  4. La Luz | It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  5. Cheap Time | Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  6. Albertans | Dangerous Anything (Ernest Jenning)
  7. Billie Joe + Norah | Foreverly (Reprise)
  8. Gardens & Villa | Dunes (Secretly Canadian)
  9. The Spyrals | Out of Sight (Mock)
  10. Haden Triplets | S/T (Third Man Records)
  11. Foom | No Fidelity Audio (NFA)
  12. Angelique Kidjo | Eve (429)
  13. Marshall Holland And The Etcetteras | s/t (Mystery Lawn)
  14. Black Hollies | Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere (Ernest Jenning Record Company)
  15. Darkside | Psychic (Matador)
  16. Habibi | s/t (Burger)
  17. Angel Olsen | Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  18. Soviet Soviet | Fate (Felte)
  19. Hubble | Hubble Eagle (NNA Tapes)
  20. Pow! | Hi-Tech Boom (Castle Face)
  21. Scott H. Biram | Nothin' But Blood (Bloodshot)
  22. Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests | Moa Anbersa (Terp)
  23. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra | Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything ()
  24. Al Bilali Soudan | s/t (Clermont Music)
  25. Bavaria | We'll Take a Dive (N5Md)
  26. Gangstagrass | Broken Hearts and Stolen Money (Rench Audio)
  27. Quilt | Held In Splender (Mexican Summer)
  28. Sax Ruins | Blimmguass (Skin Graft)
  29. Dom La Nena | Golondrina (Six Degrees)
  30. Cocktails | Friday (Grazer)
  31. Ernest Gibson | Island Records (Lapsis Group)
  32. White Hills | So You Are… So You'll Be (Thrill Jockey)
  33. Cave | Threace (Drag City)
  34. Rabbit Rabbit Radio | Volume 1 (s/r)
  35. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings | Give the People What They Want (Daptone)

Week of February 3rd, 2014

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  1. Darkside | Psychic (Matador)
  2. La Luz | It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  3. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks | Wig Out At Jagbags (Matador)
  4. Dum Dum Girls | Too True (Sub Pop)
  5. Cocktails | Friday (Grazer)
  6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Live from KCRW (Bad Seed)
  7. Pow! | Hi-Tech Boom (Castle Face)
  8. Black Hollies | Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere (Ernest Jenning Record Company)
  9. Cheap Time | Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  10. Dom La Nena | Golondrina (Six Degrees)
  11. Azure Blue | Beyond the Dreams there's Infinite Doubt (Matin)
  12. Myron & E with Soul Investigators | Broadway (Stones Throw)
  13. Milosh | Jet Lag (Deadly)
  14. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra | Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything ()
  15. Angel Olsen | Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  16. Burial | Rival Dealer (Hyperdub)
  17. Mogwai | Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
  18. Andrew Bird | I Want To See Pulaski at Night (Wegawam Music Co)
  19. bEEdEEgEE | SUM/ONE (4AD)
  20. Debruit & Alsarah | Aljawal (Sounway)
  21. Ghost Bike | Sun of the Dead (n5md)
  22. Ghost Train Orchestra | Book of Rhapsodies (Accurate)
  23. ANGOLA SOUNDTRACK 2 | Various Artists (Analog Africa)
  24. Cibo Matto | Hotel Valentine (Chimera)
  25. Blackie and the Rodeo Kings | South (File Under Music)
  26. Ian Fays | The Most Spectacular Party (We Were Never Boring Collective)
  27. Lubomyr Melnyk | Three Solo Pieces (Unseen Worlds)
  28. Neil Young | Live at the Cellar Door (Reprise)
  29. Nils Frahm | Spaces (Erased Tapes)
  30. Gangstagrass | Broken Hearts and Stolen Money (Rench Audio)
  31. Bavaria | We'll Take a Dive (N5Md)
  32. Sleepin' Rattlers | Punktry & Western Music (S/R)
  33. MW Ensemble | 6 Songs (75 or Less)
  34. Plankton Wat | Drifter's Temple (Thrill Jockey)
  35. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings | Give the People What They Want (Daptone)

Week of January 27th, 2014

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  1. Dum Dum Girls | Too True (Sub Pop)
  2. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks | Wig Out At Jagbags (Matador)
  3. Sax Ruins | Blimmguass (Skin Graft)
  4. Jessica Pratt | S/T (Birth)
  5. R. Stevie Moore | Personal Appeal (Care in the Community)
  6. Rabbit Rabbit Radio | Volume 1 (s/r)
  7. White Hills | So You Are… So You'll Be (Thrill Jockey)
  8. Billie Joe + Norah | Foreverly (Reprise)
  9. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra | Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything ()
  10. Andrew Bird | I Want To See Pulaski at Night (Wegawam Music Co)
  11. Soviet Soviet | Fate (Felte)
  12. Albertans | Dangerous Anything (Ernest Jenning)
  13. Cheap Time | Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  14. Lonnie Holley | Keeping A Record of It (Dust-to-Digital)
  15. Buddha Bass | Soulfood (Soulfood)
  16. La Luz | It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  17. Toy | Join the Dots (Heavenly Records)
  18. Run DMT | Run DMT (co-sign and 4th Wall Records)
  19. Black Hollies | Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere (Ernest Jenning Record Company)
  20. The Low Frequency In Stereo | Pop Obskura (Long Branch)
  21. Preghost | Ghost Story (n5MD)
  22. Cocktails | Friday (Grazer)
  23. Bavaria | We'll Take a Dive (N5Md)
  24. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Live from KCRW (Bad Seed)
  25. The Spyrals | Out of Sight (Mock)
  26. Neil Young | Live at the Cellar Door (Reprise)
  27. Mogwai | Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
  28. Bardo Pond | Peace on Venus (Fire Records)
  29. Painted Palms | Forever (Polyvinyl)
  30. Ernest Gibson | Island Records (Lapsis Group)
  31. Bubblegum Lemonade | Some Like It Pop (Matin)
  32. Blackie and the Rodeo Kings | South (File Under Music)
  33. Ryan Hemsworth | Guilt Trips (Last Gang)
  34. Shoko Hikage | Inishie No (Womens Work Recordings)
  35. Arcade Fire | Reflektor (Merge)

