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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of July 1st, 2013

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  1. Shannon and the Clams | Dreams in the Rat House (Hardly Art)
  2. Bibio | Silver Wilkinson (Warp)
  3. Boards of Canada | Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)
  4. STUDIO ONE IRONSIDES | Various Artists (Soul Jazz)
  5. Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkeybirds | Haunted Head (In the Red)
  6. Baths | Obsidian (Anticon)
  7. Savages | Silence Yourself (Matador)
  8. Mikal Cronin | MC II (Merge)
  9. Tricky | False Idols (False Idols / !K7)
  10. Beach Day | Trip Trap Attack (Kanine)
  11. Sigur Ros | Kveikur (XL)
  12. Bob Marley & The Wailers | Legend Remixed (Tuff Gong)
  13. Am & Shawn Lee | La Musique Numerique (Park The Van)
  14. CSS | Planta (SQE)
  15. Disclosure | Settle (Cherry Tree)
  16. Beacon | The Ways We Separate (Ghostly)
  17. ADULT | The Way Things Fall (Ghostly International)
  18. The National | Trouble will Find me (4AD)
  19. Jon Hopkins | Immunity (Domino)
  20. John Vanderslice | Dagger Beach (Tiny Telephone)
  21. Date Palms | The Dusted Sessions (Thrill Jockey)
  22. Future Bible Heros | Partygoing (Merge)
  23. Xenia Rubinos | Magic Trix (Jaba Jaba Music)
  24. White Fence | Cyclops Reap (Castle Face)
  25. Spaceheads | Sun Radar (Electric Brass)
  26. Deafheaven | Sunbather (Deathwish)
  27. Woolen Men | Dog Years (S/R)
  28. Dessa | Parts of Speech (Doomtree)
  29. Smith Westerns | Soft Will (Mom +Pop)
  30. King Tuff | Was Dead (Burger)
  31. Stranglers | Giants (S/R)
  32. Aloha Screwdriver | The Haunted Planet (S/R)
  33. Ariel Pink | Thrash and Burn (Hem)
  34. Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light (Constellation)
  35. Savages | Silence Yourself (Matador)

Week of June 17th, 2013

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  1. STUDIO ONE IRONSIDES | Various Artists (Soul Jazz)
  2. Shannon and the Clams | Dreams in the Rat House (Hardly Art)
  3. Sigur Ros | Kveikur (XL)
  4. Stranglers | Giants (S/R)
  5. Beacon | The Ways We Separate (Ghostly)
  6. Camera Obscura | Desire Lines (4AD)
  7. Dub Gabriel | Raggabass Resistance (Destroy All Concepts)
  8. Wax Idols | Discipline + Desire (Slumberland)
  9. Oblivians | Desperation (In The Red)
  10. The National | Trouble will Find me (4AD)
  11. Daft Punk | Random Access Memories (Columbia)
  12. Pastels | Slow Summits (Domino)
  13. Hopie | Sugar Water ()
  14. Wolf Eyes | No Answer – Lower Floors (De Stijl)
  15. Deerhunter | Monomania (4AD)
  16. Bleached | Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
  17. CHANGE THE BEAT: THE CELLULOID RECORDS STORY 1980 – 1987 | Various Artists (Celluloid)
  18. Chicharones | Swine Flew (Camobear)
  19. Disclosure | Settle (Cherry Tree)
  20. Mikal Cronin | MC II (Merge)
  21. Gold Panda | Half of Where You Live (Ghostly)
  22. CocoRosie | Tales of a Grasswidow (S/R)
  23. Rogue Wave | Nightingale Floors (Vagrant)
  24. White Fence | Cyclops Reap (Castle Face)
  25. Man or Astro-man | Defcon…5…4…3…2…1 (Communicating Vessels)
  26. The Thermals | Desperate Ground (Saddle Creek)
  27. Deap Vally | Get Deap (Cherry Tree Records)
  28. English Singles | Ordinary Girls (Slumberland)
  29. OMD | English Electric (BMG)
  30. Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito (Interscope)
  31. The Flaming Lips | The Terror (Warner Brothers)
  32. Mick Harvey | Four (Acts of Love) (Mute)
  33. ZENDOONI | Various Artists (Pharaway Sounds)
  34. Dungeonesse | s/t (Secretly Canadian)
  35. Savages | Silence Yourself (Matador)

