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January 10, 2016

1.11...Hayden Pedigo...Do You Sing? Vol. 1...Scissor Tail Editions

2.10...Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express...Junun...Nonesuch

3.10...Boogarins...Manual...Fat Possum/Other Music Recording Co.

4.9...Various Artists...Christians Catch Hell: Gospel Roots, 1976-79...Honest Jon's

5.9...Mike Reed's People Places & Things...A New Kind of Dance...482 Music

6.9...Ty Segall...Ty Rex...Goner

7.8...AL Riggs and the Inconveniences...Husbands...s/r

8.8...Nadia Reid...Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs...Spunk/Scissor Tail Editions

9.8...Anna von Hausswolff...The Miraculous...City Slang/Other Music Recording Co.

10.8...Various Artists...Excavated Shellac: Reeds...Dust to Digital

11.8...3 Moons...Astronomy of Dreams...Moon Glyph

12.8...Bill Abel...Celestial Train...s/r

13.7...Operation Midnight Climax...Operation Midnight Climax...Peak Oil

14.7...Soldiers of Fortune...Early Risers...Mexican Summer

15.7...Judy Dyble...Anthology: Part One...Earth

16.7...Majeure...Union of Worlds...Constellation Tatsu

17.7...Brennen Leigh...Brennen Leigh Sings Lefty Frizzell...s/r

18.7...Scott Fagan...South Atlantic Blues...Saint Cecilia Knows/Lil' Fish

19.7...Pole...Wald...Pole Records

20.7...Cicada Rhythm...Cicada Rhythm...Nonesuch

21.6...Whatever Brains...Whatever Brains (2015)...Sorry State

22.6...Dan Melchior and Russell Walker...In Durham...Kill Shaman

23.6...Qasim Naqvi...Preamble...NNA Tapes

24.6...Cass McCombs...A Folk Set Apart...Domino

25.6...Love...Reel to Real...High Moon

26.5...Rapper Big Pooh & Nottz...Home Sweet Home...Mello Music Group

27.5...Lame Drivers...Chosen Era...Jigsaw

28.5...Roscoe Holcomb...San Diego State Folk Festival 1972...Tompkins Square

29.5...Thee Arcadians...We Have Come for Your Parents...Feeding Tube

30.5...Jacob Garchik...Ye Olde...Yestereve

31.5...Gloria Ann Taylor...Love is a Hurtin' Thing...Ubiquity

32.4...Bandages...All Extreme Measures b/w Tokyo Carwash...Sorry State

33.4...The Gurdjieff Ensemble...Komitas...ECM

34.4...Personable...New Lines...Peak Oil

35.4...Various Artists...Bloodshot Six Pack to Go: Working Songs for the Drinking Class...Bloodshot

36.4...Exhaustion...Phased Out...12XU

37.4...Tropic of Cancer...Stop Suffering...Blackest Ever Black

38.4...Un...The Tomb of All Things...Black Bow Records

39.4...Asleep at the Wheel...Havin' a Party - Live...Goldenlane

40.4...Bert Jansch...Moonshine...Earth

41.3...Housefire...burnthemasters...Hot Releases

42.3...City of Medicine...Bone Coal...s/r

43.3...Bad Friends...DEMOLISH...s/r

44.3...Lack...Perhorrences...Hot Releases

45.3...Ceu...Live!...Six Degrees

46.3...The Lonesome Billies...It's Good to Be Lonesome...s/r

47.3...Anthony Child...Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1...Editions Mego

48.3...Breakfast...Amulet...s/r

49.3...The Ocean Blue...Cerulean...Shelflife/Korda

50.3...U.S. Girls...Half Free...4AD

51.3...GNOER...Tethers Down...s/r

52.3...The Ocean Blue...The Ocean Blue...Shelflife/Korda

53.3...Milk from Cheltenham...Triptych of Poisoners...Superior Viaduct

54.3...Forn...Weltschmerz...Gilead Media

55.3...Sam Amidon...But this Chicken Proved Falsehearted...Omnivore

56.2...Irata...Sweet Loris...Retro Futurist

57.2...Secret Boyfriend...Haunt Stress/Burned Version/Forget to Breathe...self-released

58.2...Billy Bao...Lagos Sessions...Munster

59.2...Magas...Heads Plus...Midwich

60.2...Ryan Huber...Tacht...Inam

61.2...Alex G...Beach Music...Domino

62.2...Manateees...Croc 'N My Pocket...12XU

63.2...Six Organs of Admittance...Hexadic II...Drag City

64.2...Bembeya Jazz...Bembeya Jazz...Sterns Africa

65.2...Hinds...Very Best of Hinds So Far...Mom + Pop

66.2...Dodheimsgard...A Umbra Omega...Peaceville Records

67.2...DJ Spinn...Off That Loud EP...Hyperdub

68.2...Various Artists...The Sigh of Silver Strings from Suvannabhumi: The Western Stringed Instruments of Burma...Little Axe

