Top 100 Albums of the Month

April 2019

  1. Matmos | Plastic Anniversary (Thrill Jockey)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine | Doko Mien (Merge)
  3. Sons of Kemet | Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse)
  4. Ex Hex | It's Real (Merge)
  5. Durand Jones & the Indications | American Love Call (Dead Oceans)
  6. Karen O & Danger Mouse | Lux Prima (BMG)
  7. Budos Band | V (Daptone)
  8. Arp | Zebra (Mexican Summer)
  9. Skyminds | Skyminds (Auasca)
  10. Mdou Moctar | Ilana The Creator (Sahel Sounds)
  11. Solange | When I Get Home (Columbia)
  12. Weyes Blood | Titanic Rising (Sub Pop)
  13. Not Waving | Futuro (Music for the Waldorf Project)
  14. Neneh Cherry | Broken Politics (Smalltown Supersound)
  15. Jessica Pavone | In the Action (Relative Pitch)
  16. Coathangers | The Devil You Know (Suicide Squeeze)
  17. Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore | Ghost Forests (Three Lobed)
  18. Ceschi | Sad, Fat Luck (Fake Four Inc)
  19. Shana Cleveland | Night of the Worm Moon (Hardly Art)
  20. Flight of the Conchords | Live in London (Sub Pop)
  21. Andrew Bird | My Finest Work Yet (Wegawam)
  22. Light Conductor | Sequence One (Constellation)
  23. Old Time Relijun | See Now and Know (K)
  24. Little Simz | GREY Area (AGE 101)
  25. Third Coast Percussion | Perpetulum (Orange Mountain)
  26. Shlohmo | The End (Friends of Friends)
  27. Dexter Story | Bahir (Soundway)
  28. 3 Leafs | Four Blind Men (Self Released)
  29. Sasami | Sasami (Domino)
  30. Mekons | Deserted (Bloodshot)
  31. Glitter Wizard | Opera Villains (Heavy Psych Sounds)
  32. Alice Clark | Alice Clark (We Want Sounds)
  33. Aretha Franklin | Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Rhino)
  34. Shafiq Husayn | The Loop (Nature Sounds )
  35. Emily Wells | This World is Too __ For You (Thesis Instinct)
  36. George Clanton | 100% Electronica (100% Electronica)
  37. Faust | Fresh Air (Bureau B)
  38. Nicola Cruz | Siku (ZZK)
  39. Chaka Khan | Hello Happiness (Island)
  40. Houssam Gania | Mosawi Swiri (Hive Mind)
  41. Channelers | Entrance To The Next (Inner Islands)
  42. Roksonaki | Dala (S/R)
  43. Cacophony | Harmony (Fluxus)
  44. Emancipator & 9 Theory | Cheeba Gold EP (Loci)
  45. Meat Puppets | Dusty Notes (Megaforce)
  46. Hand Habits | Placeholder (Saddle Creek)
  47. Cindy | Cindy (S/R)
  48. Yola | Walk Through Fire (Easy Eye Sound)
  49. Avey Tare | Cows on Hourglass Pond (Domino)
  50. Fantastic Negrito | Please Don't Be Dead (Blackball Universe)
  51. Nick Waterhouse | Nick Waterhouse (Innovative Leisure)
  52. Bloodshot Bill | Come Get Your Love Right Now (Goner)
  53. Boy Harsher | Careful (Nude Club)
  54. Art of Flying | Escort Mission (S/R)
  55. PremRock & Fresh Kils | Shelf Life (S/R)
  56. Mecca Normal | Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
  57. Frankie Cosmos | Haunted Items (Sub Pop)
  58. Amyl and the Sniffers | Big Attraction & Giddy Up (S/R)
  59. Unloved | Heartbreak (Heavenly)
  60. Patty Griffin | Patty Griffin (Songlines)
  61. Self Jupiter | Sexy Beast (Order Label)
  62. Pearl Harbor and the Explosions | Pearl Harbor and the Explosions (Blixa)
  63. Snowdrops | Manta Ray (Gizeh)
  64. Silver Machine | Standing On the Bare Ground (Alternative Tentacles)
  65. Karyyn | The Quanta Series (Mute)
  66. Spellling | Mazy Fly (Sacred Bones)
  67. Cinematic Orchestra | To Believe (Ninja Tune)
  68. Deseos Primitivos | Existir (S/R)
  69. Buttechno | Minimal Cuts (Incienso)
  70. Brutus | Nest (Hassle)
  71. Cochemea | All My Relations (Daptone)
  72. Son Volt | Union (Transmit Sound)
  73. Ladytron | Ladytron (S/R)
  74. William Hooker | Cycle of Restoration (FPE)
  75. Chris Cohen | Chris Cohen (Captured Tracks)
  76. French Boutik | L'ame de Paris (Heavy Soul)
  77. Faint | Egowerk (Saddle Creek)
  78. These New Puritans | Inside The Rose (BMG)
  79. Giuda | E.V.A. (Burger)
  80. Girlpool | What Chaos Is Imaginary (Anti-)
  81. Blank Tapes | Candy (PIAPTK)
  82. Apparat | LP5 (Mute)
  83. Dip | The Dip Delivers (S/R)
  84. J.S. Ondara | Tales of America (Verve)
  85. Beirut | Gallipoli (4AD)
  86. ROHT | Idnsamfelagid Og Framtid Pess (Iron Lung)
  87. Baus | Songs To Snake To (Digital Regress)
  88. Deerhunter | Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD)
  89. Mike Baggetta / Jim Keltner/ Mike Watt | Wall Of Flowers (Big Ego)
  90. Orville Peck | Pony (Sub Pop)
  91. Beau Weevils | Songs In The Key of E (Blue Hat)
  92. Matthew Shipp Quartet | Sonic Fiction (ESP)
  93. Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch | An Attempt To Draw Aside The Veil (Sacred Bones)
  94. Joni Void | Mise En Abyme (Constellation)
  95. Michelle Blades | Visitor (Midnight Special)
  96. Michael Chapman | True North (Paradise of Bachelors)
  97. Broken Social Scene | Let's Try The After (Arts & Crafts)
  98. Kompromat | Traum Und Existenz (Citizen)
  99. Bells Atlas | The Mystic (Tender Loving Empire)
  100. Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky | Droneflower (Sacred Bones)