Top 50 for the Week of 12/13/2021

1. Various Artists – Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa)
2. Jeff Parker – Forfolks (International Anthem)
3. Hushdrops – The Static (Pravda)
4. Ben LaMar Gay – Open Arms to Open Us (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
5. Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)
6. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)
7. Desert Liminal – Glass Fate (Whited Sepulchre)
8. Makaya McCraven – Deciphering The Message (Blue Note)
9. Artifacts – ...and then there's this (Astral Spirits)
10. NNAMDï – Are You Happy (Sooper)
11. Mr Twin Sister – Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group)
12. Makthaverskan – För Allting (Run For Cover)
13. Robert Görl & Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft – Nur Noch Einer (Gronland)
14. Versus – Let's Electrify! (Teenbeat)
15. Tasha – Tell Me What You Miss The Most (Father/Daughter)
16. Dwaal Troupe – Lucky Dog (Self-released)
17. Charles Rumback – Seven Bridges (Astral Spirits)
18. Loney Hutchins – Buried Loot, Demos from the House of Cash and "Outlaw Era (73-'78")
19. FPA – Princess Wiko (37d03d)
20. Aesop Rock & Blockhead – Garbology (Rhymesayers)
21. Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy – SON (Carrying Color)
22. Can – Live in Brighton 1975 (Mute)
23. Massage – Lane Lines (Mt. St. Mtn.)
24. Cynic – Ascension Codes (Season of Mist)
25. Beach House – Once Twice Melody: Chapter 1 (Sub Pop)
26. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop/Milk)
27. Geese – Projector (Partisan)
28. Eris Drew – Quivering In Time (T4T LUV)
29. Mick Jenkins – Elephant In The Room (Cinematic Music)
30. Nicholas Tremulis & The Prodigals – Rarified World (Immediate Family)
31. MUNYA – Voyage to Mars (Luminelle)
32. Parcels – Day/Night (Because)
33. Alien Nosejob – Paint it Clear (Feel It)
34. Damon Albarn – The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Transgressive)
35. Irreversible Entanglements – Open the Gates (International Anthem/Don Giovanni)
36. FUR – When You Walk Away (777)
37. Clear History – Bad Advice Good People (Upset The Rhythm)
38. Bat Fangs – Queen of My World (Don Giovanni)
39. M Sage – Wants a Diamond Pivot Bright (Florabelle)
40. Julie Doiron – I Thought of You (You've Changed)
41. Swansea Sound – Live at the Rum Puncheon (HHBTM/Skep Wax)
42. IDLES – CRAWLER (Partisan)
43. Lily Konigsberg – Lily We Need to Talk Now (Wharf Cat)
44. Theon Cross – Intra-I (New Soil/Marathon)
45. Elbow – Flying Dream 1 (Polydor)
46. Gentleman Jesse – Lose Everything (Beach Impediment)
47. Papercuts – Baxter's Bliss (Psychic Friends)
48. Pip Blom – Welcome Break (Heavenly/PIAS)
49. Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, & Dave Okumu – The Solution is Restless (Play It Again Sam)
50. The Dodos – Grizzly Peak (Polyvinyl)

This week's adds

• Aeon Station – Observatory (Sub Pop)
• Arca – KiCK iii (XL)
• Arguing with Hurricanes – Arguing with Hurricanes (Joyful Noise)
• Aunt Sally – Aunt Sally (Mesh-key)
• Constant Smiles – Paragons (Sacred Bones)
• Double Job – Ohne Tanzen Planen (Arvo Disques)
• Jlin – Embryo (Planet Mu)
• Jordanna – The Full Story (self-released)
• Kate Fagan – Ho Ho Ho Holiday Party (self-released)
• Majid Soula – Chant Amazigh (Habibi Funk)
• Mandy, Indiana – ... EP (Fire Talk)
• Melenas – Melenas (Trouble in Mind)
• Michael Hurley – The Time of the Foxgloves (No Quarter)
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Barn (Reprise)
• Peter Joly – Easy Has Never Been the Way (self-released)
• RIKI – Gold (Dais)
• Unidad Ideológica – Unidad Ideológica (La Vida Es Un Mus)
• Various Artists – Tickets for Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk and Soul (Ballads & Dirges 1970-1975) (Now-Again)
• Various Artists – LANDBACK (NDN Collective)