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Top 100 Albums of the Month - May 2016

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  1. Julianna Barwick | Will (Dead Oceans)
  2. Bombino | Azel (Partisan)
  3. Suuns | Hold/Still (Secretly Canadian)
  4. Tim Hecker | Love Streams (4AD)
  5. Cate Le Bon | Crab Day (Drag City)
  6. Higher Authorities | Neptune (Domino)
  7. Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label | V/A (Numero Group)
  8. Kaytranada | 99.90% (XL Recordings)
  9. Dday One | Gathered Between (Content Label)
  10. Buyepongo | Todo Mundo (s/r)
  11. The Coathangers | Nosebleed Weekend (Suicide Squeeze)
  12. Ash Koosha | I AKA I (Ninja Tune)
  13. Eno Brian | The Ship (Warp)
  14. Sonic Youth | Sister (Revolver USA)
  15. Patrick Cowley | Muscle Up (Dark Entries)
  16. Parquet Courts | Human Performance (Rough Trade)
  17. Laurie Anderson | Heart of a Dog (Nonesuch)
  18. In Letter Form | Fracture. Repair. Repeat. (Metropolis)
  19. Mr. Lif | Don't Look Down (Mello Music)
  20. D-Town Brass | Golden Belt (s/r)
  21. Bronze | Live in San Francisco (Castle Face Records)
  22. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard | Nonagon Infinity (ATO Records)
  23. Aesop Rock | The Impossible Kid (Rhymesayers)
  24. Ceu | Tropix (Six Degrees)
  25. Marissa Nadler | Strangers (Sacred Bones)
  26. Autolux | Pussy's Dead (30th Century)
  27. Public Memory | Wuthering Drum (Felte)
  28. The Cactus Blossoms | You're Dreaming (Red House Records)
  29. Charles Bradley | Changes (Daptone)
  30. Anohni | Hopelessness (Secretly Canadian)
  31. Third Coast Percussion | Steve Reich (Cedille)
  32. Santigold | 99 Cents (Atlantic)
  33. Star Wars | Headspace (Hollywood)
  34. The Goat Family | The Devil Can Eat My Dust ()
  35. Samiyam | Animals Have Feelings (Stones Throw)
  36. Dimesland | Psychogenic Atrophy (Crucial Blast)
  37. Bur Gur | Have you lost your faith in God? (New Los Angeles)
  38. Goon Sax | Up to Anything (Chapter Music)
  39. Kyle Craft | Dolls of Highland (Sub Pop)
  40. Toujours Chic! | V/A (Ace)
  41. Eskimeaux | Year of the Rabbit (Double Double Whammy)
  42. Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed | V/A (Analog Africa)
  43. Debo Band | Ere Gobez (FPE)
  44. Mark Pritchard | Under the Sun (Warp)
  45. Nineteen | V/A (Numero Group)
  46. Maurice Tani | The White Water (WIR)
  47. Metallica | Ride the Lightning (Blackened Recordings)
  48. Andrew Bird | Are You Serious (Loma Vista Recordings)
  49. Claire Cronin | Came Down A Storm (Ba Da Bing)
  50. Citizen Kay | With The People (asphalt)
  51. Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil | Dois Amigos, Um Secula De Musica (nonesuch)
  52. Kitten Forever | 7 Hearts (Atlas Chair Records)
  53. C.W. Stoneking | Gon' Boogaloo (King Hokum)
  54. El Radio Fantastique | Shine EP (S/R)
  55. Summer Twins | Limbo (Burger )
  56. Tacocat | Lost Time (Hardly Art)
  57. Anna Homler & Steve Moshier | Breadwoman & Other Tales (RVNG)
  58. Naked Lights | On Nature (Castle Face)
  59. Beverly | The Blue Swell (Kanine)
  60. Emapea | Seeds, Roots & Fruits (Cold Busted)
  61. Adult Books | Running from the Blows (Lolipop)
  62. Tony Joe White | Rain Crow (yep roc)
  63. Drinking Flowers | New Swirled Order (Manifesto)
  64. Kid Congo and the Pink Monkeybirds | La Arana es La Vida (In the Red)
  65. Jessy Lanza | Oh No (Hyperdub)
  66. AhSa-Ti Nu | Reborn ()
  67. Lights | Midnight Machines (warner bros)
  68. Gazebos | Die Alone (Hardly Art)
  69. Lithics | Borrowed Floors (Water Wing)
  70. Fruit Bats | Absolute Loser (Easy Sound Recording Co.)
  71. Digitalism | Mirage (Magnetism)
  72. Yeasayer | Amen & Goodbye (Mute)
  73. Marcella Puppini | Everything Is Beautiful (Dead 2 Me)
  74. Jeff Buckley | You and I (Columbia)
  75. Auscultation | Spiritland (s/r)
  76. Jean-Michel Jarre | Electronica 2 – The Heart of Noise (Sony)
  77. John Carpenter | John Carpenter's Lost Themes II (Sacred Bones)
  78. Electric Guitar Quartet | Instruments of Happiness (Starkland)
  79. CB-R | Obstructed Transmissions (Jacktones)
  80. Prix | Historix (Hozac )
  81. John Adams | City Noir / Saxophone Concerto (Nonesuch Records)
  82. Mean Jeans | Tight New Dimension (FAT wreck chords)
  83. Kevin Morby | Singing Saw (Dead Oceans)
  84. Holy Wave | Freaks Of Nurture (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  85. Negative Scanner | Negative Scanner (Trouble In Mind)
  86. Offwhyte | Dialogue (Galapagos4)
  87. Christine Jane | sinners come and go (S/R)
  88. 10isee Williams | Gorilla Warfare (Tinderbox)
  89. Acapulco Lips | s/t (Killroom Records)
  90. Ultra High Frequencies: The Chicago Party | V/A (Numero Group)
  91. Jungle: Mat Walerman, Matthew Shipp, Hamid Drake | Live at Okuden (ESP-DIsk)
  92. PJ Harvey | The Hope Six Demolition Project (Island)
  93. Homeboy Sandman | Kindness for Weakness (Stones Throw)
  94. Hunches | The Hunches (Almost Ready)
  95. Supermoon | Playland (Mint)
  96. Kurt Stenzel | Jodorowsky's Dune (Cinewax)
  97. Ultimate Painting | Live at Third Man Records (Third Man)
  98. James Blake | The Colour In Anything (Republic)
  99. Useless Eaters | Relaxing Death (Castle Face)
  100. Lavender | Horizons Beneath the Surface (Jacktone)

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