Week of June 10th, 2013

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  1. Camera Obscura | Desire Lines (4AD)
  2. ADULT | The Way Things Fall (Ghostly International)
  3. The Knife | Shaking the Habitual (Rabid)
  4. Xenia Rubinos | Magic Trix (Jaba Jaba Music)
  5. Mikal Cronin | MC II (Merge)
  6. Man or Astro-man | Defcon…5…4…3…2…1 (Communicating Vessels)
  7. Beacon | The Ways We Separate (Ghostly)
  8. Burnt Ones | You'll Never Walk Alone (Burger Records)
  9. CocoRosie | Tales of a Grasswidow (S/R)
  10. Myron & E with the Soul Investigators | Broadway (Stones Throw)
  11. CSC Funk Band | Funkincense (Electric Cowbell)
  12. Sao Paulo Underground | Beija Flors Velho E Sujo (Cuneiform)
  13. The National | Trouble will Find me (4AD)
  14. Ocean View | Ocean.Puke.Future (Big Oil)
  15. Shannon and the Clams | Dreams in the Rat House (Hardly Art)
  16. Merchandise | Total Nite (Night People)
  17. Stranglers | Giants (S/R)
  18. Evil Needle | Qualia (Huh What and Where)
  19. Taylor Deupree | Faint (12k Music)
  20. 49 Americans | We Know Nonsense (Staubgold)
  21. ZENDOONI | Various Artists (Pharaway Sounds)
  22. Tandyn Almer | Along Comes Tandyn (Sundazed)
  23. James Blackshaw | Love is The Plan The Plan Is Death (Important)
  24. Wild Nothing | Empty Estate (Captured Tracks)
  25. STUDIO ONE IRONSIDES | Various Artists (Soul Jazz)
  26. Eleanor Friedberger | Personal Record (Merge)
  27. Sigur Ros | Kveikur (XL)
  28. Bleached | Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
  29. ROCKET INFINITY | Various Artists (Canary/Mississippi/Change)
  30. The Kahil El'Zabar Quartet | What It Is! (Delmark Records)
  31. Space Waves | You Can Ride A Beam Of Light Like A Musical Strum (Mindwave)
  32. Barn Owl | V (Thrill Jockey Records)
  33. Banque Allemande | Willst du Chinese ()
  34. Purling Hiss | Water On Mars (Planetary)
  35. Various Artists | STUDIO ONE IRONSIDES (Soul Jazz)

Week of June 3rd, 2013

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  1. CocoRosie | Tales of a Grasswidow (S/R)
  2. ADULT | The Way Things Fall (Ghostly International)
  3. !!! (Chk Chk Chk) | Thr!!!er (WARP)
  4. OMD | English Electric (BMG)
  5. Man or Astro-man | Defcon…5…4…3…2…1 (Communicating Vessels)
  6. Neon Neon | Praxis Makes Perfect (Lex Records)
  7. Rainbow Arabia | FM Sushi (Time No Place/ Kompakt)
  8. Alice Russell | To Dust (Tru Thoughts)
  9. Mikal Cronin | MC II (Merge)
  10. Metal Mother | Ionika (Post Primal)
  11. Camper Van Beethoven | La Costa Perdida (429)
  12. ZENDOONI | Various Artists (Pharaway Sounds)
  13. Mavericks | In Time (The Valory Music)
  14. James Blake | Overgrown (Republic Records)
  15. Carla Bruni | Little French Songs (Verve)
  16. Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light (Constellation)
  17. Charles Bradley | Victim Of Love (Dunham Records)
  18. Akron/Family | Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
  19. Am & Shawn Lee | La Musique Numerique (Park The Van)
  20. Warm Soda | Some One For You (Castleface)
  21. Alpine | A is for Alpine (Ivy League)
  22. The Four Slicks | Four On The Floor (S-R)
  23. Bleached | Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
  24. Barn Owl | V (Thrill Jockey Records)
  25. Erkin Koray | Arap Saci (Pharaway Sounds)
  26. Wax Idols | Discipline + Desire (Slumberland)
  27. Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
  28. She & Him | Volume 3 (Merge)
  29. Thee Oh Sees | Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
  30. James Blackshaw | Love is The Plan The Plan Is Death (Important)
  31. Classixx | Hanging Gardens (Innovative Leisure)
  32. El Ten Eleven | Transitions Remixed (Fake)
  33. Afrolicious | California Dreaming (S/R)
  34. Thee Oh Sees | Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
  35. Geater Davis | Lost Soul (Ubiquity)

