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Top 82 1. Cat Power -- Moon Pix (MATADOR) 2. Melt Banana -- Charlie (AZAP/REVOLVER) 3. Zeena Parkins -- No Way Back (ATAVISTIC) 4. Creation -- Making Time/Biff Bang Pow (RETROACTIVE) 5. Mouse on Mars -- Glam (THRILL JOCKEY) 6. V/A -- Boss Soul: The Genius of Barry White (DEL-FI) 7. Stereolab -- Aluminum Tunes (DRAG CITY) 8. El Son Entero -- Cuba (PLAYASOUND) 9. Ganger -- Hammock Style (MERGE) 10. Rondelles -- Fiction Romance, Fast Machines (SMELLS LIKE) 11. Hive -- "A Chain of Prophecies" 12-inch (PHASE 4/LONDON) 12. Cephas & Wiggins -- Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (EVIDENCE) 13. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Acme (MATADOR) 14. Loren Mazzacane Connors -- The Bridge (MEGALON); Evangeline (ROAD CONE) 15. PJ Harvey -- Is This Desire? (ISLAND) 16. Pyramid Trio -- Ancestral Homeland (NO MORE) 17. V/A -- Talking Trash/Lookey Dookey (RHYTHM & BLOOZ) 18. Afterhours/Dynamics -- split 7-inch (self-released) 19. Doc and Merle Watson -- Home Sweet Home (SHANACHIE) 20. Dock Boggs -- His Folkways Years 1963-1968 (SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS) 21. Hazel Dickens -- Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People (ROUNDER) 22. Tom Ze -- Fabrication Defect (LUAKA BOP) 23. V/A -- Cuban Gold 5: The 80s (QBADISC) 24. Accordion Tribe -- self-titled (INTUITION) 25. Air Traffic Controllers -- Women & Other Minority Groups, Vol. 1; Assistant to the Assistant (PARALLELISM) 26. Arnold Dreyblatt -- The Sound of One String (TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS); Nodal Excitation (DEXTER'S CIGAR) 27. Boards of Canada -- Music Has the Right to Children (MATADOR) 28. Butchies -- Are We Not Femme? (MR. LADY) 29. Compay Segundo -- Lo Mejor De La Vida (NONESUCH) 30. Frumpies -- Frumpie One-Piece (KILL ROCK STARS) 31. Guv'ner -- Spectral Worship (MERGE) 32. Massacre -- Funny Valentine (TZADIK) 33. Misako Kano Quartet -- Watch Out (KNITTING FACTORY) 34. Daktaris -- Soul Explosion (DESCO) 35. Gianni Gebbia -- Portraits (RASTASCAN) 36. Jimmie R. Vestal -- "That's All Right" 7-inch (self-released) 37. Naftule's Dream -- Smash, Clap! (TZADIK) 38. Red Scare -- "Jetset" 7-inch (PARALOGY) 39. Rob Swift -- "The Ablist" 12-inch (ASPHODEL) 40. Two Star Tabernacle -- "Ramblin' Man" 7-inch (BLOODSHOT) 41. V/A -- Train 45: Railroad Songs of the Early 1900s (ROUNDER) 42. Winterbrief -- "A Sucrose Polyester" 7-inch (INTELLECTOS) 43. David S. Ware -- Go See The World (COLUMBIA) 44. Flipmode Squad -- The Imperial (ELEKTRA) 45. Lewis Parker -- Masquerades and Silhouettes (MELANKOLIC) 46. Orange Cake Mix -- Microcosmic Wonderland (AUDIOINFORMATION PHENOMENA) 47. Pascal Comelade -- d'Argot du Bruit (LES DISQUES DU SOLEIL...) 48. William Parker -- Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace (EREMITE) 49. April March -- Lessons of April March (IDEAL) 50. Asteroid #4 -- Introducing... (LOUNGE) 51. Blonde Redhead -- In an Expression of the Inexpressible (TOUCH AND GO) 52. Bruce Ackley Trio -- The Hearing (AVANT) 53. Hal el Shedad -- Textures of Tomorrow (TROUBLEMAN UNLIMITED) 54. Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo -- Strange But True (MATADOR) 55. James "Son" Thomas -- Beefsteak Blues (EVIDENCE) 56. No-No's -- Secret Luminaries (CHROMOSOME) 57. V/A -- Self Portrait compilation 7-inch (PERMAFROST) 58. V/A -- Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Volume 3 (ROUNDER) 59. Whiskeytown/Neko Case & the Sadies -- split 7-inch (BLOODSHOT) 60. Bob Log III -- School Bus (FAT POSSUM/EPITAPH) 61. Bonnie Prince Billie -- "Black Dissimulation" 7-inch (ALL CITY NOMAD) 62. Cadallaca -- Introducing... (K) 63. David Grubbs -- The Thicket (DRAG CITY) 64. David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness! -- Klezmer, NY (TZADIK) 65. Frank Zappa -- Mystery Disc (RYKODISC) 66. Freight Hoppers -- Waiting on the Gravy Train (ROUNDER) 67. Girls of Angeli -- The New Voice of North (FINLANDIA) 68. Jets to Brazil -- Orange Rhyming Dictionary (JADE TREE) 69. Makigami Koichi/Anton Bruhin -- Electric Eel (TZADIK) 70. Mercury Rev -- Deserter's Songs (V2) 71. Seam -- The Pace is Glacial (TOUCH AND GO) 72. V/A -- Nordic Roots: A Northside Collection (NORTHSIDE) 73. Autechre -- self-titled (WARP/NOTHING) 74. Barbara Manning -- In New Zealand (COMMUNION) 75. Ex -- Starters Alternators (TOUCH AND GO) 76. High Llamas -- Lollo Rosso (V2) 77. James Plotkin:Mark Spybey -- A Peripheral Blur (KRANKY) 78. Junior Brown -- Long Walk Back (CURB) 79. Lightnin' Wells -- Ragtime Millionaire (NEW MOON) 80. Nord-Sud -- Fragments de Routes (BUDA) 81. Snuffy Jenkins -- Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo (ARHOOLIE) 82. V/A -- Doowop: To Be Loved Forever (DEL-FI) Also, here are some other releases that we just added that aren't reflected on this week's chart: Hi-Fives -- Get Down! (LOOKOUT!) V/A -- Ethiopiques Vols. 1, 3, and 4 (BUDA) Ninety Nine -- 767 (ENDEARING) Smugglers -- Growing Up Smuggler (LOOKOUT!) |