Week of January 20th, 2014

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  1. Juana Molina | Wed 21 (Crammed Disco)
  2. Omar Souleyman | Wenu Wenu (Ribbon Music)
  3. Cocktails | S/T (Father Daughter)
  4. Courtney Barnett | The Double EP: A Sea Of Split Peas (Marathon)
  5. No Bird Sings | Definition Sickness (Strange Famous)
  6. Jessica Pratt | S/T (Birth)
  7. Phantogram | s/t (Barsuk)
  8. William Onyeabor | Who Is William Onyeabor (Luaka Bop)
  9. First Base! | S/T (Hozac)
  10. The Blow | S/T (Kanine)
  11. Hammered Satin | Glamorama (Burger/Diamond Fist)
  12. Cate Le Bon | Mug Museum (Wichita)
  13. Nils Frahm | Spaces (Erased Tapes)
  14. Lucius | Wildwoman (Mom & Pop)
  15. Shoko Hikage | Inishie No (Womens Work Recordings)
  16. Destroyer | Five Spanish Songs (Merge)
  17. Darkside | Psychic (Matador)
  18. The Devil Makes Three | I'm a Stranger Here (New West)
  19. Wooden Shjips | Back to Land (Thrill Jockey)
  20. Blood Orange | Cupid Delux (Domino)
  21. Joann Jett & The Blackhearts | Unvarnished (Blackheart Records)
  22. Ducktails | Wish Hotel (Domino)
  23. Daedelus | Drown Out (Anticon)
  24. Gap Dream | Shine Your Light (Burger)
  25. bEEdEEgEE | SUM/ONE (4AD)
  26. Polica | Shulamith (Mom+Pop)
  27. Los Campesinos! | No Blues (Wichita)
  28. Cut Copy | Free Your Mind (Loma Vista)
  29. Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band | Take Me To The Land of Hell (Chimera)
  30. Black Hollies | Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere (Ernest Jenning Record Company)
  31. ANGOLA SOUNDTRACK 2 | Various Artists (Analog Africa)
  32. Beats Antique | A Thousand Faces Act. 1 (Beats Antique)
  33. Yamantaka // Sonic Titan | UZU (Suicide Squeeze)
  34. Anna Calvi | One Breath (Domino)
  35. Anna Calvi | One Breath (Domino)

Week of January 13th, 2014

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  1. Blood Orange | Cupid Delux (Domino)
  2. Ane Brun | Rarities (Balloon Ranger)
  3. Billie Joe + Norah | Foreverly (Reprise)
  4. Polyrhythmics | Libra Stripes (Kept Records)
  5. Angola Soundtrack 2 | V/A (Analog Africa)
  6. Ernest Gibson | Island Records (Lapsis Group)
  7. Rokia Traore | Beautiful Africa (Nonesuch)
  8. M.I.A. | Matangi (Interscope)
  9. Darkside | Psychic (Matador)
  10. AFROBEAT AIRWAYS 2 | Various Artists (Analog Africa)
  11. William Parker | Wood Flute Songs (Aum Fidelity)
  12. Glaxo Babies | Put Me on the Guest List (Superior Viaduct)
  13. Brigitte Fontaine | Est…Folle (Superior Viaduct)
  14. Caroline Smith | Half About Being a Woman (United Interest)
  15. Arcade Fire | Reflektor (Merge)
  16. Neil Young | Live at the Cellar Door (Reprise)
  17. Joann Jett & The Blackhearts | Unvarnished (Blackheart Records)
  18. Daedelus | Drown Out (Anticon)
  19. Tennis | Small Sound (Communion)
  20. Oozing Wound | Retrash (Thrill Jockey)
  21. Morcheeba | Head Up High (G Pias)
  22. Lonnie Holley | Keeping A Record of It (Dust-to-Digital)
  23. Lord Echo | Curiosities (Bastard Jazz)
  24. Kugelplex | The Frail Branch (Odd Shaped Case)
  25. Lady Lazarus | All My Love in Half Light (s/r)
  26. The Devil Makes Three | I'm a Stranger Here (New West)
  27. Mallu | Highly Sensitive (Sony)
  28. Cults | Static (Columbia Records)
  29. Boogarins | As Plantas Que Curam (Other)
  30. Cosmonauts | Persona Non Grata (Burger)
  31. Rabbit Rabbit Radio | Volume 1 (s/r)
  32. Inf | Music for Crimes Scenes (Beats Broke)
  33. Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (Consellation)
  34. Diego Garcia | Paradise (Concord)
  35. Polyrhythmics | Libra Stripes (Kept Records)