Week of May 27th, 2013

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  1. Bonobo | The North Borders (Ninja Tune)
  2. CHANGE THE BEAT: THE CELLULOID RECORDS STORY 1980 – 1987 | Various Artists (Celluloid)
  3. Cayucas | Bigfoot (Secretly Canadian)
  4. Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
  5. The Knife | Shaking the Habitual (Rabid)
  6. BOYS CAN BE MEAN | Various Artists (Charly)
  7. Sao Paulo Underground | Beija Flors Velho E Sujo (Cuneiform)
  8. Erkin Koray | Arap Saci (Pharaway Sounds)
  9. Wavves | Afraid Of Heights (WB)
  10. Bombino | Nomad (Nonesuch)
  11. Charles Bradley | Victim Of Love (Dunham Records)
  12. Carla Bruni | Little French Songs (Verve)
  13. El Radio Fantastique | Waking the dead (s/r)
  14. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou | Volume Three – The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk 1969-1980 (Analog Africa)
  15. She & Him | Volume 3 (Merge)
  16. Radiation City | Animals In the Median (Tender Loving Empire)
  17. James Blake | Overgrown (Republic Records)
  18. Cheick Hamala Diabate | Prudence (Electric Cowbell Records)
  19. Crankshaft And The Gear Grinders | What you gonna do? (s/r)
  20. Houses | A Quiet Darkness (Downtown Records)
  21. Fela Kuti | The Best of the Black President 2 (Kalakuta Sunrise)
  22. Bomba Est | Elegancia Tropical (Soundway)
  23. Akron/Family | Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
  24. The Flaming Lips | The Terror (Warner Brothers)
  25. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba | Jama Ko (Outhere Records)
  26. Kaleidoscope Jukebox | Infinite Reflection (Rhythm & Culture Music)
  27. Stages of Sleep | S/T (S/R)
  28. SPIRITUAL JAZZ VOL. 3 | Various Artists (Jazzman)
  29. Tom Jones | Spirit In The Room (Rounder)
  30. Veronica Falls | Waiting For Something To Happen (Slumberland)
  31. Talk Normal | Sunshine (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  32. Charles Bradley | Victim Of Love (Dunham Records)
  33. Barn Owl | V (Thrill Jockey Records)
  34. CHANGE THE BEAT: THE CELLULOID RECORDS STORY 1980 – 1987 | Various Artists (Celluloid)
  35. !!! (Chk Chk Chk) | Thr!!!er (WARP)

Week of May 20th, 2013

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  1. Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children MacNuggits | Trainwreck To Narnia (Rooftop Comedy)
  2. ZENDOONI | Various Artists (Pharaway Sounds)
  3. Carla Bruni | Little French Songs (Verve)
  4. R&B HIPSHAKERS VOL. 3 | Various Artists (Vampi Soul)
  5. She & Him | Volume 3 (Merge)
  6. The Flaming Lips | The Terror (Warner Brothers)
  7. Bonobo | The North Borders (Ninja Tune)
  8. Stages of Sleep | S/T (S/R)
  9. Alice Russell | To Dust (Tru Thoughts)
  10. English Singles | Ordinary Girls (Slumberland)
  11. OMD | English Electric (BMG)
  12. Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light (Constellation)
  13. El Radio Fantastique | Waking the dead (s/r)
  14. Akron/Family | Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
  15. Am & Shawn Lee | La Musique Numerique (Park The Van)
  16. Deerhunter | Monomania (4AD)
  17. Khat Thaleth, Third Line: Initiative for the Elevation of Public Awareness | Various Artists (S/R)
  18. Purling Hiss | Water On Mars (Planetary)
  19. Kaleidoscope Jukebox | Infinite Reflection (Rhythm & Culture Music)
  20. The Knife | Shaking the Habitual (Rabid)
  21. CSC Funk Band | Funkincense (Electric Cowbell)
  22. Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
  23. Caitlin Rose | The Stand-In (ATO Records)
  24. Legs | Pass the Ringo (Loglady)
  25. BOYS CAN BE MEAN | Various Artists (Charly)
  26. Bombino | Nomad (Nonesuch)
  27. Nadia Sirota | Baroque (Bedroom Community)
  28. Erkin Koray | Arap Saci (Pharaway Sounds)
  29. Voodoo Swing | Fast Cars, Guitars, Tattoos & Scars ()
  30. CHINESE ROCKS | Various Artists (Outhouse)
  31. Matmos | The Marriage of True Minds (Thrill Jockey)
  32. Tom Jones | Spirit In The Room (Rounder)
  33. Bleached | Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
  34. Erkin Koray | Arap Saci (Pharaway Sounds)
  35. Wire | Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)