Top 50 for the Week of 10-9-2012

1. How To Dress Well - Total Loss (Acephale)
2. The xx - Coexist (Young Turks)
3. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 (Atlantic)
4. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Infectious)
5. Pinback - Information Retrieved (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
6. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant (4AD)
7. The Raveonettes - Observator (Vice)
8. California Wives - Art History (Vagrant)
9. Seapony - Falling (Hardly Art)
10. Benjamin Gibbard - Former Lives (Barsuk)
11. Firewater - International Orange! (Bloodshot)
12. The Sea and Cake - Runner (Thrill Jockey)
13. The Soft Pack - Strapped (Mexican Summer)
14. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season (ANTI-)
15. Teen Daze - The Inner Mansions (Lefse)
16. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes (Warp)
17. Geronimo! - Exanimate (self-released)
18. Millions - Failure Tactics (Seventh Rule)
19. Brother Ali - Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color (Rhymesayers)
20. Wild Nothing - Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
21. John Cale - Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (Double Six)
22. El Ten Eleven - Transitions (Fake Record Label)
23. Tim Maia - World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia (Luaka Bop)
24. Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (Bloodshot)
25. Angel Olsen - Half Way Home (Bathetic)
26. Tilly and the Wall - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
27. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat and Bone (Mom+Pop)
28. Menomena - Moms (Barsuk)
29. Bob Mould - Silver Age (Merge)
30. Cat Power - Sun (Matador)
31. Kendra Morris - Banshee (Wax Poetics)
32. California Wives - Art History (Vagrant)
33. KLANG - Brooklyn Lines....Chicago Spaces (Allos Documents)
34. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar)
35. Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jons)
36. Corin Tucker Band - Kill My Blues (Kill Rock Stars)
37. New Beard - New Beard City (Shoulder Tap)
38. The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance (Kemado)
39. Grizzly Bear - Shields (Warp)
40. Bob Dylan - Tempest (Columbia)
41. Jonny Greenwood - The Master: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Nonesuch)
42. Stars - The North (Arts & Crafts)
43. Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who (Supply & Demand)
44. Calexico - Algiers (ANTI-)
45. Allah-Las - Allah-Las (Innovative Leisure)
46. Cross Record - Be Good (Lay Flat)
47. Turbo Fruits - Butter (Serpents and Snakes)
48. Various Artists - Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago (Numero Group)
49. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (Domino)
50. Django Django - Django Django (Ribbon)