The full chart:

1
aya
hexed!
(Hyperdub)

2
billy woods
GOLLIWOG
(Backwoodz Studios)

3
Los Thuthanaka
Los Thuthanaka
(Self-released)

4
The Necks
Disquiet
(Northern Spy)

5
DJ Haram
Beside Myself
(Hyperdub)

6
Eiko Ishibashi
Antigone
(Drag City)

7
Oklou
choke enough
(True Panther Sounds)

8
Vanessa Rossetto
Pictures Of The Warm South
(Erstwhile)

9
Stereolab
Instant Holograms On Metal Film
(Duophonic UHF Disks)

10
Tortoise
Touch
(International Anthem)

11
caroline
caroline 2
(Rough Trade)

12
Smerz
Big City Life
(Escho)

13
Richard Dawson
End Of The Middle
(Weird World)

14
Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin
Ghosted III
(Drag City)

15
feeo
Goodness
(AD 93)

16
Abhorrent Expanse
Enter The Misanthropocene
(Amalgam)

17
Rafael Toral
Travelling Light
(Drag City)

18
Melvin Gibbs
Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2
(Hausu Mountain)

19
Ellen Fullman & The Living Earth Show
Elemental View
(Room40)

20
Masma Dream World
Please Come To Me
(Valley Of Search)

21
Cerys Hafana
Angel
(tak:til)

22
Damon Locks
List Of Demands
(International Anthem)

23
Natural Information Society
Perseverance Flow
(Eremite)

24
Backxwash
Only Dust Remains
(Ugly Hag)

25
Blawan
SlickElixir
(XL Recordings)

26
Everything Is Psychedelic
The Beautiful Malaise
(Everything Is Perfect/Live At The Clinic)

27
Ambrose Akinmusire
Honey From A Winter Stone
(Nonesuch)

28
Black Eyes
Hostile Design
(Dischord)

29
Slikback
Attrition
(Planet Mu)

30
Alpha Maid
Is this a queue
(AD 93)

31
Cosey Fanni Tutti
2t2
(Conspiracy International)

32
Lucy Railton
Blue Veil
(Ideologic Organ)

33
Valentina Magaletti & YPY
Kansai Bruises
(AD 93)

34
Crystabel Efemena Riley
Live At Ormside
(Infant Tree)

35
[Ahmed]
[Sama’a] (Audition)
(OTOROKU)

36
Cosmic Ear
TRACES
(We Jazz)

37
Joanne Robertson
Blurrr
(AD 93)

38
Kali Malone & Drew McDowall
Magnetism
(Ideologic Organ)

39
Lea Bertucci
The Oracle
(Self-released)

40
Mary Halvorson
About Ghosts
(Nonesuch)

41
Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith
Angel Falls
(Intakt)

42
Panda Bear
Sinister Gift
(Domino)

43
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force with Mbene Diatta Seck
Khadim
(Ndagga)

44
Ben LaMar Gay
Yowzers
(International Anthem)

45
Hedvig Mollestad Trio
Bees In The Bonnet
(Rune Grammafon)

46
Nadah El Shazly
Laini Tani
(One Little Independent)

47
HAYWARDxDÄLEK
HAYWARDxDÄLEK
(Relapse)

48
Anna Högberg Attack
Ensamseglaren
(Fönstret)

49
Michael Hurley
Broken Homes And Gardens
(No Quarter)

50
Nina Garcia
Bye Bye Bird
(Ideologic Organ)

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