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Artist Album 1 Charlie Parr Stumpjumper 2 Courtney Barnett Artist Album 1 Charlie Parr Stumpjumper 2 Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit 3 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 4 Alabama Shakes Sound & Color 5 Bad Bad Hats Psychic Reader 6 Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear 7 Flavor Crystals The Shiver of the Flavor Crystals 8 Greg Grease Born to Lurk, Forced to Work 9 Tame Impala Currents 10 Kurt Vile B’lieve I’m Goin Down 11 My Morning Jacket The Waterfall 12 Low Ones and Sixes 13 Beach House Depression Cherry 14 Twenty One Pilots Blurryface 15 Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars 16 Lizzo Big GRRRL Small World 17 Keep Shelly in Athens Now I’m Ready 18 Jason Isbell Something More than Free 19 Neon Indian Vega Intl. Night School 20 Silversun Pickups Better Nature 21 Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell 22 Best Coast California Nights 23 Ancient River Keeper of the Dawn 24 Gary Clark Jr. The Story of Sunny Boy Slim 25 The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ 26 Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love 27 Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves 28 Strange Names Use Your Time Wisely 29 Pokey Lafarge Something in the Water 30 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard I’m In Your Mind Fuzz 31 Vince Staples Summertime ‘06 32 Muse Drones !1 Artist Album 33 Leon Bridges Coming Home 34 The Amazing Picture You 35 Carroll Carroll 36 Doomtree All Hands 37 BOYF White Boyfriend 38 Mac Demarco Another One 39 Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love 40 What Tyrants No Luck 41 Matt and Kim New Glow 42 Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo & Youth 43 Guante A Love Song, A Death Rattle, a Battle Cry 44 Tuxedo Tuxedo 45 Meg Myers Sorry 46 Black Diet The Good One 47 Lower Dens Escape from Evil 48 Disclosure Caracal 49 Spicy Tuna Melt Fashion Senseless 50 Ryan Adams 1989 51 Dawes All Your Favorite Bands 52 Gramma’s Boyfriend Perm 53 Chastity Belt Time to Go Home 54 Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank American Shuffle 55 The Decemberists What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World 56 Hardcore Crayons Zozzled 57 Motion City Soundtrack Panic Stations 58 Joywave How do You Feel Now? 59 Prof Liability 60 Brandi Carlile The Firewatcher’s Daughter 61 B. Dolan Kill the Wolf 62 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Paper Mache Dream Balloon 63 Jamie xx In Colour 64 Marcus King Band Soul Insight !2 Artist Album 65 Deerhunter Fading Frontier 66 Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Piñata 67 Girlpool Before the World Was Big 68 New Order Music Complete 69 Bob Dylan The Cutting Edge Sampler 70 Edward David Anderson Lower Alabama: The Loxley Sessions 71 Natalie Prass Natalie Prass 72 Alex G Beach Music 73 Destroyer Poison Season 74 Chatham Rise/The Lightshines We Are the Sun 75 Soak Before We Forgot How to Dream 76 Zella Day Kicker 77 Viet Cong Viet Cong 78 The Arcs Yours, Dreamily 79 All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Match 80 Toro Y Moi What For? 81 Doldrums Air Conditioned Nightmare 82 Gypsy Lumberjacks Giants of America 83 Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats 84 Brilliant Beast Dissolve 85 The Internet Ego Death 86 Ben Folds and yMusic So There 87 Thee Oh Sees Mutilator Defeated at Last 88 Farao Till Its All Forgotten !3.
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