Top 100 Albums of the Month

April 2018

  1. Shannon and the Clams | Onion (Easy Eye Sound)
  2. Khruangbin | Con Todo El Mundo (Dead Oceans)
  3. Django Django | Marble Skies (Because)
  4. Bjork | Utopia (One Little Indian)
  5. Various Artists | Typical Girls Vol. 4 (Emotional Response)
  6. Various Artists | Honeybeat (Real Gone)
  7. A Place to Bury Strangers | Pinned (Dead Oceans)
  8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Sex & Food (Jagjaguwar)
  9. Yo La Tengo | There's A Riot Going On (Matador)
  10. Replacements | For Sale: Live At Maxwell's 1986 (Rhino)
  11. Imarhan | Temet (City Slang)
  12. David Byrne | American Utopia (Nonesuch)
  13. Chuck Johnson | Balsams (VDSQ)
  14. Bonnevilles | Dirty Photographs (Alive)
  15. Various Artists | Gunsmoke Volume 1 & 2 (Stag-O-Lee)
  16. Patrick Cowley | Afternooners (Dark Entries)
  17. Frankie Cosmos | Vessel (Sub Pop)
  18. Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume One (Mute)
  19. Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas | Telephone (Instant)
  20. Durand Jones and The Indications | Durand Jones and the Indications (Dead Oceans)
  21. Various Artists | Dr. Demento Covered in Punk (Demented Punk)
  22. Lucidbeaming | Critters (S/R)
  23. Decemberists | I'll Be Your Girl (Capitol Records)
  24. DJ Taye | Still Trippin (Hyperdub)
  25. Amen Dunes | Freedom (Sacred Bones)
  26. Dr. Octagon | Moosebumps: An Exploration into Modern Day Horripilation (Bulk)
  27. Cut Chemist | Die Cut (Stable Sound)
  28. Wye Oak | The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (Merge)
  29. Acharis | Lost In The Vortex (Exhibition)
  30. Benaddict | A New Leaf (Vinyl Digital)
  31. Obsequies | Organn (Knives)
  32. My Teenage Stride | Living in the Straight World (Unblinking Ear Records)
  33. Damned | Evil Spirits (Spinefarm)
  34. Breeders | All Nerve (4AD)
  35. Hot Snakes | Jericho Sirens (Sub Pop)
  36. DEDE | Panoply (Fresh Selects)
  37. MGMT | Little Dark Age (Columbia)
  38. of Montreal | White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood (Polyvinyl)
  39. Palm | Rock Island (Carpark)
  40. Black Milk | FEVER (Mass Appeal)
  41. A Hawk & A Hacksaw | Forest Bathing (Dupli-cation)
  42. Kristoff Krane | Kairos, Pt. 2 (F I X)
  43. Las Sucias | Chupate Estas (The Label)
  44. King Tuff | The Other (Sub Pop)
  45. Shilpa Ray | Door Girl (Tiger Bomb)
  46. Ought | Room Inside the World (Merge)
  47. Devils | Iron Butt (Voodoo Rythm)
  48. Regrettes | Attention Seeker (WB)
  49. Nonpareils | Scented Pictures (Mute)
  50. Uranium Club | Live For the Very First Time (In Italy)
  51. Nihilist Cheerleader | Riot, Right? (Perfect Attendance)
  52. Crossing | If There Were Water (Innova)
  53. Daniel Avery | Song For Alpha (Mute)
  54. Rod Picott | Out Past The Wires (S/R)
  55. Young Fathers | Cocoa Sugar (Ninja Tune)
  56. Elaquent | Celebrate Life! (Urbnet)
  57. Brazilian Girls | Let's Make Love (Six Degrees)
  58. Hasa-Mazzotta | Novilunio (Ponderosa)
  59. Acid Dad | Acid Dad (Greenway)
  60. Suuns | Felt (Secretly Canadian)
  61. Bart & The Bedazzled | Blue Motel (Lovemonk)
  62. Lindi Ortega | Liberty (Shadowbox)
  63. Charnel Ground | Charnel Ground (12XU)
  64. Havana Maestros | Americuba (ADA)
  65. Low Anthem | The Salt Doll Went to the Measure of the Sea (Joyful Noise)
  66. God.Damn.Chan | Slush (Alpha Pup)
  67. Solid Space | Space Museum (Dark Entries)
  68. Tracey Thorn | Record (Merge)
  69. Portico Quartet | Art in the Age of Automation (Gondwana)
  70. Polarity/1 | Take A Pill (S/R)
  71. Nightmares On Wax | Shape The Future (Warp)
  72. Dick Stusso | In Heaven (Hardly Art)
  73. Superorganism | Superorganism (Domino)
  74. Arthur Alexander | One Bar Left (Dead Beat Record)
  75. Men | Drift (Sacred Bones)
  76. Paolo Spaccamonti and Jochen Arbeit | CLN (Escape From Today/ Boring Machines)
  77. Various Artists | Pop Ambient 2018 (Kompakt)
  78. Schnellertollermeier | Rights (Cuneiform)
  79. Solo Organ | Frequency Illusion (Golden Slipper)
  80. Glitter Wizard | Hunting Gatherers (Archer's Guild)
  81. Soccer Mommy | Clean (Fat Possum)
  82. Mind over Mirrors | Bellowing Sun (Paradise of Bachelors)
  83. Dream Wife | Dream Wife (Lucky Number)
  84. Mint Field | Pasar de las Luces (Innovative Leisure)
  85. Voidz | Virtue (RCA)
  86. Haxxan | Magnificent Planet of Alien Vampiro II (Slovenly)
  87. Moby | Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt (Mute)
  88. Screaming Females | All At Once (Don Gioavanni)
  89. Crazy Doberman | Free LSD (Radical Documents)
  90. Seth Graham | Gasp (S/R)
  91. Purser | Scholasticism (Underground)
  92. Twink | Wide Eyed Wild Ride (S/R)
  93. We Banjo 3 | String Theory (Sonas)
  94. Mioi Takeda & Lynn Bechtold | Miolina (Composers Concordance)
  95. Various Artists | Trash Party Vol. 1 (Dirty Water)
  96. Malditos | Le Reve (Svart)
  97. James Hunter Six | Whatever It Takes (Daptone)
  98. Calexico | The Thread That Keeps Us (Anti-)
  99. Rent Romus' Lords of Outland | In the Darkness, We Speak a Sound Brightness and Life (Edgetone)
  100. Neil Young & The Promise of the Real | The Visitor (Reprise)