69.2...Death Karma...The History of Death and Burial Rituals Part I...Iron Bonehead

70.2...The New Mastersounds...Made for Pleasure...Royal Potato Family

71.2...Frank Rosaly...Malo...Utech

72.2...Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman...Lice...s/r

73.2...James Ferraro...Skid Row...Break World

74.2...Contact...Discreet Music...Cantaloupe

75.2...United Bible Studies...The Ale's What Cures Ye ...MIE Music

76.2...Emmylou Harris...Amazing Grace Coffee House 15 May 1975...Echoes

77.2...Various...Musique Sans Paroles...Editions Syliphone Conakry/Sterns Africa

78.1...Tashi Dorji/Marisa Anderson...Split LP...Footfalls

79.1...Don Howland...Life is a Nightmare...12XU Records

80.1...Secret Boyfriend...Memory Care Unit...Blackest Ever Black

81.1...Dirt Disciples...Panoramic feat. Torae...Soulspazm

82.1...Aevangelist...Enthrall to the Void of Bliss...20 Buck Spin

83.1...Josh Berman...A Dance and a Hop...Delmark

84.1...Jeff Zagers...Still/Alive...Wharf Cat

85.1...Fleabite...T.T.Y.L....Puzzle Pieces

86.1...Various Artists...Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line...Dust to Digital

87.1...Zeus B. Held...Vinyl Collection...Medical

88.1...Vocab Slick...Priceless feat. Opio...Distant Relatives

 

JAZZ

1.9...Mike Reed's People Places & Things...A New Kind of Dance...482 Music

2.5...Jacob Garchik...Ye Olde...Yestereve

3.2...Frank Rosaly...Malo...Utech

4.1...Josh Berman...A Dance and a Hop...Delmark

5.1...Bathysphere...Bathysphere...Driff

6.1...Liberty Ellman...Radiate...Pi Recordings

7.1...Sonny Simmons with Barbara Donald...Reincarnation...Arhoolie

8.1...Hans Ludemann...Das Reale Klavier...BMC

9.1...George Lewis...The Solo Trombone Record...Sackville/Delmark

10.1...Twins of El Dorado...Verses...Prom Night

 

AMERICANA

1. 11...Hayden Pedigo...Do You Sing? Vol. 1

2. 8...Bill Abel...Celestial Train...self-released

3. 7...Judy Dyble...Anthology: Part One...Earth

4. 7...Brennen Leigh...Brennen Leigh Sings Lefty Frizzell...self-released

5. 7...Cicada Rhythm...Cicada Rhythm...Nonesuch

6. 5...Roscoe Holcomb...San Diego State Folk Festival 1972...Tompkins Square

7. 4...Asleep at the Wheel...Havin' a Party -Live...Goldenlane

8. 4...Bert Jansch...Moonshine...Earth

9. 3...The Lonesome Billies...It's Good to Be Lonesome...self-released

10. 3...Sam Amidon...But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted...Omnivore

 

WORLD

1. 10...Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express...Junun...Nonesuch

2. 8...Various Artists...Excavated Shellac: Reeds...Dust to Digital

3. 4...The Gurdjieff Ensemble...Komitas...ECM

4. 3...Ceu...Live!...Six Degrees

5. 2...Billy Bao...Lagos Sessions...Munster

6. 2...Bembeya Jazz...Bembeya Jazz...Sterns Africa

7. 2...Various Artists...The Sigh of Silver Strings from Suvannabhumi: The Western Stringed Instruments of Burma...Little Axe

8. 2...Various...Musique Sans Paroles...Editions Syliphone Conakry/Sterns Africa

9. 1...Various...Senegal 70: Sonic Gems and Previously Unreleased Recordings from the '70s...Analog Africa

10. 1...Idrissa Soumaoro and L'Eclipse De L'I.J.A....Ampsa...Mississippi/Singasongfighter

 

RPM

1.7...Operation Midnight Climax...Operation Midnight Climax...Peak Oil

2.7...Majeure...Union of Worlds...Constellation Tatsu

3.7...Pole...Wald...Pole Records

4.4...Personable...New Lines...Peak Oil

5.3...Housefire...burnthemasters...Hot Releases

6.3...Lack...Perhorrences...Hot Releases

7.3...Anthony Child...Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1...Editions Mego

8.2...Magas...Heads Plus...Midwich

9.2...DJ Spinn...Off That Loud EP...Hyperdub

10.2...James Ferraro...Skid Row...Break World