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Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of February 21st, 2025

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  1. FKA twigs | EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
  2. Mulatu Astatke | Tension (Batov)
  3. Marshall Allen | New Dawn (Week-End/Mexican Summer)
  4. Lawrence English | Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room 40)
  5. Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege)
  6. Sam Amidon | Salt River (River Lea)
  7. David Bowie | Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! (Rhino)
  8. The Softies | The Bed I Made (Father/Daughter)
  9. Saint Etienne | The Night (Heavenly)
  10. Sholeh Asgary | آبـان (Aban) (Crystalline Morphologies)
  11. Ibibio Sound Machine | The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  12. Shellac | To All Trains (Touch and Go)
  13. New Order | Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) (Warner Bros.)
  14. Various Artists | Cardinals At the Window (S/R)
  15. Ethel Cain | Perverts (Daughters of Cain)
  16. Molchat Doma | Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
  17. American Patchwork Quartet | American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine)
  18. Lara Sarkissian | Remnants (Lower Grand)
  19. PyPy | Sacred Times (Goner)
  20. Oliver Coates | Throb, shiver, arrow of time (Rvng Intl.)
  21. Linda Smith | I So Liked Spring (Captured Tracks)
  22. HYPER GAL | After Image (Skin Graft)
  23. Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  24. Various Artists | Tales Of A Kitchen Porter (Dandy Boy)
  25. Cameron Winter | Heavy Metal (Partisan / Play It Again Sam)
  26. Rogê | Curyman II (Diamond West Records)
  27. Nice Biscuit | SOS (Reverbation Appreciation Society)
  28. Various Artists | Alley of the Sun (Not Not Fun)
  29. Nala Sinephro | Endlessness (Warp)
  30. Franz Ferdinand | The Human Fear (Domino)
  31. Emily D’Angelo | freezing (Deutsche Grammophon)
  32. BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL )
  33. Peter Perrett | The Cleansing (Domino)
  34. Soccer Mommy | Evergreen (Loma Vista)
  35. Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose & Scott Amendola | Here to There (Secret Hatch)

Week of February 14th, 2025

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  1. Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra | Tension (Batov)
  2. Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (20/20/20 / Domino )
  3. Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  4. Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
  5. Chuck Johnson | Sun Glories (Western Vinyl)
  6. Franz Ferdinand | The Human Fear (Domino)
  7. Various Artists | Tales Of A Kitchen Porter (Dandy Boy)
  8. Maya Beiser & Terry Riley | Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C (Islandia)
  9. Various Artists | Noise Forest (Cold Spring)
  10. Lawrence English | Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room 40)
  11. Kelly Lee Owens | Dreamstate (dh2)
  12. Novo Line | Artifact (S/R)
  13. Lara Sarkissian | Remnants (btwn Earth+Sky)
  14. People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
  15. Rogê | Curyman II (Diamond West)
  16. The Bug Club | On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
  17. Peter Perrett | The Cleansing (Domino)
  18. Shabaka | Possession (Impulse!)
  19. The Marías | Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  20. Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  21. Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
  22. Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  23. PAN Project Ensemble | Borderless Flows (Neuma)
  24. Beachwood Sparks | Across the River of Stars (Curation)
  25. Yasmin Williams | Acadia (Nonesuch)
  26. Being Dead | EELS (Bayonet)
  27. Cavalier & Child Actor | CINE (Backwoodz Studioz)
  28. New Order | Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) (WM UK)
  29. Jerron Paxton | Things Done Changed (Smithsonian Folkways)
  30. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet | The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
  31. Saint Etienne | The Night (Heavenly)
  32. Manu Chao | Viva Tu (RADIO BEMBA)
  33. Jenny Scheinman | All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
  34. Damu The Fudgemunk | Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
  35. Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)

Week of February 7th, 2025

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  1. Various Artists | Noise Forest (Cold Spring)
  2. Naked Roommate | Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  3. Mulatu Astatke | Tension (Batov)
  4. Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (Silver Current)
  5. Maya Beiser, Terry Riley | Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C (Islandia )
  6. Mogwai | The Bad Fire (Temporary Residence)
  7. Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege)
  8. Lara Sarkissian | Remnants (Btwn Earth + Sky)
  9. Chuck Johnson | Sun Glories (Western Vinyl)
  10. Shabaka | Possession (Impulse!)
  11. Bolis Pupul | Letter to Yu (Soulwax / Deewee)
  12. Feefawfum | 100 (Feefawfum)
  13. Clairo | Charm (Clairo)
  14. Aux Meadows | Aux Meadows / Dust Kingdom ( Shed)
  15. Ben Richter | Dissolution Seedlings (Sawyer Editions)
  16. Silkroad Ensemble | American Railroad (Nonesuch)
  17. Pharmakon | Maggot Mass (Sacred Bones)
  18. The Marías | Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  19. Los Bitchos | Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  20. Angelo Outlaw | Axis of Time (Eraserhood)
  21. Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
  22. Ela Minus | DÍA (Domino)
  23. Haley Heynderickx | Seed of a Seed (Mama Bird )
  24. Skyminds | Echoes On the Shore (Inner Islands)
  25. Infinite River | Tabula Rasa (Birdman)
  26. Novo Line | Artifact ( S/R)
  27. People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
  28. The Bongo Hop | La Pata Coja (Underdog)
  29. Cindy Lee | What’s Tonight to Eternity (W.25TH / Superior Viaduct)
  30. John Davis | Landlines (Students Of Decay)
  31. David Slusser | Delight At The End Of The Tunnel (Tzadik)
  32. Lexagon | Feminine Care (Ratskin)
  33. Jamie xx | In Waves (Young)
  34. África Negra | Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
  35. Okaidja Afroso | ÀBÒR ÉDIŃ (Chechekule)

