1
[Ahmed]
Giant Beauty
(Fönstret)

2
Rafael Toral
Spectral Evolution
(Moikai)

3
Elaine Mitchener
Solo Throat
(Otoroku)

4
Moor Mother
The Great Bailout
(Anti-)

5
Still House Plants
If I don’t make it, I love u
(Bison)

6
Cindy Lee
Diamond Jubilee
(Realistik)

7
Moin
You Never End
(AD93)

8
Kim Gordon
The Collective
(Matador)

9
Caxtrinho
Queda Livre
(QTV)

10
Beings
There Is A Garden
(No Quarter)

11
Dhangsha
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
(Brachliegen Tapes)

12
The Body & Dis Fig
Orchards Of A Futile Heaven
(Thrill Jockey)

13
Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami
Wovenland 3
(Erstwhile)

14
Ka
The Thief Next To Jesus
(Iron Works)

15
Water Damage
In E
(12XU)

16
Blood Incantation
Absolute Elsewhere
(Century Media)

17
Shellac
To All Trains
(Touch & Go)

18
Dialect
Atlas Of Green
(RVNG Intl)

19
Pat Thomas
The Solar Model Of Ibn Al-Shatir
(Otoroku)

20
Cappo
STARVE
(Plague)

21
Mary Timony
Untame The Tiger
(Merge)

22
Fay Victor/Herbie Nichols SUNG
Life Is Funny That Way
(Tao Forms)

23
Able Noise
High Tide
(World Of Echo)

24
Kali Malone
All Life Long
(Ideologic Organ)

25
Richie Culver
Scream If You Don’t Exist
(Participant)

26
Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams
Something About Shirley
(POW)

27
Karl D’Silva
Love Is A Flame In The Dark
(Night School)

28
The Bug
Machines I–V
(Relapse)

29
Charli XCX
Brat
(Atlantic)

30
Fievel Is Glauque
Rong Weicknes
(Fat Possum)

31
Nídia & Valentina
Estradas
(Latency)

32
Sisso & Maiko
Singeli Ya Maajabu
(Nyege Nyege Tapes)

33
Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding
Milton + esperanza
(Concord)

34
Laurie Anderson
Amelia
(Nonesuch)

35
Kendrick Lamar
“Not Like Us”
(Interscope)

36
Judas Priest
Invincible Shield
(Epic)

37
Frédéric D Oberland/Grégory Dargent/Tony Elieh/Wassim Halal
SIHR
(Sub Rosa)

38
Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe
In The Merry Month Of May
(Blue Chopsticks)

39
Rhodri Davies
Telyn Wrachïod
(Amgen)

40
Trigger Object
Ghost Bros OST
(EMS)

41
Sarah Hennies
Motor Tapes
(New World)

42
KRM & KMRU
Disconnect
(Phantom Limb)

43
Neil Luck
Radio Archive (2014–2023)
(World Service)

44
Mannequin Pussy
I Got Heaven
(Epitaph)

45
The Necks
Bleed
(Northern Spy)

46
YATTA
PALM WINE
(PTP)

47
Clarissa Connelly
World Of Work
(Warp)

48
Robin Mackay
By The North Sea
(Hyperdub)

49
Eiko Ishibashi
Evil Does Not Exist
(Drag City)

50
claire rousay
sentiment
(Thrill Jockey)

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