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This Month

TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot Top 200 of 2021 For January to December 2021
1	TEKE::TEKE Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars)
2	The Halluci Nation One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized)
3	Chad VanGaalen World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)
4	The Weather Station Ignorance - (Next Door)
5	Kiwi Jr. Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club)
6	Arlo Parks Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive)
7	Ada Lea one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door)
8	Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz jooj two - (Mint)
9	Suuns The Witness - (Secret City)
10	Andy Shauf Wilds - (Arts & Crafts)
*View the full !earshot Top 200*

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized)
Hip Hop:	Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released)
International:	Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray - Leave The Bones - (Anjunadeep)
Jazz:	Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead)
Loud:	Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy)

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This Week's Charts

For the Week Ending: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Top 50
#1 Saya Gray - SAYA - (Dirty Hit)
Hip Hop
#1 Naya Ali - We Did The Damn Thing - (Bonsound)
International
#1 Songhoy Blues - Héritage - (Transgressive/PIAS)

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Purrs & Hisses from Meow Records

By Bryndis Ogmundson

Purrs:

Yes, I realize most of you know this album inside out thanks to our dear friend, the internet. However, when I received Writer’s Block (#67 this month)at my store on its US release date, the sixth of February, I had no idea what to expect. All I had were the gushings of others to go on. Boy, were the others right. Peter Bjorn & John are definitely swedelicious. This album has it all, infectious hooks, indie rock distortion, drinking songs, and goddammit, it even has whistling. It’s an album that is perfect for almost any situation, especially walking around town with it blaring in your headphones. Here, hear, I dare you not to love it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0

I’m still very much cuddling up to Of Montreal’s Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer (#2), and I’m sweet on Deerhoof’s Friend Opportunity (#3).

Hisses:

What is this? I was never a huge fan of Bloc Party, but I could appreciate the bitchin’ singles released from Silent Alarm. This…ugh…album, A Weekend In The City, has nothing remotely close to the feverishly clever pop blowouts on Silent Alarm. Are they trying to “mature”? Is that it? Because if “maturing” as a band means writing hook absent radio friendly rock where each and every song starts the same and goes nowhere, quickly, then please, stay immature. This is the most pointless album I’ve heard in a while. Well, maybe it’s tied with Apostle Of Hustle’s National Anthem Of Nowhere.