Week of January 31st, 2025

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  1. Fake Fruit | Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
  2. Haley Heynderickx | Seed of a Seed (Mama Bird)
  3. Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  4. Saint Etienne | The Night (Heavenly)
  5. Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (20/20/20)
  6. Naked Roommate | Pass the Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
  7. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet | The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
  8. Being Dead | EELS (Bayonet)
  9. Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (Virgin)
  10. Father John Misty | Mahashmashana (Sub Pop )
  11. Shabaka | Possession (Impulse!)
  12. Yasmin Williams | Acadia (Nonesuch)
  13. Silkroad Ensemble | American Railroad (Nonesuch)
  14. The Marías | Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  15. Crizin da Z.O. | Acelero (QTV)
  16. Rogê | Curyman II (Diamond West)
  17. Ibibio Sound Machine | The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  18. sm^sher | pit of mine (Scrawl World)
  19. Various Artists | Alley Of The Sun (Not Not Fun)
  20. Aux Meadows | Aux Meadows / Dust Kingdom (Perpetual Doom)
  21. Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because)
  22. Anoice | Stories in White (Ricco)
  23. Moor Mother | The Great Bailout (Anti/Epitaph)
  24. Robber Robber | Wild Guess (S/R)
  25. Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
  26. MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti/Epitaph)
  27. Aboubakar Traoré & Balima | Sababu (Zephyrus)
  28. Girl Ultra | blush (Big Dada)
  29. Sholeh Asgary | آبـان (Aban) (Crystalline Morphologies)
  30. Deeper | Auto-Pain (Fire Talk)
  31. Kolonel Djafaar | Getaway (Batov)
  32. TENGGER | EARTHING (S/R)
  33. Alan Pierson & Alarm Will Sound | Donnacha Dennehy: Land of Winter (Nonesuch)
  34. Bhutan Balladeers | Your Face Is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars (Glitterbeat)
  35. The Headhunters | The Stunt Man (Ropeadope)

Week of January 24th, 2025

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  1. Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
  2. Brijean | Macro (Ghostly International)
  3. Fake Fruit | Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
  4. Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (20/20/20 / Silver Current)
  5. Nilüfer Yanya | My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
  6. Artificial Go | Hopscotch Fever (Feel It)
  7. Clairo | Charm (Clairo)
  8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor | “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” (Constellation)
  9. Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
  10. MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti-/Epitaph)
  11. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | Woodland (Acony)
  12. Skyminds | Echoes on the Shore (Inner Islands)
  13. Haley Heynderickx | Seed of a Seed (Mama Bird)
  14. Tindersticks | Soft Tissue (City Slang)
  15. Seefeel | Everything Squared (Warp)
  16. Onra | Nosthaigia (All City Dublin)
  17. Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (Rough Trade)
  18. Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  19. Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  20. LA LOM | The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (Verve)
  21. The Bongo Hop | La Pata Coja (Underdog)
  22. Julián Mayorga | Chak Chak Chak Chak (Glitterbeat)
  23. Suuns | The Breaks (Joyful Noise)
  24. Shizukana | Domestification of Domestic Violence (S/R)
  25. Richard Thompson | Ship To Shore (New West)
  26. Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose & Scott Amendola | Here to There (Secret Hatch)
  27. Claude Fontaine | La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
  28. Peter Perrett | The Cleansing (Domino)
  29. The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
  30. Prefuse 73 | New Strategies for Modern Crime Volume 1 & 2 (Lex)
  31. Various Artists | Late Night Phone Call (Edgetone)
  32. Damu The Fudgemunk | Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
  33. Winged Wheel | Big Hotel (12XU)
  34. Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
  35. Melt-Banana | 3+5 (AZAP)

Week of January 17th, 2025

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  1. Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
  2. Skyminds | Echoes on the Shore (Inner Islands)
  3. The Jesus Lizard | Rack (Ipecac)
  4. People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
  5. Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
  6. The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
  7. Peace De Résistance | Lullaby For the Debris (La Vida Es Un Mus)
  8. Seefeel | Everything Squared (Warp)
  9. The Bug Club | On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
  10. Onra | Nosthaigia (All City Dublin)
  11. Melt-Banana | 3+5 (A-ZAP)
  12. Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  13. Avalanche Kaito | Talitakum (Glitterbeat)
  14. Liana Flores | Flower of the soul (Verve)
  15. Qoa | SAUCO (Leaving)
  16. Molchat Doma | Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
  17. Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because Music)
  18. Dummy | Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
  19. Various Artists | Alley Of The Sun (Not Not Fun)
  20. Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
  21. Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown (Domino )
  22. Charming Hostess | Feast (!aNGRr!)
  23. Meridian Brothers | Mi Latinoamérica Sufre (Ansonia)
  24. Oï les Ox | Al les Axes (Constructive)
  25. Church Chords | elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
  26. Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
  27. The Marías | Submarine (Nice Life)
  28. Lenhart Tapes | Džamahirija (Glitterbeat)
  29. Jamie xx | In Waves (Young)
  30. Bolis Pupul | Letter to Yu (Bolis Pupul)
  31. Ritmos Tropicosmos | La Vida Es Pa’ Vivir (Econo Jam)
  32. Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  33. Geordie Greep | The New Sound (Rough Trade)
  34. Crumbs | You’re Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
  35. Manu Chao | Viva Tu (Because )