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    Chad VanGaalen is number 1 on the !earshot Top 200 for April 2021
    Chad VanGaalen.

    Chad VanGaalen has been here before and herehe is again - the new #1 on the !earshot Top 200 for April 2021 with World's Most Stressed Out Gardener. Last month's number 1 The Weather Station's Ignorance is #2 this month. Bernice is at #3 and Arlo Parks drops one spot to #4 with Collapsed In Sunbeams. Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz are at #5 with jooj two.

    Thug Shells Rainy Day tops the Hip Hop chart and Atlin Gun is #1 on the International chart with Yol.

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    Features

    !earshot Top 200 of 2020

    For January tp December 2020
    Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Andy Shauf Can Con
    Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
    2 Lido Pimienta Can Con
    Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    3 Wolf Parade Can Con
    Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
    4 Zoon Can Con
    Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
    5 Caribou Can Con
    Suddenly - (Merge)
    6 Tops Can Con
    I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
    7 Tough Age Can Con
    Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
    8 U.S. Girls Can Con
    Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
    9 Destroyer Can Con
    Have We Met - (Merge)
    10 Thanya Iyer Can Con
    KIND - (Topshelf Records)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
    Hip Hop:  Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
    International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
    Loud:  Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

    Eric Revis Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
    Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.

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    CHOQ Jazz #1 Floating Points , Pharoah Sanders, The London Symphony Orchestra 1 day ago
    CHOQ International #1 Nubiyan Twist 1 day ago
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  • !earshot Top 50 Charts RSS Feed

    Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz - jooj two Chad VanGaalen - World's Most Stressed Out Gardener Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END
    For the Week Ending: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz CanCon
    jooj two - (Mint)
    2 Chad VanGaalen CanCon
    World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)
    3 Godspeed You! Black Emperor CanCon
    G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END - (Constellation)
    4 TUNS CanCon
    Duly Noted - (Murderecords)
    5 JayWood CanCon
    Some Days EP - (Royal Mountain/Captured Tracks)
    6 Dry Cleaning
    New Long Leg - (4AD)
    7 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson CanCon
    Theory Of Ice - (You`ve Changed Records)
    8 Xiu Xiu
    OH NO - (Polyvinyl)
    9 CFCF CanCon
    memoryland - (BGM Solutions)
    10 Paul Jacobs CanCon
    Pink Dogs On The Green Grass - (Blow The Fuse)
    View the full Top 50
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  CFCF - memoryland - (BGM Solutions)
    Hip Hop:  Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth - (Ourness)
    Jazz:  Floating Points , Pharoah Sanders, The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises - (Luaka Bop)
    Loud:  Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: Sunday Wilde - Peace in Trouble - (Self-Released)

    !earshot April Top 200

    For the Month of April 2021
    Chad VanGaalen - World's Most Stressed Out Gardener The Weather Station - Ignorance Bernice - Eau De Bonjourno
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Chad VanGaalen Can Con
    World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)
    2 The Weather Station Can Con
    Ignorance - (Next Door)
    3 Bernice Can Con
    Eau De Bonjourno - (Telephone Explosion)
    4 Arlo Parks
    Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive)
    5 Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz Can Con
    jooj two - (Mint)
    6 Dominique Fils-Aimé Can Con
    Three Little Words - (Ensoul)
    7 Kiwi Jr. Can Con
    Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club)
    8 TUNS Can Con
    Duly Noted - (Murderecords)
    9 Cloud Nothings
    The Shadow I Remember - (Carpark)
    10 Mo Kenney Can Con
    Covers - (Turtlemusik)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Various - Bluewerks Vol. 1 - (Blue Note / Astralwerks)
    Hip Hop:  Thug Shells - Rainy Day - (Self-Released)
    International:  Altin Gun - Yol - (ATO)
    Jazz: Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead)
    Loud:  Sudden Waves - We're All Connected - (Hell For Breakfast)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: Kat Danser - One Eye Open - (Black Hen)

    !earshot Top 200 of 2020

    For January tp December 2020
    Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Andy Shauf Can Con
    Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
    2 Lido Pimienta Can Con
    Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    3 Wolf Parade Can Con
    Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
    4 Zoon Can Con
    Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
    5 Caribou Can Con
    Suddenly - (Merge)
    6 Tops Can Con
    I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
    7 Tough Age Can Con
    Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
    8 U.S. Girls Can Con
    Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
    9 Destroyer Can Con
    Have We Met - (Merge)
    10 Thanya Iyer Can Con
    KIND - (Topshelf Records)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
    Hip Hop:  Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
    International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
    Loud:  Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

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